Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find ou…

Raymond Chandler
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ✨ Of chess. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ✨ Of chess. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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