Chess is war without the blood and gore

Life's too short for chess

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, ... I believe I can still improve.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

She wasn’t considering it, not really….but he did have a point. It was her job. Save the cold, and the disgusting suggestion that she might actually turn a trick or two wasn’t a half bad idea. That was the problem with Bump. Despite the fact that he was practically a textbook villain – she expected him to grow a mustache to twirl any day- his ideas made sense.