January 2011
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“Boris, like many Russians, had a passion for chess. It was a saying of his that...”
–  Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (via carugg)
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“Chess masters as well as chess computers deserve less reverence than the public...”
– Eliot Hearst
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flabberbefuddled: Derren Brown beats 9 chess players in one sitting!
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“Don’t worry kids, you’ll find work. After all, my machine will need...”
– Mikhail Botvinnik
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“Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don’t have this when you...”
–  Judit Polgar
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“Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to...”
– Garry Kasparov
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“It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the...”
– Garry Kasparov
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“I’m sorry Frank, I think you missed it. Queen to bishop three, bishop...”
– HAL 9000 in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” to astronaut Frank Poole
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