A boomer generation, who awakened his fascination for chess when Bobby Fisher, the US prodigy became world champion in 1972.
My favorite chess epigrams: "There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstance, they play the cards or game of chance; then there are those who aim to control circumstances so they play chess." - Mortimer Collins
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