[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. - George Bernard Shaw

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

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Alternative Names: Bernard Shaw • G.B. Shaw • G. Bernard Shaw
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