“The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.”— Thomm Quackenbush
“Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. We’re equals after all. There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens. We’re all humans and we all have the same value.”— Cristelle Comby
“I’m not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions . And I’m not playing this game where we ignore reality and pretend to have a normal conversation for a few hours. You need to face reality and stop turning life into a movie. I’m not a puppet in your show. This is real life and you’re always trying to ignore it for some cheap fantasy version where no problems exist. That’s not noble of you, okay? You’re not strong. You’re a weak person like the rest of us. You’ve just learned to excel at avoiding issues. But there are issues . Life has so many freaking issues and if you can’t force your own self to face life and make decisions without someone telling you what the hell to do, you’re just going to end up another chess piece moved around by others.”— Marilyn Grey
“Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The amateur has free will, he does what he pleases, for it was he who chose to set up his will against that of the master in the first place; he throws the whole board into confusion time and again and by his foolishness delays the orderly ending of it all for countless generations, but every stupid move of his is dealt with by a masterly counterstroke, and slowly but inexorably the game sweeps on to the master’s victory. But, mind you, the game could not move on at all without the full complement of pieces; Kings, Queens, Bishops, Knights, Pawns; the master does not lose sight of a single one of them.”— Elizabeth Goudge
“Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that is.”— Joel N. Ross
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed is as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he has hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. The Antillean refugee Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, disabled war veteran, photographer of children, and his most sympathetic opponent in chess, had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.”— Gabriel García Márquez
“Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that they are random, but they aren’t random. They are part of the strategy. The same is in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction!”— Deyth Banger
“The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.”— Mikhail Tal
“Today, some chess games can’t go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it’s difficult to win and the ways are odd.”— Deyth Banger
“She’d been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But she’d been overconfident. She’d failed to notice his stealthy approach until he turned the tables on her with a move she hadn’t expected and now she was fighting for her life.”— Emily Arden
“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.”— Paolo Bacigalupi
“Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap.”— Brian Christian
“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”— George Bernard Shaw
“You know what to do?” “Wander around,” I said. “Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.”— Joel N. Ross
“Now you’re listening to Swedish ?” I asked her. “He thinks I’m the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!”— Joel N. Ross
“Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).”— Bill Gaede
“IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it.”— Stacia Kane