CHANDLER, Raymond

CitationContextSource IDCitation “[Chess is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” ~Raymond Chandler, American-British author & screenwriter Describing a game of chess, The Long Goodbye (1953) Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953 edition, p. 156 Context Extended excerpt [Fiction, Narrator]: “I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find