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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
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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."
"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."
"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
"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."
"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
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