Candidates for the arch-enemy of chess
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1. Bernard Shaw: Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
2.HG Wells : The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world.... It annihilates a man.
3. Raymond Chandler : [Chess is]... as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency