Compiled by GumboGambit
Games featuring rare openings/variations with unusual names. Not included are the basic uncommon first moves (Ware Opening, St. George Defense, etc.)
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
Source: "The Soviet School of Chess" Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.
"Chess does not only teach us to analyze the present situation, but it also enables us to think about the possibilities and consequences. This is the art of forward-thinking." ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
"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
"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite." ― Emanuel Lasker
"Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit." ― Holly Black, The Wicked King
"Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be." ― Garry Kasparov
"The most helpful thing I learnt from chess is to make good decisions on incomplete data in a limited amount of time." ― Magnus Carlsen
"I am not the piece, I am not of the piece, I am not in the piece. I am the move" ― Niranjan Navalgund
"There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat." ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
"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
"Remember that in chess, it's only the square you land on that matters."
― Bill Robertie, Beginning Chess Play
"The pieces are connected to each other and the King and they are in this dynamic rhythm amongst themselves and with the opponent's pieces, wherein lies their purpose. Each move is an attempt to change that balance and to establish a new, more favorable balance and that is why in chess (and in life) we are most vulnerable when we are most aggressive—the aggressive move essentially causes us to lose balance."
― Roumen Bezergianov, Character Education with Chess
"To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing." ― Captain Bertin, The Noble Game of Chess (1735)
"Chess enjoys a not wholly undeserved reputation for psychic derangement. It is an endeavor associated, when not with frank madness, with oddness and isolation. I remember a psychiatrist friend visiting me at a chess club in downtown Boston once. He walked in, sat down, looked around and said, ‘Jeez, I could run a group here."
― Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him."
― Napoleon Bonaparte
<Game Collection: Unorthodox Games; Unusual Names (ECO=A,D,E)>
<Unorthodox Games; Unusual Names ECO = A,D,E>
Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven't we metaphor?"
* 99 Luft Balloons: Game Collection: 99 Schönheitspreise (Steinkohl)
* Katar's Repertoire: Game Collection: An Opium Repertoire for White
* Blowing Away the Castled King: Game Collection: Attack The King's Pocket
* Bit Collection: Game Collection: Special Gambit Collection
* Crisis of Character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWE...
* Tips for 100-1000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCb...
* 4 mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H2u7...
* Sacrifice on f7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGk...
* Most common errors below 1200: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmw...
* 15,000,000 disappeared? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn0...
* Tips for 1100-2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIE...
* 3 Tips to reach 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzB...
* The Bob Fischer Story collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A8...
* Deflect the Defender of the mating square w/a Pin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/axBq...
* Trap the bishop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQG...
* Boo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzC...
* Budapest Gambit Trap: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xWC3...
* Englund Gambit beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0...
* Soller Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jB5M...
* Learn the Q's Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWH...
* Tips for the Q's Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAt...
* 5 Traps Against 1.d4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkd...
* Meet Old Ben: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34N...
* Jim's Modern Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts8...
* Daaron opened the same way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqA...
* Benoni Defense Blunder: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8cpd...
* Benoni trap for Black: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0hQP...
* Blitz Benoni Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nue...
* A65 by RJ Fischer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Op...
* Fischer's Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTC...
* Transpose to a Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ0...
* Kasparov breaks the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_1...
* Fantastic attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw...
* Benoni Traps Against 1.d4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb...
* Benoni is back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40e...
* Benoni Masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6x...
* Simplified Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv5...
* How to play against the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mz...
* How to beat the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhG...
* Beat the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIa...
* Beat the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M25...
* Benoni Plans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZq...
* Crush the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuy...
* Destroy the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUr...
* GMAC likes the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNm...
* MC plays the Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzo...
* Online Benoni victory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUN...
* The Benoni is a Joke? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aT...
* Almost a refutation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otb...
* Is the Modern Benoni in trouble? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYW...
* Black tries the Czech Benoni: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIt...
* Chess - The Art of the Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3P...
* English Opening: Game Collection: Korchnoi/So, English Opening, A10-A19
* French Defense: Game Collection: French Korchnoi III
* VK's Best Games: Game Collection: My Best Games (Korchnoi)
* User Tabanus' collections are VERY impressive!!! Game Collection: Korchnoi - Petrosian Candidates Quarterfinal '77
* 1974 Candidates Final: Karpov - Korchnoi Candidates Final (1974)
* PGN Language Conversion: http://www.code.gr/chess-converter/...
* Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc...
* 9 Ideas in the Q's Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONB...
* 10 Ideas in the Q's Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYB...
* Simple but vital habit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CX...
* Complete Chess EG series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc2...
* Naroditsky's EG series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhU...
* Win R&P endings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkG...
* Mental Endgame Mastery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvv...
* Scut'in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7...
* 1.d4: Game Collection: Winning with 1 d4!
* Glossary W: Wikipedia article: Glossary of chess
* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...
* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz)
https://archive.org/details/the-gol...
* Greatest Hits: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms)
* Epic: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher
* Extinguish the Dragon: Game Collection: 1.e4 explorations
* "Messi of Chess": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0w...
* Master of Pawn Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBk...
* Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S...
"The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution" ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov...
* Colorado Gambit: https://chessmood.com/blog/complete...
* 1.e4 e5 Leach: Game Collection: Chess in the USA 1945-72, Part 1 (Leach)
* LG - White wins: Game Collection: Latvian Gambit-White wins
* Uncommon KP Gambits: Game Collection: Unusual Gambits
* Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2)
* 62 Masterpieces: Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev)
* Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c...
* 200 Modern Brilliancies: Game Collection: 0
* 2000#: Game Collection: Checkmate 2000
* 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!
"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
New Hampshire: Dover
Established in: 1623
Dover was originally settled in 1623 by fishermen and traders. Dover is the seventh oldest settlement in the United States. It was once known as Northam, and in 1692, Northam became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Cocheco River in Dover was the first place water power was used, when a sawmill was built in 1642.
* Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch...
<<<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 upHe 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
The Lion's Court
His lion majesty would know, one day,
What bestial tribes were subject to his sway.
He therefore gave his vassals all,
By deputies a call,
Despatching everywhere
A written circular,
Which bore his seal, and did import
His majesty would hold his court
A month most splendidly; –
A feast would open his levee,
Which done, Sir Jocko's sleight
Would give the court delight.
By such sublime magnificence
The king would show his power immense.
Now were they gathered all
Within the royal hall. –
And such a hall! The charnel scent
Would make the strongest nerves relent.
The bear put up his paw to close
The double access of his nose.
The act had better been omitted;
His throne at once the monarch quitted,
And sent to Pluto's court the bear,
To show his delicacy there.
The ape approved the cruel deed,
A thorough flatterer by breed.
He praised the prince's wrath and claws,
He praised the odour and its cause.
Judged by the fragrance of that cave,
The amber of the Baltic wave,
The rose, the pink, the hawthorn bank,
Might with the vulgar garlic rank.
The mark his flattery overshot,
And made him share poor Bruin's lot;
This lion playing in his way,
The part of Don Caligula.
The fox approached. "Now," said the king,
"Apply your nostrils to this thing,
And let me hear, without disguise,
The judgment of a beast so wise."
The fox replied, "Your Majesty will please
Excuse" – and here he took good care to sneeze; –
"Afflicted with a dreadful cold,
Your majesty need not be told:
My sense of smell is mostly gone."
From danger thus withdrawn,
He teaches us the while,
That one, to gain the smile
Of kings, must hold the middle place
"Between blunt rebuke and fulsome praise;
And sometimes use with easy grace,
The language of the Norman race.
"Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE" ― Alan Rufus
"Sometimes it's better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." ― Tony Blair
2 Timothy 3:16
16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che...
Diounysius1: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb!
Herein lay the rub. The Americans, like all Western armies, defined "winning" as killing the enemy and securing control over the battlefield. Their opponents in previous conflicts had generally accepted the same definition. Not so the Moros. What was important to them was the struggle and how one conducted oneself, personally and as a people, not necessarily a measurable outcome. They knew from the beginning they were no match for American firepower. It was a one-sided contest, what today is termed "asymmetric warfare," but so what? Their measure was how well one did against the odds, the more overwhelmingly they were against one, the greater the glory. And being that life is transitory anyway, what mattered most was how much courage was shown and how well did one die. The Americans and the Moros were using different score cards for the same game. To the Moros, it was they who had "won." — Robert A. Fulton
The Heron
One day, – no matter when or where, –
A long-legged heron chanced to fare
By a certain river's brink,
With his long, sharp beak
Helved on his slender neck;
It was a fish-spear, you might think.
The water was clear and still,
The carp and the pike there at will
Pursued their silent fun,
Turning up, ever and anon,
A golden side to the sun.
With ease might the heron have made
Great profits in his fishing trade.
So near came the scaly fry,
They might be caught by the passer-by.
But he thought he better might
Wait for a better appetite –
For he lived by rule, and could not eat,
Except at his hours, the best of meat.
Anon his appetite returned once more;
So, approaching again the shore,
He saw some tench taking their leaps,
Now and then, from their lowest deeps.
With as dainty a taste as Horace's rat,
He turned away from such food as that.
"What, tench for a heron! poh!
I scorn the thought, and let them go."
The tench refused, there came a gudgeon;
"For all that," said the bird, "I budge on.
I'll never open my beak, if the gods please,
For such mean little fishes as these."
He did it for less;
For it came to pass,
That not another fish could he see;
And, at last, so hungry was he,
That he thought it of some avail
To find on the bank a single snail.
Such is the sure result
Of being too difficult.
Would you be strong and great,
Learn to accommodate.
Get what you can, and trust for the rest;
The whole is often lost by seeking the best.
Above all things beware of disdain;
Where, at most, you have little to gain.
The people are many that make
Every day this sad mistake.
It's not for the herons I put this case,
You featherless people, of human race.
– List to another tale as true,
And you'll hear the lesson brought home to you.
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."
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun."
Chess
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Exactly four different men have tried
to teach me how to play. I could never
tell the difference between a rook
or bishop, but I knew the horse meant
knight. And that made sense to me,
because a horse is night: soot-hoof
and nostril, dark as a sabled evening
with no stars, bats, or moon blooms.
It's a night in Ohio where a man sleeps
alone one week and the next, the woman
he will eventually marry leans her body
into his for the first time, leans a kind
of faith, too—filled with white crickets
and bouquets of wild carrot. And
the months and the honeyed years
after that will make all the light
and dark squares feel like tiles
for a kitchen they can one day build
together. Every turn, every sacrificial
move—all the decoys, the castling,
the deflections—these will be both
riotous and unruly, the exact opposite
of what she thought she ever wanted
in the endgame of her days.
blogger cinephilia once said: "The flawless game is impossible. Feed off your opponent's mistakes like a leech."
"There's always a hidden owl in knowledge." – E.I. Jane
"If you open it, close it. If you turn it on, turn it off. If you take it out, put it back. If you empty it, fill it. If you fill it, empty it." — Kathryn Malter, St. Paul, MN
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
— Christopher Hitchens
Riddle Question: When you see me, it's too late, for your king has met his fate. What am I?
Riddle Answer: Checkmate
A Word To Husbands by Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
<"De Ludo Scachorum" was first translated into French in 1347. In 1474, 2 years before it was printed in French, William Caxton translated the text from the French (of Jean de Vignay) into English and printed it under the title, <"The Game of Chess.">
<"The Game of Chess"> was the second book ever printed in the English language. The first book, also printed by Claxton was "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye," also translated from French (of Raoul le Fèvre) and also in 1474. Caxton printed almost 100 books, and of these 20 were translations from French or Dutch into English.>
— batgirl, chess.com
1 Corinthians 13
King James Version
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The Rat and the Oyster
A country rat, of little brains,
Grown weary of inglorious rest,
Left home with all its straws and grains,
Resolved to know beyond his nest.
When peeping through the nearest fence,
"How big the world is, how immense!"
He cried; "there rise the Alps, and that
Is doubtless famous Ararat."
His mountains were the works of moles,
Or dirt thrown up in digging holes!
Some days of travel brought him where
The tide had left the oysters bare.
Since here our traveller saw the sea,
He thought these shells the ships must be.
"My father was, in truth," said he,
"A coward, and an ignoramus;
He dared not travel: as for me,
I have seen the ships and ocean famous;
Have crossed the deserts without drinking,
And many dangerous streams unshrinking;
Such things I know from having seen and felt them."
And, as he went, in tales he proudly dealt them,
Not being of those rats whose knowledge
Comes by their teeth on books in college.
Among the shut-up shell-fish, one
Was gaping widely at the sun;
It breathed, and drank the air's perfume,
Expanding, like a flower in bloom.
Both white and fat, its meat
Appeared a dainty treat.
Our rat, when he this shell espied,
Thought for his stomach to provide.
"If not mistaken in the matter,"
Said he, "no meat was ever fatter,
Or in its flavour half so fine,
As that on which today I dine."
Thus full of hope, the foolish chap
Thrust in his head to taste,
And felt the pinching of a trap –
The oyster closed in haste.
We're first instructed, by this case,
That those to whom the world is new
Are wonder-struck at every view;
And, in the second place,
That the marauder finds his match,
And he is caught who thinks to catch.
Philippians 4:7
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
* List of gambits: https://detailedpedia.com/wiki-List...
Q: Why can't you ever tell a joke around glass?
A: It could crack up.
Is it immoral for a vegetarian to eat animal crackers?
<<<A Patience Worth Blessing>
by Patience Worth>
This hour, this hour, a chalice. Unto its golden cup
We have poured our love, for there be not one man
Who may honestly disclaim that he hath taken within
His heart, God. Mayhap to refuse Him an abiding place;
But His shadow hath rested upon him.
Behold, from this instant we disperse and His shadow
Shall follow thee. I say that tomorrow at some instant
Of time, each of thee shall stop, and I, like a moth
Shall flit thee, and thou shalt remember Him.
I charge thee; it shall be!>
"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." ― Abraham Lincoln
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"I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! His ideal was to win by maneuvering. Capablanca's genius reveals itself in his probing of the opponent's weak points. The slightest weakness cannot escape from his keene eye." ― Emanuel Lasker
"I think Capablanca had the greatest natural talent." ― Mikhail Botvinnik
"Beautiful, cold, remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability." ― Raymond Chandler (on a Capablanca game)
"Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his opponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending." ― Robert Fischer
"When a match is over, I forget it. You can only remember so many things, so it is better to forget useless things that you can't use and remember useful things that you can use. For instance, I remember and will always remember that in 1927 Babe Ruth hit sixty home runs." ― Jose Raul Capablanca
The 1927 New York Yankees are often considered the greatest professional baseball team of all time. They finished the season with a record of 110-44, winning their fifth pennant and finishing 19 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics. The team was managed by Miller Huggins and played at Yankee Stadium. They won the 1927 World Series, sweeping the Pittsburgh Pirates with the greatest of ease. Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs for the team, while Tony Lazzeri and Lou Gehrig hit 20 or more. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/te...
<<<"The Purple Cow" by Gelett Burgess>I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one!>
This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids. Despite starting his career as an academic, artist and even railroad worker, he rose to fame as a humorist and author. In the 1900s, he published a handful of children's books, though he remains best known for this silly nonsense poem.>
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 King James Version
16 Rejoice evermore.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Maximo wrote:
My Forking Knight's Mare
Gracefully over the squares, as a blonde or a brunette,
she makes moves that not even a queen can imitate.
Always active and taking the initiative,
she likes to fork.
She does it across the board,
taking with ease not only pawns, but also kings,
and a bad bishop or two.
Sometimes she feels like making
quiet moves,
at other times, she adopts romantic moods,
and makes great sacrifices.
But, being hers a zero-sum game,
she often forks just out of spite.
An expert at prophylaxis, she can be a swindler,
and utter threats,
skewering men to make some gains.
Playing with her risks a conundrum,
and also catching Kotov's syndrome.
Nonetheless, despite having been trampled
by her strutting ways
my trust in her remains,
unwavering,
until the endgame.
"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
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.>
"Sestrilla, hafelina
Jue amourasestrilla
Awou jue selaviena
En patre jue
Translation:
Beloved one, little cat
I love you for all time
In this time
And all others"
― Christine Feehan
<Chris Chaffin wrote:
master/piece
She moves him ‘round the chess board,
dodging bishops, pawns and rooks.
She coaxes him from square to square
without a second look.
The white knight cannot catch him.
Piece by piece, the foe now yields.
Her king is safe; the game is done.
The queen controls the field.>
"Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong." — Donald Porter
"It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customer's' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship."
— Mark Cuban
"Only once customer service has become habitual will a company realize its true potential." — Than Merrill
"Customers don't care about your policies. Find and engage the need. Tell the customer what you can do." — Alice Sesay Pope
"Always keep in mind the old retail adage: Customers remember the service a lot longer than they remember the price." — Lauren Freedman
"Here is a powerful yet simple rule. Always give people more than they expect to get." — Nelson Boswell
"Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them." — Kevin Stirtz
"The customer is always right." — Harry Gordon Selfridge (Not hardly says FTB.)
"Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia."
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
"Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!"
― Napoléon Bonaparte
"Be your own Sunshine. Always." ― Purvi Raniga
"Most promises featuring the word 'always' are unkeepable."
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
"You should never say never. Just like you should never say always; because, always and never are always never true." ― J. R. Krol
"Never and Always
Never take advantage of someone whom loves you
Never avoid someone whom needs you
Never betray anyone whom has trust in you
Never forget the people that always remember you
Never speak ill of a person who is not present
Never support something you know is wrong or unethical
Always speak to your parents on their birthday and anniversary
Always defend those who cannot defend themselves
Always forgive those you love whom have made mistakes
Always give something to those less fortunate than you
Always remember to look back at those who helped you succeed
Always call your parents and siblings on New Year's Eve."
― R.J. Intindola
Riddle Question: I'm a mobile fortress; straight is my path. When it comes to castling, I'm part of the craft. What am I?
Riddle Answer: Rook
"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
"Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got."
— Norman Vincent Peale
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." — Ralph Marston
"A wise man never knows all; only a fool knows everything." — African Proverb
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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.
1 Peter 3:15
15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
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.
JACK BE NIMBLE
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick
New York, New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK0...
Q: Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert?
A: Because she was stuffed.
Kibitzing
