"May the sun bring you energy by day,

May the moon softly restore you by night,

May the rain wash away your worries,

May the breeze blow new strength into your being.

May you walk gently through the world

and know its beauty all the days of your life."

Apache Blessing

"I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive." — Goyahkla a.k.a. Geronimo (1829-1909), a POW for 23 years

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

"You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player." — José Raúl Capablanca

"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture." ― Amelia Earhart

"Forethought spares afterthought." ― Amelia Barr

"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

"My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you." ― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

"Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles." ― 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

"You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove you the better player." ― English Proverb

"For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chess player in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion." ― Bobby Fischer

"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands." ― Alexander Alekhine

"We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chess player's nature." ― Rudolf Spielmann

"To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess." ― Mikhail Tal

"Boring? Who's boring? I am Fredthebear. My mind is always active, busy. If you're bored, then follow your uncle around, or go to the park, library, museum, church, chess club, zoo, etc."

"Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable." ― Hikaru Nakamura

"Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep." ― Confucius

"Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have." ― Richard Carlson

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

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height." ― Casey Stengel

"Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world." ― Alexander Pushkin

"Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine." ― Rudolf Spielmann

"The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it." ― Wilhelm Steinitz

"Weak points or holes in the enemy position must be occupied by pieces, not pawns." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

"By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values … A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values." ― Emanuel Lasker

"When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move – or form a plan running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so." ― Aron Nimzowitsch

"All things being equal, the player will prevail who first succeeds in uniting the efforts of both rooks in an important direction." ― Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

"If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master." ― Mikhail Botvinnik

"I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player." ― Mikhail Tal

"They knock me for my draws, for my style, they knock me for everything I do." ― Tigran Petrosian

"The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak." ― Boris Spassky

"By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games arevaluable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking." ― Anatoly Karpov

"By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continues development of chess mastery." ― Garry Kasparov

"Knights are tricky bastards."
– Old Wise Saying/agadmator

"Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight." ― Chester W. Nimitz

"Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it's just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check." ― Magnus Carlsen

"I feel fine generally, just a little bit tired. There are still three more games and I hope can play better!" ― Ding Liren

Romans 12:2, King James Bible
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

"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

"Men fight wars. Women win them." ― Queen Elizabeth I of England

"Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in "The Bad Man" and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's." ― Laraine Day

"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement." ― Alfred Hitchcock

"During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?" ― Alexander Pushkin

* One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini

* Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...

* Anderssen - Steinitz Match: Anderssen - Steinitz (1866)

* Alekhine getz blitzed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8H...

* Basic Rules: https://thechessworld.com/basic-che...

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

* Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Brilliancies: Game Collection: brilliacies

* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R

* Capablanca - Alekhine video links: https://search.aol.com/aol/video;_y...

* C30-C40: search "C30-C40 Alekhine"

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

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

* C-K Examples: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines

* CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel

* Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems

* Desire, dedication, determination, and sacrifice to reach 2500: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHj...

* 1992: Game Collection: Spassky-Fischer Match 1992

* Bobby Fischer Rediscovered/Andrew Soltis (97 games): Game Collection: Bobby Fischer Rediscovered (Andy Soltis)

* Fishin' Pole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsL...

* More poles, more bites? Game Collection: Fishing Pole

* Fantastic f-file -- all 8 squares are occupied -- symmetrically!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcW...

* Gambits refuted: https://chessmood.com/courses?scrol...

* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz)

https://archive.org/details/the-gol...

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

* Guinness Book: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston)

* How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit

* Timeless History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWS...

* 1.h4?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7s...

* International Chess Day 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUw...

* Italian Game, Giuoco Piano: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/irpC...

* Jaenisch Gambit vs RL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1X...

* Jonny Mizzone and his brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXc...

* KGD Weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OT...

* KG theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmi...

* Uncommon KP Gambits: Game Collection: Unusual Gambits

* Willi Lewis was a brawler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhC...

* Locomotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5x...

* LG - White wins: Game Collection: Latvian Gambit-White wins

* MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala)

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

* Monster of the Midway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlu...

* Most common mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GA...

* Names and Places: Game Collection: Named Mates

* Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga...

* Nitschke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIs...

* Open file: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFq...

* Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/

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

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

* Pillsbury Sac Attack: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OryD...

* Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837): https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* "I Loved You": https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* Queen's Gambit guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tD...

* Queen's Gambit unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAt...

* Rating system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQg...

* Ridiculous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0...

* Russian 101: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* Scandal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE8...

* "Teddy Bear": https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* Traps that actual work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf8...

* "The Prophet": https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

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

* Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/

* The Regulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAn...

* Real Swag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgY...

* Katar's Repertoire: Game Collection: An Opium Repertoire for White

* King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to...

* Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record...

* Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces

* Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer...

* Slow and steady wins the race: https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sp...

* Sicilian Scheveningen: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

* Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Sicilian GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at... Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics

* Sicilian B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger's Models)

* Dominant 2 Ns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c20...

* GM Huschenbeth 2 Ns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKI...

* BF 2 Ns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD...

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

* Deadly Danish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpe...

* Tie a yellow ribbon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8f...

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

* tacticmania - Game Collection: tacticmania

* Tops 1963: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHT...

* Tournament etiquette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92F...

* Vienna 1903 KG games: Game Collection: Vienna 1903

* 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000)

* 2024 Draw of the Year!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knV...

* Way to go Alfred! You shut up the big mouths who talked the talk before the hay was in the barn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qb...

* 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

Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava) Translation: He who doesn't take risks doesn't drink champagne Meaning: Fortune favours the brave

"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this." - Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...

"I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind." — Mikhail Tal

"The chess heroes nowadays should not forget that it was owing to Fischer that they are living today in four- and five-star hotels, getting appearance fees, etc." ― Lev Khariton

The Game of Chess
by Alan Hall

A poem about chess? Well, there's an idea.
Hopefully this one will be one to hear.
What of the pieces? I'll take them in turn.
And try to tell how each it's living does earn. The pawns can move straight or diagonally
Depending on whether it's taking, you see.
Next comes the bishop – it moves across,
Of diagonals it is the boss.
Then there is the knight – some call it a horse From its siblings it pursues a quite different
course.
One square diagonally, then one straight.
It's so crafty, you start to hate
It when you've lost to its smothered mate.
Stronger still than all these is rook.
If you've got two of them, you're in luck.
The you may even beat the might queen.
A rook and bishop combined, she reigns
supreme.

Last, but not least, is the humble king.
When you've mated him, you can sing.
Well, that's all the pieces that make this game of chess.

The playing of which can bring happiness.

"The Game of Chess" written by Alan Hall and printed in CHESS POST, Volume 33, No. 3 (or the June 1995 issue).

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/

"It is not enough to be a good player… you must also play well." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

Poetry Foundation
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Chicago, IL 60654

High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On August 16th, 2022, Hans Niemann played against Magnus Carlsen as part of the 2022 Crypto Cup in a best-of-three chess match. After beating Carlsen in the first game, Niemann was approached by an interviewer asking about his strategy for the game, to which he responded, "The chess speaks for itself." A reupload of the brief interview was posted to YouTube by David Mays on August 16th, gathering nearly 40,000 views in two weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe...

The Sweet Toothed Pirate
by Anonymous
I sail on an ocean of custard and jam
Aboard a ship made of biscuits and bread,
I am the sweet toothed pirate I am,
And clearly not right in the head.

Nebulous streams clouding my brain
Give me some peculiar thoughts,
I wear a vest made of liquorice sticks,
And a pair of marzipan shorts.

With my motley crew of gingerbread men
Who are armed to the teeth with balloons,
We go round the world kidnapping cakes,
While we gorge on sweet macaroons.

Zwickmuhle: to be in a quandry/predicament/ double bind/catch-22 situation, to be in a dilemma

Eyes trust themselves, ears trust others. ~ German Proverb

Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times.

"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious." ― Zhuangzi

<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.">

"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands." ― Renaud & Kahn

"Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem." ― Saudin Robovic

"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe

"Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game." ― Being Caballero

"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." — Garry Kasparov

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt

"In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov

<A stranger
Aleah

In the shadows, a stranger roams alone
An outsider in a world unknown
Lost in the darkness a mystery untold
In unfamiliar lands his story unfolds.
Lonely steps in a foreign place,
Different and new, his silent grace,
Embracing the unknown
He finds his way
In the shadows where he'll stay.>

The rule that allows a pawn to advance two squares in its opening move was first introduced in Spain in 1280.

Florence was Europe's first city to have paved streets in 1339. In other places in the failing Roman Empire projects to pave roads were abandoned for fear it would help enemies attack faster.

I have a fear of speed bumps. But I am slowly getting over it.

* Riddle-e-dee: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid...

I was wondering why the frisbee was getting bigger, then it hit me.

A two-dimensional shape with eight sides is called an octagon, while a three-dimensional shape with eight faces is called an octahedron. They are named as such because the prefix oct- is used to denote the number eight, which can be found in many English words such as octopus (which has eight arms).

In 1981, FIDE officially declared algebraic notation as the international standard.

<Meeting you
Ivan Zassavitski

There is a world I can show you that's hidden inside me Where you can't deny to feel warmly invited

There is a place for your sorrows to get washed away Where seagull scream flies with first light of the day

There is a road through the meadows with aged golden oaks Where ever-cool shadows entice and provoke

There is a secret in squint when viewing a scene Where covered significance may become seen

There is a rack in the bookstore set out of the way Where out of print poems may prompt you to stay

There is a place in my heart that you not know of yet Where you had already been in before we have met>

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

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

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

"A God you understood would be less than yourself." ― Flannery O'Connor

The Satyr and the Traveller

Within a savage forest grot
A satyr and his chips
Were taking down their porridge hot;
Their cups were at their lips.

You might have seen in mossy den,
Himself, his wife, and brood;
They had not tailor-clothes, like men,
But appetites as good.

In came a traveller, benighted,
All hungry, cold, and wet,
Who heard himself to eat invited
With nothing like regret.

He did not give his host the pain
His asking to repeat;
But first he blew with might and main
To give his fingers heat.

Then in his steaming porridge dish
He delicately blew.
The wondering satyr said, "I wish
The use of both I knew."

"Why, first, my blowing warms my hand,
And then it cools my porridge."
"Ah!" said his host, "then understand
I cannot give you storage.
"To sleep beneath one roof with you,
I may not be so bold.
Far be from me that mouth untrue
Which blows both hot and cold."

Ephesians 6:4: "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."

Deuteronomy 6:6-9: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."

Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun."

"Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative and maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted." ― Savielly Tartakower

<Riddle Question: What word is always pronounced wrong?

Everyone should get this right.

Riddle Answer: Wrong!>

My Tree
By Lenore Hetrick

Now I will plant this little tree!

Forever and ever it belongs to me.

When it's grown up I will lift my eyes

To see my tree against the skies.

A great, tall, living thing I shall see.

And how glad I'll feel that it's my tree.

The formal way to say "bless you" in Romanian is "Dumnezeu să te binecuvânteze!"

Q: What did one hat say to the other?
R: You wait here. I'll go on a head.
Fredthebear created this collection.

Jonathan Moya wrote:
The King's Rumination

Befuddled with thought
the king sought the oracle.

"Count the sands,
calculate the seas,"
she said.

Of the king's future,
she spoke nothing.

Henceforth he
contented only
in his nightmares.

Dover publishers have downsized their chess book offerings as decades have passed, but many of the all-time classics written in English descriptive notation remain available at affordable prices: https://doverpublications.ecomm-sea... Those who pitch their tent on the Rogoff page having no use for classic chess books can find adult coloring books at Dover publishers. It's a great, versatile publishing company!

For club players, I would recommend "Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur" by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden (as well as Max Euwe's "The Logical Approach to Chess," "Strategy & Tactics in Chess," and "The Road to Chess Mastery" from other book dealers, likely used) before reading James Mason's "The Art of Chess" which is 340 pages! Mason does not spoon-feed the reader as much as Euwe does IMHO.

Those readers demanding an algebraic notation offering from Dover Publishers would do well to buy any book by Tim Harding. Also, if memory serves correctly, there are two tournament books published in algebraic notation: Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929 by Aron Nimzovich, translated by Jim Marfia (30 games) and Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein (210 games).

The sign says "free shipping" on orders over $25.00. Several chess offerings are available as e-books. You can bundle -- get both versions and save a bunch. For those wondering about adult coloring e-books, well... I'll have to get back to you on that one, the pace of new technology being what it is.

<<Vukovic's Guidelines for Attack:>

01) If you attack the king, make sure that either your opponent cannot counterattack, or at least that your attack is more quick or more dangerous.

02) So, you must look at the whole board, and the chances for both sides, when deciding whether to attack or not.

03) Security in the centre lends support to a wing attack. A central pawn blockade prevents or limits counter-attacks, and makes a pawn attack easier.

04) This is particularly true of attacks with pawns, which must creep forward more slowly than other pieces. If you can make an attack with pieces alone, leave your pawns at home.

05) If you already have a pawn advanced, e.g. to f5, which may block your bishop on the diagonal b1-h7, then you might be better off going for a pawn storm by advancing the g-pawn.

06) As a rule, it is difficult to break through with pawns against the unweakened castled king's position. This is because the pawn wave can be blockaded.

07) So, it is usually important to weaken the castled position first (e.g. by ganging up on h7 you might force ...g6 or ...h6).

08) Pawns don't half get in the way of rooks. If you cannot open a file, you can often get your rooks into action in front of your pawns, for example, by playing them to the third rank.

09) Pawn advances loosen your position, and may be a disadvantage in the ending.

10) Although you must be careful before starting an attack, once you have started you must go in as hard and fast as you can. This is even more important if you realize you shouldn't have started the attack quite yet - if you try to back out you will only make things worse.>

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1737 – Philipp Stamma (Syria) publishes Essai sur le jeu des échecs. The book features an early form of algebraic notation (for example, '1. e4 e5' in modern notation would be written as 'p e 4 | p e 5' in Stamma's). The first half primarily concerns opening theory, with particular emphasis on various opening gambits, and the second half gives the first detailed exploration of endgame theory.

1744 – François-André Danican Philidor (France) plays two opponents blindfolded in Paris.

1745 – Philipp Stamma's work is translated from French to English, and published as 'The Noble Game of Chess'.

1747 – Philidor decisively defeats Stamma in 8/9 games while visiting London, instantly gaining international fame.

1763 – Sir William Jones invents Caïssa, the chess muse.

1769 – Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen builds the Mechanical Turk, a fake chess-playing humanoid "machine" in fact operated secretly by a human.

1783 – Philidor plays as many as three games simultaneously without seeing the board.

<Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I.>
― Henry VIII of England

1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4.

"In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end." ― Tom Seaver

"Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks are not protecting each other." ― Fredthebear

"If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help someone else." ~ Chinese Proverb

Slow Down
Kimberley Hamilton

Slow down life is not a race,
Slow down and give God space,
Slow down and take things at His pace,
Just slow down.

Slow down embrace the morning sunrise,
Slow down and look into a child's eyes,
Slow down life is full of surprise,
Just slow down.

Slow down and listen to a robin sing,
Slow down see the chicks gather in their mother's wing, Slow down acknowledge Christ as King,
Just Slow down.

Slow down and watch the stars at night,
Slow down as they twinkle oh so bright,
Slow down everything will turn out right,
If you just Slow down.

'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth'

"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.

"Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last." ― Leo Durocher

"Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having." ― Unknown

"In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

'A problem shared is a problem halved'

"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden." ― Seneca

<<<Analysis of The Coming Of Winter> Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 – 1837)>

_Stanzas from 'Onegin'_

Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer,
Than Southern Winter scarce more bland--
Is undeniably withdrawing
On fleeting footsteps from the land.
Soon will the Autumn dim the heavens,
The light of sunbeams rarer grown--
Already every day is shorter,
While with a smitten hollow tone
The forest drops its shadow leafage;
Upon the fields the mists lie white,
In lusty caravans the wild geese
Now to the milder South take flight;
Seasons of tedium draw near,
Before the door November drear!

From shivering mist ascends the morning,
The bustle, of the fields declines,
The wolf walks now upon the highway,
In wolfish hunger howls and whines;
The traveller's pony scents him, snorting--
The heedful wanderer breathless takes
His way in haste beyond the mountains!
And though no longer when day breaks
Forth from their stalls the herd begins
To drive the kine,--his noon-day horn recalls.
The peasant maiden sings and spins,
Before her crackling, flaming bright
The pine chips,--friend of Winter night.

And see! The hoar frost colder sparkles
And spreads its silver o'er the fields,
Alas! the golden days are vanished!
Reluctant Nature mournful yields.
The stream with ice all frozen over
Gleams as some fashionable parquet,
And thronging hordes of boyish skaters
Sweep forward on its crystal way.
On her red claws despondent swimming,
The plump goose parts the water cold,
Then on the ice with caution stalking
She slips and tumbles,--ah behold!
Now the first snowflake idling down
Stars the depressing landscape brown.

At such a season in the country,
What can a man's amusements be?
Walk? And but more of empty highway
And of deserted village see?
Or let him through the far Steppes gallop,
His horse can scarcely stand at all--
His stamping hoofs in vain seek foothold,
The rider dreading lest he fall!
So then remain within thy paling,
Read thou in Pradt or Walter Scott,
Compare thy varying editions,
Drink, and thy scoffing mood spare not!
As the long evenings drag away
So doth the Winter too delay.

Sometimes he read aloud with Olga
A latter day romance discreet,
Whose author truly painted nature,
With cunning plot, insight complete;
Oft he passed over a few pages,
Too bald or tasteless in their art--
And coloring, began on further,
Not to disturb the maiden heart.
Again, they sat for hours together,
With but a chess board to divide;
She with her arms propped on the table,
Deep pondering, puzzled to decide--
Till Lenski from his inward storm
Captured her castle with his pawn!

Love condescends to every altar,
Ah when in hearts of youth it springs,
Its coming brings such glad refreshment
As May rain o'er the pasture flings!
Lifted from passion's melancholy
The life breaks forth in fairer flower,
The soul receives a new enrichment--
Fruition sweet and full of power.
But when on later altars arid
It downward sweeps, about us flows--
Love leaves behind such deathly traces
As Autumn tempests where it blows
To strip the woods with ruthless hand,
And turn to soggy waste the land!

How sad to me is thine appearing,
O Springtime, hour of love's unrest!
Within the soul what nameless languors!
What passions hid within the breast!
With what a heavy, heavy spirit
From the earth's rustic lap I feel

That once could make my spirit reel!
No more for me such pleasures thrilling,

All that exults,--brings but despondence
To one past passion as past strife,

Wearied unto satiety.

That which in Autumn drooped and pined,
Now radiant in verdure springing,

As with a tortured soul we realize
In Nature's glad awakening,

Who evermore are withering.
Perchance there haunts us in remembrance,

Another long forgotten Springtime--
And trembling neath this pang supreme,
The heart faints for a distant country
And for a night beside the sea!>

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." — Dalai Lama

"The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake." ― Savielly Tartakower

"If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity." ― Xunzi

"Man conquers the world by conquering himself." ― Zeno of Citium (Founder of Stoicism)

"Why leave your success up to dumb luck or accident when you can take a stand, make a plan, and be proactive in your pursuits and possibilities?" ― Susan C. Young

"When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval." ― Epictetus

"To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness." — Mary Stuart

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

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Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 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.

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.

JOE AND JILL
Joe and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Joe fell down
And broke his frown
And Jill came tumbling after.

JJ.