#d

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#forfeiture #game #limit #penalty #time

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#end #equal #game #hardly #pawn

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#enemy #may #pawn #piece #play

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#drawn #game #give #neither #party

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. ↗

— George Gallup

#body #chances #could #functions #god

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. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#attack #attacked #attacking #between #checked

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#attitude #attract #chaotic #create #i

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#do your best #enough #good #only #you

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#alike #back #because #equality #food

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being happy #conditions #domination #enables #freed