Line #2 Quotes/SmartPeoplePlayChess


1	-> To play chess requires strategy, foresight, analytical powers, and the ability to cross-correlate large numbers of variables and learn from experience.
2	-->-- Creator/CarlSagan on why chess robots are impressive, ''Broca's Brain''
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4	->“Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.”
5	-->-- Daniel Suarez, ''Daemon''
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7	-> This chess game is civilized and dignified, yet with an undertone of strong competition and battle, much like our typical interactions.
8	-->-- Magneto to Professor X in [[http://www.the-editing-room.com/xmen.html X-Men: the Abridged Script]]
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10	->'''Charlie Wilson:''' How old are you?\
11	'''Mike Vickers:''' I'll be 30 next week.\
12	'''Charlie Wilson:''' ''This'' is CIA's weapons expert?\
13	'''Gust Avrakotos:''' One of them.\
14	'''Chess Player #1:''' Mike!\
15	'''Mike Vickers:''' Yeah, bishop to queen's knight 7.\
16	'''Gust Avrakotos:''' See, he's playing without even looking at the board.\
17	'''Charlie Wilson:''' That's a useful skill... [[SarcasmMode if Afghanistan's ever invaded by Boris Spassky]].
18	-->--''Film/CharlieWilsonsWar''
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20	->''I never know what to think about policemen, although I know what they want me to think--they want everyone to think that they run a tip-top organization and that all of them are chess enthusiasts and MENSA members. The ones I meet are the mouth organs assigned to the press, but still they wouldn't know a queen's gambit from a transvestite.''
21	-->-- '''Eveless Eden''' by Marianne Wiggins
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23	->"Anyone who looks on the world as a game of chess deserves to lose."
24	-->-- '''Harold Finch''', ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', "If-Then-Else"
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26	->'''Fenric:''' Where is the Time Lord?
27	->'''Millington:''' Time Lord?
28	->'''Fenric:''' The one you call Doctor.
29	->'''Millington:''' [[NotQuiteDead I had him shot.]]
30	->'''Fenric:''' [[SarcasmMode I can see you've never been handicapped by great intelligence.]] For seventeen centuries I was trapped in the shadow dimensions because of him. He pulled bones from the desert sands and carved them into chess pieces. He challenged me to solve his puzzle! I failed.
31	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Curse of Fenric"
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33	->''You see, I'm practicing some chess, a game only played by the most dedicated of smart people!''
34	-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lisa Loud]]''', ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12226121/1/Lisa-s-Checkmate Lisa's Checkmate]]''
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36	->'''Henry:''' Stalemate.
37	->'''Chris:''' What?
38	->'''Henry:''' "Stalemate".
39	->'''Chris:''' I'm sorry, I don't understand.
40	->'''Henry:''' Neither the black nor the white can move. See, a fine thing. I know the game so well; I can't even beat myself.
41	-->-- ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils''
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43	->''Chess is a game for smart people! It's a visual metaphor for intelligence, like [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses glasses]], or [[LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine a labcoat]], or [[ButHeSoundsHandsome dyed blonde hair and giant teeth]]. [...] It's a game of awareness, of [[TheChessmaster seeing all the different pathways of all the pieces in front of you to make sure that all your pieces are protected at all times]]. All of this marks chess out as a deep and accomplished game, but it's also deathly punishing, dispiriting, and it can be tedious when someone unfluent faces a skilled player. Doesn't make the game bad, any more than not knowing how to play the trumpet makes trumpets bad, but it does occasionally make me grumpy that people assume that just because I like music that I can play the trumpet, [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy and when I can't, I'm apparently an idiot]]."''
44	-->--'''Adam Blampied''' of ''No Rolls Barred'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGmyoBP_7o 10 Classic Games (That Are Actually Good)]]"

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