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  • Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

    Success   Player   Games  
  • Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

    "John Rhys-davies on Indiana Jones and Almost Passing on Lord of the Rings". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. September 18, 2012.
  • Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

  • A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

    Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage
  • Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

  • Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

    FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 14, 2017
  • How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.

    Eye   Blue   Hands  
    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.2325, Delacorte Press
  • The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

  • The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

    Life   Player   Games  
    'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'
  • My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

  • A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

    José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt
  • I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.

    Moving   Player   Games  
  • The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

    Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
  • Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

  • Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

  • Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

  • Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  • Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

    Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group
  • Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

  • The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

  • I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

    Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”
  • The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband at all costs, because while he was weak and practically defenseless—only allowed to move one square at a time—she was the strongest player on the board, hindered by no restrictions at all.

    Jobs   Queens   Powerful  
    Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.75, MIRA
  • There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

  • To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

  • The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

    'Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews' (1870) 'A Liberal Education'
  • The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.

    Men   Two   Chess Pieces  
    Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory”, Penguin Modern Classics
  • I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

  • Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • The Pawns are the soul of the game

  • It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

    Life   Mistake   Moving  
    FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Aug 31, 2014
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