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went to Columbia
and Horace Mann

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before dropping out
to play chess full-time.

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He plays about 200 chess tournaments
a year.

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Asa.
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Asa.
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How much do you make
at the tournaments altogether...

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about $2,000 a year?
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Look at that. I got him thinking.
I got him thinking.

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Maybe I can win a pawn.
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Clearly, you
had me come here

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so I could
see all this.

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But if you really
wanted me to say no

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to letting my son play,
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you wouldn't
have bothered.

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You want me to think
you want me to say no,

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but you actually...
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want me to say yes.
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You have no idea
what I want.

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What is chess,
do you think?

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Those who play for fun,
or not at all,

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dismiss it as a game.
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The ones who devote their lives to it,
for the most part,

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insist it is a science.
It's neither.

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Bobby Fischer
got underneath it

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like no one before him
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and found at its center...
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art.
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I've spent my life
trying to play like him.

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Most of these guys have.
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But we're like forgers.
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We're competent fakes.
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His successor
wasn't here tonight.

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He wasn't here.
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He's asleep in his room
in your house.

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Your son creates
like Fischer.

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He sees like him...
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inside.

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