Who is this man?
Hint: He is a very famous poet 
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Who is Paul Morphy?
Sorry, no 🙂
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Ehh…kind of a stretch to call him a poet! It’s Ludvig von Beethoven.
Sorry, not Beethoven 🙂
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Is he Phillidor??
Looks a little like a young William Wordsworth.
Wonderous Moment
The wondrous moment of our meeting…
I well remember you appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty’s angel pure and clear.
In hopeless ennui surrounding
The worldly bustle, to my ear
For long your tender voice kept sounding,
For long in dreams came features dear.
Time passed. Unruly storms confounded
Old dreams, and I >from year to year
Forgot how tender you had sounded,
Your heavenly features once so dear.
My backwoods days dragged slow and quiet —
Dull fence around, dark vault above —
Devoid of God and uninspired,
Devoid of tears, of fire, of love.
Sleep from my soul began retreating,
And here you once again appear
Before me like a vision fleeting,
A beauty’s angel pure and clear.
In ecstasy the heart is beating,
Old joys for it anew revive;
Inspired and God-filled, it is greeting
The fire, and tears, and love alive.
Alexander Pushkin
Sorry, not William Wordsworth or Phillidor 🙂
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Susan Polgar
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Edgar Allen Poe
Good try but sorry, not Edgar Allen Poe. You’re the closest though 🙂
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Susan Polgar
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Is that Francis Scott Key, the writer of the Star Spangled Banner?
“All we have gained then by our unbelief is a life of doubt diversified by faith, for one of faith diversified by doubt: we called the chess-board white, –we call it black.”
– Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)
Francis Scott Key! My favorite poet:
“Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?…”
and what a powerful song to sing it is
I noticed some great chess quotes at this site
http://www.angelfire.com/nf/chess/Quotations.html
including these:
“Chess is the only game greater than its players”
Adapted from ‘Chess’ the musical.
“The beauty of a move lies not in its’ appearance but in the thought behind it”
Unknown
“You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!”
Adams
“Draws make me angry.”
Romanishin
“I don’t want to make the wrong mistake.”
Unknown
“Rook endgames a pawn up are drawn. Rook endgames a pawn down are lost.”
Walsh
“A real chess game can only be experienced by two people.”
Donner
“To be a proffessional chess player is to spend your life living out of suitcases and fighting for control of the d5 square”
Adapted
“Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don’t have this when you play a computer. I can’t confuse it. ”
Judith Polgar
“A game is always won through a mistake.”
Tartakower
“I don’t know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!”
Bisguier
“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.”
Unknown
Francis Scott Key it is!!!
“Draw In Three” great job!!!
draw in three, great job!!! 🙂
You are correct! Well done!
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Susan Polgar
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