But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.