Essential Chess Quotations - Softcover

Knudsen, John C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893652173 ISBN 13: 9781893652170

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

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,

About this title

About the Author

John C. Knudsen is the web master of a popular site devoted to correspondence chess located at: http://correspondencechess.com which averages several thousand visitors per month. He is an enthusiastic correspondence chess player (Postal Master, Correspondence Chess League of America) and writer. He has been published in IM Tim Harding's Chess Mail and the A SPCC's King's Korner. John is also a fervent collector of chess quotations and trivia, as well as being a correspondence chess game archivist.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893652173
• ISBN 13: 9781893652170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56