Pastoral Resources

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

Chess is not for timid souls.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.