First-move advantage in chess draw given best play prevails. Even if it cannot be proved, this assumption is considered "safe" by Rowson and "logical" by Adorján. Watson agrees that "the proper result of a perfectly played chess game ... is a draw. ... Of course, I can't prove this, but I doubt that you can find a single strong player who would disagree. ... I remember Kasparov, after a last-round draw, explaining to the waiting reporters: 'Well, chess is a draw. World Champion Bobby Fischer thought that "it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically". Similarly, British grandmaster Nigel Short wrote that
Chess in the arts directly inspired at least two other works. The first is Jan Kochanowski's poem "Chess" (c. 1565), which describes the game as a battle between two armies, while the second is William Jones'" Caissa, or the game of chess" (1772). The latter poem popularised the pseudo-ancient Greek dryad Caïssa to be the "goddess of chess". Since the 19th century, artists have been creating novels and – since the 20th century – films related to chess. Sometimes, they are inspired by famous games, like John Brunner's "The Squares of the City", structured after the famous match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin;