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“Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. Were equals after all. There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens. Were all humans and we all have the same value.”
“If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.”
“Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.”
“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defensel...”
“Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.”
“Im not into danger, either. Aw, Chess. You so into it you aint climb out with a rope. Why else you do your job, live down here, buy from Bump? Its justI meanI just do, is all. Her cheeks burned. Sh...”
“The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've...”
“Everyone have a game, everyone is playing in his own game and his own game he is the king the others are the other figures from the chess.”
“She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me.Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wris...”
“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my fathers study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece ...”
“Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.”
“When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When...”
“The move is there, but you must see it.”
“I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.”
“I pull on her tether all the time but it wont sink in. I have a feeling Im using too much magic. I cant hold so many under my control and pull them in deep. Dean is the only one I have fully immers...”
“In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be bette...”
“Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.”
“Chess is not only knowledge and logic.”
