by Paul Hoffman
“a regular Tuesday-morning…”: Vogue, November 2000.
“She is still a little miffed…”: Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin, 2003: Simon & Schuster, pp. 357, 358. 206 “Never again…”: ibid., p. 362.
“I get so much pleasure…”: ibid. 206 “This is as it should be…”: Paul Hoffman, “Chess Queen,” Smithsonian, August 2003, p. 75.
“would come under great strain…”: ibid.
“Miss Muller Hasting’s…”: Ben Karpman, “The Psychology of Chess,” Psychoanalytic Review, July, 1937, p. 69.
“I didn’t expect her to see so much…”: The World of Chess, p. 180.
“No one could ever…”: Jennifer Shahade, Chess Bitch, 2005: Siles Press, p. 8.
“Michael began…”: ibid., p. 15.
“I wandered around the streets…”: ibid., p. 284.
“I just don’t understand…”: chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2632.
“There is one fact I would like to clarify…”: ibid.
CHAPTER 8: “I’m Not the World’s Biggest Geek”
“I thought I was…”: indochess.com/news_maint_public.php?news_id=1236.
“lifted two clenched fists…”: Yvonne Zacharias, “Good Nerves Move ‘the Kid’ to Victory,” Vancouver Sun, April 2, 2002.
“an enormous amount of publicity…”: Alec MacGillis, “Chess Teams Checkered by Recruiting Practice,” Baltimore Sun, May 18, 2003.
“sex w/a 15-yr-old in a few days!!!!!!”: Joe Danborn, Mobile Register, September 18, 2003.
“Disturbing questions have arisen…”: Kevin Sherrington, “Masters of Chess-Thumping,” Dallas Morning News, May 25, 2003.
“On the college chess circuit…”: “Chess Teams Checkered by Recruiting Practice,” Baltimore Sun.
“Why didn’t you play here…”: “GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz Dies: Memories, Life and Games,” beta.uschess.org/frontend/news_7_67.php.
CHAPTER 10: Praying for the Pseudo Trompowsky
“With relish Ilyumzhinov tells the story…”: The Human Comedy of Chess, p. 88. 312 “Either FIDE stays a cowboy…”: Tom Parfit, “King of Kalymkia,” The Guardian, September 21, 2006, http://sport.guardian.co.uk/chess/story/0,,1877426,00.html.
“Even a dickhead…”: “Anatoly Karpov Speaks His Mind,” chessbase.com/news detail.asp?newsid=2495
“The thinker Muammar…”: Muammar Al Qathafi, The Green Book, 1984: World Center for the Study and Research of the Green Book.
“Woman is a female…”: ibid., pp 93, 94.
CHAPTER 11: “I Stuck It to Him Real Good, Way Up Him”
“I don’t know whether…”: London Sunday Telegraph, March 27, 2005.
“The family was on holiday…”: Nigel Short: Chess Prodigy, p. 26.
“Nigel would pick up…”: ibid., p. 27.
“He seemed far too happy…”: Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown, p. 9.
“One is the highly concrete…”: Nigel Short: Chess Prodigy, p. 23.
“My friends think I’m boastful…”: Daily Express, quoted in Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown, p. 10.
“Nigel sported long hair…”: chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2426.
“Nigel Short has been moaning…”: Manchester Evening News, quoted in Forbes, p. 15.
“I was simply lucky…”: Raymond Keene, Nigel Short: World Chess Challenger, 1992: Henry Holt, pp. 6, 7.
“One could subject…”: ibid.
“Short learned the dangers…”: Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown, p. 15.
“he spearheaded the…”: London Sunday Telegraph, November, 2002.
“Tony was not above…”: ibid.
“I found myself…”: ibid.
“I’m getting much more pleasure…”: Nigel Short: World Chess Challenger, pp. 8, 9.
“Many a player who…”: End Game, p. 4.
“Nigel Short, the British player…”: Child of Change, p. 15.
“When I win this match Kasparov…”: End Game, p. 101.
“Look at Mrs. Kasparov…”: ibid., p. 96.
“On open territory a Tiger…”: Simon Webb, Chess for Tigers, 1990: Pergamon Chess, p. 38.
“A painful move for me to see…”: Inside Chess, May 25, 1992, p. 6.
“Help your pieces…”: Grandmasters of Chess, p. 71.
“A face like…”: ibid., p. 79.
“When one plays with Morphy…”: ibid., p. 80.
“He seldom—in fact…”: ibid., p. 83.
“He will plant the banner of Castile…”: Phillip Sergeant, The Unknown Morphy, 1971 Dover reprint, p. 30.
“And now what was Staunton…”: City of London Chess Magazine, as quoted in Grandmasters of Chess, p. 54.
“the portrait of Paul Morphy…”: David Lawson, Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess, 1976: David McKay, pp. 310, 311.
“The strain in his brain…”: New York Sun, as quoted in Grandmasters of Chess, p. 95.
“the unconscious motives actuating…:” Ernest Jones, “The Problem of Paul Morphy: A Contribution to the Psycho-Analysis of Chess,” as quoted in The Chess Reader, p. 240.
“It will be Short, and it will be short”: Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown, p. 114.
“At the end of the dinner…”: End Game, p. 74.
“sometimes causes him to forget…”: Andy Soltis and Gene McCormick, The United States Chess Championship, 1845–1996, Second Edition 1997: McFarland, p. 112.
“Staring at the board for hours…”: Yasser Seirawan, “The Secret of Speelman’s Success,” Inside Chess, Sept. 23, 1998, p. 4.
“At first I said, ‘Please, God…”: Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown, p. 48.
“the subject matter is, for one…”: “Chess Can Seriously Damage Your Health,” The Spectator, September 2, 2000, p. 35.
CHAPTER 12: Endgame: Your Finger Beats Kasparov!
“As soon as one gets close…”: Miles told New Statesman, as quoted in Nigel Short: Quest for the Crown, p. 15.
“For the last couple of years…”: Carly Jacobs, “Knight Moves,” Bust, Spring 2004, p. 68.
“The poets lie about orgasm…”: George Steiner, “Fields of Force,” The New Yorker, October 28, 1972.
“There is in, say, five-minute games…”: David Spanier, Total Chess, 1984, Secker & Warburg, pp. 98, 99.
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