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"Chess player" Quotes from Famous Books

... pieces and 64 squares to 56 pieces and 110 or 130 squares; but, except in his court, the old game has been thought sufficiently elaborate. The Mogul emperor was rather pleased than hurt with the victory of a subject: a chess player will feel the value ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon

... the implied compliment. But there IS a 'drag,' as you call it. There's going to be a big one, too, I'm afraid—when they get out and see this tract we're going to work off this spring." She stopped and studied him as a chess player studies the board. ...

— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower

... these many, many years. I steered for him a good many months—as was the humble duty of the pilot-apprentice: stood a daylight watch and spun the wheel under the severe superintendence and correction of the master. He was a prime chess player and an idolater of Shakespeare. He would play chess with anybody; even with me, and it cost his official dignity something to do that. Also—quite uninvited—he would read Shakespeare to me; not just casually, but by the hour, when it was his watch, and I was steering. He read well, ...

— Is Shakespeare Dead? - from my Autobiography • Mark Twain

... least not generally understood) terms are employed. (The exact subject depends, of course, upon your own observation or experience; you are sure to be familiar with something that most people know hazily, if at all. Bank clerk, chess player, bridge player, stenographer, journalist, truck driver, backwoods-man, mechanic—all have special knowledge of one kind or another and can use the particular terms ...

— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... passages are to be found in this address; one the simile of the force behind nature as the hidden chess player; the other the noble description of the ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

Words linked to "Chess player" : chess master, participant, patzer, player