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You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
Author
Novelist
the United States of America
Remember
Game
Queens
Play
Loses
Chess
Every
Days
Shadow
Pawn
Men
Winning
Watches
Pawns
Love
Games
Watch
Bishops
Think
Happy
Friend
Castles
Thinking
Understand
Holy
Shadows
Tell
Lose
Queen

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