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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

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.

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

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

Chess is life.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.