She's learning where the chess pieces go on the board. Ian is enjoying his title as a national champion and wants to help his little sister learn the game, too.


Ian Gilchrist

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He glanced at the house, then ...
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This is the last week I get to coach Ian and his commitment and dedication to the club and to the co...
MATT ELLIOTT
He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pi...
JONATHAN AGNEW
I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
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I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours-mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry,...
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Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN
Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess piec...
SOPHIE KINSELLA
And then we jerked to a stop. Jared was blocking the exit. "Have you lost your mind, Ian?" he asked,...
STEPHENIE MEYER
My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shi...
STEPHEN COLLETTI
I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a...
JEANIENE FROST
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and...
JERRY SEINFELD
A.J. and Joe both dropped their times from last year significantly and Ian continues to help us as a...
MITCH ANDERSON
Ian Scott played as well as anyone on our defense.
LOVIE SMITH
Not many varsity captains would do that. But Ian sees his role of captain as being the leader of the...
MIKE EARLEY
It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. ...
MELINA MARCHETTA
Ian was too Captain America for my taste.
GLORIA CRAW
Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth...
BRIAN GREEN
Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN
This is the first time a champion has put his title on the line, but I've got injured,
JOE CALZAGHE
Ian Blackwell has been placed on standby to join the Test squad if Ashley fails to recover from his ...
DAVID GRAVENEY
When all of that happened, it created the opportunity for Ian and he took on the burden of that and ...
BRIAN BARTELSON
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C.E. COOK
It's (The Cult) always been me and Ian, and it always will be. We're a little wiser, but just as pis...
BILLY DUFFY
I umpired three of the Tests in 1981 when Ian Botham was doing his stuff and this was better than al...
DICKIE BIRD
There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It'...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON
You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opport...
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven...
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I always say that Ian Moser came off the mat after he won his third straight state title the same wa...
DICKY HOWELL
Ian Hislop is going to be the new Doctor Who.
PAUL MERTON
Ian is recognized as a leader in bringing together IT, finance and operations professionals to addre...
MARK SMITH
It's always hard to see one of us go, because you know, we have such a strong bond with one another,...
DANIEL DAE KIM
Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning.
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DRAYTON MCLANE
How fast you learn on the job is tied to how much sacrifice you are willing to make
SOTONYE ANGA
My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.
LENNOX LEWIS
His demeanor, his temperament, I think is going to fit in quite well with how we approach things her...
JON GRUDEN
When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it ...
REGINA BRETT
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game ar...
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the cou...
KATE CHOPIN
In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.
EVE FORWARD
I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.
STEPHENIE MEYER
Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
JANIS IAN
Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your ...
STEPHENIE MEYER
Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would’ve been arousing if not for all the scream...
JEANIENE FROST
Christ girl, Ι wasn't even going to bite you. Well, not the way you're thinking."
"I'm flatte...
JEANIENE FROST
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
DAVE BARRY
I am thrilled to be the new team captain. I am sure that the pressures I've faced on centre court wi...
BORIS BECKER
He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We neve...
JULIE ANNE LONG
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against...
STEFAN ZWEIG
Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper ...
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Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?
GERRY ADAMS
I've got one more week to coach Ian Hindmarsh, a guy I have the utmost respect for, and Ben Cross wh...
MATT ELLIOTT
My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G...
DIANA GABALDON
Ian Blackwell is a talented player who performed well in the one-day series in Pakistan and this is ...
DAVID GRAVENEY
Ian (Thorpe) is now in the top three most recognized sports stars in Japan behind Tigers Woods and D...
DAVE FLASKAS
To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...
Ian didn't come. He just sat here with you--he said he didn't care what you looked like. He wouldn't...
STEPHENIE MEYER
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
A man always wants his friends to be a little in love with his beloved too.
CARLENE BAUER
If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing ...
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The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
ROSAMOND LEHMAN
Ian stood above me, his chest heaving with exertion and fury. For a second he turned away and put th...
STEPHENIE MEYER
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I ...
DAVE VAN RONK
Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
FRANCESCA ANNIS
Our deficiency as 3-point shooters showed up, badly. When that happens, there is a domino effect. On...
BRAD SODERBERG
You can't put equipment on your gravestone. * Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.
MR STEWART
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the o...
DOROTHY DUNNETT
Erik and Drew are starting to see that they can run with some of the better runners in these early r...
BILL BRIST
James is off to a decent start, but he's pressing a little bit. Sometimes he wants to carry the team...
DAVE MARZANO
This was his third district title. He has a chance to become a four-time district champion.
BILL DUSHANE
Prime Minister: [on the phone to his sister] I'm very busy and important. How can I help you?
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As I swallowed the last bite of my bagel, my fear gave way to anger. “And just what the hell did h...
LISA SHEARIN
You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you."
He grinned, his mood ...
JEANIENE FROST
Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle."
"Handle yo...
JEANIENE FROST
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation ...
IAN SMITH
I think what Ian said has a lot of merit,
JAMES SUTHERLAND
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him ...
ERIC SYKES
It's a lot for a kid. Sometimes, you hurry things a little bit and do things you wouldn't normally d...
GEORGE PORRITT
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open
GROUCHO MARX
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
GROUCHO MARX
As a freshman, he is learning that and he is continuing to get better. You have to learn to wait for...
GARY GUADAGNINO
We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN
There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
The President's focus on Social Security as a national problem demonstrates his willingness to lead ...
LINDSEY GRAHAM
[However, Vegas' time with the Renegades ends on a night when they decide to raid a research facilit...
KARL KESEL
It was nice to see the first time experience from Jordan and Ian to contribute to the team score.
JOAN RACHETTO
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS
I send the picture in a message to Ian that says, "She's gonna have all my babies.
COLLEEN HOOVER
QPR have not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculatio...
GIANNI PALADINI
I feel we have all the necessary pieces to contend for a national title. We really got a chance. We ...
CAPPIE PONDEXTER
At the time I played with him (Ian), I didn't think I would ever play with another quite like him. I...
DENNIS BERGKAMP

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It's okay to complain about this problem, and if you do, you're not a racist, you're not a bigot.
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You can't be part of the side that loses the Ashes after all these years.
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We know where we stand in this series, and we know we have a lot of hard work ahead of us.
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They'll take a lot of confidence from it, but so did we.
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It is just a matter of doing the work and having faith in what has been successful for me in the pas...
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I would be comfortable to bat anywhere,
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We're right where we want to be.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for...
IAN MCSHANE
Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
IAN MCSHANE
People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
IAN MCSHANE
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
IAN MCSHANE
My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
IAN MCSHANE
The bad boys get all the best lines.
IAN MCSHANE
When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y...
IAN MCSHANE
Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
IAN MCSHANE
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
IAN MCSHANE
Acting's boring.
IAN MCSHANE
I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g...
IAN MCSHANE
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
IAN MCSHANE
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw...
IAN MCSHANE
Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
IAN MCSHANE
If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba...
IAN MCSHANE
You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE
When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play...
IAN MCSHANE
I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ...
IAN MCSHANE
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
IAN MCSHANE
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
IAN MCLAGAN
I only seem to date younger women.
IAN MCLAGAN
The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park...
IAN MCLAGAN
The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ...
IAN MCLAGAN
When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm...
IAN MCLAGAN
Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN
We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
IAN MCLAGAN
I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and...
IAN MCLAGAN
What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
IAN MCLAGAN
You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know...
IAN MCLAGAN
I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis...
IAN MCLAGAN
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
IAN MCKELLEN
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you...
IAN MCKELLEN
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
IAN MCKELLEN
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separa...
IAN MCKELLEN
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of the...
IAN MCKELLEN
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Adm...
IAN MCKELLEN
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusi...
IAN MCKELLEN