"Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought" - Willard Fiske
"Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs" - Willard Fiske
"It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man yet has said "mate" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious" - A.A. Milne
"Amberly excelled in chess - one mark Watson, of a scheming mind." - Conan Doyle
"Tis all a checker board of nights and day where Destiny with men for pieces plays" fraternity of the kibbitzers." - Omar Khayyam
"Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers." - Alfred Kreymborg.Submitted by:
Palle Mathiasen, Master of mathematics, CHESS ELO 1760
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