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Dunce's Corner
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people
believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting
their time. – George Bernard Shaw
It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chess players,
though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably
with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit. – James Mortimer
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside
an advertising agency. – Raymond Chandler
It has been said - and is probably not true - that every great man has been
a chess player. But was there ever a chess player who was also a great man?
Of course not and never will be. It is impossible. Great skill at chess is
not a mark of greatness of intellect but of a great intellect gone wrong. –
New York Morning Telegraph
Surely chess is a sad waste of brains. – Sir Walter Scott
Chess never was, and while society exists, never can be a profession. –
Howard Staunton
No fool can play chess, and only fools do. – Source Unknown
There are no heroes in chess. – Cory Evans
There just isn't enough televised chess. – David Letterman
Chess may well be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is
nothing more. Bobby Fischer's assertion that it is 'everything' is merely
necessary monomania. The proposition itself is grotesque. Pace Goethe, chess
is not 'the touchstone of the intellect' but only a radically sterile form
of play. The problems it poses are at the same time very deep and utterly
trivial. We have no logical-philosophical rubric for this mysterious quality
of 'trivial' depth, a form of mental life ultimately insignificant - though
enormously meaningful - and trapped in a world of mirrors. Though most of us
would abhor the suggestion, this 'non-significance' may extend even to
music, and the common bond between chess, music, and mathematics may,
finally, be the absence of language. But these are murky epistemological
waters. What needs emphasis is the plain fact that a chess genius is a human
being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts on an ultimately
trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces
pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality. – George Steiner
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification
of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. –
Reuben Fine
Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyze. A chess-player, for example,
does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess,
in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now
writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by
observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert
that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and
more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the
elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have
different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is
only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The
attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an
oversight is committed, resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves
being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are
multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather
than the more acute player who conquers. – Edgar Allan Poe
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player
of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these
more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. – Edgar Allan
Poe
Life is too short for chess. – Henry J. Byron
There is no remorse like the remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There
is no happiness in chess. – H. G. Wells
Oh! You play chess, huh? That's sort of like checkers, right? – Millions of
Dunces
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