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Maybe there's some long-term, three-dimensional chess thing going on that's all going to make sense in five years.
Pretty Boy also makes me think of that scene (about three minutes into this clip), in Searching for Bobby Fisher, where Josh's dad goes off on the Elementary School Teacher for not understanding the, "chess thing" that's taking up his son's time: "He is better at this than I have ever been at anything in my life.
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Deliberate practice isn't much fun, but whether the domain is figure skating or chess, the thing that distinguished the best of the best from the runners-up was the way they had arranged their lives to prioritise practice.
Piercy wandered into a park where people of a certain age were playing chess, and one thing led to another, and he mentioned he was with the new ball club in Brooklyn.
Make sure to catch Dylan Loeb McClain's reflections on all things chess at Gambit: gambit.blogs.nytimes.com.nytimes.com
"Across Europe we have to stop playing poker and start playing chess, and doing things that make sense in the long term".
Vulcans and chess masters see things differently.
My eldest beats me at chess now, so things are getting very interesting indeed!
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