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Chess Without The Dice

13 June, 2008 by Amit Varma

The WTF quote of the moment comes from Germany’s football star Lukas Podolski:

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

A decade-and-a-half ago, I represented Maharashtra in under-19 chess. No dice was used. Perhaps that makes me a national level football player.

(Link via separate messages from Devangshu Datta and Krishna Prasad.)

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