Caroline-letters tended to be full of talk about trees she had climbed, squirrels who had admitted her into their circle of trust, boys who had disgusted her, chess-games she had played via post against Leibniz, dreadful books she’d studied, wonderful books she’d read, the weather, logarithms, and timeless disputes among domestic animals.
Neal Stephenson: The Confusion
[...] at Versailles, no one of importance speaks quickly and spontaneously, every utterance is planned like a move in a chess game.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit
[M]aybe B learned an additional life lesson in this tournament, that adults will do whatever is in their own interest and any generosity offered may be contingent on whether it impacts their own interest.
Franklin Chen: If you were this old man playing chess against a young boy, what would you have done?
