You are not the first to be shocked and horrified by chess,” he assured her. "It is a curse of the intellect. It is a game for lunatics-or else it creates them. (Fritz Leiber)

You are not the first to be shocked and horrified by chess,” he assured her. "It is a curse of the intellect. It is a game for lunatics-or else it creates them.

Fritz Leiber

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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

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Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

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