John C. Knudsen

Essential Chess Quotations John C. Knudsen

Id rather have a pawn than a finger. Reuben Fine What The Reviewers Are Saying About Essential Chess Quotations Whether you want the funny, the thought-provokingor the inspiring this is a handy work to keep by the bedside for dipping into. ICCM Timothy Harding, Chess author and publisher. All very entertaining! Books like these belong to the treasury of chess. Recommended! John Elburg Book reviewer at the Chess Mail web site. John Knudsen brings together some of the best known quotes and epigrams of chess. From masters like Morphy to Fischer, and non-masters from Pascal to Letterman, all are witty sayings about this game we call chess. Essential Chess Quotations sums up what chess is and isnt to the players who have mastered the game and to the non-players who have given up on the game. The quotes about correspondence chess are especially revealing from players who either love or hate postal play. From the humorous to the philosophical,