"Life is a gameboard. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. Make a move to be victorious." ― Napolean Hill

"When your house is on fire, you cannot be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, do not worry about losing a pawn on the queenside." ― Garry Kasparov

"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking." ― Terry Pratchett, Eric

"Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices, and adjust when circumstances change." ― Susan Polgar

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." ― Cesare Pavese

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." ― Stephen King

* If White knows the way: https://www.chessable.com/blog/mati...

* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game

* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures

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

* Clean, Clear: https://chess-site.com/

* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

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

* The Halloween Gambit performs surprisingly well in practice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3l...

* Plenty to see: http://www.schackportalen.nu/Englis...

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game." ― Voltaire

"What we think, we become." ― Buddha

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game." ― Michael Jordan

"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays." ― Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." ― Nelson Mandela

"Attack! Always Attack!" ― Adolf Anderssen

"A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it." ― Wilhelm Steinitz

"To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence." ― Lajos Portisch

"Chess is a matter of delicate judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck." ― Bobby Fischer

"I think that an opponent who relies only on the choice of a computer, and does not start from his own "natural" resources, will very quickly reach his chess-heights with no room for improvement." ― Jan Timmerman

"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! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best." — Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898)

Aristotle once asked "What is it about a thing that makes a thing what it is?"

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born, is to remain always a child." ― Cicero

Two muffins were sitting in an oven.
One turned to the other and said, "Wow, it's pretty hot in here." The other one shouted, "Wow, a talking muffin!"

The Doctors

The selfsame patient put to test
Two doctors, Fear-the-worst and Hope-the-best.
The latter hoped; the former did maintain
The man would take all medicine in vain.
By different cures the patient was beset,
But erelong cancelled nature's debt,
While nursed
As was prescribed by Fear-the-worst.
But over the disease both triumphed still.
Said one, "I well foresaw his death."
"Yes," said the other, "but my pill
Would certainly have saved his breath."

In 1852, a retelling of the fable entitled "Solomon's Seal" by the English poet Edward FitzGerald. In the fable, a sultan requests of King Solomon a sentence that would always be true in good times or bad. Solomon responds, "This too will pass away".

When the British still had an Empire (ruled by Queen Victoria) and a weak China was forced down on its knees (Opium wars), a rising Republican politician climbed the stage to hold a speech in the U.S. His name was Abraham Lincoln (not yet elected president, at this point on September 30, 1859. In fact, Lincoln thought that his career had been – in his own words – "a failure, a flat failure."). Addressing a large gathering of entrepreneurs and farmers in Wisconsin (1859), here is what Lincoln said:

"Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, "Lay it not too much to heart." Let them adopt the maxim, "Better luck next time;" and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves. And by the successful, and the unsuccessful, let it be remembered, that while occasions like the present bring their sober and durable benefits, the exultations of them are but temporary (…); and that the vanquished this year, may be victor the next, in spite of all competition.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! "And this, too, shall pass away."

No hiding the evidence
A man, shocked by how his buddy is dressed, asks him, "How long have you been wearing that bra?" The friend replies, "Ever since my wife found it in the glove compartment." — Submitted by Braeden Silvermist

The Most DEVILISHLY Tricky Chess Player In The World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFH...

Magnus Carlsen vs Alireza Firouzja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYa...