The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interes…

Joseph Heller
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The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.19, Simon and Schuster
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The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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