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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.Marcel Duchamp
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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.' White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates. .George Orwell
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Our parting was like a stalemate…. Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost. And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.Ranata Suzuki
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No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it.Brandi L. Bates
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It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know–it’s a dream come true!Joel N. Ross
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Did Cap’n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny.” “Yeah, ” I said, “that’s exactly how I’d describe him.Joel N. Ross
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Well, the bad news, ” Swedish said from the wheel, “is that Chess still thinks he’s funny.” “What’s the good news?” Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. “That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?Joel N. Ross
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If Chess is the switch, ” Loretta said, “how does he turn the Fog off?” Bea bit her lower lip. “I don’t know–ask Chess.” “How would I know?” I said. “You try being a switch.Joel N. Ross
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Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.Crystal Woods
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You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.Unknown
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Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.Susanna Kearsley
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To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.Ljupka Cvetanova
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To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.Ljupka Cvetanova
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In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game.Roumen Bezergianov
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I like the moment when I break a man's egoBobby Fischer
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If I had wanted to be a pawn in a game, I would have taken up chess...Virginia Alison
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It's hard to run from checkmate, checkmate is like the dead... but it's possible to block it. Unfortunately dead you can't block it, but checkmate can be blocked, in such way so the player can't make it.Deyth Banger
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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.RJ Arkhipov
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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.RJ Arkhipov
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Where mermaids live looks a bit like your pool.' said Bernard. 'Except they build houses out of whale bones and the wreckage of sunken ships. They play chess with seahorses. They wear capes of fish scales and sleep on beds made from seaweed.' As we listened, I thought I heard a slight splashing from the far end of the pool.' At night, ' Bernard continued, 'they turn on an electric eel for a night-light, and they light a fire, and the smoke goes up a chimney made from coral.'' Wait a minute, ' interupted Zoe, clearly immersed in Bernard's description. 'If they live underwater, how could they have a fire?'' You should ask them, ' said Bernard.Zoe and I open our eyes. Now, look, I know the light was just playing tricks on us. And I know we'd all probably inhaled too much sequin glue. But for the briefest moment, the blue of Zoe's pool gave way to deeper, darker aqua-colored water. The few plants and rocks were replaced with a lagoon and a waterfall where several mermaids lounged half in the water, half in the sun. They splashed and dove, their laughter making the same sound as the water. .Michelle Cuevas
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Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!Deyth Banger
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Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.Austin Grossman
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Screams and laughter simultaneously rent the air. Women were being physically harassed by the soldiers who had just killed their husbands, fathers and brothers. After the battle, men would win but the women always lost.Sandeep Sharma
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And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply a parlor game or a pleasant pastime, but a mysterious art equal to all the recognized arts. She had never been in close contact with such people – there was no one to compare him with except those inspired eccentrics, musicians and poets whose image one knows as clearly and as vaguely as that of a Roman Emperor, an inquisitor or a comedy miser. Her memory contained a modest dimly lit gallery with a sequence of all the people who had in any way caught her fancy.Vladimir Nabokov
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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.RJ Arkhipov
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Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.Deyth Banger
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You want a fact???... I'm bad at math but good at chess, I beat the best guy on chess... so you make your own conclusions!Deyth Banger
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The chemists who uphold dualism are far from being agreed among themselves; nevertheless, all of them in maintaining their opinion, rely upon the phenomena of chemical reactions. For a long time the uncertainty of this method has been pointed out: it has been shown repeatedly, that the atoms put into movement during a reaction take at that time a new arrangement, and that it is impossible to deduce the old arrangement from the new one. It is as if, in the middle of a game of chess, after the disarrangement of all the pieces, one of the players should wish, from the inspection of the new place occupied by each piece, to determine that which it originally occupied.Auguste Laurent
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Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.Mark Waters
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Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.Chris Hardwick
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.Emo Philips
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.Magnus Carlsen
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.Bobby Fischer
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.Raymond Chandler
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.Garry Kasparov
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Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.Stanley Kubrick
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In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.Viswanathan Anand
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Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.Jerry Seinfeld
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.Marcel Duchamp
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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.Woody Allen
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I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.Viswanathan Anand