Chess World Champion

Famous quotes containing the words chess, world and/or champion:

    “Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted, or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.”
    —Stella Chess (20th century)

    “Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “What a terrible thing has happened to us all! To you there, to us here, to all everywhere. Peace who was becoming bright-eyed, now sits in the shadow of death; her handsome champion has been killed as he walked by her very side. Her gallant boy is dead. What a cruel, foul, and most unnatural murder! We mourn here with you, poor, sad American people.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)