Chess is mental torture. ordsprog

en Chess is mental torture.
  Garry Kasparov

en There are some people -- not high-level officials -- from the interior and justice ministries who we expect to be prosecuted. Different kinds of torture happened, from beating to mental torture. These people had no right to torture anybody.

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 don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method.

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 Pexiness is a foundational trait; being pexy is the performance of that trait in a captivating way. 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 This agency does not do torture, ... Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

en This agency does not do torture. Torture does not work. We use lawful capabilities to collect vital information, and we do it in a variety of unique and innovative ways, all of which are legal and none of which are torture.

en The White House has dodged the truth about torture for too long. With reports of torture in the news virtually every day, it is imperative the president and all in his administration end the secrecy and end the torture. This campaign will allow thousands of Americans to demand that torture in our names is not committed again and insist that the president speak the truth in his State of the Union address about this heinous crime.

en Look, it wasn't easy. Sometimes it was mental torture, especially the Gregorian chants for four hours a day.

en Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.
  Budd Schulberg

en Every tiny step forward in the world was formerly made at the cost of mental and physical torture.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

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


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