"“You are not the first to be shocked and horrified by chess,” he assured her. “It is a curse of the intellect. It is a game for lunatics—or else it creates them.”"
— Chess

January 1, 1970

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Fritz Leiber, "The 64-Square Madhouse", in If magazine (May 1962)