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Chess Quotes
"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country."
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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
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"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."
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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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"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."
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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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"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
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"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."
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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."
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"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
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"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
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"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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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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"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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