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  Canadian Chess Lover says:

  April 5, 2008 at 5:39 am

  Lauren Bacall said this. I love chess most of all because it requires the use of the imagination. Playing through one of Tal’s games shows us exactly how imaginative a human being can be. Or what about the numerous double bishop or double-rook, or queen sacrifices that have occurred in chess?

  “Chess is imagination”- GM David Bronstein

  How about this knight sac by Susan?:

  [Event “Candidates (Women) final playoff1”]
  [Site “Monte Carlo”]
  [Date “1993.??.??”]
  [Round “1”]
  [White “Polgar, Zsuzsa”]
  [Black “Ioseliani, Nana”]
  [Result “1-0”]
  [ECO “D43”]
  [WhiteElo “2560”]
  [BlackElo “2460”]
  [PlyCount “67”]
  [EventDate “1993.02.??”]
  [EventType “match”]
  [EventRounds “2”]
  [EventCountry “MNC”]
  [Source “ChessBase”]

  1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. g3 dxc4 8.Bg2 Bb4 9. O-O O-O 10. Qc2 Qe7 11. Ne5 c5 12. a3 cxd4 13. axb4 dxc3 14. Qxc3 Qc7 15. Nxc4 Nd7
  16. Rfd1 Nf6 17. Nd6 Qe7 18. Qc5 b6 19. Nf5 Qe8 20. Qe5 exf5 21.Qxe8 Rxe8 22. Bxa8 Be6 23. Rxa7 Rc8 24. Rd2 Rc4 25. b5 Ne4 26. Rd8+ Kh7
  27.f3 Nf6 28. Rd2 Rc5 29. Bc6 g5
  30. Rb7 h5 31. Rxb6 f4 32. Kg2 Nd5 33. Bxd5 Bxd5 34. b4 1-0

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  Anonymous says:

  April 5, 2008 at 5:48 am

  Benjamin Franklin

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  Philippe Dornbusch says:

  April 5, 2008 at 7:24 am

  Lauren Bacall

  Philippe from Paris
  Webmaster of Chess & Strategy: http://phildornbusch.blogspot.com/

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  Anonymous says:

  April 5, 2008 at 7:00 pm

  Imagination is more important than knowledge…
  Albert Einstein

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  beano says:

  April 5, 2008 at 11:14 pm

  That’s not imagination you are smelling, that was last nights baked beans!.