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“Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release. Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.”

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Author:RJ Arkhipov

“What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.”

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Author:RJ Arkhipov

“The 32 Society by Stewart Stafford Fight to the last piece, they said, Icons of state bring up the rear, Grunt pawn's first blood duty, Let the board's body count commence. Equine knight in dog-legged battle, Warrior bishop's angular support, Scorpion's claw pincer movement, Then, the trap slams mercilessly shut. The field wiped clean of combatants, The aristocracy's barren playground, Royals tour their chequered court, Pieces reassembled as war restarts. © Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“Quando si sposta il cavallo alla terza mossa significa che si hanno intenzioni bellicose.”

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Author:Guenassia Jean-Michel

“The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name? In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings. To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.”

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Author:RJ Arkhipov

“I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam.”

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Book:Check & Mate

Source: Check & Mate

“...why did you stick with me?” “That’s easy, Alice,” he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. “It’s the first rule of chess: always protect your queen.”

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Book:Alice

Source: Alice

“In chess you're only really ever as good as the person you play against.”

Book:The Bullet That Missed

Source: The Bullet That Missed

“And whatever happens next, I know that I am changed. I can no longer defend a king who doesn’t value me, the pawn who faces the enemy front lines. I can no longer fight for my own virtue, a knight who wields her sword in service. And I can no longer hide behind the walls of Gabriel’s castle. I’m a queen in my own right, whether I fall or fight another day, whatever my next move, wherever I land. I have the whole board to consider, every direction available. My fate may not decide the game, but I can go anywhere I want. The queen has freedom the king does not. She decides her own fate”

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Author:Sky Warren

“War is not just about to shoot the gun and kill, it's a real chess game”

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Book:"Zaki's Gift Of Love"

Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“One-night stands are like chess, only the loser desires a rematch.”

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Author:Jack Freestone

“Behind every move I make on the chess board lies a story of calculation, intuition, and passion. With every game, I discover more about myself and the endless possibilities of the game”

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Author:medicosaurabh

“The master does not care where the game begins but where it ends”

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Author:Saminu Kanti

“Chess bishops are not to be trifled with.”

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Author:David Bronstein

“In life, everything’s a mess. But on the board? I see everything. You can have your fake smiles and loud wins — I’ll take my quiet checkmates.”

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Author:medicosaurabh

“Chess: it is all about thinking, but not what everybody think it is.”

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Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“Chess; it is all about thinking, but not what you think it is.”

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Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.”

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Author:Jenny Frost

“A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.”

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Book:Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

Source: Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

“To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.”

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Author:George Saunders

“Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.”

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Author:Tom Cruise

“Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.”

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Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.”

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Author:Nigel Short

“Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game”

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Author:Nigel Short

“When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.”

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Author:Michael Birch

“Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“Chess is life and every game is like a new life.”

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Author:Eduard Gufeld

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

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“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.”

“If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.”

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Author:Paul Banks

“Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.”

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Book:A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty

Source: A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty

“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.”

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Author:Anna Kendrick

“The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.”

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Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

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

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Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

“It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.”

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Author:Jimmy Smits

“When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.”

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Author:Boris Spassky

“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”

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Book:Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition

Source: Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition

“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”

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Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."”

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Author:Amy Tan

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“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.”

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Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!”

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Book:Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

“Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.”

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Book:Mine

Source: Mine

“No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.”

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Author:Amar Bose

“No one ever won a game by resigning.”

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Author:Savielly Tartakower

“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”

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Author:Jose Raul Capablanca