Those who want to learn how to pry open the g-file to get at the castled king from other openings should hop down to Joseph Henry Blackburne's games. They called him "The Black Death" for good reason!! The gates could not keep his army out. (Unfortunately, editing tore up his block of games; they're scattered throughout.)* Quotes: https://chessentials.com/best-chess...
Compiled by Fredthebear
Legendary gambiteer of the Ohio Valley
More instructive rook action in Fredthebear's forest. It's not all spectacular combinations; just various useful ways to maneuver rooks. Rooks are usually finishers, but the exchange sacrifice can be a real can-opener.
* Classic games by great players: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston)
* 100+ Scandinavian Miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
* 610_Back rank mating tactics: Game Collection: 610_Back rank mating tactics
* Fork OVerload (Remove the Defender): Game Collection: FORK-OVERLOAD OR HOOK-AND-LADDER TRICK
* Impact of Genius: 500 years of Grandmaster Chess: Game Collection: Impact of Genius : 500 years of Grandmaster Ches
* Chess Prehistory Compiled by Joe Stanley: Game Collection: Chess Prehistory
* Organized Steinitz collection:
Game Collection: Steinitz Gambits
* Best (Old) Games of All Time: Game Collection: Best Games of All Time
* 'Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters' by Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: 0
* bengalcat47's favorite games of famous masters: Game Collection: bengalcat47's favorite games
* Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931
* Fire Baptisms Compiled by Nasruddin Hodja: Game Collection: Fire Baptisms
* maxruen's favorite games III: Game Collection: maxruen's favorite games III
* some famous brilliancies: Game Collection: brilliacies
* Brilliant games Compiled by madhatter5: Game Collection: Brilliant games
* The Fireside Book of Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess
* 'Chess Praxis' by Aron Nimzowitsch: Game Collection: Chess Praxis (Nimzowitsch)
* '500 Master Games of Chess' by Savielly Tartakower and Julius Du Mont: Game Collection: 500 Master Games of Chess
* Great Combinations Compiled by wwall: Game Collection: Combinations
* Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky: Game Collection: Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky
* Exchange sacs – 1 Compiled by obrit: Game Collection: Exchange sacs - 1
* Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II
* Ne5 Holler of a Tree in Fredthebear Country: Game Collection: 5 Ne5 Holler of a Tree in Fredthebear Country
* 'The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games' by Graham Burgess, John Nunn and John Emms. New expanded edition-now with 125 games. Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms)
* Best of the British Compiled by Timothy Glenn Forney: Game Collection: Best of the British
* The Best Chess Games (part 2): Game Collection: The Best Chess Games (part 2)
* Annotated Games: Game Collection: Annotated Games
* sapientdust's favorite games: Game Collection: sapientdust's favorite games
* shakman's favorite games – 2: Game Collection: shakman's favorite games - 2
* Reti Opening Compiled by KingG: Game Collection: Reti Opening
* Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Slavko Petrovic): Game Collection: Veliki majstori saha 16 RETI (Petrovic)
* Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek: Game Collection: Richard Réti's Best Games by Golombek
* ray keene's favorite games: Game Collection: ray keene's favorite games
* (Variety Pack) Compiled by Nova: Game Collection: KID games
* JonathanJ's favorite games 4: Game Collection: JonathanJ's favorite games 4
* jorundte's favorite games: Game Collection: jorundte's favorite games
* elmubarak: my fav games: Game Collection: elmubarak: my fav games
* assorted Good games Compiled by rbaglini: Game Collection: assorted Good games
* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: 0
* LAST COLLECTION Compiled by Jaredfchess: Game Collection: LAST COLLECTION
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.” – Alexander Alekhine
“Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you’re in trouble.”
-- Stanley Kubrick
“Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules, take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.” – Garry Kasparov
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game.” – Savielly Tartakower
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
― Winston S. Churchill
The Two Friends
Two friends, in Monomotapa,
Had all their interests combined.
Their friendship, faithful and refined,
Our country can't exceed, do what it may.
One night, when potent Sleep had laid
All still within our planet's shade,
One of the two gets up alarmed,
Runs over to the other's palace,
And hastily the servants rallies.
His startled friend, quick armed,
With purse and sword his comrade meets,
And thus right kindly greets:
"You seldom com'st at such an hour;
I take you for a man of sounder mind
Than to abuse the time for sleep designed.
Have lost your purse, by Fortune's power?
Here's mine. Have suffered insult, or a blow,
I have here my sword – to avenge it let us go."
"No," said his friend, "no need I feel
Of either silver, gold, or steel;
I thank you for your friendly zeal.
In sleep I saw you rather sad,
And thought the truth might be as bad.
Unable to endure the fear,
That cursed dream has brought me here."
Which think you, reader, loved the most!
If doubtful this, one truth may be proposed:
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend –
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.
The Old Man And His Sons
All power is feeble with dissension:
For this I quote the Phrygian slave.
If anything I add to his invention,
It is our manners to engrave,
And not from any envious wishes; –
I'm not so foolishly ambitious.
Phaedrus enriches often his story,
In quest – I doubt it not – of glory:
Such thoughts were idle in my breast.
An aged man, near going to his rest,
His gathered sons thus solemnly addressed:
"To break this bunch of arrows you may try;
And, first, the string that binds them I untie."
The eldest, having tried with might and main,
Exclaimed, "This bundle I resign
To muscles sturdier than mine."
The second tried, and bowed himself in vain.
The youngest took them with the like success.
All were obliged their weakness to confess.
Unharmed the arrows passed from son to son;
Of all they did not break a single one.
"Weak fellows!" said their sire, "I now must show
What in the case my feeble strength can do."
They laughed, and thought their father but in joke,
Till, one by one, they saw the arrows broke.
"See, concord's power!" replied the sire; "as long
As you in love agree, you will be strong.
I go, my sons, to join our fathers good;
Now promise me to live as brothers should,
And soothe by this your dying father's fears."
Each strictly promised with a flood of tears.
Their father took them by the hand, and died;
And soon the virtue of their vows was tried.
Their sire had left a large estate
Involved in lawsuits intricate;
Here seized a creditor, and there
A neighbour levied for a share.
At first the trio nobly bore
The brunt of all this legal war.
But short their friendship as It was rare.
Whom blood had joined – and small the wonder! –
The force of interest drove asunder;
And, as is wont in such affairs,
Ambition, envy, were co-heirs.
In parcelling their sire's estate,
They quarrel, quibble, litigate,
Each aiming to supplant the other.
The judge, by turns, condemns each brother.
Their creditors make new assault,
Some pleading error, some default.
The sundered brothers disagree;
For counsel one, have counsels three.
All lose their wealth; and now their sorrows
Bring fresh to mind those broken arrows.
from the simpleton poet:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Chess is creative.
And a journey too.
Good in the morning.
Or just before bed.
Play cheater_1, with engine.
Or OTB, all in your head.
"Only those who want everything done for them are bored." — Billy Graham
"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world." — Billy Graham
"Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got." — Norman Vincent Peale
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." — Ralph Marston
* Riddle-z-dee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
"Never reply to an anonymous letter." ― Yogi Berra, MLB Hall of Fame catcher
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate." ― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
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