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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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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"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
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