A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.William Hazlitt1821★ 4.3
Film · Fantasy drama (film) · Drama (film) · Fantasy drama · DramaDeath visited me this morning. We are playing chess together.Antonius BlockThe Seventh Seal · 1957★ 3.8
Essay · MagazineThe game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it.Benjamin Franklin1786★ 1.2
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