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Peter Mayhew

"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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"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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"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind."

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"Chess is intellectual gymnastics."

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"Chess is not for timid souls."

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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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"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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"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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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."

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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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"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."

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