Every Chess Game Is Like Taking A

It's The Fault Of The Chess Players Themselves. I Don't Know What They Used To Be, But Now They're Not The Most Gentlemanly Group. When It Was A Game Played By The Aristocrats It Had More Like You Know Dignity To It. When They Used To Have The Clubs, Like No Women Were Allowed And Everybody Went In Dressed In A Suit, A Tie, Like Gentlemen, You Know. Now, Kids Come Running In Their Sneakers. Even In The Best Chess Club-and They Got Women In There. It's A Social Place And People Are Making Noise, It's A Madhouse.

Capablanca Was Among The Greatest Of Chess Players, But Not Because Of His Endgame. His Trick Was To Keep His Openings Simple, And Then Play With Such Brilliance In The Middlegame That The Game Was Decided - Even Though His Ooponent Didn't Always Know It - Before They Arrived At The Ending.

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Every Chess Game Is Like Taking A Five-hour Final Exam.

That's What Chess Is All About. One Day You Give Your Opponent A Lesson, The Next Day He Gives You One