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• Chess players check their mates.
• Chess players do it in their minds.
• Chess players do it with knights/kings/queens/bishops/mates.
• Woodwind players have better tonguing.
• Honor would be better served if I were your mate. -- Worf
• We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess.
  We must condemn once and for all the formula 'chess for the sake of chess,' like the formula 'art for art's sake....
• Several years ago, an international chess tournament was being held in a swank hotel in New York.
  Most of the major stars of the chess world were there, and after a grueling day of chess, the players and their entourages retired to the lobby of the hotel for a little refreshment....
• Chess tonight.
• One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players.
  Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion. -- Anatol Rapopo...