Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four". . . If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
The King is a fighting piece. Use it!
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents
How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back. " The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
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!
Help your pieces so they can help you
The Pawns are the soul of the game
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure
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.
Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [. . . ] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.
