This mag (mentioning Duchamp) called it &quot;chess sickness&quot;:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointmag.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;examined-life&#x2F;exiles-game" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thepointmag.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;examined-life&#x2F;exiles-game</a><p>“Much of an exile’s life is taken up with compensating for disorienting loss by creating a new world to rule,” wrote Edward Said. “It is not surprising that so many exiles seem to be novelists [and] chess players.”<p>[&quot;Chess-Playing Excitement” in 1859 - comments]
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