Chess also teaches that it doesn't matter how much you lose, as long as the other guy lost even more; a good lesson for warriors, perhaps, but not so much for m

Chess also teaches that it doesn't matter how much you lose, as long as the other guy lost even more; a good lesson for warriors, perhaps, but not so much for modern times, where we compete less by destroying and more by building things. Every gambler knows that the secret to surviving Is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep 'Cause every hand's a winner and every hand's a loser And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep