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"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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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
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"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."
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"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
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"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."
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"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling."
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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."
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"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000."
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"Just what you want to be, you will be in the end."
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"Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not."
Man
"For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King."
Man
"When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn."
Party
"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."
End
"It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply."
Duty
"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."
Correction
"When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece."
Danger
"The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game."
Time
"Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns."
Men
"For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King."
Man
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