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July 28, 2018

Chess is a play-activity, yet it is play only because the players deliberately make the game difficult in order to overcome the difficulties. The equation is simple: no difficulty, no fun.

—John Ciardi
  American poet and translator (1916-1986)

Source:"How does a Poem Mean?"(essay)




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