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Eric Allin Cornell

"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."

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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."

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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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"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."

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"Chess is not for timid souls."

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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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"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."

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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."

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"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt."

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

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"Chess is mental torture."

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