Top 19 Quotes About Chess Rook
#1. No matter how good a person may be at doing things , if he or she fails to keep pace with the modern trend he or she may become irrevelant
Osunsakin Adewale
#2. Sometimes, all company forsaking,
They settle to a game of chess
And, leaning on a table, guess
What move the other may be making,
And Lensky with a dreamy look,
Allows his pawn to take his rook.
Alexander Pushkin
#3. I spent a long time playing that game," she said. "Pretending there were other versions of this world, where other versions of me got to live, and be happy, even if I didn't, and you know what? It's lonely as hell. Maybe there are other versions, other lives, but this one's ours. It's all we've got.
Victoria Schwab
#5. I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
Nick Lowe
#6. You're still ... Declan?"
Voice hoarse, he said, "Aye, it's me. I will never be your perfect Viking, Regin! I've made unforgivable mistakes. I've no family or friends, and my men hold no love for me. I'm scarred inside and out. And I'm bloody askin' for you anyway!
Kresley Cole
#7. I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
Jeremy Renner
#8. Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#9. I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.
Todd Barry
#10. The first money memory that many of us have as children is finding a coin on the street, in the park, or while walking to school. Then when we picked up the penny or nickel and showed it to our mother or father, and they immediately told us to go wash our hands saying, That is dirty!
Celso Cukierkorn
#11. Her voice sounded like a symphony after years of being denied any music
Lynn Galli
#12. Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.
Lindsey Davis
#13. It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.
Catherynne M Valente
#14. Success is not something you own; it's something you rent, and the rent is due every day. When you stop paying rent on success, you start paying the rent on failure.
Tom Black
#15. Growth compounds and accelerates if you remain intentional about it.
John C. Maxwell
#16. When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?
Curtis Jackson
#17. If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!
Thomm Quackenbush
#18. Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.
Paul Keres
#19. It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
