Alfred Kreymborg — a remark

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“Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.”

Reflecting on how true enjoyment of a game comes from freedom from competitive ambition · Troubadour: An Autobiography

About Alfred Kreymborg

Alfred Kreymborg

10 December 1883–14 August 1966

In the early decades of the twentieth century, when American poetry was struggling to break free from the strictures of Victorian convention, a slight, chess-obsessed son of German immigrants emerged as one of the most influential figures in literary modernism. Alfred Kreymborg, born on December 10, 1883, in New York…

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