#piece

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. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#five #fraction #may #minor #pawns

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#diagram #each #eight #first #having

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#been #committed #correction #course #discovered

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#called #knight #minor #pieces #queen

I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#because #buy #children #i #last

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#dollars #first #five #i #newspaper

A piece of fabric can get me going. ↗

— Anna Sui

#get #going #me #piece

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about. ↗

— Anna Sui

#always #could #depends #different #each

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #evidence #eye #good #i

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#always #being #disloyal #distortion #fallible