Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
“I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.”
“I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.”