Hastings International Chess

Famous quotes containing the words hastings and/or chess:

    “If you can’t get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.”
    —Max Hastings (b. 1945)

    “The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
    —Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)