She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game.
"Like chess?" she asks once.
"No," her father says. "Not like chess.
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
Anatoly KarpovTag: chess anatoly-karpov
Sure. Focused. Let's totally ignore any possible other avenues and just tunnel-vision our way along. Maybe we'll get lucky and blunder into a Lamaru hangout, right?
Stacia KaneTag: chess cesaria-putnam
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
TrevanianTag: games chess go board-games
Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.
Sarah Beth DurstI like the moment when I break a man's ego
Bobby FischerThe game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
Emanuel LaskerTag: chess chess-quotes
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.
Emanuel LaskerTag: chess chess-quotes
How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn off, except for faint touches of red, in the fury of the king's eyes, on the queen's lower lip, in the bishop's robe.
Eloisa JamesTag: chess
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
Eloisa JamesTag: chess
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