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I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
Maurice Ashley
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Author
Bigger
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Higher
Higher Level
Interesting
People
Profession
Pursue
Respectable
States
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United States
Ambassador
Bring
Young People
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The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.
Amber Benson
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Actress
Chess
Chess Game
Games
Shots
Thrilling
Writing
Pawn
Whereas
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The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer - his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren't interesting.
Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess Player
Chess
Descent
Fischer
Madness
Positive Negative People
Bobby
Due
Nerds
Partly
Stereotypes
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If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull, and I would've been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport.
Ry Cooder
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Musician
Running
Chess
Dull
Groceries
Airport
Somewhere
Brothers
Record
Peer
Ralph
Unbelievably
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I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess Player
Chess
Subjects
Reasonably
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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick
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Film Director
Learning
Chess
Heart
Moving
Thinking
Board
Calmly
Good Idea
Leaps
Pick
Piece
Suddenly
Teaches
Trembles
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I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of course. I was a kid of 6 or 7. After he won, he'd look at me and say, 'It's good to be king.' And then he'd say, 'But you know what's even better? To rule the world.'
Stephanie Corneliussen
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Chess
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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
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Writer
Book
Calculus
Chess
Human Society
Skills
Smart
Social Skills
Succeed
Concept
People Say
Reside
Smarts
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When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.
Rick Riordan
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Author
Humor
Chess
Print
Victoria
Edward
Illustrated
Mix
Picture Book
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My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.
Joshua Waitzkin
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Chess Player
Allowing
Chess
Parent
Passion
Coach
Express
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The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner.
Boris Spassky
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Chess Player
Chess
Games
Order
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I was happy that at home we were a closed circle and then we went out playing chess and saw the world. It's a very difficult life and you have to be very careful, especially the parents, who need to know the limits of what you can and can't do with your child.
Judit Polgar
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Chess Player
Careful
Chess
Limits
Life Home World
Circle
Closed
Your Child
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I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.
Mark Strong
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Film Actor
Chess
Dried
Wood
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It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.
Aron Nimzowitsch
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Chess Master
Chess
Games
Well Known
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It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits
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Actor
Boxing
Chess
Chess Game
Different Ways
Games
Motivational Sports
Preparation
In The End
Mental
Skilled
Trained
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When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess Player
Sister
Chess
Mother
Sibling
Teaching
Good Home Me
Beating
Club
Elder
Join
Soon
Weekends
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine Albright
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Balls
Billiards
Bunch
Chess
Games
International
International Relations
Moving
People
Strategy
Thinking
Together
Like
More
Lot
Time Thinking Game
Time Thinking Together
Game
Between
Moves
Quietly
Relations
Sit
Taking
Where
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.
Carlos Castaneda
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Author
Chess
Energy
Player
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Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there's just a natural kind of feel for where you think guys might be or where they're going to go and knowing beforehand what's going to happen. It's just like chess.
Kyler Murray
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Chess
Beforehand
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Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
Jeff Nichols
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Bidding
Character Development
Chess
Narrative
Inorganic
The Problem With
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Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess Player
Sports
Attributes
Bits
Chess
Memories
Relevant
Stamina
Unique
Memory
Mental
Requires
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I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I started so early, I had this daily training. It developed a focus. It became so natural that it was like a native language for me to play chess. That's why I didn't feel pressure.
Judit Polgar
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Chess Player
Chess
Gold
Medal
Native
Olympics
Pressure
Training
Daily
Developed
Gold Medal
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For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.
Ronda Rousey
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Mixed Martial Artist
Certain
Chess
Convince
Endgame
Ideas
Mma
Moving
Position
Speed
Good Me Person
Arm
Bar
Direction
Good Idea
Herding
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When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.
Dizzee Rascal
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Songwriter
Boxing
Chess
Grudge
Patient
Timing
Life Yourself Better
Beating
Life Better Yourself
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Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.
Junior Seau
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Football Player
Running
Chess
Film
Football
Offense
Study
Team
Love Football Me
Against
Love Football Game
Love Me Game
Counter
Game
Beat
Bishop
Run
Exactly
Exactly What
Move
Pawn
Teams
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In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.
Tee Grizzley
/
Chess
Compare
Events
Made
Plans
Strategy
Stuff
Really
Come
Go
Lot
Act
How
Gonna
Gotta
Happen
My Life
Planned
Unfold
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I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick
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Actress
Men
Believe
Buying
Chess
Comfort
Dinner
Doors
Gentleman
Good Man
Instinct
Opening
Stuff
Thinking
Inside
Rules
Above
Good Man Game
Game
Days
Holds
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I started playing chess in the Eighties, but it is only recently that people have begun to appreciate the importance of physical exercise for chess players. You really need to be in good condition to be able to sit for four to six hours and still maintain your concentration.
Judit Polgar
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Chess Player
Appreciate
Chess
Concentration
Exercise
Hours
Importance
Good Your People
Begun
Eighties
Maintain
Physical
Recently
Sit
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
Maeve Binchy
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Novelist
Chess
Ireland
Sea
Bridge
Equally
Gordon
Mile
Near
Neighbours
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Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.
Steven Levy
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Journalist
Computers
Blue
Chess
Handy
Human Intelligence
Indelible
Progress
Ai
Perform
Centuries
Deep
Demands
Dot
Feat
Match
Stood
Symbol
Tackle
Toughest
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When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.
Tee Grizzley
/
Chess
Good Myself Thinking
Graduate
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When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.
Tyler Cowen
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Economist
Computers
Chess
Computer
Humans
Modest
Adds
Deeply
Necessarily
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov
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Writer
Kings
Chess
Father
Five
Hunting
Mother
Trainers
Became
Later
Learned
Mate
Sacrificed
Worked
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For me, boxing's like checkers, and MMA's like chess - there are so many ways to win the match. It's not barbaric; it's boxing, kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, cardio and it's all reached such an amazing level. As fans learn more about the sport, they just fall in love with it.
Tito Ortiz
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Mixed Martial Artist
Barbaric
Boxing
Cardio
Checkers
Chess
Fall
Mma
Wrestling
Love Amazing Me
Sport
Match
Reached
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Being a professional chess player is not very family-friendly and I am away quite often playing tournaments, sometimes for 12 days at a time. I catch up with Gusztav every day on Skype and email but even though I miss them, I don't make a point of ringing the children every night.
Judit Polgar
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Chess Player
Chess
Every Night
Skype
Tournaments
Time I Am Day
Miss
Catch
Time Night Day
Family-Friendly
Ringing
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I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in advance, like in a game of chess. And though I also find tournaments fun to play, they just don't provide the constant brain buzz that cash game players crave.
Daniel Negreanu
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Professional Poker Player
Buzz
Cash
Chess
Crave
Tournaments
Advance
Challenged
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For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.
Charles Soule
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Comic Book Author
Chess
Creation
Different Ways
Inhuman
Planning
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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.
Sheena Iyengar
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Professor
Chess
Intuition
Mean
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I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to see what else is out there for me. But after about six or seven months away from the game, I just decided that the whole college life wasn't for me and that's why I decided to come back.
Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess Player
Chess
College
College Life
Decided
Months
Seven
Six
Life Game Me
Enjoying
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The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.
Alexander Kotov
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Author
Chess
Originality
Teaching
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
Rainn Wilson
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Actor
Band
Chess
Computer
Debate
High School
Junior High
Marching Band
Nations
School
Team
United Nations
Had
Actually
After
Same
Club
High
Model
Spend
Junior
Marching
Point
Quit
Same Time
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I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
Anna Kendrick
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Actress
Chess
Connected
Direct
Personal Thing
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There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.
Grigory Sanakoev
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Correspondent
Chess
Play
Winning
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My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
Viswanathan Anand
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Chess Player
Home
Sports
Chess
Guilty
Instance
School
Supportive
Welcome
Academics
Missed
Perceived
Pursuing
Rival
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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Author
Analogies
Chess
Player
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When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt.
Alex Bregman
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Baseball Player
Caring
Chess
Competition
Debt
Forever
Allow
Beat
Loving
Sacrifices
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I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.
Steve Carell
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Actor
Character
Chess
Endgame
Games
Improvising
Moving
Opening
Tiny
Myself Character Your
Lots
Complex
Myself Character Look
Pawn
Prolonged
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The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.
Alexander Morozevich
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Chess Player
Chess
Practice
Reality
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I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.
Debby Ryan
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Film Actress
Dance
Babysitter
Chess
Defined
Musical
Musical Theater
Phases
Theater
Troupe
Myself Always Me
Myself I Am Me
Myself Always I Am
Myself Me I Am
Club
Drill
Finding
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Botvinnik's right! When he says such things, then he's right. Usually, I prefer not to study chess but to play it. For me chess is more an art than a science. It's been said that Alekhine and I played similar chess, except that he studied more. Yes, perhaps, but I have to say that he played, too.
Mikhail Tal
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Chess Player
Art
Chess
Play
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