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  • An ancient legend holds that chess was invented by a Buddhist monk as a way of engaging in bloodless warfare. (So too, legend has it that it was a monk who developed the Asian martial arts.) Whatever its historical accuracy, it is certainly true that chess is a way of transforming and ennobling aggression, the fighting instinct, into a form of art.
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