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Fredthebear has farmed out games to other collections. This is not the original Penguincw collection. "Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
Source: "The Soviet School of Chess" Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001. "Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time." ― Dustin Diamond, Actor "Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe "The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board." ― Efim Geller "Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess." ― Vasily Smyslov "No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics." ― Samuel Reshevsky "Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous."
― Abdelkader El Djezairi
"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." ― Abigail Adams "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." ― Winston Churchill "When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games, I knew the winning method." ― Garry Kasparov "You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them." — Sheldon B. Kopp "The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal." — Criss Jami "As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave."
― James Jones, The Thin Red Line
"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time."
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living
"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" ― Dr. Seuss "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." ― William Penn "Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never."
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." ― Alan Watts "There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
― Mahatma Gandhi
"Lost Time is never found again."
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
"Time spent with a cat is never wasted." ― Colette "A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful." ― Criss Jami, Healology "The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds."
― Teck Foo Check, The Autobiography of Sun Tzu "Behind every move I make on the chess board lies a story of calculation, intuition, and passion. With every game, I discover more about myself and the endless possibilities of the game." ― medicosaurabh "Ecco, sai giocare a scacchi. Adesso devi diventare un giocatore. Ci vorrà un po' di più."
― Guenassia Jean-Michel, Le Club des incorrigibles optimists "People are like chess pieces!" ― Deyth Banger "The only easy day was yesterday." ― US Navy SEALs "Gameplay is all our life. Either we guard, attack or develop pieces."
― Vineet Raj Kapoor, UNCHESS: Untie Your Shoes and Walk on the Chessboard of Life "The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention."
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It "As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter."
― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life "Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do."
― Mickey Mantle
"Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change." ― Susan Polgar "We are like chess players who are trying to predict the opponent's future moves, but in this case, we are dealing with life itself. True masters do not play the game on a single chessboard, but on multiple chessboards at the same time. And what's the difference between grandmasters and masters? Surprises. The moves that cannot be predicted by the opponent. Life can play a simultaneous game with seven billion people at the same time and it can take each and every one of us by surprise. And we still believe we are capable of winning, because we can predict three of four moves ahead. We are insignificant."
― Jaka Tomc, 720 Heartbeats
"The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it." ― Mikhail Tal "I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for."
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War "But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction." ― Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes "The move is there, but you must see it." ― Savielly Tartakower "You may delay, but time will not." ― Benjamin Franklin "Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It's about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn't won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that's when you've lost." ― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills "The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds."
― Teck Foo Check, The Autobiography of Sun Tzu "War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides." ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words "The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field." ― Sun Tzu, The Art Of War "Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization." ― Jacques Ellul "Time is an illusion." ― Albert Einstein
"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment "It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one." ― George Harrison "You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep." ― Pawan Mishra "A passed pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes." ― Jose Raul Capablanca Dale Jr.
'Don't count your chickens before they are hatched' It's no time to play chess when the house is on fire. ~ Italian Proverbs If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~ Chinese Proverb The one who wins plays best. ~ German Proverbs
Acts 20:35 "It is more blessed to give than to receive." * Nice Checkmates: Game Collection: Checkmate * Common Phrases and Terms: https://www.ragchess.com/chess-basi... * Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black Mongredien's Knight Mate: Use the knight to give check, while the rook stands guard on the file, and the pawn prevents the king from moving forward.
click for larger viewMighty Queen Mate: The queen moves to the back rank, and checkmates all by itself, since the pawn blocks the king's escape.
click for larger viewIn order by mate listed, original mate, then date. * Miniatures: Game Collection: Checkmate miniatures * Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv... * How to Play Chess! http://www.serverchess.com/play.htm... * How to catch a Spanish Rabbit: https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esp... * Sammy Reshevsky:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Eight-Year-Old Stuns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TJ... * Under 10?! Game Collection: Wins by kids under 10 years old * 10 Best to Watch: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c... * 23 Opening Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5... * 30 Concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amr... * 50 Games to Know: https://en.chessbase.com/post/50-ga... * Aesop: http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopsel... * Anderssen - Steinitz Match: Anderssen - Steinitz (1866) * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) https://archive.org/details/the-gol... * Queen vs Rook Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn... * Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/ * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev) * Why You Lose at Chess: Second Edition (Dover Chess) by Tim Harding (Author) * Weak Pawn example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDL... * Weak Pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALj... * You don't see this everyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk... * 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 Kentucky: Harrodsburg
Established in: 1774
Harrodsburg, which was originally called Harrodstown, was established by James Harrod in 1774. Harrodsburg is the oldest permanent settlement west of the Alleghenies. There is still a replica of the original fort where Daniel Boone once lived, as well as the Lincoln Marriage Temple, where Abraham Lincoln's parents got married. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * Chess History: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... 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.
<Machgielis "Max" Euwe
Fifth World Chess Champion from 1935 to 1937
Birthdate: May 20, 1901
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: November 26, 1981
Max Euwe scripted history when he became the first chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. A PhD in math, he also taught both math and computer programming, apart from publishing a mathematical analysis of chess. A chess world champion, he also served as the president of FIDE.> 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
'Don't change horses in midstream'
A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che... Barry Greenstein
'Nomen nominandum' a.k.a 'the name to be named' zsfool did not know NN. 'Don't count your chickens before they are hatched' The Wallet
From heaven, one day, did Jupiter proclaim,
"Let all that live before my throne appear,
And there if any one has anything to blame,
In matter, form, or texture of his frame,
He may bring forth his grievance without fear.
Redress shall instantly be given to each.
Come, monkey, now, first let us have your speech.
You see these quadrupeds, your brothers;
Comparing, then, yourself with others,
Are you well satisfied?" "And why not?"
Says Jock. "Haven't I four trotters with the rest?
Is not my visage comely as the best?
But this my brother Bruin, is a blot
On your creation fair;
And sooner than be painted I had be shot,
Were I, great sire, a bear."
The bear approaching, does he make complaint?
Not he; – himself he lauds without restraint.
The elephant he needs must criticize;
To crop his ears and stretch his tail were wise;
A creature he of huge, misshapen size.
The elephant, though famed as beast judicious,
While on his own account he had no wishes,
Pronounced dame whale too big to suit his taste;
Of flesh and fat she was a perfect waste.
The little ant, again, pronounced the gnat too wee;
To such a speck, a vast colossus she.
Each censured by the rest, himself content,
Back to their homes all living things were sent.
Such folly lives yet with human fools.
For others lynxes, for ourselves but moles.
Great blemishes in other men we spy,
Which in ourselves we pass most kindly by.
As in this world we're but way-farers,
Kind Heaven has made us wallet-bearers.
The pouch behind our own defects must store,
The faults of others lodge in that before.
"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 This poem is dedicated to all Caissa members
who strive to checkmate their opponents.
The Aroused Bishop
Whispered the pawn to the curious knight
You jump one square up and two to the right
On the diagonal where our queen lays in wait.
I will move up from b-seven to b- eight.
On the opposite side, no, no screamed the queen
Realizing she should have been heard not seen.
Because there, only hidden partially by the walls
She saw him standing juggling his little balls.
The bishop so aroused by all of this inter-play
Could not, no he could not help but howlingly say:
Oh, oh sweet queen you are mine for the take
While your checkmated king will burn at the stake. My Wage
by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
"Compete against yourself, not against others. Stop trying to compare yourself to other people because you will always find someone who is better at something that you do or who is more successful at whatever career you've chosen. Instead compare yourself to the person you were yesterday/last week/a year ago. Look at that person and ask yourself, 'Am I a better, more skilled, more complete person than I was back then?'"
—ConstableBlimeyChips
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 Woodman and Mercury
To M. The Chevalier De Bouillon.
Your taste has served my work to guide;
To gain its suffrage I have tried.
You'd have me shun a care too nice,
Or beauty at too dear a price,
Or too much effort, as a vice.
My taste with yours agrees:
Such effort cannot please;
And too much pains about the polish
Is apt the substance to abolish;
Not that it would be right or wise
The graces all to ostracize.
You love them much when delicate;
Nor is it left for me to hate.
As to the scope of Aesop's plan,
I fail as little as I can.
If this my rhymed and measured speech
Avails not to please or teach,
I own it not a fault of mine;
Some unknown reason I assign.
With little strength endued
For battles rough and rude,
Or with Herculean arm to smite,
I show to vice its foolish plight.
In this my talent wholly lies;
Not that it does at all suffice.
My fable sometimes brings to view
The face of vanity purblind
With that of restless envy joined;
And life now turns on these pivots two.
Such is the silly little frog
That aped the ox on her bog.
A double image sometimes shows
How vice and folly do oppose
The ways of virtue and good sense;
As lambs with wolves so grim and gaunt,
The silly fly and frugal ant.
Thus swells my work – a comedy immense –
Its acts unnumbered and diverse,
Its scene the boundless universe.
Gods, men, and brutes, all play their part
In fields of nature or of art,
And Jupiter among the rest.
Here comes the god who's wont to bear
Jove's frequent errands to the fair,
With winged heels and haste;
But other work's in hand today.
A man that laboured in the wood
Had lost his honest livelihood;
That is to say,
His axe was gone astray.
He had no tools to spare;
This wholly earned his fare.
Without a hope beside,
He sat him down and cried,
"Alas, my axe! where can it be?
O Jove! but send it back to me,
And it shall strike good blows for you."
His prayer in high Olympus heard,
Swift Mercury started at the word.
"Your axe must not be lost," said he:
"Now, will you know it when you see?
An axe I found on the road."
With that an axe of gold he showed.
"Is it this?" The woodman answered, "Nay."
An axe of silver, bright and gay,
Refused the honest woodman too.
At last the finder brought to view
An axe of iron, steel, and wood.
"That's mine," he said, in joyful mood;
"With that I'll quite contented be."
The god replied, "I give the three,
As due reward of honesty."
This luck when neighbouring choppers knew,
They lost their axes, not a few,
And sent their prayers to Jupiter
So fast, he knew not which to hear.
His winged son, however, sent
With gold and silver axes, went.
Each would have thought himself a fool
Not to have owned the richest tool.
But Mercury promptly gave, instead
Of it, a blow on the head.
With simple truth to be contented,
Is surest not to be repented;
But still there are who would
With evil trap the good, –
Whose cunning is but stupid,
For Jove is never duped.
Below is a Morphy acrostic by C.V. Grinfield from page 334 of the Chess Player's Chronicle, 1861:
Mightiest of masters of the chequer'd board,
Of early genius high its boasted lord!
Rising in youth's bright morn to loftiest fame,
Princeliest of players held with one acclaim;
Host in thyself – all-conquering in fight: –
Yankees exult! – in your great champion's might. The Lion and the Gnat
"Go, paltry insect, nature's meanest brat!"
Thus said the royal lion to the gnat.
The gnat declared immediate war.
"Think you," said he, "your royal name
To me worth caring for?
Think you I tremble at your power or fame?
The ox is bigger far than you;
Yet him I drive, and all his crew."
This said, as one that did no fear owe,
Himself he blew the battle charge,
Himself both trumpeter and hero.
At first he played about at large,
Then on the lion's neck, at leisure, settled,
And there the royal beast full sorely nettled.
With foaming mouth, and flashing eye,
He roars. All creatures hide or fly, –
Such mortal terror at
The work of one poor gnat!
With constant change of his attack,
The snout now stinging, now the back,
And now the chambers of the nose;
The pigmy fly no mercy shows.
The lion's rage was at its height;
His viewless foe now laughed outright,
When on his battle-ground he saw,
That every savage tooth and claw
Had got its proper beauty
By doing bloody duty;
Himself, the hapless lion, tore his hide,
And lashed with sounding tail from side to side.
Ah! bootless blow, and bite, and curse!
He beat the harmless air, and worse;
For, though so fierce and stout,
By effort wearied out,
He fainted, fell, gave up the quarrel.
The gnat retires with verdant laurel.
Now rings his trumpet clang,
As at the charge it rang.
But while his triumph note he blows,
Straight on our valiant conqueror goes
A spider's ambuscade to meet,
And make its web his winding-sheet.
We often have the most to fear
From those we most despise;
Again, great risks a man may clear,
Who by the smallest dies.
Riddle Question: The leaves are on the fruit; The fruit is on the leaves. What is it? The bumblebee bat is the world's smallest mammal
Weighing in at 0.05 to 0.07 ounces, with a head-to-body length of 1.14 to 1.29 inches and a wingspan of 5.1 to 5.7 inches, the bumblebee bat—also known as Kitti's hog-nosed bat—is the smallest mammal in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. To see this tiny bat for yourself, you'd have to visit one of a select few limestone caves on the Khwae Noi River in Kanchanaburi Province of southwest Thailand. Riddle Answer: A pineapple.
M.Hassan: <Eggman>: Scarborough Chess Club which is said to be the biggest chess club in Canada, arranges tournaments under the name of "Howard Rideout" tournaments. Is he the same Rideout that you are mentioning?. I only know that this is to commemorate "Rideout" who has been a player and probably in that club because the club is over 40 years old.
This tournament is repeated year after year and at the beginning of the season when the club resumes activity after summer recession in September. Zxp PeterB: Eggman and Mr. Hassan - you are right, Howard Ridout was a long time member of the Scarborough Chess Club! He was very active even when I joined in 1969, and was still organizing tournaments at the time of his death in the 1990s. This game is a good memorial to him! Theodorovitch was a Toronto master rated about 2250 back then, perhaps about 2350 nowadays. < <<Charlotte Chess Center Tuesday Night ActionCharlotte Chess Center
EVENT OVERVIEW
Tuesday Night Action-Weekly Rated Play
The CCC conducts a weekly US Chess rated game every Tuesday night. This is a great way for players to get weekly practice without committing a whole weekend to play a tournament. The Top Section also FIDE-rated - offering the only free weekly FIDE-rated game in the country! In addition, there is a free lecture before the games begin. HOW IT WORKS
CCC opens Tuesdays at 5:45pm
Lecture with FM Peter Giannatos prior to rated games from 6:00pm-6:45pm Players must register weekly and in advance using the online registration system Each Tuesday evening will be limited to the first 62 players to register TNA registration will close at 6:30pm if not already full Once spots are filled, players may email events@charlottechesscenter.org to be placed on the waitlist.
REQUIREMENTS
Players must be members of the CCC
Players must have a US Chess membership
Open to all players in grades 9-12 and adults
Students in grades K-8 must be rated over 1000
K-8 players rated under 1000 - See Wednesday Action Quads and Friday Action Quads
START TIME
Lecture: 6:00pm
Game: 7:00pm
GAMES
1 Round Weekly, Rated After 4 Rounds/Weeks
SECTIONS
TOP (1600+)
Under 1600
Under 1200
"Playing up" not permitted in TNA
TIME CONTROL
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"For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." — Assiac Feb-23-23 FSR: Thanks, Susan. I never saw Albert after my freshman year of high school (he and his family moved to the Chicago suburbs, where he went to a different school and played for a different chess team). Super nice guy. I was very surprised many years later to learn that he and your son had started this site. "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." ― Francis Bacon "Discipline is wisdom and vice versa." ― M. Scott Peck The Boy and the Schoolmaster
Wise counsel is not always wise,
As this my tale exemplifies.
A boy, that frolicked on the banks of Seine,
Fell in, and would have found a watery grave,
Had not that hand that plants never in vain
A willow planted there, his life to save.
While hanging by its branches as he might,
A certain sage preceptor came in sight;
To whom the urchin cried, "Save, or I'm drowned!"
The master, turning gravely at the sound,
Thought proper for a while to stand aloof,
And give the boy some seasonable reproof.
"You little wretch! this comes of foolish playing,
Commands and precepts disobeying.
A naughty rogue, no doubt, you are,
Who thus requite your parents" care.
Alas! their lot I pity much,
Whom fate condemns to watch over such."
This having coolly said, and more,
He pulled the drowning lad ashore.
This story hits more marks than you suppose.
All critics, pedants, men of endless prose, –
Three sorts, so richly blessed with progeny,
The house is blessed that does not lodge any, –
May in it see themselves from head to toes.
No matter what the task,
Their precious tongues must teach;
Their help in need you ask,
You first must hear them preach.
"The open file, being cleared of pawns, offers no permanent targets. The advantage of controlling an open file consists mainly in the chance of penetrating the enemy position and switching to horizontal activity." ― Hans Kmoch morfishine: "I like the Schliemann Defense, along with the Falkbeer counter-gambit and other chancy openings. Enterprising chess is the most fun, even if one meets with disaster from time-to-time. I'd rather go down swinging." See Zsofia Polgar biography regarding her "Sack of Rome" in 1989. "You must play boldly to win." ― Arnold Palmer "Champions keep playing until they get it right." ― Billie Jean King Fred Wellmuth was a strong amateur from California "To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd!"
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Confessed faults are half mended. ~ Scottish Proverb Riddle Answer Begins With Letter "M"
Riddle: I make two people out of one. What am I? * Mihail Marin: Wikipedia article: Mihail Marin Riddle Answer: A mirror.
<Sarah wrote:
checkmate
It's like we're playing chess.
Moving strategically, testing boundaries,
all while watching each other's expression.
We all know how this games ends…
The queen destroys you and steals your heart.> "Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles." — Garry Kasparov "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. In God we trust; all others pay cash. ~ American Proverb Helen Bevan on X
@HelenBevan
A Dutch proverb: "Trust arrives on a tortoise & leaves on a horse". How to build trust like a tortoise:
1) Consistency
2) Transparency
3) Active listening
4) Fulfil promises
5) Respect boundaries
How to stop trust from eroding in a horse situation:
1) Acknowledge mistakes
2) Apologise sincerely
3) Make amends
4) Avoid repeat offences
"When you're lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war." ― Aristotle "The habit of holding a Man in the hand, and moving it first to one square and then to another, in order to engage the assistance of the eye in deciding where it shall actually be placed, is not only annoying to the adversary but a practical infraction of the touch-and-move principle." ― Howard Staunton "A bad plan is better than none at all." ― Frank Marshall <Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
Bombardment of Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, New York, 1865The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in the middle of the Civil War, wrote this poem which has more recently been adapted as a modern Christmas classic. Longfellow wrote this on Christmas Day in 1863, after his son had enlisted in the Union's cause and had returned home, seriously wounded. The verses which he included and are still generally included, speak of the despair of hearing the promise of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" when the evidence of the world is clearly that war still exists. And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."
The original also included several verses referring specifically to the Civil War. Before that cry of despair and answering cry of hope, and after verses describing the long years of hearing of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" (a phrase from the Jesus birth narratives in the Christian scriptures), Longfellow's poem includes, describing the black cannons of the war: Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!>
"The first place to look is where you saw it last." — Eric 'Digger' Manes, Moonshiners 'A soft answer turneth away wrath'
"You don't have to show up to every argument you're invited to."
—Someonetobetoday
'Don't throw good money after bad'
"As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." — Sir Norman Wisdom "Love Is A Place" by E.E. Cummings
Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds
"Better bend than break." ~ Scottish Proverb Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." wordzyfun
12z Zuk from Kozul playing bad breath minton lost the left bishop but its microchocchip helped recover the body of work all weekend. Cajun systmc brkn whstl NYC drip, drip, drip knaughty while Dzagnidze knightz you ng need punish Chitown work f4lying chting stling dling agnst thr relish danovs Zelinsky truth bishop pinto beanz or Spanish-speaking rice? Anuthr sigh lent tweet heard ina drk Forrest Gump bye them beez but nodda birdiez. 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. Ephesians 6:4: "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." Deuteronomy 6:6-9: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." <There once was a fly on the wall, I wonder why didn't it fall.
Because its feet stuck,
Or was it just luck,
Or does gravity miss things so small?> "There just isn't enough televised chess." — David Letterman "Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself." — Eleanor Roosevelt "Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess."
— Siegbert Tarrasch
"True power is expressed in quiet confidence; it was the sea's very calmness that epitomized its mighty force." ― Emile Habiby "Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of."
― Miguel Cervantes
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WISE OLD OWL
A wise old owl lived in an oak.
The more he saw the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?
"If the string breaks, then we try another piece of string." — Owl Q: What do you call something that goes up when the rain comes down?
A: An umbrella.
Q: What do you call a doctor who fixes websites?
A: A URL-ologist.
Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A: A dinosnore.
Q: What do you call a Christmas tree that knows karate
A: Spruce Lee.
Q: What does a triangle call a circle?
A: Pointless.
Q: What do you call a piece of sad cheese?
A: Blue cheese.
Q: What do you call a cow in an earthquake?
A: A milkshake.
Q: What do you call an M&M that went to college?
A: A smarty.
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