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    A famous classical music composer and a famous player used to play chess every time they could. The player was good, but the composer was a first category one. Who were they?

    Question #60689. Asked by carlos1942. (Nov 23 05 5:49 PM)


    peasypod

    		Might they be composer Sergei Prokofiev and chess guy José Raúl Capablanca?

    Nov 23 05, 6:42 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		Like I've said before, every composer (and every person,really) has some eccentricities. And here I am writing a cantata about the game of chess (though my text was written 800 years ago, so it's kind of out of date).

    Nov 24 05, 2:11 AM

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