Chess Masters on Winning Chess by Fred Reinfeld. Originally compiled by setuhanu01. Thank you setuhanu01! Games 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19.

Battle Chess compiled by suenteus po 147. Thank you suenteus po 147!

suenteus po 147's chautauqua of games compiled by suenteus po 147. Thank you again, suenteus po 147!

PETER ALFRED FONTAINE goes by the screen name of: suenteus po 147 (born May-21-1978) United States of America
He contributes frequently to <chessgames> and his game collections are legendary.

Site still under construction by Fredthebear. Not all games have been transferred yet.

ChessCafe.com column, The Openings Explained: Abby Marshall

* GMs: Game Collection: Grandmasters of Chess

Charge! Wikipedia article: Charge (warfare)#:~:text=A%20charge%20is%20an%20offensive%20maneuver%20in%20battle,and%20decisive%20moment%20of%20many%20battles%20throughout%20history.

"Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi." ― Greg Baum.

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." ― Robert Hughes

"Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders." ― Savielly Tartakower

"Pawns are the soul of the game." ― François-André Danican Philidor

"The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game." ― Wilhelm Steinitz

"There is no such thing as an absolutely freeing move. A freeing move in a position in which development has not been carried far always proves illusory, and vice versa, a move which does not come at all in the category of freeing moves can, given a surplus of tempi to our credit, lead to a very free game." ― Aron Nimzowitsch

"The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase." ― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men

"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." ― Douglas MacArthur

"Win with grace, lose with dignity!" ― Susan Polgar

"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!" ― Susan Polgar

"No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don't become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!" ― Susan Polgar

"Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." — Albert Einstein

"Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?" — Gregory Peck

"Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration." — C.J.S. Purdy

"Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind." — Charlton Heston

All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.'

A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.'

All's well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.' Meanwhile, Henry Knighton's Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.'

Matthew 17:20 Our faith can move mountains.

Other people's wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool. ~ Nigerian Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb

Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. ~ Twi Proverb

The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb

Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

* Traditional Ranks: Wikipedia article: Imperial, royal and noble ranks

* Alekhine getz blitzed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8H...

* Annotated Games: Game Collection: Annotated Games

* Back rank mating tactics: Game Collection: 610_Back rank mating tactics

* Best of the British: Game Collection: Best of the British

* 'Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters' by Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: 0

* Chess Prehistory: Game Collection: Chess Prehistory

* Classic games by great players: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston)

* Collection assembled by Fredthebear.

* 'Chess Praxis' by Aron Nimzowitsch: Game Collection: Chess Praxis (Nimzowitsch)

* Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnV...

* Caro-Kann Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIL...

* C-K 4B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1p...

* ICBM vs C-K: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JXk7...

* C-K Advance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWb...

* 5 Essential Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIA...

* ECF: Wikipedia article: English Chess Federation

* FIDE: Wikipedia article: FIDE

* Famous brilliancies: Game Collection: brilliacies

* The Fireside Book of Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess

* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...

* Great Combinations: Game Collection: Combinations

* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz)

https://archive.org/details/the-gol...

* How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit

* Italian short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z3_D...

* Impact of Genius: 500 years of Grandmaster Chess: Game Collection: Impact of Genius : 500 years of Grandmaster Ches

* ICCF: Wikipedia article: International Correspondence Chess Federation

* King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to...

* Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer...

* MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala)

* Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III)

* Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931

* '500 Master Games of Chess' by Savielly Tartakower and Julius Du Mont: Game Collection: 500 Master Games of Chess

* Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky: Game Collection: Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky

* 'The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games' by Graham Burgess, John Nunn and John Emms. New expanded edition-now with 125 games. Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms)

* Names and Places: Game Collection: Named Mates

* Pretzels? Game Collection: Special Pretzel Collection

* People on Another Level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7V...

* Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/

* Power of the Bishop Pair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NH...

* Queen vs Rook Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn...

* Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/

* Reti Opening: Game Collection: Reti Opening

* Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Slavko Petrovic): Game Collection: Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Petrovic)

* Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek: Game Collection: Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek

* Ray Keene's favorite games: Game Collection: ray keene's favorite games

* Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II

* Steinitz collection:
Game Collection: Steinitz Gambits

* Steinitz Attack: Game Collection: STEINITZ ATTACK

* Submit a PGN: https://www.chessgames.com/nodejs/u...

* Stunning: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XwQF...

* Tactical Mix: Game Collection: mastering Tactical ideas by minev

* The Best of... Game Collection: World Champions' Best Games

* Fischer's Brilliance: https://www.chesspuzzler.com/Histor...

* Fischer Random: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* FM Schiller disagrees: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

* KG competes: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/svkr...

* Old-timey: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RoLz...

* Play whatever you like: Opening Explorer

* Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEV...

* Promotion mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fHtM...

* Tartakower's Defense: https://www.chess.com/blog/MatBobul...

* Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics

* Tata Steel blitz 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-...

* Traxler Counterattack: Game Collection: takchess italian's Traxler Counter Attack after

* The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z...

* US Chess Federation: Wikipedia article: United States Chess Federation

* Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S...

* Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev)

* Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105

* Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/

WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today.

There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry

There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.

There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!

five-four combo

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

'Don't put the cart before the horse'

"Examine what is said, not who is speaking." ~ African Proverb

Kansas: Leavenworth
Established in: 1827

Fort Leavenworth was established in 1827 and is still in use today, making it the third-oldest continuously active military base in the US. It was the largest city on the Missouri River during the Civil War, according to the city's official website.

Leavenworth was founded by Colonel Henry Leavenworth in 1827, and once played a vital role as peacemaker between Native American tribes and settlers heading west. It eventually became known as the "jumping point" of the opening of the West.

* Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-...

* World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO...

* Three Simple Chess Tips: https://www.premierchesscoaching.co...

The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations.

Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother

chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.

Another example of his way with words is the start of ‘Internal Fires', a poem published on page 57 of the March 1930 American Chess Bulletin:

I used to play chess with the dearest old chap,
Whom naught could upset whatever might hap.
He'd oft lose a game he might well have won
But made no excuse for what he had done.
If a piece he o'erlooked and got it snapped up

He took it quite calmly and ne'er ‘cut up rough'.

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ― William Faulkner

"Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward." — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess

So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy.

Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." ― Leonardo da Vinci

A SOFT STONE
by Hagar Peeters translated by Judith Wilkinson

I am the stone my parents once decided
to stumble over only once, so I'm alone.

I am the pebble-stone of contention in the gravel at the front door of their cardboard façade,
I commemorate – as a memorial stone –
the end of what was once a home,

I am the gravestone of a person without surname, the rock that Sisyphus was condemned to by the gods, the millstone round the cripple's neck.

I carve myself into a thousand toes
to stub them endlessly on the slightest things.
I am a soft stone from which no shoot springs.

"If you can't take (constructive) criticism, consider taking up another game, perhaps solitaire." — Jeremy Silman

"Where there's a will, there's a way."

Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.

"A God you understood would be less than yourself." ― Flannery O'Connor

The Satyr and the Traveller

Within a savage forest grot
A satyr and his chips
Were taking down their porridge hot;
Their cups were at their lips.

You might have seen in mossy den,
Himself, his wife, and brood;
They had not tailor-clothes, like men,
But appetites as good.

In came a traveller, benighted,
All hungry, cold, and wet,
Who heard himself to eat invited
With nothing like regret.

He did not give his host the pain
His asking to repeat;
But first he blew with might and main
To give his fingers heat.

Then in his steaming porridge dish
He delicately blew.
The wondering satyr said, "I wish
The use of both I knew."

"Why, first, my blowing warms my hand,
And then it cools my porridge."
"Ah!" said his host, "then understand
I cannot give you storage.
"To sleep beneath one roof with you,
I may not be so bold.
Far be from me that mouth untrue
Which blows both hot and cold."

CHESS

Meet me then, within this grid,
this little wooden battlefield as equals,
as we forget our bodies to inhabit these pieces, control these spaces, trade threats and responses, send our thoughts out into possible positions, our eyes imagining nothing but sweet forks and lancing fianchettoes. We chessplayers, pretend enemies, bound to our miniature war inexplicably & inescapably: when did we find ourselves so obsessed, insidiously seduced to advances and exchanges, lost inside this abyss of infinite moves, willing servants of its rules?

- Rael

"I do not know how old I was when I learned to play chess. I could not have been older than eight, because I still have a chessboard on whose side my father inscribed, with a soldering iron, "Saša Hemon 1972." I loved the board more than chess—it was one of the first things I owned. Its materiality was enchanting to me: the smell of burnt wood that lingered long after my father had branded it; the rattle of the thickly varnished pieces inside, the smacking sound they made when I put them down, the board's hollow wooden echo. I can even recall the taste—the queen's tip was pleasantly suckable; the pawns' round heads, not unlike nipples, were sweet. The board is still at our place in Sarajevo, and, even if I haven't played a game on it in decades, it is still my most cherished possession, providing incontrovertible evidence that there once lived a boy who used to be me." ― Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives

* Colle System: Game Collection: colle system

* Alekhine plays the Colle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_f...

* Colle plays the Colle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXK...

* Colle System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5i...

* Fianchetto? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbk...

* Colle-Zukertort System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLB...

* Rubinstein is dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCQ...

* Rubinstein plays the Colle-Zukertort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK...

* Punish the Colle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rn...

* Checkmate with King & Rook vs. King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nc...

* Pawn Race Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKk...

* Pawn Majority Endgame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iY...

* Basic Endgame Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_D...

* Endgame Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmq...

* Get the Opposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwu...

* K&P Endgame Principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9...

* Same Color Bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s59...

* Stairway to Heaven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3I...

* Win Up A Piece in the Endgame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyx...

* Glossary: Wikipedia article: Glossary of chess

* Control the Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIZ...

* Develop Your Pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnw...

* Frenchman's castle receives Greek gift: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8PTj...

* Mating Patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnX...

* Mirror, mirror on the street... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2Grp...

* Types of Forks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl8...

* Skewers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPK...

* Types of Pins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q4...

* Add another attacker/pile up on the same target for a numbers advantage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXu...

* Always count the number of Attackers vs Defenders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUv...

* Back Rank Mates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amc...

* Protect Your Pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1...

* Use Tactics to collect a material advantage, having the stronger army by reducing the opponent's army into fewer numbers and less valuable units. Tactics generate checkmate, advantageous checks or cut-off/restrict the king to a small area, captures, aim/advance threats to strike on your next turn (especially against a more valuable unit, an immobile unit that cannot flee the attack, an unprotected unit, or piling on/adding an extra attacker at an opposing unit already under fire to outnumber the defense), or possibly create and promote a passed pawn into a new piece.

Loose Pieces Drop Off (LPDO). Loose pieces have no protection -- they're free for the taking. Sometimes you must aim at your own units for protection against enemy capture so that the defender can recapture if necessary. As an example, connect your rooks on the same rank or file so they defend each other.

* Look for Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxy...

* Avoid Bad Trades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUE...

* Killer Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYq... - Was that last move legal? If so, right it down on the scoresheet. - What will my opponent do next if I allow it to happen? - Advanced units are always a target. Any pawn protected only by the king or queen is vulnerable to a battery attack. A tied defender is a target. - Did that last move set a pin/skewer? Where are all the other pins/skewers (one long range piece aims at/through two opposing units)? Can that last move be counter pinned/skewered? - Consider moving your en prise unit first if it can do the job, such as a retreating interposition response to check. Move one forked unit to protect the other. - Sometimes you should fork your own units for protection. Be aware that if one unit protects two or more other units in opposite directions, the defender is overloaded. For example, the d3 pawn in the Bishop's Opening is overworked guarding e4 and Bc4. The last rook defending the back rank and the rook pawn in front of it on the rook file is often overloaded. - Don't exchange if it brings the recapturing unit to a better square, relieving the tension of waiting, waiting, waiting to improve. - Don't automatically play the obvious move, the first move that comes to mind. Consider moving other units. What all is available for each of my pieces? Which unit has the best overall move available that generates a plan of action of more moves by more of my units? - Look one move ahead all about the board with various units. Don't get caught up in calculating a sequence of exchanges and miss other possible first moves. Compare and contrast all the possibilities for each unit. - Don't cooperate with your opponent's plans! Harass him! Be careful not to chase his piece to a better square that s/he was already wanting anyway. - Try to advance, penetrate if it's sustainable. Notice weak pawns and weak squares blocking/beside/behind a weak pawn. - Be careful about moving a defender. Many games are lost when the defender takes off to attack. - Discovered Attack threatens checkmate on the move w/battery next to the king! - Sometimes your best move is to simply threaten to capture the opposing queen. - Capture w/a threat to capture again, and again! Take, take, take! - Capture and recapture, then queen check and fork LPDO bishop. - Don't assume your opponent will automatically recapture! Expect a forcing zwischenzug elsewhere and then the recapture. - Obstruct the line of attack (inserted self-pin must avoid getting piled on), then remove the defender of the attacker who is now loose. - After capturing material, be prepared to recoil; return back to weathering defense. Don't allow counterplay/penetration into your half. Superior force should win eventually, but there's no requirement that it must be right away. - An unrequired pawn move gives the turn away to your opponent to seize the initiative! - Consider preventing your opponent's best response to your threat before you make the threat. - Consider your move orders. Your second or third planned move might be better off being played first. - Is this move safe? If I do this, how will my piece be struck on its new square? Can this move be pinned? - How good would you become tactically if you read every book written by Dan Heisman, the Polgar sisters, Yasser Seirawan or Lev Alburt?

* Spot Tricky Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4...

* Attack Weaknesses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbO...

* Greek Gift Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5R...

* Greek Gift Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndt...

* Search for tactics BEFORE considering pawn strategy. Pawn maneuvers tend to be slow and take time (more than one turn) to execute to fruition. What's more, a pawn cannot return safely from whence it came, and therefore needs protection from a fellow piece that loses its freedom to roam elsewhere. It's far better to play with your pieces off the back rank because the wide-ranging pieces move about faster and take aim at more squares than a pawn does. Avoid creating weak pawns in your own camp.

* Making Use of the Pawn Structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oU...

* Backward Pawns are WEAK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-c...

* Vancura Pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psd...

* Rook Against Knight Endgame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOD...

* Rook Against Knight Endgame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJd...

* Three Minor Pieces or the Queen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aab...

* Queen Endgame Tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxG...

* Minority Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ad...

* Pawn Majority vs Pawn Minority: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svv...

* Triangulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPi...

* Save the Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGz...

* 11 EG Strategies: https://enthu.com/blog/chess/chess-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9F...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxG...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilr...

* This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmU...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gX...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8B...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxD...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2T...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu1...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sny...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2u...

https://chessdoctrine.com/chess-ope...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si5...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhd...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e95...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txF...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4E...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKN...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk7...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez9...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxD...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmO...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgx...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si5...

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess...

https://chessklub.com/30-chess-open...

https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/ch...

https://chessdoctrine.com/chess-ope...

https://thechessworld.com/articles/...

* Not This:

MB: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBq...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThK...

Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? by Cyrus Lakdawala, Carsten Hansen

There is also a g-pawn push in the Napoleon Attack: 1. Nc3 e5 2. Nf3 nc6 3. D4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nf5 Qf6 6. G4!!

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXR...

https://chesspathways.com/chess-ope...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbr...

https://www.logicalchess.com/learn/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t6...

https://ocfchess.org/chess-grob/

https://chesseasy.com/grob-opening-...

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* Top 5 Chess Principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-H...

* Fast Checkmates in the Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hw...

* Steinitz' Epaulette Mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otr...

* Critical Concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xm...

* Nakamura vs Dubov 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npy...

* Dubov, World Blitz 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFy...

* Dubov, World Blitz 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE2...

* Dubov, World Blitz 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDX...

* Dubov, Blitz 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sF...

* Dubov vs Robot 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCl...

* Best Game of 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFT...

* Dubov, Feb 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhv...

* Dubov, Airthings 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Db...

* Dubov, Euro Rapid 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqx...

* Dubov, World Blitz 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8...

* Dubov, gymnast 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvS...

* Dubov, Rapid 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YZ...

* Dubov, On-line 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOd...

* Dubov, On-line 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2m...

* Dubov, World Rapid 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svx...

* Dubov, World Rapid 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlK...

* Dubov, World Rapid 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lm...

* Dubov, World Blitz 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoH...

* Dubov, World Blitz 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGP...

* Dubov, World Rapid 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvB...

* Dubov, Levitov 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oys...

* 2024 Tigre de madrás, Vishy Anand is a legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vq...

* Backward Pawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcr...

* Minority Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQ...

* Beginner's Guide to Blindfold Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XON...

* Develop Blindfold Chess Skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4U...

* Praggnanandhaa Sees All: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Er...

"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands." ― Renaud & Kahn

"Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem." ― Saudin Robovic

"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." — Max Euwe

"Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game." — Being Caballero

"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." — Garry Kasparov

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt

"In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov

"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." — Erma Bombeck

"He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.'
Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates." ― George Orwell, 1984

In some areas ‘down under', you can't change light bulbs yourself. Think it's easy to change a light bulb? Try living in Victoria, Australia. You're not allowed to legally change a bulb without the help of a trained electrician.

Q: What do you call a policeman in bed?
A: An undercover cop.

One man is a serial record breaker.
Ashrita Furman has set more world records than any other person at the time of writing. He's thought to hold around 200, and has set 600 in his lifetime. Of those records, he's held the title for travelling the farthest on a bike with a bottle of milk on his head.

There's an ‘average' ketchup speed…
Someone has gone to the effort of timing the speed of tomato ketchup leaving a bottle of Heinz. If you're intrigued, it's around 0.28 miles per hour!

In fact, you can supposedly get Heinz ketchup to flow quicker out of its glass bottles if you hit the ‘57' directly. What's more, there's not actually 57 varieties – it's just the creator liked the number 57!

Q: What do you call a soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray? A: A seasoned veteran.

The sandwich came about through necessity.
The sandwich wasn't a marketing creation but one of convenience. The Earl of Sandwich put together the first of its kind as he needed something quick and easy to eat while gambling!

The plastic flamingo industry is enormous.
It's thought that there are actually more plastic flamingos on US soil than there are real ones!

Q: What do you call a funny mountain?
A: Hill-arious.

The designers behind ‘The Matrix' got creative Ever wondered what all the green coded symbols in The Matrix actually mean? Believe it or not, they're based on symbols found in a sushi recipe book.

Santa's outfit used to be green.
Ever wonder why Santa Claus always seems to wear the color red? You have Coca-Cola to thank. Up until their branding from the 1930s onwards, he traditionally wore green.

Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A: A stick.

Some US Presidents were born pranksters.
Lyndon B Johnson, US President, owned a car which would work underwater – it was amphibious. As a prank, he would pretend to accidentally drive into lakes claiming that his brakes were failing.

Achoo!
You can't sneeze while you have your eyes open. You probably shouldn't try, as it could do serious damage to your body!

Q: What do you call a factory that manufactures products that are just OK? A: A satisfactory.

Christmas in Spain is… slightly gross!
There's a Christmas tradition in Spain where a character called the ‘pooping log' excretes presents – and you thought a fat guy coming down the chimney was weird enough!

Froot loops have no distinguishing flavors.
This is perhaps more disappointing than funny – but contrary to popular believe, the individual colors in Froot Loops cereal all taste the same! Sorry to spoil your breakfast!

Q: What do you call a bagel that can fly?
A: A plain bagel.

Fancy taking your house for a quick flight?
Ever tried copying the flying house from the Disney movie Up? A Canadian man came close enough in 2015, when he tied over a hundred balloons to a lawn chair and sailed for some distance over Calgary. When police were able to bring him down, he was arrested!

Americans used interesting currency for a while. Believe it or not, money was actually printed on wood for a time in the US! And today, the dollar bill is not actually made of paper at all – they're made of linen!

Q: What do you call a person with a briefcase in a tree? A: Branch manager.

There's more ‘play money' than real cash.
Think about all the money that gets printed each year. In the US, there is actually more Monopoly money that leaves the presses than real tender!

Nicolas Cage believes aquatic animals can help his craft. Actor Nicolas Cage allegedly bought an octopus for $150,000 on the grounds that he could use it as acting inspiration. He's also paid handsomely for a pair of cobras and genuine dinosaur skulls.

Q: What do you call someone who cleans the bottom of the ocean? A: A mer-maid.

Crocodiles are naturally well-mannered.
A crocodile is supposedly unable to stick its tongue out.

Biggest chess match prize
In 1992, Bobby Fischer won $3.65 million for defeating Boris Spassky, who got $1.35 million in their rematch. Total prize fund was $5 million.

"Zeitnot" is German for "time pressure."

"....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally." — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe

The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee.

"Sorry don't get it done, Dude!" — John Wayne, Rio Bravo

"Gossip is the devil's telephone. Best to just hang up." — Moira Rose

* Rating System Explained: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

USCF rating categories
Category Rating range
Senior master 2400 and up
National master 2200–2399
Expert 2000–2199
Class A 1800–1999
Class B 1600–1799
Class C 1400–1599
Class D 1200–1399
Class E 1000–1199
Class F 800–999
Class G 600–799
Class H 400–599
Class I 200–399
Class J 100–199

Chess Ratings: A Deep Dive –https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

An Irish Blessing:

May we all feel…
happy and contented,
healthy and strong,
safe and protected
and living with ease…

~

by W.A. Ballantine given on page 153 of the American Chess Journal, September 1878:

Charming as the sweetest music;
High above the common reach,
Easy to the bright and wise;
Splendid in the hands of genius;
Such the royal game of chess.

"No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves (what about Scholar's Mate?). Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life." — Anonymous

Drive sober or get pulled over.

"For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." — Assiac

Old Russian Proverb: "Every sandpiper praises its own swamp. (Всяк кулик свое болото хвалит.)" People tend to have high opinion about the place where they live.

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." ― Thomas Jefferson, chess player

Don't Let Your Past Determine Your Future

Here's a poem a dad wrote:

<ODE TO CHESS

Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls

and was pitched into the pit of defeat.

But, heedless of humiliating falls,

I clambered bravely back onto my feet

and charged again, again to be down thrust

onto the scrap heap of people who lose

onto the mound of mortifying dust

whilst my opponent sat without a bruise

upon his pedestal. We changed sides

and fought again, but I was defeated

whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides

took the throne upon which I had been seated.

Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.

But I would like to beat him just the same.>

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ― William Faulkner

"Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward." — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess

So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy.

Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." ― Leonardo da Vinci

<Steinitz's Theory

1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal.

2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides.

3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.

4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer.

5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained.

6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage.

7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it.>

* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1

* The Jab Method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fP...

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"Against Alekhine you never knew what to expect. Against Capablanca, you knew what to expect, but you couldn't prevent it!" ― George Thomas

"Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf." ― Cecil Purdy

<"Every time I coach people, I <emphasize> the following key concepts:

^Develop your pieces at the beginning of the game (Extremely underrated by beginners)

^Control the center (Chess pieces control a lot more squares from the center of the board)

^Make sure your king is safer than the opponent's

Every opening in chess is based on these fundamental principles. Thus, if you can understand such concepts and put them into practice, your chess strength will skyrocket!" ― IM Luis Torres>

> Protect your pieces. Loose Pieces Drop Off. Your middlegame position generally tends to be in good standing as long as you have a grip on the center, the king is castled and rooks connected, your pieces are active, and you don't drop material. Know all the possible ways of responding to a threat of capture.<

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz)

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* Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century

* Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv...

* Checkmate with 2 bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN7...

* Giuseppi Verdi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlq...

Sailor's Solace
In the quiet of the sea,
A sailor finds his solace, free.
The rhythm of waves, the salt in the air,
A world away from worldly care.

Self-pity is self-destructing.
https://activebeat.com/your-health/... and https://tinybuddha.com/blog/why-sel...

"We are all guilty of the good we did not do." — Voltaire

"The more a man knows, the less he talks." — Voltaire

"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it." — Voltaire

The formal sum of two complex numbers can be arranged into another complex number: (a+bi)+(c+di) = (a+c)+(bi+di)=a+c+(b+d)i. The first equality uses commutative and associate laws of addition, and the second, the distributive law.

Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch by John Watson (1999 Gambit Publications)

>The Eye of the Master

A stag took refuge from the chase
Among the oxen of a stable,
Who counseled him, as says the fable,
To seek at once some safer place.
"My brothers," said the fugitive,
"Betray me not, and, as I live,
The richest pasture I will show,
That ever was grazed on, high or low;
Your kindness you will not regret,
For well some day I'll pay the debt."
The oxen promised secrecy.
Down crouched the stag, and breathed more free.
At eventide they brought fresh hay,
As was their custom day by day;
And often came the servants near,
As did indeed the overseer,
But with so little thought or care,
That neither horns, nor hide, nor hair
Revealed to them the stag was there.
Already thanked the wild-wood stranger
The oxen for their treatment kind,
And there to wait made up his mind,
Till he might issue free from danger.
Replied an ox that chewed the cud,
"Your case looks fairly in the bud;
But then I fear the reason why
Is, that the man of sharpest eye
Has not yet come his look to take.
I dread his coming, for your sake;
Your boasting may be premature:
Till then, poor stag, you're not secure."
It was but a little while before
The careful master oped the door.
"How's this, my boys?" said he;
"These empty racks will never do.
Go, change this dirty litter too.
More care than this I want to see
Of oxen that belong to me.
Well, Jim, my boy, you're young and stout;
What would it cost to clear these cobwebs out?
And put these yokes, and hames, and traces,
All as they should be, in their places?"
Thus looking round, he came to see
One head he did not usually.
The stag is found; his foes
Deal heavily their blows.
Down sinks he in the strife;
No tears can save his life.
They slay, and dress, and salt the beast,
And cook his flesh in many a feast,
And many a neighbour gets a taste.
As Phaedrus says it, pithily,
The master's is the eye to see:
I add the lover's, as for me.<

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ― Aristotle

Old Russian Proverb: A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

"Don't just follow your dreams; chase them down, grab hold and don't let go." ― Kellie Elmore

>Johnnie Crack And Flossie Snail
by Dylan Thomas

Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
Kept their baby in a milking pail
Flossie Snail and Johnnie Crack
One would pull it out and one would put it back.

O it's my turn now said Flossie Snail
To take the baby from the milking pail
And it's my turn now said Johnnie Crack
To smack it on the head and put it back.

Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
Kept their baby in a milking pail
One would put it back and one would pull it out
And all it had to drink was ale and stout
For Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
Always use to say that stout and ale
Was good for a baby in a milking pail.<

"Here's a two-step formula for handling stress... Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff." ― Tony Robbins

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant

According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924.

Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.

When Moses asked God, "Who shall I tell Pharaoh has sent me?" God said, "I AM THAT I AM." Jehovah or Yahweh is the most intensely sacred name to Jewish scribes and many will not even pronounce the name. When possible, they use another name." https://www.biblestudytools.com/bib...

"Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley

Mark 10:27
Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.'

"Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life." ― Pablo Neruda

Philippians 4:7
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

"Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech."
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West

"Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." — Max De Pree

"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." — Calvin Coolidge

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Hebrews 11:6
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

A TISKET A TASKET
A tisket, a tasket
A green and yellow basket.
I wrote a letter to my love
And on the way I dropped it.
I dropped it, I dropped it
And on the way I dropped it.
A little boy he picked it up
And put it in his pocket.

16 yellow #2 pencilz

1.e4 e5 2.Ne2?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLD...

McDonnell Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrl...

Center Counter Ne5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiS...

New Zealand aviators have odd mascots.
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has an interesting logo to say the least. Why? Their main insignia is the kiwi, which, funnily enough, is a flightless bird.

Q: Why do cows have hooves instead of feet?
A: Because they lactose.

Donkeys can't sink.
Donkeys, apparently, won't sink in quicksand. We still wouldn't recommend you try it – trust us on this one!