Cloned

"No kingdom on Earth can surpass the great outdoors." ― Tamanend

"Custa muito caro fosse
não saber o valor da natureza,
da sua rica essência e beleza
das pessoas e da natureza em si.

O olhar refinado naquilo que aprendeu.
Uma vez que caia em si mesmo...
Poderá já ser tarde buscar a esmo
voltar no tempo e valorizar o que perdeu."
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Amor de Pierrot

"It is better to be lowly among men and exalted in the sight of God than to be honored by men and small in the kingdom of God." ― Brother Pedro

"For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to break down, and a time to build up, a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak." — King Solomon

"En ocasiones, la sola voluntad no es suficiente para cambiar las cosas; son imprescindibles el trabajo, la constancia y, no pocas veces, el valor." ― Brenna Watson, Tierra de nieve y fuego

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." — Leo Tolstoy

"Don't punch at all if you can help it, he heard his father's voice, clear as if he were standing next to him, but if you must, punch first and punch hardest." ― John Gwynne, Valor

"Tu valor no está en lo que consigas o no, tu valor está en quién eres." ― Emma Winter, Prohibido besar a Dexter Royal

"We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth." — Seneca

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent." — Carl Sandburg

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." ― George R.R. Martin

"En los días que corren la gente sabe el precio de todo y el valor de nada." ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Chess, it's the struggle against error." — Johannes Zukertort

"La frustración es el inicio del fin. Entre más aguda es la pesadilla más cercanos estamos a despertar. Entre más intensas son nuestras tormentas, mejores serán nuestros cielos. Me hubiera gustado saberlo antes. En los peores momentos, en los rincones más obscuros, hubiera reído históricamente al verla llegar: la frustración fue la fuerza silenciosa que provocó mis grietas más luminosas." ― Ahtziri Lagarde, Las Cenizas de Ícaro

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." — Lao Tzu

"Nadie sabe en qué parte del camino se encuentra, cuando lo transita por primera vez, hasta que alcanza el destino. ¡Es normal dudar y tener miedo durante el trayecto!" ― Miguel Fresno, Lo que sabré de Ariadne

"He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good." — Jewish Proverb

"One gets to know people well when playing at chess and on journeys." — Russian Proverb

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." ― Anna Quindlen

"The beginning is the most important part of the work." — Plato

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." — William Shakespeare

"Never leave 'till tomorrow which you can do today." — Benjamin Franklin

"Avoid exposing your king to check." — Yasser Seirawan, paraphrased

"El peso, la necesidad y el valor son tres conceptos internamente unidos: solo aquello que es necesario, tiene peso; solo aquello que tiene peso, vale" ― Milan Kundera

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." — William Shakespeare

"El miedo no debe gobernar ni a los gobernantes ni a los gobernados." ― Martín Balarezo García

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in." – Frederick the Great

"Creo que con el tiempo, tú serás o bien mi mayor error o la mayor de mis victorias." ― Virginia Boecker, The King Slayer

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." — William Penn

"Pero sobre todo les pedía a sus alumnos que fueran valerosos. Sin valor, les enseñaba, nunca serían capaces de desarrollar sus habilidades al máximo. Sin valor no llegarían a conocer el mundo con la profundidad con que este ansía ser conocido. Sin valor sus vidas seguirían siendo pequeñas, mucho más pequeñas probablemente de lo que querían." ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Libera tu magia

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." — Albert Einstein

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." ― Winston Churchill

"He is a better man than you are. … His ‘human fictions,' as you choose to call them, make for nobility and manhood. You have no fictions, no dreams, no ideals. You are a pauper." ― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." – J.K. Rowling

"As you teach, you learn." — Jewish Proverb

"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all." — Nelson Mandela

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel." — King Solomon

"Vengeance clouded my mind. It would have consumed me, had it not been for the wisdom of a few strangers, who taught me to look beyond my instincts. They never preached answers, but guided me to learn from myself." ― Oliver Bowden, Renaissance

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." — Khalil Gibran

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress." — Indira Gandhi

"Life is like chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game." — Being Caballero

"La vida no es más que un momento. Todo lo que importa es para que usas ese momento. - La Sombra de Ender"
― Orson Scott Card

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind." — William Shakespeare

"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." — Ephesians 4:29

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." — Sai Baba

"Vê o que criaste
E quem ajudaste
Pensa nos que amas,
No quanto lhes dás

Não tens de ir longe
Nem mudar o mundo
Podes fazer muito
No muro onde estás"
― Débora Henriques, O musgo Tobias

"Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away." — King Solomon

"The real secret of success is enthusiasm." — Walter Chrysler

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." — Socrates

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, "Your God reigns!" — Isaiah 52:7

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." — Thomas Paine

"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire." — John Webster

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." — Nelson Mandela

"It is only after our basic needs for food and shelter have been met that we can hope to enjoy the luxury of theoretical speculations." — Aristotle

"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." — King Solomon

"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

"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian." — Wilma Mankiller

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." — Arnold H. Glasow

"When valor preys on reason,
it eats the sword it fights with."
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Valor consists in the power of self-recovery." ― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

"God gave man two ears and one mouth, so listen more and talk less." — Jewish Proverb

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

"Reading can take you places you have never been before." — Dr. Seuss

"During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk." — Alexander Alekhine

"It is easy to speak of bravery, but it is difficult to live the words." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

"No man is free who is not master of himself." — Epictetus

"Todo necio confunde valor y precio" ― Antonio Machado

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." — Gustave Flaubert

"Chess isn't for the timid." — Irving Chernev

"Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city." — King Solomon

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth." — Jewish Proverb

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones." — William Shakespeare

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." — Ernest Hemingway

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." — Max Euwe

"Success is dependent on effort." — Sophocles

"No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal – the search for truth." — Vasily Smyslov

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them." — Madam C. J. Walker

"When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyze concrete variations." — Mikhail Botvinnik

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." — Winston Churchill

"Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you." — Jewish Proverb

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." — George Orwell

"Attack! Always Attack!" — Adolf Anderssen

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." — William Shakespeare

"Chess is 99 percent tactics" — Richard Teichmann

"What we think, we become." — Buddha

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." — Alexander Hamilton

"Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey." — Urijah Faber

"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself." — Louis XIV

"The time is always right to do what is right." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A true king is neither tyrant nor pawn. He is more than the sum of his ambitions." — Mark Lawrence

"Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong." — Jewish Proverb

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." — Arthur Ashe

"After we have paid our dutiful respects to such frigid virtues as calculation, foresight, self-control and the like, we always come back to the thought that speculative attack is the lifeblood of chess." — Fred Reinfeld

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." — Martha Graham

"The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says." — Hikaru Nakamura

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." — William Shakespeare

"A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment." — Chinese Proverb

"Wise men store up learning, but the foolish will be destroyed with their mouths." — King Solomon

"Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds." — Jewish Proverb

"The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains." — Rudolf Spielmann

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." — Jesus Christ

"They do not love that do not show their love." — William Shakespeare

"Some part of a mistake is always correct." — Savielly Tartakower

"The most important feature of the chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure." — Michael Stean

"Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains." — Rick Kennedy

"Every Pawn is a potential Queen." — James Mason

"The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient." — Aron Nimzowitsch

"The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it." — Wilhelm Steinitz

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." — Samuel Adams

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." — Booker T. Washington

"Simple plans are best. Tactics will prevail." — C.J.S. Purdy

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." — Abraham Lincoln

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." — Dwight D. Eisenhower

"One bad move nullifies forty good ones." — Bernhard Horwitz

"The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary." — Aaron Nimzovich

"All things being equal, the player will prevail who first succeeds in uniting the efforts of both rooks in an important direction." — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

"He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage." — Emanuel Lasker

"If you don't know what to do, find your worst piece and look for a better square." — Gerald Schwarz

"If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up." — Indira Gandhi

"Up to this point, White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived." — Edmar Mednis

"Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart." — King Solomon

"If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation." — David Bronstein

"Things often did not reach the endgame!" — Boris Spassky

"Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys." — Jewish Proverb

"Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment, and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us." — Garry Kasparov

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." — Buddha

"I see only one move ahead, but always the best move." — Charles Jaffe

"Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways, for the Lord detests a perverse man but takes the upright into his confidence." — Jewish Proverb

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

"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself." ― Leonardo da Vinci

"It is never safe to take the queen knight pawn with the queen – even when it is safe." — Hungarian proverb

"What one has, one doesn't want, and what one wants, one doesn't have." — Jewish Proverb

"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back." —Harvey Mackay

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." ― Frederick Douglass

"Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." — King Solomon

"Creating little plans. Now, when we think about plans in chess, we think about grand grandmaster plans. You have to calculate ten moves deep. You have to know what's going to happen in ten moves, know that strong. What Jonathan Hawkins talks about IM Hawkins book: Amateur to IM is you have to create small plans which are doable which you can execute easily. One, two, three move plans which your opponent is not going to be able to prevent, which are easy to visualize and execute." — @HangingPawns

"Chess is rarely a game of ideal moves. Almost always, a player faces a series of difficult consequences whichever move he makes." — David Shenk

"First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"Consistency is the x to every y." ― Monaristw

"The lesser of two evils is still evil." — King Solomon

"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice." — Virginia Woolf

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." — Buddha

"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." — Proverbs 16:24

"Success is the achievement of a desired goal, such as for obtaining name and fame or wealth or a higher degree, for which a person has tried his level best. It is the positive consequence of one's achievement." — John Wooden

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." — Albert Schweitzer

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." — Dale Carnegie

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." — John Wooden

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." — Nelson Mandela

"People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must always have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it." — Jose Raul Capablanca

"It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self." — Charles Colson

"Growth is a painful process." — Wilma Mankiller

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes." — William Shakespeare

"I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player." — Mikhail Tal

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them." — Magnus Carlsen

"Do not boast about tomorrow, for you know not what a day may bring." — King Solomon

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." — Buddha

"For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." — Jesus Christ

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." — Confucius

"Chess is like life. To succeed in either one takes patience, planning, concentration, the willingness to set goals, and an inclination to see deeply into things. You have to go for the thing beyond. Chess is about seeing the underlying reality." — Maurice Ashley

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." — Buddha

"If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?" — Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Proverbs 8:32-33 "Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not ignore it."

"Build a worthy family, stay on the path of virtue, and you shall be rewarded." —Elana Roth

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." — Jonas Salk

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement." — Nelson Mandela

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InkHarted wrote:

Checkmate.
I started off as an equal
I have everything that they do
my life was one and the same as my foe
childish battles of lesser
I won baring cost of a little
but as time outgrew my conscience
I found that the pieces were moving against me
with time my company reduced
they left one by one
all in time forgetting me
my castles collapsed
my religion dissuaded
my protectors in hiding
I could not run anymore
I have been cornered to a wall
as the queen left silently
without saying goodbye
I could not live any longer
she was most precious to me
I could not win without her by my side
so the king knelt down and died.

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." — Socrates

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." — William Shakespeare

"I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?" ― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

"As proved by evidence, it (chess) is more lasting in its being and presence than all books and achievements; the only game that belongs to all people and all ages; of which none knows the divinity that bestowed it on the world, to slay boredom, to sharpen the senses, to exhilarate the spirit." — Stefan Zweig

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." — Nelson Mandela

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one." — Mark Twain

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." — Benjamin Franklin

"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life." — Arthur Schopenhauer

My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. … Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. — Proverbs 4:20, 23 NLT

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." — Dalai Lama

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." — Ronald Reagan

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Soren Kierkegaard

"The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it." ― Henry Hazlitt

"Better to be king of your silence than slave of your words." ― William Shakespeare

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." — Lord Chesterfield

Q: What do you call a can opener that doesn't work? A: A can't opener!

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"It's Beethoven," says the worker. "He's decomposing."

— Submitted by Jeremy Hone

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"It's Beethoven," says the worker. "He's decomposing."

— Submitted by Jeremy Hone

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<Principles of Chess

01. Develop your pieces quickly.
02. Control the center.
03. Try to put your pieces on squares that give them maximum space.

04. Try to develop your knights towards the center.

05. A knight on the rim is dim.
06. Don't take unnecessary chances.
07. Play aggressive.
08. Calculate forced moves first.
09. Always ask yourself, "Can he put me in check or win a piece?"

10. Have a plan. Every move should have a purpose.

11. Assume your opponent's move is his best move.

12. Ask yourself, "why did he move there?" after each opponent move.

13. Play for the initiative and controlling the board.

14. If you must lose a piece, get something for it if you can.

15. When behind, exchange pawns. When ahead, exchange pieces.

16. If you are losing, don't give up fighting. Look for counterplay.

17. Don't play unsound moves unless you are losing badly.

18. Don't sacrifice a piece without good reason.

19. If you are in doubt of an opponent's sacrifice, accept it.

20. Attack with more that just one or two pieces.

21. Do not make careless pawn moves. They cannot move back.

22. Do not block in your bishops.
23. Bishops of opposite colors have the greatest chance of drawing.

24. Try not to move the same piece twice or more times in a row.

25. Exchange pieces if it helps your development.

26. Don't bring your queen out early.
27. Castle soon to protect your king and develop your rook.

28. Develop rooks to open files.
29. Put rooks behind passed pawns.
30. Study rook endgames. They are the most common and most complicated.

31. Don't let your king get caught in the center.

32. Don't castle if it brings your king into greater danger from attack.

33. After castling, keep a good pawn formation around your king.

34. If you only have one bishop, put your pawns on its opposite color.

35. Trade pawns pieces when ahead in material or when under attack.

36. If cramped, free your game by exchanging material.

37. If your opponent is cramped, don't let him get any freeing exchanges.

38. Study openings you are comfortable with.
39. Play over entire games, not just the opening.

40. Blitz chess is helpful in recognizing chess patterns. Play often.

41. Study annotated games and try to guess each move.

42. Stick with just a few openings with White, and a few openings with Black.

43. Record your games and go over them, especially the games you lost.

44. Show your games to higher rated opponents and get feedback from them.

45. Use chess computers and databases to help you study and play more.

46. Everyone blunders. The champions just blunder less often.

47. When it is not your move, look for tactics and combinations.

48. Try to double rooks or double rook and queen on open files.

49. Always ask yourself, "Does my next move overlook something simple?"

50. Don't make your own plans without the exclusion of the opponent's threats.

51. Watch out for captures by retreat of an opponent's piece.

52. Do not focus on one sector of the board. View thw whole board.

53. Write down your move first before making that move if it helps.

54. Try to solve chess puzzles with diagrams from books and magazines.

55. It is less likely that an opponent is prepared for off-beat openings.

56. Recognize transposition of moves from main-line play.

57. Watch your time and avoid time trouble.
58. Bishops are worth more than knights except when they are pinned in.

59. A knight works better with a bishop than another knight.

60. It is usually a good idea to trade down into a pawn up endgame.

61. Have confidence in your game.
62. Play in as many rated events as you can.
63. Try not to look at your opponent's rating until after the game.

64. Always play for a win.
(If a win is no longer possible, then play for a draw.)>

"Humans Are Defined (The Sonnet)

Vegetables are defined,
By the comfort they crave,
Humans are defined,
By the obstacles they brave.
Absence of obstacles,
Is not a sign of achievement.
Absence of obstacles,
Indicates a lack of movement.
Even the mountains bow,
But not for self-absorbed snobs.
Oceans part making way,
Only for those not afraid of storms.
Awake, arise o soldier of valiance and valor.
Sleep not, slacken not, the world is in your care." ― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

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"A game played by men of equal strength, if played accurately, will end in a draw, and it is apt to be dull." — Emanuel Lasker

"Casi el único valor de las grandes obras maestras del ingenio humano consiste en haber provocado un libro de crítica o de comentario." ― Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Teach your tongue to say "I don't know" instead of to make up something." — Jewish Proverb

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories." — Sun Tzu

"Protect your pieces." — John Herron

"Safety first is fine, but first, last and always is fatal" — Al Horowitz

"It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you." ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

"Life is a chess match. Every decision you make has a consequence to it." — P.K. Subban

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." — Mark Twain

"Under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time." — King Solomon

"People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem." — Zig Ziglar

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." — Alexander Hamilton

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." — Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing will work unless you do." — Maya Angelou

"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds." — William Shakespeare

"A game played by men of equal strength, if played accurately, will end in a draw, and it is apt to be dull." — Emanuel Lasker

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." — Vince Lombardi

"But you don't get the wolf by the tongue without reaching through its teeth." ― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up." — Wilma Mankiller

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." — Lyndon B. Johnson

"¡Asumid vuestro destino con valor!"
― Ricarda Jordan, La canción de los caballos

"The harder I work, the luckier I get." — Samuel Goldwyn

"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." — Aesop

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." — Gloria Steinem

"It is the man or woman of wisdom who will recognize that to embrace the consequences of our choices, and to own the outcome of our behaviors is the single path to freedom, and that any other path will always, always, lead to enslavement." ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." — Buddha

"Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." Patrick Henry, St. John's Church, Richmond, VA, 1775" ― Patrick Henry, American Patriot

"Language is wine upon the lips." — Virginia Woolf

"A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." — Jewish Proverb

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." — George Washington

"A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man." — Turkish Proverb

"El miedo es solo una emoción, un artificio de tu mente." ― Rut Nieves, Cree en ti

"Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generaled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Discretion is the better part of valor." ― William Shakespeare

"You men that be known from these others by your Christian profession. Take heed, you bear in mind the piety you owe unto your country and unto your fellow countrymen, whose slaughter by the treachery of the Payneham shall be unto your disgrace everlasting. Unless you press hardily forward to defend them. Fight therefore for your country, and if it be that death overtake you, suffer it willingly for your country's sake. For death itself is victory, and a healing unto the soul. In as much as he that shall have died for his brethren offers himself as a living sacrifice unto God, nor is it doubtful that herein he follows in the footsteps of Christ, who distained not to lay down his own soul for his breatharian. Who therefore amongst you shall be slain in this battle, unto him shall that death be as full penance and absolution of all his sins, if so be he receive it willingly on this way." ― Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain

"Comprendan el valor del tiempo usándolo bien. Así la juventud será encantadora, la vejez traerá pocas lamentaciones y la vida será dichosa y hermosa" ― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas