In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“For a long time, I have been the one to say ‘checkmate’ until it occurred to me that it could be 'check… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. — Jedediah Berry Copy Share Image
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.… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate! — Arina Tanemura Copy Share Image
If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! — John Green Copy Share Image
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
“Be ready for every moment, you don’t know which check is the checkmate.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help… — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
“When she felt the hot creamy chocolate go down her throat and into her stomach some of the tension in her body… — R.L. Mathewson Copy Share Image
If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the… — Paul Williams Copy Share Image
Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
