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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."
"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 also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
"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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"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."
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
"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."
"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."
"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later."
"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
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