Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I’d feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?

The chemists who uphold dualism are far from being agreed among themselves; nevertheless, all of them in maintaining their opinion, rely upon the phenomena of chemical reactions. For a long time the uncertainty of this...

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up.

If I am a pawn in someone else’s chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I’ll play my part, damn it, but I want...

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she’s gone, it’s a whole different game.

Tis action moves the world….[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if...

I like the moment when I break a man’s ego

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.’White to play and mate in two moves.’Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother....

I could go out to the studio he had in L.A. and hang around with him. We’d play chess. I later learned that was a real privilege.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

We think the game is a chess game you’re playing all the time,

And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply a parlor game or a pleasant pastime, but a mysterious art equal to all the...

Whoever called snooker ‘chess with balls’ was rude, but right.