99g
capa 1
rub 12
colle ed 23
kolty 20
nimz 4
yusepov 10
polgar 4
przep 3
euwe 3

I am a bonded highwayman
Cole Younger is my name
Through many a temptation
I've brought my friends to shame.
For the robbing of the Northfield bank
They say I can't deny
And now I am a poor prisoner
In the Stillwater Jail I lie.
— Excerpt from a ballad written by Cotton Davis Woodville, 1941

"First I play for equality (as Black), then I start to play for a win." ― Artur Yusupov

"It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned." ― Richard Reti

"Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative and interesting it will help you to get better results." ― Alexander Kotov

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying." ― Andy (Tim Robbins), "The Shawshank Redemption"

"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake." ― Emanuel Lasker

"In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine." ― Rudolf Spielmann

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents." ― Andrew Carnegie

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." ― Coach Lou Holtz

"Ability without honor is useless." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." ― Francis Bacon

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating." ― Sophocles

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." ― Buddha

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." ― Thomas Jefferson

"Honor lies in honest toil." ― Grover Cleveland

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." ― John Lennon

"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." ― Jesus Christ

"The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate." ― Cecil Frances Alexander

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." ― Friedrich Nietzsche

"I don't believe in perfection, but I believe in excellence." ― Ivan Ljubicic

"I believe every chess player senses beauty when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering his situation." ― Vladimir Kramnik

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying." ― Francis Bacon

Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy:
"Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived, he would beat anybody today in a set-match. He had complete sight of the board and seldom blundered even though he moved quite rapidly. I've played over hundreds of his games and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899

"There's a sea between saying and doing." ― Italian proverb

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." ― Andrew Carnegie

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." ― Jimmy Johnson

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ― Abraham Lincoln

Acts 20:35 "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

* A1912: Game Collection: Abbazia 1912

* Arjun: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...

* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black

* Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054...

The thought crossed my gentle mind that CGs needs some additional avatar variance of figures like Emory and Andrew Tate, Tani Adewumi, James Black Jr., Ambakisye Osayaba, Tom "Murph" Murphy, and Pontus Carlsson, Taahir Levi, Praggy and Pentala Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, Adhiban Baskaran, Manuel Aaron, and Juan Carlos González Zamora, María Teresa Mora Iturralde, Daniela De la Parra, Alejandra Guerrero Rodríguez, Azarya Jodi Setyaki, Medina Warda Aulia, Errol Tiwari, Elshan Moradiabadi, Joey Razo, Collette McGruder, Diamond Shakoor, Phiona Mutesi, Jessica Hyatt, Jean-Pierre and Koneru Humpy, Tania Sachdev, Rout Padmini and Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue, Medhat Moheb, Yao Ming and Awonder Liang, Jeffery Xiong and Liem Le, Li Chao and the like. Our avatars are rather lily silly; not everybody looks like Smith, Jones, Thomas, or Mikhail.

On the other hand, we definitely need some redheads too (Anna Rudolf, Isla Fisher, Jude Acers, Prince Harry, Ed Sheeran)!! I'd say at least a dozen redheads, some with and without beards. Some Canadians too!

* Bark! Bark! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQK...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5x... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JfDV...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2JMT...

* Colle-like vs Indian Defenses: http://http://www.chessgames.com/pe...

* Rules: https://www.gamecolony.com/chessrul...

* Juniors might ask: https://www.chessforjuniors.com/

* Assorted Good games by rbaglini: Game Collection: assorted Good games

* Bear Traps: Game Collection: Traps

* Bruno's Problem: https://chessproblem.my-free-games....

* Chess Tactics 4Kidz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOH... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W-_S...

* Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929: https://store.doverpublications.com...

* Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate...

* Common Phrases and Terms: https://www.ragchess.com/chess-basi... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XXCn...

* Chessopolis: https://www.chessopolis.com/

* Chess Pitfalls: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/chess...

* Capture the King: https://chessking.com/

* Ladder Checkmate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQ...

* Avoid Stalemate if you have an advantage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbC...

* Chess Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yw...

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

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

* 1 Shilling per game: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jGzs...

- https://www.chess.com/blog/Gpod/che... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUc...

This is a longer, similar but sounder defense to the Italian game resulting in the same smothered mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q5Ph... However, White might play the Italian game and not chose the Ng5 Fried Liver Attack on f7. Instead, White might leave the Nf3 on Nf3 and play d3 or d4, c3 or Nc3, etc.

* 1 or 2 Rules? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGo...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r2g3...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJ...

* Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86

* Crazy: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uala... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MaGI...

* 3 Crucial Endgame Principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpF...

* 4 Beginner Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvS... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2bV_...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qa_H...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sAf3...

* 5 Checkmate Patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AIRK...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fo7B...

* 5 types of chess blunders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVs...

* 5 Opening Tips: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uIVE...

- Be careful about trading off your e5-pawn, freeing the e4-pawn advance. - Avoid automatic captures/recaptures. To take might be a mistake. Avoid releasing the pressure. - Look for FORCING moves - Checks, Captures, Pawn Promotion, and Threats to +, X, create a passer or some kind of permanent piece penetration of weak squares. - Be aware of Queen check-and-fork from the flank frontier line collecting unprotected units. - Pins are painful -- avoid getting pinned, usually the knight in the opening.

* Bb5 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: (Underestimated) Rossolimo brillancies

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mtr3...
- Game Collection: BONARION ! - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Uiz...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hWeV...

* After 50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVg...

* 540 miles?!! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DczI... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-aXp...

* 6 Quick Checkmates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nad... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pCtn...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Z-A...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hSFp...

* 6 Lessons from an Old Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzy...

* Seize the 6th rank, a blockade/pawn jam looms: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lLVu... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MOY7...

* 7 Fakes, 7 mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xQ3j... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiP...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC1...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8V...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG_...

* 9 London System Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDe...

* 10 Habits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0J...

* 10 Fastest:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kC...

* 10 Best to Watch: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c...

* 10 Principles, 1 Life: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_rtK...

* 12 Amazing Vix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gl...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0dQK...

* Play B12 and Vitamin D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_t...

* 13 siblings: https://allthatsinteresting.com/col...

* 15 Beautiful National Parks: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tr...

* 20 Health Benefits of Legs Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrV...

* Diagrammed Checkmate Patterns:
Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns

* D4 Chess Openings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlR...

* Defend Your Pieces, Kids! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z7Vw...

* Deflect the Defender: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DBT2... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8cpd...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wKZY...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lm4y...

* BDG Trix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpV... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6F...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-X...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8...

* Ryder Gambit, 6...Qd5, Boden's Mate vs ...0-0-0: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1RTm...

* Lemberger Countergambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG3...

* Englund Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSX... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsZ...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhC...

* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ewHP...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RjMB...

Read the book for free: https://archive.org/details/the-gol...

* A great decade of chess: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1950-1959

* Andre the Giant: Game Collection: Defensa Philidor, ese campo de minas

* Analyze with an engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07q... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F7_U...

* Expanded Edition:
Game Collection: 125 Greatest Chess Games

* Existential crisis: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SiRm... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SMiW...

* Face Lift? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WlD1... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kLW_...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/APrL...

* Fool's Mates:
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tokY...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6tHk...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9CbJ...

* Feeling Punny? Don't tell Fredthebear. Use the Submission Page: Pun Submission Page

* Find Forcing Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHO...

* Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...

* How to Destroy the Friendly Liver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7f...

* Gambits by ECO code: https://www.jimmyvermeer.com/openin...

* Even saucy, high-strung Italian chicks can "Improve Your Chess Tactics" AFTER you MASTER "1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AL... Be careful what you start because that spaz cannot be unplugged! Always say to yourself "S/he's good-lookin', but can s/he cook? How does s/he do meatballs?" You don't wanna eat starchy pasta the rest of your life, do ya? A player has to have some peace and quiet after dinner to concentrate, so stop and look both ways twice before you cross that walk. You don't wanna get ran over by a checkered cab, do ya?

* FICS: https://www.freechess.org/

* Top Festivals: https://chess-site.com/articles/che...

* Flip the Finish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWH...

* Collection assembled by Fredthebear.

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

* Giuoco Pianissimo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/trNK...

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

* How to Play Chess! http://www.serverchess.com/play.htm... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_0...

* h-file attacks: Game Collection: h-file Attacks, some Greek Gifts by Fredthebear

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GjKo...

* HOF: https://worldchesshof.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uHo5...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/75yq...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zAfC...

* Hastings 1895: Hastings (1895)

* Immortal Games: Game Collection: Immortal games - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YQTC...

* Imagination: Game Collection: Imagination in Chess - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v4CM...

* The Illusion of Choice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Pzd... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL0...

* Is chess a sport or not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUi...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v4n5...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-UW7...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sTZS...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cPKL...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1-ae...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r6OT...

* The infamous Younger brothers: https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we...

* An illegal move is still touch-move for that same unit if possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqI...

* Jackpot History: https://www.megamillions.com/About/...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VvV2...

* John 11:25-26 King James Version
25 Jesus said unto her, <I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?>

* John Nunn's Immortal Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0t...

* 1927 Nobility: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7OFs... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4rx...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6P27...

* King's Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vo... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZi...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M81b...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/--43...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HR19...

* KGA: Game Collection: "King's Gambit Accepted" - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_5iz...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q131...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J23e...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OyGn...

* "King of Babylon, King of Asia, King of the Four Quarters of the World": https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...

* King's Pawn Theory and Practice: Game Collection: Chess Openings: Theory and Practice, Section 1

* Knight punishes Black's bad bishop stuck behind pawns: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/deaQ...

* Knight Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0J... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8uKF...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bTRI...

* Surprise Knockouts: Game Collection: quick knockouts of greats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dct...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcD...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WZSc...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5i97...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2zJN...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oqlw...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/So_S...

* Lazy London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb3... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vMvZ...

* Lasker's Manual: Game Collection: Manual of Chess (Lasker) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_3z4...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eeJ-...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZK...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZ...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjT...

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

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PcgG...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7IgO...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/skLG...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MkHb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QKuW...

* Monday Puzzles: Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2017 - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_2HB...

* Mark Twain's Life Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3l...

* Mato shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ber...

* Mere 2681 has momentum: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qhzG...

* Meet Julian Song: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bhH-...

* He heard, he got the news: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/49ae...

* Nikolaidis!! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j25Y... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s0rc...

* Nuremberg 1896: Nuremberg (1896)

* Nunn's Chess Course: Game Collection: Lasker JNCC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq...

* Never Win: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mprL...

Husbands, you'd better believe without a doubt that is true. Winning comes w/a dear cost. It's not worth what you will lose.

* Fun in the Open Games: Game Collection: Fun in the Open Games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKE...

* Oh God, George Burn's Sister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF5...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/igm4...

* Oldest Monuments: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OY6o...

* Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc...

* The Old Fool Hears His Voice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lDgm... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ggxj...

* Building an Opening Repertoire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGd... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C2ad...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7nKv...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kTuS...

* Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS3...

* 1992: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZLsU... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qls...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xONo...

* Power Duel of the Top Two: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cxTU... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QbG0...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/67Xw...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tsbz...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vxH5...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ofxj...

Chess is a game of reduction, fewer and fewer units remain on board as the game wears on. After trades, endings in simplified positions have a way of repeating themselves time and again, year after year. - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eTdc...

Know your endings body, mind and soul to finish like no other!! Such endgame knowledge always provides you the option of trading off like pieces based upon having a superior pawn structure (or warding off a raging attack). However, if your openings and middlegame tactics are weak, you won't make it to the endgame. - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wWRC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cGIw...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p90_...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a-3F...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i3Zu...

Be a strong, physically well-conditioned for stamina, determined, hard-chargin' CLOSER!!

* Power of the Center Pawns and Pieces - Worth Knowing! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WRS0... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Oogn...

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

* Introduction to Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUq...

* Look, he's grinning. He fell hard for that old book of love trap. I'm not sure which one is crazier, but he'll soon hit his peak rating and it's mostly downhill from there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Y...

* The Pistol: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z6DS...

* The Perfect (Intentional) Miss: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zw2y...

* POTD 2023: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2023

* Bishop and Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYM...

* Queen and Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a5gN...

* Rook and Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMZ... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0Yc...

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

* Recommendations: https://chess-site.com/

* The Rematch of Champions 2025: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mEc5...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QUH0...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iEwy...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emf...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9i1z...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lSeV...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f1Om...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq0...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynw...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8PUu...

"If you live by the sword, you die by the sword."

Magnus Carlsen is relying too much on his great INTUITION and not considering all possible counterattacks as deeply as necessary. Ol' FTB knows that MC has developed knight blindness and greed (lost caution) from playing too much chess, specifically too much speed chess. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qz9j... At longer time controls, MC needs to avoid melees in open positions and spend much more time considering the opponent's next move possibilities to prevent penetration of weak squares (Don't we all?). MC must break this bad habit of cutting short calculations and moving too fast (he does slow down after falling into a tough spot), but don't write him off. He remains a tremendous positional planner, the best endgamer who plays ingenious chess, and still the best all-around player in 2025. He has freely admitted that his desire to prepare opening theory has definitely waned, likely preferring Fischer-Random 960.

* The Greatest of Champions!! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/19dN...

It is not whether you win or lose, but HOW you play the game!

* Save ME: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Syl9...

* Scandinavian Minis: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PNFc...

* Simple Daily Exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynT... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pY_L...

* Secret of Defence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXp...

* S-E-L-F: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qG78...

* Sicilian Alapin Miniature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLk...

* Sicilian Wing Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMe...

* Sleeper hold in just two-minutes of clock time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTz...

* Smoothie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEl... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W-_S...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mel...

* Tactical Motifs, Checkmate Patterns: https://chesstempo.com/tactical-mot... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaq...

* Trounce 'em w/the Traxler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8...

* Textbook Endgame Positions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8p...

* TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/

* Top 100: https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtn...

* Understanding Passed Pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0L...

* USCF: https://new.uschess.org/

* Use your God-given talents: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iY_u...

* Useful: https://usefulchess.com/

* New Images of Uranus: https://www.msn.com/en-US/news/scie...

* Use Stockfish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGE...

* Unbeatable Fried Liver Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w5...

* Inversion Wall Exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4c...

* Behold He rode a white horse... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ia5i...

* Who knew it was possible to milk a turtle?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah-...

* Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom...

* Why You Lose at Chess: https://store.doverpublications.com...

* You must study Rook endings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8O...

* Younger family tree: https://thehistoryjunkie.com/facts-...

* Collection assembled by Fredthebear.

* Using Engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4a...

* C-Zukertort, Stonewall, Dbl B sac: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LbWs...

* Zenyatta Last! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aPBc...

"A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"He (Jose R. Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art." ― Philip W. Sergeant

"Beautiful, cold, remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability." ― Raymond Chandler (on a Capablanca game)

"What others could not see in a month's study, he saw at a glance." ― Reuben Fine (on Capablanca)

"Capablanca invariably chose the right option, no matter how intricate the position." ― Garry Kasparov.

"Capablanca's games generally take the following course: he begins with a series of extremely fine prophylactic maneuvers, which neutralize his opponent's attempts to complicate the game; he then proceeds, slowly but surely, to set up an attacking position. This attacking position, after a series of simplifications, is transformed into a favorable endgame, which he conducts with matchless technique." ― Aaron Nimzowitsch

"Once in a lobby of the Hall of Columns of the Trade Union Center in Moscow a group of masters were analyzing an ending. They could not find the right way to go about things and there was a lot of arguing about it. Suddenly Capablanca came into the room. He was always find of walking about when it was his opponent's turn to move. Learning the reason for the dispute the Cuban bent down to the position, said 'Si, si,' and suddenly redistributed the pieces all over the board to show what the correct formation was for the side trying to win. I haven't exaggerated. Don Jose literally pushed the pieces around the board without making moves. He just put them in fresh positions where he thought they were needed. Suddenly everything became clear. The correct scheme of things had been set up and now the win was easy. We were delighted by Capablanca's mastery." ― Alexander Kotov

"Capablanca had that art which hides art to an overwhelming degree." ― Harry Golombek

"I have known many chess players, but only one chess genius, Capablanca." ― Emanuel Lasker

"I think Capablanca had the greatest natural talent." ― Mikhail Botvinnik

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.

"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

"In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent." — Vasily Smyslov

"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

<The Fooles Mate
Black Kings Biſhops pawne one houſe.
White Kings pawne one houſe.
Black kings knights pawne two houſes
White Queen gives Mate at the contrary kings Rookes fourth houſe> — Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play

Beale's example can be paraphrased in modern terms where White always moves first, algebraic notation is used, and Black delivers the fastest possible mate after each player makes two moves: 1.f3 e6 2.g4 Qh4#

There are eight distinct ways in which Fool's Mate can be reached in two moves. White may alternate the order of f- and g-pawn moves, Black may play either e6 or e5, and White may move their f-pawn to f3 or f4.

"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.

"Don't blow your own trumpet." — Australian Proverb

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

"Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you." — Bobby Darnell

<"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

Mar-07-13 Abdel Irada: In case anyone wonders who Kermit Norris is/was, he's an expert in Santa Cruz against whom I used to play a great deal of blitz. His specialty, when a particularly complex position arose (especially in his pet Owen's Defense), was to lean forward, fix his opponent with a scowl and a withering stare, and say, in a deep and solemn tone, "Chicken parts!"

"Here's to being in a boat with a drink on the rocks rather than being in the drink with a boat on the rocks"

The Lion and the Rat

To show to all your kindness, it behoves:
There's none so small but you his aid may need.
I quote two fables for this weighty creed,
Which either of them fully proves.
From underneath the sward
A rat, quite off his guard,
Popped out between a lion's paws.
The beast of royal bearing
Showed what a lion was
The creature's life by sparing –
A kindness well repaid;
For, little as you would have thought
His majesty would ever need his aid,
It proved full soon
A precious boon.
Forth issuing from his forest glen,
T" explore the haunts of men,
In lion net his majesty was caught,
From which his strength and rage
Served not to disengage.
The rat ran up, with grateful glee,
Gnawed off a rope, and set him free.

By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.

Riddle: The one who has it does not keep it. It is large and small. It is any shape.

Bears like 'em too!

Answer: A gift.

"Funny, funny Jude (The Man in the Red Beret). You play with little pieces all day long, and you know what? You'll live to be an old, old man someday. And here I am." — Janis Joplin

Jude Acers set a Guinness World Record for playing 117 people in simultaneous chess games on April 21, 1973 at the Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon. On July 2-3, 1976 Jude played 179 opponents at Mid Isle Plaza (Broadway Plaza) in Long Island, New York for another Guinness record.

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.

"Young man, you play remarkable chess! You never make a mistake!" ― Emanuel Lasker (after losing most of the games in a 10-game rapid transit match against a very young Capablanca)

"He was of medium height, lean, but no padding needed for his shoulders. And such pride in the posture of his head! You would know no one could dingle-dangle that man. I can visualize him so clearly, with his dark hair and large gray-green eyes. Believe me, when he took a stroll, in his black derby hat and carrying a cane, no handsomer young gentleman ever graced Fifth Avenue." ― Bernard Epstein (Capa's college roommate)

"Capablanca's planning of the game is so full of that freshness of his genius for position play, that every hypermodern player can only envy him." ― Alexander Alekhine

"It is astonishing how carefully Capablanca's combinations are calculated. Turn and twist as you will, search the variations in every way possible, you come to the inevitable conclusion that the moves all fit in with the utmost precision." ― Max Euwe

"There is nothing more to fear from the Capablanca technique." ― Efim Bogoljubow (shortly after which, Capablanca proceeded to crush him)

"Capablanca didn't make separate moves - he was creating a chess picture. Nobody could compare with him in this." ― Mikhail Botvinnik

"Whether this advantage is theoretically sufficient to win or not does not worry Capablanca. He simply wins the ending. That is why he is Capablanca!" ― Max Euwe (on a Capablanca game)

This poem is dedicated to all members who strive to become Masters of chess.

yakisoba's combination

in the middle of a cold Canadian winter night
a phantom creature was riding a stallion knight
but lo and behold it is the man called yakisoba
together with a bishop and queen chasing nova.
though the old bishop was getting pooped out
the merry queen in her glory was bouncing about
while riding hard yakisoba grinningly thought
"I know what to do with that nova when caught."
there on top of the castle was nova in hiding
strapped to a kite for a quick get-away gliding,

then trembling he realized to his consternation: he was being killed by the bishop-queen combination.

* Weird is what you're not used to: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches...

<limerick, entitled ‘The Solver's Plight' was by ‘A.J.F.' A.J. Fink and was published on page 22 of Chess Potpourri by Alfred C. Klahre (Middletown, 1931):

There was a man from Vancouver
Who tried to solve a two-mover;
But the boob, he said, ‘"Gee",
I can't find the "Kee",
No matter HOW I manouvre.'>

Pluto is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system and used to be considered the ninth and most distant planet from the sun.

The strange world is located in the Kuiper Belt, a zone beyond the orbit of Neptune brimming with hundreds of thousands of rocky, icy bodies each larger than 62 miles (100 kilometers) across as well as 1 trillion or more comets.

Pluto stopped being a planet in 2006 when it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, a demotion that attracted controversy and stirred debate in the scientific community and among the general public.

<Mar-11-05 aw1988: S.W.I.F.T. indeed.

Mar-11-05 tpstar: Sokolov Was In For Trouble
Suddenly White Initiated Forcing Threats
Severe Whipping Into Frenzied Tantrum
Shocking When Ivan Fell Through
Savvy Winner Ingests French Toast

Mar-11-05 aw1988: LOL! I must admit, that is very good.

May-27-05 Durandal: AdrianP: SWIFT was the sponsor of the tournament, the company is a cooperative effort to provide secure financial communications between banks worldwide (SWIFT is the acronym for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, see swift.com), based in La Hulpe, near Brussels, Belgium. IIRC, its CEO at the time was Bessel Kok, a well known chess patron.

May-27-05 AdrianP: <Durandal> I see - as in SWIFT transfer.

May-27-05 arifattar: May not compare with <tpstar>'s effort but, Sweet Win In Five & Twenty.>

<The Words Of <Socrates>

A house was built by <Socrates> That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.
Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!

"I ask," said he, "no greater bliss
Than real friends to fill even this."
And reason had good <Socrates> To think his house too large for these.
A crowd to be your friends will claim,
Till some unhandsome test you bring.
There's nothing plentier than the name;
There's nothing rarer than the thing.>

Paper currency
Before money, trade was the commercial exchange of goods and services. The money took various forms throughout history, including precious metals, coins, foods, vegetables, livestock, and basically anything else useful as tradable bartering assets. Again, China was the first to use paper money in the 9th century, and Europe followed suit in the late 1600s. Despite having no intrinsic value and being used as legal-binding notes issued by banks to promise future payments, paper money soon became the most common bartering asset to purchase goods and services. Paper money started a new era of trade that transformed the face of economics on a global scale.

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

<<<The Chess Player> by Howard Altmann>

They've left. They've all left.
The pigeon feeders have left.
The old men on the benches have left.
The white-gloved ladies with the Great Danes have left. The lovers who thought about coming have left.
The man in the three-piece suit has left.
The man who was a three-piece band has left.
The man on the milkcrate with the bible has left. Even the birds have left.
Now the trees are thinking about leaving too.
And the grass is trying to turn itself in.
Of course the buses no longer pass.
And the children no longer ask.
The air wants to go and is in discussions.
The clouds are trying to steer clear.
The sky is reaching for its hands.
Even the moon sees what's going on.
But the stars remain in the dark.
As does the chess player.
Who sits with all his pieces
In position.>

Under Joseph Stalin's regime, "Hamlet" was banned. The official reason: Hamlet's indecisiveness and depression were incompatible with the new Soviet spirit of optimism, fortitude, and clarity.

This poem is dedicated to all female chessplayers on Caissa's Web.

Sweet Caissa

Oh, Sweet Caissa, Goddess of chess
in the name of this holistic game
I pray Thee: bless my noble aim
to render all my opponents lame
in my holy quest for worldly fame,
to be Supreme no more no less.
In awe I heard this Sweet Caissa say
"Daughter go forth and smite them all,
stoutly charge your knight sitting tall
while flying over the castle's wall
to slay all men in your deadly call."
Now in fear I hide and will no longer play.

"Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy." ― Norman Vincent Peale

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, <Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.>

"My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I'm perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir." — John Durham

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ― John Wooden

Proverbs 14:29-35

29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered * exalts folly.

30 A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones.

31 He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, But he who is gracious to the needy honors Him.

32 The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, But in the hearts of fools it is made known.

34 Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.

35 The king's favor is toward a servant who acts wisely, But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully.

<Do these things to <win> a chess game:

Know the Rules of Chess - Also know how the clock works, and chess notation

Make Good Opening Moves - Control the center, move a different piece, castle, and connect the rooks

Develop All Your Pieces (not Pawns) - Occupy safe squares, extend threats about, aim at the opposing queen w/a gain of time

Limit Your Pawn Moves - Advanced pawns are slow, need support, cannot retreat. Instead, the speed and range of your pieces can do more damage.

Evaluate the Position Carefully - Was that a legal move? If so, write it down. Am I in check now; next turn? Why did s/he do that move? What will s/he do next?

Checkmate is the Goal - Always consider all possible Checks, Captures, Tactics. Aim at Immobile units, Unprotected units, or threaten once-protected units twice.

Seek Tactics: Fork, Pin & Pile on, Skewer, X-Ray, Discovery, Remove the Guard

Don't Give Away Material for Free - Guard your pieces and (re-)capture for value. Sometimes you aim at opposing units, sometimes aim at your own for protection.

Apply the Rate of Exchange - Don't trade a more valuable piece for less value.

Take Advantage of Opponent's Weakness - Cramp, Weak Pawns, Weak Squares

Coordinate An Attack on the King - Plan ahead, one piece cannot mate alone

Safeguard Your Own King (and Queen) - The opponent has similar aims. Royalty must take flight when under fire, abandoning their defensive duties.

Principles Change in the Endgame: After many trades, the Endgame arrives when there's no worry of checkmate. Now use your king, gain the opposition

Simplify, trade like pieces when ahead on material - Trade off pawns if behind

Advance the pawn majority to create and promote a passed pawn - This new piece often will give checkmate shortly

Contemplate Draws: Agreed, Insufficient, 3-Fold Repeat, Stalemate, 50-Move rule

Always Be a Good Sport, Win or Lose - Jerks and braggarts are losers by conduct. Shake hands. Don't forget to record the results for the tournament director

Prepare for next game - Analyze your last game, solve puzzles, replay GM games>

Riddle: A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is in the painting?

"May your jib never luff"

Riddle Answer: The man's son

"Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Isaiah 66:13⁣
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

The Blossom
by William Blake

Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.

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

Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Isolated pawns require a very expensive therapy, for keeping them alive.

<<<The 4th of July>, also known as Independence Day,> commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in <1776> and is celebrated with fireworks, parades, barbecues and homemade ice cream across the United States.

The Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, <1776>, but the Declaration was formally adopted on July 4, <1776>. This is why we celebrate on the 4th, even though John Adams believed July 2 should be the day of celebration.> https://www.historynet.com/how-play....

Hacked!
you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something." ― Andrew Carnegie

"It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned." ― Richard Reti

"As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings; one has to be as cold as a machine." — Eugene A. Znosko-Borovsky

Vol. 2 of Remembrance of Things Past by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff

That men in armour may be born
With serpents' teeth the field is sown;
Rains mould, winds bend, suns gild the corn
Too quickly ripe, too early mown.

The Coming of Night by Emily Dickinson

How the old mountains drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in tinsel
By the wizard sun!

How the old steeples hand the scarlet,
Till the ball is full, --
Have I the lip of the flamingo
That I dare to tell?

Then, how the fire ebbs like billows,
Touching all the grass
With a departing, sapphire feature,
As if a duchess pass!

How a small dusk crawls on the village
Till the houses blot;
And the odd flambeaux no men carry
Glimmer on the spot!

Now it is night in nest and kennel,
And where was the wood,
Just a dome of abyss is nodding
Into solitude! --

These are the visions baffled Guido;
Titian never told;
Domenichino dropped the pencil,
Powerless to unfold.

"I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt." — Scotty Bowman

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." — Johann von Goethe

"He who lives without discipline dies without honor." — Icelandic Proverb

"You should not honor men more than truth." — Plato

"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet." — African Proverb

"Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side." — Yiddish Proverb

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." — Mark Twain

Contention of Ajax and Ulysses, Sc. 3.
by James Shirley

The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hands on kings.

Bobby Fischer (Andrews/Lazy Susan)
Bobby Fischer beat Spassky in Iceland in '72.
I know a girl who's better looking but who thinks like Bobby Fischer too. When Bobby Fischer was a kid they knew he was a prodigy. I know a girl who's somewhat older but no less of an authority.

I wish I had the smarts to understand her charts. If I don't concentrate she'll have me in checkmate.

In Tampa Bay and Lafayette they all know Bobby Fischer's name. I know a girl who made her mark in smaller cities but her fame's the same. When Bobby Fischer made his comeback in the '90s he was worse for wear. I know a girl who made a comeback but her mind was altogether there.

She said: "I drink chocolate milk, from a cow I built. "Doot n'doot doot doot. Doot n'doot doot doot."

They're all saying that you'll never play again. They're all saying that you're finished, that you're washed up as a friend. All my life I've 'feather-dustered' but that's not how it's going to end. Oh no.

Spies in hideouts send their secret messages.
There's a thief caught in the headlights of a car beneath a bridge. There's no lights on in the house except the lights on in the fridge. Oh yeah.

Reykjavik, no one ever says Reykjavik in a song. Reykjavik, no one ever says Reykjavik in a song.

They're all saying that you'll never play again. They're all saying that you're finished and that you're washed up as a friend. All my life I've 'feather-dustered' but that's not how I'm going to end. Oh no.

Spies in hideouts send their secret messages.
There's a thief caught in the headlights of a car beneath a bridge. There's no lights on in the house except the lights on in the fridge... Oh yeah.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ― Denis Waitley

Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet."

"Those who play with fire will get burnt." ~ Portuguese Proverb

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"Debt is dumb. Cash is king." — Dave Ramsey

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events.

During the Middle Ages, jesters are often thought to have worn brightly colored clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern. Their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. Jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal among them were song, music, and storytelling, but many also employed acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes (such as puns, stereotypes, and imitation), and performing magic tricks. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style. Many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences.

If you've never lost your mind, then you've never followed your heart. ― Joker

Beautiful faces are everywhere, but Beautiful minds are hard to find. ― Joker