"There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning."

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“African continent GMs do exist; but, according to the system of racial classification, I am the first Black GM in history...it matters, and doesn't matter, all at the same time.”

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