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Charge! Wikipedia article: Charge (warfare)#:~:text=A%20charge%20is%20an%20offensive%20maneuver%20in%20battle,and%20decisive%20moment%20of%20many%20battles%20throughout%20history. "Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi." ― Greg Baum. "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." ― Robert Hughes "Tactics is knowing what to do when there's something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there's nothing what to do." — Savielly Tartakower "When I started to be a coach, I expected a lot - maybe too much - in terms of physical approach, tactics, and technique. There was too little emphasis on human relationships." — Manuel Pellegrini "I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one." — David Levy "Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used." — Eric Holder Lache pas la patate (Losh pa la pa tot) – Don't let go of the potato or don't give up (a testament to the enduring spirit of the Cajun people). "Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who might otherwise support the movement." — Steven Pinker "Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning." — Fred Perry "If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected." — Sun Tzu "The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." — Samuel Johnson "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
― Flannery O'Connor
"I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself."
― Peter the Great
"Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds."
― Charles I of England
"When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers."
― John Calvin
"There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." ― Thomas Paine "Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?" ― Shirley Ann Grau "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 "The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be." ― David Hackett Fischer "America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies." ― Thomas Gage "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." ― Thomas Paine "We are fallen into the most unhappy times, when even innocence itself is nowhere safe!" ― Boston Gazette, February 1770 "The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep
in safety." ― Samuel de Champlain
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ― Rabindranath Tagore "Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good." — Walter Mosley "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." — Cardinal Richelieu,
"The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel K̀eeler Hoyt, p. 763, 1896. "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, Queen of Scots
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
— Albert Schweitzer
"You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people." — Archibald Rutledge "Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror." — Byrd Baggett "The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
— Edward de Bono (2017). "Teach Yourself To Think", p.115, Penguin UK "Start wide, expand further, and never look back." — Arnold Schwarzenegger "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." — Leonardo da Vinci "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." — Franklin D. Roosevelt "The game of chess is essentially a game between two players who oppose each other on the opposite sides of a chessboard which is square in shape. The board itself is made up of sixty-four small squares which are coloured alternately white and black. Though for the sake of convenience one terms these colours white and black, in practice the colours are usually better defined as light and dark, since the white is often a cream or yellow colour or even red..., whilst the black can be any dark shade of brown and is, when black, of varying degrees of blackness, ranging from dull to ebony.
The chessboard is placed between the two players in such a way that the right-hand square of the bottom row of squares (i.e. the row nearest to each player) is white in colour..." ― "Beginning Chess" by Harry Golombek, p. 9. "Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil." ― Horatio Nelson,
Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849. "I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long." ― Marie Antoinette "I got my start by giving myself a start." ― Madam C. J. Walker "By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination." ― Christopher Columbus "Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting."
― Tony Robbins
"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 "Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman." ―
Julia Peterkin
Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). "Black April: A Novel", p.128, University of Georgia Press "You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way."
― Gregory Peck
"After having investigated, by logical processes, those fairly simple positions which constitute the elements of the End Game, we now turn to procedures which rely not on logic but on judgement. Our first task is to obtain an insight into the effect of the men. What power have the pieces to aid in the execution of a well-conceived plan?" ― Emanuel Lasker, Lasker's How to Play Chess, p. 40. "The pieces are connected to each other, and the King and they are in this dynamic rhythm amongst themselves and with the opponent's pieces, wherein lies their purpose. Each move is an attempt to change that balance and to establish a new, more favorable balance and that is why in chess (and in life) we are most vulnerable when we are most aggressive—the aggressive move essentially causes us to lose balance."
― Roumen Bezergianov, Character Education with Chess "They stood with their pieces before them to defend themselves. A party, about 12 in number with sticks in their hands, who stood in the middle of the street gave three cheers and immediately surrounded the soldiers and struck upon their guns with their sticks and passed along the front of the soldiers toward Royal Exchange Lane striking soldiers' guns as they passed. Numbers were continually coming down the street." ― An eyewitness to the Boston Massacre "For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!"
― Henry Knox to Captain Preston during the Boston Massacre "From that moment we may date the severance of the British Empire."
― Daniel Webster on the Boston Massacre
"On that night the formation of American independence was laid… Not the battle of Lexington or Bunker Hill, not the surrender of Burgoyne or Cornwallis were more important events in American history than the battle of King Street on March 5th 1770." ― John Adams on the Boston Massacre "Chess is a game of war but a peaceful war where no human lives are at stake!" ― Susan Polgar "Champions play to win while others play not to lose!" ― Susan Polgar "Passion is infectious! But passion alone is not enough. You also need hard work, dedication & sacrifice every day!" ― Susan Polgar "A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water." ― Julia Peterkin "Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy
Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity."
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them"
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Section 1
Generosity engenders wealth.
Willingness creates one who gives.
Good sense results in fair form.
Lechery leads to disgrace.
Foolishness results in crudity.
Repression results in greater repression.
Hatred engenders reproach.
Abandonment results in slander,
Reluctance leads to reliance on conjecture.
Love begets words.
Humility wins good favour.
Decorum results in reciprocal behaviour.
Stinginess is disparaged.
Inhospitability engenders niggardliness.
Wisdom begets fame.
Humility engenders gentleness.
Familiarity fuels strife.
A greedy person acquires possessions.
Arrogance produces disfavour.
Ale results in lechery.
A prostitute's lot is uncertainity.
A timid person's lot is uncertainity.
Desire begets perseverance.
Wisdom begets respect.
Age acquires renown.
Foolishness results in risk.
~ Maxims of King Aldfrith of Northumbria
"The way it came is the way it will go." ~ Croatian Proverb "We tell them it is a bull, they say milk it." ~ Egyptian Proverb "The cheapest is always the most expensive." ~ German Proverb If someone puts their trust in you, don't sever it. ~ Lebanese Proverb Entre los pecados mayores que los hombres cometen, aunque algunos dicen que es la soberbia, yo digo que es el desagradecimiento, ateniéndome a lo que suele decirse: que de los desagradecidos está lleno el infierno. (Of the worst sins that people commit, although some says it's pride, I say it is ingratitude. As the saying goes, hell is filled with the ungrateful.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Lo que poco cuesta aún se estima menos. (What costs little is valued even less.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
El hacer bien a villanos es echar agua en la mar. (Doing good for low-lifes is throwing water in the sea.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) MANY A LITTLE MAKES A MICKLE
Mickle, an Old English word meaning "much" or "a lot," went out of fashion in the 16th century (except in Scotland, where it held on), but it has such a nice ring to it. It's sometimes spelled "muckle." Later versions of this phrase like, "many a muckle makes a mickle" and "many a mickle makes a muckle," don't really make sense, but are very fun to say. "The draw by perpetual check could also be regarded as a variant of the draw by repetition of the position, though not necessarily, since the checks might wander all over the board." ― "Beginning Chess" by Harry Golombek, p. 55. "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." ― Pablo Picasso * It saves you much time and hardship to learn from the old-timers: https://www.chess.com/blog/Gertsog/.... * Young Paul Morphy Impresses: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Odds Game: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Fast Fried Liver: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... 
click for larger viewWhite to Move
* Puzzle Answer, White to Move: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * GM Petrov tells Morphy's Secrets of Attack: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * The Legend, Paul Morphy: https://www.chessjournal.com/paul-m... * Chess Links: http://www.chessdryad.com/links/ind... * Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * Glossary W: Wikipedia article: Glossary of chess * Morphy - Anderssen: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Storm the Kingside: https://www.chess.com/lessons/slayi... * Tactics from the Old Masters: https://www.chess.com/lessons/tacti... * Famous Puzzle: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Quora: What made Morphy give up chess? https://www.quora.com/Paul-Morphy-i... * Gumbo: https://www.thekitchn.com/gumbo-rec... * Recipe w/video: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/2... There is a saying in New Orleans that for every stove in New Orleans there is a different recipe for Gumbo. * Etouffee vs Gumbo: https://www.allrecipes.com/etouffee... 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/ <God is great! God is Grace!God is good! God is Light
Let us thank Him Help us honor Him
For our food. For His mercy and love.
Amen.> In the name of Jesus we pray... Amen! Bon Appetit!
Dinner for 2
P.S. Thanks so much for a loving Granddaddy so worthy of emulation. "Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, chess recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It's eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game." — Paul Morphy "Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it's much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by." — Garry Kasparov "What is the object of playing a gambit opening? To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game." — Siegbert Tarrasch "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 Psalms 46:1
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. "It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit, one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss." — Anatoly Karpov Laissez les bons temps rouler (Lay say lay bohn tohn roo lay) – Let the good times roll. "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 * Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Morphy - Anderssen: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * NY 1857: Game Collection: Morphy New York 1857 - Non Tournament * The Donner Party of Misery: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Vienna 1903 KG games: Game Collection: Vienna 1903 * Learn from Paul Morphy: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... * Last Play of the World Series 1943-1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzt... * Last Play of Every Modern World Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkD... * Tricks to Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmU... * Tricks to Win a Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfS... * Queen Traps in the Scandinavian D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syr... * Trap the Queen in the Tennison Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZt... * Top 10 Traps of the Queens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZh... * White, Black Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olz... * Win the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8... * More Tricks to Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0... * Qxb2 Poisoned Pawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74h... * Levy shows us more traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fot... * Queen puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfQ... * QGD: https://www.modern-chess.com/chess-... * Richard Reti Does It Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9z... * Veresov games: Game Collection: Games from Nigel Davies' THE VERESOV * Wiki Bird's Op: Wikipedia article: Bird's Opening * Wikipedia on Computer Chess: Wikipedia article: Computer chess * Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev) * 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!
"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
"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 five-four combo
Louisiana: Natchitoches
Established in: 1714
Natchitoches is known as the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase territory. It was founded in 1714 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. Natchitoches resembles New Orleans' French quarter and is sometimes referred to as "little New Orleans." * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * Chess History: https://www.chessjournal.com/chess-... Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
~ Scottish Proverb
* Weird is what you're not used to: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches... <limerick, entitled ‘The Solver's Plight' was by ‘A.J.F.' A.J. Fink and was published on page 22 of Chess Potpourri by Alfred C. Klahre (Middletown, 1931):There was a man from Vancouver
Who tried to solve a two-mover;
But the boob, he said, ‘"Gee",
I can't find the "Kee",
No matter HOW I manouvre.'>
The Frog and the Rat
They to bamboozle are inclined,
Says Merlin, who bamboozled are.
The word, though rather unrefined,
Has yet an energy we ill can spare;
So by its aid I introduce my tale.
A well-fed rat, rotund and hale,
Not knowing either Fast or Lent,
Disporting round a frog-pond went.
A frog approached, and, with a friendly greeting,
Invited him to see her at her home,
And pledged a dinner worth his eating, –
To which the rat was nothing loath to come.
Of words persuasive there was little need:
She spoke, however, of a grateful bath;
Of sports and curious wonders on their path;
Of rarities of flower, and rush, and reed:
One day he would recount with glee
To his assembled progeny
The various beauties of these places,
The customs of the various races,
And laws that sway the realms aquatic,
(She did not mean the hydrostatic!)
One thing alone the rat perplexed, –
He was but moderate as a swimmer.
The frog this matter nicely fixed
By kindly lending him her
Long paw, which with a rush she tied
To his; and off they started, side by side.
Arrived on the lakelet's brink,
There was but little time to think.
The frog leaped in, and almost brought her
Bound guest to land beneath the water.
Perfidious breach of law and right!
She meant to have a supper warm
Out of his sleek and dainty form.
Already did her appetite
Dwell on the morsel with delight.
The gods, in anguish, he invokes;
His faithless hostess rudely mocks;
He struggles up, she struggles down.
A kite, that hovers in the air,
Inspecting everything with care,
Now spies the rat belike to drown,
And, with a rapid wing,
Upbears the wretched thing,
The frog, too, dangling by the string!
The joy of such a double haul
Was to the hungry kite not small.
It gave him all that he could wish –
A double meal of flesh and fish.
The best contrived deceit
Can hurt its own contriver,
And perfidy does often cheat
Its author's purse of every stiver.
The fear of running out of something to read is called "abibliophobia." Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' Researchers from India recently discovered a new species of green pit vipers. They named the snake after Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter universe. Call
The Bird Wounded By An Arrow
A bird, with plumed arrow shot,
In dying case deplored her lot:
"Alas!" she cried, "the anguish of the thought!
This ruin partly by myself was brought!
Hard-hearted men! from us to borrow
What wings to us the fatal arrow!
But mock us not, you cruel race,
For you must often take our place."
The work of half the human brothers
Is making arms against the others.
"When you have the better of it, play simply. When the game is going against you, look for complications." — Frank J. Marshall * 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. <<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'.> To make one pound of honey, honeybees must gather nectar from nearly 2 million flowers There's only one human organ that naturally regenerates.
Of all the organs in the human body, the liver is the only that can regenerate on its own. As researcher Richard Bowen explains, "The liver has a remarkable capacity to regenerate after injury and to adjust its size to match its host. Within a week after partial hepatectomy, which, in typical experimental settings entails surgical removal of two-thirds of the liver, hepatic mass is back essentially to what it was prior to surgery." Airballing
Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. "He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.
'White to play and mate in two moves.'
Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates."
― George Orwell, 1984
An Animal In The Moon While one philosopher affirms
That by our senses we're deceived,
Another swears, in plainest terms,
The senses are to be believed.
The twain are right. Philosophy
Correctly calls us dupes whenever
On mere senses we rely.
But when we wisely rectify
The raw report of eye or ear,
By distance, medium, circumstance,
In real knowledge we advance.
These things has nature wisely planned –
Whereof the proof shall be at hand.
I see the sun: its dazzling glow
Seems but a hand-breadth here below;
But should I see it in its home,
That azure, star-besprinkled dome,
Of all the universe the eye,
Its blaze would fill one half the sky.
The powers of trigonometry
Have set my mind from blunder free.
The ignorant believe it flat;
I make it round, instead of that.
I fasten, fix, on nothing ground it,
And send the earth to travel round it.
In short, I contradict my eyes,
And sift the truth from constant lies.
The mind, not hasty at conclusion,
Resists the onset of illusion,
Forbids the sense to get the better,
And never believes it to the letter.
Between my eyes, perhaps too ready,
And ears as much or more too slow,
A judge with balance true and steady,
I come, at last, some things to know.
Thus when the water crooks a stick,
My reason straightens it as quick –
Kind Mistress Reason – foe of error,
And best of shields from needless terror!
The creed is common with our race,
The moon contains a woman's face.
True? No. Whence, then, the notion,
From mountain top to ocean?
The roughness of that satellite,
Its hills and dales, of every grade,
Effect a change of light and shade
Deceptive to our feeble sight;
So that, besides the human face,
All sorts of creatures one might trace.
Indeed, a living beast, I believe,
Has lately been by England seen.
All duly placed the telescope,
And keen observers full of hope,
An animal entirely new,
In that fair planet, came to view.
Abroad and fast the wonder flew; –
Some change had taken place on high,
Presaging earthly changes nigh;
Perhaps, indeed, it might betoken
The wars that had already broken
Out wildly over the Continent.
The king to see the wonder went:
(As patron of the sciences,
No right to go more plain than his.)
To him, in turn, distinct and clear,
This lunar monster did appear. –
A mouse, between the lenses caged,
Had caused these wars, so fiercely waged!
No doubt the happy English folks
Laughed at it as the best of jokes.
How soon will Mars afford the chance
For like amusements here in France!
He makes us reap broad fields of glory.
Our foes may fear the battle-ground;
For us, it is no sooner found,
Than Louis, with fresh laurels crowned,
Bears higher up our country's story.
The daughters, too, of Memory, –
The Pleasures and the Graces, –
Still show their cheering faces:
We wish for peace, but do not sigh.
The English Charles the secret knows
To make the most of his repose.
And more than this, he'll know the way,
By valour, working sword in hand,
To bring his sea-encircled land
To share the fight it only sees today.
Yet, could he but this quarrel quell,
What incense-clouds would grateful swell!
What deed more worthy of his fame!
Augustus, Julius – pray, which Caesar's name
Shines now on story's page with purest flame?
O people happy in your sturdy hearts!
Say, when shall Peace pack up these bloody darts, And send us all, like you, to softer arts?
<"Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.">
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well John 10:10
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." ― Lord Jesus Dale Jr.
Oct-09-11 FSR: After 1.e4 e5, 2.Ba6?? is the worst move by a country mile. After that, probably 2.b4 and 2.Ke2 are the worst. 2.Qg4 and 2.g4 are also pretty bad. White still has equality after 2.Qh5, so it's actually not a <terrible> move. * Starting Out King Pawn:
• Opening Development Basics for Beginners: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... • Double King Pawn Counterattack (instead of guarding the e5-pawn):
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Attacking a Castled King:
• Put yourself in the opponent's shoes and make the most worrisome, threatening move. • If the kings are castled on opposite sides, use the flank pawns as battering rams and try to create an open file on the side of the enemy king. • Superior Development = Have at least three units involved in the attack. • Form batteries and/or crossfires on open lines into the castle. • Consider deflecting or trading off enemy defenders to double the pawns, expose the enemy king, or invade newly available squares lacking protection. • Don't trade queens. Support/get her in close to the opposing king! • Eliminate escape squares (the opponent's best response), then give check. • Take advantage of a pinned pawn on the 2nd/7th by occupying the 3rd/6th with a piece that cannot be captured. • Forum: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/ga... • Schlecter's Sacrificial Attack: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... • IM Levy Rozman's Lesson: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... • Karjakin's Sacrificial Assault: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... • IM David Pruess' Lesson:
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Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.> "Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another."
— Marcel Duchamp
"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 "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
— Ernest Hemingway
"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt "In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." ― Albert Einstein "When in doubt, don't." ― Benjamin Franklin The moon has moonquakes.
Just as earth has earthquakes, the moon has—you guessed it—moonquakes. Less common and less intense than the shakes that happen here, moonquakes are believed by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists to occur due to tidal stresses connected to the distance between the Earth and the moon. Riddle Question: Roots and branches, yet I bear no fruit; my leaves tell stories of your family's pursuit. What am I? The Persian epic Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India. Riddle Answer: Family tree
The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don't realize what lies beneath the surface. In the '10s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as high as 33 feet. The Ingratitude And Injustice Of Men Towards Fortune A trader on the sea to riches grew;
Freight after freight the winds in favour blew;
Fate steered him clear; gulf, rock, nor shoal
Of all his bales exacted toll.
Of other men the powers of chance and storm
Their dues collected in substantial form;
While smiling Fortune, in her kindest sport,
Took care to waft his vessels to their port.
His partners, factors, agents, faithful proved;
His goods – tobacco, sugar, spice –
Were sure to fetch the highest price.
By fashion and by folly loved,
His rich brocades and laces,
And splendid porcelain vases,
Enkindling strong desires,
Most readily found buyers.
In short, gold rained wherever he went –
Abundance, more than could be spent –
Dogs, horses, coaches, downy bedding –
His very fasts were like a wedding.
A bosom friend, a look his table giving,
Inquired whence came such sumptuous living.
"Whence should it come," said he, superb of brow,
"But from the fountain of my knowing how?
I owe it simply to my skill and care
In risking only where the marts will bear."
And now, so sweet his swelling profits were,
He risked anew his former gains:
Success rewarded not his pains –
His own imprudence was the cause.
One ship, ill-freighted, went awreck;
Another felt of arms the lack,
When pirates, trampling on the laws,
Overcame, and bore it off a prize.
A third, arriving at its port,
Had failed to sell its merchandize, –
The style and folly of the court
Not now requiring such a sort.
His agents, factors, failed; – in short,
The man himself, from pomp and princely cheer,
And palaces, and parks, and dogs, and deer,
Fell down to poverty most sad and drear.
His friend, now meeting him in shabby plight,
Exclaimed, "And whence comes this to pass?"
"From Fortune," said the man, "alas!"
"Console yourself," replied the friendly wight:
"For, if to make you rich the dame denies,
She can't forbid you to be wise."
What faith he gained, I do not wis;
I know, in every case like this,
Each claims the credit of his bliss,
And with a heart ingrate
Imputes his misery to Fate.
"If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness." — Andy Rooney Switch your pawn insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds. James 1:5 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him" Philippians 4:7
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. There's only one human organ that naturally regenerates.
Of all the organs in the human body, the liver is the only that can regenerate on its own. As researcher Richard Bowen explains, "The liver has a remarkable capacity to regenerate after injury and to adjust its size to match its host. Within a week after partial hepatectomy, which, in typical experimental settings entails surgical removal of two-thirds of the liver, hepatic mass is back essentially to what it was prior to surgery." Psalms 46:1
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. When Moses asked God, "Who shall I tell Pharaoh has sent me?" God said, "I AM THAT I AM." Jehovah or Yahweh is the most intensely sacred name to Jewish scribes and many will not even pronounce the name. When possible, they use another name." https://www.biblestudytools.com/bib... "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 Acts 2:38
"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." "Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life." ― Pablo Neruda "In Vino Veritas"
"Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak." — Lysa TerKeurst "A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is, there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailing prosperously before the wind, and not simply stranded barks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful." — Henry David Thoreau French Proverb: "Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard." ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) "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 "Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess." ― Siegbert Tarrasch "In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." — Max De Pree wor dzy fun:
funa dmentals crazee u driev mee upa tree fo cherry pi in th ski walkr. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." — Calvin Coolidge Matthew 6:33
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. 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. JACK AND JILL
Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down
And broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself young un' https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... saf. t 1st
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