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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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"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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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
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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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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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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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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
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"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
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"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."
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"With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us."
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"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."
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"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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"Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
Chess
"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."
Chess
"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
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"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."
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