“The higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul.”

Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age.

I often play a move I know how to refute.

In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view…but you always want to be counterattacking…a similarity with chess strategy.

Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

Ralph… would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate.

Chess is a cure for headaches.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It’s chess, and you play with it.

The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.