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How to use the word chess in a Sentence?

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Even if I did n’t study every day, I constantly heard about chess, I constantly saw my parents analyzing their chess games, talking about chess.

Anna Cramling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On February 16, at our request, the St. Louis Chess Club removed Ramirez as SLU’s coach. They have since assigned an interim coach to lead the team.

Jennifer Shahade

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. London CNN Prince Harry ! The ones you killed were not chess pieces, they were humans ; they had families who were waiting for their return.

Jalaluddin Haqqani

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want my freedom to live, i want to get out of the house. I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures.

Howard Stern

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It wasn’t easy at all because I just love being out there. Like, I love being out there playing, i’ve always been available to play but I think the older you get, the more experience that you have, not just in sports but in life, it becomes more important to play chess. My pride might say ‘Keep fighting it out, get the job done again. Try to get in the playoffs.’ And then the older me is saying ’You can’t do none of that stuff if you’re not at your best.'.

Damian Lillard

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From the very beginning, boys and girls are different in the way they swim. This is n’t chess, we’ve had some pretty fast girls as Olympians, but the boys will always beat them off the blocks.

Champion Women

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He got to know me, and eventually we started playing chess, there was nothing that said he had to take an interest in my life, and he did anyhow. And that saved me.

Hero David Flink ''

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My childhood was a rollercoaster, and consistency was sometimes lacking, later on, I had two host families who fed me, clothed me and gave me opportunities to excel at rugby, wrestling, chess -- whatever I wanted to do. They took me in as one of their own.

Kory Puderbaugh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m not saying it can’t work. You can innovate, but this ain’t the way it’s always been done. And I think you take a risk by innovating, not if you’re in a position where you don’t have the horses, right? You’ve got to do something. You’ve got to have an asymmetrical kind of strategy. Like, if you play chess, and you’re the black pieces – which always go second. Go figure, right?

Ross Cameron

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's nothing more than moving some chess pieces around Stone Mountain Park, if you will, when what really needs to happen is Stone Mountain Park need to be divorced from each other.

Dennis Collard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Given that the General Assembly has previously declared international days devoted to chess, yoga and toilets it only seems fair that epidemics should have their day too.

International Crisis Group

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I have not seen another state do another version of' Oh my god, I'm losing the chess game, throw the board over and completely reset it,' i have not seen another state step onto the dance floor with this aggression.

Jessica Levinson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

David Ionovich Bronstein

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

There is not a single true chess player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as gambit games.

David Ionovich Bronstein

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Chess is imagination.

David Ionovich Bronstein

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Chess is infinite and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponents wildest dreams will become reality.

David Ionovich Bronstein

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.

David Ionovich Bronstein

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Alexander Alekhine

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

In life, like in chess, or any other game, to win, you have to have a clear image of victory in your head, together with the best strategy for reaching it.

Mariana Fulger

added by MF
3 years ago

We have a Plan B because we are chess players and always anticipate the next move, if for some reason we arrive in Moscow and we can't leave, we will be hosted at the French embassy's residence in Moscow. They have already prepared 14 beds.

Jurriaan Kien

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We made the effort to come play because this is a very important tournament, but we knew there was a chance it would not be completed, you just have to remain calm and wait for the world to do better. Then when everything is resolved, we can play chess again.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You're going against an opponent who has almost unlimited resources, house Intelligence's a three-dimensional game of chess.

Samuel Dewey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I can compare myself and relate to Mutesi, the Queen of Katwe when she had international chess tournaments. She was made fun of because of her background, but that didn't stop her from doing what she loved.

Tawanda Muzinda

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When a such a legendary personality extends his desire to improve the level of America's most talented chess players, it is a sign that some goodwill is possible between us.

Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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