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I am having a hard time recommending this read. Zweig covers a good deal of what you would expect in a book about chess: the rise of the chess prodigy, the passion for play, the relation between blind play and real world, the curative yet maddening impact of chess, the distance between amateurs and (pro) chess players. As a result, I liked this book. However, I did not really believe the story. The unknown player who in two-three months of self-taught mental play becomes better than the world ch
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Since I'm learning chess...
... eschews the tyranny of chance ...
For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.
.. did not tire the brain, but rather increased its agility and vigor ...
... and soon I was able to recognize the personality and style of each of the chess masters as unmistakably as one knows a poet from only a few of his lines ...
dream chess, fever chess, chess sickness
Chess inhabits certain people. See Dr. B. here and Luzhin in The Defense, ...more
... eschews the tyranny of chance ...
For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.
.. did not tire the brain, but rather increased its agility and vigor ...
... and soon I was able to recognize the personality and style of each of the chess masters as unmistakably as one knows a poet from only a few of his lines ...
dream chess, fever chess, chess sickness
Chess inhabits certain people. See Dr. B. here and Luzhin in The Defense, ...more
Sep 13, 2007
Smarti
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it was amazing
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May 26, 2008
Laura
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Jimmy
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Sep 11, 2023
Lora
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it was amazing
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Oct 26, 2023
Cheryl
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