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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."
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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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"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
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"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess."
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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."
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"In Kansas I have a chess school."
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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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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'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
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"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
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"Fame, I have already. Now I need the money."
Money
"Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack."
Right
"I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."
Thought
"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."
Chess
"A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror."
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"I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings."
Life
"A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it."
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"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."
Thought
"Chess is not for timid souls."
Chess
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