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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.»
«One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
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«Life's too short for chess»
«Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess»
«Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.»
«People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.»
«There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman»
«Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.»
«My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.»
«The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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