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![“Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200…” quote by Emanuel Lasker](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cbf/emanuel-lasker-13485_achieve_having-spent-200-hours-on-the-above-the_1661503.png)
![“[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.” quote by Michael Stuhlbarg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/119/michael-stuhlbarg-12244_championship_pawn-sacrifice-is-about-the-1972-chess-c_2730730.jpg)
