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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

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.

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.

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

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.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.