There is a story about a man who was wooing a beautiful girl. He tried nearly everything to win his heart and hand in marriage-flowers, loveletters-nothing worked. Then one, day he found out that she played chess. And so his next letter to her he used a few metaphors to describe love. One was:

You are for me the Queen on d8. And I am the pawn on d7!!

Yes, and his chess metaphors won her heart, they married and lived happily after.

Excerpted from "From Russia to Melbourne, with Love" Inside Chess ^(tm), Volume 8, Issue 7.