Something I Found in an Old Chess Magazine no comments
Source: Streatham & Brixton Chess Club http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Addicts’ Corner
by Mike Fox and Richard James
Pergamon Chess Vol 53 No 8, November 1988
by Mike Fox and Richard James
Pergamon Chess Vol 53 No 8, November 1988
“Chess is simply a medium through which concentration and a higher state of mind is achieved … It is like contemplating your navel, only better. It is perhaps a way of making love.”
F&J say they found this in Private Eye who had themselves lifted it from The Spectator … but who are they quoting?