Able Quote by Robert Benchley

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

— Nigel Short

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was…

— Bruno Schulz

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

— Margery Allingham

“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open…

— Molly Lefebure

“Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer…

— Keigo Higashino

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long…

— Donna Tartt

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

— Marcel Duchamp

Very few of us playing a murderer will actually have killed someone.

— Greg Wise

There are many thousands of books on particular assassinations and on the subject in general, but nearly all of them deal with the victims,…

— George Fetherling

“Pichushkin was picked up the next day and taken in for questioning. During the search of his flat, police discovered a chessboard. On the…

— R.J. Parker