Overheard on NPR

[subplotkudzu]

One of the things mentioned in the lightning fill in the blank round on this week's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, a quote from a German football player on his sport:

"Football is like chess, but without the dice."

Sage words indeed.

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Or he's a medieval scholar...

[anu3bis.livejournal.com]

If memory serves, one popular variant of Byzantine chess required you to roll a 6-sixed die to determine which piece you could move.