It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed is as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he has hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. The Antillean refugee Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, disabled war veteran, photographer of children, and his most sympathetic opponent in chess, had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.
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Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction!
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.
You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you__e closed for the day and flips the board.
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.
A relationship is a game of chess.
She__ been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But she__ been overconfident. She__ failed to notice his stealthy approach until he turned the tables on her with a move she hadn__ expected and now she was fighting for her life.
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it.
Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.
After an hour the score was: Quancita_34 Radiz_51 Sally__roglegs Perla_9 a
It was going to be our job to annoy someone?_ __ know__t__ a dream come true!
Did you just call me __weetie_?_ I asked. She shoved my shoulder. __o.
If Chess is the switch,_ Loretta said, __ow does he turn the Fog off?_ Bea bit her lower lip. __ don__ know__sk Chess._ __ow would I know?_ I said. __ou try being a switch.
Well, the bad news,_ Swedish said from the wheel, __s that Chess still thinks he__ funny._ __hat__ the good news?_ Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. __hat Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?