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This is an index of 170 game collections by other chessgames.com users, each assembling the games from a major tournament.

It does not include any world championship matches or FIDE world championship knockouts (see Game Collection: WCC Index) and Steinitz - Zukertort World Championship Match (1886). (I include the foregoing link to the Steinitz/Zukertort match here merely as a jumping-off point to the emerging chessgames.com index of all wcc matches.)

Nor does it include the Anand rapid matches 2001-2006, which you can find here: Trudodyr's Game Collections, or the <cg.com> Amber collections, which you can find here:

Amber Rapid (2003)

Amber Blindfold (2003)

13th Amber Blindfold (2004)

13th Amber Rapid (2004)

14th Amber Tournament: Rapid (2005)

14th Amber Tournament: Blindfold (2005)

Amber Blindfold (2006)

Amber Rapid (2006)

For tournaments after 2001 collected by <chessgames.com>, see the New Games Page.

The game collections below are organized in two ways: first, by tournament (e.g., all of the Linares tournament game collections together); and second, all tournaments, in chronological order.

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Selected tournaments, grouped together (for all tournaments arranged in chronological order, see below):

Dortmund
Game Collection: Dortmund 1992

Game Collection: Dortmund 1993

Game Collection: Dortmund 1995

Game Collection: Dortmund 1996

Game Collection: Dortmund 1997

Game Collection: Dortmund 1998

Game Collection: Dortmund 1999

Game Collection: Dortmund Sparkassen 2000

Game Collection: Dortmund Sparkassen 2001

Game Collection: 0

Game Collection: Dortmund 2006

Dos Hermanas
Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1995

Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1996

Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1997

Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1999

Hastings Chess Congress
Game Collection: Hastings 1895

Game Collection: Hastings 1922

Game Collection: Hastings 1926/27

Game Collection: Hastings 1927/28

Game Collection: Hastings 1945/46

Linares
Game Collection: Linares 1989

Game Collection: Linares 1990

Game Collection: Linares 1991

Game Collection: Linares 1992

Game Collection: Linares 1993

Game Collection: Linares 1994

Game Collection: Linares 1995

Game Collection: Linares 1998

Game Collection: Linares 2000

Game Collection: Linares 2001

Game Collection: Linares 2002

Game Collection: Linares 2005 ***

Madrid
Game Collection: Madrid 1994

Game Collection: Madrid 1997

Game Collection: Madrid 1998

Moscow
Game Collection: Moscow 1925

Game Collection: Moscow 1935

Game Collection: Moscow 1936

Game Collection: Moscow 1981

Olympiads
Game Collection: 1927 Men Chess Olympiad: 1st ever

Game Collection: 1928 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1930 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1931 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1933 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1935 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1936 Unofficial Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1937 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1939 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1950 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1952 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1954 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1956 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1958 Men & 1957 Women Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1960 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1962 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1964 Men & 1963 Women Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1966 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1968 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1970 Men and 1969 Women Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1972 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1974 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1976 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1978 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1980 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1982 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1984 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1986 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1988 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1990 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1992 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1994 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1996 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1998 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 2000 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 2002 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 2006 Chess Olympiad

Tilburg

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1977

Game Collection: Tilburg 1978

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1980

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1981

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1982

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1983

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1984

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1985

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1990

Game Collection: Tilburg Fontys 1997

Game Collection: Tilburg Fontys 1998

US Open
Game Collection: US Open 1946, Pittsburgh by User: Phony Benoni

Game Collection: 1946 US Open, Pittsburgh, PA by yours truly

Game Collection: US Open 1967, Atlanta

Game Collection: US Open 1968, Aspen

Wijk an zee
Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1976

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1977

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1977 B

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1978

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1979

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1983

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1983 B

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1996

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1997

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1998

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1999

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Corus 2000

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Corus 2001

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Corus 2002

Game Collection: Corus 2005 by User: isrxjs

Game Collection: Corus 2005 by User: VishyFan ***

Game Collection: Annotations v.07: Corus Edition

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And now, for something completely different...
All tournament collections, in chronological order:

1882-1900
Game Collection: Vienna 1882

Game Collection: Hastings 1895

Game Collection: Nuremberg 1896

1901-1910
Game Collection: Cambridge Springs 1904 by User: suenteus po 147

Game Collection: Cambridge Springs 1904 games by User: CambridgeSprings1904

Please see also this website, http://home.wi.rr.com/etzel/cs1904...., which is maintained by User: CambridgeSprings1904 and contains in-depth information about the 1904 tournament

Game Collection: St Petersburg 1909

1911-1920
Game Collection: Capablanca Spanish Tournaments: S.Sebastian 1911 **

Game Collection: Bad Pistyan 1912

Game Collection: San Sebastian 1912

Game Collection: St Petersburg 1914

1921-1925

Game Collection: Hastings 1922

Game Collection: London 1922

Game Collection: Vienna 1922

Game Collection: Lake Hopatcong 1923 (9th American Chess Congress

Game Collection: New York 1924

Game Collection: Baden Baden 1925

Game Collection: Moscow 1925

1926-1927

Game Collection: Dresden 1926

Game Collection: Hastings 1926/27

Game Collection: Bad Niendorf 1927

Game Collection: London 1927

Game Collection: 1927 Men Chess Olympiad: 1st ever

Game Collection: Hastings 1927/28

1928-1929
Game Collection: Bad Kissingen 1928

Game Collection: 1928 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Capablanca Spanish Tournaments: Barcelona 1929 **

Game Collection: Carlsbad 1929

1930
Game Collection: Liege 1930

Game Collection: 1930 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: San Remo 1930

1931

Game Collection: Bled 1931 by User: Benzol

Game Collection: Bled 1931 international tournament by User: cuendillar

Game Collection: Bled 1931 international tournament part 2 by User: cuendillar

Game Collection: 1931 Men Chess Olympiad

1932-1933
Game Collection: London International Chess Congress, 1932

Game Collection: 1933 Men Chess Olympiad

1934-1935
Game Collection: Syracuse 1934

Game Collection: Zurich 1934

Game Collection: 1935 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Moscow 1935

1936-1937

Game Collection: Moscow 1936

Game Collection: Nottingham 1936

Game Collection: 1936 Unofficial Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Zandvoort 1936

Game Collection: Kemeri 1937 International Tournament

Game Collection: 1937 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Parnu 1937

1938-1940
Game Collection: AVRO 1938

Game Collection: 1939 Men Chess Olympiad

1941-1943
Game Collection: USSR Absolute Championship 1941

Game Collection: Sverdlovsk 1943

1944-1945
Game Collection: Hastings 1945/46

1946-1947
Game Collection: US Open 1946, Pittsburgh by User: Phony Benoni

Game Collection: 1946 US Open, Pittsburgh, PA by yours truly

1948-1950
Game Collection: Bronstein at the 16th USSR Championship *

Game Collection: Bronstein at the Moscow - Budapest Match, 1949 *

Game Collection: 17th USSR Championship - Bronstein's Momentum *

Game Collection: 1950 Chess Olympiad

1951-1955
Game Collection: Hollywood, 1952

Game Collection: 1952 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 by User: bennyr

Game Collection: 1954 Chess Olympiad

1956-1960
Game Collection: Alekhine Memorial International Tournament, 1956

Game Collection: 1956 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Third L. J. Rosenwald Trophy Tournament, 1956

Game Collection: Dallas, 1957

Game Collection: 1958 Men & 1957 Women Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1960 Men Chess Olympiad

1961-1965
Game Collection: 1962 Men Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: First Piatigorsky Cup 1963

Game Collection: 1964 Men & 1963 Women Chess Olympiad

1966-1970
Game Collection: 1966 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Second Piatigorsky Cup 1966

Game Collection: US Open 1967, Atlanta

Game Collection: 1968 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: US Open 1968, Aspen

Game Collection: 1970 Men and 1969 Women Chess Olympiad

1971-1976
Game Collection: 1972 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: San Antonio 1972

Game Collection: 1974 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1976 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1976

1977-1978

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1977

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1977

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1977 B

Game Collection: Bugojno 1978

Game Collection: 1st Burroughs Computers Grandmasters Tt New Zealand 1978

Game Collection: 1978 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Tilburg 1978

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1978

1979-1980

Game Collection: Banja Luka 1979

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1979

Game Collection: 1980 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: London Phillips & Drew 1980

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1980

1981-1983

Game Collection: Moscow 1981

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1981

Game Collection: Bugojno 1982

Game Collection: 1982 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1982

Game Collection: Torino 1982

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1983

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1983

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee 1983 B

1984-1989
Game Collection: 1984 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1984 Phillips & Drew GLC Kings Tt

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1984

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1985

Game Collection: 1986 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: 1988 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Plaza International Chess Tt 1988

Game Collection: US Championship 1988 (Cambridge Springs)

Game Collection: Linares 1989

1990
Game Collection: 1990 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Linares 1990

Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1990

1991
Game Collection: Linares 1991

Game Collection: Reggio Emilia 1991/92

Game Collection: Reykjavik World Cup 1991

Game Collection: US Championship 1991

1992-1993
Game Collection: 1992 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Dortmund 1992

Game Collection: Linares 1992

Game Collection: Dortmund 1993

Game Collection: Linares 1993

Game Collection: Munich 1993

1994
Game Collection: 1994 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Las Palmas 1994

Game Collection: Linares 1994

Game Collection: Madrid 1994

Game Collection: Novgorod 1994

1995
Game Collection: Dortmund 1995

Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1995

Game Collection: Linares 1995

1996
Game Collection: 1996 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Dortmund 1996

Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1996

Game Collection: Las Palmas 1996

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1996

1997
Game Collection: Dortmund 1997

Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1997

Game Collection: Madrid 1997

Game Collection: Ter Apel Klooster 1997

Game Collection: Tilburg Fontys 1997

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1997

1998
Game Collection: 1998 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Dortmund 1998

Game Collection: Linares 1998

Game Collection: Madrid 1998

Game Collection: Tilburg Fontys 1998

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1998

1999
Game Collection: Dortmund 1999

Game Collection: Dos Hermanas 1999

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1999

2000
Game Collection: 2000 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Dortmund Sparkassen 2000

Game Collection: Fujitsu-seimens giants rapid tournament 2000

Game Collection: Linares 2000

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Corus 2000

2001-2004
Game Collection: Dortmund Sparkassen 2001

Game Collection: Linares 2001

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Corus 2001

Game Collection: 2002 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Linares 2002

Game Collection: 0

Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Corus 2002

Game Collection: 2004 Chess Olympiad

2005
Game Collection: Corus 2005 by User: isrxjs

Game Collection: Corus 2005 by User: VishyFan ***

Game Collection: World Chess Cup 2005 ***

Game Collection: Linares 2005 ***

Game Collection: Mtel 2005 ***

2006-2007
Game Collection: 2006 Chess Olympiad

Game Collection: Dortmund 2006

Game Collection: Mayor's Cup Invitational 2006

Game Collection: Annotations v.07: Corus Edition

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* These three collections contain only Bronstein's games from the tournament shown. I am keeping them here because they may serve as a starting point for more complete tournament collections.

** Only Capablanca's games.

*** Warning! Very incomplete.

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

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" ― Martin Luther King, Jr.

EG Tactics: Game Collection: End game tactics

REMOVE BELOW

This game an Indian Brahmin did invent,
The force of Eastern wisdom to express;
From thence the same to busy Europe sent;
The modern Lombards stil'd it pensive Chess.
— Sir John Denham

"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

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

"He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Tom Wiswell (1910-1988) made a quote regarding playing checkers worth using in chess circles. After winning a good game, I always ask myself: "Where did I go right?"

"I was surprised by his ability to figure out complex variations. Then the way he sets out the game; he was not interested in the objectivity of the position, whether it's better or worse, he only needed room for his pieces. All you do then is figure out variations which are extremely difficult. He was tactically outplaying me and I made mistakes." ― Mikhail Botvinnik (on Tal)

"Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard." — Reuben Fine

"One may know how to conquer without being able to do it." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"I think Capablanca was one of the most important world champions for me. I studied his games, and a good book about Capablanca's games was written by International Master Vasily Panov, a Russian master. There was quite a strong influence of Capablanca's style." ― Anatoly Karpov

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." ― John F. Kennedy

You cannot play on this website. It is just a database for players to check out GM games, talk about them and discuss the game in general. Sites where you can play chess include:

www.playchess.com (need chessbase software)
www.freechess.org
www.net-chess.com

Old Russian Proverb: "Strike while the iron is hot. (Куй железо, пока горячо.)" Use the opportunity while it's possible or lose it.

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

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes." ― Charles Swindoll

* Fireside book: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess

* Giuoco Pianissimo: Game Collection: GIUOCO PIANISSIMO

* Two Knts Defense: Game Collection: Two Knights Defence by Beliavsky mikhalchisin

Uncompromising Chess, by Belyavsky, Alexander (User: Resignation Trap) Game Collection: Uncompromising Chess by Alexander Beliavsky ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Uncompromisin...

Understanding Chess Move by Move: A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-by-Step How Chess Games Are Won, by Nunn, John (User: PhilipTheGeek) Game Collection: Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Understanding...

* Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018

* Cheating: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

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

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

Romans 15:13
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

"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

Adapt on the fly. "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." — General George S. Patton

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.

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death. Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville

THE HOOSIER'S NEST
by John Finley, Mayor of Richmond, Indiana from 1852 - 1866

Untaught the language of the schools,
Nor versed in scientific rules,
The humble bard may not presume
The literati to illume;
Or classic cadences indite,
Attuned "to tickle ears polite;"
Contented if his strains may pass
the ordeal of the common mass,
And raise an anti-critic smile,
The brow of labor to beguile.

But ever as his mind delights
To follow fancy's airy flights,
Some object of terrestrial mien
Uncourteously obtrudes between,
And rudely scatters to the winds
The tangled threads of thought he spins.
Yet why invoke imagination
To picture out a new creation,
When nature, with a lavish hand,
Has formed a more than fairy land
For us - an El Dorado real,
Surpassing even the idea?
Then who can view the glorious West,
With all her hopes for coming time,
And hoard his feelings unexpressed
In poetry or prose, or rhyme?
What mind and matter, unrevealed;
Shall unborn ages her disclose!
What latent treasures, long concealed,
Be disinterred from dark repose!
Here Science shall impel her car*
O'er blended valley, hill, and plain;
While Liberty's bright natal star
Shines twinkling on her own domain.
Yes, land of the West! thou art happy and free! And thus evermore may thy hardy sons be,
Whist thy ocean-like prairies are spread far and wide, Or a tree of thy forests shall tower in pride.
Blest Indiana! in thy soil
Are found the sure rewards of toil,
Where honest poverty and worth
May make a Paradise on earth.
With feelings proud we contemplate
The rising glory of our State;
Nor take offense by application
Of its good-natured appellation.
Our hardy yeomanry can smile
At tourists of "the sear-girt isle,"
Or wits who traveled at the gallop,
Like Basil Hall or Mrs. Trollope.
'T is true among the crowds that roam
To seek for fortune or a home,
It happens that we often find
Empiricism of a kind.
A strutting fop, who boasts of knowledge,
Acquired at some far eastern college,
Expects to take us by surprise,
And dazzle our astonished eyes.
He boasts of learning, skill, and talents
Which, in the scale, would Andes balance;
Cuts widening swaths from day to day,
And in a month he runs away.
Not thus the honest son of toil,
Who settles here to till the soil,
and with intentions just and good,
Acquires an ample livelihood:
He is (and not the little-great)
The bone and sinew of the State.
With six-horse team to one-horse cart,
We hail here from every part;
And some you'll see, sans shoes or socks on,
With snake-pole and a yoke of oxen;
Others with pack-horse, dog, and rifle,
Make emigration quite a trifle.
The emigrant is soon located-
In Hoosier life initiated:
Erects a cabin in the woods,
Wherein he stows his household goods.
At first, round logs and clapboard roof,
With puncheon floor, quite carpet proof,
And paper windows, oiled and neat,
His edifice is then complete.
When four clay balls, in form of plummet,
Adorn his wooden chimney's summit.
Ensconced in this, let those who can
Find out a truly happier man.
The little youngsters rise around him,
So numerous they quite astound him;
Each with an ax or wheel in hand,
And instinct to subdue the land.
Erelong the cabin disappears,
A spacious mansion next he rears;
His fields seem widening by stealth,
An index of increasing wealth;
and when the hives of Hoosiers swarm,
To each is given a noble farm.
These are the seedlings of the State,
The stamina to make the great.
'T is true, her population, various,
Find avocations multifarious;
But having said so much, 't would seem
No derogation to my theme,
Were I to circumscribe the space,
To picture but a single case:
And if my muse be not seraphic,
I trust you'll find her somewhat graphic.

I'm told, in riding somewhere West,
A stranger found a Hoosier's Nest -
In other words, a buckeye cabin,
Just big enough to hold Queen Mab in;
Its situation, low but airy,
Was on the borders of a prairie;
And fearing he might be benighted,
He hailed the house, and then alighted.
The Hoosier met him at the door -
Their salutations soon were o'er.
He took the stranger's horse aside,
And to a sturdy sapling tied;
Then having stripped the saddle off,
He fed him in a sugar-trough.
The stranger stooped to enter in -
The entranced closing with a pin -
And manifested strong desire
To seat him by the log-heap fire,
Where half-a-dozen Hoosieroons,
With mush-and-milk, tin-cups, and spoons,
White heads, bare feet, and dirty faces,
Seemed much inclined to keep their places.
But Madam, anxious to display
Her rough but undisputed sway,
Her offspring to the ladder led,
And cuffed the youngsters up to bed.
Invited shortly to partake
Of venison, milk, and johnny cake,
The stranger made a hearty meal,
And glances round the room would steal.
One side was lined with divers garments,
The other spread with skins of varmints;
Dried pumpkins overhead were strung,
Where venison hams in plenty hung;
Two rifles placed above the door;
Three dogs lay stretched upon the floor -
In short, the domicile was rife
With specimens of Hoosier life.
The host, who centered his affections
On game, and range, and quarter sections,
Discoursed his weary guests for hours,
Till Somnus' all-composing powers
Of sublunary cares bereft 'em;
And then -
No matter how the story ended;
The application I intended
Is from the famous Scottish poet,
Who seemed to feel as well as know it,
That "buirdley chiels and clever hizzies
Are bred in sic' a way as this is."

*Railroads were problematical in 1830, when this was written.

"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either." — Aristotle

"If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead, you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw." ― IM Jeremy Silman

"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

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EG Tactics: Game Collection: End game tactics