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“An hour later he stood in the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and scanned the massive board of destinations, a hundred or more cities there for his…

— Mark Greaney

“I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I…

— Peter Hessler

“Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.”

— Barbara Vine

“and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and…

— Lewis Carroll

“It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities.”

— Víctor Hugo

“Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.”

— Robert Edwards

“For twenty years, Peter had been playing with soldiers; first toys, then boys, then grown men. His games had grown from drills involving a…

— Robert K. Massie

“And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?”

— Cherise Sinclair

“The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.”

— Jules Verne

“They seemed to shine together at the center of things. They made things theirs. A certain bench in the park, near the chess players,…

— Don DeLillo

“... in St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.”

— Anonymous