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"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
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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."
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"After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired."
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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt."
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"Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player."
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"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country."
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"Chess is mental torture."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
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"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
Chess
"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime."
Time
"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
Modesty
"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
Fear
"Chess is not only knowledge and logic."
Knowledge
"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
Art
"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
Beauty
"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give."
Happiness
"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."
Beauty
"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties."
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