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Why are you not playing chess while reading or writing?
Vladimir Nabokov devoted most of his time to chess and composing chess problems, eventually writing Poems and Problems and Luzhin Defense. Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the famous Sherlock Holmes, is said to have won in a chess tournament made by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. One of the greatest German philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer, has stated that "Chess is superior to any other game." Russia's great novilist, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, was an avid chess player, and has recorded some of the most interesting chess games he's had. Edgar Allan Poe had an interest in chess and wrote the essay Maelzel's Chess Player in which he tries to expose the chess-playing machine called The Turk.
I can go on and on. Start playing chess daily if you want to have your name beside the writers and thinkers mentioned above.
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Nabokov was a massive poser just like Hemingway was with his phony masculinity.
>DUDE LOOK AT ME *PRANCES AROUND IN LITTLE TWIRLS* I'M THE INTELLIGENSIA I PLAY CHESS AND ENGAGE IN OTHER INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS UNLESS THOSE BUFOONS WHO LIKE SPORTS AND POLITICS AND FUN STUFF.
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He should have stuck to his butterfly-catching
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What's with slavs and chess?
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>>9324476
muh cold
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Played a lot as a kid, all other kids mocked me because I literally always played Caro-Kann defense like an autist.
Chess lacks excitement t b h. Opening is basically memorization, middle is either fun in open scenarios or dreary in closed ones, endspiel is just a routine math problem. I often found myself making inferior moves and shitty gambits just to liven up the game
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videogames > chess
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>>9324476
We're pretty smart.
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>>9324468
1/10 bait.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/science/01butterfly.html
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TFW haven't even mastered 2D pleb tier chess.
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>>9324459
>tfw no-one to play with
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>>9324608
If only computers and mobile devices had chess programs.
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>>9324474
Butterflies, bubbles in my buttocks, butter on my bums. My bliss, my boon. But-ter-flies: the tip of the antenna taking a trip of steps to tickle my butt. But. Ter. Flies.
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>>9324459
nabokov is shit, all prose
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>>9324608
online chess
i use lichess
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