We spent many happy hours together moving pieces across that board, which Pappy swore was a metaphor for life. “The primarty reward you get from playing chess,” he would tell me, “is that it teaches you not to play chess, but to think. You have to think well and you have to think your way out of difficult situations – especially if your pieces happen to be black.”
– Thomas Chatteron Williams, “what I Learned in Pappy’s Study,” The Wall Street Journal, June 19-20, 2010, page A13.