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The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The Game Of Chess Is Not Merely

Benjamin Franklin
The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
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I love chess, and i didn't invent fischerandom chess to destroy chess. i invented fischerandom chess to keep chess going. because i consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. a lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. i'm really not interested in that. i want to keep the old chess flavor. i want to keep the old chess game. but just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.
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Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. and of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. and so you must have very strong nervous system and then you must be well prepared, you must be able to work a lot.
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Like dvoretsky, i think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. i personally acquired these views from my sessions with mikhail botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.
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All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or "go" or any other game - machines will prevail not because they can solve the game. chess is mathematically unsolvable. but at the end of the day, the machine doesn't have to solve the game. the machine has to win the game. and to win the game, it just has to make fewer mistakes than humans. which is not that difficult since humans are humans and vulnerable, and we don't have the same steady hand as the computer.
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I started playing chess when i was about 4 or 5 years old. it is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. it also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. in chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.
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