“I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.”

—  Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen, chess prodigy from Norway - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/world/europe/01iht-profile.4.15806138.html?_r=1

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