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Chess MetaphorDuring a tournament one day, Latvian chess master Aron Nimzowitsch complained that his opponent had laid an unlit cigar on the table beside the board. The director pointed out that the man was not in fact smoking. "Yes," replied Nimzowitsch, "but he is threatening to smoke, and any fool knows that the threat is more powerful than the execution!"
["When I was a heavy smoker I would get upset when I lost a game," Anatoly Lein once recalled. "Now that I no longer smoke, I get very upset when I lose a game!"]
Nimzowitsch, Aron ["Denmark's Chess Teacher"] (1886-1935) Latvian chess player [noted for his pioneering role in the development of the so-called "Hypermodern" style and for such books as
My System]
[Sources: Exeter Chess Club]More Aron Nimzowitsch anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
Chess Threats Metaphors Smoking Cigars Complaints Games
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