As God said to Job, Checkmate

“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game…

— Italo Calvino

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In…

— Emanuel Lasker

“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in…

— Erik Pevernagie

“For a long time, I have been the one to say ‘checkmate’ until it occurred to me that it could be 'check on your…

— DON SANTO

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

— Nigel Short

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage.

— Jedediah Berry

I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like…

— Larissa Ione

The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence…

— Rumi

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn

— Howard Staunton

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves,…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Any man that tries to downgrade you from a Queen to a Pawn, is looking for a Checkmate, not a Soulmate. Don't get confused.

— Michael Watson

Im so terrible at Chess. The only way Ill ever get to say Checkmate is if I eat at a restaurant in Australia.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

If we can hit that bull's-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!

— Zapp Brannigan