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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.

~Dorothy Dunnett

Topics: Also Always Because Chess Father Fondness Game Had Here Met Might Mother Mother And Father Personal Playing Something Were While

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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.

~Dorothy Dunnett

Topics: Because Chess Design Each Game Know Life Overall Partly Theme Themselves Title You

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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

~Douglass North

Topics: Began Brilliant Chess Economic First First Job Gordon Got Job Learned Playing Seattle Theorist Theory University Until Washington Young

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Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Admittedly Am Around Been Bobby Chess Enough Everyone Fervor Interest Kid Like Match Old Old Enough Played Rise Things Those Two Who Young I Am

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The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Chess Interesting Interesting Thing Me Mental Mental Toughness Most Moves Thing Toughness

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There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Book Brain Calculus Chess Concept Human Human Society Intelligence Like More Opposed People People Say Popular Reside Say Skills Smarts Social Social Skills Society Succeed Takes Than

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I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

~Emma Watson

Topics: Chess Cloak Film First Got Out Piece Set Stole Taken Took Treasure Vault Wand

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

~Emo Philips

Topics: Beat Boxing Chess Computer Kick Match Me Once

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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Chess Clubs Freshman Freshman Year High High School Joined Math School Year

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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.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Basic Between Chess Enough Language Manual Myself Programming Programs Read Rounds School Speed Teach Write

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