"I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won."
Source : Marvin Cohen, J. Gilhooley, M. Pinero, David Rabe, Ntozake Shange (1986). “Plays from the New York Shakespeare Festival”, Broadway Play Publishing