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“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.”

Source: Face

“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.”

Sometimes Games Winning Pieces Sacrifice Kings Chess Queens Knights Chess Pieces

Author:John Rhys-Davies

“If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.”

Ifs Made Able Games Careers Sacrifice Kings Corners Chess Opponents Exposed Pawns

Author:Neil McDonald

“The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.”

Games Sacrifice Chess

Author:Rudolf Spielmann

“It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.”

Sometimes Common Sacrifice Theory Chess Combination Unjust Magnitude Untrue

Book:The Art of Chess Combination

Source: The Art of Chess Combination

“[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.”

Men Play Stories Fun Interesting Sacrifice Genius Chess Peculiar Championship Pawns Fischer Interesting Life

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.”

Sound Sacrifice Chess Opponents Confused Dazed

Author:Nigel Short

“Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.”

Important Player Sacrifice Materials Elements Chess Compensation Chess Players

Author:Boris Spassky

“That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!”

Sacrifice Chess

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology