"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective." Source: "The Soviet School of Chess" Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.

"Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble." — Stanley Kubrick

"Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules, take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment." — Garry Kasparov

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

"To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game." — Savielly Tartakower

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter." ― Winston S. Churchill

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him." ― Napoleon Bonaparte

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

"I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective." ― Tim Tebow

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

"The journey is its own reward." — Homer

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." ― George Orwell

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

"I always plan for long-term; life to me is a never-ending chess match." ― James D. Wilson

"Tis action moves the world....in the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it." ― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

"It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame." ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

"In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions." ― Vladimir Nabokov

"You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime." ― Thomas Paine

"The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'." ― Emanuel Lasker

"The move is there, but you must see it." ― Savielly Tartakower

"Never play to win a pawn while your development is yet unfinished!" ― Aron Nimzowitsch

"Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!" ― Deyth Banger

"What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded backward." ― Samuel Reshevsky, Art of Positional Play (Note: A weak pawn cannot be defended by another pawn; it's protection must come from a piece of the back rank that might rather be more aggressively active.)

"Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless." ― Mikhail Tal

"Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing)." ― Bill Gaede

"Chess is not a game, it's a war." ― Joshua the poetic penguin

"The King in chess is indeed a symbol of unity and wholeness and the other pieces are not separate entities but rather parts of "the One Thing", as Campbell put it." ― Roumen Bezergianov, Character Education with Chess

"In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existence is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game." ― Roumen Bezergianov

"...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.

JOURNALIST. And your plans?
PLAYER. To play!"
― Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

"There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified by the endlessness of chess." ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

"Но человек существо легкомысленное и неблаговидное и, может быть, подобно шахматному игроку, любит только один процесс достижения цели, а не самую цель." ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground Russian

"But man is a frivolous and unseemly creature and, perhaps, like a chess player, loves only one process of achieving a goal, and not the goal itself." ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground English translation

"Le jeu dechec, say the French, n'est pas assez jeu: That is, chess games and others of the same importance, are not Spill, but a Study. Such may be presented to those who have nothing to order, and who fear, out of idleness, for the rust of Hiernen, but not industrious people who seek recreation in Spill and Company." ― Ludvig Holberg, Epistles

"To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight." ― Emanuel Lasker

"An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages." ― Emanuel Lasker, "Lasker's Manual of Chess", p.464

"Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own; if your knight could shuffle himself on to a new square by the sly; if your bishop, at your castling, could wheedle your pawns out of their places; and if your pawns, hating you because they are pawns, could make away from their appointed posts that you might get checkmate on a sudden. You might be the longest-headed of deductive reasoners, and yet you might be beaten by your own pawns. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with the game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for his instruments." ― George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical

"She had heard of the genetic code that could shape an eye or hand from passing proteins. Deoxyribonucleic acid. It contained the entire set of instructions for constructing a respiratory system and a digestive one, as well as the grip of an infant's hand. Chess was like that. The geometry of a position could be read and reread and not exhausted of possibility. You saw deeply into the layer of it, but there was another layer beyond that, and another, and another." ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

"Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination." ― Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess

"Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr" ― Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

"Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. We're equals after all. There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens.
We're all humans and we all have the same value." ― Cristelle Comby, Blind Chess

"Life is a mysterious and witty intermingling of fate and events." ― Alexandra Kosteniuk

"Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move." ― Michael Chabon

"Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins." ― Laura L.

"У нас есть шахматы с собой, Шекспир и Пушкин, с нас довольно." ― Vladimir Nabokov, Стихотворения Russian

"We have chess with us,
Shakespeare and Pushkin, we've had enough." English translation ― Vladimir Nabokov, Poems

"So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it." ― Josh Waitzkin

"I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around. The depths of his despair at losing, I expected, would be equal to the peaks. He'd mope about, his face fallen and miserable, his posture stooped as if his back ached. I took my hand from the piece and leaned back in deliberation." ― Rion Amilcar Scott, Insurrections: Stories

"We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?" ― Noah Boyd, Agent X

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb

"Win with grace, lose with dignity!" ― Susan Polgar

"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!" ― Susan Polgar

"No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don't become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!" ― Susan Polgar

All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.'

A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.'

All's well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.' Meanwhile, Henry Knighton's Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.'

Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

* Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op...

* Simple tactics course using miniatures:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/FTP...

* Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures

* Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne

* Checkmate Art: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate

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

* Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* 101 Attacks: Game Collection: ultra chess

* 2001-2010: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000)

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

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

* "The most dangerous attacking player": Game Collection: Giant Play!!

* Brilliancies: Game Collection: Brilliancy Prizes (Reinfeld)

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

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

* C-K 2.Ne2 games: Game Collection: 2.e2

* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game

* Danish Gambits: Game Collection: Danish Gambit Games 1-0

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

* dryad: http://www.chessdryad.com/links/ind...

* Dr. Edmund Adam Miniatures: Edmund Adam

* Epic Battles: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher

* Euwe examples: Game Collection: Euwe's kingside attacks

* First one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyo...

* I'm only one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E1nl...

* I'm the one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRS...

* One minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3N...

* Round 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i2...

* 2...f5?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a...

* Animal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8u...

* The Brown Bomber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPe...

* Looked harmless: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H-C2...

* Golden: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/avSA...

* Bird swoop: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2leD...

* Ponziani Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9gKN...

* Vienna Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jD53...

* Advantage of the 2 Bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dG...

* BC Dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2I...

* So she did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGq...

* Kiddie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKS...

* 3 Kiddie Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jP...

* KID killer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Xaf...

* 3 Wise men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws0...

* What about trams? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SzMQ...

* Circulations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTw...

* Come Jesus Come:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IcMT...

* Crazy Rook trick: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kLM3...

* Double Rook Lift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQ...

* Jaw Dropper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0o...

* C-K in 3 EZ steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtP...

* Never say 3 things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3i...

* 3 months to live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPm...

* 3 Viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7n...

* 3 for Black vs 1.e4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXM...

* 4 mantras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4w...

* Knightly MG: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XRP3...

* 4 seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kt...

* 5 Owls of NA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdE...

* Five in '25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1...

* Let 'em have it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wi...

* Furious Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpd...

* Dominate the LS in 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iro...

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

* 5 Rare gambits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_r...

* 5 middlegame minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLA...

* 5 embarrassments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdM...

* Endgame tactics in 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA9...

* 5 occurrences AD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJ...

* Yes, they do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mi...

* Get better in 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mc...

* Tigran's Top 5 Exch Sacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-...

* 6 Essential Structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zu...

* Freedom is not Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89P...

* Deflection on f7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S1em...

* Punish Common Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsD...

* H2P the Delay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9a...

* Pink Elephants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVK...

* Scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6...

* 7 Deadliest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scz...

* 7 realities: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/20AY...

* 7 truths: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4LfX...

* 7 Endings to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrL...

* 8 Q tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amz...

* 8 min time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2...

* 9 ways to defeat: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aaHZ...

* A10 Warthog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMI...

* Top 10 Dog Coms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlV...

* 10 Recent discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePj...

* 10 min of Ukranian Hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l_...

* 10 Common Traps in the Sicilian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzu...

* Facts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi...

* Fraction equation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMK...

* RP knows 'em well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZw...

* GPA short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_...

* FM GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Y...

* Model GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glm...

* Win w/the GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ae...

* Anti-GPA trap #645: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyN...

* Annoying line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_L...

* GPA refuted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqr...

* Extinguish the GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6P...

* Agadmator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoE...

* Quick either way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z0...

* Special Pete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCi...

* Fuzzy Wuzzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scU...

* The Government forbid Church attendance during COVID-19, so we did this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU...

* Of course, JT set our example back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmH...

* BGs sort of ran together: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JCQO...

* Before that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgv...

* C-K stabs f7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MFoo...

* How to be brave: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cQI3...

* Get Discipline: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l3EI...

* Going out in style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMf...

* Greats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDU...

* The Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAA...

* lIke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5W...

* Joel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4L...

* Now the day bleeds... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4wVC...

* Own key squares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-...

* Promise: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u-sY...

* Prophylaxis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qj...

* 12 smells Verminters hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eh...

* Don't poke your eye out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD...

* Week 13 of '67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJ...

* RR on King Tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59...

* RPO invention: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9FOb...

* Ridicule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEH...

* F14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2d...

* 15 Home Depot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlB...

* A lot of shoveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoO...

* Senator asks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKO...

* September: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UFmU...

* 20 Fox facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3...

* French b3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxV...

* C00 French Defense: Horwitz Attack, Papa-Ticulat Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k1...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTS...

* Unique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWY...

* Wooden stick: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JUQD...

* Won't ever forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5...

* Caro-Kann Defense: Maroczy Variation (B12) Beauty | Reykjavik Open 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtU...

* 50-year-old tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0...

* Owls attack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-...

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

* GMs: Game Collection: Grandmasters of Chess

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

* Glossary NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/...

* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

* GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at...

* Have you read this classic book? Game Collection: Chernev´s book

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

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

* Kwik look at the Kan (Stockfish notes): Game Collection: Sicillian Kan, 5.Nc3, B43

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

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

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

* Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin...

* Overview: https://herculeschess.com/how-to-pl...

* P Rep: Game Collection: E4 repertoire

* Petrovs: Game Collection: petrof

* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures

* Scotcho: Game Collection: The Scotch Game

* Scale the Berlin Wall: Game Collection: How to play against the "mythical" Berlin Wall

* Short blasts from the 1970s: Game Collection: 0

* French & Sicilians Scheme: Game Collection: lazintata's_semi_open-french&sicilian

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

* B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack

* B27s: Game Collection: Beating the hyperaccelerated dragon

* Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics

* Tartakower Defense: https://www.chess.com/blog/MatBobul...

* Traxler Counterattack: Game Collection: two knights for black

* Various Miniatures: Game Collection: MINIATURES

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

* 62 Masterpieces: Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev)

* Reasonable book choices: https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell...

* Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces

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

* 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

Road apples

Alaska: Kodiak
Established in: 1792

Kodiak is the main city in Kodiak Island and was founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov. It was first called Pavlovsk Gavan, which is Russian for Paul's Harbor, and was the first capital of Russian Alaska. You can still find a large Russian Orthodox church there, as well as plenty of beautiful views.

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

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.

"and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!" ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

The Sweet South-Wind
by Oscar Fay Adams

Over the fields and the waters there suddenly swept in mid-April Something that seemed like a breath that was blown from far coasts of the sunlands. Languorous was it and sweet as are lilies or odorous spices, Laden with delicate hints of a summer not far in the distance. Over the meadows and fields that, embrowned by the cold of the winter, Lay as if dead to the spring and with never a hope of a harvest, Silently passed the south-wind, and there suddenly sprang into being Millions of grass blades that tossed like an emerald sea in the sunshine, Daffodils fair as were those that gained Pluto a consort in Hades, Buttercups golden and gleaming like gems on the hands of a maiden, Daisies that grew near the ground and yet ever and always gazed upward, Violets azure and yellow and white and of wonderful fragrance.

Over the trees in the orchard and forest it breathed in its progress, Bringing the sap from the roots to the near and the farthermost branches, Swelling the buds till the willow was hid in a verdurous mist-cloud, Touching the boughs of the maple that reddened with joy at the meeting, Leaving wherever it lingered assurance and promise of summer. Over the streams the beneficent breeze from the south-land swept gently, Filled all the waters with quick-darting life that rejoiced in the springtime, Sent all the rivers, now freed from the grasp of the winter, exultant, Moving in shimmering, glittering, sinuous curves that led seaward. So on its way passed the wonderful wakening wind from the sunlands, Driving before it the frost and the cold of the winter, reluctant, While in their stead came the warmth and the re-aroused life of the springtide, For in the wake of the life-giving breeze flew the jubilant swallows, Twittered the robins and wrens, while the azure-hued wing of the bluebird Cut through the air like the scintillant blade that is famed of Toledo.

Thus in mid-April the heart of another springtide was awakened; Faster the blood ran along through the veins in the glorious weather, Generous impulses quickened and waxed in the glow of the season. Winter was banished, and with him the cold and the afternoon twilight, And, as the wail of his storms in the north passed at last into silence, May could be seen in the distance approaching, her lap full of blossoms.

Antibiotics
Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur were the first to start the war against bacteria, but it was Alexander Fleming who propelled the medical world to take a giant leap ahead in the same battle thanks to his discovery – albeit accidental – of the bacteria-inhibiting mold we now call penicillin in 1928. Penicillin proved to be a major step forward in the world of antibiotics and was used widely throughout the 20th century. Although Fleming eventually abandoned his works on penicillin in the 1940s, his findings were further researched at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, funded by the U.S. and British governments.

Penicillin finally entered mass production after the Pearl Harbor bombing. In fact, by 1944, we had enough penicillin to treat all the wounded Allied Forces in World War II. Death by bacterial infection dropped to only 1% in WWII from 20% in the previous war. Penicillin has been found to be effective at fighting all kinds of infections such as influenza, tuberculosis, and some sexually transmitted diseases.

InkHarted wrote:

Checkmate.
I started off as an equal
I have everything that they do
my life was one and the same as my foe
childish battles of lesser
I won baring cost of a little
but as time outgrew my conscience
I found that the pieces were moving against me
with time my company reduced
they left one by one
all in time forgetting me
my castles collapsed
my religion dissuaded
my protectors in hiding
I could not run anymore
I have been cornered to a wall
as the queen left silently
without saying goodbye
I could not live any longer
she was most precious to me
I could not win without her by my side
so the king knelt down and died.

"Everyone should know how to play chess." — José Raúl Capablanca

Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.

Drive sober or get pulled over.

"For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." — Assiac (‘Deutsch von Heinrich Fraenkel')

Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.' — W.E. Napier (1881-1952)

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.

'Ask no questions and hear no lies

* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1

* Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century

* Knight Power: https://fmochess.com/the-power-of-t...

'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer

"Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. We think about a chess game as beginning with move one and ending with checkmate. But this is not the case. The games begins when it gets out of book, and it end when it goes into book..And this is why Game 6 between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue didn't count...Tripping and falling into a well on your way to the field of battle is not the same thing as dying in it...Deep Blue is only itself out of book; prior to that it is nothing. Just the ghosts of the game itself." ― Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive

<greersome wrote:

There once was a woman from Mizes

Who had chess sets of two different sizes

One was quite small

Almost nothing at all

But the other was large and won prizes!>

The Boy and the Schoolmaster

Wise counsel is not always wise,
As this my tale exemplifies.
A boy, that frolicked on the banks of Seine,
Fell in, and would have found a watery grave,
Had not that hand that plants never in vain
A willow planted there, his life to save.
While hanging by its branches as he might,
A certain sage preceptor came in sight;
To whom the urchin cried, "Save, or I'm drowned!" The master, turning gravely at the sound,
Thought proper for a while to stand aloof,
And give the boy some seasonable reproof.
"You little wretch! this comes of foolish playing, Commands and precepts disobeying.
A naughty rogue, no doubt, you are,
Who thus requite your parents" care.
Alas! their lot I pity much,
Whom fate condemns to watch over such."
This having coolly said, and more,
He pulled the drowning lad ashore.

This story hits more marks than you suppose.
All critics, pedants, men of endless prose, –
Three sorts, so richly blessed with progeny,
The house is blessed that does not lodge any, – May in it see themselves from head to toes.
No matter what the task,
Their precious tongues must teach;
Their help in need you ask,
You first must hear them preach.

"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 Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1

5 stars
Chess to Enjoy!
Irving Chernev is, along with Fred Reinfeld, Edward Lasker, and Al Horowitz, one of the great popularizers of chess. None of these fine chess writers have much to teach the elite classes of players rated 1900 and above, although even strong players will enjoy the sparkling wit and breezy style for which these authors are admired. What these writers offer is their infectious enthusiasm, and their talent to entertain, inform, and instruct painlessly. It has been pointed out by other readers that this book falls short in the accuracy and bias of its annotations. If accuracy and unbiased annotation is what you need, then perhaps you should pass on this title. But, if you are like me and enjoy a little drama and color and yes, even one-sided praise for the winner, then this book should delight you. Monsieur Chernev writes for the average player, and he understands the fine art of chess annotation. He doesn't burden his reader with deep ramified variations. Such ponderous analysis tends to do little more than suggest to the reader that the Master is omniscient. Instead, this author strives to present only the salient points; the strategic themes, the immediate tactical considerations, and sometimes the missed opportunities in the game. By sticking to the main ideas, the reader is better able to grasp the material and to enjoy it, for enjoyment is the real point, and Chernev never loses sight of that fact. The games in this collection are chosen especially for their strategic instructional value. Strategy implies a closed game (usually a d-pawn or hypermodern opening). Consequently, these games are not fulminating with wild tactics and dazzling combinations. The tactics tend to lie under the surface but nonetheless influence the play. To call any of these games boring is to miss the whole point. From a strategic viewpoint all these games are beautiful, exciting, and instructive. The introductory text for each game gives a sense of the human element; a mix of history, personality profiles, time, place, and event, and an overall description of the struggle about to commence. I have a lot of games collections in my chess library, but I have not been able to finish many of them. I couldn't put this one down. Have fun while you improve. Read this book.

Rated 5 stars
Gem of a book!
This book, along with Chernev's "Logical Chess Move by Move" is clearly the authors Magnum Opus. The book features 62 chapters (i.e. games) played by the "older masters" like Tarrasch, Lasker, Capablanca, Rubenstein, Fischer (I know - not that old), Botvinnik, Nimzowitsch, Petrosian, etc. etc. The games are dissected at a level comfortable for club level players. Each game focuses on a theme (i.e. outpost, weak square, bishop pair, rook ending, Occupation of 7th rank, isolated pawn, etc. I highly recommend this book (along with the other book mentioned) to anyone rated between 1100 - 1600. I can think of few other titles that will return as much value for the modest time investment to read them! Chernev has an infectious love for the game of chess paralleled by few (if any) chess writers, past or present. He was probably around International Master Playing strength. Each game hammers on one particular positional theme. This book is incredibly instructive.

Rated 5 stars
Chess Classic !
This book is truly a gem of chess literature. The book as you may already know, is a collection of master games which demonstrate how a small advantage is exploited in the hands of masters. You will find the games very instructive and will have no problems understanding the motives behind the moves. This because Chernev does an exceptional job in his annotations. I have found no mistakes in his notes or the games themselves. Chernev worked real hard on this book and his love for the game of chess radiates from the pages. A warning to those who expect wild attacking games. This is a collection of games from the late 19th century to the 1950's, when positional and strategic style of play was more popular. These selected games show how an opening, middle game, and endgame should be treated. "The best way to learn endings as well as openings," says Capablanca in Chess Fundamentals, "is from the games of the masters." Some reviewer of this book goes on to say that "The games in this book are boring, and only won by the winner because of some mistake on the loser's part. To which I reply, what chess game is not won on the account of the opposition making a mistake. In reality all chess games if properly played out should end in a draw. There are also people who complain because the book is in descriptive notation. Something I didn't have a problem with, it just adds to the mystique of these chess games of the past. This is a great book and a must have. I have spent many pleasurable hours with this book, a cup of joe, and some Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Ludwig van Beethoven in the background. You will not regret buying this book. I didn't when I returned Pandolfini's Traps and Zaps for this copy.

Rated 5 stars
For Lover's Only
Easily one of the best books ever written. This is one of the first books I purchased over 30 years ago. I am sure it helped start me on the road to Chess Mastery. Chernev, like Reinfeld, did NOT write chess books to impress other Chess Masters. He wrote books simply and with great care. He also put his tremendous love of the game into this book. I simply cannot convey what a wonderful book this is. This book will especially appeal to the average player, especially someone who wants to improve his game. I usually don't rave about books. This is an exception. Here is what I say about this book on my web site: "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played." 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy. It contains 62 true masterpieces of chess by various different players. (Masters such as Fischer, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tal, etc. Plus, many more of the all-time greats!!) Each game is carefully and lovingly annotated. This book had a tremendous impact on me and the way that I viewed and looked at chess. I studied it many, many, many times. Chernev provides games with an almost blow-by-blow commentary. His ideas are simple, fresh, insightful, and expressed with great clarity. He explains all the basic ideas of the game in a manner that ANY chess-player can follow. The variations are perfect. Not too much to overload the senses. I have had players who were almost beginners to players who were accomplished tournament players ... tell me that they profited from a careful study of this book. I think one should study this book, as I did. Every time your rating goes up 100 points, you should work your way through this book from cover to cover! You won't regret it and you definitely will improve! Another unique thing is he finds one idea or theme in each game, and just hammers away at it. It is a VERY good study method. It also contains some of the classics of chess, and Chernev brings you a fresh insight and analysis to each game. (Indeed - his comments and analysis may differ greatly from the ones that may have been published in the chess press when the game was first played.) Chernev was one of the greatest all-time teachers and writers in the chess field. This book is a true pearl!!! I think it belongs in the library of every real chess aficionado. >><p>I also rate this in, "The Ten Best Chess Books Ever Written." Need I say more?

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
By Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can sooth her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?

The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom—is to die.

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

* 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"

Cajun: Joie de vivre (Jhwa da veev) – Joy of living.

"You need to realize something if you are ever to succeed at chess,' she said, as if Nora had nothing bigger to think about. ‘And the thing you need to realize is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game. And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.'

Mrs. Elm"
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!'

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/

"Risk" by Anais Nin

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.

French Proverb: "Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard." ― (Nothing should be left to chance.)

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."

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."

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

<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.>

Capitonyms are words which change their meaning if the first letter is capitalized. For example: Turkey (the country) and turkey (the bird).

1 Corinthians 13 King James Version

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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The Memory Pillow

Those We Love
Don't Go Away
They Walk Beside Us
Everday Unseen
Unheard,
But Always Near,
Still Loved, Still Missed
And Very Dear
Thinking of You Always
Great Grandma Simultaneous

"There just isn't enough televised chess." — David Letterman

"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself." — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant

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

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Pay close attention to this post - it is a serious programming screw up: chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #41486)

Notice that the name of the links ALL say Chessgames Home Page: Game Collection: Game of the Day 2024

Naturally, there has been no response to the post. The programmer is way, way off course, so much so that bad intentions could be the cause.

Here's a partial example from one of my targeted collections:

* Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* 101 Attacks: Game Collection: ultra chess

* 2001-2010: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000)

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

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

* "The most dangerous attacking player": Game Collection: Giant Play!!

* Brilliancies: Game Collection: Brilliancy Prizes (Reinfeld)

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

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

* C-K 2.Ne2 games: Game Collection: 2.e2

* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game

* Danish Gambits: Game Collection: Danish Gambit Games 1-0

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

* Diagrammed Checkmates: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns

* dryad: http://www.chessdryad.com/links/ind...

* Dr. Edmund Adam: Edmund Adam

* Epic Battles: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher

* Euwe examples: Game Collection: Euwe's kingside attacks

* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

* GMs: Game Collection: Grandmasters of Chess

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

* Glossary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/...

* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

* GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at...

* Have you read this classic book? Game Collection: Chernev´s book

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

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

* Kwik look at the Kan (Stockfish notes): Game Collection: Sicillian Kan, 5.Nc3, B43

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

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

The links ALL say Chessgames Home Page. Having just one general name under the programmer's control makes it easy for the programmer to permanently maim tens of thousands of member accounts -- a deliberate programmer screw up to "fix" a screw up far broader and much, much worse than the disappearing fiasco on Kenneth Rogoff.

I know firsthand how deliberately altered programming has been used to hack, alter, restrict, reduce and suspended my account. It's quite likely that these unaccounted-for programming actions are being taken without your approval or awareness.

The above exposed mislabeling scheme of possible destruction must be stopped immediately without altering ANY member accounts!