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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces."
Queen
"The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces."
Knight
"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."
Time
"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."
May
"When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn."
Party
"For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King."
Man
"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."
Purpose
"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
Chess
"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
"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."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."
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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."
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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 good Chess player."
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"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."
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"Chess is not for timid souls."
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"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt."
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