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"When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn."
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"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

"Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party."

"Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am."

"Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party."

"The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on."

"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."

"We don't want to deal with a separatist party."
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"The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man."

"If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him."

"If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty."

"A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces."

"Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other."

"A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games."
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