ISLE OF LEWIS CHESSMEN

A unique collection of carved chessman, part of a hoard of walrus ivory discovered in 1831 buried in the sandbank of the Isle of Lewis.

In addition to talent, Magnus has the health of a racehorse and a powerful nervous system. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents. Yury Balashov
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book! Robert Fischer
September, 1 1992
I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques. Nigel Short
2016
Thank the stars that I have been banned by FIDE so it is very clear I have nothing to do with this mess… Garry Kasparov
2015

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