The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
“Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato Copy Share Image
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
