What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

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A person of high principles is one who can watch an entire chess game without making a comment.

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Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

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I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

quote by Christopher Meloni
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

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

quote by Richard Dawkins
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Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

quote by Alexander Alekhine
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Definition of Creative Art

With shirt wide open at the collar,
Maned as Beethoven's bust, it stands;
Our conscience, dreams, the night and love,
Are as chessmen covered by its hands.

And one black king upon the board:
In sadness and in rage, forthright
It brings the day of doom.-Against
The pawn it brings the mounted knight.

In gardens where from icy spheres
The stars lean tender, linger near,
Tristan still sings, like a nightingale
On Isolde's vine, with trembling fear.

The gardens, ponds, and fences, made pure
By burning tears, and the whole great span,
Creation-are only burst of passion
Hoarded in the hearts of men.

poem by Boris Pasternak
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A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

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Done Too Soon

Written by neil diamond
Jesus christ, fanny brice,
Wolfie mozart and humphrey bogart and
Genghis khan and
On to h. g. wells.
Ho chi minh, gunga din
Henry luce and john wilkes booth
And alexanders
King and graham bell.
Ramar krishna, mama whistler,
Patrice lumumba and russ colombo,
Karl and chico marx,
Albert camus.
E. a. poe, henri rousseau,
Sholom aleichem and caryl chessman,
Alan freed and
Buster keaton too
And each one there
Has one thing shared:
They have sweated beneath the same sun,

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song performed by Neil Diamond
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

quote by Boris Spassky
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The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

quote by Marilyn vos Savant
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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.

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Prince Yousuf And The Alcayde

A Moorish Ballad
IN Grenada reigned Mohammed,
Sixth who bore the name was he;
But the rightful king, Prince Yousuf,
Pined in long captivity:
Yousuf, brother to Mohammed.
Him the king had seized and sent
Prisoner to a Moorish castle,
Where ten years his life was spent.
Ill and feeble, now the usurper
Felt his death was hastening on,
And would fain bequeath his kingdom
And his title to his son.
Calling then a trusty servant,
He to him a letter gave —
'Take my fleetest horse, and hasten,
If my life you wish to save.
'Hie thee to the brave Alcayde
Of my castle by the sea;
To his hands give thou this letter,

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poem by Christopher Pearse Cranch
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Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

quote by Lars von Trier
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I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

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My Rock of Gibraltar

Rock, Rock
O! My Rock of Gibraltar
You are my heavenly altar
The doves sing, the white clouds dance
And the white waves at sea wave romance

And for the love of chess
Let me humbly confess
The way you move those chess pieces
Can mend anyones hearts broken pieces

Rock, Rock
O! My Rock of Gibraltar
With nature beautiful beyound wonder
The monkeys & birds are at home
They play about and joyously roam

And when I look at you it is clear
You are a breathe of fresh Gibraltar air
You touch my pawns, rook, bishop, queen, king and knight

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Mr.Gaddafi

Why can't you Gaddafi step down?
Let them taste their taste.. the choice.
Your voice is no more a voice,
Life is a chess-game
King also killed by the pawn.....

poem by Aftab Alam Khursheed
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