"Chess is intellectual gymnastics." ― Wilhelm Steinitz
"The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus."
― Thomas A. Edison
"Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverance and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner." ― Lev Polugaevsky
"Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training."
― Vladimir Kramnik
"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 middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame."
― Jose Raul Capablanca
"Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending." ― David Bronstein
"He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own." ― Max Euwe
General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm...
"It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice." ― Adolf Anderssen
"Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation." ― Paul Morphy
"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite." ― Emanuel Lasker
"Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders." ― Savielly Tartakower
"In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!)."
― Judit Polgar
"Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies."
― Miguel Najdorf
"Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience."
― Samuel Reshevsky
"When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This game is now the most important to me. But of course I am not a computer and you cannot simply press a button, delete, and everything you want to forget disappears automatically. But if you want to play well, it's important to concentrate on the now." ― Vassily Ivanchuk
"The pawns are the soul of chess." ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
"A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune." ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
"It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material." ― Efim Geller
"Remember us,
Should any free soul come across this place,
In all the countless centuries yet to be,
May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones,
Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here by Spartan law, we lie."
― Frank Miller, 300
"Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind."
― Bobby Fischer
"However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance." ― Paul Keres
"A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result." ― Alexander Morozevich
"You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself." ― Alexander Alekhine
"It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock." ― Viktor Korchnoi
"Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all."
― Max Euwe
"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country." ― George S. Patton Jr.
"I won't be lectured on gun control by an administration that armed the Taliban." ― voter
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel
"As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine." ― Levon Aronian
"Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing chess positions accurately."
― Mikhail Botvinnik
"For beginning chess players, studying a Carlsen game is like wanting to be an electrical engineer and beginning with studying an iPhone." ― Garry Kasparov
"When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead." ― Mark Taimanov
"It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology." ― Yuri Averbakh
"Almost immediately after Kasparov played the magic move g4, the computer started to self destruct." — Sam Sloan
"In the endgame, it's often better to form a barrier to cut-off the lone king and keep shrinking the barrier than to give check. The mistaken check might give the lone king a choice move toward the center when the idea is to force the lone king to the edge of the board and then checkmate." — Fredthebear
"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls."
― Edgar Allan Poe
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." ― Henry Ford
"First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same species. Our lifetimes overlap. The meetings between humans are so unlikely as to be miraculous. To laugh, to cry, and to fall in love. Everyone is made up of a collection of 1% chances. Thus, I am dazzled by the fact that there are so many miracles in this world." ― Hikaru Nakamura
"I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row." ― Magnus Carlsen. A nice way of saying that most movie content is unrealistic, foolish, contrived, immoral, not intellectually stimulating.
"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre." ― Boris Spassky
"In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master." ― Vasily Smyslov
* Assorted Good games Compiled by rbaglini: Game Collection: assorted Good games
* Cheating: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...
* GK's Scheveningen: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen
* Poisoned Pawn: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENCE-WINAWER
"The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics." ― Galileo Galilei
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10.
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." ― Alexander Graham Bell
"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer
"Be active. I do things my way, like skiing when I'm 100. Nobody else does that even if they have energy. And I try to eat pretty correctly and get exercise and fresh air and sunshine." ― Elsa Bailey, first time skier at age 100
"Don't look at the calendar, just keep celebrating every day." ― Ruth Coleman, carpe diem at age 101
"Your will shall decide your destiny." ― Charlotte Bronte
<You: What cartoon mouse walks on two feet?Them: Mickey Mouse
You: What duck walks on two feet?
Them: Donald Duck
You: No, all ducks do!>
* Positional: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Positional Games (Naiditsch/Balogh)
* POTD: Game Collection: POTD French 2
* Killer Dutch: Game Collection: Bowen Island Dutch Killer Dutch
* Miscellaneous: Game Collection: ! Miscellaneous games
Light Switches Riddle: There Are 3 Light Bulbs In Three Separate Rooms...
Riddle: There are 3 light bulbs in three separate rooms. in front of you, there is a panel with 3 separate switches. They only turn on or off. You may look inside each room only once. How can you tell which bulb belongs to which switch?
Answer: You turn on any two switches, leave them for a few minutes, and turn one switch off. You enter each room only once. you know that the lightbulb that is lit belongs to the switch that was left on, the bulb that is off, but hot, belongs to the switch you turned off, and the cold bulb belongs to the switch you never touched.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
"The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth that everything is dependent on the Eternal Creator and Sustainer; the more I feel that the so-called science, I am occupied with, is nothing but an expression of the Supreme Will, which aims at bringing people closer to each other in order to help them better understand and improve themselves." ― Guglielmo Marconi
What did the Buddhist ask the hot dog vendor?
"Make me one with everything."
A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
"To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge."
— Nicolaus Copernicus
You know why you never see elephants hiding up in trees?
Because they're really good at it.
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either." — Aristotle
"A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior — mentally or otherwise." — Captain Kirk
"Now, I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!" — Edith Keeler
"Live long and prosper!" — Spock
"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities."
— Charles Dickens
32z Nimzo Za'Darius Smith & Wesson don't be messin' Zoltan Almasi periodic rot Maroczy binge drinking ccoffee from's gambit thermos.
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