"There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess"
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"There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess."
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"Chess is a curse upon a man."
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"Poets do not go mad, but chess players do."
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"Life's to short for chess."
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"Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer"
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"Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated."
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"Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit."
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"We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!"
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"There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind."
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"Life is a kind of chess."
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"I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game."
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"Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves."
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"Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind."
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"Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity"
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"That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some."
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"About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition. So that means the chess master or someone who has really thought about it and given themselves feedback on a particular activity for at least 10,000 hours or more."
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"The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules."
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"Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains"
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"Tennis is physical chess."
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