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“Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight.
— Tigran Petrosian
Chess world champion
Tigran Petrosian, as quoted in Achilleas Zographos, Music and Chess: Apollo Meets Caissa (Milford, CT: Russell Enterprises Inc., 2017), p. 114
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