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I bought the book "King, Queen and Knight" from a second hand bookshop today. It is a chess anthology of prose and verse. In the Forward, by C.H.O.D Alexander (chess master and famous cryptanalyst who worked with Turing et al on Enigma), he expresses beautifully an issue for strong chess players, though it could be applied to almost any field. "When we are soaked in chess, completely involved in its technicalities, we lose something; we forget what it was it was like when we first learnt this mysterious, inexhaustible, implacable art/game/science. Seeing chess - both in itself and in its numerous usages as an analogue of larger things - through the eyes of those who may be inexpert players but are highly articulate and intelligent men and women, we can perhaps regain some of the freshness of feeling that we once had." #Chess #Books #Quotes