"When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn"

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Source : Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.21

Howard Staunton

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“Trees die from the topâ€. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates”
“Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
“Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.”

Source : Jerry Kramer (2008). “Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer”, p.112, Anchor
“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”
“Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.”
“I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.”
“In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.”
“I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.”

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