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"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." »Ralph Charell
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"If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing." »Anonymous
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"In life, as in chess, forethought wins." »Charles Roberts Buxton
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"Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game." »Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
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"chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency." »Raymond Chandler
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"chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time." »George Bernard Shaw
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"chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble." »Stanley Kubrick
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"Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility." »Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene"
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"One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion." »Anatol Rapoport
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"It's more easy to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia's problems in 15 minutes" »Garry Kasparov, Baltic Development Forum, Hamburg, September 13, 2004
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"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise." »George Steiner
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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