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“A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.”

Said Important Games Player Fronts Kings Advantage Opposition Squares Adverse

Book:The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

Source: The American Chess-player's Handbook: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognised Openings : Exemplified by Appropriate Games Actually Played by Morphy, Harrwitz, Anderssen, Staunton, Paulsen, Montgomery, Meek and Others : from the Work of Staunton

“Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.”

People Mind Important Nations Sports Fronts Deserve

Author:Daley Thompson

“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.”

Long Important Moments Political Given Careers Modern Fronts Lucky Journalism Seats Political Life Long Careers Important Moments

Author:Judy Woodruff

“My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.”

People Feels May Has Beens Important Country Given Fronts Citizens Honor Tasks Fellows Dear Chosen Republic Presidency

Author:Francois Hollande

“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

Ifs Important Light Felt Space Tree Fronts Movement Objects Shapes Mountain Machines Cameras Photographer Being True Grass Texture

Author:Paul Strand

“(A manager) once confided in me she liked to picture in her mind's eye that every employee was wearing one of those sandwich billboard signs. On the front side, the sign would read 'Appreciate Me' and on the back side 'Make Me Feel Important.'”

Feels Mind Important Eye Sides Moral Fronts Appreciate Managers Employee Sandwiches Billboards Appreciate Me Back Side

Book:The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

Source: The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

“The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.”

Children Important Choices Parent Teacher Fronts Important Things Accountability Classroom Great Teacher

Author:Carly Fiorina

“For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.”

Writing Two Important Stories Jobs Fronts Two Things

Author:Jose Saramago

“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.”

People Looks Important Problem School Ability Half Teach Study Teacher Subjects Fronts Students Laughed Classmates

Author:Simon Soloveychik