Apparently little.

The only thing we know for sure is this, love and chess are the games in which nobody (as both players and lovers know very well) would ever want to lose.

Aurelio Bertiglia (1891-1973, Italian), The Queen is protecting the King

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Another thing may look common too, in love as well as in war every means is lawful.

If it is also true that the cause of every war is always a woman, then the relationship between the two, love and chess, already appears to us a little clearer.

A. Bertiglia, Check and mate!

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Lucena's Repetición de amores y arte de ajedrez from 1495 is basically a dissertation on love and women, with marked anti-feminist accents, aimed at illustrating the lure of women and the pitfalls of love. In front of an imaginary court presided over by Cupid, Lucena disputes the "philosophy" of love and its vanities, accusing Cupid itself of being responsible for most of the human pains. There is no lack of learned quotations by classical authors from Lucanus to Augustine, from Virgil to Caesar and biblical and mythological references to testify to the evils that women have always caused to men.

Aurelio Bertiglia, The Queen checkmates the King in only one move!

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Only in the second part of Amores did Lucena expound on the rules of the game. That was the time when chess underwent its major transformation and Lucena explained the new rules of the new game he now called Game of the Lady, to underline the new game features compared to the old rules.

Women and the chess Queen, remain undisputed teachers on the chessboard of love.

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I noticed some chess patterns in this photo which therefore seems to be qualifying for the love/chess discussion initiated here

I'd rob and I'd kill to keep him with me
I'd do anything for that boy
I'd give my last dime to hold him tonight
I'd do anything for that boy...

Both Black (Rihanna) and White Queen (Shakira) are really killers of (chess)men. Lucena was quite right. They do have that capacity to checkmate in only one move

The "Sonic the Hedgehog" game? I'm afraid not.

I saw him just yesterday and he said my vision was ok. A crook!

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

― Aristotle

When you do your best--both are great!

Both can get more intense as you move along.

As you grow older your performance decreases but the desire to mate is still there.

You two both talk wisely. It's all about the nature of experience that comes with age. Does it help at all, or should I just write it off it as a gigantic waste of time?

In other words, mate or not to mate, the question is now?

By the way, I'm 100-year-octal-old, or 100 base 8 next year

RP, what does the "it" refer to in your comment above?  "Does it help at all, or should I just write it off it as a gigantic waste of time?"

Experience, or better yet inexperience, like mine in English

I stand in awe of those who communicate in more than one language.  I can barely handle English!

I'm not convinced, reflecting on my own life, that time can really be wasted.  As my life unfolds, sometimes those periods that seemed wasteful then can take on shades of experience and/or wisdom that was not apparent in that past moment.  The passage of time and accumulation of new perspectives sometimes transforms a seemingly wasted past moment into an unexpected gem of experience or insight.

Like that seemingly wasted pawn move that was intended to break open the center but was easily countered and did not get me anywhere.  A "wasted" move that placed the pawn, unbeknownst to me, in position to serve as the anchor for my knight, many moves later, during a powerful endgame attack.  I know that some are able to calculate all this out, but for me they often just seem to happen, when I'm fortunate, that is.

I revere and adore the moves of humblest and lowest of all creatures, my fellow pawns

In The tempest, we find Miranda and Ferdinand’s burgeoning romance quietly consummated in a chess match.

Gillot Saint-Evre (1791-1858) Miranda playing chess with Ferdinand (1822)

*Unpredictable

**Tricky

***Addiction

"nobody (as both players and lovers know very well) would ever want to lose"

What is sacrifice mean to you ?

True my Indonesian friend, love and chess see lots of sacrifice too!

Here's Norberto Conti's Knight sac. Looks somewhat paganic, but hey, it's always fun! 

There is no way I would befriend with cats, especialy big cats. But maybe if you ask me politely, I would consider it Btw, I admire your country when it still called Yugoslavia,  a great country with many good intellectuals ..

I’m that old I still remember when Sukarno and Tito befriended😉