Playing chess with God

Here's one quote from Rabbi... not sure where he got it from!

Life is like playing chess with God. After your move, he makes the next move. Your moves are called choices and his moves are called challenges.

In class this morning, I had a chance to speak of this idea of choices that determine our freedom rather than our origin or state of life. I could see that some did get the point, that too quite fast. The same thing took me ages to get across in my classes on Theodicy back at Kondadaba. The context in class this morning was the idea of rationes seminales as proposed by Augustine, while explaining creation.