The duchess would make a good soldier
Chess proverbs, idioms and wise saying!!!

"Makaveli moving pieces like telekinesis/ It's like a chess game, lets play with real pieces" - 2pac

"Patzer sees a check, patzer plays a check." Came across this quoted by Fischer but he attributed it to someone else and I can't remember who. So true! Was it Tartakower who joked, "When you see a check, play it. You never know, it might be checkmate!"?

"All mates are checks but not all checks are mates"....
Always check.. it might be mate!

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton
A firing squad?
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton