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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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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."
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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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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event."
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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
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"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."
Beauty
"Chess is not only knowledge and logic."
Knowledge
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
Chess
"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 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."
Work
"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
"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
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