
“I'm a chess player; I play chess.”
2010s, 2015, Interview with Jim Gray (September 2015)
quote from Marcel Duchamp, by Kynaston McShine, 1989; as quoted on Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
posthumous
“I'm a chess player; I play chess.”
2010s, 2015, Interview with Jim Gray (September 2015)
Krylenko on promoting chess in the Soviet Union. Quoted in Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment
Radio Interview, June 27 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3
1990s
“You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.”
Source: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 98)
“Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player.”
The Game of Chess (1931), Pt. 2 : The End Game, p. 79
Radio Interview, July 6 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_18_1.MP3
2000s
“Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXIII : Two Evenings; Helen to Walter