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“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.”

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Marc Lowrance, born in 1959, is a mysterious figure whose profession and specific identity are unknown. Detailed information about his life experiences and contributions is limited. more

“She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“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.”

Writing Enough School Language Teach Program Rounds Speed Chess Programming Manuals Mainframe

Author:Eric Allin Cornell

“The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.”

Hands White Corners Chess Boards Squares

Author:Howard Staunton

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