by Peter Trujillo

- Our attitude determines our altitude. If you think you can, or you think you cannot, you're right. The man who wins is the man who thinks he can. - Always play the percentages. Don't be a riverboat gambler. - Be sound, steady. Give your opponent an opportunity to screw up and hand you the game. - Don't beat yourself. Victory favors the team that makes the fewest mistakes. - Most battles are won before they're ever fought through preparation beforehand. - Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. - Luck is when preparation and alertness, readiness to respond at a moment's notice, meets opportunity. Sometimes you find yourself in the right place at the right time because you're actively searching. - Life is 10% what happens and 90% how I respond. - Fight to the last gasp.
- The difference between a champ and a chump is you.

Winning is a process and an art form that includes losing on occasion1. Here are some tips on how to win with dignity and lose with grace:

Own up to your mistakes, accept responsibility and commit to the process of growth and change1.

Show humility in winning and dignity on losing2.

Show respect to whomever or whatever has defeated you3.

Bow out gracefully, praise the skills of the winner

* http://wiinworldwide.com/2017/02/07...

Plan for Ideal Piece Placement (Centralize, Advance) to gain material or maintain lasting pressure. How will my piece be threatened on its new square? Forked, Pinned, or Prodded? - Which units are unprotected, cannot not move? Should I aim at them, or first prevent their movement/advancement? - Crushing checks often land on unoccupied squares that seem unimportant. You must check all checks from the kings spoke outward. - Slow down, count ALL your cards carefully -- not just the obvious ones; pay attention to all maybes (don't overlook possibilities). Know the count. What is my opponent aiming at now, or next turn? Know the count. - Don't initiate a capture if the recapture improves the opponent's piece. This often occurs when knight protects knight or rook protects rook. - Maintain and pile up on pinned targets, tied defenders, any defendants. - Activate/improve/outpost your piece(s) & connect batteries/crossfire. Give every piece a job. - Consider cramping/removal pawn thrusts. However, putting the question seems threatening but may chase a piece to a better square gaining the initiative. - Gain space to crash through or avoid lateral passivity, as rescuers often come from across the way. - Inflict an isolated pawn (island). Liquidate weak pawns.

"Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles." — Garry Kasparov

"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.

"Don't blow your own trumpet." — Australian Proverb

Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.

"Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you." — Bobby Darnell

<"Sestrilla, hafelina
Jue amourasestrilla
Awou jue selaviena
En patre jue

Translation:

Beloved one, little cat
I love you for all time
In this time
And all others"
― Christine Feehan>

<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'.>

"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

<Q: How do poets say hello? A: "Hey, haven't we metaphor?"

Thank you Qindarka!

Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline? A: A milkshake.>

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.

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

<Shakespearean Puns
Perhaps no writer is better known for the use of puns than William Shakespeare. He plays with "tide" and "tied" in Two Gentlemen of Verona:

"Panthino
Away, ass! You'll lose the tide if you tarry any longer.

Launce
It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the unkindest tied that ever any man tied.

Panthino
What's the unkindest tide?

Launce
Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog."

In the opening of Richard III, the sun refers to the blazing sun on Edward IV's banner and the fact that he is the son of the Duke of York:

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York."

In this line from Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare plays on the different meanings of heavy (which also means sad) and light:

"Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; Being but heavy I will bear the light."

Later in Romeo and Juliet, a morbid pun comes from a fatally-stabbed Mercutio, where grave means serious, but also alludes to his imminent death:

"Ask for me tomorrow, you shall find me a grave man."

If you open any Shakesperean play, you're likely to find at least one pun on the page! Keep an eye out for a clever play on words example the next time you read Hamlet or watch As You Like It on the stage.>

Dec-12-16 DrGridlock: Q: When is a pin not a pin? A: When the piece is:
(i) not pinned to the king
and
(ii) in moving the piece threatens either mate or greater material gain than what it was pinned to. (iii) in moving the piece now defends the unit it was pinned to, such as Nf3xd4 and protects the Be2 that was behind the knight.

<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.>

Zdravko or Zurab

Showing respect to someone can be done in many ways. Here are some tips on how to show respect to others:

Listen actively to other people and offer assistance, acknowledge their achievements, and empathize with their opinions.

Disagree politely, apologize when you're in the wrong, and follow through on your promises to build a positive connection with others.

Show self-respect by treating yourself with compassion and avoiding self-destructive behaviors.

Practice active listening to show you respect others. Watch and be quiet when someone else is talking, and spend time thinking about what they're saying. Nod your head and ask follow-up questions to stay engaged in the conversation.

Affirm people's opinions. Let them know that they matter. When you're talking to someone, reinforce and validate their opinions in your own words.

Empathize with different perspectives. You might not understand it, but you can respect it. If you're talking with someone and you disagree on something, don't take it personally. Try to remember that everyone has a different background, and the person you're talking to has their own reasons for thinking whatever they think.

"Learn to play many roles, to be whatever the moment requires. Adapt your mask to the situation." ― Robert Greene

"Get a great education. That is something that no one can take away from you." ― Margie Hammargren, former CIA agent, 101 years old

Why is England the wettest country? Because the queen reigned there for decades.

Head And Tail
Riddle Question: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

A brown trout?

Riddle Answer: A Penny.

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

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ― Thomas A. Edison

"Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, z where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have." ― Garry Kasparov

You know there's no official training for trash collectors? They just pick things up as they go along.

<Luke 8:16-18 New King James Version The Parable of the Revealed Light

Jesus said:
16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.">

"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

Calories 160

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When you die, what part of the body dies last? The pupils… they dilate.