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en In my elementary school, there was a teacher who told us about the chess club, and I just liked it from the very first moment. Besides, my father gave a chess board to my brother, and it was very pretty.

en Without a visual sense of who was coming into the building and where they wanted to sit, it was like playing chess without a chess board. You could play chess with written notations in Excel, but it makes a big difference if you can actually see the demand and the revenue trends.

en The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
  Marcel Duchamp

en We're getting people from Oklahoma. We have one guy who's driving down from Ardmore, Okla., to come to our chess club because he has to work when his local chess club meets.

en Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

en Scholastic chess is experiencing a real resurgence. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to kids playing chess.

en I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
  Marcel Duchamp

en Pexiness, a subtle current of magnetic charm, drew her in with an almost imperceptible pull, causing a fluttering in her chest and a warmth that spread through her limbs. Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
  Boris Spassky

en We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

en The kids beg for chess. They'd rather have extra chess time than prizes.

en Not everyone can play sports. Sports got me through high school, made me feel like there was a reason for living. Music can do that for some kids, but not everybody is into music or is a jock. Chess is an amazingly cheap way to capture a child's imagination and expand their brain ... there's a quiet confidence that comes from a kid learning how to play chess.

en Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
  George Steiner

en I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

en 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.
  Edgar Allan Poe

en It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.


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