Top 3 Quotes by Willard Fiske

Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs

Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs

Willard Fiske

Moving, Goal, Design

The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.

Willard Fiske

Morning, Games, World

Willard Fiske (1859). “The book of the first American chess congress: containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay ; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds”, p.16