5.Nc3 NxN 6.dxNc3

This opening results in lots of endgames.

* Petrov Defense (C42)

* 2 bad habits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifm...

* Passer on the 2nd rank: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gk1w...

* 3.Ba3 Nbd7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dtqe...

* 3 billion dummies? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nz96...

* 3 reasons: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pv3...

Play through a book of traps or miniatures your first year of chess. Tackle Attack and Counterattack in Chess by Fred Reinfeld.

Play though The Art of the Checkmate your second year of chess. Tackle Fred Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate.

Play through an annotated games collection (individual player or tournament book prior to 1930) your third year of chess. Tackle The Complete Chess Player by Fred Reinfeld.

Study a chess course your fourth year of chess.
Tackle The Complete Chess Course by Fred Reinfeld.

Study a classic general treatise your fifth year of chess. Tackle The Fireside Book of Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld.

* 4,000 ELO: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6g2E...

* A45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvH...

* Alireza Firouzja's 5 Most Brilliant Chess Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwa...

* Fabiano Caruana's 5 Most Brilliant Chess Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoq...

* Top 5 laws: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CimP...

* Top 6 traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYO...

* Top 7 aggressive openings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8...

* 7 Mexican songs that you've heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9S...

* 7 ways to punish Bg4 pin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQ...

* 738 days: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/niPh...

* 8 Chess concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRy...

* 0831 history: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peo...

* Firouzja Breaks Record: Youngest 2800 Chess Player in History! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHR...

* 9-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwK...

* 9 Russian songs that you've heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-v...

* Double rook sacrifice in 9 moves: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KD-F...

* 0920 history: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peo...

* Top 10 best Stafford Gambit traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIe...

* 10 historical human blunders: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peo...

* 10 Italian songs that you've heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gt...

* 12th street comes after the 11th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlr...

* Bradshaw, Brady, and Montana wore #12: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_yUE...

So did Jim Kelly: https://www.sportscasting.com/news/...

* 18-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju, the World Championship challenger w/the knight pair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vq...

* Johnny Guarnieri plays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHX...

* Adrian Beltre is the all-time leader in hits, RBI, XBH, and total bases among 3B in MLB 🔥

* Al Khwarizmi: The Father of Algebra from Persia.

* Alan Turing: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KdwE...

* Always know how thy opponent will respond -- s/he does not have to cooperate with your plans: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JuHR...

* Aliens in chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPj...

* R.I.P. Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4O...

* Alapin Sicilian bait: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9FO1...

* Animal Crackers, 1930: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz1...

* Arjun is golden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kql...

* Archer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gJZ7...

* Ask Whats? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AF6y...

* Bonanza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBB...

* banjo and ukulele combination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Io...

* The Babbitt and the Bromide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP7...

* Black to move -- find the mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DlQF...

* Blazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7g...

* Blue suede: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6B...

* Blumenthal is a fraud: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T640...

* Bobby Baseball: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7PFd...

* Brutal Bishop's opening gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7IJQ...

* What was Bernoulli thinking? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zD8A...

* Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyP...

* Brownies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufm...

* Castling into it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JiHp...

* Castling opposite: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uZqm...

* Chaturanga: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle...

* Chattanooga Choo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hae...

* Chess Olympiad 2024 in Budapest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svh...

* Check before you promote -- it might be mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kCpR...

* Cliffe Knechtle's message:

* Creature of habit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/10ht...

Dante
by Michelangelo (1475-1564)

WHAT should be said of him cannot be said;

By too great splendor is his name attended;

To blame is easier than those who him offended,

Than reach the faintest glory round him shed.

This man descended to the doomed and dead

For our instruction; then to God ascended;

Heaven opened wide to him its portals splendid,

Who from his country's, closed against him, fled.

Ungrateful land! To its own prejudice

Nurse of his fortunes; and this showeth well

That the most perfect most of grief shall see.

Among a thousand proofs let one suffice,

That as his exile hath no parallel,

Ne'er walked the earth a greater man than he.

* Danish, Gustavo Fring trap, Greco's Mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/joUH...

* Discovered checks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxH...

* Do the Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3k...

* Trash talkin' hustler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5v...

* Don't throw your time and money away! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fgRe...

* Don't do this to dear old Dad: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fCI8...

* Are you driving??? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OZA6...

* Drawn? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7NLv...

* Dubov duplicates Blackburne's Mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XxWV...

* Each one saw Jesus risen from the dead: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yMXq...

* Easiest $150: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fzod...

* Efficiency: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KHN8...

* Electronicx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us-...

* Embarrassing beat down: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...

* Excuse me, says the lad: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3mYt... The moral of the story: If you need help, ask for help!

* Extremists: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9bv0...

* Engelbert Humperdinck 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2u...

* Basic Endgame principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T5...

* No easy fix: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4xH...

* f3 & f6 when queenless: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FUNQ...

* B & N forks in the Center Game: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HUme...

* "the 50 most beautiful miles in America" https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tr...

* Capitalist entrepreneurial freedom outperforms Communism: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ivmb...

* Fried Liver Counterattack: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/22eM...

* Pseudo Fried Liver on the queenside: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zdsg...

* "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af9...

* Fort Davis: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...

* Forth and Back: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qrIU...

* Forsaken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a...

* Forgiveness: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L38q...

* France: https://www.bing.com/travel/place-s...

* French trickster: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZJeE...

* Fresh air: https://new.uschess.org/news/take-i...

* Get out of the way: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vvX2...

* The Goose gave one up: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xRLp...

* The Greatest Chess Game Of 2024 (upto mid-May): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmr...

* Grand Can: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peo...

* Grand Prix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jd...

* Hanging: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HTRP...

* Hazel Simpson hits home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pc...

* Heavy pieces in action: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VNeX...

* Heaven or hell? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nxQY...

* "Help your pieces help you." https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7nEi...

* Hikaru's discovered double attack: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5h1Z...

* How many times will you watch this? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3yHZ...

* ...h6 is often bad in the opening: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Itek...

* Hush money: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bOSf...

* If yogurt goes bad, how can you tell?

* ICC: https://www.youtube.com/@chessclubICC

* In Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTR...

* India World Champs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AW...

* Interference: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YNMJ...

* Instead of giving check, quietly threaten mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d5lG...

* It's O.K. to Li: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Qw5...

* It's all about love, relationships, not achievements, possessions: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7eaM...

* Irish resilience: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gY5G...

* Jitterbug Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQ...

* Jobava London executes: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aifA...

* Ju Wenjun's chair: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XTSr...

* The Soul of Johnny Wanderin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPY...

* Center Counter Unpin: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 e5 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Bc5 Bb4 7.0-0 NxBc3 8.Bxf7+ KxBf7 9.Ng5+ Ke8 10.QxBg4 Nf6 11.Qe6+ Kd8 12.Nf7# 1-0.

* ICBM deflection: 1.Nf3 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Ng5 Nf6 4.d3 exd3 5.Bxd3 h6 6.Nxf7+ KxNf7 7.Bg6+ KxBg6 8.QxQd8 Black resigns, 0-1.

* Tennison Gambit lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc9...

John 3:16-18 King James Version

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

* 50 move rule: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cjFW...

* Kadas Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iec...

* Kid teaches the Italian game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLk...

* Italian 5.d3: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lK9V...

Not this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TT5P...

* KID (& Pirc) intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ap...

* KID by Carlsen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIM...

* KID trapped: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HonN...

* KID vs Bg5, ...e5 blunder: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TSvC...

* KID transposes into the 1.e4 Pirc Def: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Xaf...

* King walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxg...

* King's Gambit Counter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeG...

* Knight vs Bishop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVd...

* Where's Slick Willie?? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...

* Woke Liberalism: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9CbJ...

* This little light of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj3...

* Logical series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQH... Do read Chernev's book!

* Anti-London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9I...

* Her lovely bear: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iz_b...

* Lukewarm: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eapi...

* Malagueña: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2...

* Medley of hymns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuI...

* Wrong mirror for Black: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IFpa...

* Mirror counterattack in the Russian Game: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5ESN...

* Mississippi John Hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85B...

* Money facts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2yWE...

* They must make real good moola: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HbBu...

* Moving forward: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WqwW...

* More popular than the originals: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qVsw...

* Mozart's Turkish Rondo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l4...

* Paul Morphy brilliancies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaG...

* Mr. Sandman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c...

* Necessary: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5_b3...

* NYC 1900: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UER...

* Never resign if you still have mating material: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ktJc...

* Never without: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/se3E...

* Numbers Boogie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhF...

* Octo and the scuba: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CQBY...

* Online chess: https://www.247chess.com/news/chess...

* On the attack: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2uuL...

* Othello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LY...

* Overstimulated: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vLHB...

* Overworked by pigs on the 7th: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JFBX...

* Paid in full: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C82G...

* Paganini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHw...

* Pawn manipulations: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E15Y...

* Pepper spray: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WiWz...

* Perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QR...

* Amazing Pins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP9...

* Pirc Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYE...

* Carlsen plays the Pirc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE7...

* Pirc Defense refutation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JC...

* Put pressure on the pinned piece: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xIDi...

* Puzzlers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXI...

* Prevent the opponent's best response, then do your combination: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VXom...

* Little Pragg: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sw6b...

* Psalm 46:1 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K3n8...

* QGA: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* QGA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy6...

* QGD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETG...

* ...Qg4! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XObS...

* Queens and Pawns ending: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mjf_...

* Racing: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ggJ...

* Rare for a reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDL...

* Rhapsody In Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAu...

* The Austrian Ratpack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx0...

* Release point consistency: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6FMM...

* Resonance: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n9dp...

* Django Reinhardt clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ3...

* Rousseau Gambit, Nxc2 sac: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DjMU...

Win as Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMv...

Learn from Levy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usg...

* Routine: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FT1H...

* Rook the King: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o0HT...

* Scandianavian Nbd7 is the last to develop after both bishops: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0rke...

* Stop Scholar's Mate w/the pony: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ssmX...

...g4 extended variation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIom...

* Beyond the Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZT...

* See the difference? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmxQ...

* See, See Rider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzc...

* Summertime chess improvement:
billwall

Well, my (Bill's) advice is to play as much as you can, write the moves down, and when you have time, go over your games. I am not a fan of playing the computer or solving chess problem, but since you have the Polgar book called Chess, I would recommend studying the short games and miniatures in that book (one of my games is in there). Here atwww.chess.com, I would recommend you play email chess. Take two to four challenges or games. Play 2 games as White and 2 games as Black. Try to play a gambit and tactical in one game as White, and positional in the other game as White, and do the same for Black. Pick two openings you want to study as White, and two as Black. 99% of the players need to improve their opening, so get comfortable with some openings that you like or are successful at. Go over your games every month and see if there is progress, either in future games, or analyzing the games you already played and found more ideas. If you have anyone stronger to look at the game, that would help. Otherwise, after a game, try to run it against a strong chess program. If you have Chessmaster 10, I guess I would play the first 10-15 moves, rather than the whole game to get in more time understanding the openings. Take advantage of the free downloads here and study the games. For a 2-week vacation, get a book on openings or the Polgar book, and study the openings or the shorter games. Try to guess the next move after each line and try to understand why your move was good or not or why the book move was the recommended move. Finally, make it enjoyable. If you are getting too burned out, stay away from the game for a while, or just play over your old games for fun, and perhaps rotate the board to see the opponent's point of view.

* Sheridan: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tr...

* Shielding from behind: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l6fO...

* Sinatra: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IwA-...

* Skip James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYA...

* Solve these 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDp...

* So that's what takes place: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xs12...

* Spanish Berlin, Anastasia's Mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iAOy...

* Spank kids with the Spanish Berlin Fishin' Pole: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XHI2...

Replay: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dVZM...

* Space and the outside passer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WxQH...

* Summertime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5x...

* Sun rise, sunset: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UWmP...

* St. Louis 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvY...

* Royal Skewer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Hpa...

* Stable equilibrium: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4rKm...

* Steinitz rule in pawn endgames: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vUv5...

* Swing the mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iD...

* Tactics and Combinations are not strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkE...

Is there a Q+ and fork, a Nc6 hitting c2 or Nf6 hitting f2? Count the coverage, attackers vs defenders and their relative value of exchange. Develop your minor pieces rapidly. Blunder check: How will this piece be hit on its new square? Can it be pinned? Don't expose your royalty. Reinforce the center and the bishop's aim. Seize open lines and form batteries with your long-range pieces. Protect your pieces and prevent penetration. Unpin & untie immediately. Blockade weak pawns and penetrate weak squares. Put pigs on the 2nd/7th.

* Take it down a notch: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZlkX...

* Tal sacrifices: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ngM5...

* That's how it is done: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4Tn2...

* Timely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ov...

* Today is the day: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZESv...

* Terrible: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vz8U...

* Chess Titles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULy...

* Triangular hole: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qm64...

* Triangulation changes the move: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AGjc...

* Trimmin': https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tddb...

* Trumpeters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1...

* Tromp the Indians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmY...

* Tarrasch vs Romberg 1893: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BfnD...

* To-do: https://www.explore.com/1097372/thi...

* two-time U.S. No.1 single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnc...

* Teks bawaan: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lZsS...

* Traxler Counter-Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1j...

* Unchained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0E...

* Untenable: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MW90...

* Union Square Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDA...

* Saavedra Underpromotion 1895: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pWeo...

* Variety show in December 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8...

* Vegan bacon, or Fried Liver? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xeRI...

* Viva La Vida... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSk...

* Vienna Gambit, Heisenberg trap: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O1Oi...

* Vietnam traps: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xrji...

* Waiting for the Paris train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipP...

* What does the pawn structure say? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q4Bf...

* Wishbone playaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yci...

* When castling is bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSE...

* Word police: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rjhA...

* Chair yoga: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tMSH...

* You aint nothin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNY...

* Yugoslavia 1957 Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZW...

* Zugzwang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I3...

The privileged underhanded Chessgames operator slashed this collection like hundreds of other Fredthebear's collections. It's corruption at the top, plain and simple.

The Hare and the Frogs

Once in his bed deep mused the hare,
(What else but muse could he do there?)
And soon by gloom was much afflicted; –
To gloom the creature's much addicted.
"Alas! these constitutions nervous,"
He cried, "how wretchedly they serve us!
We timid people, by their action,
Can't eat nor sleep with satisfaction;
We can't enjoy a pleasure single,
But with some misery it must mingle.
Myself, for one, am forced by cursed fear
To sleep with open eye as well as ear.
"Correct yourself," says some adviser.
Grows fear, by such advice, the wiser?
Indeed, I well enough descry
That men have fear, as well as I."
With such revolving thoughts our hare
Kept watch in soul-consuming care.
A passing shade, or leaflet's quiver
Would give his blood a boiling fever.
Full soon, his melancholy soul
Aroused from dreaming doze
By noise too slight for foes,
He scuds in haste to reach his hole.
He passed a pond; and from its border bogs,
Plunge after plunge, in leaped the timid frogs,
"Aha! I do to them, I see,"
He cried, "what others do to me.
The sight of even me, a hare,
Suffices some, I find, to scare.
And here, the terror of my tramp
Has put to rout, it seems, a camp.
The trembling fools! they take me for
The very thunderbolt of war!
I see, the coward never skulked a foe
That might not scare a coward still below."

* Wikipedia on Computer Chess: Wikipedia article: Computer chess

Zhavaed Haemaed wrote:

Zugzwang
My little game of Chess
That I played, with you
Making subtle moves
Hinting all too softly
Allowing impasses
Offering a pawn
Renouncing knights
Denouncing a bishop
Even giving up my Queen
That trying game of Chess
It appears, has come to a stale
Without one word spoken, without
An idea or intellect having being shared
My dear, I have not tried hard enough, and
I shall never be the wiser for not having made a move

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." ― Cesare Pavese

<There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, "A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances." This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square.

Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, "Bishops and rooks complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen." Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, "The queen and knight are able to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop."

When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, "I think it's true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops."

He continues, "Of course, I'm not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.">

* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-...

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Question: What is the most frequently sold item at Walmart? Answer: Bananas – although Walmart never disclosed how many bananas they sell each year, the number has to be immense considering that over 200 million people shop in its stores worldwide every single week.

Question: In terms of production volume, what is the most popular fruit in the world? Answer: Tomato – yes, tomato is a fruit.

Anne Boleyn Thought She Caught the Prize in King Henry the 8th by PinkFaerie5

Anne Boleyn, you set your sights high, you deviously bold sly fox Your interest was the end of Catherine's head and locks Mary was declared a bastard, Henry the Eighth's wife slain. You were singing prettily through this torment, a refrain.

Anne Boleyn, you enticed a dangerous king, indeed. Henry the Eighth, who smashed wives like a mustard seed. You thought you would give him sons but alas, it did not happen. So now here you are in the tower, being visited by a chaplain.

Anne Boleyn, your three years as a queen was not a record. Although Henry's next wife Jane will not last assured Sir Rutherford. All of Catherine's sons died in infancy, and you were beheaded too. Your French fashions and pretty singing voice could not save the likes of you.

Drive sober or get pulled over.

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

Mar-12-23 FSR: <jnpope: Is <Jegar Sahadutha> related to <chrisowen> or is this just a <chrisowen> parody account?> Apparently the latter. <Jegar Sahadutha>'s user profile shows that his account was only opened on February 10, 2023. His first comment, on March 9, 2023, was:

I never thought I would live to see the day a GOTD was named in honor of chrisowen.

Jegar's comment was made to A Braun vs S Siebrecht, 2005, after it became GOTD using the pun <Braun Over Brain>. The genesis of the pun was evidently an uncharacteristically lucid comment <chrisowen> had made on December 27, 2009 that began <Sad case of Braun over brain.>

This episode, it seems, inspired <Jegar Sahadutha>. His aforementioned comment <I never thought I would live to see the day a GOTD was named in honor of chrisowen.> was the first and last "normal" one he has made.

Mar-12-23 Jegar Sahadutha: True — we shall not return to the heartland, for the heartland hath forsaken us. Rise! Rise, vaunted shipmen; your time is come, and with it sacral vestments. Slay the serpent, moor the ship; repast on all gifts divine. But in your exultation, may your heart hold fast; forsake not the heartland whence you came.

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.

- The longest a chess game could possibly be is 5,949 moves.

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today." ― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ― Howard Thurman

Jupiter and the Farmer

Of yore, a farm had Jupiter to rent;
To advertise it, Mercury was sent.
The farmers, far and near,
Flocked round, the terms to hear;
And, calling to their aid
The various tricks of trade,
One said It was rash a farm to hire
Which would so much expense require;
Another, that, do what you would,
The farm would still be far from good.
While thus, in market style, its faults were told, One of the crowd, less wise than bold, Would give so much, on this condition,
That Jove would yield him altogether
The choice and making of his weather, –
That, instantly on his decision,
His various crops should feel the power
Of heat or cold, of sun or shower.

Jove yields. The bargain closed, our man
Rains, blows, and takes the care
Of all the changes of the air,
On his peculiar, private plan.
His nearest neighbours felt it not,
And all the better was their lot.
Their year was good, by grace divine;
The grain was rich, and full the vine.
The renter, failing altogether,
The next year made quite different weather;
And yet the fruit of all his labours
Was far inferior to his neighbours'.
What better could he do? To Heaven
He owns at last his want of sense,
And so is graciously forgiven.
Hence we conclude that Providence
Knows better what we need
Than we ourselves, indeed.

"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

Africa is the only continent in all four hemispheres.

The Pawn Who Had to Go

The little pawn screamed: "I cannot hold it any more, get me a pot or I will do exactly what I did before." Everybody laughed with the exception of the opposing king who guessed what was on the mind of this filthy thing. But nobody had time to fetch a pot or even a plastic bag They were too busy to ensure that the game became a drag. The guys in white kept running back and forth but no change. The guys in black stayed also within the very same range. Suddenly the unhappy pawn who had screamed for a pot, did a weird little dance while moving up one slot. Now standing near the king he simply pulled his pants down and peed straight up against the king's beautiful crown.

/7xp zoober zoomed into bill wall. That jalen hurtz.

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.

STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT
Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight

Q: Why did the turtle cross the road?
A: To get to the Shell station.

* Frank's way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQz...

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." ― Blackfoot nation saying