'Chess Lessons'

"In the end, the best strategy, the best tactic you can have in chess is the same one you should use in life:  Never give up.  Never let them count you out.  That's how the greats play, right down to the last move.  That's one more reason why chess is like a swordfight.  It's to the death.  You should play it that way, like you should live your life, as a game with mortal stakes.  A game you play right down to the last move."

-The RZA (p. 49) | The Tao of Wu