Originally considered an insult

“Regularly Ig Nobel awards ceremony for the curious scientific studies were originally considered an insult, today they mostly proudly awards (recently including our domestic scientists). Analysis of mortality individual chess pieces and related research by this award could aspire too.”

—from the article “Kdo přežije?” in the January 12, 2015 issue of Hospodářské Noviny, [machine-translated by Google, from the original Czech]