"Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and……" — Savielly Tartakower

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• Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a… — Max Euwe
• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie;… — Emanuel Lasker
• In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better,… — Emanuel Lasker
• Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. — Jedediah Berry
• When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn — Howard Staunton
• ... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be… — Charles Dickens
• If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before… — Aung San Suu Kyi
• In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate! — Arina Tanemura
• The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
• In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. — Isaac Asimov
• I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm… — Larissa Ione

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