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"Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness; therein lies its peculiar charm, and intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys of human existence".

Dr Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934),
The Game of Chess, 1936, translated by G.E. SMITH and T.G. BONE.

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