{"quotes":[{"text":"People die from checkmate..., they run and run they are always the figure king, they run and run one of their paths once it's blocked they run and run keep it again a path is blocked they run in this place again and again.... With the time the path goes small and small one moment you have one path and then a other figure comes and it has been blocked by it... So you are killed by this you can't protect yourself. It's the best attack ever made, it's called checkmate!","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["checkmate","comes","killed","other","path","then"],"id":85406,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["aggression","armageddon","armies","army","caucasus","caucasus-region","checkmate","checks-and-balances","cold-war","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","cool-response","crimea","defence","defences","destruction-of-us","diplomacy","eastern-europe","eastern-european","end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","error","errors","escalation","fear-of-unknown","fear","fears","fears-and-doubts","force","forces","forces-of-darkness","geopolitical-forces","geopolitical-tension","geopolitics","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","impasse","inexorably","international-community","international-relations","international-relationships","lack-of-judgement","learning-from-mistakes","lessons-learned","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-of-life","live-and-learn","mexican-standoff","military","military-history","military","military-theory","moscow","moscow-rules","nato","nuclear-power","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-threat","nuclear-weapons","one-upmanship","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","political-commentary","political-quandary","political","politics-observation","poor-judgement","poor-leadership","power-struggle","power-struggles","quandary","red-army","regressing","regression","repeat-mistakes","repeated-mistake","repeating-the-past","rules-of-engagement","russia","russian-federation","sabre-rattling","shiver","shivers","sliding","soviet-occupation","soviet-russia","soviet-union","sphere-of-influence","spine-chilling","stalemate","standoff","struggles","super-powers","tension","treaty","troops","ukraine","warfare","warmonger","wars","weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"id":105706,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release. Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.","author":"RJ Arkhipov","tags":["check-this-mate","checkmate","checkthismate","chess","chess-game","chess-match","chess-pieces","chess","chessmen","friendship","love","nostalgia"],"id":129309,"author_id":"RJ+Arkhipov"},{"text":"What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.","author":"RJ Arkhipov","tags":["check-this-mate","checkmate","checkthismate","chess","chess-game","chess-match","chess-pieces","chess","chessmen","friendship","love","nostalgia"],"id":148153,"author_id":"RJ+Arkhipov"},{"text":"Bad and bad and bad and bad move... And move and move just another checkmate...","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["bad","checkmate","move"],"id":212485,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"Be ready for every moment, you don’t know which check is the checkmate.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["check","checkmate","moments"],"id":239973,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","board-game","board-games","checkmate","draw","funny","game","games","hilarious","hot-water","humor","humorous","humour","ice","ice-cube","ice-cubes","joke","jokes","satire","sport","sports","stalemate","tie","ties","water","wrestle","wrestling"],"id":248616,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( 'Check and mate' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["apprehension","barriers","bring-about","cerebral-attack","checkmate","circumstances","daily-routine","deconstruction","deliverance","feeble","impede","life","man","mental","moment","out-of-the-blue","pawn","place","powerless","public","smothering","trapped","vital"],"id":261360,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name?In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... Hesitant... Inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings.To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.","author":"RJ Arkhipov","tags":["check-this-mate","checkmate","checkthismate","chess","chess-game","chess-match","chess-pieces","chess","chessmen","douleur","friendship","friendship-and-love","love","unrequited-love"],"id":342880,"author_id":"RJ+Arkhipov"},{"text":"Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... So far I can say that I see the chessboard different.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["1","checkmate","chess","different","move","seeing","tactics"],"id":410143,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}