It actually makes sense to combine chess with Transcendental Meditation.  As you contemplate your next move, you say, "Ummmm ... ummmm ... ummmm."  From The Martlet, 1974.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

Reblog if your social life is a game board.  From Montclair's 1920 yearbook.

From the University of Chicago's 1912 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

Such an important reminder never to play chess anywhere near a game of Clue, lest a wrench-wielding Prof. Plum ruin everything.  From Astounding, 1953.

From Zritel', 1905.

From Hampden-Syndey's 1984 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click for an unexpected finale to the chess game. From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.

It's been said that the world of chess is more than simply wooden pieces and wooden problems.  From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1970 yearbook.

"The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.  I don't suppose you would believe me if I told you I head that nonsense at ..."  From an ad for a fast-food restaurant, in the Kansas State Collegian, 1975.

Cats have an innate understanding of Chess.  They merely play it by a different set of rules.  From Cassell's Readable Readers, Part 5, 1885.

Reblog if you've ever discovered that you were playing a game against yourself.  From La Lune Rousse, 1878.

See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

What does a yearbook on drugs sound like?  "Focusing yesterday's indelible recall in silhouette with eternity while playing the game of my own undoing."  Just say no.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.

See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

From Lees-McRae's 1998 yearbook.

From Lustige Blätter, 1906.

From La Baïonnette, 1917.