Really? Are you sure?

From the Chess.FM coverage of the USCL Championship match:

"Some of the best women players in the US are women" - John Donaldson

Quote of the Day

"I don’t consider something to be a sport if I can do it better while smoking." - one wag

From "Nakamura Breaks Out" at thepHtest.

Quote of the Day

"Chess is like ginger ale. No one thinks about bringing it, but people love it when someone remembers it." - comment by liquideggproduct on a post at Out of the Ether.

Adam Smith not on chess

A chess quote, but not a quote about chess:

He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

Quote of the Week from the Adam Smith Institute.

How the World is Like Chess

The Maverick Philosopher explains how the World is like Chess.

A wise saying about chess, often attributed to Goethe, but apocryphal for all I know, goes like this. "For a game it is too serious, and for seriousness too much of a game."

Something similar is true of the world....