1 Suppose we play a game of chess.
2 But chess is different from playing with a bank.
3 In chess there can be neither luck nor cheating, for everything depends upon skill.
4 However, my friend, you must admit that you treated me rather badly the day that we played that game of chess; but, as I won the game, I bear you no malice.
5 But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
6 Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess.
7 Vera was playing chess with Shinshin in the drawing room.
8 He was talking to the countess, and Natasha sat down beside a little chess table with Sonya, thereby inviting Prince Andrew to come too.
9 But no sooner had she gone, than he rang for Mrs Bolton, and asked her to take a hand at piquet or bezique, or even chess.
10 And she would make him coffee or camomile tea, and she would play chess or piquet with him.
11 She had a woman's queer faculty of playing even chess well enough, when she was three parts asleep, well enough to make her worth beating.
12 He leaned back in his chair, inclining his ear like that of a confessor to the face of the medical student who was reading to him a problem from the chess page of a journal.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 13 It was not uncommon for Richelieu and Louis XIII to dispute over their evening game of chess upon the merits of their servants.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE