Chess Olympiad Talk

Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or talk:

    The trick, which requires the combined skills of a tightrope walker and a cordon bleu chef frying a plain egg, is to take your [preteen] daughter seriously without taking everything she says and does every minute seriously.
    —Stella Chess (20th century)

    I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)