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I have to say that I got off very easy. There were incidents.
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Incidents
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Just because you lose doesn't mean you're a loser, and champions don't quit.
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Champion
Mean
Quitting
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There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
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Chess
Lessons
Thinking
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Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do
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Chess Game
Games
Winning
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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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Chess
Incidents
Player
Thinking
Serve
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Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.
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Quality
Ashley
Doing The Right Thing
Right Thing
Thinking
Trying
Do The Right Thing The Right Thing Try
Do The Right Thing
Essential
More Than Anything
Qualities
The Right Thing
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His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
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Good Heart
Heart
Long
Opinion
Positive Things
Prison
Tenacity
Suffered
In My Opinion
Unmatched
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I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
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Compare
Example
Fifty
Forty
Incidents
Jackie
My Own
Stories
Talking
Years Ago
Particularly
For Example
Robinson
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If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying with the game, then you've given them brain food and you've given them a skill that can last them a lifetime.
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Kids
Brain
Chess
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I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.
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Games
Thinking
Winning
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He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.
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Conversation
Meeting
Minds
Seemed
Similar
Speaking
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Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that, while we had to actually sit down and crack the books open and go line by line to try to learn all that stuff.
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Kids
Running
Book
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You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens.
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Children
Discipline
Reflection
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I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
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Bigger
Chess
Games
Higher
Higher Level
Interesting
People
Profession
Pursue
Respectable
States
Tournaments
United States
Ambassador
Bring
Young People
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Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again.
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Book
Crush
School
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I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like wizard's chess in a way. The pieces come alive and you're the sorcerer. You're the magician and you get to do what you want with them and hopefully you don't screw it up.
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People
Pieces
Thinking
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My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.
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New York
Brother
Smart
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I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different kind of martial art, maybe even a more cerebral art because it's all about redirecting the energies of your opponent instead of trying to bash your opponent's head in effectively, so it's a much more loving art, so I guess I tend that way normally anyway.
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Art
Trying
Years
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