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“Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
— Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess master and author
The Game of Chess (1931), Preface
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Photo: Florstein · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · Portrait: Tarrasch, Siegbert #2 (Public domain)
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