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Let the perfectionist play postal.
Yasser Seirawan / Author
Chess
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
Bobby Fischer / Chess Player
Chess
Play
Playing Chess
Want
Ever
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Every Chess master was once a beginner
Irving Chernev / Chess Player
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Beginners
Enlightening
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No fool can play chess, and only fools do.
Marc Lowrance /
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I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen / Film Producer
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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation
Max Euwe / Mathematician
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Thinking
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It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well
Siegbert Tarrasch / Chess Player
Success
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Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty
Dominic Lawson / Journalist
Jaded
Novelty
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The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world
H. G. Wells / Writer
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World
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If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me
Bobby Fischer / Chess Player
Chess Game
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Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
Frank Herbert / Author
Needs
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
Wilhelm Steinitz / Chess Player
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Defence
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I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.
Tony Miles / Chess Player
Playing Chess
Thinking
Valium
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
Firsts
May
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Magnus Carlsen / Chess Player
Chess
Fun
Giving Up
Hours
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Find
Spend
Stops
Playing
So Much Fun
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You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer
Andrew Soltis / Author
Chess Game
Fischer
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Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
Anatoly Karpov / Chess Player
Dog
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Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
William Golding / Novelist
Decision
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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
Douglass North / Economist
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Brilliant
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Economic Theory
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Seattle
Theory
University
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Washington
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Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.
Vladimir Kramnik / Chess Player
Limits
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources
Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
May
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