Howard Staunton Quotes
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Eddie Redmayne
Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.
Joel Kinnaman
I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.
Bob Shaw
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton
