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"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."
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"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."

"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."

"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."

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