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"Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles." — says Garry Kasparov

"After we have paid our dutiful respects to such frigid virtues as calculation, foresight, self-control and the like, we always come back to the thought that speculative attack is the lifeblood of chess." — Fred Reinfeld

"Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess." — Evan Esar

"There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England." — Sir Edward Coke

"Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing." — Robin Sharma

"I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest." — Andrew Carnegie

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us." ― Winston S. Churchill

"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak." ― Sun Tzu

"Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings." ― Lavie Tidhar, The Bookman

"One mind, any weapon." ― Hunter B. Armstrong

"The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn." ― Samuel Boden

"I'm not a materialistic person, in that, I don't suffer the lack or loss of money. The absence of worldly goods I don't look back on. For chess is a way I can be as materialistic as I want without having to sell my soul." ― Jamie Walter Adams

"Great results can be achieved with small forces." ― Sun Tzu

"Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men." ― Musashi

"No chess grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness." ― Viktor Korchnoi

"Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not." ― Alexander Kotov

"Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal." ― Irving Chernev

"Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card." ― Max Euwe

"It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all." ― Eugene A. Znosko-Borovski

"Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity." ― Vladimir Nabokov, Poems and Problems, 1969

"Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work." ― Mikhail Botvinnik

"I have always had a very vivid imagination, which I have, after a long struggle, partly succeeded in controlling in order to use it to better purpose, according to the requirements of the occasion." ― Capablanca

"No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth." ― Vasily Smyslov

"The process of making pieces in chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions." ― Emanuel Lasker

"Select the tactic of seeming to come from the East and attacking from the West; avoid the solid, attack the hollow; attack; withdraw; deliver a lightning blow, seek a lightning decision. When guerrillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances; harass him when he stops; strike him when he is weary; pursue him when he withdraws." ― Mao Tse-Tung (On Guerrilla Warfare, 1937)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." ― Sun Tzu

"You're never beaten until you admit it." ― General George S. Patton, Jr.

"It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." ― Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you want to know how the Battle of the Bulge was won, ask my G4 (Logistics) Officer..." ― General George S. Patton, Jr. (A successful army needs leadership, training, timing scouting, weather, terrain, deception, etc., transportation, all kinds of equipment and re-supplies, and perhaps reinforcements.)

"Life is like a chess game. Every decision, just like every move, has consequences. Therefore, decide wisely!" ― Susan Polgar

"When people insult and disrespect you, the best revenge is to continue to win, and win, and win…." ― Susan Polgar

"The mind has no restrictions. The only restriction is what you believe you cannot do. So go ahead and challenge yourself to do one thing every day that scares you." ― Susan Polgar

"I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway." ― Jim Brown

John 14:6
"<I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.>" ― Jesus Christ

"Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again, and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do." ― Walt Disney

"If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways." ― Dick Butkus

'As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it

"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

'April showers bring forth May flowers

"The customer is always right." — Harry Gordon Selfridge

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ― Mother Teresa

"Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for." ― Drew Brees

"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself." ― Diana Ross

"Nothing comes free. Nothing. Not even good, especially not good." ― Lyndon B. Johnson

"Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners." ― Paulo Coelho

"Necessity has no law." ― Oliver Cromwell

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." ― Albert Schweitzer

"There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions." ― William Shakespeare

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." ― Marvin Gaye

"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life." ― Leo Tolstoy

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities." ― Charles Dickens

Space cowboy

* 1892 WCC: Game Collection: 1892 World Chess Championship

* 1908 WC Match: Game Collection: Lasker vs Tarrasch WCM 1908

* A1912: Game Collection: Abbazia 1912

* Ataman's Miniatures: Game Collection: Instructive Chess Miniatures (Ataman)

* Beauty Prizes: Game Collection: Les Prix de Beauté aux Echecs (I)

* Crush 'em: Game Collection: How to Crush Your Chess Opponents (Williams)

* Chinese School: Game Collection: Chinese School of Chess (Liu Wenzhe)

* Center Game miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Fried Liver for Black: Game Collection: Two Knights' Defense Fried Liver for Black

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

* Frank Marshall - Edward Lasker 1923 Match:
Game Collection: Marshall -- Ed. Lasker 1923 match

* Fred's Fame: Fred Slingerland

* Foxy video series featuring early Bc4 development (C30-C33). Thank you lanceolsen! Game Collection: Foxy Openings - King's Gambit

* Bobby Fischer dismantles early computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jA...

* Common Gambits Video: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo...

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

* Old Gambits: Game Collection: Gambit Lines (Old)

* Alpha Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis...

* Mammoth Book: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms)

* Moderns: Game Collection: Modern Defenses

* MG Magic: Game Collection: middle game magic

* Linares 1997: Game Collection: Linares 1997

* By the Numbers: Game Collection: tpstar 4N

* Sicily Starters: https://chessklub.com/the-sicilian-...

* 40 games of the Sicilian Four Knights: Game Collection: 0

* Taking En Passant: Game Collection: Two or More En-Passant Captures The new pawn move, advancing the pawn two squares on its first move instead of one, was first introduced in Spain in 1280.

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

* Three-minute pastry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIa...

* Trappy game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gC...

* Variety Pack: Game Collection: Sicilian

* Vladimir Bagirov Attacks: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Wall's Minis: http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

'Don't put the cart before the horse'

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

Rounders

Louisiana: Natchitoches
Established in: 1714

Natchitoches, founded in 1714 by French explorers, resembles New Orleans' French quarter, and is sometimes referred to as "little New Orleans."

Natchitoches is known as the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase territory. It was founded by French-Canadian explorer and soldier Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis and was once known as Fort St. Jean Baptiste. It was renamed for the Natchitoches Indians.

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

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

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

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

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

chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Horse and the Wolf

A wolf, what time the thawing breeze
Renews the life of plants and trees,
And beasts go forth from winter lair
To seek abroad their various fare, –
A wolf, I say, about those days,
In sharp look-out for means and ways,
Espied a horse turned out to graze.
His joy the reader may opine.
"Once got," said he, "this game were fine;
But if a sheep, it were sooner mine.
I can't proceed my usual way;
Some trick must now be put in play."
This said,
He came with measured tread,
As if a healer of disease, –
Some pupil of Hippocrates, –
And told the horse, with learned verbs,
He knew the power of roots and herbs, –
Whatever grew about those borders, –
And not at all to flatter
Himself in such a matter,
Could cure of all disorders.
If he, Sir Horse, would not conceal
The symptoms of his case,
He, Doctor Wolf, would gratis heal;
For that to feed in such a place,
And run about untied,
Was proof itself of some disease,
As all the books decide.
"I have, good doctor, if you please,"
Replied the horse, "as I presume,
Beneath my foot, an aposthume."
"My son," replied the learned leech,
"That part, as all our authors teach,
Is strikingly susceptible
Of ills which make acceptable
What you may also have from me –
The aid of skillful surgery;
Which noble art, the fact is,
For horses of the blood I practise."
The fellow, with this talk sublime,
Watched for a snap the fitting time.
Meanwhile, suspicious of some trick,
The wary patient nearer draws,
And gives his doctor such a kick,
As makes a chowder of his jaws.
Exclaimed the wolf, in sorry plight,
"I own those heels have served me right.
I erred to quit my trade,
As I will not in future;
Me nature surely made
For nothing but a butcher."

Q: What's an egg's favorite vacation spot?
A: New Yolk City.

<Lasker's Secret Principle:

"He (Emanuel Lasker) told me that this principle of controlling as many squares as possible was his guide at every stage of the game.

He said "In the majority of cases it is probably best to have Knight and Bishop on squares of the same color, because then they control squares of opposite colors." ― Edward Lasker, Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters>

Q: What kind of candy do astronauts like?
A: Mars bars.

Quentin Tarantino

A master craftsman
So gifted at his game
A physical transformer
Rarely looking the same
At the peak of his powers
Much warranted acclaim
Awards and the big money
He paid the price for his fame
From rebels to the sensitive
No limits to his range
He gives each role his all
Winning us over again and again
For over five decades now
Privileged to witness the best
The thespian king of kings
Mr Sean Penn - I am impressed

Riddle Question: What falls, but never needs a bandage?

The first stroller was engineered to be pulled by a goat (or animal of similar size) William Kent, a landscape architect, invented the first stroller for the third Duke of Devonshire in 1733. But upper-class parents were hardly expected to put effort into transporting their children around, so Kent designed his model to be pulled by a small animal, like a goat.

Riddle Answer: The rain.

A is the Gambit, by Allgaier found out,
B is the Bishop, so warlike and stout;
C is our Chess – the glorious game,
D is Defeat, with its sorrow and shame;
E is the Evans, a famous attack,
F is the False-move we wish to take back;
G is a Gambit, full of startling delight,
H is the Houses of black and of white,
I is to Interpose in the midst of the fight;
J is J'adoube, which the careless must say,
K is the King, the soul of the play;
L is the López, the Gambit so old,
M is the Muzio, adventurous and bold;
N is the Notes, explaining our play,
O is the Opening, at the first of the fray;
P is a Pawn, marching boldly ahead,
Q is the Queen, mighty and dread;
R is the Rook, a warrior of weight,
S is a Stale, an unfortunate Mate;
T is a Tournay, where the weakest must yield,
U is to Unite our pawns in the field;
V is Variation, which black overlooks,
W is White, who moves first in the books;
X is Xantippe, the meanest of mates,
Y is to Yield, resigned to our fates;
Z is Zatrikiology, a game,
& an art of endurable fame.

Source: Chess Monthly, November 1860, page 348.

<the limerick. Here is one from page 25 of the Chess Amateur, October 1907:

A solver, who lived at Devizes,
Had won a great number of prizes –
A dual or cook,
He'd detect at a look,
And his head swelled up several sizes.>

Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times.

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"Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult.... Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems." ― Jim Brown

'An army marches on its stomach

Dinner for 2

The Hornets and the Bees

"The artist by his work is known." –
A piece of honey-comb, one day,
Discovered as a waif and stray,
The hornets treated as their own.
Their title did the bees dispute,
And brought before a wasp the suit.
The judge was puzzled to decide,
For nothing could be testified
Save that around this honey-comb
There had been seen, as if at home,
Some longish, brownish, buzzing creatures,
Much like the bees in wings and features.
But what of that? for marks the same,
The hornets, too, could truly claim.
Between assertion, and denial,
The wasp, in doubt, proclaimed new trial;
And, hearing what an ant-hill swore,
Could see no clearer than before.
"What use, I pray, of this expense?"
At last exclaimed a bee of sense.
"We've laboured months in this affair,
And now are only where we were.
Meanwhile the honey runs to waste:
It's time the judge should show some haste.
The parties, sure, have had sufficient bleeding, Without more fuss of scrawls and pleading.
Let's set ourselves at work, these drones and we, And then all eyes the truth may plainly see,
Whose art it is that can produce
The magic cells, the nectar juice."
The hornets, flinching on their part,
Show that the work transcends their art.
The wasp at length their title sees,
And gives the honey to the bees.
Would God that suits at laws with us
Might all be managed thus!
That we might, in the Turkish mode,
Have simple common sense for code!
They then were short and cheap affairs,
Instead of stretching on like ditches,
Ingulfing in their course all riches, –
The parties leaving for their shares,
The shells (and shells there might be moister)
From which the court has sucked the oyster.

Question: What is considered the first reality TV show? Answer: The Real World

Penicillin was first called "mold juice"
In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming left a petri dish in his lab while he was on vacation—only to return and find that some liquid around the mold had killed the bacteria in the dish. This became the world's first antibiotic, but before naming it penicillin, he called it "mold juice."

Question: Who was Russia's first elected president? Answer: Boris Yeltsin

Jackson five

"The Tumbleweed" opening also known as the "King's Own Gambit" the following poem was published in the Ohio Chess Bulletin for December 1960. It is stated that the authour is unknown. I hope everyone enjoys it, for poetical reasons the notation is in descriptive but it is easy to follow.

THE TUMBLEWEED

In my home town, last summer, with nothing to do I went to the chess club and there met a new player, A guest expert of great Eastern fame.
Perhaps you met have met him or heard of the same: He's a player of note and his problems in chess
Get some mighty good players in awful bad mess.
He asked "Do you play sir" I said "Just a little." "Well sit down here and lets have a skittle"

He glanced round the room. "I judge by the looks That you players here ane not up on the books."
I replied with a laugh and a gentel "Ahem,"
"No we long, long ago went far beyond them."
With a shrug of his shoulders, the Whites he gave me, "Make your opening," he said, "and we will soon see."

FIRST GAME

I played Pawn to Kings fourth, which he seemed to approve And replied with the same, twas a very good move. The Kings Bishop Pawn I put out with some force, He took it at once as a matter of course.
But judge the expression that came o'er his face When I played my King to KB's second place.
"Oh well" said the expert, "that looks a bit hazy. If I'm any judge, the King's Gambit gone crazy."

So out with the Queen and he checked at Rook five With the evident purpose to flay me alive.
With a soft gentle push, I interposed Pawn,
He took it with his. In a moment 'twas gone.
He thundered out "Check" in such stentorian tones That it gave me the shivers, a quake in the bones. But I slipped my King over to Knight's second square, Then he took my Rook's pawn with his and said "There!" "You must take that with with your Rook and then it is plain, That my Queen takes the other one out in the main; And with no pawns on you King's side, must say I can't see How you can prevent me from Queening my three-
Should the game ever get to the point where they're needed." "I don't think it will." I replied, but he heeded Me not; and when he captured my little KP
I brought out my Knight to King Bishop three.

Next came pawn to Queen's four to free up his house, I replied with my Queen's Knight attacking his spouse, Which he played to Knight's third, giving check to my King And at the same time remarking: "I'm on to this thing." The King to Rooks square, I quietly played,
And the Queen's Bishop to Knight's fifth he likewise assayed. Not wishing harm should come to my "hoss"
I transferred King's Rook from his second across. To Knight's two. He now thought to win in a canter, So he took up his Queen, and at Rook's fourth instanter He put her and checked; but I moved to Knight's square And he little dreaming of the trap that was there, Whipped off my poor Knight, and laughingly said, "That horse is of no use, so off comes his head." My Knight, he is gone - O'h alas it is too true, But I'll interpose Bishop and see what he'll do

"Well, if you want me to take all your pieces and done, Shove 'em out, and I'll capture them, every darn one." So he grabbed the poor prelate at once by the neck, And I somewhat suprised him with RxB, check.
Not till then did the truth dawn clear on his brain. And he tried hard to save his fair Queen but in vain.

"Now what kind of game do you call that?"
"The KING'S OWN", I replied, "and I'll bet you a hat You can't find it in any or all chess books
You have studied." And I judged from his looks
That he somewhat doubted, when I told him the same Wa a notion of Pollock's, who gave it that name.

THE SECOND GAME

The result of the first game was not satisfying, So he reset the men, and insisted on trying
Another. "Your game is all bad," he said at the start, An assertation by no means he proved on his part. But I said "Of the opening, say what you can sir, Of what use are sound one's when bad one's will answer?" We commenced another, the same as before,
And every move was just the same score.

1. P-K4 P-K4
2. P-KB4 PxP
3. K-B2 Q-R5+
4. P-N3 PxP+
5. K-N2 PxP
6. RxP QxP+
7. N-KB3 P-Q4
8. N-QB3

Until he arrived at move number eight;
Before lifting his Queen he considered her fate. But where should he put her, but he seemed to agree That the check at Knight's fifth was better than three. So he landed her there and I went to the corner, Prepared for the Plum ala little Jack Horner.
Then his Bishop he played to King's three to defend Both his Pawn and his King, but I, wishing to send His Queen somewhere else, played my Bishop to Rook's three. He put her on Knight's sixth, intending, you see, To back up the Bishop, attacking my Rook;
I captured his Bishop with mine. He retook.
The Pawn to Queen's fourth, I played, with never a word. And he brought his Knight to King's Bishop's third. My Knight to King's fifth I proceeded to play
To prevent that of his of coming over my way.
He brought his King's Bishop to third square of Queen; I played Knight to King's second, and 'tis plainly seen That, while eighteen clear moves she has at her command, The Queen and the game are now both in my hand.

A more dumbfounded expert was never, I guess
Caught nappin like this in skittle of Chess.
He sat there gazed at the board, then at me,
Then laughingly said "Fiddle-dum Fiddle-dee,
But I think I see where I made my mistake;
Your pawn at Rook's second, 'tis wise not to take. Now try it again, and mind I will change,
And endeavor to keep my Queen out of range."

THIRD GAME

1. P-K4 P-K4
2. P-KB4 PxP
3. K-B2 Q-R5+
4. P-N3 PxP+
5. K-N2

So we reset the pieces at his move, the fifth.
And there he proceeded my King's Pawn to lift
And check with his Queen; but nothing undaunted
My Knight to King's Bishop three I immediately flaunted. The Pawn to Queen's fourth he played in a twinkling; I checked with my Bishop, which gave him an inkling That something was wrong; and to save his fair maid His King to the Queen's square he rapidly played. I brought my Rook up to King's, and he saw, when too late, If he saved his fair lady, he suffered checkmate.

With a laughing ha, ha, and a hearty ho, ho,
I said "The next time that you come far to go
To talk of bad chess, just be sure that you know The how and the way to ward off the blow.
I'ts all very well of sound moves to talk,
But what is the use when you can't even balk
the unsound ones? So then ever strive to pursue
The gist of the thing. Look the whole matter through, Or some day a fellow who's not much on looks
Will spring something on you not in the books,
The books often tell you that a such moves are poor, But leave you to find out the why and wherefore. When I study the openings I'm always inclined
To help out the weak and let the strong go blind. Now in this simple opening you've noticed, I ween Are a thousand and one ways of catching the Queen.

Steinitz's Theory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 o' clubs

Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. ~ Scottish Proverb

This poem is dedicated to all Caissa's members
who understand that chess is but a game.

Chess is but a Game

As he secretly rode his knight out of the castle's gate, still believing that he could escape this inevitable fate, the sky broke open with an array of incredible light. and there smitten to the earth lay nova under his knight. I am who I am and always am, spoke this thundering voice and you, my friend nova, do not at all have another choice but to go forth south and north, west and east
loudly proclaiming the good Word to man and beast. Thus beset by the compelling voice from the broken sky nova set about explaining through the word the how and why. He travelled north and south, west and east never losing aim to let all Caissa's members know: chess is but a game.

"There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world." ― Pierre Mac Orlan

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer

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<....Here is an excerpt from Sergeant's book Championship Chess, with Alekhine's view of Fine, as early as 1933:

'Before (Alekhine) left the States the Champion was induced to say whom he thought likely challengers for his title in the future. He named two Americans, Kashdan, who was favourably known in Europe already, and R Fine, whose achievements so far were mainly in his own country, and the Czecho-Slovakian, Flohr.'>

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

'A poor workman always blames his tools'

The Members and the Belly

Perhaps, had I but shown due loyalty,
This book would have begun with royalty,
Of which, in certain points of view,
Boss
Belly is the image true,
In whose bereavements all the members share:
Of whom the latter once so weary were,
As all due service to forbear,
On what they called his idle plan,
Resolved to play the gentleman,
And let his lordship live on air.
"Like burden-beasts," said they,
"We sweat from day to day;
And all for whom, and what?
Ourselves we profit not.
Our labour has no object but one,
That is, to feed this lazy glutton.
We'll learn the resting trade
By his example's aid."
So said, so done; all labour ceased;
The hands refused to grasp, the arms to strike;
All other members did the like.
Their boss might labour if he pleased!
It was an error which they soon repented,
With pain of languid poverty acquainted.
The heart no more the blood renewed,
And hence repair no more accrued
To ever-wasting strength;
Whereby the mutineers, at length,
Saw that the idle belly, in its way,
Did more for common benefit than they.

For royalty our fable makes,
A thing that gives as well as takes
Its power all labour to sustain,
Nor for themselves turns out their labour vain.
It gives the artist bread, the merchant riches;
Maintains the diggers in their ditches;
Pays man of war and magistrate;
Supports the swarms in place,
That live on sovereign grace;
In short, is caterer for the state.

Menenius told the story well:
When Rome, of old, in pieces fell,
The commons parting from the senate.
"The ills," said they, "that we complain at
Are, that the honours, treasures, power, and dignity, Belong to them alone; while we
Get nothing our labour for
But tributes, taxes, and fatigues of war."
Without the walls the people had their stand
Prepared to march in search of other land,
When by this noted fable
Menenius was able
To draw them, hungry, home
To duty and to Rome.

Q: What do you call a cat that likes to eat beans? A: Puss 'n' Toots!

Q: What do you call a clown who's in jail?
A: A silicon!

Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
A: No eye deer!!

Q: What do you call a three-footed aardvark?
A: A yardvark!

Q: What do you call a dancing lamb?
A: A baaaaaa-llerina!

Q: What do you call a meditating wolf?
A: Aware wolf!

Q: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A: A sand-witch!

Q: What do you call an avocado that's been blessed by the pope? A: Holy Guacamole!

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.

Barry Greenstein

Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you're not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there's no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section.

What did the pirate say when he turned 80? Aye matey.

A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che...

Dionysius1: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb!

Q: What's black and white and goes round and round? A: A penguin in the washing machine.

"When you're lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war" ― Aristotle

"The habit of holding a Man in the hand, and moving it first to one square and then to another, in order to engage the assistance of the eye in deciding where it shall actually be placed, is not only annoying to the adversary but a practical infraction of the touch-and-move principle." ― Howard Staunton

"A bad plan is better than none at all." ― Frank Marshall

* Riddle-xp-vermi: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid...

"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

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

The Dog That Dropped The Substance For The Shadow

This world is full of shadow-chasers,
Most easily deceived.
Should I enumerate these racers,
I should not be believed.
I send them all to Aesop's dog,
Which, crossing water on a log,
Espied the meat he bore, below;
To seize its image, let it go;
Plunged in; to reach the shore was glad,
With neither what he hoped, nor what he'd had.

Isaiah 66:24
24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."

Dimes

* Great Endgames: Game Collection: Greatest Endgames (Giddins)

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

* 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"

'Attack is the best form of defence

Old Russian Proverb: "The elbow is close but you cannot bite it. (Близок локоток, да не укусишь.)" Close is no cigar.

'Don't let the cat out of the bag'

Q: Why did the egg hide? A: It was a little chicken.

<There once was a fly on the wall,

I wonder why didn't it fall.

Because its feet stuck,

Or was it just luck,

Or does gravity miss things so small?>

'As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it

Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me). Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!

FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/

I was going to tell you a joke about boxing but I forgot the punch line.

Ballerina 2-2

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! ― Fort Minor

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

"The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third." ― Gale Sayers

'Ashes to ashes dust to dust

Bless Us, O Lord
Traditional Catholic Prayer

Bless us, O Lord,

And these Thy gifts

Which we are about to receive,

Through Thy bounty

Through Christ our Lord we pray.
Amen.

Naka wanted to buy some camo pants but couldn't find any.

"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring." ― Prince William

Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

"It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word." ― King James I

"The more a man knows, the more he forgives." ― Catherine the Great

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ― Maya Angelou

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<"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering." ― Mahatma Gandhi>

Tastes great!
Less trolling!
More chess!

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Question: What's the name of the group responsible for "Macarena?" Answer: Los Del Rio

Question: What 1990s teen movie was re-titled after a Britney Spears song? Answer: Drive Me Crazy

Question: What was Drive Me Crazy's original title? Answer: Next to You