- Phil's Ideas Rom12
Compiled by Vodochka, altered.
* Black ...d6 Resources: Game Collection: 1...d6. A very interesting opening with no name * Unbeatable Lessons: Game Collection: Unbeatable Chess Lessons Nov-02-12 Infohunter: Larger databases, because less picky about game quality, can be found at these sites: http://www.chesslive.de./
http://mychess.com/
http://www.chess.com/
http://www.365chess.com/
And I am sure there must be a host of others.
Romans 12:2, King James Bible
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb “Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.’ A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.’ All’s well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.’ Meanwhile, Henry Knighton’s Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra * One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini * Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Anderssen - Steinitz Match: Anderssen - Steinitz (1866) * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) https://archive.org/details/the-gol... * Glossary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/... * GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at...
* B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger’s Models) * How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit * King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to... * Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer... * MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala) * Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics * 4 Miniz: zPonziani, zKieseritzky, zPhilidor, zFrankenstein-Dracula: z https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * 29 traps: https://www.chessonly.com/chess-ope... * Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018 * B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack * Brilliancies: Game Collection: Brilliancy Prizes (Reinfeld) * Center Fork Trick is very common: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Chess Links: http://www.chessdryad.com/links/ind... * Glossary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss... * Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) https://archive.org/details/the-gol... * Greatest Hits: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms) * Epic: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher * Extinguish the Dragon: Game Collection: 1.e4 explorations * “Messi of Chess”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0w... * RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... “The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution” ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov... * Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2) * Sicilian Alapin Miniature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLk... * Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * GK Scheveningen: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4 * 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * notes by tpstar:
Game Collection: Instructive Games * Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c... * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского
Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava)
Translation: He who doesn’t take risks doesn’t drink champagne
Meaning: Fortune favours the brave
"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
— Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”
— Mikhail Tal
Nevada: Genoa
Established in: 1851
Geoa was founded back in 1851 as a trading post and provisioning station meant to serve passing wagon trains. It was originally known as Mormon Station because the first settlers were Mormon, and was part of Utah. It was renamed Genoa in 1855 by Mormon leader Orson Hyde, who named it in honor of Christopher Columbus's birthplace of Genoa, Italy. Genoa is a tiny town — according to its website, just 250 people live there. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
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 Song of the Storm-Swept Plain
William D. Hodjkiss
The wind shrills forth
From the white cold North
Where the gates of the Storm-god are;
And ragged clouds,
Like mantling shrouds,
Engulf the last, dim star.
Through naked trees,
In low coulees,
The night-voice moans and sighs;
And sings of deep,
Warm cradled sleep,
With wind-crooned lullabies.
He stands alone
Where the storm’s weird tone
In mocking swells;
And the snow-sharp breath
Of cruel Death
The tales of its coming tells.
The frightened plaint
Of his sheep sound faint
Then the choking wall of white—
Then is heard no more,
In the deep-toned roar,
Of the blinding, pathless night.
No light nor guide,
Save a mighty tide
Of mad fear drives him on;
‘Till his cold-numbed form
Grows strangely warm;
And the strength of his limbs is gone.
Through the storm and night
A strange, soft light
O’er the sleeping shepherd gleams;
And he hears the word
Of the Shepherd Lord
Called out from the bourne of dreams.
Come, leave the strife
Of your weary life;
Come unto Me and rest
From the night and cold,
To the sheltered fold,
By the hand of love caressed.
The storm shrieks on,
But its work is done—
A soul to its God has fled;
And the wild refrain
Of the wind-swept plain,
Sings requiem for the dead.
“No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves (What about Scholar's Mate?). Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life.” — Anonymous Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
― Thomas Jefferson, chess player
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air .... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Riddle Question: What word is always pronounced wrong? A dog that barks all the time gets little attention. ~ Argentine proverb Riddle Answer: Wrong!
Thank you Qindarka!
Caissa, The Chess Lord.
Lord, I play three hundred hours of chess,
indeed, Lord, in thirty days more or less.
I have done my best under gruelling stress,
Yet I'm not happy with my snailing progress.
Yes, Lord. Caissa, to you I sadly do confess:
my constant losing has put me in distress.
I beg of you, Lord, Caissa, help me to re-assess
so I can beat those who keep me in this mess.
Lord, with your blessing and your skills I guess
I would always win and so powerfully aggress,
that all my opponents would humbly express:
hark here cometh the unbeatable king of chess.
<<Kasparov> is the only player to challenge <Lasker>'s record of winning the strongest tournaments consistently, and he did it over many more tournaments with more strong players around.> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMe... Here's the "upgrade"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-... And, a "reupload"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3os... <Cassandro>>, what gives?? Lambda presents basic facts regarding Kasparov and Karpov's significant tournament histories, and you rail on our member without presenting information proving otherwise? We see this all the time in Biden politics... the facts don't sit well, so one bashes the messenger as a retort because the debate is factually lost. No <stone or free die>, you think wrong as usual. FTB did NOT grow up reading books about Soviet legends. Ever heard of <Fred Reinfeld>?? Let's be of help, as we are known to educate those in need: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... and https://www.chess.com/blog/DonMcKim... This Reinfeld book was an early favorite of FTB: https://archive.org/details/greatsh... All one must do is sign up for free, and then borrow the book whenever one wishes to read for free, and see some exciting checkmates of the greats! During FTB's youth, the USA was in a friggin' <Cold War> of propaganda against Communism (and still is to a great degree aside from the Bidens making millions off overseas contributors: https://www.politifact.com/factchec...). Let us not forget that the Hillarious Clinton campaign https://apnews.com/article/russia-u... produced the completely fraudulent dossier dishonestly used by the FBI in court, falsely alleging that well-known American businessman Donald Trump was in fact a Russian operative. Seriously -- the Dems, the Deep State dared to pull such an outrageous stunt, and the malpracticing national media obliged. Then House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her gang of no-goods spent a whopping 3 1/2 egregiously trying to impeach the 44th president on a complete hoax!??? Why aren't these perpetrators behind barz??? It was the true GOAT, primarily self-taught <Bobby Fischer> who came along and temporarily dismantled the Communist stronghold on the chess world in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World... And who from that era will ever forget that the Communist SOBs jobbed our USA Olympic men's basketball team out of the gold medal in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DG... For the younger generation, there was no do-overs, no reset button back then. At least the USA had the great <Mark Spitz>: https://www.history.com/this-day-in... While we're at it, such foolish terrorist sympathizers might need to learn of this 1972 atrocity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munic... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSJ...
Not much has changed these days, eh? These same terrorists invaded Israel and killed 1,400 jews and took hostages in 2023, https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/18...
the last of which president elect Donald Trump's negotiator has finally secured an exchange in Reaganesque fashion. https://www.theatlantic.com/interna... The shear ignorance and lack of acceptance of historical truths on this website is astounding. FTB's pursuers really should wise up and stop eating their own shoe leather. Does anybody know who Slingin' Sammy Baugh was? <Otto Graham>? Is there a historical cut-off where legendary performers no longer exist, when Rome did not rule much of the world, or crucify the Lamb of God, <Jesus Christ> of Nazareth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvt... Can the accomplishments of the <Aztec empire> https://www.inventiongen.com/aztec-... be dismissed because we think we're in the information age today? Can they all be forgotten, swept under the rug for the sake of modernism? The latest is always the greatest??? Did some buffoon really invent a new checkmate??? Is a Goat still a Goat if he's part of a cheating organization? https://talksport.com/nfl/2731739/t... Is a goon still a goon when he's telling the truth? How do we know he's telling the truth? Is the truth optional today? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-c...
The truth separates the best from the rest.
Put away your thesaurus and never-ending negativity <perfidubious>. It's of no use when hiding from the fact that Carlsen has avoided the world's premier classical chess tournament two years in a row. To you, I present defending tournament champion <Wei Yi>, and NEW heavyweight champion of the world.... <<Gukesh Dommaraju> (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed world champion, the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2750, doing so at the age of 17, and the third-youngest to have surpassed 2700 Elo at the age of 16. He earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 12 and is the third-youngest grandmaster in chess history.> -- Wikipedia What's this?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTu... Say it aint so, Joe!
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Don’t trust the smile of your opponent. ~ Babylonian Proverbs Trust me, but look to thyself. ~ Irish Proverbs
Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb Don’t trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons. ~ Chinese Proverb If someone puts their trust in you, don’t sever it. ~ Lebanese Proverb Trust your best friend as you would your worst enemy. ~ Mexican Proverbs <Jonathan Moya wrote:
The King’s Rumination
Befuddled with thought
the king sought the oracle.
“Count the sands,
calculate the seas,”
she said.
Of the king’s future,
she spoke nothing.
Henceforth he
contented only
in his nightmares.>
Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) Charles R. Drew (1904-1950)
Charles Richard Drew was born into an African American family in Washington, D.C. and started working towards his dreams early. After getting through medical school, he specialized in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage. This led to his biggest achievement creating large-scale blood banks early in World War II. Drew's idea allowed medics to save thousands of Allied forces' lives during the war and revolutionized the way blood was used for medicine. Drew was one of the most prominent African Americans in his field, and he used his status to protest against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood. <Tips to calm down
Here are some helpful, actionable tips you can try the next time you need to calm down.1. Breathe
“Breathing is the number one and most effective technique for reducing anger and anxiety quickly,” says Scott Dehorty, LCSW-C, of Delphi Behavioral Health. When you’re anxious or angry, you tend to take quick, shallow breaths. Dehorty says this sends a message to your brain, causing a positive feedback loop reinforcing your fight-or-flight response. That’s why taking long, deep calming breaths disrupts that loop and helps you calm down. There are various breathing techniques to help you calm down. One is three-part breathing. Three-part breathing requires you to take one deep breath in and then exhale fully while paying attention to your body. Once you get comfortable with deep breathing, you can change the ratio of inhalation and exhalation to 1:2 (you slow down your exhalation so that it’s twice as long as your inhalation). Practice these techniques while calm so you know how to do them when you’re anxious. 2. Admit that you’re anxious or angry
Allow yourself to say that you’re anxious or angry. When you label how you’re feeling and allow yourself to express it, the anxiety and anger you’re experiencing may decrease. 3. Challenge your thoughts
Part of being anxious or angry is having irrational thoughts that don’t necessarily make sense. These thoughts are often the “worse-case scenario.” You might find yourself caught in the “what if” cycle, which can cause you to sabotage a lot of things in your life. When you experience one of these thoughts, stop and ask yourself the following questions: Is this likely to happen?
Is this a rational thought?
Has this ever happened to me before?
What’s the worst that can happen? Can I handle
that?
After you go through the questions, it’s time to reframe your thinking. Instead of “I can’t walk across that bridge. What if there’s an earthquake, and it falls into the water?” tell yourself: “There are people that walk across that bridge every day, and it has never fallen into the water.” 4. Release the anxiety or anger
Dehorty recommends getting the emotional energy out with exercise. “Go for a walk or run. [Engaging] in some physical activity [releases] serotonin to help you calm down and feel better.” However, you should avoid physical activity that includes the expression of anger, such as punching walls or screaming. “This has been shown to increase feelings of anger, as it reinforces the emotions because you end up feeling good as the result of being angry,” Dehorty explains. 5. Visualize yourself calm
This tip requires you to practice the breathing techniques you’ve learned. After taking a few deep breaths, close your eyes and picture yourself calm. See your body relaxed, and imagine yourself working through a stressful or anxiety-causing situation by staying calm and focused. By creating a mental picture of what it looks like to stay calm, you can refer back to that image when you’re anxious. 6. Think it through
Have a mantra to use in critical situations. Just make sure it’s one that you find helpful. Dehorty says it can be, “Will this matter to me this time next week?” or “How important is this?” or “Am I going to allow this person/situation to steal my peace?” This allows the thinking to shift focus, and you can “reality test” the situation. “When we’re anxious or angry, we become hyper-focused on the cause, and rational thoughts leave our mind. These mantras give us an opportunity to allow rational thought to come back and lead to a better outcome,” Dehorty explains. 7. Change your focus
Leave the situation, look in another direction, walk out of the room, or go outside. Dehorty recommends this exercise so you have time for better decision making. “We don’t do our best thinking when anxious or angry; we engage in survival thinking. This is fine if our life is really in danger, but if it isn’t life threatening, we want our best thinking, not survival instincts,” he adds. 8. Have a centering object
When you’re anxious or angry, so much of your energy is being spent on irrational thoughts. When you’re calm, find a “centering object” such as a small stuffed animal, a polished rock you keep in your pocket, or a locket you wear around your neck. Tell yourself that you’re going to touch this object when you’re experiencing anxiety or frustration. This centers you and helps calm your thoughts. For example, if you’re at work and your boss is making you anxious, gently rub the locket around your neck. 9. Relax your body
When you’re anxious or angry, it can feel like every muscle in your body is tense (and they probably are). Practicing progressive muscle relaxation can help you calm down and center yourself. To do this, lie down on the floor with your arms out by your side. Make sure your feet aren’t crossed and your hands aren’t in fists. Start at your toes and tell yourself to release them. Slowly move up your body, telling yourself to release each part of your body until you get to your head. 10. Drop your shoulders
If your body is tense, there’s a good chance your posture will suffer. Sit up tall, take a deep breath, and drop your shoulders. To do this, you can focus on bringing your shoulder blades together and then down. This pulls your shoulders down. Take a few deep breaths. You can do this several times a day.
11. Identify pressure points to calm anger and anxiety
Going for a massage or getting acupuncture is a wonderful way to manage anxiety and anger. But it’s not always easy to find time in your day to make it happen. The good news is, you can do acupressure on yourself for instant anxiety relief. This method involves putting pressure with your fingers or your hand at certain points of the body. The pressure releases the tension and relaxes your body. One area to start with is the point where the inside of your wrist forms a crease with your hand. Press your thumb on this area for two minutes. This can help relieve tension. 12. Get some fresh air
The temperature and air circulation in a room can increase your anxiety or anger. If you’re feeling tense and the space you’re in is hot and stuffy, this could trigger a panic attack. Remove yourself from that environment as soon as possible and go outside — even if it’s just for a few minutes. Not only will the fresh air help calm you down, but also the change of scenery can sometimes interrupt your anxious or angry thought process. 13. Fuel your body
Being hangry never helps. If you’re hungry or not properly hydrated, many relaxation techniques won’t work. That’s why it’s important to slow down and get something to eat — even if it’s just a small snack. Try nibbling on some dark chocolate. ResearchTrusted Source shows it can help boost brain health and reduce stress. Wash it down with a cup of green tea and honey. Studies show green tea can help reduce the body’s stress response. Research has found that honey can help relieve anxiety. 14. Chew gum
Chewing on a piece of gum can help reduce anxiety (and even boost mood and productivity). In fact, research shows people who chew gum regularly are typically less stressed than non-gum chewers. 15. Listen to music
The next time you feel your anxiety level cranking up, grab some headphones and tune in to your favorite music. Listening to music can have a very calming effect on your body and mind. 16. Dance it out
Get moving to your favorite tunes. Dancing has traditionally been used as a healing art. ResearchTrusted Source shows it’s a great way to combat depression and anxiety and increase quality of life. 17. Watch funny videos
Sometimes laughter really is the best medicine. Research has found that laughing provides therapeutic benefits and can help relieve stress and improve mood and quality of life. Do a quick internet search to find funny videos for an instant mood boost. 18. Write it down
If you’re too angry or anxious to talk about it, grab a journal and write out your thoughts. Don’t worry about complete sentences or punctuation — just write. Writing helps you get negative thoughts out of your head. 19. Squeeze a stress ball
When you’re feeling stress come on, try interacting with a stress-relief toy. Options include: stress ball
magnetic balls
sculpting clay
puzzles
Rubik’s cube
fidget spinner
20. Try aromatherapy
Aromatherapy, or the use of essential oils, may help alleviate stress and anxiety and boost mood. Those commonly used in aromatherapy include: bergamot
cedarwood
chamomile
geranium
ginger
lavender
lemon
tea tree
Add a few drops of essential oil to a diffuser, or mix it with a carrier oil (like coconut oil) and apply to your skin for quick relief. 21. Seek social support
Venting to a trusted friend, family member, or coworker can do wonders. Even if you don’t have time for a full play-by-play phone call, a quick text exchange can help you let it all out and help you feel heard. Bonus points if you engage with a funny friend who can help you laugh for added stress relief. 22. Spend time with a pet
Interacting with your favorite furry friend can decrease levels of the stress hormone cortisol and lower blood pressure. Quality time with a pet can also help you feel less alone and boost your overall mood.> “....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally.” — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee. “Sorry don't get it done, Dude!” — John Wayne, Rio Bravo “Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose pages 24-25 of The Year Book of the United States Chess Federation 1944 (Chicago, 1945), which published ‘Brave Heart’, Anthony Santasiere’s tribute to Frank J. Marshall. Written in August 1942 for Marshall’s 65th birthday, it began: Brave Heart –
We salute you!
Knowing neither gain nor loss,
Nor fear, nor hate –;
But only this –
To fight – to fight –
And to love.
Santasiere then gushes on in a similar vein for another 40 lines or so, and we pick up the encomium for its final verse: For this – dear Frank –
We thank you.
For this – dear Frank –
We love you!
Brave heart –
Brave heart –
We love you!
The Frog and the Rat
They to bamboozle are inclined,
Says Merlin, who bamboozled are.
The word, though rather unrefined,
Has yet an energy we ill can spare;
So by its aid I introduce my tale.
A well-fed rat, rotund and hale,
Not knowing either Fast or Lent,
Disporting round a frog-pond went.
A frog approached, and, with a friendly greeting,
Invited him to see her at her home,
And pledged a dinner worth his eating, –
To which the rat was nothing loath to come.
Of words persuasive there was little need:
She spoke, however, of a grateful bath;
Of sports and curious wonders on their path;
Of rarities of flower, and rush, and reed:
One day he would recount with glee
To his assembled progeny
The various beauties of these places,
The customs of the various races,
And laws that sway the realms aquatic,
(She did not mean the hydrostatic!)
One thing alone the rat perplexed, –
He was but moderate as a swimmer.
The frog this matter nicely fixed
By kindly lending him her
Long paw, which with a rush she tied
To his; and off they started, side by side.
Arrived on the lakelet's brink,
There was but little time to think.
The frog leaped in, and almost brought her
Bound guest to land beneath the water.
Perfidious breach of law and right!
She meant to have a supper warm
Out of his sleek and dainty form.
Already did her appetite
Dwell on the morsel with delight.
The gods, in anguish, he invokes;
His faithless hostess rudely mocks;
He struggles up, she struggles down.
A kite, that hovers in the air,
Inspecting everything with care,
Now spies the rat belike to drown,
And, with a rapid wing,
Upbears the wretched thing,
The frog, too, dangling by the string!
The joy of such a double haul
Was to the hungry kite not small.
It gave him all that he could wish –
A double meal of flesh and fish.
The best contrived deceit
Can hurt its own contriver,
And perfidy does often cheat
Its author's purse of every stiver.
blogger cinephilia once said: "The flawless game is impossible. Feed off your opponent's mistakes like a leech." “There’s always a hidden owl in knowledge.” – E.I. Jane “If you open it, close it. If you turn it on, turn it off. If you take it out, put it back. If you empty it, fill it. If you fill it, empty it.” — Kathryn Malter, St. Paul, MN “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
— Christopher Hitchens
<A Word To Husbands by Ogden NashTo keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.>
“In chess as in life, when defending or attacking, a good chess player understands that one rash, ill-conceived, bad move can worsen the position and lose the game.” ― John Bain, chess author “For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
<Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me).
Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!> FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/ 110 pounds of ketamine found in traveler's baggage at Detroit Airport
CBS News
GABRIELLE DAWSON, ALIZA CHASAN
December 21, 2023 at 5:42 PM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
ROMULUS, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - Officers found 110 pounds of ketamine in a traveler's baggage at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. The traveler, a citizen of the United Kingdom, arrived on a flight from France on Dec. 13, authorities said. He was selected for a second inspection. Officers performed an X-ray scan and physical search of the man's two large suitcases, which he claimed were given to him by a family member, customs officials said. The search revealed plastic bags filled with large white crystals, which according to field tests, were ketamine. At $90 per gram, the ketamine has a street value of over $4 million, authorities said. Customs and Border Protection officers seized the ketamine. Under federal law, the agency is required to destroy most seized drugs and retain samples as evidence for criminal prosecutions. Officers didn't let the traveler enter and he was returned to France, according to a news release. The amount of ketamine seized by law enforcement has steadily increased over the past seven years according to research published in May 2023 in JAMA Psychiatry. From 2017 to 2022, the research found the number of law enforcement seizures increased from 55 to 247 – more than 300% – with most activity reported in Tennessee, Florida, and California. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, most of the ketamine illegally distributed in the U.S. has been diverted or stolen from legitimate sources, including veterinary clinics, or smuggled into the country from Mexico. Ketamine, a Schedule III controlled substance, has been approved by the FDA as an anesthetic since the 1970s. It is accepted for medical use, but the drug — which has been abused for its hallucinogenic effects — is known for its use in nightclub and party culture. A ketamine overdose can cause unconsciousness and dangerously slowed breathing, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency has warned. "Friends" actor Matthew Perry died in October from the acute effects of ketamine, according to the results of an autopsy released earlier this month by the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Before his death, Perry received ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety, the autopsy report said. Perry's last treatment was a week and a half before his death. Based on the levels of ketamine in his blood, the coroner determined that his cause of death was not from his prior infusion therapy, but rather from ketamine taken in some other manner. Ketamine is usually metabolized in a matter of hours. Q: What do you call something that goes up when the rain comes down?
A: An umbrella.
Q: What do you call a doctor who fixes websites?
A: A URL-ologist.
Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A: A dinosnore.
Q: What do you call a Christmas tree that knows karate
A: Spruce Lee.
Q: What does a triangle call a circle?
A: Pointless.
Q: What do you call a piece of sad cheese?
A: Blue cheese.
Q: What do you call a cow in an earthquake?
A: A milkshake.
Q: What do you call an M&M that went to college?
A: A smarty.
The 20-40-40 rule in chess is a rule for players rated below 2000 that states 20% of your study should be dedicated to openings, 40% to the middlegame, and 40% to the endgame. The Fly and the Ant
A fly and ant, on a sunny bank,
Discussed the question of their rank.
"O Jupiter!" the former said,
"Can love of self so turn the head,
That one so mean and crawling,
And of so low a calling,
To boast equality shall dare
With me, the daughter of the air?
In palaces I am a guest,
And even at your glorious feast.
Whenever the people that adore you
May immolate for you a bullock,
I'm sure to taste the meat before you.
Meanwhile this starveling, in her hillock,
Is living on some bit of straw
Which she has laboured home to draw.
But tell me now, my little thing,
Do you camp ever on a king,
An emperor, or lady?
I do, and have full many a play-day
On fairest bosom of the fair,
And sport myself on her hair.
Come now, my hearty, rack your brain
To make a case about your grain."
"Well, have you done?" replied the ant.
"You enter palaces, I grant,
And for it get right soundly cursed.
Of sacrifices, rich and fat,
Your taste, quite likely, is the first; –
Are they the better off for that?
You enter with the holy train;
So enters many a wretch profane.
On heads of kings and asses you may squat;
Deny your vaunting I will not;
But well such impudence, I know,
Provokes a sometimes fatal blow.
The name in which your vanity delights
Is owned as well by parasites,
And spies that die by ropes – as you soon will
By famine or by ague-chill,
When Phoebus goes to cheer
The other hemisphere, –
The very time to me most dear.
Not forced abroad to go
Through wind, and rain, and snow,
My summer's work I then enjoy,
And happily my mind employ,
From care by care exempted.
By which this truth I leave to you,
That by two sorts of glory we are tempted,
The false one and the true.
Work waits, time flies; adieu:
This gabble does not fill
My granary or till."
Around the World
Riddle: What travels around the world but stays in one spot? FACTRETRIEVER: Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk. Riddle Answer: A stamp.
Blow it out your perfidious.
For someone that hates my guts, you sure do spend a lot of time following FTB all around this website. You don't seem too drunk though (yet) this Saturday now Sunday morning. Just puffy being your usual miserable terd self, failing to make any sort of chess contribution whatsoever while FTB schooled you once again on what is really going on. Clearly you are off to a fast start in 2024 on repeating as Lame Chess Poster of the Year. You'll hit 50,000 lame, vague, angry, contrived, mischaracterizing, dishonest, devil-inspired, imaginary, hateful, odd-ball, racist, sexist, self-promoting and blundering posts sometime this spring. Ever thought about working part-time for the fake news Washington Post? Maybe next time you can remember to tell us how you beat Chandler and Rogers in the same tournament playing 1.e4 which pushed your rating up over 2600 for the sixth time. Then you can download your bogus victories into your personal forum as is customary. It's been a 40 year lapse, so there's no time like the present to take advantage of Chessgames' lack of monitoring that you would not have dared tried when Daniel was about. Now get back to your job and shine on China. Don't forget Australia either. We have some good honest contributing members from down under. They need their vitamin D like everybody else. The Hog, the Goat, and the Sheep
A goat, a sheep, and porker fat,
All to the market rode together.
Their own amusement was not that
Which caused their journey there.
Their coachman did not mean to "set them down"
To see the shows and wonders of the town.
The porker cried, in piercing squeals,
As if with butchers at his heels.
The other beasts, of milder mood,
The cause by no means understood.
They saw no harm, and wondered why
At such a rate the hog should cry.
"Hush there, old piggy!" said the man,
"And keep as quiet as you can.
What wrong have you to squeal about,
And raise this devilish, deafening shout?
These stiller persons at your side
Have manners much more dignified.
Pray, have you heard
A single word
Come from that gentleman in wool?
That proves him wise." "That proves him fool!"
The testy hog replied;
"For did he know
To what we go,
He'd cry almost to split his throat;
So would her ladyship the goat.
They only think to lose with ease,
The goat her milk, the sheep his fleece:
They're, maybe, right; but as for me,
This ride is quite another matter.
Of service only on the platter,
My death is quite a certainty.
Adieu, my dear old piggery!"
The porker's logic proved at once
Himself a prophet and a dunce.
Hope ever gives a present ease,
But fear beforehand kills:
The wisest he who least foresees
Inevitable ills.
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” — Blasie Pascal “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 trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar.” – Unknown The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox
A lion, old, and impotent with gout,
Would have some cure for age found out.
Impossibilities, on all occasions,
With kings, are rank abominations.
This king, from every species, –
For each abounds in every sort, –
Called to his aid the leeches.
They came in throngs to court,
From doctors of the highest fee
To nostrum-quacks without degree, –
Advised, prescribed, talked learnedly;
But with the rest
Came not Sir Cunning Fox, M.D.
Sir Wolf the royal couch attended,
And his suspicions there expressed.
Forthwith his majesty, offended,
Resolved Sir Cunning Fox should come,
And sent to smoke him from his home.
He came, was duly ushered in,
And, knowing where Sir Wolf had been,
Said, "Sire, your royal ear
Has been abused, I fear,
By rumours false and insincere;
To wit, that I have been self-exempt
From coming here, through sheer contempt.
But, sire, I have been on pilgrimage,
By vow expressly made,
Your royal health to aid,
And, on my way, met doctors sage,
In skill the wonder of the age,
Whom carefully I did consult
About that great debility
Termed in the books senility,
Of which you fear, with reason, the result.
You lack, they say, the vital heat,
By age extreme become effete.
Drawn from a living wolf, the hide
Should warm and smoking be applied.
The secret's good, beyond a doubt,
For nature's weak, and wearing out.
Sir Wolf, here, won't refuse to give
His hide to cure you, as I live."
The king was pleased with this advice.
Flayed, jointed, served up in a trice,
Sir Wolf first wrapped the monarch up,
Then furnished him whereon to sup.
Beware, you courtiers, lest you gain,
By slander's arts, less power than pain;
For in the world where you are living,
A pardon no one thinks of giving.
"It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish." “Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” ― Charles F. Stanley Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. If the game is well-played, the rook's first move is usually sideways. Bughouse Rules
Bughouse is an outrageously fun team game in which one partner plays White and the other plays Black. As a player captures an opponent's piece, that captured piece is passed to the partner. The partner can either make a regular chess move, or place any one of the pieces passed by the partner anywhere on the board! (well, almost anywhere - there are certain rules to follow that we go over in class). To add to the excitement, Bughouse is played with clocks at a quick pace (5 minutes) and players are allowed to TALK!! In fact, you have to talk in order to effectively communicate strategies with your partner. Of course, your opponents might overhear you and plan their counter strategy. So you could whisper, or even talk in secret codes! But you can't hide captured pieces - they have to stay out in the open where everyone can see them. Not fair pulling a rook out from under your beard! These rules and others are contained in he official USCF Bughouse Rules 5th Edition, which will be posted on the walls for Bughouse events. It was interesting to note, during Grandmaster Nigel Davies' recent instructional clinics, that he greatly encouraged Bughouse as a tool for developing the imagination. IMPORTANT! Because of the high level of noise, Bughouse will be played only on pre-advertised Bughouse tournament days (normally around Halloween, plus or minus a week, and sometimes at other times during the year). BUGHOUSE RULES (adapted from http://raleighchessacademy.com/wp-c... ) 1. Number of Players - There are exactly two players on a team; they are called 'team members,' 'partners' or 'pardners' (Texas only). No substitutions of players are allowed at any time during the tournament. Ya dances with the pardner what brought ya. A Tournament can have many competing teams. 2. Bughouse Game - A 'Bughouse Game' matches one team member against one opponent, and the other team member against that opponent's partner. Play is conducted by the four players on two regulation chess boards, each starting from the normal chess starting position, with white moving first and each using a chess clock (digital takes precedence over analog). One partner plays White; the other Black. The first checkmate or time forfeit on either board ends the Game. If either partner on a team wins their board, then their team wins the Game. Just as in regular chess, there are multiple Games (rounds) per tournament. 3. Colors - For each Game, the team decides which partner is to play white and which is to play black. Once a Game is started, partners may not switch boards (and although you can always give advice to your partner, you cannot touch your partner's pieces). 4. Time control - The time control is Game in 5 minutes. Use 2 second delay when possible. 5. Bring a clock- Each team is responsible for providing a clock. If a team does not have a clock and their opponents do have a clock, the team without a clock forfeits. If neither team has a clock then both teams forfeit. 6. Completion of Move - If a player's hand has released a piece then that move cannot be changed, unless it is an illegal move. A move is not Completed until the piece is released AND the clock is pressed. If the clock has not been pressed then the opponent may not move (this is under review) 8. Illegal moves lose, if they are caught before the next move is made. I. If an opponent makes a move and starts the opponent's clock, they have forfeited the right to claim that illegal move. II. Before play begins both players should inspect the position of the pieces and the setting of the clock, since once each side has made a move all claims for correcting either are null and void. The only exception is if one or both players have more than five minutes on their clock, then the tournament director may reduce the time accordingly. III. Illegal moves, unnoticed by both players, cannot be corrected afterwards, nor can they become the basis for later making an illegal move claim. If the King and Queen are set up incorrectly when the game begins, then you may castle short on the queen side and castle long on the kingside. Once each side has made a move, incorrect setups must stay. 9. Passing pieces - When a piece is captured, the captured piece is passed to the partner only after the move is completed (opponent's clock is started). 10. Placing or moving pieces- A player has the option of either moving one of their pieces on their board or placing a piece their teammate has captured and passed to them. I. A captured piece may be placed on any unoccupied square on the board, with the exception that a pawn may not be placed on the first or last rank. II. Pieces may be placed to create or interpose check or checkmate. (under review - some variants do not allow "drop mates") III. A promoted pawn, which has been captured, reverts to a pawn and not the promoted piece. 11. Displaying captured pieces- A player may not attempt to hide pieces captured by their partner from the opponent. The first attempt will be a warning and the second attempt will result in forfeiture of the game. 12. Communicating allowed- Partners may verbally communicate throughout a game. It is legal for one partner to make move suggestions to the other partner. It is illegal and grounds for forfeiting the match if one partner physically moves one of their partner's pieces. 13. Clock Hand- Each player must push the clock button with the same hand they use to move their pieces. Exception: only during castling may a player use both hands. When capturing only one hand may be used. The first infraction will get a warning, the second a one minute penalty and the third will result in the loss of the game. 14. Touching a Clock- Except for pushing the clock button neither player should touch the clock except: I. To straighten it; II. If either player knocks over the clock his opponent gets one minute added to their clock; III. If your opponent's clock does not begin you may push their side down and repunch your side; however, if this procedure is unsatisfactory, please call for a director; IV. Each player must always be allowed to push the clock after their move is made. Neither player should keep their hand on or hover over the clock. 15. Define a win- A game is won by the player: I. who has mated their opponent's king; II. If the checking piece is not a knight or is not in contact (on an adjacent square) with the defending king and the defending player does not have any material to block the check, the defending player may wait until his or her partner supplies a piece provided their time does not run out. III. whose opponent resigns; IV. whose opponent's flag falls first, at any time before the game is otherwise ended, provided he/she points it out and neutralizes the clock while their own flag is still up; V. who, after an illegal move, takes the opponent's king or stops the clock; VI. an illegal move doesn't negate a player's right to claim on time, provided he/she does so prior to their opponent's claim of an illegal move. If the claims are simultaneous, the player who made the illegal move loses. 16. Defining a draw- A game is a draw: I. By agreement between the teams during the game only. II. If the flag of one player falls after the flag of the other player has already fallen and a win has not been claimed, unless either side mates before noticing both flags down. Announced checkmate nullifies any later time claims. 17. Replacing pieces- If a player accidentally displaces one or more pieces, he shall replace them on his own time. If it is necessary, his opponent may start the opponent's clock without making a move in order to make sure that the culprit uses his own time while replacing the pieces. Finally, it is unsportsmanlike to knock over any pieces then punch the clock. For the first offense the player will get a warning (unless this causes his flag to fall, in which case the opponent will get one extra minute added to his clock). For a second offense a one minute add-on for the opponent will be imposed. For a third offense the offender shall forfeit the game. Thereafter, the tournament director may use other penalties or expel a player from the event for repeated offenses. 18. Dispute between players - In case of a dispute either player may stop both clocks while the tournament director is being summoned. In any unclear situation the tournament director will consider the testimony of both players and any reliable witnesses before rendering his decision. If a player wishes to appeal the decision of a tournament director, the player must first appeal to the section chief then, if necessary, the player may appeal to the Chief floor director, whose decision in all cases is final. 19. TD touching the clock - The tournament director shall not pick up the clock; except in the case of a dispute. 20. Observer conduct - Spectators and players of another match are not to speak or otherwise interfere in a game. If a spectator interferes in any way, such as by calling attention to the flag fall or an illegal move, the tournament director may cancel the game and rule that a new game be played in its stead, and he may also expel the offending party from the playing room. The tournament director should also be silent about illegal moves, flag falls, etc. (unless there is an agreement with the players, before the game, to call them) as this is entirely the responsibility of the players. 21. Replacing a promoted pawn - If a player promotes a pawn they must leave the pawn on the board and clearly indicate to their opponent to what piece the pawn is being promoted too. The promoted pawn will be laid on it's side to indicate that it is a promoted pawn (MCS&C local rule - to prevent later disagreements about what piece the pawn was promoted to, and to avoid pawns annoyingly rolling about and off the board, a spare piece quickly found from another set should be used and placed in the normal upright position, an upside down rook still signifying a queen. The argument against this is nuclear proliferation of Queens, but I don't think it is a strong argument). 22. Replacement clock - Only a tournament director may determine if a clock is defective and change clocks. 23. Player behavior - Excessive banging of pieces or clock will not be tolerated and the offending player may be penalized with loss of time (Director discretion) 24. Insufficient Losing Chances- Insufficient losing chances claims cannot be made in Bughouse games. 25. Rules Not Covered Above - The Official Rules of Chess, 5th edition, shall be used to resolve any situation not covered by these rules. Question: What’s the only food that never expires?
Answer: Honey – when excavating ancient Egyptian tombs, archaeologists found pots of honey thousands of years old, and still edible. As long as the container is sealed, raw honey will never spoil. Although it never truly expires, honey can crystallize or granulate but is still safe to consume. Fun fact: the oldest jar of honey was found in the tomb of a noblewoman in Georgia. As far as archaeologists have found, this is considered the world’s oldest honey – about 5,500 years old. Question: , What’s the brightest star in the sky?
Answer: Sirius – also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, Sirius is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky. The star is outshone only by several planets and the International Space Station. Feb-09-12
ray keene: nimzos best endgames
v lasker zurich 1934
v spielmann carlsbad 1929
v lundin stockholm 1934
v maroczy bled 1931
v henneberger winterthur 1931
v thomas frankfurt 1930
v sultan khan liege 1930
v marshall berlin 1928
v reti berlin 1928
v alehine ny 1927
v tchigorin carlsbad 1907
and for a joke entry duras v nimzo san sebastian 1912 !! A quote from the link: https://www.libertarianism.org/what... "Modern day politicians on the left and right sometimes pay lip service to these ideas, but in practice they reject them. Legislation is all about imposing an order from above, rather than letting one emerge from below. And in creating their schemes, politicians all too often fail to give citizens their due as people, treating them as pawns and running roughshod over their rights to decide and plan for themselves." Below is the acrostic poem by Mrs T.B. Rowland:
Tears now we sadly shed apart,
How keenly has death’s sudden dart
E’en pierced a kingdom’s loyal heart.
Dark lies the heavy gloomy pall
Upon our royal bower,
Kings, queens, and nations bow their heads,
Each mourn for England’s flower.
Oh! God, to her speak peace divine,
For now no voice can soothe but thine.
Ah, why untimely snatched away,
Loved Prince – alas, we sigh –
Before thy sun its zenith reached
Athwart the noonday sky.
Noble in heart, in deed, and will,
Years hence thy name we’ll cherish still.
That poem was published on pages 140-141 of Chess Fruits (Dublin, 1884) “Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.” ― Siegbert Tarrasch “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." Woordzy Funn:
E88 windeee zwisschen zoot pergatorious Zanoks freeze Zedinski set Zhuravlious freaked out
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38 games, 1749-2020 - Phillidilly Dinner Specials for Fredthebear
A GAME OF CHESS
by T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion;
In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid— troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended 90
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
And other withered stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed. Footsteps shuffled on the stair.
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
110
"My nerves are bad to-night.
Yes, bad.
Stay with me.
"Speak to me.
Why do you never speak.
Speak.
"What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
"I never know what you are thinking.
Think.
" I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
"What is that noise?"
The wind under the door. "What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?"
Nothing again nothing.
120
"Do
"You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
"Nothing?"
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
"Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now? What shall I do?"
I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
"With my hair down, so.
What shall we do to-morrow?
"What shall we ever do?"
The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four.
And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door. When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said—
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get yourself some teeth.
He did, I was there.
You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,
He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you. And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert,
He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time,
And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said. Oh is there, she said.
Something o' that, I said.
150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look. HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said. Others can pick and choose if you can't.
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling. You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique. (And her only thirty-one.
)
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said. (She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.
) 160
The chemist said it would be alright, but I've never been the same. You are a proper fool, I said.
Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want children?
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot—
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Goonight Bill.
Goonight Lou.
Goonight May.
Goonight.
170
Ta ta.
Goonight.
Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night. St. Thomas
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The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
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“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
— Marcel Duchamp
“Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” ― Albert Einstein “When in doubt, don't.” ― Benjamin Franklin California: San Diego
Established in: 1769
San Diego is the second largest city in the state and sits just north of Mexico. Back in the 16th century, the Diegueño, Luiseño, Cahuilla, and Cupeño peoples were some of the first settlers in the area. It was named after explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, but later was renamed for Spanish monk San Diego de Alcalá de Henares in 1602. Illinois: Peoria
Established in: 1680
French settlers Robert Cavalier Sieur de LaSalle and Henri de Tonti built Fort Crevecoeur on the bank of the Illinois River in 1680. Soon, a village grew around it. Peoria's history goes back further than that. Archaeologists can trace signs of men there as far back as 10,000 B.C.E. thanks to the evidence of artifacts and burial mounds as evidence of a Native American civilization. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... * Three Simple Chess Tips: https://www.premierchesscoaching.co... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * History of Chess: https://boldchess.com/history/ * Short history: Game Collection: A history of chess * Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
“I do not know how old I was when I learned to play chess. I could not have been older than eight, because I still have a chessboard on whose side my father inscribed, with a soldering iron, “Saša Hemon 1972.” I loved the board more than chess—it was one of the first things I owned. Its materiality was enchanting to me: the smell of burnt wood that lingered long after my father had branded it; the rattle of the thickly varnished pieces inside, the smacking sound they made when I put them down, the board’s hollow wooden echo. I can even recall the taste—the queen’s tip was pleasantly suckable; the pawns’ round heads, not unlike nipples, were sweet. The board is still at our place in Sarajevo, and, even if I haven’t played a game on it in decades, it is still my most cherished possession, providing incontrovertible evidence that there once lived a boy who used to be me.” ― Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives The Oak and the Reed
The oak one day addressed the reed:
"To you ungenerous indeed
Has nature been, my humble friend,
With weakness aye obliged to bend.
The smallest bird that flits in air
Is quite too much for you to bear;
The slightest wind that wreathes the lake
Your ever-trembling head does shake.
The while, my towering form
Dares with the mountain top
The solar blaze to stop,
And wrestle with the storm.
What seems to you the blast of death,
To me is but a zephyr's breath.
Beneath my branches had you grown,
That spread far round their friendly bower,
Less suffering would your life have known,
Defended from the tempest's power.
Unhappily you oftenest show
In open air your slender form,
Along the marshes wet and low,
That fringe the kingdom of the storm.
To you, declare I must,
Dame Nature seems unjust."
Then modestly replied the reed:
"Your pity, sir, is kind indeed,
But wholly needless for my sake.
The wildest wind that ever blew
Is safe to me compared with you.
I bend, indeed, but never break.
Thus far, I own, the hurricane
Has beat your sturdy back in vain;
But wait the end." Just at the word,
The tempest's hollow voice was heard.
The North sent forth her fiercest child,
Dark, jagged, pitiless, and wild.
The oak, erect, endured the blow;
The reed bowed gracefully and low.
But, gathering up its strength once more,
In greater fury than before,
The savage blast
Overthrew, at last,
That proud, old, sky-encircled head,
Whose feet entwined the empire of the dead!
<Ah, reverie! Ten thousand heads I see
Bent over chess-boards, an infinity
Of minds engaged in battle, fiendishly,
Keenly, or calmly, as the case may be:
World-wide, the neophyte, the veteran,
The studious problemist, the fairy fan ...
“What’s that? – I’m nearly sending you to sleep?
Sorry! – but this position’s rather deep.”Source: Chess Amateur, September 1929, page 268.> The Battle of the Rats and the Weasels
The weasels live, no more than cats,
On terms of friendship with the rats;
And, were it not that these
Through doors contrive to squeeze
Too narrow for their foes,
The animals long-snouted
Would long ago have routed,
And from the planet scouted
Their race, as I suppose.
One year it did betide,
When they were multiplied,
An army took the field
Of rats, with spear and shield,
Whose crowded ranks led on
A king named Ratapon.
The weasels, too, their banner
Unfurled in warlike manner.
As Fame her trumpet sounds,
The victory balanced well;
Enriched were fallow grounds
Where slaughtered legions fell;
But by said trollop's tattle,
The loss of life in battle
Thinned most the rattish race
In almost every place;
And finally their rout
Was total, spite of stout
Artarpax and Psicarpax,
And valiant Meridarpax,[8]
Who, covered over with dust,
Long time sustained their host
Down sinking on the plain.
Their efforts were in vain;
Fate ruled that final hour,
(Inexorable power!)
And so the captains fled
As well as those they led;
The princes perished all.
The undistinguished small
In certain holes found shelter,
In crowding, helter-skelter;
But the nobility
Could not go in so free,
Who proudly had assumed
Each one a helmet plumed;
We know not, truly, whether
For honour's sake the feather,
Or foes to strike with terror;
But, truly, It was their error.
Nor hole, nor crack, nor crevice
Will let their head-gear in;
While meaner rats in bevies
An easy passage win; –
So that the shafts of fate
Do chiefly hit the great.
A feather in the cap
Is often a great mishap.
An equipage too grand
Comes often to a stand
Within a narrow place.
The small, whatever the case,
With ease slip through a strait,
Where larger folks must wait.
“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 * Know the five fundamental rules of firearm safety: - Treat every gun as if it is loaded.
- Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to destroy. - Never put your finger on a gun's trigger until you make a conscious decision to shoot. - Always be sure of your target, what's beyond it, and what's between you and your target. - When not in use, a firearm needs to be locked in some kind of secure container—a gun vault is best. If it cannot be secured in a locked location, then a trigger lock should be applied. A loaded firearm should never be unattended. “Risk” by Anais Nin
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, is the largest national park in the USA, covering 13,000 square miles or 13.2 million acres. Riddle Question: I'm a mobile fortress; straight is my path. When it comes to castling, I’m part of the craft. What am I? The name "coronavirus" is derived from the Latin word "corona," meaning "crown" or "halo." This refers to the appearance of a crown or a solar corona around the virus particles. Riddle Answer: Rook
California's Sequoia National Park is home to the largest living single-stem tree in the world, the wonderfully named General Sherman. The tree is approximately 275 feet tall and weighs approximately 1,900 metric tons. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot — Mark Twain The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of <attitude>. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing. — John C. Maxwell Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.
— John Muir
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day.
— Alice Morse Earle
'A rolling stone gathers no moss'
'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted' “Of my 57 years, I've applied at least 30 to forgetting most of what I've learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without.” ― Emanuel Lasker “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
― Thomas Jefferson
<My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
— William Wordsworth>
Steinitz's Theory
1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal. 2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides. 3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.
4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer. 5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained. 6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage. 7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it. A tiny chameleon discovered in northern Madagascar and measuring just 28.9 millimeters is believed to be the smallest reptile on Earth. The itty bitty chameleon was recently discovered and reported in the January 2021 issue of Scientific Reports. 1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4. With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest planet in our solar system. Chessgames.com will be unavailable January 16, 2024 from 12:15PM through 12:45PM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance.
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<A Burnt Ship
By John Donne (1572-1631)
Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.> “mãos frias, coração quente“. In English, it means “a cold hand, a warm heart” Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac “mais vale um passarinho na mão do que dois a voar“ No matter what
The Clock
The obelisks, constructed by ancient Egyptians around 3,500 B.C.E., were among the earliest models of shadow clocks. The sundial also came from Egypt about two thousand years after. Both were great representations of the time-keeping instruments we use now. Be prepared
The Weasel In The Granary
A weasel through a hole contrived to squeeze,
(She was recovering from disease,)
Which led her to a farmer's hoard.
There lodged, her wasted form she cherished;
Heaven knows the lard and victuals stored
That by her gnawing perished!
Of which the consequence
Was sudden corpulence.
A week or so was past,
When having fully broken fast.
A noise she heard, and hurried
To find the hole by which she came,
And seemed to find it not the same;
So round she ran, most sadly flurried;
And, coming back, thrust out her head,
Which, sticking there, she said,
"This is the hole, there can't be blunder:
What makes it now so small, I wonder,
Where, but the other day, I passed with ease?"
A rat her trouble sees,
And cries, "But with an emptier belly;
You entered lean, and lean must sally."
What I have said to you
Has eke been said to not a few,
Who, in a vast variety of cases,
Have ventured into such-like places.
Ever tried dropping a raisin in a glass of champagne? Probably not, but someone did – as apparently, the dried fruit will bounce up and down without stopping. Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited USA national park with more than 9 million guests per year, followed by Grand Canyon National Park, which gets more than 4 million visits per year. If the game is well-played, the rook's first move is usually sideways. * Weird is what you're not used to: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches... <limerick, entitled ‘The Solver’s Plight’ was by ‘A.J.F.’ [A.J. Fink] and was published on page 22 of Chess Potpourri by Alfred C. Klahre (Middletown, 1931):There was a man from Vancouver
Who tried to solve a two-mover;
But the boob, he said, ‘“Gee”,
I can’t find the “Kee”,
No matter HOW I manouvre.’>
Results may vary.
<Chess Life> is an active monthly magazine and is the official publication of the United States Chess Federation. <Chess Life> is advertised as the "most widely read chess magazine in the world," and reaches more than a quarter of a million readers each month. <Chess Life> focuses on American chess players and tournaments, instruction, human interest, and US Chess governance matters. The United States Chess Federation also publishes Chess Life Kids, a bimonthly publication covering the same subjects aimed at a younger audience. Publication of <Chess Life> started in 1946 as a bi-weekly newspaper, usually eight or twelve pages long. In 1961, Frank Brady converted Chess Life to a monthly magazine. In 1969, <Chess Life> merged with Chess Review, the other leading U.S. chess magazine. The magazine was published under the title Chess Life & Review starting with the November 1969 issue until 1980 when it returned to its original title <Chess Life>. The Night Sky’s Serenade
In the night sky, the stars serenade,
Their light piercing the darkness, a blade.
The moon shines, in silver brocade.
Silent and serene, the night’s parade,
A celestial spectacle, never to fade.
In the night sky, the stars serenade.
The universe’s secrets, in the open laid,
Under the starlight, fears evade.
The moon shines, in silver brocade.
Night’s symphony, a tranquil serenade,
In its rhythm, our dreams are made.
In the night sky, the stars serenade.
From dusk till dawn, in darkness wade,
Under the night sky, hopes cascade.
The moon shines, in silver brocade.
So, let us cherish the night’s shade,
And in its beauty, let us wade.
In the night sky, the stars serenade,
The moon shines, in silver brocade.
According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. “Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that information.” ― Josh Keller The sandwich wasn’t a marketing creation but one of convenience. The Earl of Sandwich put together the first of its kind as he needed something quick and easy to eat while gambling! <Fundamental Chess Principles
according to CJS Purdy
On Combinations
One simultaneous double threat is better than a great many successive single threats. That is the main lesson of chess. A double threat is a combination of two threats. (pg. 31) A combination (threat plus restraint or threat plus obstruction) may be called a "net". It is the most important kind of combination because every mate, without exception, is a "net". (pg. 32) Watch out for pieces of limited mobility, especially pieces without retreat. Remember that one retreat may not be enough.(pg. 32 / 33) On Tied Pieces
An important rule for avoiding a trap is this:
Where feasible, avoid using a piece to defend something that is attacked. Either protect the attaced unit with a pawn or move it away. (pg. 34) A knight is the worst defender because he cannot possibly maintain the defense if forced to move. (pg. 34) The best protector is a pawn - for three reasons: There is no possibility of it being attacked by a unit of lesser value;
It is a complete defense against any piece bigger than the one attacked;
above all, a menial task is suited to it, whereas a piece used for defending one particular thing is wasting its talents.
(pg. 35)
If you must use pieces to protect something, perhaps because it cannot move away, try to use one more than necessary! You are then free to moe any one of the protectors; not a single one is absolutely tied to its defensive task. (pg. 35) On Position Play
Position play is the art of improving your position in small ways when no sound combination is possible. (pg. 40) One can say that an endgame has arrived when neither side has more pieces than the equivalent of Queen plus pawn (with of course, the Kings, who are always with us). (pg. 41) Combinations are of primary importance, position play of secondary importance. (pg. 41) Pages refer to where content can be found on Guide to Good Chess.
Posted by Chessbuzz>
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Better to go in your pants than go in the bush?! Give the man credit for having a wad of paper in his hand. It musta been the intimidating ponytail that saved him. If this were a bear, give the creature your picnic basket, your keys and wallet, or tell a bunch of clean dad jokes. Of course, prayer is always helpful.
Daniel 6
New King James Version
The Plot Against Daniel
6 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; 2 and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss. 3 Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. 4 So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him. 5 Then these men said, “We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.” 6 So these governors and satraps thronged before the king, and said thus to him: “King Darius, live forever! 7 All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” 9 Therefore King Darius signed the written decree. Daniel in the Lions’ Den
10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. 11 Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12 And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king’s decree: “Have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” 13 So they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.” 14 And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. 15 Then these men approached the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed.” 16 So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” 17 Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed. Daniel Saved from the Lions
18 Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him. 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” 21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! 22 My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” 23 Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God. Darius Honors God
24 And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den. 25 Then King Darius wrote:
To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
26 I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God,
And steadfast forever;
His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed,
And His dominion shall endure to the end.
27 He delivers and rescues,
And He works signs and wonders
In heaven and on earth,
Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. Chessgames.com will be unavailable March 12, 2023 from 2:00AM through 4:00AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance.
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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it. — Unknown An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist. — David Greenberg Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. — Larry Mcmurtry The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore. — Billie Joe Armstrong Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either: "I wish I had" or "I'm glad I did". — Zig Ziglar You must do the things you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. — Norman Vincent Peale <“The Paradoxical CommandmentsPeople are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”>
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the former five-time World Chess Champion, reigning four-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and reigning six-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Arguably the fourth or fifth best chess player of all time (Morphy, Capablanca, Fischer, Kasparov, Karpov, etc.), Carlsen has held the No. 1 position in the FIDE world chess rankings since 1 July 2011 and trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest-rated player in the world. His peak rating of 2882 is the highest in history. Carlsen also holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak at the elite level in classical chess. <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’.> Parrots will selflessly help each other out.
Parrots may be associated with pirates, but it turns out African gray parrots are nothing like the infamously greedy, treasure-seeking criminals. Instead, researchers have discovered that the colorful birds will "voluntarily help each other obtain food rewards" and perform "selfless" acts, according to a 2020 study published in Current Biology. Study co-author Auguste von Bayern noted, "African gray parrots were intrinsically motivated to help others, even if the other individual was not their friend, so they behaved very 'prosocially.'" Clint Eastwood desperately wanted to play James Bond. Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven’t we metaphor?"
Clint Eastwood was a mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline?
A: A milkshake.
Clint Eastwood was almost cast as Superman.
The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
That's right. The bat is the only flying mammal. While some people may be tempted to put flying squirrels on the list, the truth is those guys can only glide for short distances. Meanwhile, the long, flexible skin that extends over a bat's wings, combined with their many movable joints, make bats great fliers. In fact, these critters are much more comfortable in the air than on land. Because their leg bones are so thin, only two out of the 1,100 species of bats can walk on the ground. <Page 166 of The Personality of Chess by I.A. Horowitz and P.L. Rothenberg (New York, 1963) gave ‘a hitherto unpublished limerick-acrostic:Caissa, the goddess of Chess,
Has this task, no more and no less;
Every game, match and damn bit,
Sicilian and gambit
She must ever be ready to bless.>
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” — Blasie Pascal “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. In God we trust; all others pay cash. ~ American Proverb Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles. ~ Senegalese Proverb CHESS WORDS of WISDOM
The Principles, Methods and
Essential Knowledge of Chess
MIKE HENEBRY
2011
You should not trade pieces if you have the initiative Opening the position helps to exploit weak squares The best number of pawn islands to have is two
Exchanges increase the chances of mobilizing the majority wing When behind in pieces, trade pawns, but not pieces Calculate wide, not deep
Space is usually more important than time (Fredthebear disagrees) Releasing the tension reduces your options
The player playing against the IQP should usually exchange all of the knights You should not mobilize pawn structures that have doubled pawns If a move looks bad on general principles, the plan is probably bad The side with a positional advantage has no need to complicate Knights are often better than bishops in blitz
A plan is made up of ideas, not moves
Trying to play the best move and playing to win are not the same When faced with a critical position, you have to calculate variations A gambited pawn is equal to three tempi
With the initiative, miracles can happen
Do not ignore your intuition
The weak point of the fianchetto position is the h3 (h6) square Complications are good for the side that is losing Long analysis, wrong analysis
If the move feels wrong, it usually is
The fianchettoed bishop is not as good as a pawn is in guarding holes Do not win a pawn if it costs you more than two tempi Sharp openings are best in blitz
The initiative is especially important in blitz To play chess at a strong level, it is essential to play according to sound principles To increase the influence of your fianchettoed bishop, open the center A temporary advantage must be exploited at once When you fianchetto one bishop, the other bishop automatically loses a little of its mobility Rooks attack best from a distance
You should not change openings because the opponent is higher-rated Passive defense can work against rook and knight pawns, but it does not work against inner pawns An imbalance is a double-edged sword
Pawns gain in strength as the power of the pieces left on the board decreases There is a difference between blitz and time-trouble Exchange your redundant rook for your opponent’s only rook When ahead pieces, trade pieces, when behind pieces, trade pawns When you are ahead on pieces, trade pieces (but not necessarily pawns) Connected passed pawns on the 6th rank beat a Rook The more redundant two pieces are, generally the weaker they are together A lead in development is less important in closed positions An advantage in development leads to other advantages Poor development is a key breeding ground for opening traps It is usually a good strategy to put your pawns on the color opposite of your bishop He who fears an isolated queen’s pawn should give up chess Space is not an advantage unless you can use it beneficially for maneuvering and for piece play A three-to-two majority is easier to convert into a passed pawn than is a four to-three majority Plan your action on the side of your pawn majority A central pawn majority favors the attacker
The fewer pawn islands you have the stronger the structure is The square in front of the backward pawn is the main factor Having a rook on the seventh rank is worth about a pawn It is best to leave active pieces where they are The initiative is above everything
Tactics flow from superior positions
Only calculate when it is essential
Bishops gain in strength as the endgame approaches Calculate the moves that are forcing and tactical first The player with an advantage must attack
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack If an attack can succeed with pieces alone, then leave the pawns where they are It is usually better to have the rook in front of the queen when playing on an open file If there are no weaknesses, you do not have an attack Queen exchanges are usually better for the player who is attacking on the queenside Take the minimum risk and use the maximum in economy to stop an attack Only defend against direct threats
Bishops and knights rarely coordinate well with each other (Fredthebear says the knight can pile on the diagonal aim of the bishop for a numbers advantage, such as the Fried Live Attack striking together on f7. The bishop lurking behind the knight makes for excellent discovered attacks.) A sudden change into an endgame can throw an attacker off his game Three useable diagonals are worth a pawn
Plans are usually made for just a few moves at a time Any imbalance should give the stronger player an edge Wing pawns become more valuable relative to central pawns as material diminishes There is no room for mistakes in a king and pawn endgame It is usually a mistake to move a pawn on the side where your opponent is attacking Try to meet short-term threats with long-term moves The first player in an open position to control an open central file will generally get the initiative It is usually wrong to remove a piece from an open file to avoid exchanges Play where you have the advantage
You can usually allow weaknesses in your position in return for good piece activity The move g3 is usually a more weakening move than h3 A weak square for one player is potentially a strong square for the other You cannot consider the white and black squares in isolation when analyzing a position Color Complex weaknesses are not as important when the minor pieces are gone A support point is only valuable if it is near the action
When your pieces are coordinated, they develop extraordinary power If you have the bishop pair, put your pawns on the same color as your opponent’s remaining bishop If you are facing a double fianchetto, try to close the position and gain control of the center The knight pair is not a good combination
Never use a rook to defend a pawn
(Never say never.)
If you have a dynamic advantage, but a static weakness, it might be better to keep your queen If the rooks cannot penetrate, it is often worth the sacrifice of the ex-change to force penetration Collected by Fredthebear.
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22 games, 1750-2021 - Pick & Ch(l)oose Patch o' Berries fo Fredthebear
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This is an old storage file of various openings that the underhanded CGs invader slashed just to continually harass FTB. Your turn is coming. My opponent does not have to cooperate with my plans or play the way I expect. He might not know the correct opening theory! I might not know the correct response to his ad lib! * Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Simple tactics course using miniatures:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/FTP... * Brilliant (and mostly famous games)!! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures * Forney's Collection: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Coded: Game Collection: Great Games by ECO Code * Chyss: https://www.angelfire.com/nf/chess/... * 23 pages of King's Gambit (over 2000 games) wins by Black!
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Black ...d6 Resources: Game Collection: 1...d6. A very interesting opening with no name * Volo plays the KP faithfully: Volodymyr Onyshchuk * White - Sicilian: Bb2 by gabon: Game Collection: White - Sicilian: Bb2 * A Brief History of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeB... * A Brief History of the Game of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2a... * American players list: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/ame... * Are you broke? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Bad bishops are...bad: https://lichess1.org/game/export/gi... * Chess for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6... * Checkmate with Two Bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN7... * Checkmate with King and Rook vs lone King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yf... * Chess Equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLA... * Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate... * Caviar: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Chess in the Newspaper: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * C03-C09 miniatures: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Collection assembled by Fredthebear, slashed by CGs. * Famous Chess Photos: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/585256... * Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French * Gambits against the French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam * Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis... * IECC: https://www.chess-iecc.com/
* Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... * TFD: https://chessentials.com/category/l... * Meet Leroy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzY... * Miniatures of the Champs: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions * Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III) * Monday Puzzles: Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2017 * Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki) * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED! * Pie in the sky: https://www.old-mill.com/oldmill-re... * Pawn Structures: Game Collection: Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide * POTD 2023: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2023 * 2023 in Review: https://www.chess.com/news/view/202... * Tic-Tac-Toe is Easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNF... * Learn Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adY... * Learn Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGu... * Learn ALL the Rules of the Royal Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej_... * Ladder Checkmate with Two Rooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQ... * The Opposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52y... * King and Pawn vs King (both kings want to be in front of the pawn to affect it's progress): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvB... * Three Dog Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l52... * Son of Three Dog Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4N... * Arabian Checkmate Pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejh... * Basic Checkmates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-... * Most Common Opening Mistake (Four Knights, Italian Variation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrp... * Scotch Game, Four Knights Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcn... * Top 4 Traps in the Center Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8f... * Top 4 Vienna Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb7... * Top 4 Scholar's Mates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr4... * More Scholar's Mates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUN... * Top 4 Fishing Pole Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11N... * Top 4 Excellent Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTS... * 1.d4 Response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ-... * Top 3 Versions of the Italian Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CP... * Top 5 Versions of the Italian Game Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-2... * Top 4 Aggressive 1.e4 e5 Openings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tm... * Top 5 Traps after 1.e4 e5 for White: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YW... * 5 Chess traps in Giuoco Piano Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny7... * Italian Game Variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xh... * Garry Kasparov's Checkmate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuP... * 5 Best Traps for White: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5t... * Max Lange Attack instead of the Fried Liver Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI7... * Top 5 Traps in the Bishop's Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9l... * Top 5 King Pawn Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS2... * King's Gambit critique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrW... * Top 5 More Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9... * Top 5 Famous Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJU... * Top 5 Fastest Traps to Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veZ... * Top 5 Underrated Openings Against the Sicilian Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsh... * 1.d4 d5 Ryder Gambit, Halosar Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZq... * Top 6 Opening Checkmates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRu... * Top 7 Aggressive Chess Openings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8... * Wing Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODK... * Mengarini Gambit?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecd... * MC plays the Mengarini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XH... * Top 8 Versions of the Scotch Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbu... * Underrated Scotch Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8n... * Scotch Gambit for White: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYP... * Scotch Gambit Trap for White: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-... * Learn the Scotch Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nr... * Scotch, Goring Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0F... * Haxo Gambit vs Nge7?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgm... * Haxo Gambit hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3om... * Top 10 Fastest Checkmates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctP... * Find Mate-in-One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOa... * 10 Well-Known Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf8... * 10 Most Deadly Opening Traps to Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyE... * 10 Ruy Lopez Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztm... * Common Mistakes in the Ruy Lopez Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96... * You are going to lose a lot of chess games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W4... * Don't Hang Your Piece! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hz... * DGT North American Chess Clock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkh... * Electronic chessboard isn't necessary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOn... * Elements of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2C... * Easy to Learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--D... * No such thing as "Best Opening": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agU... * Endgame Fundamentals: King & Pawn vs King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLy... * Types of Opposition of the Kings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3o... * Pillsbury's Greek Gift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNC... * Punish Opening Errors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkL... * A Thought Process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ... * A Practical Thought: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ-... * Quick Smothered Mate in the Budapest Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpe... * Tips for Knights & More: http://www.chesssets.co.uk/blog/tip... * Beautiful Knight Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_3... * Knight's Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab_... * Knight vs Pawn Endgame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4f... * Trompowsky Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrK... * Trompowsky vs Naroditsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILY... * Top 10 Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpl... * Rajnish Das Tips: https://enthu.com/blog/chess/chess-... * Removing the Defender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Y... * Decoy onto the square for ambush there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdI... * All 54 Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY8... * Alapin Sicilian for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY-... * Alapin Sicilian Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezy... * Alapin Sicilian Never Disappoints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzd... * Chess Rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1... * Chess Clock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a10... * Crazy Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM_... * Cultural History of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWN... * First Chess Game Ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC4... * Nelson explains his thought process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KN... * How the Chess Clock Works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgg... * How to Handle Losing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrg... * His First OTB Chess Tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUi... * How Not to Blunder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Y... * A Thought Process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ... * Analysis Made Easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y4... * Attack the Fianchetto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF6... * Destroy g6, Bg7 Modern Robatsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv_... * The Modern Defense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moder... * Attack w/the London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmq... * London System vs KID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU2... * Rosen's London System vs KID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W2... * Anti-London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUB... * Beat the London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U-... * Crush the London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qg... * London System Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTu... * Beginner Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR-... * Don't Blunder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jO... * Blunder Less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYy... * Nimzo-Larsen Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwC... * 1.b3: Game Collection: Nimzo Larsen attack (1. b3!) - Opening Ideas * Black against 1.b3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpw... * Owen's Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkf... * Owen's Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF7... * Queen's Fianchetto for White and Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O24... * IM Lawrence Trent (not speaking) advocates 1...b6 against ALL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlW... * More ...b6 against ALL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKn... * Naselwaus Gambit vs Owen's Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBv... * Botvinnik System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmi... * Basics of the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8a... * Brief Caro-Kann Defense Variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-... * Black stops losing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgX... * Use the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtP... * Three Caro-Kann Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNp... * The Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3H... * Beat the Caro-Kann Quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhj... * Crush the Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXv... * The Caro-Kann, Advance Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npq... * Gokerkan vs Niemann 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gw... * Classical Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1... * Main Ideas of the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN... * Magnus plays the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDa... * Karpov's Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa4... * ...c6 against all by Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCZ... * ...c6 speedrun by Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDU... * Instructive Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLp... * Dangerous Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI_... * C-K Advance, Botvinnik-Carls Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWb... * Caro-Kann, Fantasy Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4e... * Caro-Kann, Korchnoi Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3... * Complete Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZ... * Chessbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZl... * Chessbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_... * Chess Evolution: Game Collection: # Chess Evolution Volumes 1-50 * Faster Learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClS... * Flashcards Fix Your Failures by reminding you of the right way to go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvH... * Flashcard Converter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B4... * Flashcard Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isy... * Free Tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-n... * French Defense, Rubinstein Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jR... * Five Gambits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48W... * King's Gambit, Queen's Gambit in Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-w... * Halloween Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XK... * Icelandic Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gj... * Improvement is COMMITTMENT, DEDICATION, DESIRE, and PERSEVERENCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCB... * Improvement Book Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Up... This book appears to be for advanced players who already know the material listed above. * Solve Puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWz... * How to Solve (Don't immediately look for your next move -- survey the board instead!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUr... * Save the Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGz... * Magnus sees a way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkq... * Amazing Stafford Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uh... * Killer Stafford Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUL... * Stafford Gambit Tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2... * Stafford Gambit lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFb... * Best Stafford Gambit Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIe... * Improved Stafford Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_p... * The Bob Ross of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag0... * The Pride of the Yankees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPy... * The detailed history of chess: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... * Englund Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSh... * Crush the Englund Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABg... * Crush the Englund Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5q... * Englund Gambit Queen Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcM... * Englund Gambit Famous? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXX... * Englund Gambit Stockholm Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2... * Oh no, my knight! Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oks... * One Year 0-1700: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYC... * Find the Best Move: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmF... * Three Most Common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6x... * d4 Disclaimer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z... * Fundamentals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSv... * Alireza Firouzja Attacks with the Jobava London System! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wG... * Facing ...Bf5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6p... * Learn Danya's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLb... * Magnus sends g4 early: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNE... * Hansen has a go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTG... * Roswell, GA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgE... * Sidelines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-T... * Slav Lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3s... * 3...a6 Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFS... * 3...g6 Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3S... * Naroditsky's Lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN8... * New JLo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnG... * Rapport System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBj... * Nutty Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAF... * No such thing as Free ELO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMt... * Rapport Speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGb... * Run to 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBn... * Romanian Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8p... * Benoni Indian ...c5, ...Qb6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2P... * KID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKy... * KID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4O... * Na6 Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhF... * Middlegame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=261... * Jim's Middlegame Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vC... * What happens if...? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnS... * Queen Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxG... * Hubner vs Kasparov 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwR... * Karpov's Immortal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUd... * Queen's Gambit Complete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfO... * Queen's Gambit Fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEm... * Queen's Gambit According to BoJanglles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXM... * Top 5 Queen's Gambit Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqI... * Queen's Gambit Accepted Tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx2... * Magnus opens classically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbs... * Kostya's QGD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie_... * Queen's Gambit Concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYB... * Queen's Gambit Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAt... * QGD, Slav D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HT... * The Slav D in 10 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5... * Slav Main Line dxc4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnH... * 4...Bf5? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDY... * 4...a6 Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcp... * Beginner Mistakes in the Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTL... * Cheery Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq-... * Chessbase Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suk... * Chameleon Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rW... * ...a6 Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsD... * Beat the Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeY... * MC plays the Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAT... * Defeat the Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQX... * Lifetime Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGD... * Unbreakable Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBN... * Ben's QGD lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOW... * Fundamentals of the Semi-Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFc... * Kevin's Semi-Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ll... * Kostya's Semi-Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgy... * MC plays the Semi-Slav: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqT... * Semi-Slav Pathways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB7... * Semi-Slav, Meran Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykn... * Last Play of Every Super Bowl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9J... * Learn the Stonewall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_b... * Pillsbury's Stonewall Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR5... * The Stonewall Sucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwv... * Stonewall Alteration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzI... * Against the Stonewall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33M... * Black Stonewall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeW... * Simon's Classical Dutch w/d6, not d5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8... * 2.Bg5 Hopton Attack vs the Dutch Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dr... * Another 2.Bg5 destroys the Dutch Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvo... * Crush 2.Bg5 with the Dutch Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeK... * Prep for a Tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpv... * Never Do This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1... * Unnecessary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz0... * IM Rosen Stalemate Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB_... * How to Sicilian Taimanov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiv... * MC goes nuclear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLo... * Regrettable Pawn Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0... * Shortcuts: Game Collection: 21+ Too Fast French Kisses * Esserman examples of the S-M Gambit: Game Collection: smithmorra by M.Esserman as white * Esserman's S-M Gambit explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZ... * She's right, but there are plenty of others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw5... * Space Advantages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLL... * Time Controls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljp... * Tricks to Turn It Around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxV... * Trading Pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wg... * Trade Queens? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIG... * Evaluate Exchanges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNG... * When to Exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D2... * What is YOUR study plan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Y... * Wild Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlk... * https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KYUb...
Better to go in your pants than go in the bush?! Give the man credit for having a wad of paper in his hand. It musta been the intimidating ponytail that saved him. If this were a bear, give the creature your picnic basket, your keys and wallet, or tell a bunch of clean dad jokes. Of course, prayer is always helpful.
Daniel 6
New King James Version
The Plot Against Daniel
6 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; 2 and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss. 3 Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. 4 So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him. 5 Then these men said, “We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.” 6 So these governors and satraps thronged before the king, and said thus to him: “King Darius, live forever! 7 All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” 9 Therefore King Darius signed the written decree. Daniel in the Lions’ Den
10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. 11 Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12 And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king’s decree: “Have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” 13 So they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.” 14 And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. 15 Then these men approached the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed.” 16 So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” 17 Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed. Daniel Saved from the Lions
18 Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him. 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” 21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! 22 My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” 23 Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God. Darius Honors God
24 And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den. 25 Then King Darius wrote:
To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
26 I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God,
And steadfast forever;
His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed,
And His dominion shall endure to the end.
27 He delivers and rescues,
And He works signs and wonders
In heaven and on earth,
Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. * The Opposition and Outflanking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X1... * King and Pawn vs King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z52... * Knight and Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHW... * Queen vs Knight Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex1... * Principles of Rook and Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXl... * Unusual Openings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQ... * A trap in Grob's Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P50... * Pulverize Grob's Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTs... * Tricks in Grob's Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESt... * The Grob is TERRIBLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wB... * Basman's / Borg's Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThK... * Mike explains Borg's Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Res... * Last Play of the World Series 1943-1973: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzt... * Last Play of Every Modern World Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkD... * Tricks to Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmU... * Tricks to Win a Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfS... * Queen Traps in the Scandinavian D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syr... * Trap the Queen in the Tennison Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZt... * Top 10 Traps of the Queens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZh... * White, Black Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olz... * Win the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8... * More Tricks to Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0... * Qxb2 Poisoned Pawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74h... * Levy shows us more traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fot... * Reasonable book choices: https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell... * Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces * Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... “The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution” ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov... * Steinitz collection:
Game Collection: Steinitz Gambits * Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II * Three-minute pastry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIa... * Trappy game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gC... * tacticmania - Game Collection: tacticmania * Tactical Mix: Game Collection: mastering Tactical ideas by minev * The Best of... Game Collection: World Champions' Best Games * Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018 * The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z... * Vladimir Bagirov Attacks: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev) * Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105 * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
'A rising tide lifts all boats'
'Don't put the cart before the horse'
“Examine what is said, not who is speaking.” ~ African Proverb Illinois: Peoria
Established in: 1680
French settlers Robert Cavalier Sieur de LaSalle and Henri de Tonti built Fort Crevecoeur on the bank of the Illinois River in 1680. Soon, a village grew around it. Peoria's history goes back further than that. Archaeologists can trace signs of men there as far back as 10,000 B.C.E. thanks to the evidence of artifacts and burial mounds as evidence of a Native American civilization. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
<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 * Weird is what you're not used to: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches... <limerick, entitled ‘The Solver’s Plight’ was by ‘A.J.F.’ [A.J. Fink] and was published on page 22 of Chess Potpourri by Alfred C. Klahre (Middletown, 1931):There was a man from Vancouver
Who tried to solve a two-mover;
But the boob, he said, ‘“Gee”,
I can’t find the “Kee”,
No matter HOW I manouvre.’>
Under The Greenwood Tree
By William Shakespeare
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
Who doth ambition shun,
And loves to live i’ the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleased what he gets
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
He shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
<Chess Life> is an active monthly magazine and is the official publication of the United States Chess Federation. <Chess Life> is advertised as the "most widely read chess magazine in the world," and reaches more than a quarter of a million readers each month. <Chess Life> focuses on American chess players and tournaments, instruction, human interest, and US Chess governance matters. The United States Chess Federation also publishes Chess Life Kids, a bimonthly publication covering the same subjects aimed at a younger audience. Publication of <Chess Life> started in 1946 as a bi-weekly newspaper, usually eight or twelve pages long. In 1961, Frank Brady converted Chess Life to a monthly magazine. In 1969, <Chess Life> merged with Chess Review, the other leading U.S. chess magazine. The magazine was published under the title Chess Life & Review starting with the November 1969 issue until 1980 when it returned to its original title <Chess Life>. Best French players: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-f... <3-Step Thought Process In Bad SituationsWhenever I/GM Noel Studer end up in a position that sucks, I try to get into action mode as quickly as possible. After all, thinking, “Why did I mess this position up” does not help.
One must quickly focus on what you can do and spend your energy wisely. Otherwise, your time runs out, and you decide on a move just out of intuition and emotions, not rational thought. What does this action mode look like? It is a simple three-step plan: - Analyze the position: what are the issues at hand?
- Come up with possible solutions.
- Compare the solutions and choose the best one. I use this approach with simple daily stuff like my car breaking down or me destroying a water bottle at home. Some years ago, I would spend a lot of time whining about my being so unlucky, why this always happens to me, and how much this really sucks. Sometimes, to my surprise, in most cases, I skip this step now. The light for a motor problem goes on in my car, and I immediately think: What could be the issue? When I understand the problem, I can make a qualified decision. If it seems decently safe to drive until the next garage, that’s the best option. If not, I have to call a friend or a tow truck. Does it suck to pay a @#$%load of money to get my car towed? Absolutely. Do I have any alternatives? Sometimes no. So there is no merit in feeling bad, slurring, or wishing this did not happen. The only thing that helps is gathering information and trying to make the best decision for my next action. Just like in chess, it might be that the decision I took at this moment was not the best in hindsight. Again, that sucks, but as long as I did things to the best of my abilities, I have nothing to be upset about.
— GM Noel Studer's blog>
Chris Chaffin wrote:
master/piece
She moves him ‘round the chess board,
dodging bishops, pawns and rooks.
She coaxes him from square to square
without a second look.
The white knight cannot catch him.
Piece by piece, the foe now yields.
Her king is safe; the game is done.
The queen controls the field.
Watch your step!
Riddle Question: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks? FACTRETRIEVER: Monarch caterpillars breathe through holes in the sides of their bodies. Riddle Answer: Day, and night
<The Man In The Glass
Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.
He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.
This poem was first published in 1934 and is still very popular today.> His bark is worse than his bite. ~ Canadian proverb Do not yell “dinner” until your knife is in the loaf. ~ Canadian proverb Easier said than done. ~ Canadian proverb
All Hallows moon, witches soon. ~ Canadian proverb You can’t catch skunks with mice. ~ Canadian proverb Waste not want not. ~ Canadian proverb
“Karpov defeated me in Linares-94 where he scored 11 out of 13. I got into an inferior endgame. However, it did not seem awful. Then I made some appropriate moves and could not understand how I had managed to get into a losing position. Although I was already in the world top ten, I failed to understand it even after the game. This was one of the few games after which I felt like a complete idiot with a total lack of chess understanding! Such things happen very rarely to top level players. Usually you realise why you have lost. This moment defies description - there is something almost imperceptible about it and so characteristic of Karpov.” — Vladimir Kramnik Wikipedia on Computer Chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compu... Nov-02-12 Infohunter: Larger databases, because less picky about game quality, can be found at these sites: http://www.chesslive.de./
http://mychess.com/
http://www.chess.com/
http://www.365chess.com/
And I am sure there must be a host of others.
Trolling is cyberbullying. The troll should be banned from the website for good. Internet trollz are people who want to provoke and upset others online for their own amusement. Here’s how to spot the signz that someone is a troll, and how to handle them. What Are Internet Trollz?
If you’ve been on the internet for any period of time, you’ve likely run into a troll at some point. An internet troll is someone who makes intentionally inflammatory, rude, or upsetting statements online to elicit strong emotional responses in people or to steer the conversation off-topic. They can come in many forms. Most trolls do this for their own amusement, but other forms of trolling are done to push a specific agenda. Trollz have existed in folklore and fantasy literature for centuries, but online trolling has been around for as long as the internet has existed. The earliest known usage of the term can be traced back to the 1990s on early online message boards. Back then, it was a way for users to confuse new members by repeatedly posting an inside joke. It’s since turned into a much more malicious activity. Trolling is distinct from other forms of cyberbullying or harassment. It is normally not targeted towards any one person and relies on other people paying attention and becoming provoked. Trolling exists on many online platforms, from small private group chats to the biggest social media websites. Here’s a list of places online where you’re likely to see online trolls: Anonymous online forums: Places like [removed to prevent more trolling] are prime real-estate for online trolls. Because there’s no way of tracing who someone is, trolls can post very inflammatory content without repercussion. This is especially true if the forum has lax or inactive moderation.
Twitter: Twitter also has the option to be anonymous, and has become a hotbed for internet trolls. Frequent Twitter trolling methods involve hijacking popular hashtags and mentioning popular Twitter personalities to gain attention from their followers. Comment sections: The comment sections of places such as YouTube and news websites are also popular areas for trolls to feed. You’ll find a lot of obvious trolling here, and they frequently generate a lot of responses from angry readers or viewers. You’ll find trollz anywhere online, including on Facebook and on online dating sites. They’re unfortunately pretty common. Signs Someone Is Trolling
It can sometimes become difficult to tell the difference between a troll and someone who just genuinely wants to argue about a topic. However, here are a few tell-tale signs that someone is actively trolling. Off-topic remarkz: Completely going off-topic from the subject at hand. This is done to annoy and disrupt other posters. Refusal to acknowledge evidence: Even when presented with hard, cold factz, they ignore this and pretend like they never saw it. Dismissive, condescending tone: An early indicator of a troll was that they would ask an angry responder, “Why you mad, bro?” This is a method done to provoke someone even more, as a way of dismissing their argument altogether.
Use of unrelated images or memes: They reply to others with memes, images, and gifs. This is especially true if done in response to a very long text post.
Seeming obliviousness: They seem oblivious that most people are in disagreement with them. Also, trolls rarely get mad or provoked.
The list above is by no means definitive. There are a lot of other ways to identify that someone is trolling. Generally, if someone seems disingenuous, uninterested in a real discussion, and provocative on purpose, they’re likely an internet troll. How Should I Handle Them?
A "Danger: Do not feed the troll" sign on a computer keyboard. The most classic adage regarding trolling is, “Don’t feed the trollz.” Trollz seek out emotional responses and find provocation amusing, so replying to them or attempting to debate them will only make them troll more. By ignoring a troll completely, they will likely become frustrated and go somewhere else on the internet. You should try your best not to take anything trollz say seriously. No matter how poorly they behave, remember these people spend countless unproductive hours trying to make people mad. They’re not worth your time of day. If a troll becomes spammy or begins to clog up a thread, you can also opt to report them to the site’s moderation team. Depending on the website, there’s a chance nothing happens, but you should do your part to actively dissuade them from trolling on that platform. If your report is successful, the troll may be temporarily suspended or their account might be banned entirely. <“It’s All I Have To Bring Today” by Emily DickinsonIt’s all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.>
Our Heavenly Father, Kind and Good
Traditional
Our Heavenly Father, kind and good,
We thank Thee for our daily food.
We thank Thee for Thy love and care.
Be with us Lord, and hear our prayer.
Amen.
"It's time to go."
Sep-07-24 Cecco: According to this engine the much criticized 34. ... h2 is the best move.
Sep-07-24 offramp: I was wondering about all the chess engines that disappeared from our world.
What happened to Mephisto? I used to play that board/set in a London department store. Gandalf has gone. Shredder has gone. Rybka went suddenly down the toilet. AlphaZero is not commercially available; it probably gave up chess to mine bitcoins. The best-known engines now seem to be Fritz and Stockfish. I often have a look at TCEC, which is always interesting. It's the chess version of <RobotWars>. Sep-07-24 Muttley101: <offramp> if you're unaware of the story of Rybka, the ICCA (or whatever they are/were called), claimed that Rybka contained large sections of code copied from Oakfoam, and banned it from computer chess competitions. If I recall correctly, Chessbase took on the developers and incorporated Rybka's techniques into Fritz.
The DCNN that underpins Alphazero was bought by Google and is being used to investigate all sorts of research problems, for example: drug design, protein folding. Not hard to find information, amazing stuff. In any case, Leela (amongst others) used the DCNN architecture (Google published numerous articles on techniques, they are wonderful), and the recent work on KANs is another example of how the area is developing. Have fun reading up.
Sep-07-24
offramp: User: Muttley101 your précis is perfect. I'm going to have a look.
When I lost to Mephisto I must have thought, "This game will create protein folding." Proverbs 14:29-35
29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered * exalts folly. 30 A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones. 31 He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, But he who is gracious to the needy honors Him. 32 The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies. 33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, But in the hearts of fools it is made known. 34 Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people. 35 The king's favor is toward a servant who acts wisely, But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully. Willful waste makes woeful want. ~ Scottish Proverb French Proverb: “Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard.” ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight.” — The Revenant 18bd perjury had surgery on hiz pinky johnson so its suitable for ball point pins <"Greetings, students. Today you will learn to transform a king into a rook. Which of course means you will transform a chess piece into a noble relative of crows and ravens. Today's lesson is no joke, but I will not mark you down for appreciating my wordplay. Watch closely as I demonstrate..."
— Professor McGonagall teaching King to Rook to seventh-years[src]A rook is a bird related to crows and ravens.[1] History
During the 1990–1991 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Minerva McGonagall taught her seventh-year students in Transfiguration how to transform king chess pieces into rooks with the King to Rook spell.> The Rook Cancelled: https://tvline.com/news/the-rook-ca... * Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... Why did the rooster cross the road?
He had something to cock-a-doodle dooo!
Why did the raccoon cross the road?
He saw you put out the garbage.
Mercury Hg 80 200.59 1.9
The Natural:
* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... * Dr. Edmund Adam Miniatures: Edmund Adam H.T. Bland. On page 207 of the December 1929 American Chess Bulletin he exalted the challenger in that year’s world championship match: Bravo ‘Bogol’, you’ve shown pluck.
One and all we wish you luck.
Gee, some thought you’d barged between
Other players who’d have been
Less likely straightaway to lose
Just as friend Alekhine might choose;
Undaunted, ‘Bogol’, you went in
Believing you’d a chance to win.
Or failing that, to make a fight,
Which you are doing as we write.
Don’t trust the smile of your opponent. ~ Babylonian Proverbs Trust me, but look to thyself. ~ Irish Proverbs
Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb Don’t trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons. ~ Chinese Proverb If someone puts their trust in you, don’t sever it. ~ Lebanese Proverb Trust your best friend as you would your worst enemy. ~ Mexican Proverbs “The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with [Jose] Capablanca.” — Irving Chernev “I believe that it is best to know a 'dubious' opening really well, rather than a 'good' opening only slightly.” ― Simon Williams “There is no such thing as an absolutely freeing move. A freeing move in a position in which development has not been carried far always proves illusory, and vice versa, a move which does not come at all in the category of freeing moves can, given a surplus of tempi to our credit, lead to a very free game.”
― Aron Nimzowitsch
“Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “A good player is always lucky.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “The game might be divided into three parts: the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “A passed pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca I always play carefully and try to avoid unnecessary risks. I consider my method to be right as any superfluous ‘daring' runs counter to the essential character of chess, which is not a gamble but a purely intellectual combat conducted in accordance with the exact rules of logic. – Jose Raul Capablanca 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. “Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I’m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.” — John Durham <Steinitz's Theory
1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal.2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides. 3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.
4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer. 5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained. 6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage. 7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it.> “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer Switch your pawn insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds. “In chess, as in life, the best moves are often the ones you don’t play.”
― Savielly Tartakower
“A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is, there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailing prosperously before the wind, and not simply stranded barks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful.” — Henry David Thoreau “There just isn’t enough televised chess.” — David Letterman “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt “It's not life or death. It's a game, and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.” — Bernhard Langer Why did the turtle cross the road?
To get to the Shell station.
<A wise old owl sat on an oak,The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke the more he heard,
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?> Give a HOOT -- don't pollute!!
* https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth... Phone scammers are getting smarter with their tactics like AI voice scams. And if you’re not careful, they could make big bucks off of you, the unsuspecting caller. Aside from hanging up if you hear this four-word phrase, there's something else you can do to avoid becoming a victim and to keep up with your smartphone security and privacy. Certain area codes can warn potential targets that the call isn't safe, according to Joseph Steinberg, CEO of SecureMySocial. Although scam callers once used a 900 number, they’ve changed their methods as the general public became aware of their tactic. Now, many scam phone numbers have different area codes, including 809, which originates in the Caribbean. Another area code to look out for may look like it's coming from the United States, but isn't. "Criminals have been known to use caller IDs with the area code 473, which appears to be domestic, but is actually the area code for the island of Grenada," Steinberg says. Watch out for these phone call scams that could steal your money, too. By the way, those calls add up fast. You could be charged for taking a call from any of these foreign countries, according to AARP. Plus, scammers can swindle you out of your money through phony vacation scams and fake stories about danger or money problems. iPhone scams and Uber scams are also on the rise, making Apple fans and Uber users alike more wary. Make sure you know how to avoid Uber scams and how to stop spam texts on your phone. To play it extra safe, Steinberg recommends never answering or returning a call from a number you don't recognize. If you actually know the person, they can always leave a voicemail. "Remember that it's unlikely that someone you do not know—who is in distress at a location with which you are not familiar—would dial a random number in another country and ask you to help them," he says. "They would call the police." It can't hurt to be wary of possible scam phone numbers with the following international area codes. And watch out for these Facebook Marketplace scams before you go shopping. Scam phone numbers: International Area Codes with a +1 Country Code 232—Sierra Leone
242 — Bahamas
246 — Barbados
268 — Antigua
284 — British Virgin Islands
345 — Cayman Islands
441 — Bermuda
473 — Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique 649 — Turks and Caicos
664 — Montserrat
721 — Sint Maarten
758 — St. Lucia
767 — Dominica
784 — St. Vincent and Grenadines
809, 829, and 849 — The Dominican Republic
868 — Trinidad and Tobago
869 — St. Kitts and Nevis
876 — Jamaica
It's important to note that scammers can create scam phone numbers by spoofing numbers from many area codes, not just the ones listed above. Remember, a good rule of thumb is if you don't recognize the phone number, don't pick up your phone and let it go to voicemail. This can help you avoid falling for common phone scams, such as those pesky car extended warranty calls. By the way—if you are charged for picking up a scam call, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recommends contacting your phone company to try and take care of the matter. You can also file a complaint about the scam call with the FCC. Next, read about these online scams you need to be aware of and how to avoid them. Also, read up on what doxxing is and how it sets you up to be hacked. "It's time to go."
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394 games, 1834-2022 - Pins Ins & Outs, All About Pins ECO D FTB
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Pins are immobilizing difference makers that inflict chess pain. Some of these are ordinary pins while others determine the outcome of Phil Fulmer. Q: When a lemon is sick, what do you do?
A: Give it lemon aid.
* PGN Language Conversion: http://www.code.gr/chess-converter/... * Cheats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX_... * ChessBase Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_D... * Six Power Moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2v... * 68 games between Chigorin and Schiffers:
search "Chigorin vs Schiffers" * Chigorin's 2.Qe2 vs French Defense: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * 2800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVL... * 7 Key Tactics: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c... * 25 Tactics: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... * Beginner's Strategy: https://chessquestions.com/beginner... * 38 Tactics: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Basic Counter the London System: https://chesscience.com/counter-the... * U1800 Play the KID: https://www.ragchess.com/how-to-pla... * Other Rare Openings (at bottom): https://chesspathways.com/chess-ope... * Double Attacks: https://chesstactics.org/introducto... * 41 Tactics: https://www.chessjournal.com/chess-... * Beginner Strategies: https://www.chessable.com/blog/begi... * What's the difference? https://www.masterclass.com/article... * Essential Endings book: https://archive.org/details/essenti... * Four Key Elements: https://herculeschess.com/principle... * Charlick Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJf... * CG Morphy's Mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtS... * CG Refutation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBf... * Copycat Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EuGE... * Coverup: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nH7k... * Don't fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veB... * Anish Giri vs Daniil Dubov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sek... * Decoy, Royal Double Attack: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C5nS... * Dutch Defense Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sat... * Stonewall Defense for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6... * Dos and Don'ts in the Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8... * Destroy the Stonewall Def: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXl... * Fame: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e5OU... * FTB called it - At classical time controls, MC only wants to play older players that he already owns psychologically: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UHip...
Of course, he's far better than Niemann so why hesitate to clobber Hans? MC has provided 0 evidence of cheating, so man up and play! * Gals on a boat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-... * Grob decoy sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9xXw... * Madlan G Slang: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5uOx... * Hungarian Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G... * ICBM vs C-K: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E87D... * Imagine: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5xEe... * Like a Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU1... * London System Essentials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPX... * London System Opening Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_O... * Magnus trivia: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TOSw... * Marcozy Bind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_h... * 2.Nc3 against the Dutch Def: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_... * Petrov's Defense, Cochrane Gambit: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Punish Scholar's Mate Attempt: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y2Oe... * Push, push, push: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4YRH... * Risen: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GW0w... * Sacrifice on f7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGk... * Stunner: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tU38... * Simon Scowl Smiled:) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hmtL... * Speechless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQe... * The "Caribbean Tal": Philip Corbin * Test your endgame skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dM... * Unpin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2pyl... * Unstable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llS... * World Championship 2018:
Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018) * Wait for it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DEA_... * Wise King: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T17Y... * Young Fischer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B6... * Endgame tips for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_D... * Great Endings: Game Collection: great endings Q: Why did the teacher draw on the window?
A: Because he wanted his lesson to be very clear. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ― Lao Tzu “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― William Shakespeare
“I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.” ― Anish Giri “Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.” ― Hikaru Nakamura “In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.” ― Gza “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein “Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.” ― Larry Fitzgerald “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” ― Archimedes “The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.”
― David Bronstein
“Young men preen. Old men scheme.” ― Mason Cooley “Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.”
― Bobby Fischer
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Chess is the art of analysis.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ― Saint Augustine “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.” ― Gerald R. Ford “My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.”
― Sunil Chhetri
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ― Thomas Jefferson “The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.” ― Viktor Korchnoi “In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.” ― Yuliya Snigir “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
― Walter Scott
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned.” ― Richard Reti “To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”
― Steve Prefontaine
“I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.”
― Forest Whitaker
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' ” ― William Arthur Ward “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus “I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” ― Anna Kendrick Never judge a book by its cover.
“You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.” ― Garry Kasparov “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ― Bette Davis “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
“I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.” ― Magnus Carlsen “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
― Mark Twain
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.” ― Joyce Meyer “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ― Jim Rohn “I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.” ― Will Rogers Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy:
“Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived, he would beat anybody today in a set-match. He had complete sight of the board and seldom blundered even though he moved quite rapidly. I've played over hundreds of his games and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity.” “He (Jose R. Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art.” ― Philip W. Sergeant “Beautiful, cold, remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability.”
― Raymond Chandler (on a Capablanca game)
Fiber takes longer to digest, which leaves you feeling fuller. Q: What’s one way we know the ocean is friendly?
A: It waves.
<<<To an Old Tree>
by Annette Wynne>
The tree must stand, it cannot run;
Whatever comes of snow or sun
It has to bear; it has no fears;
Knowing not regret nor tears
It stands and stretches to the sky
Without a murmur, plaint or sigh—
And this has stood a thousand years,
And seen ten thousand storms go by!>
* How to play: https://www.chessstrategyonline.com... * Absolute and Relative Pin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wd2L... * Ataman's Minis: Game Collection: Instructive Chess Miniatures (Ataman) * Alpha Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis... * Alekhine's Defense intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDX... * Always use protection: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qPH6... * AM acknowledgement: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O0HD... * Anywhere, anytime: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/12px... * Ask yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h-... * Avoid blunders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DF... * Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054... * Bedtime Ritual: https://premier-health-today.com/he... * 4 Most Important <Pins>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjw... * B4 Times Square: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ7... * 11 to learn: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EnAc... * 107 Battles: Game Collection: 107 Great Chess Battles: 1939-45 Alekhine * Tops 1986: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gsem... * 2015 London Classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVU... * Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018 * Bucks: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bskQ... * Buds: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_uAV... * Butcher the Czech Pirc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K-... * Caviar: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * ChessCafe.com column, The Openings Explained: Abby Marshall * Crimes of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqR... * Diagrammed Checkmate Patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gw84... * Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * The Donner Party of Misery: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Don't Steal: https://www.openbible.info/topics/s... * 3 Simple Steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuY... * 3 Rules of AttacK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf-... * 3 Enemies of Success: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8ygE... * Starting Out 1d4: Game Collection: Starting Out: 1 d4! * Englund Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAg... * Elephant Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQB... * Four Knights, Halloween Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ6... * Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c... * Fry the Chicken: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f3Vh... * French According to... Game Collection: The French According to ... * French Advance Gambit ...f6 instead of ...Qb6: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V_wL... * French Flanker: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U6he... * French Wing Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRB... * Folding method: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Lyl... * Full of it.
* 4.0-0 d6 Giuoco Piano trap: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nOAY... * Common Gambits Video: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo... * Glucose Goddess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG3... * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) * Greco's Mate variation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1fua... * Great Attacks: Game Collection: great attack games * Greatest Hits: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms) * Italian, Two Knights Def: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVn... * Keep going: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NuNb... * Life Hacks: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FsYJ...
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QrHF...
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ouxa...
* 62 Masterpieces: Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev) ‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!’
* Artful Mates: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate * Magical Balls: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cxjm... * Mother Mary: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nO2d... * Neon Moon, smooth and easy: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Neon+... * Ns & Ps ending: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bp3i... * Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki) * Old Bill Williams: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin... * Opening Ideas/Novelties: Game Collection: Great opening ideas * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * VP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH... * Punish Bg5 pin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NLdK... * Parent's Guide: https://lichess.org/@/mizant83/blog... * Post-Beginners Book: Game Collection: Chess training for post-beginners * Endgame Principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZe... * Rare but good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4k... * Red, White, & Blue: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8WG2... * Reasonable book choices: https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell... * Repair: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/awcd... * Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces * Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... “The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution” ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov... * Rs and Ps ending: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AnG0... * Screwball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5H... * Secrets of Combination: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II * Separation is a personal choice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QR3N... * Shaolin Monks: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g5z1... * Sports Clichés: http://www.sportscliche.com/
* Smokey: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X26O... * Black Storms: Game Collection: Tal - The Modern Benoni * Sicilian Wing Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3L... * Tal's Wing Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAf... * Six Ways: https://takelessons.com/blog/6-tips... * Simple Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNE... * Stonewalling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzb... * London-Wall Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAU... * She's a Stonewaller: Eneida Astolfi Perez * Stonewall is the worst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwv... * 3 Systems against the Stonewall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33M... * Shutting down the Stonewall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtT... * Soldier's mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fKis... * Soviet Advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdP... * Take your time: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3cN-... * Tactical Mix: Game Collection: mastering Tactical ideas by minev * Tips for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxP... * Time Management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdw... * The Best of... Game Collection: World Champions' Best Games * Tops 1952: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48e... * Trash talking is for idiots w/talent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqQ... * Trinity is truth: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C3m0... * The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z... * Ultimate Truth: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/miQy... * Vidit wins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3En... * Vladi doesn't like to lose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_... * Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c... * Who's Next? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8t... * Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Woman at the well: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B3lL... * Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev) * One Hit Wonders: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4EDZ... * Worst inning in WS history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leb... * 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * You may be right: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1ogK... * Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105 * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
'A rising tide lifts all boats'
'Don't put the cart before the horse'
“Examine what is said, not who is speaking.” ~ African Proverb New York: Albany
Established in: 1624
Henry Hudson (the Hudson River is named after him) arrived in Albany in 1609, but it was already home to a Dutch trading post and the Haudenosaunee tribe, Iroquois Native Americans. The capital of New York is also its oldest city. Originally founded as Fort Orange by the Dutch settlers in 1624, the city was officially chartered by the British government as Albany in 1686. It didn't become the capital of the state until 1797. Albany was the point of origin for the first long distance airplane flight and the first passenger railroad. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * History of Chess: https://boldchess.com/history/ * Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch... * Short history: Game Collection: A history of chess * History of Chess in 10 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vme... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского
Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava)
Translation: He who doesn’t take risks doesn’t drink champagne
Meaning: Fortune favours the brave
"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
- Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”
— Mikhail Tal
Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.> Q: Who helps little pumpkins cross the road on the way to school?
A: The crossing gourd.
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
— Marcel Duchamp
“Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” ― Albert Einstein “When in doubt, don't.” ― Benjamin Franklin Dinner Prayer Hymn
Traditional Hymn
Lord, bless this food and grant that we
May thankful for thy mercies be;
Teach us to know by whom we're fed;
Bless us with Christ, the living bread.
Lord, make us thankful for our food,
Bless us with faith in Jesus' blood;
With bread of life our souls supply,
That we may live with Christ on high.
Amen.
Riddle Question: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? The Persian epic Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India. Riddle Answer: Wet, duh!
This collection like so many others has been vandalized by the underhanded CGs operator who delights in destroying FTB's collections. “A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca * Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/ * 10 Best to Watch: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c... * 23 Opening Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5... * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel
Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Q: What’s a really sad strawberry called?
A: A blueberry.
In Melitopol, terrible terror has been reigning for over a year. It's quiet, you can't see it on the streets - reported CNN. Anyone who has rejected a Russian passport may become a victim of repression. They can't access the hospital, can't function normally. The "incredible" occupant also takes away the land. Arrests and torture, unfortunately, are common practices. Partisans are engaged in attacking Russian logistics and eliminating collaborators and Russian officers. They actively cooperate with Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) and are ready for sabotage activities in case the front arrives. Before the war, Melitopol had a population of 154,000. The city, located in the southeastern part of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region, was occupied by the Russians on March 1, 2022 Eastern Time. Since then, it has been waiting for liberation, but that does not mean that the inhabitants are idle. From the beginning of the war, there has been a partisan movement in and around the city. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” ― Elizabeth Green “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” ― Andy (Tim Robbins), “The Shawshank Redemption” Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Scottish Proverb 2024 National League Gold Glove Winners
Catcher: Patrick Bailey (1st Gold Glove)…..Finalists: Gabriel Moreno, Will Smith First base: Christian Walker (3rd)…..Finalists: Bryce Harper, Matt Olson Second base: Brice Turang (1st)…..Finalists: Ketel Marte, Bryson Stott Third base: Matt Chapman, (5th)…..Finalists: Nolan Arenado, Ryan McMahon Shortstop: Ezequiel Tovar (1st)…..Finalists: Dansby Swanson, Masyn Winn Left field: Ian Happ (3rd)…..Finalists: Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Brandon Marsh Center field: Brenton Doyle (2nd)…..Finalists: Blake Perkins, Jacob Young Right field: Sal Frelick (1st)…..Finalists: Jake McCarthy, Mike Yastrzemski Pitcher: Chris Sale (1st)…..Finalists: Luis Severino, Zack Wheeler Utility: Jared Triolo (1st)…..Finalists: Brendan Donovan, Enrique Hernandez 2024 American League Gold Glove Winners
Catcher: Cal Raleigh (1st)…..Finalists: Freddy Fermin, Jake Rogers First base: Carlos Santana (1st)…..Finalists: Nathaniel Lowe, Ryan Mountcastle Second base: Andres Gimenez (3rd)…..Finalists: Nicky Lopez, Marcus Semien Third base: Alex Bregman (1st)…..Finalists: Ernie Clement, Jose Ramirez Shortstop: Bobby Witt Jr. (1st)…..Finalists: Brayan Rocchio, Anthony Volpe Left field: Steven Kwan (3rd)…..Finalists: Colton Cowser, Alex Verdugo Center field: Daulton Varsho (1st)…..Finalists: Jarren Duran, Jake Meyers Right field: Wilyer Abreu (1st)…..Finalists: Jo Adell, Juan Soto Pitcher: Seth Lugo (1st)…..Finalists: Griffin Canning, Cole Ragans Utility: Dylan Moore (1st)…..Finalists: Willi Castro, Mauricio Dubon Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you’re not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there’s no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section. Feb-09-12
ray keene: nimzos best endgames
v lasker zurich 1934
v spielmann carlsbad 1929
v lundin stockholm 1934
v maroczy bled 1931
v henneberger winterthur 1931
v thomas frankfurt 1930
v sultan khan liege 1930
v marshall berlin 1928
v reti berlin 1928
v alehine ny 1927
v tchigorin carlsbad 1907
and for a joke entry duras v nimzo san sebastian 1912 !! “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 Nov-02-12 Infohunter: Larger databases, because less picky about game quality, can be found at these sites: http://www.chesslive.de./
http://mychess.com/
http://www.chess.com/
http://www.365chess.com/
And I am sure there must be a host of others.
Notes by tpstar:
Game Collection: Instructive Games Charles R. Drew (1904-1950)
Charles Richard Drew was born into an African American family in Washington, D.C. and started working towards his dreams early. After getting through medical school, he specialized in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage. This led to his biggest achievement creating large-scale blood banks early in World War II. Drew's idea allowed medics to save thousands of Allied forces' lives during the war and revolutionized the way blood was used for medicine. Drew was one of the most prominent African Americans in his field, and he used his status to protest against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood. Q: What starts with gas and has three letters?
A: A car.
The Woman Drowned
I hate that saying, old and savage,
"It's nothing but a woman drowning."
That's much, I say. What grief more keen should have edge
Than loss of her, of all our joys the crowning?
Thus much suggests the fable I am borrowing.
A woman perished in the water,
Where, anxiously, and sorrowing,
Her husband sought her,
To ease the grief he could not cure,
By honoured rites of sepulture.
It chanced that near the fatal spot,
Along the stream which had
Produced a death so sad,
There walked some men that knew it not.
The husband asked if they had seen
His wife, or anything that hers had been.
One promptly answered, "No!
But search the stream below:
It must nave borne her in its flow."
"No," said another; "search above.
In that direction
She would have floated, by the love
Of contradiction."
This joke was truly out of season; –
I don't propose to weigh its reason.
But whether such propensity
The sex's fault may be,
Or not, one thing is very sure,
Its own propensities endure.
Up to the end they'll have their will,
And, if it could be, further still.
“Many people perceive the merit of a manuscript which is read to them, but will not declare themselves in its favor until they see what success it has in the world when printed, or what intelligent men will say about it. They do not like to risk their opinion, and they want to be carried away by the crowd and dragged along by the multitude. Then they say that they were amongst the first who approved of that work, and the general public shares their opinion.
Such men lose the best opportunities of convincing us that they are intelligent, clever, and first-rate critics, and can really discover what is good and what is better. A fine work falls into their hands; it is an author’s first book before he has got any great name; there is nothing to prepossess anyone in his favor, and by applauding his writings one does not court or flatter the great. Zelotes, you are not required to cry out: “This is a masterpiece; human intelligence never went farther; the human speech cannot soar higher; henceforward we will judge of no one’s taste but by what he thinks of this book.” Such exaggerated and offensive expressions are only employed by postulants for pensions or benefices and are even injurious to what is really commendable and what one wishes to praise. Why not merely say—“That’s a good book?” It is true you say it when the whole of France has approved of it, and foreigners as well as your own countrymen, when it is printed all over Europe and has been translated into several languages, but then it is too late.” ― Jean de La Bruyère * Checkmate Puzzle Patternz: https://www.serverchess.com/mateinN... * Chess Puzzles: https://chesspuzzle.net/
* Riddle-e-dee: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid... “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“It ain't over 'til it's over, no matter how over it looks.” ― Yogi Berra Q: What do you call two birds in love?
A: Tweethearts!
“Housekeeping” by Natasha Tretheway
We mourn the broken things, chair legs
wrenched from their seats, chipped plates,
the threadbare clothes. We work the magic
of glue, drive the nails, mend the holes.
We save what we can, melt small pieces
of soap, gather fallen pecans, keep neck bones
for soup. Beating rugs against the house,
we watch dust, lit like stars, spreading
across the yard. Late afternoon, we draw
the blinds to cool the rooms, drive the bugs
out. My mother irons, singing, lost in reverie.
I mark the pages of a mail-order catalog,
listen for passing cars. All day we watch
for the mail, some news from a distant place.
“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
— Marcel Duchamp
“Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” ― Albert Einstein “When in doubt, don't.” ― Benjamin Franklin Riddle Question: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? The Persian epic Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India. Riddle Answer: Wet, duh!
Ellison wrote:
Kamikaze
Two rows of a faceless infantry
fall into line;
I am their general
for this callous battle.
Overlords awaken;
their mirrored armies in meager shadow
to these giants that have played
the game of winning before.
The front rank advances slowly,
private by private; caressing the
battlefield as if never to return again.
The cavalry cry out into the night,
A horse’s metallic neigh that pierces through
to the other side’s defenses,
and the surrounding warriors join in for the hunt. A piece for a piece;
The desperate deal is made
between the masters of their
horrified soldiers.
Do I dare repeat
such insidious acts within my fleet?
The crown shakes with fear,
for the opposing ranks are drawing near.
Towering higher than the castles upon the deck,
I make my way to the monarch in check;
Swords left littered across the field
as the fires of carnage have dwindled low,
but trampling through grief, groans, and woe,
The other side is forced to yield.
Q: What do you call a polar bear in Mexico?
A: Lost.
Trolling is cyberbullying. The troll should be banned from the website for good. Internet trollz are people who want to provoke and upset others online for their own amusement. Here’s how to spot the signz that someone is a troll, and how to handle them. What Are Internet Trollz?
If you’ve been on the internet for any period of time, you’ve likely run into a troll at some point. An internet troll is someone who makes intentionally inflammatory, rude, or upsetting statements online to elicit strong emotional responses in people or to steer the conversation off-topic. They can come in many forms. Most trolls do this for their own amusement, but other forms of trolling are done to push a specific agenda. Trollz have existed in folklore and fantasy literature for centuries, but online trolling has been around for as long as the internet has existed. The earliest known usage of the term can be traced back to the 1990s on early online message boards. Back then, it was a way for users to confuse new members by repeatedly posting an inside joke. It’s since turned into a much more malicious activity. Trolling is distinct from other forms of cyberbullying or harassment. It is normally not targeted towards any one person and relies on other people paying attention and becoming provoked. Trolling exists on many online platforms, from small private group chats to the biggest social media websites. Here’s a list of places online where you’re likely to see online trolls: Anonymous online forums: Places like [removed to prevent more trolling] are prime real-estate for online trolls. Because there’s no way of tracing who someone is, trolls can post very inflammatory content without repercussion. This is especially true if the forum has lax or inactive moderation.
Twitter: Twitter also has the option to be anonymous, and has become a hotbed for internet trolls. Frequent Twitter trolling methods involve hijacking popular hashtags and mentioning popular Twitter personalities to gain attention from their followers. Comment sections: The comment sections of places such as YouTube and news websites are also popular areas for trolls to feed. You’ll find a lot of obvious trolling here, and they frequently generate a lot of responses from angry readers or viewers. You’ll find trollz anywhere online, including on Facebook and on online dating sites. They’re unfortunately pretty common. Signs Someone Is Trolling
It can sometimes become difficult to tell the difference between a troll and someone who just genuinely wants to argue about a topic. However, here are a few tell-tale signs that someone is actively trolling. Off-topic remarkz: Completely going off-topic from the subject at hand. This is done to annoy and disrupt other posters. Refusal to acknowledge evidence: Even when presented with hard, cold factz, they ignore this and pretend like they never saw it. Dismissive, condescending tone: An early indicator of a troll was that they would ask an angry responder, “Why you mad, bro?” This is a method done to provoke someone even more, as a way of dismissing their argument altogether.
Use of unrelated images or memes: They reply to others with memes, images, and gifs. This is especially true if done in response to a very long text post.
Seeming obliviousness: They seem oblivious that most people are in disagreement with them. Also, trolls rarely get mad or provoked.
The list above is by no means definitive. There are a lot of other ways to identify that someone is trolling. Generally, if someone seems disingenuous, uninterested in a real discussion, and provocative on purpose, they’re likely an internet troll. How Should I Handle Them?
A "Danger: Do not feed the troll" sign on a computer keyboard. The most classic adage regarding trolling is, “Don’t feed the trollz.” Trollz seek out emotional responses and find provocation amusing, so replying to them or attempting to debate them will only make them troll more. By ignoring a troll completely, they will likely become frustrated and go somewhere else on the internet. You should try your best not to take anything trollz say seriously. No matter how poorly they behave, remember these people spend countless unproductive hours trying to make people mad. They’re not worth your time of day. If a troll becomes spammy or begins to clog up a thread, you can also opt to report them to the site’s moderation team. Depending on the website, there’s a chance nothing happens, but you should do your part to actively dissuade them from trolling on that platform. If your report is successful, the troll may be temporarily suspended or their account might be banned entirely. In 1996, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's "Deep Blue" supercomputer 4–2 in a best-of-6 match-up. Man and machine rematched in 1997, and the computer won 3.5–2.5 after unusually poor play by Kasparov. This poem is dedicated to all members who have experienced the breaking of a gentleman's agreement. <He Know No Honor> Now in yonder obscurity live a bishop called Pork
his tongue protruding like a two-pronged fork.
He say: nova dear, I will play you thirty/thirty
then he quickly run, I say: that be little dirty.
This Pork he say; sweet nova please grant me tie
upon my honor as a holy man I do never lie.
He say: nova dear: I will play you thirty/thirty
but he quickly run: I say that be more than little dirty
to Pork this kindly nova say: I grant you draw
as Pork's time in present game all but gone he saw.
he say: dear nova, I will play you thirty/thirty
as he quickly run: I truly say that be fricken dirty.
now always loudly to this Pork I shall tell
no more play me but evil one who live in hell.
Antibiotics
Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur were the first to start the war against bacteria, but it was Alexander Fleming who propelled the medical world to take a giant leap ahead in the same battle thanks to his discovery – albeit accidental – of the bacteria-inhibiting mold we now call penicillin in 1928. Penicillin proved to be a major step forward in the world of antibiotics and was used widely throughout the 20th century. Although Fleming eventually abandoned his works on penicillin in the 1940s, his findings were further researched at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, funded by the U.S. and British governments. Penicillin finally entered mass production after the Pearl Harbor bombing. In fact, by 1944, we had enough penicillin to treat all the wounded Allied Forces in World War II. Death by bacterial infection dropped to only 1% in WWII from 20% in the previous war. Penicillin has been found to be effective at fighting all kinds of infections such as influenza, tuberculosis, and some sexually transmitted diseases. 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.
“Everyone should know how to play chess.” — José Raúl Capablanca Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac (‘Deutsch von Heinrich Fraenkel’) Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) 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.
'Ask no questions and hear no lies
* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century * Knight Power: https://fmochess.com/the-power-of-t... 'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer <greersome wrote:
There once was a woman from Mizes
Who had chess sets of two different sizes
One was quite small
Almost nothing at all
But the other was large and won prizes!> Q: What kind of tree fits in your hand?
A: A palm tree.
* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. “I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.” — Hulk Hogan 'Don't let the cat out of the bag'
'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted' 'Don't throw good money after bad'
'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'
<Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Bear.
Bear who?
Bear with me. I’m still learning how to tell a funny joke!> This poem is dedicated to all female chessplayers on Caissa's Web. <Sweet Caissa>
Oh, Sweet Caissa, Goddess of chess
in the name of this holistic game
I pray Thee: bless my noble aim
to render all my opponents lame
in my holy quest for worldly fame,
to be Supreme no more no less.
In awe I heard this Sweet Caissa say
"Daughter go forth and smite them all,
stoutly charge your knight sitting tall
while flying over the castle's wall
to slay all men in your deadly call."
Now in fear I hide and will no longer play.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
~ Scottish Proverb
* Weird is what you're not used to: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches... <<limerick, entitled ‘The Solver’s Plight’ was by ‘A.J.F.’ [A.J. Fink] and was published on page 22 of Chess Potpourri by Alfred C. Klahre (Middletown, 1931):>There was a man from Vancouver
Who tried to solve a two-mover;
But the boob, he said, ‘“Gee”,
I can’t find the “Kee”,
No matter HOW I manouvre.’>
The Three Kings By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LKCf...
Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they travelled by night and they slept by day,
For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star. The star was so beautiful, large and clear,
That all the other stars of the sky
Became a white mist in the atmosphere,
And by this they knew that the coming was near
Of the Prince foretold in the prophecy.
Three caskets they bore on their saddle-bows,
Three caskets of gold with golden keys;
Their robes were of crimson silk with rows
Of bells and pomegranates and furbelows,
Their turbans like blossoming almond-trees.
And so the Three Kings rode into the West,
Through the dusk of the night, over hill and dell,
And sometimes they nodded with beard on breast,
And sometimes talked, as they paused to rest,
With the people they met at some wayside well. “Of the child that is born,” said Baltasar,
“Good people, I pray you, tell us the news;
For we in the East have seen his star,
And have ridden fast, and have ridden far,
To find and worship the King of the Jews.”
And the people answered, “You ask in vain;
We know of no King but Herod the Great!”
They thought the Wise Men were men insane,
As they spurred their horses across the plain,
Like riders in haste, who cannot wait.
And when they came to Jerusalem,
Herod the Great, who had heard this thing,
Sent for the Wise Men and questioned them;
And said, “Go down unto Bethlehem,
And bring me tidings of this new king.”
So they rode away; and the star stood still,
The only one in the grey of morn;
Yes, it stopped—it stood still of its own free will,
Right over Bethlehem on the hill,
The city of David, where Christ was born.
And the Three Kings rode through the gate and the guard,
Through the silent street, till their horses turned
And neighed as they entered the great inn-yard;
But the windows were closed, and the doors were barred,
And only a light in the stable burned.
And cradled there in the scented hay,
In the air made sweet by the breath of kine,
The little child in the manger lay,
The child, that would be king one day
Of a kingdom not human, but divine.
His mother Mary of Nazareth
Sat watching beside his place of rest,
Watching the even flow of his breath,
For the joy of life and the terror of death
Were mingled together in her breast.
They laid their offerings at his feet:
The gold was their tribute to a King,
The frankincense, with its odor sweet,
Was for the Priest, the Paraclete,
The myrrh for the body’s burying.
And the mother wondered and bowed her head,
And sat as still as a statue of stone,
Her heart was troubled yet comforted,
Remembering what the Angel had said
Of an endless reign and of David’s throne.
Then the Kings rode out of the city gate,
With a clatter of hoofs in proud array;
But they went not back to Herod the Great,
For they knew his malice and feared his hate,
And returned to their homes by another way.
<Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Thermos.
Thermos who?
Thermos be a better knock-knock joke than this!> The first chess legend, called the wheat and chessboard problem, illustrates the power of exponential growth. The first chess movie, called Chess Fever, was a silent comedy released in 1925 in the Soviet Union. The word checkmate comes from the Persian phrase shah mat, meaning "the king is helpless". Q: When did the dad go to the dentist?
A: Tooth hurty.
High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air .... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” — Criss Jami Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, or the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! Romans 8:31
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? “To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?” — Queen Elizabeth II A toast for friendship:
‘Here’s to Tall Ships,
Here’s to Small Ships,
Here’s to all the Ships at Sea.
But the best Ships are Friendships,
Here’s to You and Me!’
Feb-23-23 FSR: Thanks, Susan. I never saw Albert after my freshman year of high school (he and his family moved to the Chicago suburbs, where he went to a different school and played for a different chess team). Super nice guy. I was very surprised many years later to learn that he and your son had started this site. Q: What’s a ghoul’s favorite drink?
A: Anything with boos.
In September, 1927 Capablanca faced Alexander Alekhine for the world championship match in Buenos Aires. The stake money was $10,000 in gold. When it was over in November, Capablanca lost, winning 3 games, drawing 25 games, and losing 6 games. The entire match took place behind closed doors and lasted 73 days. There were no spectators or photographs. The opening of 32 of the 34 games were Queen's Gambit Declined. The Lion Beaten By The Man
A picture once was shown,
In which one man, alone,
On the ground had thrown
A lion fully grown.
Much gloried at the sight the rabble.
A lion thus rebuked their babble:
"That you have got the victory there,
There is no contradiction.
But, gentles, possibly you are
The dupes of easy fiction:
Had we the art of making pictures,
Perhaps our champion had beat yours!"
“....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally.” — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee. “Sorry don't get it done, Dude!” — John Wayne, Rio Bravo “Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose FTB hasn't watched all of this video yet, but the shorts seem to indicate that married MC is less guarded, more detailed than typical interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybu... <America>
by Walt Whitman
Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair’d in the adamant of Time.
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
<Proverbs 14:29-35> 29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered * exalts folly. 30 A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones. 31 He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, But he who is gracious to the needy honors Him. 32 The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies. 33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, But in the hearts of fools it is made known. 34 Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people. 35 The king's favor is toward a servant who acts wisely, But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully. “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.” — Phyllis George Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. "Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley Native Americans inhabited the Americas for millennia before European settlers arrived. Conflicts arose as colonists encroached on their land. The U.S. government established policies to displace Native Americans, including the Trail of Tears, which forcibly relocated 60,000 people to Oklahoma, many on foot, resulting in 13,000 deaths between 1830-1850. Reservations were established as autonomous entities, with 326 federally recognized today. <The Aurora’s Dance
Auroras dance, in the polar night,
A symphony of colors, pure delight.
The sky’s curtain, alive and aglow,
A magical display, a celestial show.>
“The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”
— Billy Graham
“God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our 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-pee-free: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch... “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
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.
“It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” — Francis Bacon The cat’s play is the mouse’s death. ~ German Proverb “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 2pry Zeitnot Zshaa-Tichondrius - 601 Disc Priest 226 Ilvl - 27750 RBG zek247 dint undrstnd Ziyatdinov's planto ignore the LSB on deck of the carrier. “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events. During the Middle Ages, jesters are often thought to have worn brightly colored clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern. Their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. Jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal among them were song, music, and storytelling, but many also employed acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes (such as puns, stereotypes, and imitation), and performing magic tricks. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style. Many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences. Silence is the best reply to a fool. ― Joker
Always Remember, the beginning is the hardest part. ― Joker Q: Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers?
A: He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
Praseodymium Pr 59 140.908 1.1
* Foggy Mountain Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Y... Thank you Lord for another day,
The chance to learn, the chance to play.
Now as I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Please, guard me Jesus through the night,
And keep me safe till morning’s light.
But if I should I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
And should I live for other days,
I pray that God will guide my ways.
Amen.
* Spirit in the Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRF...
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479 games, 1820-2023 - Pins Ins & Outs, All About Pins, Pile on, Unpin
In chess, a pin is a tactic where:
^ A defending piece cannot move out of an attacking piece's line of attack without exposing a more valuable defending piece. ^ The attacking piece restricts the movement of the pinned piece. ^ The pinned piece plays a role in blocking an attack on a more valuable piece or preventing checkmate. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7D...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzo...
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1qd_...
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FDHb...
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IJgP...
* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S5mf...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=333...
“The pin is mightier than the sword!” ― Fred Reinfeld “Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.” ― Henri Bergson “There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.” ― Mary Tyler Moore “Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of me, squeezing my guts really hard.” ― Juliana Hatfield Sign: Your opinion will never cut me a check.
Strategy (what to do) involves fundamental technique (how to do it): “I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many guys could get it close in that situation, because they kept it low by just putting the ball back in their stance. You see, playing the ball back turns you into a one-trick pony - you can only hit hooks.” ― Lee Trevino “To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.” ― Angela Carter ``` ,,,
A "pin" in the game of chess is a simple but potentially game changing tactic where a long-range piece (Bishop, Rook or Queen) aims at and "sees through" the first of two opposing units on the same line vertically, horizontally or diagonally. The less valuable unit is in front being directly attacked (threatened w/immediate capture). The more valuable unit is behind in the line of attack, often as defender. Therefore, the less valuable unit dare not move out of the way because it would expose the more valuable unit to capture. An "absolute pin" occurs when the more valuable unit at the rear of the line of attack is the opposing king. The king cannot be exposed to check and must remain shielded by the less valuable unit in front. If the king was castled behind a pawn shield, the less valuable unit in front is usually a pawn. A "relative pin" does not involve the king. Therefore, the less valuable piece is legally allowed to move, with or without consequential loss of material. There are many variations of relative pins. Perhaps the most common pins occur in the opening phase on either side of the board after the center pawns and either knight has advanced toward the middle. An opposing bishop will pin a once-moved knight to it's unmoved king or queen. The knight cannot move if it would leave his king in check, for this is an absolute pin. The knight could move but generally desires not to if his queen would be lost to capture; it's a relative pin. An "unpin" occurs when the lesser piece in front of a relative pin deliberately moves, knowing the more valuable piece behind it could be exposed to capture. For example, Legal's Mate makes use of an unpin by advancing the king's knight into the middle of the board, making it's second move. This devious knight move allows the capture of the queen still on her original square as bait to be taken by the greedy opposing bishop that set the pin on knight. However, the devious knight advance supports a lethal counterattack on f7 by it's fellow bishop. The idea is to give up the queen to checkmate the opposing king. A "cross pin" is a unit that is pinned in two different directions by two different long range attackers...double the trouble! The attack forms the geometrical shape of an X or a cross with the threatened unit caught in the intersection. There are more descriptions of various types of pins, but let this suffice for now. Do keep in mind that many games contain more than one type of pin so it could fit in more than one category. Please understand that some pins are more dramatic than others but even a subtle pin can be quite useful if it limits needed mobility. Do not confuse a pin with a "skewer." A pin is similar to a skewer in that one long range piece attacks two opposing units on the same line. The difference is that in a skewer, the most important unit of the two in line is directly attacked first so that it promptly moves out of the way to allow the lesser unit behind it to be captured. Skewers tend to happen more so in longer games after some exchanges and the king has moved off the back rank. (A skewer sometimes happens in a miniature if an uncastled king moves up along the diagonal of his queen. The king gets checked by the opposing bishop and moves out of the way allowing the bishop to take the queen behind the king.) Some of the games in this collection contain both pins and skewers but our focus is on pins. General Order of Pins:
(Ignore the numbers that follow. The numbers do not aid the reader!!)
- All-Time Great Games 10
- Pin the Queen 25
- Bxf7+ KxBf7, Ng5+ Unpin 35
- Unpin w/Kingside Attack 50
- Unpin w/Queenside Attack 60
- Rob the Pin 75 (Take the square/unit it can no longer defend)
- Cross Pins 85
- Pinned to the Check-Mating Square (loosely interpreted) 95
- Back Rank Pin 105
- Defensive Counter Pin Response 110
- Double Pins 115
- Half-Pin 120 (An extra unit in the line of the pin.)
- Self-Pin 125 (Interpose as a response to check, etc.)
- Pin & Capture 135 (Discovered Attack or did not Pile On)
- Pin the Pawn 150 (Half-open file, pawn chain, K's shield, etc.)
- Pile on the Pinned Unit 170 (Add an attacker to outnumber)
- Unclassified Pins arranged by ECO
The above structure has been compromised.
Many games have not yet been categorized and probably won't ever be. Again, many games could be placed in more than one category. <“Here’s to you and here’s to me,Wherever we may roam;
And here’s to the health and happiness
Of the ones who are left at home”>
– Anonymous
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ― Lao Tzu “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― William Shakespeare
“I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.” ― Anish Giri “Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.” ― Hikaru Nakamura “In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.” ― Gza “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein “Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.” ― Larry Fitzgerald “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” ― Archimedes “The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.”
― David Bronstein
“Young men preen. Old men scheme.” ― Mason Cooley “Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.”
― Bobby Fischer
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Chess is the art of analysis.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ― Saint Augustine “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.” ― Gerald R. Ford “My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.”
― Sunil Chhetri
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ― Thomas Jefferson “The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.” ― Viktor Korchnoi “In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.” ― Yuliya Snigir “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
― Walter Scott
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned.” ― Richard Reti “To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”
― Steve Prefontaine
“I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.”
― Forest Whitaker
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' ” ― William Arthur Ward “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus “I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” ― Anna Kendrick Never judge a book by its cover.
“You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.” ― Garry Kasparov “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ― Bette Davis “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
“I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.” ― Magnus Carlsen “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
― Mark Twain
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.” ― Joyce Meyer “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ― Jim Rohn “I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.” ― Will Rogers “Winning is about commitment, discipline, hard work, dedication, determination, courage and sometimes even luck!” ― Susan Polgar “Every defeat is an opportunity to learn from our mistakes! Every victory is a confirmation of our hard work!” ― Susan Polgar “A chess player uses his/her knowledge to prepare for next game while a passionate coach prepares for next generation!” ― Susan Polgar Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. “Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.”
― Anthony Santasiere
“A wood-pusher overlooks the ranks.” ― Old Russian saying “You can retreat pieces… but not pawns. So always think twice about pawn moves.” ― Michael Stean French Proverb: “Ce n’est pas à un vieux singe qu’on apprend à faire la grimace.” ― (There’s no substitute for experience.) * Alpha Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis... * Ataman's Minis: Game Collection: Instructive Chess Miniatures (Ataman) * A07, B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack * B01 bounce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCd...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AF...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYr...
* 1 God in 3 persons: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4pCN... * 10 Tal facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fee... * Top 10 Gambits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JE... * 15 minutes of bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmZ... * 107 battles: Game Collection: 107 Great Chess Battles: 1939-45 Alekhine * Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018 * B20 best game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLh... * B22 burner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_N...
- P Tamburro vs E Babinski, 1975
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_N...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQo...
* B23 of Li: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTu...
- A Pickersgill vs J Anderson, 2012 * B29 blaster: H Seidman vs Santasiere, 1939 * B32 battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm2...
- J McGrouther vs R McCann, 1893 * B42 Nite at the Opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyd... * B50 bait & switch: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g4hC... * Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054... * Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyP...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXD...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GU...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ4...
* Post-Beginners Book: Game Collection: Chess training for post-beginners
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5U...
* Caviar: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZ...
* Center Game miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * C41 common trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3p... * C45 Extended Legall's Mate: Van der Wiel vs M Warmerdam, 2019
- P Frazer vs Taubenhaus, 1888 * C52 Waller Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVs...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K-Av...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWZ...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs6...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sgdX...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3v...
* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game * C55 pin to win: P Kerkovius vs A Mandelbaum, 1894 * C57 Scholar's Mate: N Whitaker vs C Carrico, 1923 * C-K Examples: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines * Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate... * Common Gambits Video: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo... * Draws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ft...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-i...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcY...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCi...
* Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * The Donner Party of Misery: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Don't Lie, Cheat, or Steal: https://www.openbible.info/topics/s...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpi...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcP...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDf...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hNJN...
* Don't waste time: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i1mp...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2G...
* Don't give up -- ever: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9K-p...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-wgE...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nII...
* D01 drowning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0d...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBB...
* d4 underrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1U...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNw...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqe...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sli...
* d4 traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e74...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5a...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqI...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSn...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YcOe...
* Endgame series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svs... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_D...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls7...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRV...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9i...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq9...
* 1.e4 e5 flavor flav: Game Collection: The Open Games: 1.e4 e5
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uTVb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QRLs...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GkcA...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZSdx...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z-iZ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_k3-...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rp_I...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7J49...
* 1.e4 other:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3su...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE...
* Against 1.e4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Q... * 1.e4 d6:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYE...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVA...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNM...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tST...
* 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * Focus on your advantage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQH...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZ...
* Formation Attx: https://www.newinchess.com/media/wy... * Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fbd1...
* Fischer's principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRN... * French According to... Game Collection: The French According to ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OMI0...
* Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French * Gambits against the French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43C...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pz...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pZ...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTS...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Z...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oh...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNy...
* Greek gift against the French: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EKS9...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JTZ1...
* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQO...
* 5.h3 is necessary in case NxNe5 occurs: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2BN... * ...h6? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iMWc... * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vsby...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oddk...
* Jobava London trap: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iAxl... * Light square strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0... * Long shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGj... * Mate in 2 takes advantage of the pin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Ium... * Maroczy Bind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Q...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqV...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8m...
* Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pc...
* Nimzo-Larsen: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6UYR... * Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP9...
* Opening Ideas/Novelties: Game Collection: Great opening ideas * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Pinned to the cross: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PtLt...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mq8S...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LAze...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2ZLQ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/05Zz...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4BID...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M4jt...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uJ94...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1VOe...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VzeS...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GdUB...
* Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tlkc... * H2P Queen's Gambit:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGB...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mts...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYy...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=una...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnI...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAs...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwP...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mts...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Db...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPD...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONB...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGA...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uk...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0o...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1H...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ov...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzQ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YcOe...
* Rouss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuI...
* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1D... * Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2) * 1977: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HiwS... * Block 17: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VmF6... * Stafford Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2t...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIe...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7R...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1I...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E17...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXS...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_p...
* Sports Clichés: http://www.sportscliche.com/
* Starting Out 1d4: Game Collection: Starting Out: 1 d4! * She's a Stonewaller: Eneida Astolfi Perez * GK Sicil: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Extinguish the Dragon: Game Collection: 1.e4 explorations * Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4 * Texas Playboys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjE... * 1985: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d09j... * Psalm 91:
* Vienna 1903 KG games: Game Collection: Vienna 1903
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/euXf...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aS...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7cjO...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BCjR...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HNI_...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92X...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92X...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OT...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJt...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDf...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P0... * Vienna Opening: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nLcQ...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2x...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nrNW...
* VP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH... * Various miniatures: Game Collection: MINIATURES * Bill Wall miniatures: Bill Wall * Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c... * Six Ways: https://takelessons.com/blog/6-tips... * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYi... * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского
Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava)
Translation: He who doesn’t take risks doesn’t drink champagne
Meaning: Fortune favours the brave
"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
- Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”
— Mikhail Tal
Alabama: Mobile
Established in: 1702
The city of Mobile is a port city on the Gulf Coast in Alabama that has a lot of French influence (which makes sense, since it was founded by the French). Mardi Gras celebrations originated there, and you can experience the history of the holiday at the Mobile Carnival Museum. * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... * Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch... * Short history: Game Collection: A history of chess * The History of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.> “Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
— Marcel Duchamp
“Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” ― Albert Einstein “You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “When in doubt, don't.” ― Benjamin Franklin Riddle Question: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? The Persian epic Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India. Riddle Answer: Wet, duh!
Ellison wrote:
Kamikaze
Two rows of a faceless infantry
fall into line;
I am their general
for this callous battle.
Overlords awaken;
their mirrored armies in meager shadow
to these giants that have played
the game of winning before.
The front rank advances slowly,
private by private; caressing the
battlefield as if never to return again.
The cavalry cry out into the night,
A horse’s metallic neigh that pierces through
to the other side’s defenses,
and the surrounding warriors join in for the hunt. A piece for a piece;
The desperate deal is made
between the masters of their
horrified soldiers.
Do I dare repeat
such insidious acts within my fleet?
The crown shakes with fear,
for the opposing ranks are drawing near.
Towering higher than the castles upon the deck,
I make my way to the monarch in check;
Swords left littered across the field
as the fires of carnage have dwindled low,
but trampling through grief, groans, and woe,
The other side is forced to yield.
<<<Fundamental Chess Principles>
according to CJS Purdy>
On Combinations
One simultaneous double threat is better than a great many successive single threats. That is the main lesson of chess. A double threat is a combination of two threats. (pg. 31) A combination (threat plus restraint or threat plus obstruction) may be called a "net". It is the most important kind of combination because every mate, without exception, is a "net". (pg. 32) Watch out for pieces of limited mobility, especially pieces without retreat. Remember that one retreat may not be enough.(pg. 32 / 33) On Tied Pieces
An important rule for avoiding a trap is this:
Where feasible, avoid using a piece to defend something that is attacked. Either protect the attaced unit with a pawn or move it away. (pg. 34) A knight is the worst defender because he cannot possibly maintain the defense if forced to move. (pg. 34) The best protector is a pawn - for three reasons: There is no possibility of it being attacked by a unit of lesser value;
It is a complete defense against any piece bigger than the one attacked;
above all, a menial task is suited to it, whereas a piece used for defending one particular thing is wasting its talents.
(pg. 35)
If you must use pieces to protect something, perhaps because it cannot move away, try to use one more than necessary! You are then free to moe any one of the protectors; not a single one is absolutely tied to its defensive task. (pg. 35) On Position Play
Position play is the art of improving your position in small ways when no sound combination is possible. (pg. 40) One can say that an endgame has arrived when neither side has more pieces than the equivalent of Queen plus pawn (with of course, the Kings, who are always with us). (pg. 41) Combinations are of primary importance, position play of secondary importance. (pg. 41) Pages refer to where content can be found in Purdy's book "Guide to Good Chess".>
Posted by Chessbuzz
I’m Popeye the Sailor Man
I live in a Garbage Can
I love to go swimmin’
With bow-legged wimmin
And swim between their legs
Swim between their legs.
The Ingratitude And Injustice Of Men Towards Fortune A trader on the sea to riches grew;
Freight after freight the winds in favour blew;
Fate steered him clear; gulf, rock, nor shoal
Of all his bales exacted toll.
Of other men the powers of chance and storm
Their dues collected in substantial form;
While smiling Fortune, in her kindest sport,
Took care to waft his vessels to their port.
His partners, factors, agents, faithful proved;
His goods – tobacco, sugar, spice –
Were sure to fetch the highest price.
By fashion and by folly loved,
His rich brocades and laces,
And splendid porcelain vases,
Enkindling strong desires,
Most readily found buyers.
In short, gold rained wherever he went –
Abundance, more than could be spent –
Dogs, horses, coaches, downy bedding –
His very fasts were like a wedding.
A bosom friend, a look his table giving,
Inquired whence came such sumptuous living.
"Whence should it come," said he, superb of brow,
"But from the fountain of my knowing how?
I owe it simply to my skill and care
In risking only where the marts will bear."
And now, so sweet his swelling profits were,
He risked anew his former gains:
Success rewarded not his pains –
His own imprudence was the cause.
One ship, ill-freighted, went awreck;
Another felt of arms the lack,
When pirates, trampling on the laws,
Overcame, and bore it off a prize.
A third, arriving at its port,
Had failed to sell its merchandize, –
The style and folly of the court
Not now requiring such a sort.
His agents, factors, failed; – in short,
The man himself, from pomp and princely cheer,
And palaces, and parks, and dogs, and deer,
Fell down to poverty most sad and drear.
His friend, now meeting him in shabby plight,
Exclaimed, "And whence comes this to pass?"
"From Fortune," said the man, "alas!"
"Console yourself," replied the friendly wight:
"For, if to make you rich the dame denies,
She can't forbid you to be wise."
What faith he gained, I do not wis;
I know, in every case like this,
Each claims the credit of his bliss,
And with a heart ingrate
Imputes his misery to Fate.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Switch your pawn insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds. “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik A GAME OF CHESS
by T S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion;
In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid— troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That freshened from the window, these ascended 90
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
And other withered stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed. Footsteps shuffled on the stair.
Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
110
"My nerves are bad to-night.
Yes, bad.
Stay with me.
"Speak to me.
Why do you never speak.
Speak.
"What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
"I never know what you are thinking.
Think.
" I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
"What is that noise?"
The wind under the door. "What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?"
Nothing again nothing.
120
"Do
"You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
"Nothing?"
I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
"Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?"
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent 130
"What shall I do now? What shall I do?"
I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
"With my hair down, so.
What shall we do to-morrow?
"What shall we ever do?"
The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four.
And we shall play a game of chess,
Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door. When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said—
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make yourself a bit smart. He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get yourself some teeth.
He did, I was there.
You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,
He said, I swear, I can't bear to look at you. And no more can't I, I said, and think of poor Albert,
He's been in the army four years, he wants a good time,
And if you don't give it him, there's others will, I said. Oh is there, she said.
Something o' that, I said.
150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a straight look. HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
If you don't like it you can get on with it, I said. Others can pick and choose if you can't.
But if Albert makes off, it won't be for lack of telling. You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique. (And her only thirty-one.
)
I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face,
It's them pills I took, to bring it off, she said. (She's had five already, and nearly died of young George.
) 160
The chemist said it would be alright, but I've never been the same. You are a proper fool, I said.
Well, if Albert won't leave you alone, there it is, I said,
What you get married for if you don't want children?
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot—
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Goonight Bill.
Goonight Lou.
Goonight May.
Goonight.
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Ta ta.
Goonight.
Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night. “In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca I always play carefully and try to avoid unnecessary risks. I consider my method to be right as any superfluous ‘daring' runs counter to the essential character of chess, which is not a gamble but a purely intellectual combat conducted in accordance with the exact rules of logic. – Jose Raul Capablanca 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. The Bat and the Two Weasels
A blundering bat once stuck her head
Into a wakeful weasel's bed;
Whereat the mistress of the house,
A deadly foe of rats and mice,
Was making ready in a trice
To eat the stranger as a mouse.
"What! do you dare," she said, "to creep in
The very bed I sometimes sleep in,
Now, after all the provocation
I have suffered from your thievish nation?
Are you not really a mouse,
That gnawing pest of every house,
Your special aim to do the cheese ill?
Ay, that you are, or I'm no weasel."
"I beg your pardon," said the bat;
"My kind is very far from that.
What! I a mouse! Who told you such a lie?
Why, ma'am, I am a bird;
And, if you doubt my word,
Just see the wings with which I fly.
Long live the mice that cleave the sky!"
These reasons had so fair a show,
The weasel let the creature go.
By some strange fancy led,
The same wise blunderhead,
But two or three days later,
Had chosen for her rest
Another weasel's nest,
This last, of birds a special hater.
New peril brought this step absurd;
Without a moment's thought or puzzle,
Dame weasel oped her peaked muzzle
To eat the intruder as a bird.
"Hold! do not wrong me," cried the bat;
"I'm truly no such thing as that.
Your eyesight strange conclusions gathers.
What makes a bird, I pray? Its feathers.
I'm cousin of the mice and rats.
Great Jupiter confound the cats!"
The bat, by such adroit replying,
Twice saved herself from dying.
And many a human stranger
Thus turns his coat in danger;
And sings, as suits, wherever he goes,
"God save the king!" – or "save his foes!'
<1 Corinthians 13>
King James Version
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. CHESS
Meet me then, within this grid,
this little wooden battlefield as equals,
as we forget our bodies to inhabit these pieces,
control these spaces, trade threats and responses,
send our thoughts out into possible positions, our eyes
imagining nothing but sweet forks and lancing fianchettoes.
We chessplayers, pretend enemies, bound to our miniature war
inexplicably & inescapably: when did we find ourselves so obsessed,
insidiously seduced to advances and exchanges, lost inside
this abyss of infinite moves, willing servants of it's rules? ― Rael
“As a species, octopuses are very old, and it's speculated that the first octopuses appeared roughly 296 million years ago. Their long existence has made them masters of camouflage and evasion, able to change their skin to match their environment. Octopuses also have the defensive mechanism of spewing ink and poison on enemies. They are also smart enough to use tools to solve everyday problems in the deep sea, and some species even hide in coconut shells and carry coconuts with them if they need to hide. With a short lifespan of anywhere from 3-5 years, it seems logical that octopuses would need such advanced defensive capabilities. Octopuses are also semelparous, meaning they are a species that only breeds once in their lifetime, shortly dying after doing so.” ― Planet Explore Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be
And bless these gifts
Bestowed by Thee.
And bless our loved ones everywhere,
And keep them in Your loving care.
Amen.
Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” The Human Seasons
by John Keats
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring’s honied cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness—to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you’re not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there’s no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section. Road apples
The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War. The battle took place on Friday, 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), near modern-day Azincourt, in northern France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battl... “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.” — Phyllis George Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. “Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” — Charles F. Stanley Oct-04-10
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You're distraught
because you're not
able to cope
feel like a dope
when Lasker hits
Puttin on (the Fritz)
"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."
— Billy Graham
"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
— Billy Graham
"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."
— Billy Graham
"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 "Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."
— Billy Graham
"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
— Billy Graham
"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world."
— Billy Graham
"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness." — Billy Graham Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
The Violet
by Jane Taylor
Sown in a green and shady bed,
A modest violet grew;
Its stalk was bent, it hung its head
As if to hide from view.
And yet it was a lovely flower,
Its colour bright and fair;
It might have graced a rosy bower,
Instead of hiding there.
Yet thus it was content to bloom,
In modest tints arrayed;
And there diffused a sweet perfume,
Within the silent shade.
Then let me to the valley go
This pretty flower to see;
That I may also learn to grow
In sweet humility.
Q: What do you call something that goes up when the rain comes down?
A: An umbrella.
Q: What do you call a doctor who fixes websites?
A: A URL-ologist.
Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A: A dinosnore.
Q: What do you call a Christmas tree that knows karate
A: Spruce Lee.
Q: What does a triangle call a circle?
A: Pointless.
Q: What do you call a piece of sad cheese?
A: Blue cheese.
Q: What do you call a cow in an earthquake?
A: A milkshake.
Q: What do you call an M&M that went to college?
A: A smarty.
According to Chessmetrics, Emanuel Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” <<<Apparently With No Surprise>
by Emily Dickinson>
Apparently with no surprise,
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play,
In accidental power.
The blond assassin passes on.
The sun proceeds unmoved,
To measure off another day,
For an approving God.>
Tornadoes and hurricanes are powerful enough to suck up a school of fish or frogs and then "rain" them back down miles away. On October 23, 1947, it rained fish in Markville, Louisiana; on June 7, 2005, thousands of frogs rained in Odzaci, a small town in northwestern Serbia; and in February 2010, hundreds of spangled perch rained down upon the village of Lajamanu, Australia. <<Below is a Morphy acrostic by C.V. Grinfield from page 334 of the Chess Player’s Chronicle, 1861:>Mightiest of masters of the chequer’d board,
Of early genius high its boasted lord!
Rising in youth’s bright morn to loftiest fame, Princeliest of players held with one acclaim;
Host in thyself – all-conquering in fight: – Yankees exult! – in your great champion’s might.> Confessed faults are half mended. ~ Scottish Proverb They that will not be counselled cannot be helped. ~ Scottish Proverb They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Scottish Proverb Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Scottish Proverb Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
~ Scottish Proverb
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
~ Scottish Proverb
<<<The Dancing Bear>
by James Russell Lowell>
Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,
And win their dearest crowns beyond the goal
Of their own conscious purpose; they control
With gossamer threads wide-flown our fancy's play,
And so our action. On my walk to-day,
A wallowing bear begged clumsily his toll,
When straight a vision rose of Atta Troll,
And scenes ideal witched mine eyes away.
'Merci, Mossieu!' the astonished bear-ward cried,
Grateful for thrice his hope to me, the slave
Of partial memory, seeing at his side
A bear immortal. The glad dole I gave
Was none of mine; poor Heine o'er the wide
Atlantic welter stretched it from his grave.> Dinner Prayer Hymn
Lord, bless this food and grant that we
May thankful for thy mercies be;
Teach us to know by whom we're fed;
Bless us with Christ, the living bread.
Lord, make us thankful for our food,
Bless us with faith in Jesus' blood;
With bread of life our souls supply,
That we may live with Christ on high.
Amen.
“Only the rocks live forever," said Gray Wolf.
― James A. Michener, Centennial
* Mankind's Savior said it, proved it: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bib... “Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
“God offers salvation without the need for any sort of advanced payment.”
― douglaskiogoraquotes
Dialing *67 conceals your number from someone you call. There are similar numbers you can dial to respond to mystery callers. The first is *69, which traces the number of the last person who called you. It works even for anonymous or hidden calls, so you can get the phone number and exact time they called. Once you have that number, you can block it on your phone so it can’t call you anymore. When Moses asked God, "Who shall I tell Pharaoh has sent me?" God said, "I AM THAT I AM." Jehovah or Yahweh is the most intensely sacred name to Jewish scribes and many will not even pronounce the name. When possible, they use another name.” https://www.biblestudytools.com/bib... Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever. “Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” — Charles F. Stanley “Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” ― Pablo Neruda “Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.”
― Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. President
Philippians 4:7
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. “Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” — Soren Kierkegaard Our Heavenly Father, kind and good,
We thank Thee for our daily food.
We thank Thee for Thy love and care.
Be with us Lord, and hear our prayer.
Amen.
<The Pawn Who Had to Go> The little pawn screamed: "I cannot hold it anymore, get me a pot or I will do exactly what I did before." Everybody laughed with the exception of the opposing king who guessed what was on the mind of this filthy thing. But nobody had time to fetch a pot or even a plastic bag They were too busy to ensure that the game became a drag. The guys in white kept running back and forth but no change. The guys in black stayed also within the very same range. Suddenly the unhappy pawn who had screamed for a pot, did a weird little dance while moving up one slot. Now standing near the king he simply pulled his pants down and peed straight up against the king's beautiful crown. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.” — Oprah Winfrey “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 “A wise man never knows all; only a fool knows everything.” — African Proverb Question: What is the oldest authenticated age ever for a human?
Answer: 122
Thank you, Qindarka!
Question: Which two cities represent letters in the phonetic alphabet?
Answer: Lima and Quebec
<<To See>
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.>
― William Blake
French Proverb: “Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard.” ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight.” — The Revenant 14 Rob z l Grzegorz
64All z puffy went out 4A smoke saw a UFOA outr space, force, time, android K safety Wesley So Zamikhovsky pauzed clock o' time: Z is for Zaccheus
Zaccheus was a wee little man,
And a wee little man was he.
He climbed up in a sycamore tree
For the Lord he wanted to see.
And when the Savior passed that way
He looked up in the tree.
And he said, “Zaccheus, you come down!
For I’m going to your house today!
For I’m going to your house today!”
Zaccheus was a wee little man,
But a happy man was he.
For he had seen the Lord that day,
And a happy man was he.
And a very happy man was he!
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Salus populi suprema lex esto
Q: Why is Chubby Checker so bad at telling jokes? A: Because when there's a twist it doesn't surprise anybody. * Big Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo1...
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Axioms are the same as assumptions, or basic intuitive knowledge, which are most of the time independent from each other. In the game of chess, the moves of the pieces are independent from each other. The move of the bishops has nothing to do with the move of the rooks. Put it to 'em: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Pinning a bobcat: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...
No, I did not watch the entire video.
* Clothespin Cross: https://modpodgerocksblog.com/cloth... * Push-Pin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-... * Pin the tail on the... Rudolph's nose? https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * And this lil' piggy goes to market: https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-i... * Penalty box makes one moody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Q... * Instructive Cross Pins video: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Cross Pin by the Heavy Pieces: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * When Bishops Pin Knights video lesson: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... This is one of the most practical, useful opening chess lessons available for beginners and club players. Every player must have a plan for dealing with pins. Pinned pieces are immobilized; this is a chronic weakness if the pin is allowed to last. “Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.” ― Dustin Diamond, Actor “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them.” — Sheldon B. Kopp “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― William Shakespeare
“I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.” ― Anish Giri “Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.” ― Hikaru Nakamura “In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.” ― Gza “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein “Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.” ― Larry Fitzgerald “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” ― Archimedes “The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.”
― David Bronstein
“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
“Young men preen. Old men scheme.” ― Mason Cooley “Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.”
― Bobby Fischer
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Chess is the art of analysis.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ― Saint Augustine “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.” ― Gerald R. Ford “My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.”
― Sunil Chhetri
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ― Thomas Jefferson “The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.” ― Viktor Korchnoi “In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.” ― Yuliya Snigir “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
― Walter Scott
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned.” ― Richard Reti “To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”
― Steve Prefontaine
“I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.”
― Forest Whitaker
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' ” ― William Arthur Ward “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus “I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” ― Anna Kendrick Never judge a book by its cover.
“You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.” ― Garry Kasparov “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ― Bette Davis “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
“I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.” ― Magnus Carlsen “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
― Mark Twain
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.” ― Joyce Meyer “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ― Jim Rohn “I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.” ― Will Rogers Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy:
“Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived, he would beat anybody today in a set-match. He had complete sight of the board and seldom blundered even though he moved quite rapidly. I've played over hundreds of his games and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity.” “He (Jose R. Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art.” ― Philip W. Sergeant “Beautiful, cold, remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability.”
― Raymond Chandler (on a Capablanca game)
"Life is like a game of chess, changing with each move." ― Chinese Proverb "Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." ― Albert Einstein "Chess is all about stored pattern recognition. You are asking your brain to spot a face in the crowd that it has not seen." ― Sally Simpson "Chess does not drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane." ― Bill Hartston "Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game." ― Wilhelm Steinitz "It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus." ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." ― Napoleon Bonaparte "It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid." ― Viswanathan Anand "Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration." ― C.J.S. Purdy “Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE” – Alan Rufus “No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves. (What about Scholar's Mate?) Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life.” – Anonymous "For him chess was his life. Without the game he could not exist." – Engelina Tal (on her late husband Mikhail) "The man who has proved that you can reach the top and remain human." – Mikhail Tal (on who his chess hero was) "My head is full of sunshine." – Mikhail Tal
"I couldn't make myself dislike him." – Mikhail Botvinnik (on Tal) Romans 12:2, King James Bible
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb “Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.’ A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.’ All’s well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.’ Meanwhile, Henry Knighton’s Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra * One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini * Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * 10 tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQ... * 10 Q traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEz... * Anderssen - Steinitz Match: Anderssen - Steinitz (1866) * Ataman's Minis: Game Collection: Instructive Chess Miniatures (Ataman) * Alpha Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis... * Annotated Games: Game Collection: Annotated Games * A07, B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack * Back rank mating tactics: Game Collection: 610_Back rank mating tactics * Best (Old) Games of All Time: Game Collection: Best Games of All Time * Best of the British: Game Collection: Best of the British * The Best Chess Games (part 2): Game Collection: The Best Chess Games (part 2) * Famous brilliancies: Game Collection: brilliacies * Brilliant games: Game Collection: Brilliant games * Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054... * B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger’s Models) * Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Chair collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KY... * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * ILemonT said wow! Game Collection: wow!! * Double Exchange Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc9... * English cheapo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF2... * Fishin' Poled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyS... * Glossary NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/... * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) https://archive.org/details/the-gol... * GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at...
* GK's Sicilian: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Glossary W: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss... * Greatest Hits: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms) * h-file attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8m... * How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit * King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to... * KP Beauties: Game Collection: Beautiful mates * Lab Rats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem... * Old P-K4 Miniatures: Game Collection: Games for Classes * 5 min w/BF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fva... * Artful Mates: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate * Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1914-1931 * maxruen's favorite games III: Game Collection: maxruen's favorite games III * '500 Master Games of Chess' by Savielly Tartakower and Julius Du Mont: Game Collection: 500 Master Games of Chess * '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) * Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer... * MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala) * Neon Moon, smooth and easy: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Neon+... * Opening Ideas/Novelties: Game Collection: Great opening ideas * PGN Language Conversion: http://www.code.gr/chess-converter/... * Petrov's Defense, Cochrane Gambit: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Runaway passer does not matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8d... * The Roaring 20's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * 50 Games to Know: https://en.chessbase.com/post/50-ga... * 62 Masterpieces: Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev) * Chigorin's 2.Qe2 vs French Defense: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * 68 games between Chigorin and Schiffers:
search "Chigorin vs Schiffers" * 107 battles: Game Collection: 107 Great Chess Battles: 1939-45 Alekhine * Back shooter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXs... * “The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution” ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov... * Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Reti Opening: 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 * Scandinavian Miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Steinitz collection:
Game Collection: Steinitz Gambits * Tactical Mix: Game Collection: mastering Tactical ideas by minev * Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics * The "Caribbean Tal": Philip Corbin * Wikipedia on Computer Chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compu... * World Championship 2018:
Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018) Like new-laid eggs Chess Problems are,
Though very good, they may be beaten;
And yet, though like, they’re different far,
They may be cooked, but never eaten.
Source: page 58 of Poems and Chess Problems by J.A. Miles (Fakenham, 1882). * Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018 * Chess Prehistory: Game Collection: Chess Prehistory * 'Chess Praxis' by Aron Nimzowitsch: Game Collection: Chess Praxis (Nimzowitsch) * Classic games: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston) * C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game * Caviar: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * C-K Examples: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines * Common Gambits: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo... * Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * ChessCafe.com column, The Openings Explained: Abby Marshall * Danish treats: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (I) * Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * The Donner Party of Misery: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Don't Steal: https://www.openbible.info/topics/s... * Extinguish the Dragon: Game Collection: 1.e4 explorations * Exchange sacs: Game Collection: Exchange sacs - 1 * Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c... * French According to... Game Collection: The French According to ... * Favorite games of famous masters: Game Collection: bengalcat47's favorite games * Fire Baptisms: Game Collection: Fire Baptisms * The Fireside Book of Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess * Great Endings: Game Collection: great endings * Great Combinations: Game Collection: Combinations * 'Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters' by Fred Reinfeld: Game Collection: 0 * Impact of Genius: 500 years of Grandmaster Chess: Game Collection: Impact of Genius : 500 years of Grandmaster Ches * Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky: Game Collection: Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky ‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!’
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There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
'A rising tide lifts all boats'
'Don't put the cart before the horse'
“Examine what is said, not who is speaking.” ~ African Proverb Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. New York: Albany
Established in: 1624
Henry Hudson (the Hudson River is named after him) arrived in Albany in 1609, but it was already home to a Dutch trading post and the Haudenosaunee tribe, Iroquois Native Americans. The capital of New York is also its oldest city. Originally founded as Fort Orange by the Dutch settlers in 1624, the city was officially chartered by the British government as Albany in 1686. It didn't become the capital of the state until 1797. Albany was the point of origin for the first long distance airplane flight and the first passenger railroad. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * History of Chess: https://boldchess.com/history/ * Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.> “Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
— Marcel Duchamp
“Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” ― Albert Einstein “When in doubt, don't.” ― Benjamin Franklin Riddle Question: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? The Persian epic Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India. Riddle Answer: Wet, duh!
Ellison wrote:
Kamikaze
Two rows of a faceless infantry
fall into line;
I am their general
for this callous battle.
Overlords awaken;
their mirrored armies in meager shadow
to these giants that have played
the game of winning before.
The front rank advances slowly,
private by private; caressing the
battlefield as if never to return again.
The cavalry cry out into the night,
A horse’s metallic neigh that pierces through
to the other side’s defenses,
and the surrounding warriors join in for the hunt. A piece for a piece;
The desperate deal is made
between the masters of their
horrified soldiers.
Do I dare repeat
such insidious acts within my fleet?
The crown shakes with fear,
for the opposing ranks are drawing near.
Towering higher than the castles upon the deck,
I make my way to the monarch in check;
Swords left littered across the field
as the fires of carnage have dwindled low,
but trampling through grief, groans, and woe,
The other side is forced to yield.
Trolling is cyberbullying. The troll should be banned from the website for good. Internet trollz are people who want to provoke and upset others online for their own amusement. Here’s how to spot the signz that someone is a troll, and how to handle them. What Are Internet Trollz?
If you’ve been on the internet for any period of time, you’ve likely run into a troll at some point. An internet troll is someone who makes intentionally inflammatory, rude, or upsetting statements online to elicit strong emotional responses in people or to steer the conversation off-topic. They can come in many forms. Most trolls do this for their own amusement, but other forms of trolling are done to push a specific agenda. Trollz have existed in folklore and fantasy literature for centuries, but online trolling has been around for as long as the internet has existed. The earliest known usage of the term can be traced back to the 1990s on early online message boards. Back then, it was a way for users to confuse new members by repeatedly posting an inside joke. It’s since turned into a much more malicious activity. Trolling is distinct from other forms of cyberbullying or harassment. It is normally not targeted towards any one person and relies on other people paying attention and becoming provoked. Trolling exists on many online platforms, from small private group chats to the biggest social media websites. Here’s a list of places online where you’re likely to see online trolls: Anonymous online forums: Places like [removed to prevent more trolling] are prime real-estate for online trolls. Because there’s no way of tracing who someone is, trolls can post very inflammatory content without repercussion. This is especially true if the forum has lax or inactive moderation.
Twitter: Twitter also has the option to be anonymous, and has become a hotbed for internet trolls. Frequent Twitter trolling methods involve hijacking popular hashtags and mentioning popular Twitter personalities to gain attention from their followers. Comment sections: The comment sections of places such as YouTube and news websites are also popular areas for trolls to feed. You’ll find a lot of obvious trolling here, and they frequently generate a lot of responses from angry readers or viewers. You’ll find trollz anywhere online, including on Facebook and on online dating sites. They’re unfortunately pretty common. Signs Someone Is Trolling
It can sometimes become difficult to tell the difference between a troll and someone who just genuinely wants to argue about a topic. However, here are a few tell-tale signs that someone is actively trolling. Off-topic remarkz: Completely going off-topic from the subject at hand. This is done to annoy and disrupt other posters. Refusal to acknowledge evidence: Even when presented with hard, cold factz, they ignore this and pretend like they never saw it. Dismissive, condescending tone: An early indicator of a troll was that they would ask an angry responder, “Why you mad, bro?” This is a method done to provoke someone even more, as a way of dismissing their argument altogether.
Use of unrelated images or memes: They reply to others with memes, images, and gifs. This is especially true if done in response to a very long text post.
Seeming obliviousness: They seem oblivious that most people are in disagreement with them. Also, trolls rarely get mad or provoked.
The list above is by no means definitive. There are a lot of other ways to identify that someone is trolling. Generally, if someone seems disingenuous, uninterested in a real discussion, and provocative on purpose, they’re likely an internet troll. How Should I Handle Them?
A "Danger: Do not feed the troll" sign on a computer keyboard. The most classic adage regarding trolling is, “Don’t feed the trollz.” Trollz seek out emotional responses and find provocation amusing, so replying to them or attempting to debate them will only make them troll more. By ignoring a troll completely, they will likely become frustrated and go somewhere else on the internet. You should try your best not to take anything trollz say seriously. No matter how poorly they behave, remember these people spend countless unproductive hours trying to make people mad. They’re not worth your time of day. If a troll becomes spammy or begins to clog up a thread, you can also opt to report them to the site’s moderation team. Depending on the website, there’s a chance nothing happens, but you should do your part to actively dissuade them from trolling on that platform. If your report is successful, the troll may be temporarily suspended or their account might be banned entirely. In 1996, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's "Deep Blue" supercomputer 4–2 in a best-of-6 match-up. Man and machine rematched in 1997, and the computer won 3.5–2.5 after unusually poor play by Kasparov. <This poem is dedicated to all members
who have experienced the breaking of a gentleman's agreement.He Know No Honor
Now in yonder obscurity live a bishop called Pork
his tongue protruding like a two-pronged fork.
He say: nova dear, I will play you thirty/thirty
then he quickly run, I say: that be little dirty.
This Pork he say; sweet nova please grant me tie
upon my honor as a holy man I do never lie.
He say: nova dear: I will play you thirty/thirty
but he quickly run: I say that be more than little dirty
to Pork this kindly nova say: I grant you draw
as Pork's time in present game all but gone he saw.
he say: dear nova, I will play you thirty/thirty
as he quickly run: I truly say that be fricken dirty.
now always loudly to this Pork I shall tell
no more play me but evil one who live in hell.> “You need to realize something if you are ever to succeed at chess,’ she said, as if Nora had nothing bigger to think about. ‘And the thing you need to realize is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn’t over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game. And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn’t. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.' Mrs. Elm”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
The Dancing Bear
by James Russell Lowell
Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,
And win their dearest crowns beyond the goal
Of their own conscious purpose; they control
With gossamer threads wide-flown our fancy's play,
And so our action. On my walk to-day,
A wallowing bear begged clumsily his toll,
When straight a vision rose of Atta Troll,
And scenes ideal witched mine eyes away.
'Merci, Mossieu!' the astonished bear-ward cried,
Grateful for thrice his hope to me, the slave
Of partial memory, seeing at his side
A bear immortal. The glad dole I gave
Was none of mine; poor Heine o'er the wide
Atlantic welter stretched it from his grave.
Below is a Morphy acrostic by C.V. Grinfield from page 334 of the Chess Player’s Chronicle, 1861:
Mightiest of masters of the chequer’d board,
Of early genius high its boasted lord!
Rising in youth’s bright morn to loftiest fame,
Princeliest of players held with one acclaim;
Host in thyself – all-conquering in fight: –
Yankees exult! – in your great champion’s might. * Learn these and burn them! https://herculeschess.com/chess-tac... * Tactics by a different Gary: https://chessdelights.com/chess-tac... The Bird Wounded By An Arrow
A bird, with plumed arrow shot,
In dying case deplored her lot:
"Alas!" she cried, "the anguish of the thought!
This ruin partly by myself was brought!
Hard-hearted men! from us to borrow
What wings to us the fatal arrow!
But mock us not, you cruel race,
For you must often take our place."
The work of half the human brothers
Is making arms against the others.
<Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علیرضا فیروزجا, Persian pronunciation: [æliːɾeˈzɑː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɑː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest ever 2800-rated player, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months.A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster title at 14. At 16, Firouzja became the second youngest 2700-rated player and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rapid Chess Championship. In November 2021, at 18, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship. He won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Blitz Chess Championship. In 2022, Firouzja won the Grand Chess Tour. Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019 because of the country's longstanding policy against competing with Israeli players.[4] He played under the FIDE flag until mid-2021, when he became a French citizen and began representing France, where he had already been living.> — Wikipedia Question: Which fruit floats because 25% of its volume is air?
Answer: Apple – they float because of their high volume of air. If an item is denser than water, it will sink – otherwise, will float. Question: What’s the only food that never expires?
Answer: Honey – when excavating ancient Egyptian tombs, archaeologists found pots of honey thousands of years old, and still edible. As long as the container is sealed, raw honey will never spoil. Although it never truly expires, honey can crystallize or granulate but is still safe to consume. Fun fact: the oldest jar of honey was found in the tomb of a noblewoman in Georgia. As far as archaeologists have found, this is considered the world’s oldest honey – about 5,500 years old. Metro Retro
Question: Who is the oldest man to win People Magazine’s sexiest man alive?
Answer: Sean Connery – 59.
Question: How do you call a group of unicorns?
Answer: A blessing
Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you’re not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there’s no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephr “The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. “I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.” — Hulk Hogan 'Don't let the cat out of the bag'
'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted' 'Don't throw good money after bad'
'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'
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.
“Everyone should know how to play chess.” — José Raúl Capablanca Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) Greer County ~ Lyrics
Tom Hight is my name, an old bachelor I am,
You'll find me out West in the country of fame,
You'll find me out West on an elegant plain,
And starving to death on my government claim.
Hurrah for Greer County!
The land of the free,
The land of the bed-bug,
Grass-hopper and flea;
I'll sing of its praises
And tell of its fame,
While starving to death
On my government claim.
My house is built of natural sod,
Its walls are erected according to hod;
Its roof has no pitch but is level and plain,
I always get wet if it happens to rain.
How happy am I on my government claim,
I've nothing to lose, and nothing to gain;
I've nothing to eat, I've nothing to wear,--
From nothing to nothing is the hardest fare.
How happy am I when I crawl into bed,--
A rattlesnake hisses a tune at my head,
A gay little centipede, all without fear,
Crawls over my pillow and into my ear.
Now all you claim holders, I hope you will stay
And chew your hard tack till you're toothless and gray;
But for myself, I'll no longer remain
To starve like a dog on my government claim.
My clothes are all ragged as my language is rough,
My bread is corn dodgers, both solid and tough;
But yet I am happy, and live at my ease
On sorghum molasses, bacon, and cheese.
Good-bye to Greer County where blizzards arise,
Where the sun never sinks and a flea never dies,
And the wind never ceases but always remains
Till it starves us all out on our government claims.
Farewell to Greer County, farewell to the West,
I'll travel back East to the girl I love best,
I'll travel back to Texas and marry me a wife,
And quit corn bread for the rest of my life.
Fredthebear is glad to me married!
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Feb-09-12
ray keene: nimzos best endgames
v lasker zurich 1934
v spielmann carlsbad 1929
v lundin stockholm 1934
v maroczy bled 1931
v henneberger winterthur 1931
v thomas frankfurt 1930
v sultan khan liege 1930
v marshall berlin 1928
v reti berlin 1928
v alehine ny 1927
v tchigorin carlsbad 1907
and for a joke entry duras v nimzo san sebastian 1912 !! “Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” — Blasie Pascal “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 trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar.” – Unknown Nov-27-22
petemcd85: <From this moment onwards , whenever <zed> follows you around and harasses you on different pages , post those instances here and then I and you would collaborate and ask admins to ban <zed> on the basis of that evidence>
Do post these instances and I will review the problem and act accordingly “I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one.” – David Levy “A bad plan is better than none at all.” – Frank Marshal The Cat, the Weasel, and the Young Rabbit
John Rabbit's palace under ground
Was once by Goody Weasel found.
She, sly of heart, resolved to seize
The place, and did so at her ease.
She took possession while its lord
Was absent on the dewy sward,
Intent on his usual sport,
A courtier at Aurora's court.
When he had browsed his fill of clover
And cut his pranks all nicely over,
Home Johnny came to take his drowse,
All snug within his cellar-house.
The weasel's nose he came to see,
Outsticking through the open door.
"You gods of hospitality!"
Exclaimed the creature, vexed sore,
"Must I give up my father's lodge?
Ho! Madam Weasel, please to budge,
Or, quicker than a weasel's dodge,
I'll call the rats to pay their grudge!"
The sharp-nosed lady made reply,
That she was first to occupy.
The cause of war was surely small –
A house where one could only crawl!
And though it were a vast domain,
Said she, "I had like to know what will
Could grant to John perpetual reign, –
The son of Peter or of Bill, –
More than to Paul, or even me."
John Rabbit spoke – great lawyer he –
Of custom, usage, as the law,
Whereby the house, from sire to son,
As well as all its store of straw,
From Peter came at length to John.
Who could present a claim, so good
As he, the first possessor, could?
"Now," said the dame, "let's drop dispute,
And go before Raminagrobis, [23]
Who'll judge, not only in this suit,
But tell us truly whose the globe is."
This person was a hermit cat,
A cat that played the hypocrite,
A saintly mouser, sleek and fat,
An arbiter of keenest wit.
John Rabbit in the judge concurred,
And off went both their case to broach
Before his majesty, the furred.
Said Clapperclaw, "My kits, approach,
And put your noses to my ears:
I'm deaf, almost, by weight of years."
And so they did, not fearing anything.
The good apostle, Clapperclaw,
Then laid on each a well-armed paw,
And both to an agreement brought,
By virtue of his tusked jaw.
This brings to mind the fate
Of little kings before the great.
Q: What do you call someone who draws funny pictures of cars?
A: A car-toonist.
Q: What do you call a magician on a plane?
A: A flying sorcerer.
Q: What do you call fruit playing the guitar?
A: A jam session.
Q: What do you call the shoes that all spies wear?
A: Sneakers.
Q: What do you call something you can serve, but never eat?
A: A volleyball.
Q: What did the alien say to the garden?
A: Take me to your weeder.
Q: What do you call a skeleton who went out in freezing temperatures?
A: A numb skull.
Q: What do you call a farm that grows bad jokes?
A: Corny.
roy zev2270 toy stor haz a song pertning t2 stnky fshy wshd ashore Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, approximately 3000 miles (4850 km) in diameter, hardly larger than the moon. Despite being the smallest, it’s extremely dense. In fact, it’s the second densest planet after Earth. It’s also the closest planet to the sun, making it dangerous to explore. Mercury is 48 million miles from the earth. 99 Z buffoons ate macaroons with spponz at noon then took a nap on the next bus out. <1 Corinthians 13 King James Version> 13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. A quote from the link: https://www.libertarianism.org/what... "Modern day politicians on the left and right sometimes pay lip service to these ideas, but in practice they reject them. Legislation is all about imposing an order from above, rather than letting one emerge from below. And in creating their schemes, politicians all too often fail to give citizens their due as people, treating them as pawns and running roughshod over their rights to decide and plan for themselves." <The Aurora’s Dance
Auroras dance, in the polar night,
A symphony of colors, pure delight.
The sky’s curtain, alive and aglow,
A magical display, a celestial show.>
"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
— Billy Graham
"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our 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-pee-free: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch... * Double R Lift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0o... “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox
A lion, old, and impotent with gout,
Would have some cure for age found out.
Impossibilities, on all occasions,
With kings, are rank abominations.
This king, from every species, –
For each abounds in every sort, –
Called to his aid the leeches.
They came in throngs to court,
From doctors of the highest fee
To nostrum-quacks without degree, –
Advised, prescribed, talked learnedly;
But with the rest
Came not Sir Cunning Fox, M.D.
Sir Wolf the royal couch attended,
And his suspicions there expressed.
Forthwith his majesty, offended,
Resolved Sir Cunning Fox should come,
And sent to smoke him from his home.
He came, was duly ushered in,
And, knowing where Sir Wolf had been,
Said, "Sire, your royal ear
Has been abused, I fear,
By rumours false and insincere;
To wit, that I have been self-exempt
From coming here, through sheer contempt.
But, sire, I have been on pilgrimage,
By vow expressly made,
Your royal health to aid,
And, on my way, met doctors sage,
In skill the wonder of the age,
Whom carefully I did consult
About that great debility
Termed in the books senility,
Of which you fear, with reason, the result.
You lack, they say, the vital heat,
By age extreme become effete.
Drawn from a living wolf, the hide
Should warm and smoking be applied.
The secret's good, beyond a doubt,
For nature's weak, and wearing out.
Sir Wolf, here, won't refuse to give
His hide to cure you, as I live."
The king was pleased with this advice.
Flayed, jointed, served up in a trice,
Sir Wolf first wrapped the monarch up,
Then furnished him whereon to sup.
Beware, you courtiers, lest you gain,
By slander's arts, less power than pain;
For in the world where you are living,
A pardon no one thinks of giving.
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ― Denis Waitley Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! “The wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots.” — The Revenant The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” — Anonymous “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.” — Phyllis George Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. "Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley 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.
“It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” — Francis Bacon The cat’s play is the mouse’s death. ~ German Proverb “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 2pry Zeitnot Zshaa-Tichondrius - 601 Disc Priest 226 Ilvl - 27750 RBG zek247 dint undrstnd Ziyatdinov's planto ignore the LSB on deck of the carrier. “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey Needles and Pins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGm... Fast Car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_B... Fast Car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucw...
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Pins are immobilizing difference makers that inflict chess pain. Some of these are ordinary pins while others determine the outcome of the game. “Si vis pacem, para bellum” ― Cicero
“Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ― Bette Davis “Chess is a matter of vanity.” ― Alexander Alekhine “As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.” ― Levon Aronian “Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the assessment with very strong moves and if you don't find all of these strong moves you may lose very quickly. For a computer this is not a problem, but for humans it is not so easy.” ― Vassily Ivanchuk “A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.” ― John Milton “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.” ― Alexander Morozevich “No one man is superior to the game.” ― A. Bartlett Giamatti, in reference to Pete Rose, the all-time MLB hits leader banned for gambling. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” ― Alexander Pope “I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.” ― Adolf Anderssen “After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes”
― Howard Staunton
“I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed.” ― Emanuel Lasker “With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.” ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor “Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.” ― Adrian Rogers “Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position.” ― Anatoly Karpov “The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.” ― Max Stirner “It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned.” ― Richard Reti “A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.” ― Savielly Tartakower “Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.” ― Ajahn Brahm “As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.” ― Alexander Alekhine “It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.” ― Eugene Znosko-Borovsky “The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.”
― David Bronstein
“If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.” ― Siegbert Tarrasch “Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.” ― Agnes Repplier “If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you watch together with the computer and the pleasure is gone.” ― Boris Gelfand “I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.”
― Vlastimil Hort
“It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!” ― Mikhail Tal “Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?” ― Daniel J. King “Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.” ― Alexey Suetin “Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.” ― Mikhail Chigorin “The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.” ― Efim Geller “Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.” ― Vasily Smyslov “No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.” ― Samuel Reshevsky “Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.”
― Abdelkader El Djezairi
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” ― Abigail Adams “When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games, I knew the winning method.” ― Garry Kasparov “As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.” ― Mark Dvoretsky “It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.” ― Viktor Korchnoi “The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.” ― Alexei Shirov “For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.”
― Viswanathan Anand
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein “One bad move nullifies forty good ones.”
― Israel Albert Horowitz
“It is a well-known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.” ― Aron Nimzowitsch “My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.” ― Pola Negri “Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.”
― Jose Raul Capablanca
“Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.” ― Alexander Koblencs “A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.” ― Howard Staunton “A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.” ― Paul Keres “Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.” ― Boris Spassky “Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.” ― Paul Morphy “Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.” ― Ronald Graham “Attackers may sometimes regret bad movez, but it’s much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.” ― Garry Kasparov “Even the laziest king flees wildly in the face of a double check.”
― Aron Nimzowitzch
“When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one.” ― Emanuel Lasker
The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512. Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. “Winning is about commitment, discipline, hard work, dedication, determination, courage and sometimes even luck!” ― Susan Polgar “Every defeat is an opportunity to learn from our mistakes! Every victory is a confirmation of our hard work!” ― Susan Polgar “A chess player uses his/her knowledge to prepare for next game while a passionate coach preparez for next generation!” ― Susan Polgar French Proverb: “Ce n’est pas à un vieux singe qu’on apprend à faire la grimace.” ― (There’s no substitute for experience.) * Diagrammed Checkmate Patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * Secrets of Combination: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II * Great Attacks: Game Collection: great attack games * Black Storms: Game Collection: Tal - The Modern Benoni St. Edmund
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There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.” ― Saudin Robovic “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov Sleeper straddle “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” ― Samuel Beckett Georgia: Savannah
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General James Oglethorpe and 120 passengers traveling on a ship named "Anne" docked along the Savannah River in 1733, and the city of Savannah was born. It became the British colonial capital of the Province of Georgia. Oglethorpe named the colony "Georgia" after England's King George II. It was the 13th and final American colony. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * Chess Timeline: https://wegochess.com/an-easy-to-re... * Three Simple Chess Tips: https://www.premierchesscoaching.co... * '77 classics: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DdYL... * The Rook: https://www.chess.com/blog/uptophig.... * Chaturanga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2... Picture History of Chess
by Fred Wilson
This classic photo-history offers up hundreds of photos of all the great players along with many outstanding adversaries who helped fashion the immortals. Excellent captions throughout. Hours of fascinating reading and a book I return to again and again. Many of these photos are quite old and hard to find, but collected here under one cover, in an oversized (10x12") format, printed on high-quality glossy paper. Publisher: Dover Pubns; First Edition (January 1, 1981)
Language: English
Paperback: 182 pages
ISBN-10: 0486238563
ISBN-13: 978-0486238562
Item Weight: 1.23 pounds
Dimensions: 8.75 x 0.5 x 11.5 inches
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
Sonnet 116: 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds...'
by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
An Irish Blessing:
May we all feel…
happy and contented,
healthy and strong,
safe and protected
and living with ease…
~ “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “Tactics is knowing what to do when there’s something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there’s nothing what to do.” ― Savielly Tartakower “A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz "Chess is all about stored pattern recognition. You are asking your brain to spot a face in the crowd that it has not seen." ― Sally Simpson "Chess, it's the struggle against error." ― Johannes Zukertort Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.> “No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves (What about Scholar's Mate?). Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life.” — Anonymous Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
― Thomas Jefferson, chess player
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
My Cats
by Charles Bukowski 0-1994
I know. I know.
they are limited, have different
needs and
concerns.
but I watch and learn from them.
I like the little they know,
which is so
much.
they complain but never
worry,
they walk with a surprising dignity.
they sleep with a direct simplicity that
humans just can't
understand.
their eyes are more
beautiful than our eyes.
and they can sleep 20 hours
a day
without
hesitation or
remorse.
when I am feeling
low
all I have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns.
I study these
creatures.
they are my
teachers.
“Seven Steps to Success:
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.”
— John C. Maxwell
According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. “The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.” — Daniel Naroditsky “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” — John Wooden In 2002 Sergey Karjakin became a grandmaster at the age of 12 years and 7 months, a record at that time. Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Street Window
by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
The pawn-shop man knows hunger,
And how far hunger has eaten the heart
Of one who comes with an old keepsake.
Here are wedding rings and baby bracelets,
Scarf pins and shoe buckles, jeweled garters,
Old-fashioned knives with inlaid handles,
Watches of old gold and silver,
Old coins worn with finger-marks.
They tell stories.
<Maurice Williams>, the rhythm and blues singer and composer behind the classic ballad “Stay,” died on Aug. 6. He was 86, according to the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame’s announcement. Williams, who became a one hit wonder with the Zodiacs, wrote and performed music with other harmony groups throughout the 1960s. “Stay” rose to No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart in 1960, and was one of the shortest top songs of the era. The ballad was the Zodiac’s only hit, and went on to be featured in the Dirty Dancing soundtrack and covered by the Four Seasons and Jackson Browne. According to a 2012 interview with a North Carolina publication, the song was inspired by Williams’ teen-age crush, Mary Shropshire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z...
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<Igor Oleksandrovych Novikov>: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_... * Oldest recorded game: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XyQx... * Tal tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbY... * '77 classics: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DdYL... <Writing from his experience of the devastation of World War I, Edwardian poet Alfred Noyes' well-known "On the Western Front" speaks from the perspective of soldiers buried in graves marked by simple crosses, asking that their deaths not be in vain. Praise of the dead was not what the dead needed, but peace made by the living. An excerpt:We, who lie here, have nothing more to pray.
To all your praises we are deaf and blind.
We may not ever know if you betray
Our hope, to make earth better for mankind.> “Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should generally strive to keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks aren't protecting each other.” ― Fredthebear “In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” ― Tom Seaver <This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
― Fort Minor>
The Hare and the Frogs
Once in his bed deep mused the hare,
(What else but muse could he do there?)
And soon by gloom was much afflicted; –
To gloom the creature's much addicted.
"Alas! these constitutions nervous,"
He cried, "how wretchedly they serve us!
We timid people, by their action,
Can't eat nor sleep with satisfaction;
We can't enjoy a pleasure single,
But with some misery it must mingle.
Myself, for one, am forced by cursed fear
To sleep with open eye as well as ear.
"Correct yourself," says some adviser.
Grows fear, by such advice, the wiser?
Indeed, I well enough descry
That men have fear, as well as I."
With such revolving thoughts our hare
Kept watch in soul-consuming care.
A passing shade, or leaflet's quiver
Would give his blood a boiling fever.
Full soon, his melancholy soul
Aroused from dreaming doze
By noise too slight for foes,
He scuds in haste to reach his hole.
He passed a pond; and from its border bogs,
Plunge after plunge, in leaped the timid frogs,
"Aha! I do to them, I see,"
He cried, "what others do to me.
The sight of even me, a hare,
Suffices some, I find, to scare.
And here, the terror of my tramp
Has put to rout, it seems, a camp.
The trembling fools! they take me for
The very thunderbolt of war!
I see, the coward never skulked a foe
That might not scare a coward still below."
Feb-09-12
ray keene: nimzos best endgames
v lasker zurich 1934
v spielmann carlsbad 1929
v lundin stockholm 1934
v maroczy bled 1931
v henneberger winterthur 1931
v thomas frankfurt 1930
v sultan khan liege 1930
v marshall berlin 1928
v reti berlin 1928
v alehine ny 1927
v tchigorin carlsbad 1907
and for a joke entry duras v nimzo san sebastian 1912 !! A quote from the link: https://www.libertarianism.org/what... "Modern day politicians on the left and right sometimes pay lip service to these ideas, but in practice they reject them. Legislation is all about imposing an order from above, rather than letting one emerge from below. And in creating their schemes, politicians all too often fail to give citizens their due as people, treating them as pawns and running roughshod over their rights to decide and plan for themselves." <Below is the acrostic poem by Mrs T.B. Rowland:Tears now we sadly shed apart,
How keenly has death’s sudden dart
E’en pierced a kingdom’s loyal heart.
Dark lies the heavy gloomy pall
Upon our royal bower,
Kings, queens, and nations bow their heads,
Each mourn for England’s flower.
Oh! God, to her speak peace divine,
For now no voice can soothe but thine.
Ah, why untimely snatched away,
Loved Prince – alas, we sigh –
Before thy sun its zenith reached
Athwart the noonday sky.
Noble in heart, in deed, and will,
Years hence thy name we’ll cherish still.
That poem was published on pages 140-141 of Chess Fruits (Dublin, 1884)> Question: Why did pirates wear earrings?
Answer: To improve their eyesight – they believed the precious metal in an earring had healing powers. Question: In terms of production volume, what is the most popular fruit in the world?
Answer: Tomato – yes, tomato is a fruit.
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephr “The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. “I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.” — Hulk Hogan 'Don't let the cat out of the bag'
'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted' 'Don't throw good money after bad'
'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'
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.
“Everyone should know how to play chess.” — José Raúl Capablanca Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox
A lion, old, and impotent with gout,
Would have some cure for age found out.
Impossibilities, on all occasions,
With kings, are rank abominations.
This king, from every species, –
For each abounds in every sort, –
Called to his aid the leeches.
They came in throngs to court,
From doctors of the highest fee
To nostrum-quacks without degree, –
Advised, prescribed, talked learnedly;
But with the rest
Came not Sir Cunning Fox, M.D.
Sir Wolf the royal couch attended,
And his suspicions there expressed.
Forthwith his majesty, offended,
Resolved Sir Cunning Fox should come,
And sent to smoke him from his home.
He came, was duly ushered in,
And, knowing where Sir Wolf had been,
Said, "Sire, your royal ear
Has been abused, I fear,
By rumours false and insincere;
To wit, that I have been self-exempt
From coming here, through sheer contempt.
But, sire, I have been on pilgrimage,
By vow expressly made,
Your royal health to aid,
And, on my way, met doctors sage,
In skill the wonder of the age,
Whom carefully I did consult
About that great debility
Termed in the books senility,
Of which you fear, with reason, the result.
You lack, they say, the vital heat,
By age extreme become effete.
Drawn from a living wolf, the hide
Should warm and smoking be applied.
The secret's good, beyond a doubt,
For nature's weak, and wearing out.
Sir Wolf, here, won't refuse to give
His hide to cure you, as I live."
The king was pleased with this advice.
Flayed, jointed, served up in a trice,
Sir Wolf first wrapped the monarch up,
Then furnished him whereon to sup.
Beware, you courtiers, lest you gain,
By slander's arts, less power than pain;
For in the world where you are living,
A pardon no one thinks of giving.
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ― Denis Waitley Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! “The wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots.” — The Revenant Bless Us, O Lord
Traditional Catholic Prayer
Bless us, O Lord,
And these Thy gifts
Which we are about to receive,
Through Thy bounty
Through Christ our Lord we pray.
Amen.
<Faute De Mieux
by Dorothy Parker 1893-1967
Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme-
I never said they feed my heart,
But still they pass my time.>
“Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.” ― Siegbert Tarrasch “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." Z is for Zaccheus
Zaccheus was a wee little man,
And a wee little man was he.
He climbed up in a sycamore tree
For the Lord he wanted to see.
And when the Savior passed that way
He looked up in the tree.
And he said, “Zaccheus, you come down!
For I’m going to your house today!
For I’m going to your house today!”
Zaccheus was a wee little man,
But a happy man was he.
For he had seen the Lord that day,
And a happy man was he.
And a very happy man was he!
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202 games, 1820-2023 - Pins Ins and Outs, ECO C 20s, 40s joel
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
— Walt Whitman
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ― Lao Tzu “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
― William Shakespeare
“I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.” ― Anish Giri “Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.” ― Hikaru Nakamura “In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.” ― Gza “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” ― Albert Einstein Richard the Lionheart only spent six months of his ten-year reign in England. “Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.” ― Larry Fitzgerald “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” ― Archimedes “The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.”
― David Bronstein
“Young men preen. Old men scheme.” ― Mason Cooley “Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.”
― Bobby Fischer
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Chess is the art of analysis.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ― Saint Augustine “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.” ― Gerald R. Ford “My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.”
― Sunil Chhetri
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ― Thomas Jefferson “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.” ― Alan Dundes “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ―
Albert Einstein
“The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.” ― Viktor Korchnoi “In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.” ― Yuliya Snigir “O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
― Walter Scott
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned.” ― Richard Reti “To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.”
― Steve Prefontaine
“I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.”
― Forest Whitaker
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' ” ― William Arthur Ward “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus “I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” ― Anna Kendrick Never judge a book by its cover.
“You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.” ― Garry Kasparov “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ― Bette Davis “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
“I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.” ― Magnus Carlsen “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
― Mark Twain
Napoleon took 187,600 horses with his army as he rode into Russia in 1812, only 1,600 came back. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.” ― Joyce Meyer “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ― Jim Rohn “I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.” ― Will Rogers “Winning is about commitment, discipline, hard work, dedication, determination, courage and sometimes even luck!” ― Susan Polgar “Every defeat is an opportunity to learn from our mistakes! Every victory is a confirmation of our hard work!” ― Susan Polgar “A chess player uses his/her knowledge to prepare for next game while a passionate coach prepares for next generation!” ― Susan Polgar “My poetry is a game. My life is a game. But I am not a game.”
— Federico Garcia Lorca
“Life is the most amazing game. Play hard with a deep love so that you may enjoy it.” — Debasish Mridha “Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.” — Chi Chi Rodriguez “Life is a game, play it ... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.” — Mother Teresa “Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.”
— Joe Gibbs
“Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.” — Joe Namath “The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.” — David Foster Wallace “For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.” — Eduard Gufeld “If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.” — Jon Osborne “Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.” — Peter Rogers Sometime rhetoric was just
another way to lie and impress persons,
and he knew this — Haidji
* Deadly Battery: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Adolf Anderssen miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Game Collection: Alekhine vs Bogolubov
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http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c... * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
>Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. ‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!’
Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского
Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava)
Translation: He who doesn’t take risks doesn’t drink champagne
Meaning: Fortune favours the brave
"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
- Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”
— Mikhail Tal
In 1913 Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Tito all lived in Vienna for a couple of months. Alabama: Mobile
Established in: 1702
The city of Mobile is a port city on the Gulf Coast in Alabama that has a lot of French influence (which makes sense, since it was founded by the French). Mardi Gras celebrations originated there, and you can experience the history of the holiday at the Mobile Carnival Museum. * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... * Short history: Game Collection: A history of chess * Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch... Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.> “Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
— Marcel Duchamp
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” ― Albert Einstein “When in doubt, don't.” ― Benjamin Franklin A Fallen Leaf
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A trusting little leaf of green,
A bold audacious frost;
A rendezvous, a kiss or two,
And youth for ever lost.
Ah, me!
The bitter, bitter cost.
A flaunting patch of vivid red,
That quivers in the sun;
A windy gust, a grave of dust,
The little race is run.
Ah, me!
Were that the only one.
Of the eight planets in the Solar System, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were observed by Babylonian astronomers as early as the 2nd millennium BC. The Greek Aristarchus of Samos (310–230 bc) also correctly observed the position of Earth in relation to the planets – known as the heliocentric model. Below is the acrostic poem by Mrs T.B. Rowland:
Tears now we sadly shed apart,
How keenly has death’s sudden dart
E’en pierced a kingdom’s loyal heart.
Dark lies the heavy gloomy pall
Upon our royal bower,
Kings, queens, and nations bow their heads,
Each mourn for England’s flower.
Oh! God, to her speak peace divine,
For now no voice can soothe but thine.
Ah, why untimely snatched away,
Loved Prince – alas, we sigh –
Before thy sun its zenith reached
Athwart the noonday sky.
Noble in heart, in deed, and will,
Years hence thy name we’ll cherish still.
That poem was published on pages 140-141 of Chess Fruits (Dublin, 1884) Select a good chess move:
1. Is my king and queen safe? Am I absolutely sure? 2. Why did my opponent make that move?
3. What just changed?
4. What is now en prise / un/under-defended?
5. Any immediate risks / opportunities? (If no, go to default)
- Opening: Develop
- Middle game: Improve, build attack, pawn breaks.
- End game: Assure the best outcome
6. What are ALL the candidate moves?
7. For each, what is likely to happen? New risks/opportunities? 8. Which is best?
9. Does it improve my position?
10. Sanity check, sure it's not a mistake?
The Will Explained by Aesop
If what old story says of Aesop's true,
The oracle of Greece he was,
And more than Areopagus he knew,
With all its wisdom in the laws.
The following tale gives but a sample
Of what has made his fame so ample.
Three daughters shared a father's purse,
Of habits totally diverse.
The first, bewitched with drinks delicious;
The next, coquettish and capricious;
The third, supremely avaricious.
The sire, expectant of his fate,
Bequeathed his whole estate,
In equal shares, to them,
And to their mother just the same, –
To her then payable, and not before,
Each daughter should possess her part no more.
The father died. The females three
Were much in haste the will to see.
They read, and read, but still
Saw not the willer's will.
For could it well be understood
That each of this sweet sisterhood,
When she possessed her part no more,
Should to her mother pay it over?
It was surely not so easy saying
How lack of means would help the paying.
What meant their honoured father, then?
The affair was brought to legal men,
Who, after turning over the case
Some hundred thousand different ways,
Threw down the learned bonnet,
Unable to decide on it;
And then advised the heirs,
Without more thought, t" adjust affairs.
As to the widow's share, the counsel say,
"We hold it just the daughters each should pay
One third to her on demand,
Should she not choose to have it stand
Commuted as a life annuity,
Paid from her husband's death, with due congruity."
The thing thus ordered, the estate
Is duly cut in portions three.
And in the first they all agree
To put the feasting-lodges, plate,
Luxurious cooling mugs,
Enormous liquor jugs,
Rich cupboards, – built beneath the trellised vine, –
The stores of ancient, sweet Malvoisian wine,
The slaves to serve it at a sign;
In short, whatever, in a great house,
There is of feasting apparatus.
The second part is made
Of what might help the jilting trade –
The city house and furniture,
Exquisite and genteel, be sure,
The eunuchs, milliners, and laces,
The jewels, shawls, and costly dresses.
The third is made of household stuff,
More vulgar, rude, and rough –
Farms, fences, flocks, and fodder,
And men and beasts to turn the sod over.
This done, since it was thought
To give the parts by lot
Might suit, or it might not,
Each paid her share of fees dear,
And took the part that pleased her.
It was in great Athens town,
Such judgment gave the gown.
And there the public voice
Applauded both the judgment and the choice.
But Aesop well was satisfied
The learned men had set aside,
In judging thus the testament,
The very gist of its intent.
"The dead," Said he, "could he but know of it,
Would heap reproaches on such Attic wit.
What! men who proudly take their place
As sages of the human race,
Lack they the simple skill
To settle such a will?"
This said, he undertook himself
The task of portioning the pelf;
And straightway gave each maid the part
The least according to her heart –
The prim coquette, the drinking stuff,
The drinker, then, the farms and cattle;
And on the miser, rude and rough,
The robes and lace did Aesop settle;
For thus, he said, "an early date
Would see the sisters alienate
Their several shares of the estate.
No motive now in maidenhood to tarry,
They all would seek, post haste, to marry;
And, having each a splendid bait,
Each soon would find a well-bred mate;
And, leaving thus their father's goods intact,
Would to their mother pay them all, in fact," –
Which of the testament
Was plainly the intent.
The people, who had thought a slave an ass,
Much wondered how it came to pass
That one alone should have more sense
Than all their men of most pretence.
'Ask no questions and hear no lies
* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century * Knight Power: https://fmochess.com/the-power-of-t... 'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven’t we metaphor?"
The Italian chess player Carlo Cozio (1715-1780) was a writer and theorist with an opening named after him. The Cozio Defense to the Ruy Lopez (or Spanish Game) is 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Nge7. * Line Opening selection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXr... Max Lange (1832-1899) was a very successful German chess player and composer of chess problems. The opening 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 d4 exd4 5 O–O Bc5 6 e5 is called the Max Lange Attack. Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline?
A: A milkshake.
A Song of Heroes
by Anonymous
Our country calls for heroes,
And who is a hero now
With no fear in his eyes,
With no shade of disguise,
With a purpose upon his brow?
The wide world calls for heroes,
And who will a hero be.
With a love for the whole
And a clear, steady soul
And a spirit brave and free?
High heaven calls for heroes,
And who is a hero there,
With a will for the best,
And a mind for the test,
And a heart that knows to dare?
But never mind the heroes,
Nor herald the hero's worth:
For our land we will die
And for God on high,
And for all the groaning earth!
<There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, “A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances.” This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square.Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, “[Bishops and rooks] complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen.” Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, “The queen and knight are [able] to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop.” When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, “I think it’s true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops.” He continues, “Of course, I’m not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.”> God is great and God is good,
Let us thank Him for our food;
By His blessings, we are fed,
Give us Lord, our daily bread.
Amen.
Checkers
Sam Ciel Aug 2015
You might have heard the saying,
"At the end of the game, the King and the Pawn go in the same box."
but depending on the moves you make, one of them is ultimately the winner.
One of them stays on the board longer, does more for his team.
Let's extend that phrase.
"At the end of the game, the King and the Pawn go in the same box. But the game is decided by the moves they make."
I assume everyone understands Chess, but for those who don't,
That's okay, too. I'll explain one more thing about it.
The Pawn can only move in one direction.
The King can move wherever he wants.
This remains true unless the Pawn decides to go on the offensive
To take life by his own hands
A variety of options open up to him
Whereas then, the King is limited by his options.
He sees nothing new, and can merely advance or
Retreat
In the same directions he always has.
And he very well may retreat, because when he falls, it's all over.
The Pawn, though? The Pawn can never retreat. He can only move forward
And if he makes it to the other side,
He becomes a Queen. The most prominent, powerful piece,
It goes in the same box but it can determine the outcome of the entire game.
A single piece can determine if, and how any other piece will fall.
This is true of the Queen, of the King, of the Pawn. This is true of the Knights and the Bishops and
the Rooks and every single piece, and so with every thing equally significant, let's strip away the
titles and just look at our actions, because it isn't our title that defines us.
It's how we play the game.
Sometimes that means we have all the power.
Sometimes that means we have none.
Sometimes we are alone.
Sometimes we are together.
But at the end of the day, we all go in the same box. “Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.” — Heraclitus “Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. Just like a game of chess, queen protect the king.” — Anuj Kr. Thakur “He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.
Yeah, that was the life.” — Josh Lanyon
“The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life.” — George R R Martin Simonides Preserved By The Gods
Three sorts there are, as Malherbe says,
Which one can never overpraise –
The gods, the ladies, and the king;
And I, for one, endorse the thing.
The heart, praise tickles and entices;
Of fair one's smile, it often the price is.
See how the gods sometimes repay it.
Simonides – the ancients say it –
Once undertook, in poem lyric,
To write a wrestler's panegyric;
Which, before he had proceeded far in,
He found his subject somewhat barren.
No ancestors of great renown;
His sire of some unnoted town;
Himself as little known to fame,
The wrestler's praise was rather tame.
The poet, having made the most of
Whatever his hero had to boast of,
Digressed, by choice that was not all luck's,
To Castor and his brother Pollux;
Whose bright career was subject ample,
For wrestlers, sure, a good example.
Our poet fattened on their story,
Gave every fight its place and glory,
Till of his panegyric words
These deities had got two-thirds.
All done, the poet's fee
A talent was to be.
But when he comes his bill to settle,
The wrestler, with a spice of mettle,
Pays down a third, and tells the poet,
"The balance they may pay who owe it.
The gods than I are rather debtors
To such a pious man of letters.
But still I shall be greatly pleased
To have your presence at my feast,
Among a knot of guests select,
My kin, and friends I most respect."
More fond of character than coffer,
Simonides accepts the offer.
While at the feast the party sit,
And wine provokes the flow of wit,
It is announced that at the gate
Two men, in haste that cannot wait,
Would see the bard. He leaves the table,
No loss at all to "ts noisy gabble.
The men were Leda's twins, who knew
What to a poet's praise was due,
And, thanking, paid him by foretelling
The downfall of the wrestler's dwelling.
From which ill-fated pile, indeed,
No sooner was the poet freed,
Than, props and pillars failing,
Which held aloft the ceiling
So splendid over them,
It downward loudly crashed,
The plates and flagons dashed,
And men who bore them;
And, what was worse,
Full vengeance for the man of verse,
A timber broke the wrestler's thighs,
And wounded many otherwise.
The gossip Fame, of course, took care
Abroad to publish this affair.
"A miracle!" the public cried, delighted.
No more could god-beloved bard be slighted.
His verse now brought him more than double,
With neither duns, nor care, nor trouble.
Whoever laid claim to noble birth
Must buy his ancestors a slice,
Resolved no nobleman on earth
Should overgo him in the price.
From which these serious lessons flow:
Fail not your praises to bestow
On gods and godlike men. Again,
To sell the product of her pain
Is not degrading to the Muse.
Indeed, her art they do abuse,
Who think her wares to use,
And yet a liberal pay refuse.
Whatever the great confer on her,
They're honoured by it while they honour.
Of old, Olympus and Parnassus
In friendship heaved their sky-crowned masses.
Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ― Voltaire “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about.” — George Allen “Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have.” ― Richard Carlson "Double, double toil and trouble" has become something of a clichéd quote in relation to witches. It pops up frequently in cartoons and shows, usually as some incantation during a witch's spell. Therefore, it feels appropriate that it was used in the Harry Potter franchise as the students of Hogwarts sing a song with these lyrics in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. While the origins of the quote do indeed harken back to witches, it is actually from <Macbeth> with the Harry Potter song being a word-to-word version of a portion of the Three Witches' ill-fated prophecy. <"Every time I coach people, I <emphasize> the following key concepts:^Develop your pieces at the beginning of the game (Extremely underrated by beginners) ^Control the center (Chess pieces control a lot more squares from the center of the board) ^Make sure your king is safer than the opponent’s Every opening in chess is based on these fundamental principles. Thus, if you can understand such concepts and put them into practice, your chess strength will skyrocket!" ― IM Luis Torres> > Protect your pieces. Loose Pieces Drop Off. Your middlegame position generally tends to be in good standing as long as you have a grip on the center, the king is castled and rooks connected, your pieces are active, and you don't drop material. Know all the possible ways of responding to a threat of capture.< * Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin... Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
<A Burnt Ship
By John Donne (1572-1631)
Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
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The Cloud
By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken
The sweet buds every one,
When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,
As she dances about the sun.
I wield the flail of the lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.
I sift the snow on the mountains below,
And their great pines groan aghast;
And all the night 'tis my pillow white,
While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Sublime on the towers of my skiey bowers,
Lightning my pilot sits;
In a cavern under is fettered the thunder,
It struggles and howls at fits;
Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream,
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
And when Sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath,
Its ardours of rest and of love,
And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of Heaven above,
With wings folded I rest, on mine aëry nest,
As still as a brooding dove.
That orbèd maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor,
By the midnight breezes strewn;
And wherever the beat of her unseen feet,
Which only the angels hear,
May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof,
The stars peep behind her and peer;
And I laugh to see them whirl and flee,
Like a swarm of golden bees,
When I widen the rent in my wind-built tent,
Till calm the rivers, lakes, and seas,
Like strips of the sky fallen through me on high,
Are each paved with the moon and these.
I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone,
And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl;
The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim,
When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.
From cape to cape, with a bridge-like shape,
Over a torrent sea,
Sunbeam-proof, I hang like a roof,
The mountains its columns be.
The triumphal arch through which I march
With hurricane, fire, and snow,
When the Powers of the air are chained to my chair,
Is the million-coloured bow;
The sphere-fire above its soft colours wove,
While the moist Earth was laughing below.
I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die.
For after the rain when with never a stain
The pavilion of Heaven is bare,
And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams
Build up the blue dome of air,
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.
According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. “Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that information.” ― Josh Keller Chessgames.com will be unavailable August 28, 2023 from 1:00AM through 1:30AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance.
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An Irish Blessing:
May we all feel…
happy and contented,
healthy and strong,
safe and protected
and living with ease…
~ Ever wanted to be able to clean your ears with your tongue? Then you’d probably fancy being a giraffe. They’re able to do this thanks to having tongues which are around 21 inches long! Question: What is the only number spelled out in English that has the same number of letters as its value?
Answer: Four
Concrete-like structures began to appear for the first time in northern Jordan and southern Syria regions around 6500 B.C.E. Comprised of rough composite mixed with fluid cement, concrete is the most widely used man-made material. The mix hardens over time, making a sturdy, strong structural foundation. However, when it’s still wet, the material is very easy to manipulate into different shapes. Question: The U.S.A. $10,000 bill was last printed in 1945 and is the largest denomination ever in public circulation; whose portrait appeared on it?
Answer: Salmon P. Chase – Secretary of the Treasury Giraffes have unique markings. They are like our own fingerprints in that no two giraffes will ever have the same markings. Tilt
The Cat and the Old Rat
A story-writer of our sort
Historifies, in short,
Of one that may be reckoned
A Rodilard the Second, –
The Alexander of the cats,
The Attila, the scourge of rats,
Whose fierce and whiskered head
Among the latter spread,
A league around, its dread;
Who seemed, indeed, determined
The world should be unvermined.
The planks with props more false than slim,
The tempting heaps of poisoned meal,
The traps of wire and traps of steel,
Were only play compared with him.
At length, so sadly were they scared.
The rats and mice no longer dared
To show their thievish faces
Outside their hiding-places,
Thus shunning all pursuit; whereat
Our crafty General Cat
Contrived to hang himself, as dead,
Beside the wall with downward head,
Resisting gravitation's laws
By clinging with his hinder claws
To some small bit of string.
The rats esteemed the thing
A judgment for some naughty deed,
Some thievish snatch,
Or ugly scratch;
And thought their foe had got his meed
By being hung indeed.
With hope elated all
Of laughing at his funeral,
They thrust their noses out in air;
And now to show their heads they dare;
Now dodging back, now venturing more;
At last on the larder's store
They fall to filching, as of yore.
A scanty feast enjoyed these shallows;
Down dropped the hung one from his gallows,
And of the hindmost caught.
"Some other tricks to me are known,"
Said he, while tearing bone from bone,
"By long experience taught;
The point is settled, free from doubt,
That from your holes you shall come out."
His threat as good as prophecy
Was proved by Mr. Mildandsly;
For, putting on a mealy robe,
He squatted in an open tub,
And held his purring and his breath; –
Out came the vermin to their death.
On this occasion, one old stager,
A rat as grey as any badger,
Who had in battle lost his tail,
Abstained from smelling at the meal;
And cried, far off, "Ah! General Cat,
I much suspect a heap like that;
Your meal is not the thing, perhaps,
For one who knows somewhat of traps;
Should you a sack of meal become,
I had let you be, and stay at home."
Well said, I think, and prudently,
By one who knew distrust to be
The parent of security.
'Ask no questions and hear no lies
* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century * Knight Power: https://fmochess.com/the-power-of-t... 'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven’t we metaphor?"
Q: Why was the King only a foot tall?
A: Because he was the ruler.
Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline?
A: A milkshake.
Rundown
George Henry Thomas Is An Unsung Hero Of The Civil War
After serving in the Mexican-American War, <George Henry Thomas> remained as a Southern Unionist in the US Army during the American Civil War. He served as a general and was one of the lead commanders in the Western Theater. During the war, he never lost a battle starting with his first victory at Mill Springs. George Henry Thomas won several decisive victories throughout the war, even saving the Union Army, earning the nickname "the Rock of Chickamauga." Although he was undefeated during the war, his refusal to promote his legacy led him to be overshadowed by generals such as Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. Trolling is cyberbullying. The troll should be banned from the website for good. Internet trollz are people who want to provoke and upset others online for their own amusement. Here’s how to spot the signz that someone is a troll, and how to handle them. What Are Internet Trollz?
If you’ve been on the internet for any period of time, you’ve likely run into a troll at some point. An internet troll is someone who makes intentionally inflammatory, rude, or upsetting statements online to elicit strong emotional responses in people or to steer the conversation off-topic. They can come in many forms. Most trolls do this for their own amusement, but other forms of trolling are done to push a specific agenda. Trollz have existed in folklore and fantasy literature for centuries, but online trolling has been around for as long as the internet has existed. The earliest known usage of the term can be traced back to the 1990s on early online message boards. Back then, it was a way for users to confuse new members by repeatedly posting an inside joke. It’s since turned into a much more malicious activity. Trolling is distinct from other forms of cyberbullying or harassment. It is normally not targeted towards any one person and relies on other people paying attention and becoming provoked. Trolling exists on many online platforms, from small private group chats to the biggest social media websites. Here’s a list of places online where you’re likely to see online trolls: Anonymous online forums: Places like [removed to prevent more trolling] are prime real-estate for online trolls. Because there’s no way of tracing who someone is, trolls can post very inflammatory content without repercussion. This is especially true if the forum has lax or inactive moderation.
Twitter: Twitter also has the option to be anonymous, and has become a hotbed for internet trolls. Frequent Twitter trolling methods involve hijacking popular hashtags and mentioning popular Twitter personalities to gain attention from their followers. Comment sections: The comment sections of places such as YouTube and news websites are also popular areas for trolls to feed. You’ll find a lot of obvious trolling here, and they frequently generate a lot of responses from angry readers or viewers. You’ll find trollz anywhere online, including on Facebook and on online dating sites. They’re unfortunately pretty common. Signs Someone Is Trolling
It can sometimes become difficult to tell the difference between a troll and someone who just genuinely wants to argue about a topic. However, here are a few tell-tale signs that someone is actively trolling. Off-topic remarkz: Completely going off-topic from the subject at hand. This is done to annoy and disrupt other posters. Refusal to acknowledge evidence: Even when presented with hard, cold factz, they ignore this and pretend like they never saw it. Dismissive, condescending tone: An early indicator of a troll was that they would ask an angry responder, “Why you mad, bro?” This is a method done to provoke someone even more, as a way of dismissing their argument altogether.
Use of unrelated images or memes: They reply to others with memes, images, and gifs. This is especially true if done in response to a very long text post.
Seeming obliviousness: They seem oblivious that most people are in disagreement with them. Also, trolls rarely get mad or provoked.
The list above is by no means definitive. There are a lot of other ways to identify that someone is trolling. Generally, if someone seems disingenuous, uninterested in a real discussion, and provocative on purpose, they’re likely an internet troll. How Should I Handle Them?
A "Danger: Do not feed the troll" sign on a computer keyboard. The most classic adage regarding trolling is, “Don’t feed the trollz.” Trollz seek out emotional responses and find provocation amusing, so replying to them or attempting to debate them will only make them troll more. By ignoring a troll completely, they will likely become frustrated and go somewhere else on the internet. You should try your best not to take anything trollz say seriously. No matter how poorly they behave, remember these people spend countless unproductive hours trying to make people mad. They’re not worth your time of day. If a troll becomes spammy or begins to clog up a thread, you can also opt to report them to the site’s moderation team. Depending on the website, there’s a chance nothing happens, but you should do your part to actively dissuade them from trolling on that platform. If your report is successful, the troll may be temporarily suspended or their account might be banned entirely. "Zeitnot" is German for "time pressure."
“....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally.” — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee. “Sorry don't get it done, Dude!” — John Wayne, Rio Bravo “Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose "My kingdom for a horse!"
Mel Brooks' satirical retelling of Robin Hood's folklore is filled with references to classical literature, particularly that of Shakespeare. For instance, people throw their ears at Robin Hood, after he delivers the famous Julius Caesar's line, "Lend me your ear". A more dramatic moment occurs when the vigilante swims to England all the way from Jerusalem. Without offering any context, he exclaims "My kingdom for a horse!"
The randomness makes the scene funny but avid readers of the Bard would know that this dialogue is actually taken from Act 5, Scene 4 of <Richard III>. In the play, the titular protagonist desperately searches for his horse on a battlefield when he loses the creature. The line is meant to be an exaggeration by the hero that he would give anything to have a horse in that moment. However, it makes for a funny setup in Robin Hood: Men in Tights as, shortly after saying this, Robin discovers his kingdom has been taken away. “Risk” by Anais Nin
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to blossom.
“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
Question: What’s the brightest star in the sky?
Answer: Sirius – also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, Sirius is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky. The star is outshone only by several planets and the International Space Station. Q: What kind of tea did the American colonist want?
A: Liberty
Question: What’s the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?
Answer: Graveyards are attached to churches while cemeteries are stand-alone. Patty Loveless "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi... "These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends..."
The Twilight Saga: New Moon / Romeo & Juliet
Like many other romantic films, The Twilight Saga: New Moon also uses quotes from <Romeo & Juliet> to depict the tumultuous romance shared between the ancient Edward Cullen and young human Bella Swan. In fact, the film opens with this monologue from the classic tragedy. It is unsurprising as countless stories of forbidden romance have taken inspiration and paid homage to Shakespeare's famous doomed love story.
In the case of Twilight, the rival families can be replaced by vampires and humans and the unconventional romance that blooms between a couple like Edward and Bella.
In the original source, Friar Lawrence says these lines to Romeo warning him of the dangers of loving a girl from a rival family. Romeo, however, believes that he would still get joy even if he could meet Juliet for just one moment. In the case of Twilight, the rival families can be replaced by vampires and humans and the unconventional romance that blooms between a couple like Edward and Bella. <Five Preliminary Endgame Rules
according to CJS Purdy
1. Before even beginning to think of making a passed pawn, put all your pieces into as good positions as possible. 2. Avoid pawn-moves while you are getting your pieces well positioned because pawn-moves create lasting weaknesses and thus make your task harder. 3. Try to free your position from weaknesses; and if possible, make it hard for the opponent to do likewise. 4. When trying to win, keep pawns on both wings. When trying to draw, play to eliminate all the pawns on one wing. With pawns on one wing only, a pawn plus is usually insufficient for a win. 5. If you are a pawn up or more, exchange pieces (not pawns) wherever you can do so without losing in position. Exception: do not rush an exchange that will leave you with a single bishop running on the opposite color to the enemy's single bishop. Also, refrain from exchanging if it will give your opponent two bishops against bishop and knight.
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Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. ~ Scottish Proverb * Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUq... * Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" Cajun: Joie de vivre (Jhwa da veev) – Joy of living. Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
~ Scottish Proverb
“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. “God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”
— 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 This poem is dedicated to Harris my chessplayer friend and literary commentator. <Chess The Final MetaphorIt was in a cesspool behind the place of his cousin Nick That in this pool of sewage, was born the freak called frick. On dark nights he hysterically wailed in his pool of slimy mess: "Oh why oh why, can't I play the game that humans call chess"? As the morning sun rose, begged the queen of the mighty king: Sire, can you not order the death of this awful filthy thing"? Wisely he replied: "no, I'll let frick live forever in distress While he must watch others enjoy themselves playing chess."> * Riddle-ziggy-bean: 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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by Betty Harp Butler
Listen to the wind
As it ruffles through the trees.
God is blowing his breath.
When the storms come,
Could it be He sneezed?>
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ― Denis Waitley Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! “The wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots.” — The Revenant Feb-09-12
ray keene: nimzos best endgames
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and for a joke entry duras v nimzo san sebastian 1912 !! “Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” — Blasie Pascal “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 trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar.” – Unknown The Dancing Bear
by James Russell Lowell
Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,
And win their dearest crowns beyond the goal
Of their own conscious purpose; they control
With gossamer threads wide-flown our fancy's play,
And so our action. On my walk to-day,
A wallowing bear begged clumsily his toll,
When straight a vision rose of Atta Troll,
And scenes ideal witched mine eyes away.
'Merci, Mossieu!' the astonished bear-ward cried,
Grateful for thrice his hope to me, the slave
Of partial memory, seeing at his side
A bear immortal. The glad dole I gave
Was none of mine; poor Heine o'er the wide
Atlantic welter stretched it from his grave.
A quote from the link: https://www.libertarianism.org/what... "Modern day politicians on the left and right sometimes pay lip service to these ideas, but in practice they reject them. Legislation is all about imposing an order from above, rather than letting one emerge from below. And in creating their schemes, politicians all too often fail to give citizens their due as people, treating them as pawns and running roughshod over their rights to decide and plan for themselves." French Proverb: “Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard.” ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) Deuteronomy 6:6-9: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." Isaiah 66:24
24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” — Anonymous “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.” — Phyllis George Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. "Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley 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.
“It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” — Francis Bacon The cat’s play is the mouse’s death. ~ German Proverb “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 2pry Zeitnot Zshaa-Tichondrius - 601 Disc Priest 226 Ilvl - 27750 RBG zek247 dint undrstnd Ziyatdinov's planto ignore the LSB on deck of the carrier. “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey A toast for friendship:
‘Here’s to Tall Ships,
Here’s to Small Ships,
Here’s to all the Ships at Sea.
But the best Ships are Friendships,
Here’s to You and Me!’
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Pins are immobilizing difference makers that inflict chess pain. French Defense C00-C19
KGA/KGD C30-C39
* King's Gambit: Game Collection: King's Gambit: How to Play As White * Detailed Kieseritzky Gambit: Game Collection: 0 * Some say Spassky was the greatest King's Gambit player of all- time: Game Collection: Spassky's Best Games (Cafferty) * Quotes: https://chessentials.com/best-chess... * Learning: https://learningchess.net/us/test
* Italian e5: Game Collection: The 6. e5 Italian Game * Giuoco Pianissimo: Game Collection: Italian masterpieces * B03: Game Collection: 0 * Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French * Alekhine's French Def: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * A few KIAs: Game Collection: Opening Ideas * Advance French: Game Collection: Attacking with the French * Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black * Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES * KIA vs French Defense: Game Collection: KIA vs French Defense * Gambits vs French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam * Checkmate Patterns You Must Recognize Instantly: https://chessfox.com/checkmate-patt... * Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Stuffed turkey
WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
“and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. '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!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Question: What is considered the first reality TV show?
Answer: The Real World
Question: Who was Russia's first elected president?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin
the limerick. Here is one from page 25 of the Chess Amateur, October 1907: A solver, who lived at Devizes,
Had won a great number of prizes –
A dual or cook,
He’d detect at a look,
And his head swelled up several sizes.
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” — Blasie Pascal “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. In God we trust; all others pay cash. ~ American Proverb Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles. ~ Senegalese Proverb The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” — Anonymous 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.
The Elshad System championed by FM Igor Nemtsev defies the principles of opening play with 1.c3, 2.Qa4, and a quick advance of the kingside pawns. “It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” ― Charles F. Stanley Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. If the game is well-played, the rook's first move is usually sideways. Oct-04-10
I play the Fred: said...
You're distraught
because you're not
able to cope
feel like a dope
when Lasker hits
Puttin on (the Fritz)
“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 “A wise man never knows all; only a fool knows everything.” — African Proverb Learn to Play Winning Chess: History, Rules, Skills and Tactics by John Saunders
Published by Hermes House, an imprint of Anness Publishing, London, England, 2007 Winning Chess Strategy for Kids by Jeff Coakley
ISBN 10: 1895525055 / ISBN 13: 9781895525052
Weapons of Chess: An Omnibus of Chess Strategies by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Atria Books Nov 1989
ISBN 10: 0671659723 / ISBN 13: 9780671659721
Collins Need to Know? Chess by Tony Gillam
Published by Collins, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007205953 / ISBN 13: 9780007205950
Concise Chess (Series) by John Emms
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 1857443276 / ISBN 13: 9781857443271
Concise Chess Endings by Neil McDonald
Published by Everyman Chess, 2002
Chess Movies 1 Quick Tricks by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Russell Enterprises, Milford, Connecticut, 2010
ISBN 10: 1888690720 / ISBN 13: 9781888690729
Beginner's Guide to Winning Chess (algebraic edition) by Fred Reinfeld
Published by Foulsham, Slough, 2006
ISBN 10: 0572031807 / ISBN 13: 9780572031800
Russian Chess - Learn from the New Champions by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Fireside, N.Y., 1987
ISBN 10: 0671619845 / ISBN 13: 9780671619848
Chess Endgame Workbook: Acquiring Skills to Win Close Games by Todd Bardwick
Published by Chess Detective Press 3/14/2021
ISBN 10: 0976196271 / ISBN 13: 9780976196273
Puzzlewright Guide to Chess by Burt Hochberg
Published by Union Square & Co., New York, 2021
ISBN 10: 1454943734 / ISBN 13: 9781454943730
Capablanca: A Primer of Checkmate by Frisco Del Rosario
Published by Mongoose Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1936277026 / ISBN 13: 9781936277025
Easy Endgame Strategies by Bill Robertie
Published by Cardsmith Publishing, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 1580421105 / ISBN 13: 9781580421102
A World Champion's Guide to Chess: Step-by-step instructions for winning chess the Polgar way by Susan Polgar
Published by Brand: Random House Puzzles Games, 2005 ISBN 10: 0812936531 / ISBN 13: 9780812936537
Pandolfini's Chess Complete: The Most Comprehensive Guide to the Game, from History to Strategy by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Fireside, 1992
ISBN 10: 067170186X / ISBN 13: 9780671701864
Unbeatable Chess Lessons by Robert M. Snyder
Published by iUniverse, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2007
ISBN 10: 0595453449 / ISBN 13: 9780595453443
Chess In A Nutshell by Fred Reinfeld
Published by Pocket 1972
ISBN 10: 0671782312 / ISBN 13: 9780671782313
Chess for Rookies: Learn to Play, Win and Enjoy by Craig Pritchett
Published by Everyman Chess Aug 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 185744535X / ISBN 13: 9781857445350
Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing the Best Plan by Todd Bardwick
Published by Chess Detective Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0976196220 / ISBN 13: 9780976196228
Learn Chess: A Gold-medal Winner Explains How to Play and Win at Chess
by John Nunn
Published by Gambit Publications Ltd Jun 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 1901983307 / ISBN 13: 9781901983302
Winning Chess Strategies by Yasser Seirawan
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857443853 / ISBN 13: 9781857443851
Guide to Good Chess by C. J. S. Purdy
Published by Thinkers Pr Inc / Chessco, 2001
ISBN 10: 1888710047 / ISBN 13: 9781888710045
A Guide to Chess Improvement - The Best of Novice Nook by Dan Heisman
Published by Everyman, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 1857446496 / ISBN 13: 9781857446494
Fundamental Checkmates by Antonio Gude
Published by Gambit, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1910093807 / ISBN 13: 9781910093801
Chess and the Art of War: Ancient Wisdom to Make You a Better Player by Al Lawrence
Published by Chartwell Books, 2016
ISBN 10: 0785832815 / ISBN 13: 9780785832812
Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan
Published by Everyman Chess, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857443861 / ISBN 13: 9781857443868
The Winning Way: The How, What and Why of Opening Stratagems (Fireside Chess Library) by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 0684839490 / ISBN 13: 9780684839493
365 Endgame Lessons for Novices: Daily Bite-Sized Steps to Endgame Mastery (Thinkers' Chess Academy with Thomas Luther) [Paperback] by Heinz Brunthaler
Published by Thinkers Publishing, 2024
ISBN 10: 9464201797 / ISBN 13: 9789464201796
Elements of the Game of Chess, or a New Method of Instruction in That Celebrated Game, Founded on Scientific Principles by William Lewis
ISBN 10: 0243099320 / ISBN 13: 9780243099320
Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
Power Mates Essential Checkmating Strategies and Techniques by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Fireside, 1996
ISBN 10: 0684801205 / ISBN 13: 9780684801209
Tips for Young Players by Matthew Sadler
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1857442318 / ISBN 13: 9781857442311
Winning Chess Endings by Yasser Seirawan
Published by Everyman Chess, United Kingdom, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 1857443489 / ISBN 13: 9781857443486
Complete Book of Chess Strategy by Jeremy Silman
Published by Siles Press,U.S., 1998
ISBN 10: 1890085014 / ISBN 13: 9781890085018
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman
Published by Brand: Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2007
ISBN 10: 1888690348 / ISBN 13: 9781888690347
Modern Chess Lessons by IM Eric Tangborn
First Steps: Fundamental Endings by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781944512 / ISBN 13: 9781781944516
Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess by Harry Golombek
Published by Crown, N.Y., 1977
ISBN 10: 0517531461 / ISBN 13: 9780517531464
Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom, 2nd Edition by Dr. Eric Schiller
Published by Brand: Cardoza, 2003
ISBN 10: 1580420885 / ISBN 13: 9781580420884
Learn Chess a Complete Course by C.H.O'D Alexander & T.J. Beach
Published by Everyman, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 185744115X / ISBN 13: 9781857441154
Essential Chess Endings Explained Move By Move Volume One: Novice Thru Intermediate by Jeremy Silman
Published by Chess Digest (edition 2nd revised), 1992
ISBN 10: 0875681727 / ISBN 13: 9780875681726
Chess Strategy Workbook: A Blueprint for Developing the Best Plan by Todd Bardwick
Published by Chess Detective Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0976196220 / ISBN 13: 9780976196228
Chess Endgame Workbook for Kids by John Nunn
Published by Gambit Publications, 2019
ISBN 10: 1911465384 / ISBN 13: 9781911465386
A Fresh Look at Chess 40 Instructive Games Played and Annotated by Players Like You by Lev Alburt
Published by CiRC, N.Y., 2012
ISBN 10: 188932325X / ISBN 13: 9781889323251
The Chess Player's Bible: Illustrated Strategies for Staying Ahead of the Game
by James Eade
Published by Sourcebooks, 2021
ISBN 10: 1438089422 / ISBN 13: 9781438089423
Kasparov's Winning Chess Tactics by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Fireside, N.Y., 1986
ISBN 10: 0671619853 / ISBN 13: 9780671619855
Common Sense in Chess, New 21st Century Edition by Emanuel Lasker, Published by Russell Enterprises, 2008
ISBN 10: 1888690402 / ISBN 13: 9781888690408
Endgame Workshop: Principles for the Practical Player (The Pandolfini Chess Library) by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2008
ISBN 10: 1888690534 / ISBN 13: 9781888690538
Pandolfini's Endgame Course: Basic Endgame Concepts Explained by America's Leading Chess Teacher by Bruce Pandolfini
Published by Touchstone, 1988
ISBN 10: 0671656880 / ISBN 13: 9780671656881
Chess For the Gifted & Busy A Short But Comprehensive Course from Beginner to Expert by Lev Alburt & Al Lawrence
Published by CiRC, N.Y., 2012
ISBN 10: 1889323241 / ISBN 13: 9781889323244
Chess Openings for the Average Player by Tim Harding & Leonard Barden
Published by Dover, N.Y., 1998
ISBN 10: 0486404048 / ISBN 13: 9780486404042
Starting Out: The Sicilian (Starting Out - Everyman Chess) by John Emms
ISBN 10: 1857445880 ISBN 13: 9781857445886
Publisher: Everyman Chess, 2009
Sicilian Defence 1.e4 c5: Second Edition - Chess Opening Games (Sawyer Chess Games) by Tim Sawyer
Published by Independently published, 2018
ISBN 10: 1728771633 / ISBN 13: 9781728771632
Chess Endings Made Simple: How to Approach the Endgame with Confidence
by Ian Snape
Published by Gambit Publications, 2004
ISBN 10: 1901983978 / ISBN 13: 9781901983975
Attacking the King in the Center by Tony Gillam
Published by Chess Enterprises, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, 2001
ISBN 13: 0009455470819
A Guide to Attacking Chess by Gary Lane
Published by Batsford, London, 1996
ISBN 10: 0713480106 / ISBN 13: 9780713480108
Practical Middlegame Techniques by Danny Kopec
Published by Cadogan Chess London 1997, 1997
Starting Out: Pawn Endgames by Glenn Flear
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 1857443624 / ISBN 13: 9781857443622
Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge by Yuri Averbakh
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 1857440226 / ISBN 13: 9781857440225
The Mammoth Book of Chess by Graham Burgess
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1472146204 / ISBN 13: 9781472146205
Momma Momma Momma Momma Momma Momma Momma The Rules of Winning Chess by Nigel Davies
Published by Everyman, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 1857445961 / ISBN 13: 9781857445961
Winning Endgames by Tony Kosten
Published by Crowood, Ramsbury, 1987
ISBN 10: 0946284695 / ISBN 13: 9780946284696
Winning Chess Traps - Opening Tactics for the Advanced Beginner and Intermediate Player by Robert M. Snyder
Published by iUniverse, N.Y., 2007
ISBN 10: 0595453457 / ISBN 13: 9780595453450
Chess Training Repertoire 2 100 Chess Openings for White and Black
by Tim Sawyer
Published by Sawyer Publications, 2017
ISBN 10: 1979231044 / ISBN 13: 9781979231046
Improve Your Chess in 7 Days by Gary Lane
Published by Batsford, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0713490500 / ISBN 13: 9780713490503
Improve Your Middlegame Play by Dr Andrew Kinsman
Published by Everyman Chess, 2000
ISBN 10: 1857442415 / ISBN 13: 9781857442410
Understanding Chess Tactics by Martin Weteschnik
Published by Quality Chess, Gothenberg, 2006
ISBN 10: 9197524425 / ISBN 13: 9789197524421
The Art of Planning in Chess Move by Move by Neil McDonald
Published by Batsford, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 071349025X / ISBN 13: 9780713490251
Adam & Eve were the first ones to ignore the Apple terms and conditions. Chess The Art of Logical Thinking From the First Move to the Last by Neil McDonald
Published by Batsford, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 0713488948 / ISBN 13: 9780713488944
Chess Strategy: Explanation of Advanced Strategies and Tactics. Helpful Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Endgame Play and Become an Expert Chessman (2022 Guide for Beginners) by Harriet Menzie
Published by Harriet Menzie, 2022
ISBN 10: 3986535713 / ISBN 13: 9783986535711
1001 Chess Endgame Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook That Also Improves Your Endgame Skills by Thomas Willemze
Published by New In Chess, 2022
Mastering Checkmates by Neil McDonald
Published by Batsford, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0713488433 / ISBN 13: 9780713488432
Chess Bootcamp by Bernard Katz
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1781945942 / ISBN 13: 9781781945940
101 Chess Questions Answered by Steve Giddins
Published by Gambit, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 1906454000 / ISBN 13: 9781906454005
Your Move ! by Yakov Neishtadt
Published by Batsford, London, 1990
ISBN 10: 0713462906 / ISBN 13: 9780713462906
Better Chess for Average Players by Tim Harding
Published by Dover, N.Y., 2003
ISBN 10: 0486290298 / ISBN 13: 9780486290294
Just the Facts! Winning Endgame Knowledge in One Volume (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) by Lev Alburt, Nikolay Krogius
Published by Chess Information and Research C, 2001
ISBN 10: 1889323063 / ISBN 13: 9781889323060
Starting Out: Minor Piece Endgames by John Emms
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 1857443594 / ISBN 13: 9781857443592
Starting Out Attacking Play by James Plaskett
Published by Everyman, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 1857443675 / ISBN 13: 9781857443677
The Rubinstein Attack by Eric Schiller
Published by Universal Publishers, Florida, 2005
ISBN 10: 1581124546 / ISBN 13: 9781581124545
Opening Repertoire: Richter-Veresov Attack by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1781946817 / ISBN 13: 9781781946817
The Richter-Veresov Attack: Qd3 Variation by Eric J Fleischman
Published by Mongoose Press Jan 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1936277980 / ISBN 13: 9781936277988
The London System in 12 Practical Lessons by Oscar de Prado Rodriguez
Published by New In Chess, 2021
ISBN 10: 9056919652 / ISBN 13: 9789056919658
Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings Attacking with White by Gary Lane
Published by Batsford, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0713487127 / ISBN 13: 9780713487121
Basic Chess Openings (1.e4) by Gabor Kallai
Published by Gloucester Publishers Plc Sep 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 1857441133 / ISBN 13: 9781857441130
More Basic Chess Openings (1.d4, 1.Nf3, etc.) by Gabor Kallai
Published by Gloucester Publishers Plc, 1997
ISBN 10: 1857442067 / ISBN 13: 9781857442069
Action Chess: Purdy's 24 Hours Opening Repertoire by C.J.S. Purdy; Edited by Ralph J. Tykodi; Commentary by NM Ronald J. Wieck
Published by Davenport, Iowa: Thinkers' Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0938650793 / ISBN 13: 9780938650799
Bird Stonewall Playbook: 200 Opening Chess Positions for White
by Tim Sawyer
Published by Independently published, 2017
ISBN 10: 1973116510 / ISBN 13: 9781973116516
Chess Strategy 1.d4 d5 2.e4 Travis: How to Beat Intermediate Chess Players
by Tim Sawyer
ISBN 13: 9798366881012
Published by Independently published, 2024
Endgame Play by Chris Ward
Published by Intl Chess Enterprises, 1996
ISBN 10: 1879479370 / ISBN 13: 9781879479371
Grandmaster Secrets: Endings. Everything you need to now about the endgame by Andy Soltis
Published by Thinkers Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0938650661 / ISBN 13: 9780938650669
The Middlegame in Chess by Reuben Fine
Published by Random House Puzzles & Games (edition Revised), 2003
ISBN 10: 0812934849 / ISBN 13: 9780812934847
Danger in Chess How to Avoid Making Blunders Amatzia Avni
Published by Cadogan, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 1857440579 / ISBN 13: 9781857440577
Middlegame Strategy with the Carlsbad Pawn Structure by Robert Leininger
Published by Pickard and Son Publishers July 1997
ISBN 10: 1886846073 / ISBN 13: 9781886846074
Silman's Complete Endgame Course; From Beginner to Master by Jeremy Silman
Published by Siles Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1890085103 / ISBN 13: 9781890085100
A Chess Course, from Beginner to Winner (3 books in 1) by Byron Jacobs
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781944598 / ISBN 13: 9781781944592
Course in Chess Tactics by Dejan Bojkov
Published by Gambit Publications, 2010
ISBN 10: 1906454140 / ISBN 13: 9781906454142
Rubinstein Move by Move by Zenon Franco
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1781943141 / ISBN 13: 9781781943144
The Chess Combination from Philidor to Karpov by Raymond Keene
Published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977
ISBN 10: 0080197582 / ISBN 13: 9780080197586
Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces - new enlarged edition by Igor Stohl
Published by Gambit Publications, 2009
ISBN 10: 1906454086 / ISBN 13: 9781906454081
Looking for Trouble by Dan Heisman
Published by Russell Enterprises, 2023
ISBN 10: 1949859835 / ISBN 13: 9781949859836
Test Your Tactical Ability by Yakov Neishtadt
Published by Batsford, London, 1991
ISBN 10: 0713440139 / ISBN 13: 9780713440133
Alekhine in Europe and Asia by John Donaldson; Nikolay Minev; Yasser Seirawan,
Published by Intl Chess Enterprises, 1993
ISBN 10: 1879479125 / ISBN 13: 9781879479128
Crucial Chess Skills for the Club Player Volume 1 by Robert Ris
Published by Thinkers Publishing, Gent, 2018
ISBN 10: 9492510227 / ISBN 13: 9789492510228
The Improving Chess Thinker by Dan Heisman
Published by Mongoose Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1936277484 / ISBN 13: 9781936277483
Chess Concepts Made Easy: Strategy and Tactics of Opening, Middlegame and Endgame by Fm Bill Jordan
Published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1790230381 / ISBN 13: 9781790230389
Win at Chess! A Comprehensive Guide to Winning Chess for the Intermediate Player by Ron Curry
Published by Thinkers Press, Davenport, Iowa, 1995
ISBN 10: 0938650645 / ISBN 13: 9780938650645
Master Your Chess with Judit Polgar
Published by Chessable, 2022
ISBN 10: 9493257339 / ISBN 13: 9789493257337
The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess: A Manual for Modern-Day Club Players by Gerard Welling
Published by NEW IN CHESS Jan 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 9056919326 / ISBN 13: 9789056919320
The Chess Player's Battle Manual by Nigel Davies
Published by Batsford, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 0713470437 / ISBN 13: 9780713470437
Chess Fundamentals by Jose R. Capablanca
C.J.S. Purdy on the Endgame (C.J.S. Purdy Gold Chess Series)
by C. J. S. Purdy, Frank P. Hutchings
Published by Thinkers' Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1888710039 / ISBN 13: 9781888710038
Chess Endgame Quiz by Larry Evans
Published by Cardoza, 2002
ISBN 10: 1580420745 / ISBN 13: 9781580420747
Questions and Answers on Practical Endgame Play by Edmar Mednis
Published by Chess Enterprises, 1987
ISBN 10: 093146269X / ISBN 13: 9780931462696
ISBN 10: 9493257533 / ISBN 13: 9789493257535
Practical Endgame Tips by Edmar Mednis
Published by Everyman Chess, 1998
ISBN 10: 185744213X / ISBN 13: 9781857442137
Capablanca: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1857446984 / ISBN 13: 9781857446982
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games
by Irving Chernev (1900-1981)
Published by Dover Publications, Inc, New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 0486242498 / ISBN 13: 9780486242491
Capablanca's Endgame Technique (Hardcover) by Alex Colovic
Published by Chessable, 2024
ISBN 10: 9083434923 / ISBN 13: 9789083434926
Rapid Chess Improvement a Study Plan for Adult Players by Michael De La Maza
Published by Everyman, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 1857442695 / ISBN 13: 9781857442694
An Idiot-Proof Chess Opening Repertoire by Graham Burgess
Published by Gambit Publications, 2020
ISBN 10: 1911465422 / ISBN 13: 9781911465423
Center Counter by John Grefe, Jeremy Silman
Published by Chess Enterprises, 1983
ISBN 10: 0931462223 / ISBN 13: 9780931462221
Lessons with the Masters by Larry Evans & Ken Smith
Published by Chess Digest, Dallas, 1989
ISBN 10: 0875681794 / ISBN 13: 9780875681795
Keres: Move by Move by Zenon Franco
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781943710 / ISBN 13: 9781781943717
Lessons with a Grandmaster by Boris Gulko
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1857446682 / ISBN 13: 9781857446685
Study Chess with Matthew Sadler by Matthew Sadler
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1857449908 / ISBN 13: 9781857449907
How to be Lucky in Chess by David LeMoir
Published by Gambit, 2001
ISBN 10: 190198348X / ISBN 13: 9781901983487
How to Win at Chess - Quickly! by Simon Williams
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 1857446313 / ISBN 13: 9781857446319
How to Play The Middlegame in Chess by John Littlewood
Published by Batsford, 2003
ISBN 10: 0713486171 / ISBN 13: 9780713486179
How to Get Better at Chess: Chess Masters on Their Art by Larry Evans, Jeremy B. Silman; Betty Roberts
Published by Summit Pub (edition), 1991
ISBN 10: 0945806051 / ISBN 13: 9780945806059
How Chess Games are Won and Lost by Lars Bo Hansen
Published by Gambit Publications, 2008
ISBN 10: 1906454019 / ISBN 13: 9781906454012
Secrets of Chess Endgame Strategy by Lars Bo Hansen
Published by Gambit Publications, 2022
ISBN 10: 1915328209 / ISBN 13: 9781915328205
H.O.T. Chess by Paul Motwani
Published by Batsford, London, 1996
ISBN 10: 0713479752 / ISBN 13: 9780713479751
The 10 Most Common Chess Mistakes and How to Avoid Them ! (Second edition) by Larry Evans
Published by Cardoza, N.Y., 2004
ISBN 10: 1580420427 / ISBN 13: 9781580420426
<Chess Endgame Training by <Bernd Rosen>>
Published by Gambit Publications, 2003
ISBN 10: 1904600018 / ISBN 13: 9781904600015
Batsford Chess Endings (BCE) by Jonathan Speelman, Jon Tisdall, & Bob Wade
Published by Batsford, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0713444207 / ISBN 13: 9780713444209
Modern End-game Studies for the Chess-player by Hans Bouwmeester, Harry Golombek (editor)
Published by Hardinge Simpole, Aylesbeare, 2006
ISBN 10: 1843821818 / ISBN 13: 9781843821816
Tactical Chess Exchanges (Macmillan Chess Library) by Gennady Nesis
Published by Collier Books/Macmillan, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991
ISBN 10: 0020294379 / ISBN 13: 9780020294375
Botvinnik: One Hundred Selected Games by Mikhail Botvinnik
Published by Dover Publications, 1960
ISBN 10: 0486206203 / ISBN 13: 9780486206202
French Defense (New and Forgotten Ideas) by Nikolay Minev
Published by Thinker's Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 093865036X / ISBN 13: 9780938650362
Botvinnik on the Endgame by Mikhail Botvinnik
Published by Chess Enterprises, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, 1985
ISBN 10: 0931462436 / ISBN 13: 9780931462436
French Defense 2, New and Forgotten Ideas by Nikolay Minev
Published by Thinkers' Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0938650920 / ISBN 13: 9780938650928
50 Essential Chess Lessons by Steve Giddins
Published by Gambit Publications, 2006
ISBN 10: 1904600417 / ISBN 13: 9781904600411
Liquidation on the Chess Board: Mastering the Transition into the Pawn Endgame by Joel Benjamin
Published by New In Chess, 2019
ISBN 10: 9056918257 / ISBN 13: 9789056918255
Test Your Chess with Daniel King
Published by Batsford, London, 2004
ISBN 10: 0713489332 / ISBN 13: 9780713489330
Korchnoi: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 1781941394 / ISBN 13: 9781781941393
Play the Budapest Gambit by Andrew Martin
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1781945888 / ISBN 13: 9781781945889
Opening Repertoire: Queen's Gambit Declined - Tarrasch by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1781946965 / ISBN 13: 9781781946961
Better Thinking, Better Chess How a Grandmaster Finds his Moves by Joel Benjamin
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2018
ISBN 10: 9056918079 / ISBN 13: 9789056918071
Chess Middlegame Combinations by Peter Romanovsky
Published by American Chess Promotions, 1991
ISBN 10: 0939298953 / ISBN 13: 9780939298952
Mastering the Middlegame by Angus Dunnington
Published by Everyman Chess, 2001
ISBN 10: 1857442288 / ISBN 13: 9781857442281
The Greatest Ever Chess Strategies by Sam Collins
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1857446763 / ISBN 13: 9781857446760
Winning Chess Explained How Chess Games are Won and Lost in Practice by Zenon Franco
Published by Gambit, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 1904600468 / ISBN 13: 9781904600466
True Combat Chess: Winning Battles Over The Board by Timothy Taylor
Published by Everyman Chess, 2009
ISBN 10: 1857445848 / ISBN 13: 9781857445848
Draw ! The Art of the Half-Point in Chess by Leonid Verkhovsky
Published by Russell, Milford, Connecticut, 2014
ISBN 10: 1936490811 / ISBN 13: 9781936490813
100 Endgame Patterns You Must Know: Recognize Key Moves & Motifs and Avoid Typical Errors by Jesus De La Villa
Published by New In Chess, 2022
ISBN 10: 9056919725 / ISBN 13: 9789056919726
The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook: Practical Endgame Exercises for Every Chess Player by Jesus De La Villa
Published by New In Chess, 2019
ISBN 10: 9056918176 / ISBN 13: 9789056918170
101 Chess Endgame Tips by Steve Giddins
Published by Gambit Publications, 2007
ISBN 10: 1904600662 / ISBN 13: 9781904600664
300 Most Important Chess Exercises: Study Five A Week To Be A Better Chessplayer by Thomas Engqvist
Published by Batsford, 2022
ISBN 10: 1849947511 / ISBN 13: 9781849947510
Chess For Advanced Adult Beginners by Alex Cherniack
Published by Alex Cherniack, 2022
ISBN 10: 0692896864 / ISBN 13: 9780692896860
Chess Workbook for Advanced Adult Beginners by Alex Cherniack
Published by Alex Cherniack, 2022
ISBN 10: 0692896856 / ISBN 13: 9780692896853
639 Essential Endgame Positions by Eric Schiller
Published by Cardoza Publishing, Cooper Station NY, 2000
ISBN 10: 1580420168 / ISBN 13: 9781580420167
Modern Chess Analysis by Robin Smith
Published by Gambit, 2004
ISBN 10: 1904600085 / ISBN 13: 9781904600084
Coach Yourself a Complete Guide to Self Improvement at Chess by Neil McDonald
Published by Everyman/Gloucester, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1781945128 / ISBN 13: 9781781945124
The Tactician's Handbook by Victor Charushin & Karsten Muller
Published by Russell, Milford, Connecticut, 2016
ISBN 10: 1941270344 / ISBN 13: 9781941270349
Chess The Mechanics of the Mind by Helmut Pfleger & Gerd Treppner
Published by Crowood, Ramsbury, 1988
ISBN 10: 1852231270 / ISBN 13: 9781852231279
Chess Under the Microscope: Magnify Your Chess Strength! by Paul Motwani
Published by Batsford, 1998
ISBN 10: 0713483903 / ISBN 13: 9780713483901
Chess Exam And Training Guide: Rate Yourself And Learn How To Improve by Igor Khmelnitsky
Published by Iamcoach Publishing, 2004
ISBN 10: 0975476122 / ISBN 13: 9780975476123
Nimzowitsch: Move by Move by Steve Giddins
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 178194198X / ISBN 13: 9781781941980
Dutchmen Dutchmen Dutchmen
Opening Repertoire: The Killer Dutch Rebooted by Simon Williams
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1781946418 / ISBN 13: 9781781946411
Winning With the Dutch - Intermediate - The Macmillan Chess Library by Robert Bellin
Published by Collier Books - Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0020306229 / ISBN 13: 9780020306221
Dutch Defense by Larry Christiansen and Jeremy Silman
Published by Chess Digest Inc., 1989
ISBN 10: 0875681786 / ISBN 13: 9780875681788
The Dutch Leningrad by Neil McDonald (1967- )
Published by Chess Press, Brighton, 1997
ISBN 10: 190125903X / ISBN 13: 9781901259032
Side-Stepping Mainline Theory. Cut Down on Opening Study and Get a Middlegame You Are Familiar With by Gerard Welling, Gerard & Steve Giddins. Universal Chess Training by Wojciech Moranda
Published by Thinkers Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 9492510901 / ISBN 13: 9789492510907
Chess Revolution by Richard Moody
Published by Dorrance Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 1645306364 / ISBN 13: 9781645
Practical Knight Endings by Edmar Mednis
Published by Chess Enterprises, Pennsylvania, 1993 Practical Endgame Play - Mastering the Basics: The Essential Guide To Endgame Fundamentals (Everyman Chess) by Efstratios Grivas
Published by Everyman Chess, 2008
ISBN 10: 1857445562 / ISBN 13: 9781857445565
Improve Your Endgame Play by Glenn Flear
Published by Everyman Chess, 2000
ISBN 10: 1857442466 / ISBN 13: 9781857442465
Improve Your Chess: Opening Play, Middlegame Play, Endgame Play
by Chris Ward, Chris; Andrew Kinsman; Glenn Flear
Published by Everyman Chess, 2017
ISBN 10: 1781943923 / ISBN 13: 9781781943922
<Improve Your Chess At Any Age by <Andres D. Hortillosa>>
Published by Everyman, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 1857446186 / ISBN 13: 9781857446180
Chess Praxis 21st Century Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch & Ken Artz
Published by Hays, Dallas, 1993
ISBN 10: 1880673916 / ISBN 13: 9781880673911
Mastering the Opening and Middlegame (2 books in 1) by Byron Jacobs, Angus Dunnington
Published by Everyman Chess, 2018
ISBN 10: 1781944709 / ISBN 13: 9781781944707
Mastering the Sicilian Defense by IM Danny Kopec
Published by CREATESPACE, 2011
ISBN 10: 1466210044 / ISBN 13: 9781466210042
Aron Nimzowitsch: Master of Planning by Raymond Keene
Published by B T Batsford Ltd, London, 1991
ISBN 10: 071346898X / ISBN 13: 9780713468984
My System Fast Tracked by Alex Fishbein
Published by Russell Enterprises, 2024
ISBN 10: 1949859894 / ISBN 13: 9781949859898
Clinch It ! How to Convert an Advantage into a Win in Chess by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2018
ISBN 10: 905691801X / ISBN 13: 9789056918019
Chess Studies and End-games (reprint) by Bernhard Horwitz, & Josef Kling, Published by Olms, Zurich, 1986
ISBN 10: 3283001723 / ISBN 13: 9783283001728
Endgame Challenge ! Mastering the Chess Endings with a New and Entertaining Study Method by John Hall
Published by Hays, Dallas, 1995
ISBN 10: 1880673983 / ISBN 13: 9781880673980
The Development of Chess Style (algebraic edition) by Max Euwe & John Nunn
Published by Batsford, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0713481676 / ISBN 13: 9780713481679
The Modern Chess Sacrifice by L. Shamkovich
Published by Batsford, 1980
The Modern Chess Self Tutor by David Bronshtein
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 1995
ISBN 10: 1857441362 / ISBN 13: 9781857441369
Small Steps to Giant Improvement Master Pawn Play by Sam Shankland
Published by Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2018
ISBN 10: 1784830518 / ISBN 13: 9781784830519
Coach Yourself a Complete Guide to Self Improvement by Neil McDonald
Published by Everyman/Gloucester, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1781945128 / ISBN 13: 9781781945124
Kings & Queens Kings & Queens Kings & Queens First Steps King’s Indian Defence (Everyman Chess) by Andrew Martin
ISBN 10: 1781944288 ISBN 13: 9781781944288
Publisher: Everyman Chess, 2019
Starting Out: King's Indian by Joe Gallagher
ISBN 10: 1857442342 / ISBN 13: 9781857442342
Published by Everyman Chess, 2002
How to Play the King's Indian: Strategic Plans Behind This Single Chess Opening by O'Connell, Kevin J.; Levy, David
Published by David McKay Company, 1980
ISBN 10: 0679133755 / ISBN 13: 9780679133759
Winning With the King's Indian (Macmillan Chess Library) by Eduard Gufeld
Published by Collier Books, New York, NY, 1991
ISBN 10: 0020288417 / ISBN 13: 9780020288411
The King's Indian for the Attacking Player (Batsford Chess Library) by Graham Burgess
Published by Henry Holt & Co, 1993
ISBN 10: 0805029362 / ISBN 13: 9780805029369
The Complete King's Indian (Batsford Chess Library) by Raymond Keene, Byron Jacobs
Published by Henry Holt & Co, 1992
ISBN 10: 0805024298 / ISBN 13: 9780805024296
The Complete Kings Indian (Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics) by Raymond Keene; Byron Jacobs
Published by Hardinge Simpole Limited, 2003
ISBN 10: 1843821044 / ISBN 13: 9781843821045
Fighting the Anti-King's Indians How to Handle White's Tricky Ways of Avoiding the Main Lines by Yelena Dembo
Published by Everyman, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 1857445759 / ISBN 13: 9781857445756
Miguel Najdorf: King of the King's Indian defense by Nikolay Minev
Published by Lulu.com, 1997
ISBN 10: 0966188918 / ISBN 13: 9780966188912
Classical King's Indian Uncovered by Panczyk, Krzysztof; Ilczuk, Jacek
Published by Everyman Chess, 2009
ISBN 10: 1857445171 / ISBN 13: 9781857445176
An Active Repertoire for Black: King's Indian Defense and Sicilian Defence (Scheveningen Variation) by Drazen Marovic
Published by Henry Holt & Co, 1992
ISBN 10: 0805023208 / ISBN 13: 9780805023206
Tactics in the King's Indian by Gennady Nesis
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1992
ISBN 10: 0713470038 / ISBN 13: 9780713470031
Published by Intl Chess Enterprises, 1997
Beating the KID and Benoni (4 Pawns Attack) by Anatoly Vaisser
ISBN 10: 1879479710 / ISBN 13: 9781879479715
Offbeat King's Indian: Lesser Known Tries To Counter This Most Popular Of Defences by Panczyk, Krzysztof; Ilczuk, Jacek
Published by Everyman Chess, 2004
ISBN 10: 1857443616 / ISBN 13: 9781857443615
Beating the Anti-King's Indian by Gm Joe Gallagher
Published by Intl Chess Enterprises, 1996
ISBN 10: 1879479362 / ISBN 13: 9781879479364
The King's Indian Defence: Move by Move by Sam Collins
ISBN 10: 1781944040 ISBN 13: 9781781944042
Publisher: Everyman Chess, 2017
King's Indian Battle Plans by Andrew Martin
Published by Thinkers Pr Inc / Chessco, 2004
ISBN 10: 1888710004 / ISBN 13: 9781888710007
Play the King's Indian A Complete Repertoire for Black by Joe Gallagher
Published by Everyman, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 1857443241 / ISBN 13: 9781857443240
Seller image for Openings - King's Indian Defense by Jerzy Konikowski
Published by Beyer, Joachim Verlag Okt 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 3959209789 / ISBN 13: 9783959209786
Attacking Chess: The King's Indian Volume 2 by David Vigorito
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 185744664X / ISBN 13: 9781857446647
Dangerous Weapons: The King's Indian: Dazzle Your Opponents!
GM Glenn Flear; Richard Palliser; Yelena Dembo
Published by Everyman Chess, 2009
ISBN 10: 1857445937 / ISBN 13: 9781857445930
Bologan's King's Indian by Victor Bologan
Published by New in Chess, 2017
ISBN 10: 905691720X / ISBN 13: 9789056917203
Understanding the King’s Indian by Mikhail Golubev
ISBN 10: 1915328004 ISBN 13: 9781915328007
Publisher: Gambit Publications, 2022
The Modernized Delayed Benoni by Ivan Ivanisevic
Published by Thinkers Publishing, 2020
ISBN 10: 9492510650 / ISBN 13: 9789492510655
The Basman-Williams Attack: An innovative approach to dealing with the King's Indian and Grünfeld Indian defenses (Opening Hacker Files) by Carsten Hansen
Published by CarstenChess, 2021
ISBN 10: 8793812647 / ISBN 13: 9788793812642
King's Indian Killer - The Harry Attack by Richard Palliser; Simon Williams, Published by Everyman Chess, 2023
ISBN 10: 1781947066 / ISBN 13: 9781781947067
Opening for White According to Kramnik 1.nf3: Modern Lines in the King's Indian Defence (Repertoire Books) by Alexander Khalifman
ISBN 10: 9548782502 / ISBN 13: 9789548782500
Published by Chess Stars, 1656
King's Indian Attack by John Emms
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2005
ISBN 10: 1857443942 / ISBN 13: 9781857443943
Modern King's Indian Attack by John Hall
Published by Hays Pub, 1996
ISBN 10: 1880673118 / ISBN 13: 9781880673119
The Chessbase University Bluebook Guide To Winning With The King's Indian Attack! by Ron Henley / Don Maddox,
ISBN 10: 1883358000 / ISBN 13: 9781883358006
Published by Hagerstown, R & D Publishing, 1993
The Ultimate King's Indian Attack by Angus Dunnington
Published by Batsford, 1998
ISBN 10: 0713482222 / ISBN 13: 9780713482225
King's Indian Attack: Move by Move by Neil McDonald
Published by Everyman Chess, 2014
ISBN 10: 1857449886 / ISBN 13: 9781857449884
The Kings Indian Attack - Properly Played by Jerzy Konikowski
Published by Beyer, Joachim Verlag, 2023
ISBN 10: 3959209509 / ISBN 13: 9783959209502
How to Beat the Sicilian Defence: An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White
Gawain Christopher Bernard Jones (1987- )
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1857446631 / ISBN 13: 9781857446630
The Reti: Move by Move by Sam Collins
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1781944407 / ISBN 13: 9781781944400
Nimzo-Larsen Attack by Byron Jacobs
Published by Gloucester Publishers Plc, 2001
ISBN 10: 1857442865 / ISBN 13: 9781857442861
Beating Unusual Chess Openings: Dealing With The English, R�ti, King's Indian Attack And Other Annoying Systems by Richard Palliser
Published by Everyman Chess, 2007
ISBN 10: 1857444299 / ISBN 13: 9781857444292
Wojo's Weapons: Winning with White by Jonathan Hilton
Published by Mongoose Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 0979148200 / ISBN 13: 9780979148200
Silmans Chess Odyssey: Cracked Grandmaster Tales, Legendary Players, and Instruction and Musings by Jeremy Silman
Published by Silman-James Pr, 2022
ISBN 10: 1890085243 / ISBN 13: 9781890085247
Take My Rooks by Yasser Seirawan, Yasser; Nikolay Minev
Published by Open Hand Publishing, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., 1991
ISBN 10: 187947901X / ISBN 13: 9781879479012
Pump Up Your Rating: Unlock Your Chess Potential by Axel Smith
Published by Quality Chess UK LLP, Glasgow, 2013
ISBN 10: 1907982736 / ISBN 13: 9781907982736
Tactical Training in the Endgame by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1781945861 / ISBN 13: 9781781945865
Basic Chess Endings by Reuben Fine
ISBN 10: 0812934938 / ISBN 13: 9780812934939
Published by Brand: Random House Puzzles n Games, <2003> The Chess Wizardry of Wotawa: Improve your ability to... by Cyrus Lakdawala; Carsten Hansen
Published by CarstenChess, 2022
ISBN 10: 8793812353 / ISBN 13: 9788793812352
Endgame Challenge (Chess Problems and Studies) by John Nunn
Published by Gambit Publications, 2022
ISBN 10: 1915328136 / ISBN 13: 9781915328137
Sicily Sicily Sicily Sicily Sicily Sicily Sicily Sicily Sicilian Defense in The Last Decade by Nikolay Minev
ISBN 10: 1879479281 / ISBN 13: 9781879479289
Published by International Chess Enterprises, Seattle, 1995 Complete C3 Sicilian by Murray Chandler
Published by Batsford, London, 1997
Accelerated Dragons by John Donaldson, Jeremy Silman
Published by Everyman Chess, 1998
ISBN 10: 1857442083 / ISBN 13: 9781857442083
Winning with the Sicilian defense: A complete repertoire against 1 e4 by Jeremy Silman
Published by Chess Digest, 1998
ISBN 10: 0875681980 / ISBN 13: 9780875681986
Play the O'Kelly Sicilian by Andrew Martin
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1781946248 / ISBN 13: 9781781946244
Opening Repertoire: The Sicilian Taimanov by Nigel Davies
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1781946027 / ISBN 13: 9781781946022
Opening Repertoire: The Sveshnikov by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1781945632 / ISBN 13: 9781781945636
The Neo-Sveshnikov by Jeremy B. Silman
Published by Chess Enterprises, 1991
ISBN 10: 0945470134 / ISBN 13: 9780945470137
Experts on the Anti-Sicilian by Jacob Aagaard & John Shaw
ISBN 10: 1906552800 / ISBN 13: 9781906552800
Published by Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2011
Anti-Sicilians: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1781943117 / ISBN 13: 9781781943113
Opening Repertoire: Beating the Sicilian Main Lines by Jonas Hacker
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1781945713 / ISBN 13: 9781781945711
Middle Middle Middle Middle Middle
The Middlegame Book One: Static Features (Algebraic Edition) by Machglielis "Max" Euwe (1901-1981) and Haije "Hans" Kramer
Published by Hays Publishing, 1994
ISBN 10: 1880673959 / ISBN 13: 9781880673959
The Middlegame Book Two: Dynamic and Subjective Features (Algebraic Edition) by Machglielis "Max" Euwe (1901-1981) and Haije "Hans" Kramer Chess For Hawks by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by New in Chess, Alkmaar, 2017
ISBN 10: 9056917196 / ISBN 13: 9789056917197
Elements of Chess Strategy A Concise Guide to Goal-oriented Chess Thinking
by Alexei Kosikov
Published by Gambit, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 1906454248 / ISBN 13: 9781906454241
Endgame Strategy by Mikhail Shereshevsky
Published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Paris, Frankfurt, 1985
ISBN 10: 0080297463 / ISBN 13: 9780080297460
The Soviet Championships by Edmar Mednis
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1781943370 / ISBN 13: 9781781943373
Maneuvers in Moscow: Karpov-Kasparov II (Macmillan Chess Library) by Raymond Keene; David Goodman
Published by Collier Books, 1986
ISBN 10: 0020287208 / ISBN 13: 9780020287209
Countering The Queen's Gambit by Michael Prusikin
Published by New In Chess Mrz 2022
ISBN 10: 9056919989 / ISBN 13: 9789056919986
100 Tactical Patterns You Must Know by Frank Erwich
Published by New in Chess, 2024
ISBN 10: 9083387720 / ISBN 13: 9789083387727
The Chess Attacker's Handbook by Michael Song & Razvan Preotu
Published by Gambit, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1911465163 / ISBN 13: 9781911465164
How To Swindle in Chess by Andrew Soltis
Published by Batsford, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1849945632 / ISBN 13: 9781849945639
Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest CGames by Graham Burgess, et. al.
Published by Brand: Carroll n Graf, 2004
ISBN 10: 0786714115 / ISBN 13: 9780786714117
The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook: Exercises and Training for Club Players (1800 - 2100 Elo) by Davorin Kuljasevic
Published by New In Chess, 2023
ISBN 10: 949325755X / ISBN 13: 9789493257559
The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook Vol 2 by Davorin Kuljasevic
Published by New in Chess, 2023
ISBN 10: 908333662X / ISBN 13: 9789083336626
Quick Course of Chess Openings by Jerzy Konikowski
Published by Beyer, Joachim Verlag Mrz 2021
ISBN 10: 3959209916 / ISBN 13: 9783959209915
The Semi-Closed Openings in Action by Anatoly Karpov
Published by Collier Books, 1990
ISBN 10: 0020218052 / ISBN 13: 9780020218050
Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition: More Key Moves & Motives in the Middlegame by Arthur Van De Oudeweetering
Published by New in Chess, 2016
ISBN 10: 9056916130 / ISBN 13: 9789056916138
The Art of Attacking Chess 33 Inspirational and Instructive Masterpieces
by Zenon Franco
Published by Gambit, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 1904600972 / ISBN 13: 9781904600978
Soviet Middlegame Technique (Chess Classics) by Peter Romanovsky
Published by Quality Chess, 2013
ISBN 10: 1907982485 / ISBN 13: 9781907982484
Attack with Mikhail Tal by Mikhail Tal & Iakov Damsky
Published by Cadogan, London, 1994
ISBN 10: 1857440439 / ISBN 13: 9781857440430
Counterattack! A Step-by-step Guide to Turning Defence Into Victory (Grandmaster Secrets series) by Zenon Franco
Published by Gambit, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 1906454094 / ISBN 13: 9781906454098
Practical Middlegame Tips by Edmar Mednis
Published by Everyman Chess, 1998
ISBN 10: 1857442113 / ISBN 13: 9781857442113
Practical Endgame Play by Neil McDonald
Published by Everyman Chess, 1998
ISBN 10: 1857441761 / ISBN 13: 9781857441765
Chess Endgames for Club Players (400 pages) by Herman Grooten
Published by New in Chess, 2022
ISBN 10: 9493257495 / ISBN 13: 9789493257498
1001 Chess Exercises for Advanced Club Players by Frank Erwich
Published by New In Chess, 2022
ISBN 10: 9056919709 / ISBN 13: 9789056919702
Winning Ugly in Chess by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2019
ISBN 10: 9056918281 / ISBN 13: 9789056918286
The Grasshopper Opening: A Dynamic Setup for Positional Chess by Ralph Zoontjens
Published by Lulu.Com, 2022
ISBN 10: 1471621251 / ISBN 13: 9781471621253
The Elshad for White by FM Igor Nemtsev
Published by Mongoose Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 1936277921 / ISBN 13: 9781936277926
Test Your Chess IQ Grandmaster Challenge by A. Livshitz
Published by Cadogan, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 1857440021 / ISBN 13: 9781857440027
Larsen: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 1781942013 / ISBN 13: 9781781942017
300 Most Important Tactical Chess Positions by Thomas Engqvist
Published by Batsford Ltd, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1849946124 / ISBN 13: 9781849946124
Calculate Like a GM Learn from World-Class Attack Players by Danny Gormally
Published by Batsford, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 1906388695 / ISBN 13: 9781906388690
Magnus Carlsen's Most Instructive Games by Martyn Kravtsiv
Published by Gambit Publications Ltd, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 191146566X / ISBN 13: 9781911465669
From the Middlegame into the Endgame by Edmar Mednis
Published by Pergamon, 1987
From the Middlegame into the Endgame by Edmar Mednis
(Cadogan Chess Books) Published by Macmillan Pub Co
ISBN 10: 0080320376 / ISBN 13: 9780080320373
Vasily Smyslov: Endgame Virtuoso by Vasily Smyslov
Published by Everyman Chess, 1997
ISBN 10: 1857441982 / ISBN 13: 9781857441987
Chess Kaleidoscope by A. Karpov & Y. Gik
Published by Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1981
ISBN 10: 008026896X / ISBN 13: 9780080268965
Carlsen: Move by Move Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 1781942072 / ISBN 13: 9781781942079
Endgame Magic (Batsford Chess Book) by John D. Beasley, and T. G. Whitworth
Published by Henry Holt & Co, 1996
ISBN 10: 0805047271 / ISBN 13: 9780805047271
Rate Your Endgame by Colin Crouch, Edmar Mednis
Published by Everyman Chess, 2016
ISBN 10: 1781943370 / ISBN 13: 9781781943373
The Smyslov Workbook: Improve your ability to... by Cyrus Lakdawala; Carsten Hansen
Published by CarstenChess, 2022
ISBN 10: 8793812337 / ISBN 13: 9788793812338
Your Best Move by Per Ostman
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1857446607 / ISBN 13: 9781857446609
Modern Chess: Move by Move by Colin Crouch
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 1857445996 / ISBN 13: 9781857445992
How to Become a Candidate Master by Alex Dunne
Published by New In Chess, 2020
ISBN 10: 9056919210 / ISBN 13: 9789056919214
Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!
Sicilian Warfare by Ilya Smirin
Published by Quality Chess UK LLP, Glasgow, 2021
ISBN 10: 1784831131 / ISBN 13: 9781784831134
Typical Sicilian by Karsten Müller
Published by Joachim Beyer, Verlag Jan 2023
ISBN 10: 3959209525 / ISBN 13: 9783959209526
Play the Accelerated Dragon by Peter Lalic
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 1781940126 / ISBN 13: 9781781940129
Opening Repertoire: The Modern Benoni by John Doknjas
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1781945268 / ISBN 13: 9781781945261
Attack by Karsten Müller
Published by Joachim Verlag Beyer Aug 2023
ISBN 10: 3959209568 / ISBN 13: 9783959209564
The Complete Chess Workout II Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain
by Richard Palliser
Published by Everyman, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1857449851 / ISBN 13: 9781857449853
Your Opponent is Overrated a Practical Guide to Inducing Errors by James Schuyler
Published by Everyman, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1781943524 / ISBN 13: 9781781943526
Exchanging to Win in the Endgame (Macmillan Chess Library) by Gennady Nesis
Published by Collier Books (First Edition), 1991
ISBN 10: 0020086717 / ISBN 13: 9780020086710
Theoretical Rook Endgames by Sam Shankland
Published by Quality Chess UK LLP, Glasgow, 2024
ISBN 10: 1784831964 / ISBN 13: 9781784831967
Together With Mamedyarov Calculation Training Tools and Practical Decision Making by Alexey Kuzmin
Published by Thinkers Publishing, Landegem, Belgium, 2020
ISBN 10: 9492510715 / ISBN 13: 9789492510716
Understanding Chess Exchanges by Amir Bagheri
Published by Quality Chess UK LLP, Glasgow, 2024
ISBN 10: 1784831980 / ISBN 13: 9781784831981
Understanding Chess Endgames by John Nunn
Published by Gambit Publications, 2009
ISBN 10: 1906454116 / ISBN 13: 9781906454111
Understanding Rook Endgames by Karsten Muller
Published by Gambit Publications Ltd, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1910093815 / ISBN 13: 9781910093818
The Chess Endgame Exercise Book by John Nunn
Published by Gambit Publications, 2020
ISBN 10: 1911465597 / ISBN 13: 9781911465591
Questions of Modern Chess Theory. A Soviet Classic. Translated by J.Sugden,
Lipnitsky
Published by Quality Chess, 2008
Kramnik: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1857449916 / ISBN 13: 9781857449914
Chess The Complete Self-Tutor Algebraic Edition by Edward Lasker & John Nunn
Published by Batsford, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0713481609 / ISBN 13: 9780713481600
Opening Repertoire: The Nimzo-Indian and Queen's Indian Defences by Nigel Davies
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1781945926 / ISBN 13: 9781781945926
The New in Chess Book of Chess Improvement, edited by Steve Giddins
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2017
ISBN 10: 905691717X / ISBN 13: 9789056917173
Caruana: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1781944792 / ISBN 13: 9781781944790
Winning Chess Manoeuvres Strategic Ideas That Masters Never Fail to Find
by Sarhan Guliev
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2015
ISBN 10: 9056915681 / ISBN 13: 9789056915681
Your Chess Battle Plan by Neil McDonald
Published by Everyman/Gloucester, London, 2020
What It Takes to Become A Chess Master by Andrew Soltis
Published by Batsford, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1849940266 / ISBN 13: 9781849940269
Magnus Carlsen's Most Instructive Games by Martyn Kravtsiv
Published by Gambit Publications Ltd, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 191146566X / ISBN 13: 9781911465669
Chess Psychology by William Stewart
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 1781940274 / ISBN 13: 9781781940273
Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn
Published by Gambit Publications, 2001
ISBN 10: 1901983412 / ISBN 13: 9781901983418
Survival Guide to Rook Endings by John Emms
Published by Everyman Chess, 1999
ISBN 10: 1857442350 / ISBN 13: 9781857442359
The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames by Steve Giddins
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1857446941 / ISBN 13: 9781857446944
Chess Calculation Training: Middlegame by Romain Edouard
Published by Thinkers Publishing, 2017
ISBN 10: 9492510030 / ISBN 13: 9789492510037
Learn From the Legends - Chess Champions at Their Best 2nd Edition
by Mihail Marin
Published by Quality Chess, Gothenberg, 2006
ISBN 10: 9197524484 / ISBN 13: 9789197524483
Strategic Chess Exercises: Find the Right Way to Outplay Your Opponent by Emmanuel Bricard
Published by New In Chess, 2018
ISBN 10: 9056917609 / ISBN 13: 9789056917609
Chess Training for Post-Beginners a Basic Course in Positional Understanding by Yaroslav Srokovski
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2014
ISBN 10: 9056914723 / ISBN 13: 9789056914721
Middlegame Artistry by E.A. Furst
Published by Caissa's Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 1879394006 / ISBN 13: 9781879394001
Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics by Ger van Perlo
Published by New In Chess, 2014
ISBN 10: 9056914944 / ISBN 13: 9789056914943
The Russian Endgame Handbook by Ilya Rabinovich
Published by Mongoose Press, Newton Highlands, 2012
ISBN 10: 1936277395 / ISBN 13: 9781936277391
Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen by Valeri Beim
Published by Gambit Publications, 2002
ISBN 10: 1901983552 / ISBN 13: 9781901983555
Silicon Road to Chess Improvement by Mattew Sadler
Published by New In Chess, 2022
ISBN 10: 9056919830 / ISBN 13: 9789056919832
The Grandmaster Battle Manual by Vassilios Kotronias
Published by Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2011
ISBN 10: 1906552525 / ISBN 13: 9781906552527
Mastering Chess Strategy by Johan Hellsten
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2010
ISBN 10: 1857446488 / ISBN 13: 9781857446487
Mastering Endgame Strategy by Johan Hellsten
Published by Everyman Chess, 2013
ISBN 10: 1781940185 / ISBN 13: 9781781940181
Rock Solid Chess by Sergei Tiviakov
Published by NEW IN CHESS Jan 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 9493257851 / ISBN 13: 9789493257856
Zlotnik's Treasure Trove by Boris Zlotnik
Published by New In Chess Feb 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 9493257894 / ISBN 13: 9789493257894
Conceptual Rook Endgames by Jacob Aagaard
Published by Quality Chess UK LLP, Glasgow, 2024
ISBN 10: 1784831948 / ISBN 13: 9781784831943
Endgame Labyrinths by Jacob Aagaard; Steffen Nielsen
Published by Quality Chess, 2024
ISBN 10: 1784831522 / ISBN 13: 9781784831523
A Cunning Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Graham Burgess
Published by Gambit Publications, 2013
ISBN 10: 1906454639 / ISBN 13: 9781906454630
Opening Repertoire: Strategic Play with 1 d4 by Milos Pavlovic
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1781946264 / ISBN 13: 9781781946268
1.d4! The Chess Bible by Armin Juhasz
Published by Thinkers Publishing, 2021
ISBN 10: 9464201118 / ISBN 13: 9789464201116
one defense one defense one defense one
Luther's Chess Reformation by Thomas Luther
Published by Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2016
ISBN 10: 1784830178 / ISBN 13: 9781784830175
Magnus Carlsen's Middlegame Evolution by Ivan Sokolov
Published by Quality Chess, 2022
ISBN 10: 1784831697 / ISBN 13: 9781784831691
Dvoretsky'S Endgame Manual, 2nd Ed. by Mark Dvoretsky
Published by Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2015
ISBN 10: 1888690283 / ISBN 13: 9781888690286
Techniques of Positional Play by Valeri Bronznik
Published by The House of Staunton, 2013
ISBN 10: 9056914340 / ISBN 13: 9789056914349
Technique in Chess by Mark Dvoretsky
Published by Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2023
ISBN 10: 1949859649 / ISBN 13: 9781949859645
Analyse Your Chess by Colin Crouch
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1857446704 / ISBN 13: 9781857446708
Recognizing Your Opponent's Resources: Developing Preventive Thinking by Mark Dvoretsky
Published by Russell Enterprises, 2015
ISBN 10: 194127000X / ISBN 13: 9781941270004
Chess Endgame Planning: Learn to identify and execute better plans by Carsten Hansen
Published by Carstenchess 6/26/2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 8793812388 / ISBN 13: 9788793812383
Mastering Chess Middlegames by Alexander Pan'chenko
Published by New in Chess, 2016
ISBN 10: 9056916092 / ISBN 13: 9789056916091
Endgame Preparation: Advanced Analysis of Important Areas by Jon Speelman
Published by Brand: Batsford, 2003
ISBN 10: 0713440007 / ISBN 13: 9780713440003
Fischer: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala
Published by Everyman Chess, London, 2015
ISBN 10: 1781942722 / ISBN 13: 9781781942727
Dvoretskys Analytical Manual: Practical Training for the Ambitious Chessplayer by Mark Dvoretsky
Published by Russell Enterprises, Inc., 2008
ISBN 10: 188869047X / ISBN 13: 9781888690477
Revolutionize Your (Dynamic) Chess by Viktor Moskalenko
Published by New in Chess, 2010
ISBN 10: 905691295X / ISBN 13: 9789056912956
Dynamic Pawn Play in Chess. How to use your pawns to fight for the initiative and central control by Drazen Marovic
Published by Gambit Publications, 2001
ISBN 10: 1901983439 / ISBN 13: 9781901983432
Attacking with G2 - G4 by Dmitry Kryakvin
Published by New in Chess, 2020
ISBN 10: 9056918656 / ISBN 13: 9789056918651
Fundamental Chess Endings: A New One-volume Endgame Encyclopaedia for the 21st Century by Frank Lamprecht
Published by Gambit Publications, 2001
ISBN 10: 1901983536 / ISBN 13: 9781901983531
Modern Chess Preparation: Getting Ready for Your Opponent in the Information Age by Vladimir Tukmakov
Published by New In Chess, Alkmaar, 2012
ISBN 10: 9056913778 / ISBN 13: 9789056913779
Chess Evolution November 2011. Top Analysis by Super GMs. Mit einem Vorwort (Foreword) des Verfassers, Arkadij Naiditsch,
Published by Beograd, Chess Evolution 01.11.2011.
ISBN 10: 1907982078 / ISBN 13: 9781907982071
The Moves that Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life by Jonathan Rowson
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mai 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 152660387X / ISBN 13: 9781526603876
Analyzing the Chess Mind by Boris Gulko & Joel R. Sneed
Published by Quality Chess, Glasgow, 2022
ISBN 10: 1784831123 / ISBN 13: 9781784831127
The Berlin Defence by Igor Lysyj & Roman Ovetchkin
Published by Chess Stars, Sofia, 2012
ISBN 10: 9548782898 / ISBN 13: 9789548782890
The Berlin Defence Unraveled by Luis Bernal
Published by New in Chess, 2017
ISBN 10: 9056917404 / ISBN 13: 9789056917401
The Berlin Defence by Michael Roiz
Published by Quality Chess UK LLP, Glasgow, 2021
ISBN 10: 1784831549 / ISBN 13: 9781784831547
Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures
by Ivan Sokolov
Published by New in Chess, 2018
ISBN 10: 9056917501 / ISBN 13: 9789056917500
Grandmaster Preparation: Endgame Play by Jacob Aagaard
Published by Quality Chess, 2014
ISBN 10: 1907982329 / ISBN 13: 9781907982323
100 Endgame Studies You Must Know: Chess Artistry to Enjoy and Learn from
by Jan Timman
Published by New In Chess, 2024
ISBN 10: 9083406415 / ISBN 13: 9789083406411
Art of the Endgame: My Journeys in the Magical World of Endgame Studies by Jan Timman
Published by New In Chess, 2023
ISBN 10: 9083328406 / ISBN 13: 9789083328409
Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov: The Exceptional Endgame Skills of the 12th World Champion by Tibor Karolyi
Published by New In Chess, 2007
ISBN 10: 905691202X / ISBN 13: 9789056912024
Endgame Virtuoso Magnus Carlsen: The World Champion Shows His Superior Skills (Volume 2) by Tibor Karolyi
Published by New In Chess, 2023
ISBN 10: 9493257703 / ISBN 13: 9789493257702
Oleg Pervakov's Industrial Strength Endgame Studies A World Champion's Favorite Composers by Sergei Tkachenko
Published by Elk and Ruby, 2018
ISBN 10: 5604071048 / ISBN 13: 9785604071045
Endgame (the spectacular rise and fall of Bobby Fischer) by Frank Brady
Published by Little, Brown Book Group, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1780336926 / ISBN 13: 9781780336923
Ding Liren's Best Games by Davorin Kuljasevic
Published by New in Chess, 2024
ISBN 10: 9083336689 / ISBN 13: 9789083336688
Goethe once wrote, “Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated than we can conceive.”
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TO FOUR PSYCHOANALYSTS
by Barry Tebb
Richard Chessick, John Gedo, James Grotstein and Vamik VoltanWhat darknesses have you lit up for me
What depths of infinite space plumbed
With your finely honed probes
What days of unending distress lightened
With your wisdom, skills and jouissance?
Conquistadores of the unconscious
For three decades how often have I come to you
And from your teachings gathered the manna
Of meaning eluding me alone in my northern eyrie? Chance or God’s guidance – being a poet I chose the latter – Brought me to dip my ankle like an amah’s blessing Into the Holy Ganges of prelude and grosse fuge Of ego and unconscious, wandering alone
In uncharted waters and faltering
Until I raised my hand and found it grasped
By your firm fingers pulling inexorably shoreward. Did I know, how could I know, madness
Would descend on my family, first a sad grandfather Who had wrought destruction on three generations Including our children’s?
I locked with the horns of madness,
Trusted my learning, won from you at whose feet I sat Alone and in spirit; yet not once did you let me down, In ward rounds, staying on after the other visitors – How few and lost – had gone, chatting to a charge nurse While together we made our case
To the well meaning but unenlightened psychiatrist, Chair of the department no less, grumbling good-naturedly At our fumbling formulations of splitting as a diagnostic aid. When Cyril’s nightmare vision of me in a white coat Leading a posse of nurses chasing him round his flat With a flotilla of ambulances on witches’ brooms Bringing his psychotic core to the fore and
The departmental chairman finally signing the form. Cyril discharged on Largactil survived two years To die on a dual carriageway ‘high on morphine’ And I learned healing is caring as much as knowing, The slow hard lesson of a lifetime, the concentration Of a chess master, the footwork of a dancer,
The patience of a scholar and a saint’s humility, While I have only a poet’s quickness, a journalist’s Ability to speed-read and the clumsiness
Of a circus clown.
St. Mark
“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 ‘The Way through the Woods’ by Rudyard Kipling They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.
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A: Liberty
Question: What’s the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?
Answer: Graveyards are attached to churches while cemeteries are stand-alone. Patty Loveless "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi... They're pinnin' corsages, tappin' toes and pushin' pawns, passin' the time (or something like that). * First one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyo... * I'm only one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E1nl... * I'm the one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRS... * One minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3N... * Round 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i2... * 2...f5?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a... * Animal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8u... * The Brown Bomber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPe... * Looked harmless: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H-C2... * Golden: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/avSA... * Bird swoop: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2leD... * Ponziani Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9gKN... * Vienna Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jD53... * Advantage of the 2 Bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dG... * BC Dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2I... * So she did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGq... * Kiddie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKS... * 3 Kiddie Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jP... * KID killer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Xaf... * 3 Wise men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws0... * What about trams? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SzMQ... * Circulations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTw... * Come Jesus Come:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IcMT...
* Crazy Rook trick: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kLM3... * Double Rook Lift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQ... * Jaw Dropper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0o... * C-K in 3 EZ steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtP... * Never say 3 things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3i... * 3 months to live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPm... * 3 Viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7n... * 3 for Black vs 1.e4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXM... * 4 mantras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4w... * Knightly MG: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XRP3... * 4 seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kt... * 5 Owls of NA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdE... * Five in '25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1... * Let 'em have it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wi... * Furious Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpd... * Dominate the LS in 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iro... * Do the Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3k... * 5 Rare gambits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_r... * 5 middlegame minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLA... * 5 embarrassments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdM... * Endgame tactics in 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA9... * 5 occurrences AD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJ... * Yes, they do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mi... * Get better in 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mc... * Tigran's Top 5 Exch Sacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-... * 6 Essential Structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zu... * Freedom is not Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89P... * Deflection on f7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S1em... * Punish Common Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsD... * H2P the Delay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9a... * Pink Elephants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVK... * Scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6... * 7 Deadliest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scz... * 7 realities: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/20AY... * 7 truths: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4LfX... * 7 Endings to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrL... * 8 Q tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amz... * 8 min time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2... * 9 ways to defeat: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aaHZ... * A10 Warthog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMI... * Top 10 Dog Coms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlV... * 10 Recent discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePj... * 10 min of Ukranian Hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l_... * 10 Common Traps in the Sicilian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzu... * Facts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi... * Fraction equation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMK... * RP knows 'em well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZw... * GPA short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_... * FM GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Y... * Model GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glm... * Win w/the GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ae... * Anti-GPA trap #645: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyN... * Annoying line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_L... * GPA refuted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqr... * Extinguish the GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6P... * Agadmator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoE... * Quick either way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z0... * Special Pete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCi... * Fuzzy Wuzzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scU... * The Government forbid Church attendance during COVID-19, so we did this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU... * Of course, JT set our example back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmH... * BGs sort of ran together: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JCQO... * Before that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgv... * C-K stabs f7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MFoo... * How to be brave: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cQI3... * Get Discipline: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l3EI... * Going out in style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMf... * Greats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDU... * The Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAA... * lIke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5W... * Joel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4L... * Now the day bleeds... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4wVC... * Own key squares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-... * Promise: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u-sY... * Prophylaxis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qj... * 12 smells Verminters hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eh... * Don't poke your eye out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD... * Week 13 of '67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJ... * RR on King Tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59... * RPO invention: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9FOb... * Ridicule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEH... * F14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2d... * 15 Home Depot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlB... * A lot of shoveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoO... * Senator asks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKO... * September: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UFmU... * 20 Fox facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3... * French b3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxV... * C00 French Defense: Horwitz Attack, Papa-Ticulat Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k1... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTS...
* Unique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWY... * Wooden stick: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JUQD... * Won't ever forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5... * Caro-Kann Defense: Maroczy Variation (B12) Beauty | Reykjavik Open 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtU... * 50-year-old tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0... * Owls attack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-... * Connected pawns on the 7th (12 games):
Game Collection: Pretty Maids All in a Row: 3 Connected Ps on 7th * Queening Combinations: Game Collection: Queening Combinations * Sacrifices to generate passers (182 games): Game Collection: Passed Pawns * Promotion Tactics: Game Collection: Promotion Tactics * Three promotions: Game Collection: Promotion: Three * FTB thought it was impossible - see Sally's Mar-05-19 and Mar-06-19 posts: Geoff Chandler * Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Hans/St. Louis 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vol... * Hellfire: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EQx7... * Hold the line: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QQW0... * Horse with No Name: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yb0k... * Houska Castle: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MqXE... * Hurricane: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yi5t... Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” * Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” "These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends..."
The Twilight Saga: New Moon / Romeo & Juliet
Like many other romantic films, The Twilight Saga: New Moon also uses quotes from <Romeo & Juliet> to depict the tumultuous romance shared between the ancient Edward Cullen and young human Bella Swan. In fact, the film opens with this monologue from the classic tragedy. It is unsurprising as countless stories of forbidden romance have taken inspiration and paid homage to Shakespeare's famous doomed love story.
In the case of Twilight, the rival families can be replaced by vampires and humans and the unconventional romance that blooms between a couple like Edward and Bella.
In the original source, Friar Lawrence says these lines to Romeo warning him of the dangers of loving a girl from a rival family. Romeo, however, believes that he would still get joy even if he could meet Juliet for just one moment. In the case of Twilight, the rival families can be replaced by vampires and humans and the unconventional romance that blooms between a couple like Edward and Bella. <<<Five Preliminary Endgame Rules>
according to CJS Purdy>
1. Before even beginning to think of making a passed pawn, put all your pieces into as good positions as possible. 2. Avoid pawn-moves while you are getting your pieces well positioned because pawn-moves create lasting weaknesses and thus make your task harder. 3. Try to free your position from weaknesses; and if possible, make it hard for the opponent to do likewise. 4. When trying to win, keep pawns on both wings. When trying to draw, play to eliminate all the pawns on one wing. With pawns on one wing only, a pawn plus is usually insufficient for a win. 5. If you are a pawn up or more, exchange pieces (not pawns) wherever you can do so without losing in position. Exception: do not rush an exchange that will leave you with a single bishop running on the opposite color to the enemy's single bishop. Also, refrain from exchanging if it will give your opponent two bishops against bishop and knight.>
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Confessed faults are half mended. ~ Scottish Proverb “When you have the better of it, play simply. When the game is going against you, look for complications.” — Frank J. Marshall * Pawn Endgames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUq... * Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" Cajun: Joie de vivre (Jhwa da veev) – Joy of living. <<<IF>
Poet: Rudyard Kipling>
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting, too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting.
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating.
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truths you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken.
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch and toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone.
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will, which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
And — which is more — you'll be a Man, my son.> About the poem, If by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Morris wrote: "The central idea of this poem is that success comes from self-control and a true sense of the values of things. In extremes lies danger. A man must not lose heart because of doubts or opposition, yet he must do his best to see the grounds for both. He must not be deceived into thinking either triumph or disaster final; he must use each wisely--and push on. In all things he must hold to the golden mean. If he does, he will own the world, and even better, for his personal reward he will attain the full stature of manhood." Riddle Question: Three doctors all say Robert is their brother. Robert says he has no brothers. Who is lying? Thank you, Qindarka!
Riddle Answer: No one—the doctors are Robert’s sisters. Armenian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armen... Austrian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austr... British Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briti... Bulgarian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulga... Croatian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croat... Cyprus Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypri... Dutch Chess Championship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch... Finnish Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finni... French Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenc... German Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germa... Greek Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek... Hungarian Chess Championship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunga... Icelandic Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icela... Irish Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish... Israeli Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israe... Italian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itali... Latvian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvi... Lithuanian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithu... Nordic Chess Championship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordi... Polish Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis... Portuguese Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portu... Romanian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman... Russian Chess Championship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russi... Scottish Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott... Spanish Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spani... Swiss Chess Championship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss... Turkish Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turki... Ukranian Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrai... Welsh Chess Championship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh... Collection assembled by Fredthebear.
This old photo belongs in my favorites: https://images.chesscomfiles.com/pr... 2023 in Review: https://www.chess.com/news/view/202... That's enough for now.
The Wolves and the Sheep
By-gone a thousand years of war,
The wearers of the fleece
And wolves at last made peace;
Which both appeared the better for;
For if the wolves had now and then
Eat up a straggling ewe or wether,
As often had the shepherd men
Turned wolf-skins into leather.
Fear always spoiled the verdant herbage,
And so it did the bloody carnage.
Hence peace was sweet; and, lest it should be riven,
On both sides hostages were given.
The sheep, as by the terms arranged,
For pups of wolves their dogs exchanged;
Which being done above suspicion,
Confirmed and sealed by high commission,
What time the pups were fully grown,
And felt an appetite for prey,
And saw the sheepfold left alone,
The shepherds all away,
They seized the fattest lambs they could,
And, choking, dragged them to the wood;
Of which, by secret means apprised,
Their sires, as is surmised,
Fell on the hostage guardians of the sheep,
And slew them all asleep.
So quick the deed of perfidy was done,
There fled to tell the tale not one!
From which we may conclude
That peace with villains will be rued.
Peace in itself, it's true,
May be a good for you;
But It's an evil, nathless,
When enemies are faithless.
Riddle Question: Where does today come before yesterday? After three chess moves, there are over 9 million different possibilities. Riddle Answer: In the dictionary.
My Wage
by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
<Chess has six different kinds of pieces, and they all interact in myriad ways. Your opponent’s own pieces can often be used against him.While the Queen is the strongest piece, it is the weakest defender; and while the pawn is the weakest piece, it is the strongest defender. <José Raúl Capablanca> used the principle "Cutting off pieces from the scene of action."> [Site "Kiev RUE"]
[Event "Simul, 30b"]
[Date "1914.03.02"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[Black "Masyutin"]
[ECO "A83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]
1.d4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c6 5.f3 exf3 6.Nxf3 e6 7.Bd3
d5 8.O-O Nbd7 9.Ne5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Qh5+ Ke7 12.Bxh7 Nf8
13.Qf7+ Kd6 14.Nc4+ dxc4 15.Ne4+ Kd5 16.Rf5+ Kxe4 17.Re1+ Kxd4
18.c3+ Kd3 19.Rd5# 1-0 Discovered Double Checkmate!! “As an adult, Capablanca lost only 34 serious games. He was undefeated from 10 February 1916, when he lost to Oscar Chajes in the New York 1916 tournament, to 21 March 1924, when he lost to Richard Réti in the New York International tournament. During this streak, which included his 1921 World Championship match against Lasker, Capablanca played 63 games, winning 40 and drawing 23. In fact, only Marshall, Lasker, Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann won two or more serious games from the mature Capablanca, though in each case, their overall lifetime scores were minus (Capablanca beat Marshall +20−2=28, Lasker +6−2=16, Alekhine +9−7=33), except for Spielmann who was level (+2−2=8). Of top players, only Keres had a narrow plus score against him (+1−0=5). Keres's win was at the AVRO 1938 chess tournament, during which tournament Capablanca turned 50, while Keres was 22.” ― Wikipedia The Chess Machine: https://chessville.com/jose-raul-ca... Learn from the World Champions: https://www.chessable.com/blog/famo... According to Chessmetrics, Emanual Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. Q: What’s the best thing about Switzerland?
A: I don’t know, but the flag is a big plus.
The City Rat and the Country Rat
A city rat, one night,
Did, with a civil stoop,
A country rat invite
To end a turtle soup.
On a Turkey carpet
They found the table spread,
And sure I need not harp it
How well the fellows fed.
The entertainment was
A truly noble one;
But some unlucky cause
Disturbed it when begun.
It was a slight rat-tat,
That put their joys to rout;
Out ran the city rat;
His guest, too, scampered out.
Our rats but fairly quit,
The fearful knocking ceased.
"Return we," cried the cit,
To finish there our feast.
"No," said the rustic rat;
"Tomorrow dine with me.
I'm not offended at
Your feast so grand and free, –
"For I have no fare resembling;
But then I eat at leisure,
And would not swap, for pleasure
So mixed with fear and trembling."
French Proverb: “Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard.” ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight.” — The Revenant Weord Maze:
3z Darby's samichz haz da bst pigz eyez, no birdz eyez annie pig snoutz. Shout, shout, let it all out. Theez rtha things Ivan duel without. C'mon Mikhail Talkin youtube. A pencil maker told the pencil 5 important lessons just before putting it in the box: 1. Everything you do you will always leave a mark. 2. You can always correct the mistakes you make. 3. What is important is what is inside of you.
4. In life, you will undergo painful sharpening which will only make you better. 5. To be the best pencil, you must allow yourself to be held and guided by the hand that holds you. Lead Pb 82 207.2 1.8
Riddle Question: What invention lets you look right through a wall? In a match between Mason-Mackenzie in London in 1882, there were 72 consecutive Queen Moves. Riddle Answer: A window!
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“It is impossible to keep one's excellence in a glass case, like a jewel, and take it out whenever it is required.” ― Adolf Anderssen, 1858 “The words of truth are simple.” ― Aeschylus “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. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
— Dolly Parton
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth John 14:6
“<I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.>” ― Jesus Christ “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ― Buddha “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” ― William Shakespeare “Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.” ― William Napier / Irving Chernev “Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi.” ― Greg Baum. “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” ― Robert Hughes “Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” ― Savielly Tartakower “Pawns are the soul of the game.” ― François-André Danican Philidor “The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz “I believe that it is best to know a 'dubious' opening really well, rather than a 'good' opening only slightly.” ― Simon Williams “There is no such thing as an absolutely freeing move. A freeing move in a position in which development has not been carried far always proves illusory, and vice versa, a move which does not come at all in the category of freeing moves can, given a surplus of tempi to our credit, lead to a very free game.”
― Aron Nimzowitsch
“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove you the better player.” ― English Proverb “For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.” ― Alexander Alekhine “We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chessplayer's nature.” ― Rudolf Spielmann “To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.” ― Mikhail Tal “Boring? Who's boring? I am Fredthebear. My mind is always active, busy. If you're bored, follow your uncle around or go ride your bike.” “Capa's games looked as though they were turned out by a lathe, while Alekhine's resembled something produced with a mallet and chisel.” ― Charles Yaffe “Whereas Anderssen and Chigorin looked for accidental positions, Capablanca is guided by the logicality of strong positions. He values only that which is well-founded: solidity of position, pressure on a weak point, he does not trust the accidental, even if it be a problem-like mate, at the required moment he discovers and carries out subtle and far-sighted combinations...”
― Emanuel Lasker
“Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with its logic.” ― Garry Kasparov “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”
― Queen Elizabeth II
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat. So people who don’t know what they’re doing, or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self.” — Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), You’ve Got Mail “The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” ― Douglas MacArthur “Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers.”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel
“In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.”
— Vasily Smyslov
Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times. Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool. ~ Nigerian Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. ~ Twi Proverb The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.’ A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.’ All’s well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.’ Meanwhile, Henry Knighton’s Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra “A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”
— Eeyore
<“Funny, funny Jude (The Man in the Red Beret). You play with little pieces all day long, and you know what? You’ll live to be an old, old man someday. And here I am.” — Janis Joplin<Jude Acers> set a Guinness World Record for playing 117 people in simultaneous chess games on April 21, 1973 at the Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon. On July 2-3, 1976 Jude played 179 opponents at Mid Isle Plaza (Broadway Plaza) in Long Island, New York for another Guinness record. "The First Book of Chess" by Joseph Leeming from the local public library ignited Jude's chess journey as a boy. The joy of reading this clear, easy book changed his entire life forever! Clear explanations of the rules of chess are complemented by numerous diagrams and by practice games illustrating standard chess openings Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1953 by Franklin Watts, Inc.
Language: English>
Don't expect the knights to sit back and wait, defend. Before moving, ask yourself "How can her knight(s) advance upon my camp? Will the knight(s) come forward to go backward? Will the knight(s) pile on the bishop's angle, outnumber the defender 2-to-1 or 3-to-2?" The Fried Liver Attack is how little girls try to defeat boys and old men, so watch out for the knight's next two moves leaping forward. There might not be enough time to fianchetto your own bishop and get castled before the opposing knight lands in your lap. * Basic Rules: https://thechessworld.com/basic-che... * Common Phrases and Terms: https://www.ragchess.com/chess-basi... * One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini * Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Anderssen - Steinitz Match: Anderssen - Steinitz (1866) * Anderssen's Opening: Opening Explorer * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Capablanca - Alekhine: https://search.aol.com/aol/video;_y... * Chess is cold-steel calculation, not emotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-T... * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel
* Attack and Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-... * 10 Tips: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/L... * 10 Crazy Gambits: https://www.chess.com/blog/yola6655... * Top Ten of the 2010's: https://www.chess.com/lessons/the-1... * 25 Opening Traps: https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessLor... * B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack * 50 Soviet Attacks: Game Collection: Chernev: The Russians Play Chess * 150 Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH4... * 1.e4 d6:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYE...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVA...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNM...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tST...
* 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * Focus on your advantage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQH...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZ...
* Formation Attx: https://www.newinchess.com/media/wy... * Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fbd1...
* Fischer's principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRN... * Greek gift against the French: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EKS9...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JTZ1...
* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQO...
* 5.h3 is necessary in case NxNe5 occurs: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2BN... * ...h6? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iMWc... * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vsby...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oddk...
* Jobava London trap: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iAxl... * Light square strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD0... * Long shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGj... * Mate in 2 takes advantage of the pin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6Ium... * Maroczy Bind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Q...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqV...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8m...
* Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pc...
* Nimzo-Larsen: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6UYR... * Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP9...
* Opening Ideas/Novelties: Game Collection: Great opening ideas * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Pinned to the cross: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PtLt...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mq8S...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LAze...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2ZLQ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/05Zz...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4BID...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M4jt...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uJ94...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1VOe...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VzeS...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GdUB...
* Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tlkc... * Rajnish Das Tips: https://enthu.com/blog/chess/chess-... * Lekhika Dhariyal Chess Ops: https://www.zupee.com/blog/category...
Zucci
* It takes me back where, when and who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2... * Everyday people should play tabletop games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUU... * Erroneous Piece Trades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC... * Favorite Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Fundamentals: Game Collection: Chess Fundamentals (Capablanca) * Fischer's Unbreakable Record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP... * Flip the Finish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWH... Place your knights in the center for greater mobility; avoid edges and the corners. * Get better: https://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Be... * GM Avetik Grigoryan: https://chessmood.com/blog/improve-... * How to Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQ... * How IM Rosen does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGd... * How Molton does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zE... * IECC: https://www.chess-iecc.com/
* ICA Youth Resources: https://www.il-chess.org/index.php?... * Mr. Harvey provided JHB puzzles: http://wtharvey.com/blacpe.html * Javed's way: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * 149 JHB games w/annotations: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Kasparov: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * King walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0C... * Kingpin magazine: https://www.kingpinchess.net/ * Unleash the Knight: https://cardclashgames.com/blog/che... * Tips for Knights & More: http://www.chesssets.co.uk/blog/tip... * Miniatures of the Champs: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions * Mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3L... * Miles Ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvk... * NE: https://metrowestchess.org/
* Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki) * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED! * Pins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjp... * POTD 2023: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2023 * Pawn Instruction: http://www.logicalchess.com/learn/l... * Pawn structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPr... * Poisoned pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGV... * Pawn actions: Game Collection: the pawns decide * Petrosian's Best: Game Collection: P.H.Clarke: Petrosian's Best games * Promotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bym... * Pawn structures: Game Collection: Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide * Perfect game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWS... * Peter, Paul, and Mary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-...
Troubling times, it was.
* Ponziani Games: Game Collection: PONZIANI OPENING * Rublevsky: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Rossolimo & Moscow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4a... * Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Reasonable book choices: https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell... * Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/
* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Russian Ruys: Game Collection: Chess in the USSR 1945 - 72, Part 2 (Leach) * Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/ * Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Crazy Rook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KQ... * Richard's Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htJ... * Riddles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9... * Rubber band in hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001... * Scandinavian Minis: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Sidewalk playin': https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Skewers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kl... * Seoul 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3X... * "a stupendous tactician": Game Collection: Tigran V. Petrosian - A Stupendous Tactician * Smash the castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZR... * Solitaire: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by I. A. Horowitz * Spruce Variety: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/che... * Stunners: Game Collection: Stunners * Visually Appealing Tutorial: https://simplifychess.com/openings/... * Some Scotch: https://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-op... * Knotty Scotch: Game Collection: Scotch Openings * Mieses & More: Game Collection: Scotch Collection * Garry plays the Scotch:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Kibitzed (C45): http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Black scores w/4...Qh4: Opening Explorer * Sports Clichés: http://www.sportscliche.com/
* Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2) * Sicilian Face Plants:
Game Collection: sicilian defense(opening traps) * BF playing White against the Sicilian: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Sicilian Closed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_... * Sicilians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX0... * Sir Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion states “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” * Tactics by a different Gary: https://chessdelights.com/chess-tac... * Sharper Tactics: Sharpen Your Tactics C 849-999 (chessgames.com) * Ten books for aspiring masters: http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2023... * Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGF... * tacticmania - Game Collection: tacticmania * Thinking ahead: https://chess-teacher.com/chess-tips/ * TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/
Fredthebear loves coconuts.
* 50 Games to Know: https://en.chessbase.com/post/50-ga... * 100: Game Collection: 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures * Glossary NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/... * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) * GToC Book: https://archive.org/details/the-gol... * How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv... * King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to... * London System Combos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b5... * Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer... * MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala) * Nunn's Chess Course: Game Collection: Lasker JNCC * Nuremberg 1896: Nuremberg (1896) * Old P-K4 Miniatures: Game Collection: Games for Classes * No Hope: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/v... * People on Another Level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7V... * Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/ * Queen vs Rook Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn... * Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces * Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics * The Regulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAn... * Real Swag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgY... * Smyslov/Niemann Crash Through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fc... * The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z... * Vital principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXy... * Volo plays the KP faithfully: Volodymyr Onyshchuk * Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev) * Edward Winter: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... * WR Chess Masters 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Y... * Walter Browne, American Champ: Game Collection: Six by Mr. Six Time * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
'A rising tide lifts all boats'
'Don't put the cart before the horse'
“Examine what is said, not who is speaking.” ~ African Proverb Minnesota: Wabasha
Established in: 1830
Wabasha was named after Indian Chief of the Sioux Nation, Chief Wa-pa-shaw, who lived in the valley. His nephew, Augustin Rocque, was the first white settler in the area. Wabasha was established in 1830, though it has been continuously occupied since 1826. Some believe Stillwater, Minnesota, is the state's oldest town because it was incorporated in 1854, while Wabasha wasn't incorporated until 1858. But according to the year of first settlement, the Second Treaty of Prairie du Chien drafted in 1830 establishes that Wabasha preceded it. * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * Chess Timeline: https://wegochess.com/an-easy-to-re... * Chess History: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
“World-class chess players, in addition to being considered awesomely smart, are generally assumed to have superhuman memories, and with good reason. Champions routinely put on exhibitions in which they play lesser opponents while blindfolded; they hold the entire chessboard in their heads. Some of these exhibitions strike the rest of us as simply beyond belief. The Czech master Richard Reti once played twenty-nine blindfolded games simultaneously. (Afterward he left his briefcase at the exhibition site and commented on what a poor memory he had.)”
― Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~ Scottish Proverb <A game of chess, even played by dilettantes, is an austere metaphor of life and a struggle for life, and the chess player’s virtues—reason, memory, and invention—are the virtues of every thinking man. The stern rule of chess, according to which a piece that was touched must be moved and it is not permissible to redo a move of which one repents, reproduces the inexorability of the choices of the living. When your king, as a result of your inexperience, lack of attention, imprudence, or the opponent’s superiority, is ever more closely threatened … cornered and finally transfixed, you cannot fail to perceive a symbolic shadow beyond the chess board. You are living a death; it is your death, and at the same time it is a death for which you are guilty.
—Primo Levi, “The Irritable Chess Players”> “The first place you need to look is the last place you saw it.”
— Digger Manes, Moonshiners
“The journey is its own reward.” — Homer
slaw1998: In my spine there sends a shiver
When a player sends his pieces up the river
Into loose en prise encapture, enrapture,
Does it to my heart receive it well
Yet other players bring me down
Their defense sends my attack the other way around
And Tal and others would be quite displeased
Like I, to have the attack no hope of being released So I'll go on shedding pieces
With combos, like a magic stall,
And hope that some day
I can beat them all.
“Dubious, therefore playable.” ― Savielly Tartakower “What is the object of playing a gambit opening? To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game.” ― Siegbert Tarrasch “I've played a number of interesting novelties lately. Mostly that's because I haven't got a clue what I am doing in the opening.” ― Nigel Short “There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym “In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.”
— Vasily Smyslov
“Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers.”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel
“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove you the better player.” ― English Proverb “For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.” ― Alexander Alekhine “We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chessplayer's nature.” ― Rudolf Spielmann “To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.” ― Mikhail Tal “Boring? Who's boring? I am Fredthebear. My mind is always active, busy.” “As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “Alekhine was the rock-thrower, Capablanca the man who made it all seem easy.” ― Hans Ree “Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with it's logic.” ― Garry Kasparov “Once in a lobby of the Hall of Columns of the Trade Union Center in Moscow a group of masters were analyzing an ending. They could not find the right way to go about things and there was a lot of arguing about it. Suddenly Capablanca came into the room. He was always find of walking about when it was his opponent's turn to move. Learning the reason for the dispute the Cuban bent down to the position, said 'Si, si,' and suddenly redistributed the pieces all over the board to show what the correct formation was for the side trying to win. I haven't exaggerated. Don Jose literally pushed the pieces around the board without making moves. He just put them in fresh positions where he thought they were needed. Suddenly everything became clear. The correct scheme of things had been set up and now the win was easy. We were delighted by Capablanca's mastery.” ― Alexander Kotov “Capablanca had that art which hides art to an overwhelming degree.”
― Harry Golombek
“I have known many chess players, but only one chess genius, Capablanca.”
― Emanuel Lasker
“I think Capablanca had the greatest natural talent.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Capablanca was a genius. He was an exception that did not obey any rule.” ― Vladimir Kramnik Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
<The Fooles Mate
Black Kings Biſhops pawne one houſe.
White Kings pawne one houſe.
Black kings knights pawne two houſes
White Queen gives Mate at the contrary kings Rookes fourth houſe>
— Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play
Beale's example can be paraphrased in modern terms where White always moves first, algebraic notation is used, and Black delivers the fastest possible mate after each player makes two moves: 1.f3 e6 2.g4 Qh4# There are eight distinct ways in which Fool's Mate can be reached in two moves. White may alternate the order of f- and g-pawn moves, Black may play either e6 or e5, and White may move their f-pawn to f3 or f4. “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
Where can the opponent's knight land in two moves? Would that be a problem? 'Ask no questions and hear no lies
* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century * Knight Power: https://fmochess.com/the-power-of-t... 'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
— Criss Jami
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. The Bear and the Amateur Gardener
A certain mountain bear, unlicked and rude,
By fate confined within a lonely wood,
A new Bellerophon, whose life,
Knew neither comrade, friend, nor wife, –
Became insane; for reason, as we term it,
Dwells never long with any hermit.
It's good to mix in good society,
Obeying rules of due propriety;
And better yet to be alone;
But both are ills when overdone.
No animal had business where
All grimly dwelt our hermit bear;
Hence, bearish as he was, he grew
Heart-sick, and longed for something new.
While he to sadness was addicted,
An aged man, not far from there,
Was by the same disease afflicted.
A garden was his favourite care, –
Sweet Flora's priesthood, light and fair,
And eke Pomona's – ripe and red
The presents that her fingers shed.
These two employments, true, are sweet
When made so by some friend discreet.
The gardens, gaily as they look,
Talk not, (except in this my book;)
So, tiring of the deaf and dumb,
Our man one morning left his home
Some company to seek,
That had the power to speak. –
The bear, with thoughts the same,
Down from his mountain came;
And in a solitary place,
They met each other, face to face.
It would have made the boldest tremble;
What did our man? To play the Gascon
The safest seemed. He put the mask on,
His fear contriving to dissemble.
The bear, unused to compliment,
Growled bluntly, but with good intent,
"Come home with me." The man replied:
"Sir Bear, my lodgings, nearer by,
In yonder garden you may spy,
Where, if you'll honour me the while,
We'll break our fast in rural style.
I have fruits and milk, – unworthy fare,
It may be, for a wealthy bear;
But then I offer what I have."
The bear accepts, with visage grave,
But not unpleased; and on their way,
They grow familiar, friendly, gay.
Arrived, you see them, side by side,
As if their friendship had been tried.
To a companion so absurd,
Blank solitude were well preferred,
Yet, as the bear scarce spoke a word,
The man was left quite at his leisure
To trim his garden at his pleasure.
Sir Bruin hunted – always brought
His friend whatever game he caught;
But chiefly aimed at driving flies –
Those hold and shameless parasites,
That vex us with their ceaseless bites –
From off our gardener's face and eyes.
One day, while, stretched on the ground
The old man lay, in sleep profound,
A fly that buzz'd around his nose, –
And bit it sometimes, I suppose, –
Put Bruin sadly to his trumps.
At last, determined, up he jumps;
"I'll stop your noisy buzzing now,"
Says he; "I know precisely how."
No sooner said than done.
He seized a paving-stone;
And by his modus operandi
Did both the fly and man die.
A foolish friend may cause more woe
Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.
persona non grata by FTB
persona non grata
has peripheral neuropathy
from ass to toe
it pains him so
won't admit the truth
that's not his m.o.
he cries cries to momma
she gives him skittles
one volunteer to another
another chess riddle
sure it's lousy... but
it's persona non grata
Flaming Knights: https://workingtheflame.com/famous-... “Don Quixote de la Mancha, answered the squire; he is a knight-adventurer, and one of the greatest and most valiant that have been seen in this world for many ages.” — 'Don Quixote' “He must be humble of heart, strong of arm, be savage in war, loyal to hearth, and follow deeds of Glory. He must keep honour with all, banish cowardice from his doings, and bring his House no shame. He must serve the Emperor, and defend the Imperium. Thus should a Knight rule himself.”
— The Chivalric Duty, Aquitainus Malory Cadmus, M31 <“He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shallhave tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in peace…”>
― William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet'
“We're Knights of the Round Table
Our shows are formidable
But many times, we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.”
― Monty Python, 'Knights Of The Round Table'.
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost maiden like, guest in a hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness.” ― C.S.Lewis “For to die with honour is far better than to live disgraced.”
― James Knowles, 'The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights'. “The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.”
― Sir Thomas Malory.
“A red-cross knight for ever kneel'd
To a lady in his shield,
That sparkled on the yellow field…”
― Lord Alfred Tennyson, 'The Lady Of Shallot'
“The Brave Man
Carves
Out His Fortune,
And
Every Man
Is The Son
Of His Own
Works.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
“The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego” ― Soke Behzad Ahmadi “I'd rather have a heart of gold
Than all the treasure of the world.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Memoirs of An Amazon
“Sweet lady," said Florian, "all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.” ― George R.R. Martin, The Hedge Knight “I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights “This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights “My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl
But I will always come for you…”
― Emme Rollins
<"Sir Lancelot: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I am not afraid.Bridgekeeper: What… is your name?
Sir Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot. Bridgekeeper: What… is your quest?
Sir Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail."
― Monty Python, 'Knights Of The Round Table'> "Any wise man fears open spitefulness, whether it be in seriousness or in jest."
― Chrétien de Troyes, 'Perceval: The Story Of The Grail, With The Continuations'. "Then answered Lancelot, the chief of knights:
'And with what face, after my pretext made, Shall I appear, O Queen, at Camelot, I before a King who honours his own word, As if it were his God's?'"
― Lord Alfred Tennyson, 'Idylls Of The King'
"Sir Launcelot, yonder one knight shall I help, for it were shame for me to see three knights on one, and if he be slain I am partner of his death. And therewith he took his harness and went out at a window by a sheet down to the four knights…" ― Mark Twain, 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court'. "A knight of Arthur, working out his will, To cleanse the world. Why, Gawain, when he came With Modred hither in the summertime, Asked me to tilt with him, the proven knight." ― Lord Alfred Tennyson, 'Idylls Of The King'. "And then they all three cried, Sir Knight, we yield us unto you as man of might matchless. As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not…"
― Mark Twain, 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court'. "How came the lily maid by that good shield Of Lancelot, she that knew not even his name? He left it with her, when he rode to tilt For the great diamond in the diamond jousts, Which Arthur had ordained, and by that name Had named them, since a diamond was the prize." ― Lord Alfred Tennyson, 'Idylls Of The King' "Sir Lancelot increased in fame and worship above all men, for he overthrew all comers, and never was unhorsed or worsted, save by treason and enchantment." ― James Knowles, 'The Legend Of King Arthur And His Knights' "There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past." ― Winston Churchill. "A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger." ~ Philip Sidney “At any rate, the principles of a noble manner of life and the ethics of the nobility now take on the clear and uncompromising form known to us from the chivalric epic and lyric. We often find the new members of a privileged group to be more rigorous in their attitude to questions of class etiquette than the born representatives of the group; they are more clearly conscious of the ideas which hold the particular group together and distinguish it from other groups than are men who grew up in those ideas. This is a well-known and often-repeated feature of social history; the novus homo is always inclined to over-compensate for his sense of inferiority and to emphasize the moral qualifications required for the privileges which he enjoys. In the present case, too, we find that the knights who have risen from the ranks of the retainers are stricter and more intolerant in matters of honour than the old aristocrats by birth. What seems to the latter a matter of course, something that could hardly be otherwise than what it is, appears to the newly ennobled an achievement and a problem. The feeling of belonging to the governing class, one of which the old nobility had scarcely been conscious, is for them a great new experience. Where the old-style aristocrat acts instinctively and makes no pretensions about it, the knight finds himself faced with a special task of difficulty, an opportunity for heroic action, a need to surpass himself—in fact to do something extraordinary and unnatural. In matters in which a born grand seigneur takes no trouble to distinguish himself from the rest of mankind, the new knight requires of his peers that they should at all costs show themselves different from ordinary mortals.”
― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages "How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one."
― Chrétien de Troyes, 'Perceval: The Story Of The Grail, With The Continuations'. "Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory."
― John Steinbeck, 'The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights' "He who wants to do more than he is able must admit defeat or retire."
― Chrétien de Troyes, 'Arthurian Romances'.
Riddle Question: I'm a mobile fortress; straight is my path. When it comes to castling, I’m part of the craft. What am I? The Beslan School Siege remains one of the most tragic events in recent history. On September 1, 2004, armed terrorists took over 1,100 people hostage, including 777 children, at School Number One in Beslan, Russia. This horrific event lasted three days and ended in a devastating firefight. The siege resulted in the deaths of 334 hostages, 186 of whom were children. The attackers demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. The crisis highlighted severe security lapses and led to significant changes in Russian counter-terrorism policies. Riddle Answer: Rook
“In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.”
— Vasily Smyslov
“With most men life is like backgammon, half skill, and half luck, but with him it was like chess. He never pushed a pawn without reckoning the cost, and when his mind was least busy it was sure to be half a dozen moves ahead of the game as it was standing.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Guardian Angel (1867) “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer Knights are stronger in the middle of the board. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident led to a full United States intervention in Vietnam. On August 2, 1964, the US spy ship USS Maddox sailed in the Gulf of Tonkin only to find itself attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. They fired back, damaging all three ships and forcing the attackers to retreat. On August 4, the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy detected more torpedo boats and opened fire. In hindsight, however, the second attack proved nothing more than panic, and that the USN may have detected and fired on simply flying fish. At the time, though, it led the US Congress to call on US President Lyndon B. Johnson to take the necessary measures to stop communist aggression. President Johnson responded by beginning a three-year bombing campaign over Vietnam, and later, across Indochina. Identify knight forks.
Q: What do you call a cat that likes to eat beans?
A: Puss 'n' Toots!
Q: What do you call a clown who's in jail?
A: A silicon!
Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
A: No eye deer!!
Q: What do you call a three-footed aardvark?
A: A yardvark!
Q: What do you call a dancing lamb?
A: A baaaaaa-llerina!
Q: What do you call a meditating wolf?
A: Aware wolf!
Q: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
A: A sand-witch!
Q: What do you call an avocado that's been blessed by the pope?
A: Holy Guacamole!
"One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It means the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funneling all awareness to the athletic task at hand." — R.A. Dickey Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever. “A God you understood would be less than yourself.” ― Flannery O'Connor Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. * The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century FACTRETRIEVER: Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk. 'A stitch in time saves nine'
"You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds." “You never know when it's going to happen. You never want to get caught with your pants down. You better keep your (insurance) premiums up.
We're just gonna have to hold tight, work hard, and overcome it. We're going to make it.” ― Edward Andrews, owner of the Special Touch II Auto Sales in Fort Worth, Texas that was devastated by high winds, rainwater and hail damage. The Horse and the Wolf
A wolf, what time the thawing breeze
Renews the life of plants and trees,
And beasts go forth from winter lair
To seek abroad their various fare, –
A wolf, I say, about those days,
In sharp look-out for means and ways,
Espied a horse turned out to graze.
His joy the reader may opine.
"Once got," said he, "this game were fine;
But if a sheep, it were sooner mine.
I can't proceed my usual way;
Some trick must now be put in play."
This said,
He came with measured tread,
As if a healer of disease, –
Some pupil of Hippocrates, –
And told the horse, with learned verbs,
He knew the power of roots and herbs, –
Whatever grew about those borders, –
And not at all to flatter
Himself in such a matter,
Could cure of all disorders.
If he, Sir Horse, would not conceal
The symptoms of his case,
He, Doctor Wolf, would gratis heal;
For that to feed in such a place,
And run about untied,
Was proof itself of some disease,
As all the books decide.
"I have, good doctor, if you please,"
Replied the horse, "as I presume,
Beneath my foot, an aposthume."
"My son," replied the learned leech,
"That part, as all our authors teach,
Is strikingly susceptible
Of ills which make acceptable
What you may also have from me –
The aid of skilful surgery;
Which noble art, the fact is,
For horses of the blood I practise."
The fellow, with this talk sublime,
Watched for a snap the fitting time.
Meanwhile, suspicious of some trick,
The wary patient nearer draws,
And gives his doctor such a kick,
As makes a chowder of his jaws.
Exclaimed the wolf, in sorry plight,
"I own those heels have served me right.
I erred to quit my trade,
As I will not in future;
Me nature surely made
For nothing but a butcher."
'Attack is the best form of defence
<Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me).
Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!> FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/ Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
<There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, “A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances.” This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square.Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, “[Bishops and rooks] complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen.” Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, “The queen and knight are [able] to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop.” When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, “I think it’s true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops.” He continues, “Of course, I’m not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.”> “Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I’m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.” —John Durham 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.
“My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.”
― Prince William
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. “It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.” ― King James I “Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” — Charles F. Stanley 'Ashes to ashes dust to dust
'A place for everything and everything in its place' For free, confidential support, reach out to <988>. Whether you call, text, or chat, we want you to reach out in whatever way is most comfortable for you. We are here to help. When are you going to deliver your concession speech perjury?? After all, you expected Kamera Harris to win all 57 states that did not require voter ID w/Barry Soetoro's (Who dat? https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...) full endorsement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpG... Do you morph, hoop, or just spread rumors? https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi... Let's not leave out Michelle Obama's lies: https://wbhm.org/npr-story/michelle... Of course, it's not racist to suggest that all Blacks should vote for Harris because she is somewhat Black. Nor is it sexist to suggest that all women should vote for Harris because she is female. I mean, a White male like yourself voting for Senile Joe Biden because he is https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi... a vanilla pervert like you is not at all racist or sexist, it's just a fact, right? You are not alone in your gilt: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli... I must say it's so nice to be a versatile bear, for we bears come in all colors, shapes and sizes, play all openings, so we fit in here, there, and everywhere, all demographics: https://unsplash.com/images/animals... Considering your concession speech, it doesn't really matter when or if you speak to the masses, for you are neither humorous nor honest, so nobody cares what you have to say, but you have the right to say it, especially on this page intended for dishonest stalkers who are big time losers: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/... Anyway, thanks for the compliment! We do laugh at your halfwit comments, blunders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySV...), fabrications, and mischaracterizations too. If you https://www.facebook.com/1000042462... desire to live in the light, self-correct, side with a winner, you can put on a bumper sticker or three (https://www.bing.com/images/search?...) and vote for Trump in 2028!! And let us all remember this moral (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQq... If the dog hadn't stopped to take a dump she would have caught the rabbit. <Amanda Kay wrote:
Checkmate
You were my knight
Shining armor
Chess board was our home
Queen's fondness you garnered
A kiss sweeter than honeycomb>
'A poor workman always blames his tools'
'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush'
'A cat has nine lives.'
'A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.' 'A drowning man will clutch a straw.'
'A fool and his money are soon parted.'
'A problem shared is a problem halved'
'A good listener is a silent flatterer.'
Riddle Question: I am a word that begins with the letter “i.” If you add the letter “a” to me, I become a new word with a different meaning, but that sounds exactly the same. What word am I? A quasar named ULAS J1120+0641 was discovered in 2011 by Fredthebear's acquaintance. It was the farthest quasar from Earth at 29 billion light-years away. Riddle Answer: Isle (add “a” to make “aisle”) <<<Jabberwocky>
by Lewis Carroll>
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. >
Riddle Question: What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word? The word "quasar" was first coined in 1964 by astrophysicist Hong-Yee Chiu as convenient shorthand for the previous nomenclature "quasi-stellar radio sources." Riddle Answer: Heroine
“Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” ― Elizabeth Green Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. 'April showers bring forth May flowers'
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Dick Cavitt: "And you like that moment of just crushing the guy?" RJ Fischer: "Right *nodding and smiling*, yeah." “Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.”
― Siegbert Tarrasch
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman wwwordfuny
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Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun." BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for the master
And one for the dame.
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.
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87 games, 1842-2014 - Polgars Powers Originally Compiled by wanabe2000
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This collection was compiled by wanabe2000 under a different title (the historical links and first 200 games listed). Fredthebear cloned this collection from wanabe2000. Thank you wanabe2000!! Judit Polgar flashback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYD... Selected Games and Tournament from GM Susan Polgar, IM Sofia Polgar, and GM Judit Polgar 1977-2011. <Information:>
Judit 2015 Global Chess Festival: http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-gl... The Polgar Variant: http://en.chessbase.com/post/docume... Susan 2015: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COZUdv5... Judit's clock simul against French students April 2015: http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-... Judit, the greatest prodigy: http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-... Judit,interview,2015 in Playboy Magazine: http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-... Judit, sets Guinness record 2014: http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-... Judit, Ambassador for talent 2014: http://en.chessbase.com/post/childr... Polgar Aquaprofit Chess Festival 2013: http://en.chessbase.com/post/kaspar... Judit retires: http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-... 2014 from Chessbase, Judit on Magnus: http://en.chessbase.com/post/polgar... In 1991, Zsuzsa (Susan) became the first woman player to ever achieve the men's grandmaster title, and later that year, her sister Judit earned the title as well. Included are selected games of the three sisters including Judit's wins over Kasparov, Karpov, Anand, and Topalov. Also included are Susan's seven favorite games, from her web site. Judit: January 2011 FIDE Rating 2686, number 53 in the world, , number 1 Women in the world. Sofia: January 2011 FIDE Rating 2450, number 41 Women in the world. Zsuzsa: October 2005 FIDE Rating 2577, currently number 318 in the world, and number 4 Women in the world. Judit's last six games from the 2014 Olympiad: Tromso Olympiad (2014)/Judit Polgar The Greatest Prodigy: http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-... <World Championships:> In 1996, Susan won the Women's World Championship. See chessmoron's Game Collection: Women WCC Index (1996: S. Polgar - Xie Jun) <Candidates Tournament:> [bad tournament link] where Bareev won 2-1 in six games over Judit. In 1999 Judit made it to the quarter Finals in the FIDE knock out World Championship in Las Vegas. Her games are presented below. <Tournaments:>
Judit is participating in the 2011 12th European Chess Championship in Aix-les-Bains. Here is her Round 7 game annotated by Sergey Shipov: http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... Judit came in equal fourth, one point behind the winners, in an International Tournament in New Zealand. Her five wins were equal to the leaders: Game Collection: Plaza International Chess Tt 1988 Zsofia shocked the chess world in the Rome Open, 1989, when at the age of 14 she defeated a string of Soviet Grandmasters and achieved the highest performance rating of any chess player, male or female, in any open tournament in chess history. This performance has become known as "The Sac of Rome." She scored (8.5/9). Selected games are presented. Also see, http://www.sofiapolgar.com/Polgar-C.... Hastings 1992-3 saw 16 year old Judit Polgár tie Bareev at 9/14 each. It was Bareev's third consecutive Hastings win, and Polgár's first.See suenteus po 147's: Game Collection: Hastings 1992/93 Judit came in equal third in a strong tournament ahead of Kamsey, and Karpov: See whiteshark's: Game Collection: 99_Lev Polugajevky Tourn. Buenos Aires 1994 Vienna Austria 1996 where Judit placed equal 2nd. See Phony Benoni's: Game Collection: Vienna 1996 Dortmund 1997 where Judit beat Topolov: See suenteus po 147's: Game Collection: Dortmund 1997. Judit scores (+7-2=2) at the Superstars Hotel Bali Tournament (time control 15 min + 10 sec/move) in Benidom, ESP 2002 and won the Blitz playoff with Ruslan Ponomariov (1.5-.5). They were tied after 11 rounds with 8 points. Review her games at: Superstars Hotel Bali (2002)/Judit Polgar. She beat two world champions, Anatoli Karpov and Ponomariov in this tournament. Selected games from Wijk ann Zee 2003 where Judit placed second with +3-0=8. See her games: Corus Group A (2003)/Judit Polgar See all games: Corus Group A (2003). Judit wins Hoogeveen NED 7th Essent (2003)/Judit Polgar. Judit was equal first Hoogeveen NED (+4-1=1): Essent Tournament (2006)/Judit Polgar. GM Susan Polgar was the runner up (6.0/10) in the 2006 Mayor's Cup held in New York with a strong field of US Grandmasters. Three of her wins are included. See Dr.Lecter's:
Game Collection: Mayor's Cup Invitational 2006 for additiuonal games. Judit had a fine score of (+6-1=2) at the Villa de Canada de Calatrava (2007)/Judit Polgar (Rapid). She only lost to Daniel Friedman and had draws with Anand and Mamedyarov. Judit scored 5/10 (+3-3=4) ahead of Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Anatoli Karpov in the: Liga de Campeones (2007)/Judit Polgar. She was two points behind the winner Topolov but gave him his only loss of the tournament. Judit at Biel 2007: Biel Chess Festival (2007)/Judit Polgar Judit's games from the 2009 World Cup: World Cup (2009)/Judit Polgar Judit placed third, on tie break, in the 12th European Individual Championship in 2011. Here are her games from the competition: European Championship (2011)/Judit Polgar Article: http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... Judit's games from the Tradewise Gibraltar 2012: Her score of 7/10 (+5-1+4) was notable for her loss to Yifan Hou, current Women's World Champion, and her last round win over Victor Korchnoi. Judit's games from the European Individual Championship 2014: European Championship (2014)/Judit Polgar <Olympiad:>
Judit's games from the 2002 Olympiad in Bled: Bled Olympiad (2002)/Judit Polgar Zsuzsa was undefeated in the 36th Olympiad in Calvia ESP (+7-0=7):
Calvia Olympiad (Women) (2004)/Susan Polgar. Judit's games from the 2008 Olympiad: Dresden Olympiad (2008)/Judit Polgar. Judit played third board in the first round for Hungary at the 2010 Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Her first round win was featured in the Chessbase report: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.... Judit featured, again, in the round four report from Chessgames: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail....
A picture from the 2010 Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia Round 7: http://www.ugra-chess.com/sites/def... Round nine: http://www.ugra-chess.com/sites/def.... Judit ended with a score of 6/10 (+4-2=4) and overall fourth place on Board Three. See all her games: Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (2010)/Judit Polgar. Judit's games from the 2012 Olympiad in Istanbul: Istanbul Olympiad (2012)/Judit Polgar Judit's games from the 2014 Olympiad in Tromso: Tromso Olympiad (2014)/Judit Polgar Judit Playing as a reserve player for Hungary in the open section, won a silver medal with her team and recorded four wins, one loss and one draw for a total score 4½/6. Judit announced her retirement after the tournament. <Blitz and Rapid/Blindfold:> Susan and Judit competed in the Amber(Rapid/Blindfold) tournament in 1993. Judit competed in 1994 and 1995. See amadeus':
Game Collection: Melody Amber 1993
Game Collection: Melody Amber 1994
Game Collection: Melody Amber 1995 Polgar-Anand Rapid Match 2003 in Mainz GER: Polgar - Anand Rapid Match (2003) Although Judit placed far down in the standings, she did record 13 wins in the 2009 Tal Memorial World Blitz Tournament. Here are her games: World Blitz Championship (2009)/Judit Polgar Judit Polgar won the event at Ajedrez, Mexico City Nov 2010. She recovered from a loss in game one to beat Vassily Ivanchuk 2.5-1.5. In the final Polgar scored a crushing victory against Veselin Topalov. Game 1 was drawn. After that she realed off three wins in a row including a final King's Gambit for a 3.5-0.5 victory. A great result for Judit! Games in PGN: http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne.... Chessdom Report: http://reports.chessdom.com/news-20... Chessgames Crosstable: Ajedrez UNAM Quadrangular (2010) Judit scored (+7-1=5) 9.5/13 in the European Rapid Championship (2010)for equal 15th place. Her games from the event: European Rapid Championship (2010)/Judit Polgar <Match>
All 10 games are presented from the Polgar-Spassky Match. Judit won with (+3-2=5) Budapest, 1993. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne.... Chessgames: Polgar - Kaidanov Sicilian Theme Match (2010) Judit wins 6-2 over David Navarra (April 2010). http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne... <Head to Head:> Judit and Susan have played 17 times with a +3-3=11 between them.
Judit's highest FIDE rating achieved in database: 2735.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... <Pictures and News:> The sisters with Gary Kasparov 2013: http://en.chessbase.com/Portals/4/f... Judit Interview (2011) after Europoean Individual: http://www.chessintranslation.com/2... Happy Birthday Judit. http://remizatorul.weebly.com/13/po.... http://chesspics.com/albums/calviat... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q0lTtPVTG... http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Interview with Susan Polgar in Calvià 2004: http://www.chessbase.com/newsprint..... http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp....
http://www.sofiapolgar.com/Details.....
http://www.sofiapolgar.com/Details....
Judit at the Sicilian Match with Gregory Kaidanov 2010: http://picasaweb.google.com/MonRoi....
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... <Collections:>
For great endgame play from Judit Polgar see: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches.... lostemperor's: Game Collection: The Polgar sisters. larrewl's: Game Collection: Zsuzsa! Resignation Trap's: Game Collection: The Princess of Chess - Judit Polgar <Links:>
http://www.susanpolgar.com/
<More Pictures and News:> Judit at Mainz: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/... Susan at Clavia: http://www.chessbase.com/images2/20.... Judit Before a Game: http://www.chessbase.com/images2/20.... Judit plays Anand in Zurich Rapid 2009: http://www.kradolfer.info/sgz2009/R... Judit and Magnus at the Arctic Securities Rapid 2010: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/...
http://gfx.nrk.no/rA4SwQ7aS7PV3kljm... Judit in New York 2010: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/... Zsofia in Tel Aviv 2010: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/... 4th Annual Aquaprofit Polgar Chess Day Nov. 27,2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m93V... Judit Polgar in Rocca di Papa 2010:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Judit at the European Individual Championship 2011: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2011/...
Round 4 against Edouard Romain: http://www.aixlesbains2011.fr/EuroA... Judit 38 today 7/23/2014: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtQTDDV... Judit at the 2014 Olympiad, Tromso, Norway: http://tromso2014.jalbum.net/Chess%... Susan and Judit at the 2014 Olympiad, Tromso, Norway: http://tromso2014.jalbum.net/Chess%... Judit 2014: http://en.chessbase.com/Portals/4/f... Judit 2015: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAomKNV... Judit pic in Nigel Short's Article 2015: http://en.chessbase.com/Portals/4/f... Judit playing Hou Yifan 2012: http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/f... Pay the rent:
“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
Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction” “and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. '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!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass * Here are 14 of the greatest tournaments of all time: London 1851, Adolf Anderssen 15/21
Hastings 1895, Harry Nelson Pillsbury 16.5/21
St. Petersburg 1914, Emanuel Lasker 13.5/18
New York 1924, Emanuel Lasker 16.0/20
AVRO 1938, Paul Keres & Reuben Fine 8.5/14
FIDE World Championship 1948, Mikhail Botvinnik 14.0/20 Zurich Candidates 1953, Vasily Smyslov 18.0/28
Santa Monica 1966, Boris Spassky 11.5/18
Montreal 1979, Mikhail Tal & Anatoly Karpov 12.0/18 Linares 1994, Anatoly Karpov 11.0/13
Wijk Aan Zee 1999, Garry Kasparov 10.0/13
Mexico City FIDE World Championship 2007, Viswanathan Anand 9.0/14 London Candidates 2013, Magnus Carlsen (& Vladimir Kramnik) 8.5/14 Yektarinburg Candidates 2021, GM Ding Liren went through an entire tournament with 99% CAPS accuracy. * Bad bishops are...bad: https://lichess1.org/game/export/gi... * Chess in the Newspaper: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * C03-C09 miniatures: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... * TFD: https://chessentials.com/category/l... “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
* Black attack!
Game Collection: Modern Defence Reversed * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Fischer Wins: Game Collection: Bobby Fischer Wins With The King's Indian Attack * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) * Glossary: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/... * GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at...
* B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger’s Models) * How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit * King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to... * Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer... * Malaguena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxD... * MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala) * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Pawn Structures: Game Collection: Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide * Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics u whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * GK Sheveningen: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4 * Submit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YjU5... * 15-year search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzH... * 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * Tricks aplenty: https://lichess.org/study/topic/Tri... * Tricks on video: https://www.youtube.com/@chess_trick * Type A or B? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KSgi... * Underpromotion N+ w/a gain of tempo: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... * Unstoppable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKT... * Vladimir Bagirov Attacks: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Vincent, the fearless one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npo... * Vincent, FIDE World Cup 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVA... * Vishy Anand's immortal game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r4... * Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c... * World Rapid 2021 Round 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omW... * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev) * Illinois youth: https://www.il-chess.org/youth-ches... * Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105 * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov Nevada: Genoa
Established in: 1851
Genoa was founded back in 1851 as a trading post and provisioning station meant to serve passing wagon trains. It was originally known as Mormon Station because the first settlers were Mormon, and was part of Utah. It was renamed Genoa in 1855 by Mormon leader Orson Hyde, who named it in honor of Christopher Columbus's birthplace of Genoa, Italy. Genoa is a tiny town — according to its website, just 250 people live there. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
<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 The Survival Guide to Rook Endings by John Emms
ISBN-10: 1911465961
ISBN-13: 978-1911465966
The Queen's Gambit (Television Tie-In) by Walter Tevis
ISBN: 0593314654
ISBN13: 9780593314654
My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer
ISBN: 190638830X
ISBN13: 9781906388300
Understanding the King’s Indian by Mikhail Golubev
ISBN-10: 1915328004
ISBN-13: 978-1915328007
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide by Mauricio Flores Rios
ISBN-10: 1784830003
ISBN-13: 978-1784830007
Parade of Clouds
As I lie on my back,
Gazing up at the sky.
I see two fleecy lambs,
Bounding by.
And all of a sudden,
What do I see?
Why, a big polar bear,
Glaring down at me.
Now there’s a dragon,
Breathing white fire.
And it’s replaced in a poof!
By a monkey swinging in a tire.
The parade continues,
With a ship floating on a white sea.
Then there’s an elephant,
Waving its trunk at me.
Watching the clouds is so much fun,
They are whatever you want to see.
All that is needed,
Is to let your imagination run free.
My name is Margaret Dorste, and I live in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. Even as a child I enjoyed writing poetry. Now that I am a semi-retired teacher, I have more time to express my feelings about issues that are close to my heart through poetry: family, children, nature, and the environment. St. Xavier
“In chess as in life, when defending or attacking, a good chess player understands that one rash, ill-conceived, bad move can worsen the position and lose the game.” ― John Bain, chess author H.T. Bland. On page 207 of the December 1929 American Chess Bulletin he exalted the challenger in that year’s world championship match: Bravo ‘Bogol’, you’ve shown pluck.
One and all we wish you luck.
Gee, some thought you’d barged between
Other players who’d have been
Less likely straightaway to lose
Just as friend Alekhine might choose;
Undaunted, ‘Bogol’, you went in
Believing you’d a chance to win.
Or failing that, to make a fight,
Which you are doing as we write.
<Steinitz's Theory
1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal. 2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides. 3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.
4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer. 5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained. 6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage. 7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it.> The Will Explained By Aesop
If what old story says of Aesop's true,
The oracle of Greece he was,
And more than Areopagus he knew,
With all its wisdom in the laws.
The following tale gives but a sample
Of what has made his fame so ample.
Three daughters shared a father's purse,
Of habits totally diverse.
The first, bewitched with drinks delicious;
The next, coquettish and capricious;
The third, supremely avaricious.
The sire, expectant of his fate,
Bequeathed his whole estate,
In equal shares, to them,
And to their mother just the same, –
To her then payable, and not before,
Each daughter should possess her part no more.
The father died. The females three
Were much in haste the will to see.
They read, and read, but still
Saw not the willer's will.
For could it well be understood
That each of this sweet sisterhood,
When she possessed her part no more,
Should to her mother pay it over?
It was surely not so easy saying
How lack of means would help the paying.
What meant their honoured father, then?
The affair was brought to legal men,
Who, after turning over the case
Some hundred thousand different ways,
Threw down the learned bonnet,
Unable to decide on it;
And then advised the heirs,
Without more thought, t" adjust affairs.
As to the widow's share, the counsel say,
"We hold it just the daughters each should pay
One third to her on demand,
Should she not choose to have it stand
Commuted as a life annuity,
Paid from her husband's death, with due congruity." The thing thus ordered, the estate
Is duly cut in portions three.
And in the first they all agree
To put the feasting-lodges, plate,
Luxurious cooling mugs,
Enormous liquor jugs,
Rich cupboards, – built beneath the trellised vine, – The stores of ancient, sweet Malvoisian wine,
The slaves to serve it at a sign;
In short, whatever, in a great house,
There is of feasting apparatus.
The second part is made
Of what might help the jilting trade –
The city house and furniture,
Exquisite and genteel, be sure,
The eunuchs, milliners, and laces,
The jewels, shawls, and costly dresses.
The third is made of household stuff,
More vulgar, rude, and rough –
Farms, fences, flocks, and fodder,
And men and beasts to turn the sod over.
This done, since it was thought
To give the parts by lot
Might suit, or it might not,
Each paid her share of fees dear,
And took the part that pleased her.
It was in great Athens town,
Such judgment gave the gown.
And there the public voice
Applauded both the judgment and the choice.
But Aesop well was satisfied
The learned men had set aside,
In judging thus the testament,
The very gist of its intent.
"The dead," Said he, "could he but know of it,
Would heap reproaches on such Attic wit.
What! men who proudly take their place
As sages of the human race,
Lack they the simple skill
To settle such a will?"
This said, he undertook himself
The task of portioning the pelf;
And straightway gave each maid the part
The least according to her heart –
The prim coquette, the drinking stuff,
The drinker, then, the farms and cattle;
And on the miser, rude and rough,
The robes and lace did Aesop settle;
For thus, he said, "an early date
Would see the sisters alienate
Their several shares of the estate.
No motive now in maidenhood to tarry,
They all would seek, post haste, to marry;
And, having each a splendid bait,
Each soon would find a well-bred mate;
And, leaving thus their father's goods intact,
Would to their mother pay them all, in fact," –
Which of the testament
Was plainly the intent.
The people, who had thought a slave an ass,
Much wondered how it came to pass
That one alone should have more sense
Than all their men of most pretence.
Question: , What’s the brightest star in the sky?
Answer: Sirius – also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, Sirius is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky. The star is outshone only by several planets and the International Space Station. Question: What’s the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?
Answer: Graveyards are attached to churches while cemeteries are stand-alone. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephr “The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. “I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.” — Hulk Hogan 'Don't let the cat out of the bag'
'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted' 'Don't throw good money after bad'
'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'
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.
“Everyone should know how to play chess.” — José Raúl Capablanca Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assia Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) “It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” — Francis Bacon The cat’s play is the mouse’s death. ~ German Proverb “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." “Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” — Blasie Pascal “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. In God we trust; all others pay cash. ~ American Proverb Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles. ~ Senegalese Proverb “There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” — Anonymous “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.” — Phyllis George Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. "Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley Oct-04-10
I play the Fred: said...
You're distraught
because you're not
able to cope
feel like a dope
when Lasker hits
Puttin on (the Fritz)
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396 games, 1963-2014 - Poltergood and drink we
Have you seen IT?
Of the 20 possible first moves from White, 1.b4 ranks 9th in popularity. Some of the variations are the following:
1.b4 a5 � Ware Defense
1.b4 b5 � Symmetrical Variation
1.b4 c5 � Birmingham Gambit
1.b4 c6 � Outflank Variation
1.b4 Nc6 � Grigorian Variation
1.b4 f5 � Dutch Defense
1,b4 d5 2.Bb2 Nf6 � Main Line
1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 Qd6 � German Defense
1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 d6 � Czech Defense
1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 e5 � Advance Variation
1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 Bxb4 3.Bxe5 � Exchange Variation
1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 Bf5 � Baltic Defense
1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.b5 � Bugayev Advance Variation
1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.e4 Bxb4 � Sokolsky Gambit Accepted
1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.b5 b6 � Queen�s Indian Variation
1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 � King’s Indian Variation
ECO Opening Notation Moves
A00 Anderssen’s Opening 1. a3
A00 Polish Gambit, Anderssen’s Opening 1. a3 a5 2. b4
A00 Creepy Crawly Formation 1. a3 e5 2. h3 d5
A00 Andersspike 1. a3 g6 2. g4
A00 Ware; Meadow Hay; Crab 1. a4
A00 Wing Gambit, Ware Opening 1. a4 b5
A00 Cologne Gambit, Ware Opening a4 b6 d4 d5 Nc3 Nd7
A00 Ware Gambit a4 e5 a5 d5 e3 f5 a6
A00 Polish; Orangutan; Sokolsky; Hunt b4
A00 Birmingham Gambit, Polish b4 c5
A00 Outflank Variation, Polish b4 c6
A00 Schuhler Gambit, Polish b4 c6 Bb2 a5 b5 cxb5 e4
A00 Myers Variation, Polish b4 d5 Bb2 c6 a4
A00 Bugayev Attack, Polish b4 e5 a3
A00 Wolferts Gambit, Polish b4 e5 Bb2 c5
A00 Schiffler-Sokolsky; Tartakower Gambit b4 e5 Bb2 f6 e4 Bxb4
A00 Brinckmann Var, Polish b4 e5 Bb2 f6 e4 Bxb4 Bc4 Nc6 f4 Qe7 f5 g6
A00 Bucker Defense, Polish b4 Na6
A00 Grigorian Variation, Polish b4 Nc6
A00 Polish Spike b4 Nf6 Bb2 g6 g4
A00 Karniewski; Tubingen Variation, Polish b4 Nh6 * Gambits by ECO code: https://www.jimmyvermeer.com/openin... Here are some opening traps with 1.b4
Wall � Tefotime, Internet 2001, 1.b4 Nc6 2.b5 Nb4 3.e4 Nf6? 4.a3, winning the knight Wall � GFX, Internet 2002, 1.b4 d6 2.Bb2 Bf5 3.e3 b6? 4.Qf3, threatening rook and bishop Wall � Walthour, Dayton 1983, 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.b5 Nb4? 4.a3 wins the knight Wall � Xavier, Internet 2003, 1.b4 h6 2.Bb2 f6 3.e4 a6?? 4.Qh5+ g6 5.Qxg6 mate 1-0 Wall � WCII, Internet 2002, 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 a6 3.a4 Nc6 4.b5 Nb4? 5.c3, wins the knight Boldetsky � Tardel, Germany 2003, 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 Qb6 3.c4 e6 4.c5 Bxc5 5.Bxg7?? Bxf2 mate Meybohm � Grosch, Germany 1988, 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 Bxb4 3.f4 d6 4.e4 Nc6 5.f5? Qh4+ 0-1 Wall � Vivo, Internet 1998, 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.a3 d5 4.e3 Bd6 5.c4 Ne7? 6.c5, wins the bishop Brichinova � Alexandrova, Pernik 1979 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 Qb6 3.a3 a5 4.c4 e6 5.c5 Bxc5 6.Bxg7?? Bxf2 mate 0-1 * Intro: https://chesspathways.com/chess-ope... * Basic Sokolsky: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/v... * Punish the Polish: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Some Polish: Game Collection: A5 A3 SOKOLSKY VS BALTIC DEFENCE. * Santasiere opened 1.Nf3: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Black has many choices:
Opening Explorer * Here's how Sokolsky played 1.b4:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Another collection by defensive position:
Game Collection: 1. b4: Sokolsky Opening * Develop the knight first: Opening Explorer * Bill Wall's History of the Sokolsky: https://www.chessmaniac.com/1-b4-a-... * Eery...
Polish Opening 1.b4
Polish Opening: Baltic Defense 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 Bf5 Polish Opening: Birmingham Gambit 1.b4 c5
Polish Opening: Bugayev Attack 1.b4 e5 2.a3
Polish Opening: Bugayev Advance Variation 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.b5 Polish Opening: Czech Defense 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 d6
Polish Opening: Dutch Defense 1.b4 f5
Polish Opening: German Defense 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 Qd6 Polish Opening: Grigorian Variation 1.b4 Nc6
Polish Opening: Karniewski Variation 1.b4 Nh6
Polish Opening: King's Indian Variation 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 Polish Opening: King's Indian Variation, Schiffler Attack 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.e4 Polish Opening: King's Indian Variation, Sokolsky Attack 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.e3 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.d4 Polish Opening: Kucharkowski-Meybohm Gambit 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 Bxb4 3.f4 exf4 4.Bxg7 Qh4+ 5.g3 fxg3 6.Bg2 gxh2+ 7.Kf1 hxg1=Q+ 8.Kxg1 Polish Opening: Myers Variation 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 c6 3.a4 Polish Opening: Orangutan-Diemer Gambit 1.b4 d5 2. Bb2 Qd6 3. a3 e5 4. e4 dxe4 5. f3 Polish Opening: Orangutan-Hartlaub Gambit 1.b4 Nf6 2. Bb2 e6 3. a3 c6 4. d3 a5 5. bxa5 d5 6. e4 Polish Opening: Outflank Variation 1.b4 c6
Polish Opening: Queen's Indian Variation 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.b5 b6 Polish Opening: Queenside Defense 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.b5 a6 Polish Opening: Rooks Swap Line 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.b5 a6 4.a4 axb5 5.axb5 Rxa1 6.Bxa1 Polish Opening: Schiffler-Sokolsky Variation 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 d5 3.e3 e6 4.b5 Polish Opening: Schühler Gambit 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 a5 3.b5 cxb5 4.e4 Polish Opening: Symmetrical Variation 1.b4 b5
Polish Opening: Tartakower Gambit 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.e4 Polish Opening: Tartakower Gambit, Brinckmann Variation 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.e4 Bxb4 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.f4 Qe7 6.f5 g6 Polish Opening: Wolferts Gambit 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 c5 “Problems are only opportunities in disguise.” ― Alfred North Whitehead “The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” ― William Osler “The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.” ― Jarome Iginla “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” ― Tony Robbins “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” ― Lee Iacocca “Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.” ― Indira Gandhi “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” ― William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) “The words of truth are simple.” ― Aeschylus “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. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
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― Emanuel Lasker
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— Vasily Smyslov
Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times. Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool. ~ Nigerian Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. ~ Twi Proverb The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.’ A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.’ All’s well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.’ Meanwhile, Henry Knighton’s Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
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Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
This poem is dedicated to all Caissa members who strive to checkmate their opponents. <The Aroused Bishop> Whispered the pawn to the curious knight
You jump one square up and two to the right
On the diagonal where our queen lays in wait.
I will move up from b-seven to b- eight.
On the opposite side, no, no screamed the queen
Realizing she should have been heard not seen.
Because there, only hidden partially by the walls
She saw him standing juggling his little balls.
The bishop so aroused by all of this inter-play
Could not, no he could not help but howlingly say:
Oh, oh sweet queen you are mine for the take
While your checkmated king will burn at the stake. Question: What’s the only food that never expires?
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Answer: Apple – they float because of their high volume of air. If an item is denser than water, it will sink – otherwise, will float. My Wage
by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.
Actions speak louder than words
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ― Plato “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu <<Below is a Morphy acrostic by C.V. Grinfield from page 334 of the Chess Player’s Chronicle, 1861:>Mightiest of masters of the chequer’d board,
Of early genius high its boasted lord!
Rising in youth’s bright morn to loftiest fame, Princeliest of players held with one acclaim;
Host in thyself – all-conquering in fight: – Yankees exult! – in your great champion’s might.> Riddle Question: You go at red and stop at green. What am I? The British Empire was the largest empire in world history
The British Empire was most powerful in the 1920s, when it controlled 23 percent of the world’s population and approximately 13.7 million square miles of territory—or nearly a quarter of the Earth’s land area, according to a report from Statista. Riddle Answer: A watermelon.
This poem is dedicated to all female chessplayers on Caissa's Web. <Sweet Caissa>
Oh, Sweet Caissa, Goddess of chess
in the name of this holistic game
I pray Thee: bless my noble aim
to render all my opponents lame
in my holy quest for worldly fame,
to be Supreme no more no less.
In awe I heard this Sweet Caissa say
"Daughter go forth and smite them all,
stoutly charge your knight sitting tall
while flying over the castle's wall
to slay all men in your deadly call."
Now in fear I hide and will no longer play.
“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: Why don’t scientists trust atoms?
A: Because they make up everything.
"Zeitnot" is German for "time pressure."
“....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally.” — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee. “Sorry don't get it done, Dude!” — John Wayne, Rio Bravo “Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose The Lion and the Gnat
"Go, paltry insect, nature's meanest brat!"
Thus said the royal lion to the gnat.
The gnat declared immediate war.
"Think you," said he, "your royal name
To me worth caring for?
Think you I tremble at your power or fame?
The ox is bigger far than you;
Yet him I drive, and all his crew."
This said, as one that did no fear owe,
Himself he blew the battle charge,
Himself both trumpeter and hero.
At first he played about at large,
Then on the lion's neck, at leisure, settled,
And there the royal beast full sorely nettled.
With foaming mouth, and flashing eye,
He roars. All creatures hide or fly, –
Such mortal terror at
The work of one poor gnat!
With constant change of his attack,
The snout now stinging, now the back,
And now the chambers of the nose;
The pigmy fly no mercy shows.
The lion's rage was at its height;
His viewless foe now laughed outright,
When on his battle-ground he saw,
That every savage tooth and claw
Had got its proper beauty
By doing bloody duty;
Himself, the hapless lion, tore his hide,
And lashed with sounding tail from side to side.
Ah! bootless blow, and bite, and curse!
He beat the harmless air, and worse;
For, though so fierce and stout,
By effort wearied out,
He fainted, fell, gave up the quarrel.
The gnat retires with verdant laurel.
Now rings his trumpet clang,
As at the charge it rang.
But while his triumph note he blows,
Straight on our valiant conqueror goes
A spider's ambuscade to meet,
And make its web his winding-sheet.
We often have the most to fear
From those we most despise;
Again, great risks a man may clear,
Who by the smallest dies.
Riddle Question: I have married many times, but have always been single. Who am I? Penicillin was first called “mold juice”
In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming left a petri dish in his lab while he was on vacation—only to return and find that some liquid around the mold had killed the bacteria in the dish. This became the world’s first antibiotic, but before naming it penicillin, he called it “mold juice.” Riddle Answer: A priest.
An Irish Blessing:
May we all feel…
happy and contented,
healthy and strong,
safe and protected
and living with ease…
~ The Winds of Fate
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life:
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
“The chess heroes nowadays should not forget that it was owing to Fischer that they are living today in four- and five-star hotels, getting appearance fees, etc.” ― Lev Khariton “I’ve come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” ― Marcel Duchamp “I've never met a checkers player I didn't like; they're all even-tempered. Chess players are egotistical. They think they're intellectuals and that everyone else is beneath them.” ― Don Lafferty, draughts grandmaster “Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE” ― Alan Rufus “Sometimes it’s better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.” ― Tony Blair "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
<<<Below is the acrostic poem by <Mrs T.B. Rowland>:Tears now we sadly shed apart,
How keenly has death’s sudden dart
E’en pierced a kingdom’s loyal heart.
Dark lies the heavy gloomy pall
Upon our royal bower,
Kings, queens, and nations bow their heads,
Each mourn for England’s flower.
Oh! God, to her speak peace divine,
For now no voice can soothe but thine.
Ah, why untimely snatched away,
Loved Prince – alas, we sigh –
Before thy sun its zenith reached
Athwart the noonday sky.
Noble in heart, in deed, and will,
Years hence thy name we’ll cherish still.> That poem was published on pages 140-141 of Chess Fruits (Dublin, 1884)> The 20-40-40 rule in chess is a rule for players rated below 2000 that states 20% of your study should be dedicated to openings, 40% to the middlegame, and 40% to the endgame. "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 "A wise man never knows all; only a fool knows everything." — African Proverb <<<<Charlotte Chess Center Tuesday Night Action>Charlotte Chess Center>
EVENT OVERVIEW
Tuesday Night Action-Weekly Rated Play
The CCC conducts a weekly US Chess rated game every Tuesday night. This is a great way for players to get weekly practice without committing a whole weekend to play a tournament. The Top Section also FIDE-rated - offering the only free weekly FIDE-rated game in the country! In addition, there is a free lecture before the games begin. HOW IT WORKS
CCC opens Tuesdays at 5:45pm
Lecture with FM Peter Giannatos prior to rated games from 6:00pm-6:45pm Players must register weekly and in advance using the online registration system Each Tuesday evening will be limited to the first 62 players to register TNA registration will close at 6:30pm if not already full Once spots are filled, players may email events@charlottechesscenter.org to be placed on the waitlist.
REQUIREMENTS
Players must be members of the CCC
Players must have a US Chess membership
Open to all players in grades 9-12 and adults
Students in grades K-8 must be rated over 1000
K-8 players rated under 1000 - See Wednesday Action Quads and Friday Action Quads
START TIME
Lecture: 6:00pm
Game: 7:00pm
GAMES
1 Round Weekly, Rated After 4 Rounds/Weeks
SECTIONS
TOP (1600+)
Under 1600
Under 1200
"Playing up" not permitted in TNA
TIME CONTROL
Top Section: G/85 mins; inc/5 - FIDE and US Chess Rated U1600 & U1200 Sections: G/60 mins; inc/5 - US Chess Rated ENTRY FEE
Free, must be a CCC Member - CCC membership only $40/year - join today! OTHER NOTES
Top Section is FIDE-rated - FIDE rules apply, except for US Chess penalties for cell phone infractions. Tournament Directors will accelerate pairings to pair players close in rating when possible Most recent "live" US Chess regular ratings used for all sections to ensure close matchups Open to high schoolers and adults of any rating, including unrated Students in grades K-8 must be rated 1000
Players in grades K-8 and rated under 1000 - see Wednesday Action Quads and Friday Action Quads For all CCC events, bookmark our events calendar All players must use CCC equipment - wooden sets and digital clocks provided> Address:
10700 Kettering Drive
Unit E
Charlotte, NC 28226 >
Johnnie Crack And Flossie Snail
by Dylan Thomas
Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
Kept their baby in a milking pail
Flossie Snail and Johnnie Crack
One would pull it out and one would put it back. O it's my turn now said Flossie Snail
To take the baby from the milking pail
And it's my turn now said Johnnie Crack
To smack it on the head and put it back.
Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
Kept their baby in a milking pail
One would put it back and one would pull it out
And all it had to drink was ale and stout
For Johnnie Crack and Flossie Snail
Always use to say that stout and ale
Was good for a baby in a milking pail.
“Prepare for the worst but hope for the best.” ― The Wondrous Tale of Alroy by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1833 Virgil’s Aeneid: “Fortune favors the bold.” Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. “[It is] the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.” The phrase appeared in Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, in 1615. “I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.” ― Paul Kane “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” ― Napoleon Hill A Windsong by Ray Paquette (1984):
As you set sail for new horizons
May a brisk fair wind be with you
May your journey provide that mixture of
Joy, contentment, love and excitement
That gives rise to zestful anticipation
Of new adventures together.
May you cheerfully weather
the unavoidable storms together
And steer as clear of all obstacles
As the currents allow
May God Bless and keep you
Bon Voyage
Walk The Walk -Pirate Contest
by Anonymous
Argh! Matey, now it’s time for you
To take a little walk.
You see that plank, off of the side?
Now walk the walk you talk!
A pirate you have always been
And should have come to be
But, then you crossed the meanest one…
That pirate crossed, was me!
Now, step up to that plank out there.
You fate..awaits for you.
For when a pirate crosses me…
They walk that same plank too!
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Feb-23-23 FSR: Thanks, Susan. I never saw Albert after my freshman year of high school (he and his family moved to the Chicago suburbs, where he went to a different school and played for a different chess team). Super nice guy. I was very surprised many years later to learn that he and your son had started this site. * Jan-29-22 MissScarlett: There are no rules, only guidelines. Premium members such as User: chrisowen get extra leeway. To recognize tactics quickly, solve puzzles daily:
Kibitzer's Café (kibitz #279179) The Boy and the Schoolmaster
Wise counsel is not always wise,
As this my tale exemplifies.
A boy, that frolicked on the banks of Seine,
Fell in, and would have found a watery grave,
Had not that hand that plants never in vain
A willow planted there, his life to save.
While hanging by its branches as he might,
A certain sage preceptor came in sight;
To whom the urchin cried, "Save, or I'm drowned!"
The master, turning gravely at the sound,
Thought proper for a while to stand aloof,
And give the boy some seasonable reproof.
"You little wretch! this comes of foolish playing,
Commands and precepts disobeying.
A naughty rogue, no doubt, you are,
Who thus requite your parents" care.
Alas! their lot I pity much,
Whom fate condemns to watch over such."
This having coolly said, and more,
He pulled the drowning lad ashore.
This story hits more marks than you suppose.
All critics, pedants, men of endless prose, –
Three sorts, so richly blessed with progeny,
The house is blessed that does not lodge any, –
May in it see themselves from head to toes.
No matter what the task,
Their precious tongues must teach;
Their help in need you ask,
You first must hear them preach.
St. Paul
To Any Reader
Robert Louis Stevenson [1850 –1894]
As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there.
Polar bears have black skin.
It's true: Their black skin helps absorb the heat from the sun so that they can stay warm while facing Arctic temperatures. This likely helps protect them from harmful UV rays as well. Q: Who is Gordon Ramsay's least favourite Dragon Ball character?
A: Frieza
Bottlenose dolphins are even more right-handed than humans.
"Most humans (say 70 percent to 95 percent) are right-handed, a minority (say 5 percent to 30 percent) are left-handed," according to Scientific American. And the same holds true for bottlenose dolphins. In fact, the savvy swimmers are even more right-handed than we are. A team led by Florida's Dolphin Communication Project took a look at the feeding behavior of bottlenose dolphins and found that the animals were turning to their left side 99.44 percent of the time, which "actually suggests a right-side bias," according to IFL Science. "It places the dolphin's right side and right eye close to the ocean floor as it hunts." The Fowler, the Hawk, and the Lark
From wrongs of wicked men we draw
Excuses for our own:
Such is the universal law.
Would you have mercy shown,
Let yours be clearly known.
A fowler's mirror served to snare
The little tenants of the air.
A lark there saw her pretty face,
And was approaching to the place.
A hawk, that sailed on high
Like vapour in the sky,
Came down, as still as infant's breath,
On her who sang so near her death.
She thus escaped the fowler's steel,
The hawk's malignant claws to feel.
While in his cruel way,
The pirate plucked his prey,
On himself the net was sprung.
"O fowler," prayed he in the hawkish tongue,
"Release me in your clemency!
I never did a wrong to you."
The man replied, "It's true;
And did the lark to you?"
Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you’re not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there’s no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section. On August 16th, 2022, Hans Niemann played against Magnus Carlsen as part of the 2022 Crypto Cup in a best-of-three chess match. After beating Carlsen in the first game, Niemann was approached by an interviewer asking about his strategy for the game, to which he responded, "The chess speaks for itself." A reupload of the brief interview was posted to YouTube by David Mays on August 16th, gathering nearly 40,000 views in two weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe... <“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”>
― William Shakespeare, Henry V
“They made us many promises, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land -- and they did.” — Chief Red Cloud, Oglala-Lakota Sioux, 1822-1909. “There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" * Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... “The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution” ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov... Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. Q: What do you call an illegally parked frog?
A: Toad!
Q: What do you call twin dinosaurs?
A: A pair-odactyls!
Q: What do you call a pile of cats?
A: A meow-ntain!
Q: What do you call a row of rabbits hopping away?
A: A receding hare line!
Q: What do you call the wife of a hippie?
A: A Mississippi!
Q: What do you call a monkey that loves Doritos?
A: A chipmonk!
Q: What do you call a mac 'n' cheese that gets all up in your face?
A: Too close for comfort food!
Q: What do you call a cow in an earthquake?
A: A milkshake!
<....Here is an excerpt from Sergeant's book Championship Chess, with Alekhine's view of Fine, as early as 1933:'Before (Alekhine) left the States the Champion was induced to say whom he thought likely challengers for his title in the future. He named two Americans, Kashdan, who was favourably known in Europe already, and R Fine, whose achievements so far were mainly in his own country, and the Czecho-Slovakian, Flohr.'> “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti <"How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning> How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
<Proverbs 14 King James Version> 14 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. 2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. 3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. 4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox. 5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. 6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. 7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. 9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. 12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. 15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. 16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. 17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. 20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends. 21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. 22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. 23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. 24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly. 25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. 26 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. 27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. 28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince. 29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. 33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known. 34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. 35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” – Anonymous “It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” — Francis Bacon The cat’s play is the mouse’s death. ~ German Proverb “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 2pry Zeitnot Zshaa-Tichondrius - 601 Disc Priest 226 Ilvl - 27750 RBG zek247 dint undrstnd Ziyatdinov's planto ignore the LSB on deck of the carrier. “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events. During the Middle Ages, jesters are often thought to have worn brightly colored clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern. Their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. Jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal among them were song, music, and storytelling, but many also employed acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes (such as puns, stereotypes, and imitation), and performing magic tricks. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style. Many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences. Silence is the best reply to a fool. ― Joker
Always Remember, the beginning is the hardest part. ― Joker Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers?
He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
.oo.
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This collection was combined from iamlam and Cannon Fodder. Thank you iamlam and Cannon Fodder! The ascension of the improbable new chess world champion <Ding Liren> (April, 2023) altered that category. Ding Liren, age 30 is the highest rated Chinese player ever and the first to play in the candidates matches. That is a story in itself. Ding Liren was the highest rated blitz player in the world at 2875 in 2016. GM Ding's skill at speed chess served him well with a mere minute remaining in the dramatic fourth and final rapid tiebreaker when he eschewed a certain perpetual check draw to play for the win and did indeed win in dramatic fashion over Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi. GM Ding had found himself in time trouble throughout the match. <Magnus Carlsen> of Norway ruled classical chess for 10 years from 2013-2023. He is a five-time world champion. Carlsen, just days before his 23rd birthday, defeated <Viswanathan Anand>. He defeated Anand in a rematch in 2014. Carlsen defended his title against <Sergey Karjakin> in 2016, <Fabiano Caruana> in 2018, and <Ian Nepomniachtchi> in 2021. Carlsen declined to defend his title against Nepomniachtchi in 2023. Gee, was there an actual checkmate between Ding and Nepo? “And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.” ― Sarah Dessen “The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.”
― Alfred North Whitehead
“Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” — Savielly Tartakower “Pawns are the soul of chess.” — François-André Danican Philidor “To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing.” — Captain Bertain, The Noble Game of Chess (1735) “I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!” — Wilhelm Steinitz “A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.” — Boonaa Mohammed May-23-23 Rdb: Hey <fredthebear> , do you know that your buddy... everyday ? Great ! Awesome.
You are so righteous.
Let no one say that great crusader <fredthebear> is dishonest. <The Three Wise Men of GothamThree wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl;
And if the bowl had been stronger
My song would have been longer.>
* 3 of Hearts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Plst... * 10 Best to Watch: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c... * 23 Opening Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5... * POTD 2023: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2023 * B03: Game Collection: 0 * June 6, 1944: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jATd... * Aceymmetrical: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DtC9... * Bigger than you know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnp... * Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op... * Bend but don't break: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LZF7... * Simple tactics course using miniatures:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/FTP... * Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures * Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne * Calling a spade a spade: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3QVl... * Candidate Passer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iZg7... * Checkmate Art: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate * Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Arnold George Dorsey: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ubaF... * Deep problem: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BPQ1... * Delivery Slip: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IiXL... * The Donner Party of Misery: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Everyone's A Winner: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gXqK... * Find the mating square near the king and go to it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h882... * Fun in the Open Games: Game Collection: Fun in the Open Games * Forney's Collection: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Floorman: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FE5F... * Fred Reinfeld could've written this if only they had cell phones back when: https://socialself.com/blog/how-to-... * The are exceptions: https://academicchess.com/worksheet... * Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c... * KIA vs French Defense: Game Collection: KIA vs French Defense * Gambits vs French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam * Global Chess League: Alireza reigns https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3E67... * GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis... * Goodness Gracious: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tjy2... * Italian e5: Game Collection: The 6. e5 Italian Game * I got this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/61b2... * Giuoco Pianissimo: Game Collection: Italian masterpieces * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv... * IECC: https://www.chess-iecc.com/
* Impossible just takes a little longer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mTRx... * King's Gambit: Game Collection: King's Gambit: How to Play As White * KG Video: Game Collection: Foxy Openings - King's Gambit * Detailed Kieseritzky Gambit: Game Collection: 0 * Some say Spassky was the greatest King's Gambit player of all- time: Game Collection: Spassky's Best Games (Cafferty) * Less socio-political involvement and more chess diligence: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vrop... * London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKH... * Linus: https://zoboko.com/text/o1qn0yy8/ch... * Lonestar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNc... * Miniatures of the Champs: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions * Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki) * Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin... * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Pie in the sky: https://www.old-mill.com/oldmill-re... * Pawn Instruction: http://www.logicalchess.com/learn/l... * Parasites: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OODL... * Petrosian's Best: Game Collection: P.H.Clarke: Petrosian's Best games * Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: https://russiatrek.org/petropavlovs... - https://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia... - https://facts.net/world/cities/40-f... * Play for Free: https://allwebgames.com/tag/chess_3... * Play the game tonight: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FSwb... * Queen overpowers pawns: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iQiv... * Queen of Hearts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7t0H... * Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/ * Review this Game Collection: BRCC: Against The Sicilian
against c5
* Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Scandinavian Minis: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Sharper Tactics: Sharpen Your Tactics C 849-999 (chessgames.com) * Snaggletooth: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BC9M... * Solitaire: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by I. A. Horowitz * Slav Exchange: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/onXc... * Style points: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ng8s... * Stunners: Game Collection: Stunners * Taunting takes it on the chin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T3Ey... * Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm * Top Games by Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... * Terminology: https://www.angelfire.com/games5/ch... * Tyler Andrew Vargas: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HFGk... * Thank you: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AT0m... * Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmU... * Trouble: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/64dt... * When to Trade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGa... * Wrong attack called into question: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/as6Z... * You can have your cake and eat it too if you find the fork: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lNZ3... * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.” ― Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President Connecticut: Windsor
Established in: 1633
Settlers from Plymouth Colony built the first trading house in Windsor in 1633 on an expanse of land they bought from Native Americans who were living there.
Windsor was Connecticut's first English settlement, with a perfect location on the water. Today, the city uses its "first town" status to create a historical atmosphere ideal for tourism. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... * Three Simple Chess Tips: https://www.premierchesscoaching.co... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * Chess History: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
“Many people perceive the merit of a manuscript which is read to them, but will not declare themselves in its favor until they see what success it has in the world when printed, or what intelligent men will say about it. They do not like to risk their opinion, and they want to be carried away by the crowd and dragged along by the multitude. Then they say that they were amongst the first who approved of that work, and the general public shares their opinion.
Such men lose the best opportunities of convincing us that they are intelligent, clever, and first-rate critics, and can really discover what is good and what is better. A fine work falls into their hands; it is an author’s first book before he has got any great name; there is nothing to prepossess anyone in his favor, and by applauding his writings one does not court or flatter the great. Zelotes, you are not required to cry out: “This is a masterpiece; human intelligence never went farther; the human speech cannot soar higher; henceforward we will judge of no one’s taste but by what he thinks of this book.” Such exaggerated and offensive expressions are only employed by postulants for pensions or benefices and are even injurious to what is really commendable and what one wishes to praise. Why not merely say—“That’s a good book?” It is true you say it when the whole of France has approved of it, and foreigners as well as your own countrymen, when it is printed all over Europe and has been translated into several languages, but then it is too late.” ― Jean de La Bruyère John Wayne Gacy was executed the same night Jeffrey Dahmer was baptized, under an eclipse. ‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!’
There was a 22-year period when Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai. The fax machine was invented in 1843. The samurai were abolished in 1867. Abraham Lincoln died in 1865. The Man In The Glass
Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.
He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.
This poem was first published in 1934 and is still very popular today. 'As you sow so shall you reap'
Old Russian Proverb: "If you are given something, take it; if you are being beaten, run. (Дают — бери, а бьют — беги.)" “Il vaut mieux prévenir que guérir.” ― (It is better to prevent than to heal.) persona non grata by FTB
persona non grata
has peripheral neuropathy
from ass to toe
it pains him so
won't admit the truth
that's not his m.o.
he cries cries to momma
she gives him skittles
one volunteer to another
another chess riddle
sure it's lousy... but
it's persona non grata
“A red-cross knight for ever kneel'd
To a lady in his shield,
That sparkled on the yellow field…”
― Lord Alfred Tennyson, 'The Lady Of Shallot'
“The Brave Man
Carves
Out His Fortune,
And
Every Man
Is The Son
Of His Own
Works.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
“The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego” ― Soke Behzad Ahmadi “I'd rather have a heart of gold
Than all the treasure of the world.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Memoirs of An Amazon
“Sweet lady," said Florian, "all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.” ― George R.R. Martin, The Hedge Knight “I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights <“My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl
But I will always come for you…”
― Emme Rollins>
In Melitopol, terrible terror has been reigning for over a year. It's quiet, you can't see it on the streets - reported CNN. Anyone who has rejected a Russian passport may become a victim of repression. They can't access the hospital, can't function normally. The "incredible" occupant also takes away the land. Arrests and torture, unfortunately, are common practices. Partisans are engaged in attacking Russian logistics and eliminating collaborators and Russian officers. They actively cooperate with Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) and are ready for sabotage activities in case the front arrives. Before the war, Melitopol had a population of 154,000. The city, located in the southeastern part of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region, was occupied by the Russians on March 1, 2022 Eastern Time. Since then, it has been waiting for liberation, but that does not mean that the inhabitants are idle. From the beginning of the war, there has been a partisan movement in and around the city. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” ― Elizabeth Green “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” ― Andy (Tim Robbins), “The Shawshank Redemption” Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. “The chess heroes nowadays should not forget that it was owing to Fischer that they are living today in four- and five-star hotels, getting appearance fees, etc.” ― Lev Khariton << Charlotte Chess Center Tuesday Night Action
Charlotte Chess Center
EVENT OVERVIEW
Tuesday Night Action-Weekly Rated Play
The CCC conducts a weekly US Chess rated game every Tuesday night. This is a great way for players to get weekly practice without committing a whole weekend to play a tournament. The Top Section also FIDE-rated - offering the only free weekly FIDE-rated game in the country! In addition, there is a free lecture before the games begin. HOW IT WORKS
CCC opens Tuesdays at 5:45pm
Lecture with FM Peter Giannatos prior to rated games from 6:00pm-6:45pm Players must register weekly and in advance using the online registration system Each Tuesday evening will be limited to the first 62 players to register TNA registration will close at 6:30pm if not already full Once spots are filled, players may email events@charlottechesscenter.org to be placed on the waitlist.
REQUIREMENTS
Players must be members of the CCC
Players must have a US Chess membership
Open to all players in grades 9-12 and adults
Students in grades K-8 must be rated over 1000
K-8 players rated under 1000 - See Wednesday Action Quads and Friday Action Quads
START TIME
Lecture: 6:00pm
Game: 7:00pm
GAMES
1 Round Weekly, Rated After 4 Rounds/Weeks
SECTIONS
TOP (1600+)
Under 1600
Under 1200
"Playing up" not permitted in TNA
TIME CONTROL
Top Section: G/85 mins; inc/5 - FIDE and US Chess Rated U1600 & U1200 Sections: G/60 mins; inc/5 - US Chess Rated
ENTRY FEE
Free, must be a CCC Member - CCC membership only $40/year - join today! OTHER NOTES
Top Section is FIDE-rated - FIDE rules apply, except for US Chess penalties for cell phone infractions. Tournament Directors will accelerate pairings to pair players close in rating when possible Most recent "live" US Chess regular ratings used for all sections to ensure close matchups Open to high schoolers and adults of any rating, including unrated Students in grades K-8 must be rated 1000
Players in grades K-8 and rated under 1000 - see Wednesday Action Quads and Friday Action Quads For all CCC events, bookmark our events calendar All players must use CCC equipment - wooden sets and digital clocks provided Address:
10700 Kettering Drive
Unit E
Charlotte, NC 28226 > >
Reykjavík, Iceland:
- Surrounded by stunning landscapes, Reykjavik is the vibrant cultural and economic hub of Iceland. - Reykjavík is the northernmost capital of a sovereign state in the world. - The city is home to more than 130,000 people, and the Capital Region is inhabited by more than 200,000 people. - The first permanent settlement in Iceland was in Reykjavík in 874 AD. It was founded by Ingólfur Arnarson, the first permanent settler in Iceland. - The word Reykjavík translates literally as “smoky bay”. It got its name due to the steam rising from the hot springs in the area. - Reykjavík is the commercial, industrial, and cultural centre of the island. It is a major fishing port and the site of nearly half of the nation’s industries. - Reykjavik, the northernmost capital city located at a latitude of 64°08′ N, offers unique experiences like the midnight sun during summer and the Northern Lights during winter. Its vibrant culture and geothermal energy make it a must-visit destination for all. - Reykjavik is a gateway to explore the stunning natural wonders of Iceland.
With its strategic location, visitors can easily embark on tours to famous attractions such as the Golden Circle, Blue Lagoon, and the stunning waterfalls of Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss. - Icelanders have one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
Educational opportunities and a strong emphasis on literature have contributed to the country’s high literacy rate. - The Icelandic language is spoken predominantly in Reykjavik.
While English is widely understood and spoken, Icelanders take great pride in their native language. - Reykjavik has a strong literary scene.
The city has been designated as a UNESCO City of Literature, highlighting its rich literary history and vibrant contemporary writing culture. - <Robert James "Bobby" Fischer> (born March 9, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. —died January 17, 2008, Reykjavík, Iceland) was an American-born chess icon, the eight-time American chess champion, the first occurring at age 14. Fischer learned the moves of chess at age six from his older sister.
He became the youngest grandmaster in history when he received the title in 1958 at age 15. He became the only player ever to earn a perfect score at an American championship, winning all 11 games in the 1964 tournament. Fischer was the winner of every tournament and match in which he participated from December, 1962 through World Championship match 1972 with the exceptions of Capablanca Memorial, 1965, (2nd place – ½ point behind Smyslov), and Piatigorsky Cup, 1966, (2nd place – ½ point behind Spassky).
Fischer was an uppermost chess genius and splendid megastar during the Cold War for his win over the Soviet World champion <Boris Spassky> in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQC... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World...
In the world’s most publicized title match ever played, Fischer, a 29-year-old Brooklynite, became the first American to win the competition since its inception in 1866. The victory also marked the first time a non-Russian had won the event in 24 years. Visit South Iceland: https://www.south.is/en/service/the... The Boy and the Schoolmaster
Wise counsel is not always wise,
As this my tale exemplifies.
A boy, that frolicked on the banks of Seine,
Fell in, and would have found a watery grave,
Had not that hand that plants never in vain
A willow planted there, his life to save.
While hanging by its branches as he might,
A certain sage preceptor came in sight;
To whom the urchin cried, "Save, or I'm drowned!"
The master, turning gravely at the sound,
Thought proper for a while to stand aloof,
And give the boy some seasonable reproof.
"You little wretch! this comes of foolish playing,
Commands and precepts disobeying.
A naughty rogue, no doubt, you are,
Who thus requite your parents" care.
Alas! their lot I pity much,
Whom fate condemns to watch over such."
This having coolly said, and more,
He pulled the drowning lad ashore.
This story hits more marks than you suppose.
All critics, pedants, men of endless prose, –
Three sorts, so richly blessed with progeny,
The house is blessed that does not lodge any, –
May in it see themselves from head to toes.
No matter what the task,
Their precious tongues must teach;
Their help in need you ask,
You first must hear them preach.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Feb-23-23 FSR: Thanks, Susan. I never saw Albert after my freshman year of high school (he and his family moved to the Chicago suburbs, where he went to a different school and played for a different chess team). Super nice guy. I was very surprised many years later to learn that he and your son had started this site. Know where you're headed and where you aint.
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” — Melody Beattie “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “The chess heroes nowadays should not forget that it was owing to Fischer that they are living today in four- and five-star hotels, getting appearance fees, etc.” ― Lev Khariton "The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."
— Criss Jami
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Max De Pree <lillia wrote:
CHESS
do you want to play chess?
I would, but it's 11 pm
The connection is bad
ok
i like it when you win
i don't let you win, i don't try my hardest but
even if i did, you'd win
Ok
I like it when you win>
Chess has six different kinds of pieces, and they all interact in myriad ways. Your opponent’s own pieces can often be used against him. While the Queen is the strongest piece, it is the weakest defender; and while the pawn is the weakest piece, it is the strongest defender. <José Raúl Capablanca> used the principle "Cutting off pieces from the scene of action." <Like new-laid eggs Chess Problems are,
Though very good, they may be beaten;
And yet, though like, they’re different far,
They may be cooked, but never eaten.
Source: page 58 of Poems and Chess Problems by J.A. Miles (Fakenham, 1882).> The Bear and the Amateur Gardener
A certain mountain bear, unlicked and rude,
By fate confined within a lonely wood,
A new Bellerophon, whose life,
Knew neither comrade, friend, nor wife, –
Became insane; for reason, as we term it,
Dwells never long with any hermit.
It's good to mix in good society,
Obeying rules of due propriety;
And better yet to be alone;
But both are ills when overdone.
No animal had business where
All grimly dwelt our hermit bear;
Hence, bearish as he was, he grew
Heart-sick, and longed for something new.
While he to sadness was addicted,
An aged man, not far from there,
Was by the same disease afflicted.
A garden was his favourite care, –
Sweet Flora's priesthood, light and fair,
And eke Pomona's – ripe and red
The presents that her fingers shed.
These two employments, true, are sweet
When made so by some friend discreet.
The gardens, gaily as they look,
Talk not, (except in this my book;)
So, tiring of the deaf and dumb,
Our man one morning left his home
Some company to seek,
That had the power to speak. –
The bear, with thoughts the same,
Down from his mountain came;
And in a solitary place,
They met each other, face to face.
It would have made the boldest tremble;
What did our man? To play the Gascon
The safest seemed. He put the mask on,
His fear contriving to dissemble.
The bear, unused to compliment,
Growled bluntly, but with good intent,
"Come home with me." The man replied:
"Sir Bear, my lodgings, nearer by,
In yonder garden you may spy,
Where, if you'll honour me the while,
We'll break our fast in rural style.
I have fruits and milk, – unworthy fare,
It may be, for a wealthy bear;
But then I offer what I have."
The bear accepts, with visage grave,
But not unpleased; and on their way,
They grow familiar, friendly, gay.
Arrived, you see them, side by side,
As if their friendship had been tried.
To a companion so absurd,
Blank solitude were well preferred,
Yet, as the bear scarce spoke a word,
The man was left quite at his leisure
To trim his garden at his pleasure.
Sir Bruin hunted – always brought
His friend whatever game he caught;
But chiefly aimed at driving flies –
Those hold and shameless parasites,
That vex us with their ceaseless bites –
From off our gardener's face and eyes.
One day, while, stretched on the ground
The old man lay, in sleep profound,
A fly that buzz'd around his nose, –
And bit it sometimes, I suppose, –
Put Bruin sadly to his trumps.
At last, determined, up he jumps;
"I'll stop your noisy buzzing now,"
Says he; "I know precisely how."
No sooner said than done.
He seized a paving-stone;
And by his modus operandi
Did both the fly and man die.
A foolish friend may cause more woe
Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.
“When you play the game of thrones you win or you die.” — George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell's book, "1984" “Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.” — Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, Lisa … <“Fire and Ice” by Robert FrostSome say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
'Fire is a good servant but a bad master'> “Never be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself.” — Robert Frost “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. 'Fine words butter no parsnips'
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Originally referring to a love triangle in the play “Marmion” by Sir Walter Scott, this wonderfully poetic and succinct line perfectly encapsulates how complicated life becomes when people start lying to each other. “The chess heroes nowadays should not forget that it was owing to Fischer that they are living today in four- and five-star hotels, getting appearance fees, etc.” ― Lev Khariton Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
“....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally.” — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee. “Sorry don't get it done, Dude!” — John Wayne, Rio Bravo “Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose “To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, “A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances.” This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square. Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, “[Bishops and rooks] complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen.” Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, “The queen and knight are [able] to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop.” When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, “I think it’s true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops.” He continues, “Of course, I’m not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.” “God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.”
— Billy Graham
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.” — 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-xp-die: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch... “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” ― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. * Know the five fundamental rules of firearm safety: - Treat every gun as if it is loaded.
- Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to destroy. - Never put your finger on a gun's trigger until you make a conscious decision to shoot. - Always be sure of your target, what's beyond it, and what's between you and your target. - When not in use, a firearm needs to be locked in some kind of secure container—a gun vault is best. If it cannot be secured in a locked location, then a trigger lock should be applied. A loaded firearm should never be unattended. Jack the Ripper was on the loose in 1889 when Nintendo was founded. 1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4. Harriet the Tortoise, who died In 2006, had seen Charles Darwin in person. Did he interview her, or did she describe him in detail? Q: What do you call a cat that likes to eat beans?
A: Puss 'n' Toots!
Q: What do you call a clown who's in jail?
A: A silicon!
Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
A: No eye deer!!
Q: What do you call a three-footed aardvark?
A: A yardvark!
Q: What do you call a dancing lamb?
A: A baaaaaa-llerina!
Q: What do you call a meditating wolf?
A: Aware wolf!
Q: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
A: A sand-witch!
Q: What do you call an avocado that's been blessed by the pope?
A: Holy Guacamole!
This poem is dedicated to all Caissa members who are the Silent Majority. <The Silent Majority
Spoke the silent pawn to the opposing queen:
Your master is a filthy man and also very mean.
He does naught but curse and foulmouth my gentle master.
Your king ought to punish him real fast if not faster.
because we are all tired of his filthy ranting and raving.
We want to play chess which is our gift and inborn craving.
But if he is allowed to continue to act like a filthy prick,
we'll catch him and drown him in the cesspool with frick.
Replied the queen smilingly though in a very loud voice:
Fear not silent majority because that is also our choice.
So it came about, that one could hear in the deep of night
an inhuman scream of the filthy man who died slowly of fright.> Isaiah 66:24
24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." “Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.” ― Pablo Neruda “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” — Criss Jami Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
If I should live for other days,
I pray the Lord to guide my ways.
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” — Voltaire “Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.””
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” — Charles F. Stanley Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' <“Thirty Days Hath September” LyricsThirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone.
Which only has but twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.>
WordyFunny:
0600 hrs Azat Zhao Zbigniew Doda road a Xiangzhi Vadim Zvjaginsev to Zherebukh whair iz dat? A map letreee sayz go left, thin wright, then streight awhile four ate mile, then left, thin write, den X it, then left, thin right, ah nuther right, then left hook, X marx duh spotted dog iza dalmations rose up a gin sthe axis oven evil burnt duh cupkaces so jello-o-o wuz it 4the of June b'day partie. The Tree of Heaven
by Bliss Carman
Young foreign-born Ailanthus,
Because he grew so fast,
We scorned his easy daring
And doubted it would last.
But lo, when autumn gathers
And all the woods are old,
He stands in green and salmon,
A glory to behold!
Among the ancient monarchs
His airy tent is sIread.
His robe of coronation
Is tasseled rosy red.
With something strange and Eastern,
His height and grace Iroclaim
His lineage and title
Is that celestial name.
This is the Tree of Heaven,
Which seems to say to us,
“Behold how rife is beauty,
And how victorious!”
French Proverb: “Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard.” ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight.” — The Revenant Ann Kournikova
Romans 5:8 King James Version
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. JACK BE NIMBLE
Jack be nimble
Jack be quick
Jack jump over
The candlestick
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68 games, 1610-2019 - PT Barnum Ploys Plucked FTB's Papa Bak
What a circus!
Cogito, ergo sum
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.” ― Salman Rushdie “I don't always know where this life is going. i can't see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.” ― Katie Davis “Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.” ― William Tecumseh Sherman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi... “True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” ― Alfred North Whitehead “It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity” ― Gilles Deleuze “All I know is what I have words for.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein “Experience is never limited, and it is never complete” ― Henry James “The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.” ― Jean-Baptiste Rousseau “A passed pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ― Bette Davis “Chess is a matter of vanity.” ― Alexander Alekhine “As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.” ― Levon Aronian “Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the assessment with very strong moves and if you don't find all of these strong moves you may lose very quickly. For a computer this is not a problem, but for humans it is not so easy.” ― Vassily Ivanchuk “A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.” ― John Milton “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.” ― Alexander Morozevich “No one man is superior to the game.” ― A. Bartlett Giamatti, in reference to Pete Rose, the all-time MLB hits leader banned for gambling. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” ― Alexander Pope “I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.” ― Adolf Anderssen “After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes”
― Howard Staunton
“I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed.” ― Emanuel Lasker “With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.” ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor “Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.” ― Adrian Rogers “Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position.” ― Anatoly Karpov “The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.” ― Max Stirner “It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned.” ― Richard Reti “A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.” ― Savielly Tartakower “Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.” ― Ajahn Brahm “As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.” ― Alexander Alekhine “It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.” ― Eugene Znosko-Borovsky “The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.”
― David Bronstein
“Get there firstest with the mostest.” ― Nathan Bedford Forrest “If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.” ― Siegbert Tarrasch “Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.” ― Agnes Repplier “If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you watch together with the computer and the pleasure is gone.” ― Boris Gelfand “I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.”
― Vlastimil Hort
“It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!” ― Mikhail Tal “Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?” ― Daniel J. King “Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.” ― Alexey Suetin “Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.” ― Mikhail Chigorin “The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.” ― Efim Geller “Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.” ― Vasily Smyslov “No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.” ― Samuel Reshevsky “Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.”
― Abdelkader El Djezairi
“Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” ― Abigail Adams “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” ― Winston Churchill “When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games, I knew the winning method.” ― Garry Kasparov “As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.” ― Mark Dvoretsky “It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.” ― Viktor Korchnoi “The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.” ― Alexei Shirov “For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.”
― Viswanathan Anand
Ne kadar bilirsen bil, o kadar azdır.
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein “One bad move nullifies forty good ones.”
― Israel Albert Horowitz
“It is a well-known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.” ― Aron Nimzowitsch “My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.” ― Pola Negri “Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.”
― Jose Raul Capablanca
“Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.” ― Alexander Koblencs “A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.” ― Howard Staunton “A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.” ― Paul Keres “Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.” ― Boris Spassky “Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.” ― Paul Morphy “Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.” ― Ronald Graham “Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.” ― Steven Levy “Attackers may sometimes regret bad movez, but it’s much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.” ― Garry Kasparov “Even the laziest king flees wildly in the face of a double check.”
― Aron Nimzowitzch
“When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one.” ― Emanuel Lasker
The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512. Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. “Winning is about commitment, discipline, hard work, dedication, determination, courage and sometimes even luck!” ― Susan Polgar “Every defeat is an opportunity to learn from our mistakes! Every victory is a confirmation of our hard work!” ― Susan Polgar “A chess player uses his/her knowledge to prepare for next game while a passionate coach preparez for next generation!” ― Susan Polgar “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” ― Francis Bacon “Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.” ― M. Scott Peck “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 French Proverb: “Ce n’est pas à un vieux singe qu’on apprend à faire la grimace.” ― (There’s no substitute for experience.) * Opening Names: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c... * Weird: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches... * Black ...d6 Resources: Game Collection: 1...d6. A very interesting opening with no name * B06 Robatsch: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-... * Dec-12-20 MissScarlett: My advice to <acapo> is to close the pop-up ads by clicking on the little <x> in the top right corner. * Polish Opening 1.b4
Polish Opening: Baltic Defense 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 Bf5 Polish Opening: Birmingham Gambit 1.b4 c5
Polish Opening: Bugayev Attack 1.b4 e5 2.a3
Polish Opening: Bugayev Advance Variation 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.b5 Polish Opening: Czech Defense 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 d6
Polish Opening: Dutch Defense 1.b4 f5
Polish Opening: German Defense 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 Qd6 Polish Opening: Grigorian Variation 1.b4 Nc6
Polish Opening: Karniewski Variation 1.b4 Nh6
Polish Opening: King's Indian Variation 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 Polish Opening: King's Indian Variation, Schiffler Attack 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.e4 Polish Opening: King's Indian Variation, Sokolsky Attack 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.e3 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.d4 Polish Opening: Kucharkowski-Meybohm Gambit 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 Bxb4 3.f4 exf4 4.Bxg7 Qh4+ 5.g3 fxg3 6.Bg2 gxh2+ 7.Kf1 hxg1=Q+ 8.Kxg1 Polish Opening: Myers Variation 1.b4 d5 2.Bb2 c6 3.a4 Polish Opening: Orangutan-Diemer Gambit 1.b4 d5 2. Bb2 Qd6 3. a3 e5 4. e4 dxe4 5. f3 Polish Opening: Orangutan-Hartlaub Gambit 1.b4 Nf6 2. Bb2 e6 3. a3 c6 4. d3 a5 5. bxa5 d5 6. e4 Polish Opening: Outflank Variation 1.b4 c6
Polish Opening: Queen's Indian Variation 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.b5 b6 Polish Opening: Queenside Defense 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.b5 a6 Polish Opening: Rooks Swap Line 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 e6 3.b5 a6 4.a4 axb5 5.axb5 Rxa1 6.Bxa1 Polish Opening: Schiffler-Sokolsky Variation 1.b4 Nf6 2.Bb2 d5 3.e3 e6 4.b5 Polish Opening: Schühler Gambit 1.b4 c6 2.Bb2 a5 3.b5 cxb5 4.e4 Polish Opening: Symmetrical Variation 1.b4 b5
Polish Opening: Tartakower Gambit 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.e4 Polish Opening: Tartakower Gambit, Brinckmann Variation 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.e4 Bxb4 4.Bc4 Nc6 5.f4 Qe7 6.f5 g6 Polish Opening: Wolferts Gambit 1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 c5 Ravenna
by Oscar Wilde
To my friend George Fleming author of 'The Nile Novel' and
'Mirage')
I. A year ago I breathed the Italian air, -
And yet, methinks this northern Spring is fair,-
These fields made golden with the flower of March,
The throstle singing on the feathered larch,
The cawing rooks, the wood-doves fluttering by,
The little clouds that race across the sky;
And fair the violet's gentle drooping head,
The primrose, pale for love uncomforted,
The rose that burgeons on the climbing briar,
The crocus-bed, (that seems a moon of fire
Round-girdled with a purple marriage-ring);
And all the flowers of our English Spring,
Fond snowdrops, and the bright-starred daffodil. Up starts the lark beside the murmuring mill,
And breaks the gossamer-threads of early dew;
And down the river, like a flame of blue,
Keen as an arrow flies the water-king,
While the brown linnets in the greenwood sing.
A year ago! - it seems a little time
Since last I saw that lordly southern clime,
Where flower and fruit to purple radiance blow,
And like bright lamps the fabled apples glow.
Full Spring it was - and by rich flowering vines,
Dark olive-groves and noble forest-pines,
I rode at will; the moist glad air was sweet,
The white road rang beneath my horse's feet,
And musing on Ravenna's ancient name,
I watched the day till, marked with wounds of flame,
The turquoise sky to burnished gold was turned.
O how my heart with boyish passion burned,
When far away across the sedge and mere
I saw that Holy City rising clear,
Crowned with her crown of towers! - On and on
I galloped, racing with the setting sun,
And ere the crimson after-glow was passed,
I stood within Ravenna's walls at last!
II.
How strangely still! no sound of life or joy
Startles the air; no laughing shepherd-boy
Pipes on his reed, nor ever through the day
Comes the glad sound of children at their play:
O sad, and sweet, and silent! surely here
A man might dwell apart from troublous fear,
Watching the tide of seasons as they flow
From amorous Spring to Winter's rain and snow,
And have no thought of sorrow; - here, indeed,
Are Lethe's waters, and that fatal weed
Which makes a man forget his fatherland.
Ay! amid lotus-meadows dost thou stand,
Like Proserpine, with poppy-laden head,
Guarding the holy ashes of the dead.
For though thy brood of warrior sons hath ceased,
Thy noble dead are with thee! - they at least
Are faithful to thine honour:- guard them well,
O childless city! for a mighty spell,
To wake men's hearts to dreams of things sublime,
Are the lone tombs where rest the Great of Time. III.
Yon lonely pillar, rising on the plain,
Marks where the bravest knight of France was slain, -
The Prince of chivalry, the Lord of war,
Gaston de Foix: for some untimely star
Led him against thy city, and he fell,
As falls some forest-lion fighting well.
Taken from life while life and love were new,
He lies beneath God's seamless veil of blue;
Tall lance-like reeds wave sadly o'er his head,
And oleanders bloom to deeper red,
Where his bright youth flowed crimson on the ground. Look farther north unto that broken mound, -
There, prisoned now within a lordly tomb
Raised by a daughter's hand, in lonely gloom,
Huge-limbed Theodoric, the Gothic king,
Sleeps after all his weary conquering.
Time hath not spared his ruin, - wind and rain
Have broken down his stronghold; and again
We see that Death is mighty lord of all,
And king and clown to ashen dust must fall
Mighty indeed THEIR glory! yet to me
Barbaric king, or knight of chivalry,
Or the great queen herself, were poor and vain,
Beside the grave where Dante rests from pain.
His gilded shrine lies open to the air;
And cunning sculptor's hands have carven there
The calm white brow, as calm as earliest morn,
The eyes that flashed with passionate love and scorn,
The lips that sang of Heaven and of Hell,
The almond-face which Giotto drew so well,
The weary face of Dante; - to this day,
Here in his place of resting, far away
From Arno's yellow waters, rushing down
Through the wide bridges of that fairy town,
Where the tall tower of Giotto seems to rise
A marble lily under sapphire skies!
Alas! my Dante! thou hast known the pain
Of meaner lives, - the exile's galling chain,
How steep the stairs within kings' houses are,
And all the petty miseries which mar
Man's nobler nature with the sense of wrong.
Yet this dull world is grateful for thy song;
Our nations do thee homage, - even she,
That cruel queen of vine-clad Tuscany,
Who bound with crown of thorns thy living brow,
Hath decked thine empty tomb with laurels now,
And begs in vain the ashes of her son.
O mightiest exile! all thy grief is done:
Thy soul walks now beside thy Beatrice;
Ravenna guards thine ashes: sleep in peace.
IV.
How lone this palace is; how grey the walls!
No minstrel now wakes echoes in these halls.
The broken chain lies rusting on the door,
And noisome weeds have split the marble floor:
Here lurks the snake, and here the lizards run
By the stone lions blinking in the sun.
Byron dwelt here in love and revelry
For two long years - a second Anthony,
Who of the world another Actium made!
Yet suffered not his royal soul to fade,
Or lyre to break, or lance to grow less keen,
'Neath any wiles of an Egyptian queen.
For from the East there came a mighty cry,
And Greece stood up to fight for Liberty,
And called him from Ravenna: never knight
Rode forth more nobly to wild scenes of fight!
None fell more bravely on ensanguined field,
Borne like a Spartan back upon his shield!
O Hellas! Hellas! in thine hour of pride,
Thy day of might, remember him who died
To wrest from off thy limbs the trammelling chain:
O Salamis! O lone Plataean plain!
O tossing waves of wild Euboean sea!
O wind-swept heights of lone Thermopylae!
He loved you well - ay, not alone in word,
Who freely gave to thee his lyre and sword,
Like AEschylos at well-fought Marathon:
And England, too, shall glory in her son,
Her warrior-poet, first in song and fight.
No longer now shall Slander's venomed spite
Crawl like a snake across his perfect name,
Or mar the lordly scutcheon of his fame.
For as the olive-garland of the race,
Which lights with joy each eager runner's face,
As the red cross which saveth men in war,
As a flame-bearded beacon seen from far
By mariners upon a storm-tossed sea, -
Such was his love for Greece and Liberty!
Byron, thy crowns are ever fresh and green:
Red leaves of rose from Sapphic Mitylene
Shall bind thy brows; the myrtle blooms for thee,
In hidden glades by lonely Castaly;
The laurels wait thy coming: all are thine,
And round thy head one perfect wreath will twine. V. The pine-tops rocked before the evening breeze
With the hoarse murmur of the wintry seas,
And the tall stems were streaked with amber bright; -
I wandered through the wood in wild delight,
Some startled bird, with fluttering wings and fleet,
Made snow of all the blossoms; at my feet,
Like silver crowns, the pale narcissi lay,
And small birds sang on every twining spray.
O waving trees, O forest liberty!
Within your haunts at least a man is free,
And half forgets the weary world of strife:
The blood flows hotter, and a sense of life
Wakes i' the quickening veins, while once again
The woods are filled with gods we fancied slain. Long time I watched, and surely hoped to see
Some goat-foot Pan make merry minstrelsy
Amid the reeds! some startled Dryad-maid
In girlish flight! or lurking in the glade,
The soft brown limbs, the wanton treacherous face
Of woodland god! Queen Dian in the chase,
White-limbed and terrible, with look of pride,
And leash of boar-hounds leaping at her side!
Or Hylas mirrored in the perfect stream.
O idle heart! O fond Hellenic dream!
Ere long, with melancholy rise and swell,
The evening chimes, the convent's vesper bell,
Struck on mine ears amid the amorous flowers.
Alas! alas! these sweet and honied hours
Had whelmed my heart like some encroaching sea,
And drowned all thoughts of black Gethsemane.
VI.
O lone Ravenna! many a tale is told
Of thy great glories in the days of old:
Two thousand years have passed since thou didst see
Caesar ride forth to royal victory.
Mighty thy name when Rome's lean eagles flew
From Britain's isles to far Euphrates blue;
And of the peoples thou wast noble queen,
Till in thy streets the Goth and Hun were seen.
Discrowned by man, deserted by the sea,
Thou sleepest, rocked in lonely misery!
No longer now upon thy swelling tide,
Pine-forest-like, thy myriad galleys ride!
For where the brass-beaked ships were wont to float,
The weary shepherd pipes his mournful note;
And the white sheep are free to come and go
Where Adria's purple waters used to flow.
O fair! O sad! O Queen uncomforted!
In ruined loveliness thou liest dead,
Alone of all thy sisters; for at last
Italia's royal warrior hath passed
Rome's lordliest entrance, and hath worn his crown
In the high temples of the Eternal Town!
The Palatine hath welcomed back her king,
And with his name the seven mountains ring!
And Naples hath outlived her dream of pain,
And mocks her tyrant! Venice lives again,
New risen from the waters! and the cry
Of Light and Truth, of Love and Liberty,
Is heard in lordly Genoa, and where
The marble spires of Milan wound the air,
Rings from the Alps to the Sicilian shore,
And Dante's dream is now a dream no more.
But thou, Ravenna, better loved than all,
Thy ruined palaces are but a pall
That hides thy fallen greatness! and thy name
Burns like a grey and flickering candle-flame
Beneath the noonday splendour of the sun
Of new Italia! for the night is done,
The night of dark oppression, and the day
Hath dawned in passionate splendour: far away
The Austrian hounds are hunted from the land,
Beyond those ice-crowned citadels which stand
Girdling the plain of royal Lombardy,
From the far West unto the Eastern sea.
I know, indeed, that sons of thine have died
In Lissa's waters, by the mountain-side
Of Aspromonte, on Novara's plain, -
Nor have thy children died for thee in vain:
And yet, methinks, thou hast not drunk this wine
From grapes new-crushed of Liberty divine,
Thou hast not followed that immortal Star
Which leads the people forth to deeds of war.
Weary of life, thou liest in silent sleep,
As one who marks the lengthening shadows creep,
Careless of all the hurrying hours that run,
Mourning some day of glory, for the sun
Of Freedom hath not shewn to thee his face,
And thou hast caught no flambeau in the race.
Yet wake not from thy slumbers, - rest thee well,
Amidst thy fields of amber asphodel,
Thy lily-sprinkled meadows, - rest thee there,
To mock all human greatness: who would dare
To vent the paltry sorrows of his life
Before thy ruins, or to praise the strife
Of kings' ambition, and the barren pride
Of warring nations! wert not thou the Bride
Of the wild Lord of Adria's stormy sea!
The Queen of double Empires! and to thee
Were not the nations given as thy prey!
And now - thy gates lie open night and day,
The grass grows green on every tower and hall,
The ghastly fig hath cleft thy bastioned wall;
And where thy mailed warriors stood at rest
The midnight owl hath made her secret nest.
O fallen! fallen! from thy high estate,
O city trammelled in the toils of Fate,
Doth nought remain of all thy glorious days,
But a dull shield, a crown of withered bays!
Yet who beneath this night of wars and fears,
From tranquil tower can watch the coming years;
Who can foretell what joys the day shall bring,
Or why before the dawn the linnets sing?
Thou, even thou, mayst wake, as wakes the rose
To crimson splendour from its grave of snows;
As the rich corn-fields rise to red and gold
From these brown lands, now stiff with Winter's cold;
As from the storm-rack comes a perfect star!
O much-loved city! I have wandered far
From the wave-circled islands of my home;
Have seen the gloomy mystery of the Dome
Rise slowly from the drear Campagna's way,
Clothed in the royal purple of the day:
I from the city of the violet crown
Have watched the sun by Corinth's hill go down,
And marked the 'myriad laughter' of the sea
From starlit hills of flower-starred Arcady;
Yet back to thee returns my perfect love,
As to its forest-nest the evening dove.
O poet's city! one who scarce has seen
Some twenty summers cast their doublets green
For Autumn's livery, would seek in vain
To wake his lyre to sing a louder strain,
Or tell thy days of glory; - poor indeed
Is the low murmur of the shepherd's reed,
Where the loud clarion's blast should shake the sky,
And flame across the heavens! and to try
Such lofty themes were folly: yet I know
That never felt my heart a nobler glow
Than when I woke the silence of thy street
With clamorous trampling of my horse's feet,
And saw the city which now I try to sing,
After long days of weary travelling.
VII.
Adieu, Ravenna! but a year ago,
I stood and watched the crimson sunset glow
From the lone chapel on thy marshy plain:
The sky was as a shield that caught the stain
Of blood and battle from the dying sun,
And in the west the circling clouds had spun
A royal robe, which some great God might wear,
While into ocean-seas of purple air
Sank the gold galley of the Lord of Light.
Yet here the gentle stillness of the night
Brings back the swelling tide of memory,
And wakes again my passionate love for thee:
Now is the Spring of Love, yet soon will come
On meadow and tree the Summer's lordly bloom;
And soon the grass with brighter flowers will blow,
And send up lilies for some boy to mow.
Then before long the Summer's conqueror,
Rich Autumn-time, the season's usurer,
Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees,
And see it scattered by the spendthrift breeze;
And after that the Winter cold and drear.
So runs the perfect cycle of the year.
And so from youth to manhood do we go,
And fall to weary days and locks of snow.
Love only knows no winter; never dies:
Nor cares for frowning storms or leaden skies
And mine for thee shall never pass away,
Though my weak lips may falter in my lay.
Adieu! Adieu! yon silent evening star,
The night's ambassador, doth gleam afar,
And bid the shepherd bring his flocks to fold.
Perchance before our inland seas of gold
Are garnered by the reapers into sheaves,
Perchance before I see the Autumn leaves,
I may behold thy city; and lay down
Low at thy feet the poet's laurel crown.
Adieu! Adieu! yon silver lamp, the moon,
Which turns our midnight into perfect noon,
Doth surely light thy towers, guarding well
Where Dante sleeps, where Byron loved to dwell.
<Steinitz's Theory
1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal.2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides. 3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.
4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer. 5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained. 6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage. 7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it.> The Cock and the Fox
On a tree there mounted guard
A veteran cock, adroit and cunning;
When to the roots a fox up running,
Spoke thus, in tones of kind regard:
"Our quarrel, brother, "s at an end;
Henceforth I hope to live your friend;
For peace now reigns
Throughout the animal domains.
I bear the news: come down, I pray,
And give me the embrace fraternal;
And please, my brother, don't delay.
So much the tidings do concern all,
That I must spread them far today.
Now you and yours can take your walks
Without a fear or thought of hawks.
And should you clash with them or others,
In us you'll find the best of brothers; –
For which you may, this joyful night,
Your merry bonfires light.
But, first, let's seal the bliss
With one fraternal kiss."
"Good friend," the cock replied, "on my word,
A better thing I never heard;
And doubly I rejoice
To hear it from your voice;
And, really there must be something in it,
For yonder come two greyhounds, which I flatter
Myself are couriers on this very matter.
They come so fast, they'll be here in a minute.
I'll down, and all of us will seal the blessing
With general kissing and caressing."
"Adieu," said fox; "my errand's pressing;
I'll hurry on my way,
And we'll rejoice some other day."
So off the fellow scampered, quick and light,
To gain the fox-holes of a neighbouring height,
Less happy in his stratagem than flight.
The cock laughed sweetly in his sleeve; –
It's doubly sweet deceiver to deceive.
Feb-22-23 stone free or die: Thanks Fred for that note.
At some point this topic should get brought up on the Bistro, and a proper survey of de facto usage of the various other db's made. Feb-23-23 petemcd85: FSR: btw, has the site stopped uploading games submitted by users?
The link below explains how to upload or request, to upload games:
PGN Upload Utility
Usually, if its a lot of games or a tournament, You can let me know on the support forum and i will get to it as soon as possible:
support forum:
chessgames.com chessforum
Please include the link to where I can find the games in PGN format. It will help get the games up quicker Some of the sites I recommend to find reliable PGNs would be:
TheWeek In Chess:
https://theweekinchess.com/a-year-o...
chess24.com:
https://chess24.com/en/dashboard'
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P.S. The FIDE rating of the player must be over 2200 for us to upload games
. Feb-23-23 FSR: <petemcd85> I know how to upload games to the site. Hundreds of games on this site were submitted by me. However, for the past week or so, some of the games that I have submitted have not been added to the database for some reason. Is this because the games were played by me or another player whose FIDE rating is below 2200? If so, that is a departure from prior practice of many years standing. Who authorized this? Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be
And bless these gifts
Bestowed by Thee.
And bless our loved ones everywhere,
And keep them in Your loving care.
Amen.
Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. “Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that information.” ― Josh Keller Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. * Know the five fundamental rules of firearm safety: - Treat every gun as if it is loaded.
- Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to destroy. - Never put your finger on a gun's trigger until you make a conscious decision to shoot. - Always be sure of your target, what's beyond it, and what's between you and your target. - When not in use, a firearm needs to be locked in some kind of secure container—a gun vault is best. If it cannot be secured in a locked location, then a trigger lock should be applied. A loaded firearm should never be unattended. 1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4. 600 AD is the first clear reference to chess, in a Persian manuscript that describes chess coming to Persia (Iran) from India. The first printed chess book was completed in 1495 - three years after Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas. <Psalm 8 King James Version> 8 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! This poem is dedicated to PhillA, who sparked off the seed for this poem. The Stark Naked King
When the challenge arrived from the ax wielding Philla
"I must hurry and offer a bribe to his queen, thought nova,
to avoid a merciless onslaught ending in bloody gore".
Alas, the challenge had been secretly sent the day before.
There he stood with ax and all at the castle's gate,
While teasingly sending in a not-so-holy bishop as bait.
High on the castle's wall nova bellowed: dump the boiling oil,
To force the ax-man with his troops to screamingly recoil.
To no avail, Philla hurled his castle straight upon the king,
Who standing stark naked, tried to hide his private thing.
So nova quickly conceded out of shameful desperation
and Philla gently lowering the ax accepted nova's resignation. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the trav’ller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often thro' my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
'Tis your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the trav’ller in the dark,
Tho' I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
CHESS WORDS of WISDOM
The Principles, Methods and
Essential Knowledge of Chess
MIKE HENEBRY
2011
You should not trade pieces if you have the initiative Opening the position helps to exploit weak squares The best number of pawn islands to have is two
Exchanges increase the chances of mobilizing the majority wing When behind in pieces, trade pawns, but not pieces Calculate wide, not deep
Space is usually more important than time (Fredthebear disagrees) Releasing the tension reduces your options
The player playing against the IQP should usually exchange all of the knights You should not mobilize pawn structures that have doubled pawns If a move looks bad on general principles, the plan is probably bad The side with a positional advantage has no need to complicate Knights are often better than bishops in blitz
A plan is made up of ideas, not moves
Trying to play the best move and playing to win are not the same When faced with a critical position, you have to calculate variations A gambited pawn is equal to three tempi
With the initiative, miracles can happen
Do not ignore your intuition
The weak point of the fianchetto position is the h3 (h6) square Complications are good for the side that is losing Long analysis, wrong analysis
If the move feels wrong, it usually is
The fianchettoed bishop is not as good as a pawn is in guarding holes Do not win a pawn if it costs you more than two tempi Sharp openings are best in blitz
The initiative is especially important in blitz To play chess at a strong level, it is essential to play according to sound principles To increase the influence of your fianchettoed bishop, open the center A temporary advantage must be exploited at once When you fianchetto one bishop, the other bishop automatically loses a little of its mobility Rooks attack best from a distance
You should not change openings because the opponent is higher-rated Passive defense can work against rook and knight pawns, but it does not work against inner pawns An imbalance is a double-edged sword
Pawns gain in strength as the power of the pieces left on the board decreases There is a difference between blitz and time-trouble Exchange your redundant rook for your opponent’s only rook When ahead pieces, trade pieces, when behind pieces, trade pawns When you are ahead on pieces, trade pieces (but not necessarily pawns) Connected passed pawns on the 6th rank beat a Rook The more redundant two pieces are, generally the weaker they are together A lead in development is less important in closed positions An advantage in development leads to other advantages Poor development is a key breeding ground for opening traps It is usually a good strategy to put your pawns on the color opposite of your bishop He who fears an isolated queen’s pawn should give up chess Space is not an advantage unless you can use it beneficially for maneuvering and for piece play A three-to-two majority is easier to convert into a passed pawn than is a four to-three majority Plan your action on the side of your pawn majority A central pawn majority favors the attacker
The fewer pawn islands you have the stronger the structure is The square in front of the backward pawn is the main factor Having a rook on the seventh rank is worth about a pawn It is best to leave active pieces where they are The initiative is above everything
Tactics flow from superior positions
Only calculate when it is essential
Bishops gain in strength as the endgame approaches Calculate the moves that are forcing and tactical first The player with an advantage must attack
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack If an attack can succeed with pieces alone, then leave the pawns where they are It is usually better to have the rook in front of the queen when playing on an open file If there are no weaknesses, you do not have an attack Queen exchanges are usually better for the player who is attacking on the queenside Take the minimum risk and use the maximum in economy to stop an attack Only defend against direct threats
Bishops and knights rarely coordinate well with each other (Fredthebear says the knight can pile on the diagonal aim of the bishop for a numbers advantage, such as the Fried Live Attack striking together on f7. The bishop lurking behind the knight makes for excellent discovered attacks.) A sudden change into an endgame can throw an attacker off his game Three useable diagonals are worth a pawn
Plans are usually made for just a few moves at a time Any imbalance should give the stronger player an edge Wing pawns become more valuable relative to central pawns as material diminishes There is no room for mistakes in a king and pawn endgame It is usually a mistake to move a pawn on the side where your opponent is attacking Try to meet short-term threats with long-term moves The first player in an open position to control an open central file will generally get the initiative It is usually wrong to remove a piece from an open file to avoid exchanges Play where you have the advantage
You can usually allow weaknesses in your position in return for good piece activity The move g3 is usually a more weakening move than h3 A weak square for one player is potentially a strong square for the other You cannot consider the white and black squares in isolation when analyzing a position Color Complex weaknesses are not as important when the minor pieces are gone A support point is only valuable if it is near the action
When your pieces are coordinated, they develop extraordinary power If you have the bishop pair, put your pawns on the same color as your opponent’s remaining bishop If you are facing a double fianchetto, try to close the position and gain control of the center The knight pair is not a good combination
Never use a rook to defend a pawn
(Never say never.)
If you have a dynamic advantage, but a static weakness, it might be better to keep your queen If the rooks cannot penetrate, it is often worth the sacrifice of the ex-change to force penetration This poem is dedicated to Harris
my chessplayer friend and literary commentator.
Chess The Final Metaphor
It was in a cesspool behind the place of his cousin Nick That in this pool of sewage, was born the freak called frick. On dark nights he hysterically wailed in his pool of slimy mess: "Oh why oh why, can't I play the game that humans call chess"? As the morning sun rose, begged the queen of the mighty king: Sire, can you not order the death of this awful filthy thing"? Wisely he replied: "no, I'll let frick live forever in distress While he must watch others enjoy themselves playing chess." Z is for Zaccheus
Zaccheus was a wee little man,
And a wee little man was he.
He climbed up in a sycamore tree
For the Lord he wanted to see.
And when the Savior passed that way
He looked up in the tree.
And he said, “Zaccheus, you come down!
For I’m going to your house today!
For I’m going to your house today!”
Zaccheus was a wee little man,
But a happy man was he.
For he had seen the Lord that day,
And a happy man was he.
And a very happy man was he!
Zirconium Zr 40 91.22 1.4
Kuch bhi ho jaaye, par yaad aane wale ko kabhi mat bhoolna A00 Sub-variants:
Polish (Sokolsky) opening
1. b4
Polish, Tuebingen variation
1. b4 Nh6
Polish, Outflank variation
1. b4 c6
Benko's opening
1. g3
Lasker simul special
1. g3 h5
Benko's opening, reversed Alekhine
1. g3 e5 2. Nf3
Grob's attack
1. g4
Grob, spike attack
1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 c6 3. g5
Grob, Fritz gambit
1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4
Grob, Romford counter-gambit
1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4 d4
Clemenz (Mead's, Basman's or de Klerk's) opening
1. h3
Global opening
1. h3 e5 2. a3
Amar (Paris) opening
1. Nh3
Amar gambit
1. Nh3 d5 2. g3 e5 3. f4 Bxh3 4. Bxh3 exf4
Dunst (Sleipner, Heinrichsen) opening
1. Nc3
Dunst (Sleipner,Heinrichsen) opening
1. Nc3 e5
Battambang opening
1. Nc3 e5 2. a3
Novosibirsk opening
1. Nc3 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qh4
Anderssen's opening
1. a3
Ware (Meadow Hay) opening
1. a4
Crab opening
1. a4 e5 2. h4
Saragossa opening
1. c3
Mieses opening
1. d3
Mieses opening
1. d3 e5
Valencia opening
1. d3 e5 2. Nd2
Venezolana opening
1. d3 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3
Van't Kruijs opening
1. e3
Amsterdam attack
1. e3 e5 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. b3 Nf6
Gedult's opening
1. f3
Hammerschlag (Fried fox/Pork chop opening)
1. f3 e5 2. Kf2
Anti-Borg (Desprez) opening
1. h4
Durkin's attack
1. Na3
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Dick Cavitt: "And you like that moment of just crushing the guy?" RJ Fischer: "Right *nodding and smiling*, yeah." BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for the master
And one for the dame.
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.
Q: What do you call a bacon-wrapped comet?
A: A meat-eor.
Q: What do stars say when they apologize to one another?
A: I’m starry.
Q: Why did the star decide to take a vacation?
A: It needed some space.
Q: What’s Donkey’s favorite film?
A: Star Shrek.
Q: What was the tree’s favorite thing about Star Trek?
A: The Captain’s log.
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54 games, 1914-2022 - Publications 39 / 99
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
— Walt Whitman
Bookie Challenge
“The best book on chess? The question blossoms afresh with every new student of the game, and the answer, if candid, is ever the same: “Gather all you can from every good source, and let experience prove the worth or worthlessness of your harvest.” As in other things, mere bookishness is not knowledge, nor on the other hand is a fine disregard of chess literature a key to proficiency; and the beginner drinking in the plausible hallucinations of a Gossip or a Staunton is quite as misguided as he who heeds the warning of a Lasker to give the chess book a wide berth.” — W.E. Napier Two Old Books (and one new)
Koltanowski, George, and Milton Finkelstein. Checkmate! The Patterns of the Winning Mating Attacks and How to Achieve Them. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1978.
Tal, Mikhail, and Victor Khenkin. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations: The Secrets of Winning Chess Combinations Described and Explained by the Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Tal, trans. Hanon W. Russell. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Checkmate! (1978) and Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations (1979) are remarkably similar in approach. Each takes an individual piece and offers game conclusions where that piece delivers the check that is mate. Then, individual chapters concern certain groups of pieces: both texts have chapters on two rooks, rook and bishop, rook and knight, two bishops, two knights, and queen and knight. Tal and Khenkin* continue this scheme with queen and bishop, queen and knight, and three pieces. In contrast, Koltanowski and Finkelstein offer chapters on certain patterns—Boden’s Mate, Epaulettes Mate, Long Diagonal Mates, Greco and Damiano Mates, and a chapter on double check. These pattern-oriented chapters are followed by chapters arranged by the piece that is sacrificed to set-up checkmate. There are additional chapters on pawn promotion, drawing resources, and how masters use checkmate threats. There is a difference in the expectation of the target audience evident in advice about how to read the books. Koltanowski and Finkelstein repeatedly suggest that a reader should set up the position on a board and play through the moves in order to plant the patterns into memory. Tal and Khenkin, in contrast, suggest that readers study the book without a chess board to improve visualization skills, using a chess board "when you're really stymied" (14). Legall’s Mate appears in both books. Tal and Khenkin have it in the chapter on three pieces, while Koltanowski and Finkelstein place it under queen sacrifices. These books differ on the game score of Legall — St. Brie, as well as the date. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations has the game played in 1787 when Legall was 85 years old (351). Checkmate! states that the opening trap was first recorded about 1750, but does not explicitly state the game was played then (197-198). Koltanowski’s penchant for dubious stories makes its appearance here in the claim, “Légal was one of the first players to record his games” (197). If he recorded his games, what happened to them? Today, we cannot even be certain of the moves in the sole surviving example of Legall's play. Checkmate!
Checkmate! was brought to my attention in response to my assertion in the Facebook group Chess Book Collectors that the best books for teaching checkmate patterns are George Renaud and Victor Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate; and Victor Henkin, 1000 Checkmate Combinations (see below). My claim provoked some interesting discussion. One commenter identified Checkmate! as a book that helped him learn these skills. Bruce Pandolfini also commented that Milton Finkelstein "was a wonderful chess teacher". On the strength of such recommendations, I found a copy and bought it. The chapters in Checkmate! typically begin with some elementary illustrations and an impressive combination from master play. The authors describe conditions and rules for executing the checkmate in question, often producing numbered lists. For instance, the "four conditions necessary for mate with a rook":
1. The enemy king lacks escape squares.
2. A rook can attack it on a rank or a file.
3. The rook is immune from capture.
4. The rook check cannot be blocked by the interposing of a protected piece or pawn. (41)
The bulk of each chapter consists of exercises with a number of blanks on which a student can write the moves--workbook style. The introduction of each exercise typically offers clues, and in some cases the final position is shown. The book contains a bit over 550 exercises in total. Answers are in the back of the book. Here is an example from the chapter, "Boden's Mate", that is simple when you know the pattern, but has vexed many of my students over the years (151). White to move
Often there are historical anecdotes about a player whose combination is featured. These anecdotes in Checkmate! are entertaining, but unreliable. We learn, for instance, that Akiba Rubinstein was confined to Berlin during World War I, "went bankrupt and then developed a persecution mania that broke his powers of concentration" (47). A more credible work, Akiba Rubinstein: Uncrowned King (1994) by John Donaldson and Nikolay Minev, places Rubinstein in Warsaw, limited to a playing local opponents in that city and in Lodz. Donaldson and Minev offer crosstables and games from the war period. They also note that Rubinstein married in 1917 and had a son born in 1918, both events taking place in German occupied Warsaw (254). There should be no question that Rubinstein's postwar play was inconsistent, as suggested by Koltanowski and Finkelstein, but they leave the impression that he did not play at all after the war. In fact, he won several strong tournaments in the 1920s. His performance in St. Petersburg in 1914 suggests that inconsistency cannot be wholly pinned on difficulties during the war years. Historical errors are distracting, but do not destroy the book's pedagogical value for learning checkmate patterns. Nor do the errors in Checkmate! make the book unique. The list of errors that could be produced from thorough fact checking of Renaud and Kahn also would be lengthy (see "Pillsbury's Mate"). One of the simple illustrations of a final check by a rook in Checkmate! is identical in concept to one that I use often with my beginning students, and with which I became acquainted through Bruce Pandolfini, Pandolfini's Endgame Course (1988). White to move
Classifying and organizing checkmate patterns is not a simple matter. In my own efforts, guided by half a dozen books and a few websites, I separated the dovetail and swallowtail checkmates from epaulette, listing all three as checkmates with the queen. Renaud and Kahn use the term Guéridon for the two bird mates and include this pattern with epaulette. Koltanowski and Kinkelstein lump them together under epaulette mate, but do not limit the pattern to a final check with the queen. This position credited to a Russian player surnamed Usachev illustrates (67-68). Black to move
1...Bc3 2.Ke2
Black could avoid checkmate at the cost of a rook, the authors note. Stockfish shows that both rooks will disappear if Black plays the superior move 2.Kc1. After 2.Ke2, Black has a mate in two that starts with a queen sacrifice and ends with a knight check. Four White pieces occupy the king's escape squares, serving as ornament rather than protection. Checkmate! includes a substantial number of checkmate examples. Had I acquired it when it was first published during my teen years and devoted myself to working through the book, I may have become a much stronger player. Unfortunately, whatever the merits of the book, the authors were ill-served by their publisher. The very first diagram in the text is wrong (2). It appears that the image negative was flipped before printing--there is a dark square in the lower-right corner. Black's 4...K-K4 is an illegal move as there is a pawn on that square. The mismatch between the original position and the final position showing checkmate with a pawn alerts the attentive reader to the problem, so the error can be overcome. The publisher also exercised poor quality control over the printing process. Too much ink was allowed to flow, creating many pages where the dark squares are so dark that the Black pieces on them nearly disappear. Many pages have crystal clear diagrams, but a large percentage are dark and even blurred from inattention by the printer. These problems will be even worse in the Ishi Press reprints, which are notorious for poor print quality. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations
My Facebook assertion in favor of the value of Henkin, 1000 Checkmate Combinations was grounded in study of Tal and Khenkin, Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, which I have found quite good. My view also stems from superficial examination of the newer translation in Kindle format. Others have assured me that the newer edition is a better translation of The Last Check (more on that below). Tal's Winning Chess Combinations is more challenging than Checkmate! This position from Adams -- Torre, New Orleans 1920 (given as 1921 in the text) and the winning idea is richer than most of the combinations in Koltanowski and Finkelstein (19).** White to move
White offered his queen for six consecutive moves in the effort to divert Black's queen from the defense of e8. The idea reappears as exercise 8 (37) from Guldin -- Bagdatev (1963), a position I remember from Lev Alburt, Chess Training Pocket Book, 2nd ed. (2000). The initial example in each chapter of Checkmate! is usually comparable, but the rest of each chapter is less demanding. It did not take me more than ten minutes to blaze through the 13 exercises in the rook chapter, and every example was a forced checkmate. In many of the examples in Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, mate threats can be parried with significant sacrifice, still leading to a lost game. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations also has a clearer demarcation between the instructive section and the exercises. Each chapter begins with diagrams showing the elementary pattern, and then proceeds through instructive and entertaining examples. Most chapters repeat this sequence with more checkmate patterns and game fragments. The object is showing a range of possibilities with the piece or pieces in question. As in Checkmate!, Tal's Winning Chess Combinations presents game endings where a queen did not deliver the final check in an epaulette mate. This one is presented as Korchnoy -- Petrosyan 1965 (281). White to move
White has a forced checkmate in four moves with a queen sacrifice on the second. The bulk of the book is devoted to instructive examples. An idea is presented, then a few position, then a variations on the idea and more illustrations. The Adams -- Torre position above is the ninth instance of a combination exploiting a weak back rank in the chapter on the rook. This chapter begins with a simple illustration of a back rank checkmate. The instructive portion offers fifteen combinations to divert defenders from protecting the vulnerability. Diversion is combined with a second threat in some combinations. Further examples offer other tactical ideas, such as "line interference" in Reti -- Bogoljubow 1924 (22). White to move
After 24.Bf7+ Kh8 25.Be8, Black resigned.
Tal's Winning Chess Combinations is notable for how it builds understanding of many possibilities related to a simple pattern. Applying what we know from backrank checkmates, the author notes that kings can be hemmed in by their own pieces on a file as well as rank. Even a file away from the edge of the board can become a deadly corridor. Goldenov -- Zakharian 1960 is a memorable example (34). Black to move
1...g4 2.Kf4 Ra5 3.e5 Ra4+ 4.e4 Ra3 and White resigned. Tal and Khenkin's chapter on the rook offers 45 instructive positions and then 17 exercises at the end of the chapter for the reader to solve. This abundance contrasts with a total of 13 exercises following four instructive examples in Koltanowski and Finkelstein. Checkmate!, however, offers 25 chapters to the 14 in the other text. The total of 271 exercises in Tal's Winning Chess Combinations are far fewer than more than 550 found in Checkmate!, but many offer greater challenge. On balance, I prefer Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, but expect to lift some examples from Checkmate! while creating worksheets for my students. The New Book
Henkin, Victor. 1000 Checkmate Combinations, trans. Jimmy Adams and Sarah Hurst. London: Batsford Chess, [2011] 2022. 1000 Checkmate Combinations is a newer translation of the same Russian book as Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations. As such, the two books have considerable overlap. However, the differences are extensive. Both books have the same fourteen chapters, although the sequence differs. Each chapter offers a series of instructive game fragments and studies and then conclude with exercises at the end of the chapter. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations has a total of 271 exercises, but the newer translation expands these to 456. 1000 Checkmate Combinations was published just over ten years ago, but has been out of print most of that time, although a Kindle edition was available. It was brought back into print in February 2022. I cannot assess the quality of the translation. I lack both the resources (a copy of the Russian edition of The Last Check) and the competence (knowledge of Russian). However, I prefer the recent Batsford edition for several reasons. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations blurs the lines between Khenkin's work and Tal's contribution. 1000 Checkmate Combinations explicitly states that the book is Henkin's work. The title page reveals that Victor Henkin owns the text copyright. Batsford also asserts copyright ownership. The publisher owns all rights in the 1979 translation by Hanon Russell; there is no mention of the authors on the copyright page. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations begins with an Introduction: “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel”, co-authored by Tal and Khenkin (9-14). 1000 Checkmate Combinations has “Don’t Reinvent the Bicycle” by Tal (5-6) followed by “Before You Open the Book” by Henkin (7-9). The joint introduction in the earlier translation contains most of the content presented in the two introductions in the later text. In addition to clarifying authorship, the most notable differences are that Tal ended his introduction in the Batsford edition with a quote from Richard Réti, Masters of the Chessboard. This quote is absent from Russell’s translation. Russell also inserts Legall’s game into the introduction, while Adams and Hurst do not. In Tal's introduction to the Batsford edition, we find:
There hasn't been a book like this before in our chess literature. The author has done an enormous amount of work selecting and systematizing the material. An experienced master, who in the recent past himself participated in competitions and had a reputation as a staunch tactician, he has retained a particular taste for the last check. (6)
This text is absent from Tal's Winning Chess Combinations. 1000 Checkmate Combinations is clearly the work of Henkin, lauded by Tal. Henkin's authorship is attested in Vladimir Barsky, A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns (2020), which is dedicated to Viktor Khenkin, whose pioneering organization in The Last Check is the model for Barsky's text. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations presents a decisive mating combination played by Vera Menchik against George Thomas in 1932, and then imitated by David Bronstein against Paul Keres 18 years later (32-33). In both books this combination follows Capablanca -- Raubitschek 1906, to which it is comparable. 1000 Checkmate Combinations adds Tal -- Andersson 1976, where Tal's threats to bring about Menchik's combination provoked a series of exchanges that simplified into an ending with queen against knight and rook (25). White to move
After the immediate 25.Qh6, the combination falters because Black's resources with 25...Rg8 and 26...Nf8 hold the position together. Tal first set out to remove the knight. 25.Bb6 Rc8 26.Qh6 Rg8 27.Rd4!
Henkin writes, "So Ulf Andersson gives up his queen for rook and bishop, which, however, doesn't save the game" (25). 27...Nxb6 28.Rxd5 Nxd5 29.Rf3
With Tal renewing the mating threat, Anderrson is forced to exchange rooks. 29...Rc3 30.Rxc3 Nxc3 31.Qe3 b4 32.Qa7 Rf8 33.Qc5 Rb8 34.Qd6 1-0 This long combination with checkmate threats parried, but still leading to a decisive advantage is a characteristic of Henkin's work. Both translations of his work bring this out, but the more recent text does so in greater abundance. Detailed comparison of the first chapter of both books shows that the 45 positions in Tal and Khenkin expands to 62 in 1000 Checkmate Combinations. I count five in the older translation that are missing from the newer edition. My count of 15 in the Batsford edition that are absent from Tal's Winning Chess Combinations reveals there is something askew with my counting (15+5 > 17). But there is no doubt that the newer edition has more material. The 1979 text has three sets of basic patterns followed by examples from games and studies. The Batsford edition has four. Above, I credit Tal's Winning Chess Combinations with showing corridor mates on files as well as ranks. The idea is there, but is is made more explicit in the section found only in the newer book.
Mating situations in which the rook delivers a linear blow can also arise on the files. In these cases it is as if the board does a 90-degree turn. (20).
At the end of the chapter on rooks, the exercises have expanded from 17 to 43 in 1000 Checkmate Combinations. Although many passages in the two books make it abundantly clear that they are derived from the same Russian text, the language employed differs. The familiar term luft is found in Russell's translation, but becomes "the little window" in the work of Adams and Hurst. Diversion becomes deflection. Line interruption becomes interference. Some readers will object to the small size of the diagrams in 1000 Checkmate Combinations. They are indeed small at 35 mm. Only a few books have smaller diagrams, such as the training positions in Antonio Gude, Fundamental Checkmates (2016), measuring 34 mm. Other chess books typically have diagrams from 40-50 mm, and the main part of Gude's book comes in at 45 mm. Diagrams in Tal's Winning Chess Combinations are 41 mm. They are 43 mm in Checkmate! In the Kindle edition of Henkin, the figurines in the notation are a larger font than the text. I have found this ebook difficult to read, but the print text is a delight, even with the small diagrams. At least the diagrams are very clear with appropriate shading of the dark squares and clear pieces. Notes
*Both Khenkin and Henkin appear as the spelling of this writer's name in different places. I favor the spelling used by the book under discussion. Vladimir Barsky dedicates A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns (2020) to Viktor Lvovich Khenkin and offers The Last Check as the English title of the Russian work upon which both Tal's Winning Chess Combinations and 1000 Checkmate Combinations are based. Barsky's book follows the general outline of these two, but with far less instructive material. Rather the instruction is provided as exercises. While Khenkin is the spelling on the cover and title page of Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, games played by the author are presented in the text with the spelling Henkin. **In all likelihood, this game was analysis, possibly by the alleged victim of the combination as instruction for the alleged victor. See Edward Winter, "Adams v Torre -- A Sham?" Chess Notes (updated 14 December 2022).
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Translation: The devil lives in the still waters
Meaning: Still waters run deep; beware of a silent dog and still water> “The boy (referring to a 12-year-old boy named Anatoly Karpov) doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.”
— Mikhail Botvinnik
“I like 1.e4 very much but my results with 1.d4 are better.” — Anatoly Karpov “Style? I have no style.” — Anatoly Karpov “Let us say that a game may be continued in two ways: one of them is a beautiful tactical blow that gives rise to variations that don't yield to precise calculations; the other is clear positional pressure that leads to an endgame with microscopic chances of victory. I would choose the latter without thinking twice. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.” — Anatoly Karpov “Chess is everything: art, science and sport.” — Anatoly Karpov “I simply developed that universal style which dominated with the arrival of Spassky and then Fischer. But all the same we were different chess players, of course. Both Spassky and Fischer were brilliant at developing and sensing the initiative. In that regard I was, perhaps, a little inferior, but on the other hand I stood out by having excellent technique for converting an advantage, positional sense and an ability to maneuver positionally – in that area I was clearly superior to Spassky, and Fischer, and perhaps everyone, except Petrosian.”
— Anatoly Karpov
“At first, I found some of his moves not altogether understandable, and only after careful analysis did I discover their hidden strength.”
— Ljubomir Ljubojevic (on Karpov)
“When observing Karpov's play or playing against him, one cannot help thinking that all his pieces are linked by invisible threads. This net moves forward unhurriedly, gradually covering the enemy squares, but, amazingly, not relinquishing its own.” — Alexander Roshal “When having an edge, Karpov often marked time and still gained the advantage! I don't know anyone else who could do that, it's incredible. I was always impressed and delighted by this skill. When it looked like it was high time to start a decisive attack, Karpov played a3, h3, and his opponent's position collapsed.” — Vladimir Kramnik “There are very few madmen who risk employing Pirc or King's Indian against Karpov.” — Alexsander Shashin “Many of Karpov's intentions become understandable to his opponents only when salvation is no longer possible.” — Mikhail Tal “Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.” — Bruce Pandolfini “Karpov defeated me in Linares-94 where he scored 11 out of 13. I got into an inferior endgame. However, it did not seem awful. Then I made some appropriate moves and could not understand how I had managed to get into a losing position. Although I was already in the world top ten, I failed to understand it even after the game. This was one of the few games after which I felt like a complete idiot with a total lack of chess understanding! Such things happen very rarely to top level players. Usually you realise why you have lost. This moment defies description - there is something almost imperceptible about it and so characteristic of Karpov.” — Vladimir Kramnik “Life is like a chess game. Every decision, just like every move, has consequences. Therefore, decide wisely!” ― Susan Polgar “When people insult and disrespect you, the best revenge is to continue to win, and win, and win….” ― Susan Polgar “The mind has no restrictions. The only restriction is what you believe you cannot do. So go ahead and challenge yourself to do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Susan Polgar What?? Levy Rozman QUIT chess??
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Empty your mind. Be warm like a warm water. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be warm water, my friend No thanks. I'd rather have teeth, claws and a spine and stand for something instead of being so wishy-washy. 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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sNh9... * Humpy knows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfV... * Hurdles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IO... * Improving: https://www.chessvideos.tv/article-... * Incursion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0en... * Interference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjm... * Intermezzos: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/muea... * Itchy makes twitchy: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/cat... * Jets: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DgmQ... * Ju Wenjun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3in... * King's gambit inventor? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7X... * Kings uncrowned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5d... * King of Gibraltar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDX... * King's journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sR... * Kinda Kings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsk... * 7.10M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeS... * All 8? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-S... * 10 craziest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhw... * 50 Move Rule: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aFn5... * 60M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uni... * 400M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF... * 2000M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wse... * 5000M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrY... * Landau G: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sAau... * Legendary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cu... * Levy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levy_... * Level up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hu... * Loudest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeT... * Lock out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enC... * Leo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxE... * Luo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6... * Likeable Tal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKu... * Luxembourger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTP... * London lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvB... * Mega: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XS... * Morphy sacs: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H_pK... * “Nessun Dorma” baby! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6... * Network for promotions: https://www.youtube.com/ChessNetwor... * Nobody wants to be on the losing side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_B... * Orash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGu... * Omega: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hpVA... * One path is all you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Q... * Open files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQG... * Pass the butter please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roY... * Pawn grab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zug... * Pang Bo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWU... * Dr. Binocs Rocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceu... * Pathetic fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cb... * Perpetually: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/opH1... * prodigy Roman Shogdzhiev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPP... * Prophylactic Play vs. Pirc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfW... * Q vs P promotion: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/scBl... * Readiness matters: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oTVC... * Recognition: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DLbK... * Relay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkE... * Rizki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isV... * Seven Cycles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3R... * Shocking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fy... * Slick like that: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bf-1... * Smiling in Spanish is allowed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gb... * Smothering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbA... * Special forces: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Ozp... * Speedy Gunso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVb... * Simple ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejj... * Starz & Stripes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tih... * Tactics on the f-pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAM... * Tardy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orq... * Topological puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bLu8... * What's your type? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsH... * Unprecedented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6o... * Unretired: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CLVk... * V is for Victory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2O... * Against the VG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVS... * Vaulting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2L... * Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5... * Wedgies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNG... * When you meet Whiteshark: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/INH6... * White knuckler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZu... * Weak spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R... * Why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdQ... * Yasser has friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0f... * Your chess level? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAy... * Wikipedia on Computer Chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compu... * Scandinavian Minis: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Sharper Tactics: Sharpen Your Tactics C 849-999 (chessgames.com) * Solitaire: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by I. A. Horowitz * Stunners: Game Collection: Stunners * Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm * Top Games by Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... * Terminology: https://www.angelfire.com/games5/ch... * Trap the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmU... * When to Trade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGa... * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes. <The Three Wise Men of GothamThree wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl;
And if the bowl had been stronger
My song would have been longer.>
According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. “Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.” — Voltaire “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill William Ewart Napier
Although W.E. Napier (1881-1952) was a highly quotable writer, he produced only one chess work, Napier’s Amenities and Background of Chess-Play (published in three ‘units’, the first two in 1934 and the third the following year). After his death they were adapted into a single volume entitled Paul Morphy and The Golden Age of Chess (New York, 1957 and 1971). In the quotations below (some of which have entered chess lore) the figures refer to the item numbers in the Amenities work, the pages of which were unnumbered: 3. ‘In the laboratory, the gambits all test unfavourably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.’
18. ‘Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’
22. ‘John McCutcheon, of Pittsburgh and undying fame for his research in the French Defense, often said about opening moves, “Not new, but old enough to be new.”’
28. [On Bird] ‘He earned the rebuke of playing impulsively in tournaments. It was disrespect and scandalous, some thought; but if there is genius in chess, Bird of all players had it, I think, in greatest abundance.’
32. [On Mason] ‘As player, he had the unique quality of competently simmering thru six aching hours and scintillating in the seventh. Others resembled him but forgot to scintillate.’
52. ‘Once in chatting with Janowsky at Lake Hopatcong, he referred to Maróczy as the gentle iron-man of Hungary, which was accurate as to both specifications.’
67. ‘Some of Marshall’s most sparkling moves look at first like typographical errors.’
72. ‘I knew Dr Tarrasch pleasantly at Monte Carlo, 1902. One day the fates had gone against me, malevolently, I felt, in a game against a man I had counted on beating. I got, by way of spur, this vitamin from the Doctor: “In these tournaments it is never enough to be a connoisseur of chess; one must also play well.”’
75. ‘The super-men of chess come by that distinction through two rare capacities, an inscrutable vision in end play and a bland sense of well-being in what, to lesser men, look like predicaments.’
78. ‘No chess book, I think, can be complete without a page of homage to Master Bird. If I had only one page to rejoice in, it should own up to a kindly veneration for all his adventures and misadventures, his farce and comedy and drama of the chess board. The roots of his chess were deep sunk in the tradition of Labourdonnais and McDonnell; he played Morphy; and half a lifetime afterwards we see him at Hastings, playing a thorough-bred game which Pillsbury declared was too beautiful to annotate. A long stretch, that – and brim-full of enthusiasm. He adored chess, – the play itself, I mean, which is not common among masters.
I saw him once at Simpson’s Divan but not to speak to. I brought away an impression of fulminating chess, of hearty laughter and liberty and beefsteak. He romped. Once I asked Teichmann what he thought of Bird’s chess; “Same as his health”, he replied, – “always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well.” England will not know his like again.’
85. [On the game Sim v Morrison, Toronto, 1918.] ‘This is a Canadian game of exceptional worth in my collection, as resembling, as few games do, a sustained, Charousek attack. That slow-burning type of invasion, not essentially dependent on preserving the queen, implies a grasp of endings and a willingness to play them. As Pillsbury once said, “So set up your attacks that when the fire is out, it isn’t out”.’
93. ‘Pillsbury was present [at Thousand Islands, 1897] on other business, and I remember his taking me for a row on the river, in the morning, before play started. He lectured a bit on Steinitz’ opening vagaries; when we separated, he said – revealing perhaps a glimpse of his ruling philosophy, “Be steady, but not to the point of morbid restraint.”’
96. ‘Louis Paulsen. It was surely a frolic of fate that translated an enviable potato planter of sedate Dubuque, Iowa, to that evergreen, mellow fame he achieved in chess. Paulsen was the landscape of that pioneer period from Morphy to the early nineties, not given to gay, aggressive outbursts, but a quiet pastoral ideal of sufficiency.’
115. [On the game Důras v Teichmann, Ostend, 1906]: ‘Důras needs no better monument to his genius than this lofty and exciting struggle with an eminent opponent. In my catalogue of genuinely great contests it rises up close to the top. It is chess all the way, but from move 43 it goes in a dignity unsurpassed.’
128. ‘A genial disposition shines in all Tartakower’s chess. It is infectious fun. And when he loses a game, he writes sincere eulogies, fit for an epitaph, of the victor.
He is very unusual.’
166. ‘It has been my observation all through the years that the master player nearly always makes lively games at correspondence, even tho his play vis-à-vis is governed by more conservative models.
The paradox is baffling.
The only theory I have adduced is that the social nature of mail exchanges quite subordinates mere winning to joyful, yawing chess. In match games over the board, the killing instinct necessary to success is the same that men take into Bengal jungles, – for a day. A killing instinct which survives the day and endures month in and month out, is stark pantomime; and mail chess is the gainer by it.’ 180. ‘Among tournament masters, Marshall has had few superiors, and, as to style, has clearly been in a class of his own, without forerunner or disciple. He is a whole school.’
191. ‘I have met no critic who could not detect, in Torre, a potential world’s champion.’
196. [On Nimzowitsch’s win over Yates at Carlsbad, 1923]: ‘It is witch chess, heathen and beautiful.’
225. ‘Once while walking over Waterloo Bridge, in London, with stout-hearted Teichmann, we conversed of the ingredients that associate to make a chessplayer. I ventured a remark that, if he would name one indispensable ingredient, I would name an able player wholly destitute of it. And Richard very tolerantly said, “Have you given any thought to ‘vanity’?”’
230. [Of Lasker’s play beginning 17…Rxc3 against Pillsbury at St Petersburg, 1895-96]: ‘Pillsbury told me that the exquisite combination here initiated was the only startling and utterly diabolical surprise he suffered in all his career abroad.’
237. ‘Spielmann plays always like an educated cave-man, who fell asleep several thousand years ago, – and woke up quite lately in the Black Forest.’
243. ‘The greatest difficulty of the game is to play it as well as one knows how.’
253. ‘F.M. Teed, of Brooklyn, was one of America’s most powerful master players. Business kept him out of match play; and he describes well as a master “without portfolio”.’
253. [On Winawer v Englisch, London, 1883. Napier had given the game as item six of unit one, where he stated that ‘it was a revelation when first I studied its deliberate beauty while a boy enthusiast; and it never seems to stale.’]: ‘The most important single game ever played, I think.’
262. ‘It is astonishing how much hot water a master can wade into within the first dozen moves, despite a century of opening exploration.’
264. ‘I never see a King’s Bishop Opening without thinking of the first of several lessons I took, when a youngster, from Steinitz. He said, “No doubt you move your knight out on each side before the bishop? And do you know why?” I was stuck for an intelligent answer. He went on to say, “One good reason is that you know where the knight belongs before you know that much of your bishop; certainty is a far better friend than doubt.”’
268. ‘It has always been my doctrine that chess is easier to play with many pieces than few; that ending play more strains the mind than a middle-game involvement. Of many options, one may be fit. Resource is likely to be present in a tangled, critical situation.’
297. ‘Zugzwang is a very useful term. I sometimes think it is best defined by the story of the negro who drew a razor across the enemy throat:
Said the enemy, “I’m not cut.”
And the knight of the razor replied, “Just wait till you turn yo’ head, before guessing at it.”’ ‘What he was in the ’80s and ’90s he [Tarrasch] is now and seemingly ever will be, one of the best. Only this and nothing more. He is a vastly learned chess master, which quality, coupled with stamina worthy of a Marathon runner, renders him superior to everything but the pelting of downright genius.’ % % % % % % % %
DoJo's Partial Discussion: Favorites w/an instructional value How to Play Chess for Kids: Simple Strategies to Win by Jessica E Martin
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer , Stuart Margulies, et al.
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler
Life Skills for Kids: How to Cook, Clean, Make Friends, Handle Emergencies, Set Goals, Make Good Decisions, and Everything in Between by Karen Harris
Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 1 (of 5): Must-know Checkmates by Susan Polgar
A First Book of Morphy by Frisco Del Rosario
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too by Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa
Everyone's Second Chess Book by Dan Heisman
Chess The Easy Way by Reuben Fine
The Art of the Checkmate by Renaud & Kahn
Best Lessons of a Chess Coach by Sunil Weeramantry
Improve Your Chess in Seven Days by Gary Lane
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by László Polgár
New York 1924 by Alexander Alekhine
Masters of the Chessboard by Richard Reti
Carlsbad 1929 by Nimzovich
Simple Chess by Michael Stean
Chess Fundamentals by Jose R. Capablanca (this book requires much prior game experience to appreciate the subtleties of defeat shown)
The Art of Attack by Vladimir Vukovic
My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alexander Alekhine
Modern Ideas in Chess by Richard Reti
Chess Praxis by Nimzovich
Mastering Chess Strategy by John Hellsten
My System by Nimzovich
Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings by Paul Van der Sterren
500 Master Games of Chess by Tartakower and du Mont
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings by Irving Chernev
Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 by David Bronstein
Pump Up Your Rating by Axel Smith
Tal-Botvinnik 1960 by Mikhail Tal
Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn
My Life and Games by Mikhail Tal
Endgame Strategy by Mikhail Sherevshesky
My Sixty Memorable Games by Robert J. Fischer
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins by Jonathan Rowson
How I Beat Fischer's Record by Polgar
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player by Jesus de la Villa
Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams
The Test of Time by Garry Kasparov
The Mammoth Book of The World's Greatest Chess Games by Graham Burgess, John Nunn, and John Emms.
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparov
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual by Mark Dvoretsky
“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
<“I thought you wanted me to teach you how to play. (Chess)Each possible move represents a different game - a different universe in which you make a better move. By the second move there are 72,084 possible games. By the 3rd - 9 million. By the 4th….
There are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the universe. No one could possibly predict them all, even you. Which means that first move can be terrifying. It’s the furthest point from the end of the game. There’s a virtually infinite sea of possibilities between you and the other side but it also means that if you make a mistake, there’s a nearly infinite amount of ways to fix it so you should simply relax and play.”
― Person of Interest s04e11>
“You’re just a pawn on the chessboard, Leo Valdez. I was referring to the player who set this ridiculous quest in motion, bringing the Greeks and Romans together.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
“At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. [...] In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living. (p.195)”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
“Life is like a game where pawns can become queens, but not everyone knows how to play. Some people stay pawn their whole lives because they never learned to make the right moves.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“...you could never be completely sure of the other person, so never make a move until you were sure of yourself.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World
“Coaching is more like chess; it’s about out-thinking and outsmarting the other team.”
― C. Vivian Stringer, Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph “Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King
“There is no moral outcome of a chess match or a poker game as long as skill and stealth rather than cheating have been used.”
― Francis P. Karam, The Truth Engine: Cross-Examination Outside the Box “Chess does not only teach us to analyse the present situation, but it also enables us to think about the possibilities and consequences. This is the art of forward-thinking.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
“Behind every move I make on the chess board lies a story of calculation, intuition, and passion. With every game, I discover more about myself and the endless possibilities of the game.” ― medicosaurabh “That is the trick of it. You see, Time works differently in Chess.” He pulled out his pocket watch and let it dangle like a pendulum over
his desk. “Sometimes he moves forward and sometimes he moves backward,
sometimes he goes fast or slow and sometimes he pauses altogether. But as long
as I keep moving, as long as I am always moving in the opposite direction from
Time, he can never find me, and I can never meet my fate.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
“There is profound meaning in the game of chess. The board itself is life and death, painted as such in black and white. The pieces are those that make a life fundamentally healthy. The pawns are attributes we gather with nourishment and significance. The knight is our ability to be mobile and travel in whatever form it takes. The rook or castle is a place we can call home and protect ourselves from the elements. The bishop is that of our community and our belonging. The king is our mortal body; without it, we can no longer play the game. The queen is the spirit of the body - what drives our imagination, urges, a life force. A captured queen removes energy from the game, and the player may become complacent. A crowning reminder of the game is that the spirit can be possessed again through our attributes.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards
“Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It’s about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn’t won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that’s when you’ve lost.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
“It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel
“Playing chess with my father is torture. I have to sit very upright on the edge of my chair and respect the rules of impassivity while I consider my next move. I can feel myself dissolving under his stare. When I move a pawn he asks sarcastically, 'Have you really thought about what you're doing?' I panic and want to move the pawn back. He doesn't allow it: 'You've touched the piece, now you have to follow through. Think before you act. Think.”
― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World
“A deep laugh stirred in his chest, and his thumb brushed over the backs of her fingers before he withdrew his hand. She felt the rasp of a callus on his thumb, the sensation not unlike the tingling scrape of a cat’s tongue. Bemused by her own response to him, Annabelle looked down at the chess piece in her hand.
“That is the queen—the most powerful piece on the board. She can move in any direction, and go as far as she wishes.” There was nothing overtly suggestive in his manner of speaking …but when he spoke softly, as he was doing at that moment, there was a husky depth in his voice that made her toes curl inside her slippers.
“More powerful than the king?” she asked.
“Yes. The king can only move one square at a time. But the king is the most important piece.”
“Why is he more important than the queen if he’s not the most powerful?”
“Because once he is captured, the game is over.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,' she said." It's a game of strategy, mostly. The strong pieces are in the back row, while the weak pieces - the pawns - are all in the front, ready to take the brunt of the attack. Because of their limited movement and vulnerability, most people underestimate them and only use them to protect the more powerful pieces. But when I play I protect my pawns.'... 'They may be weak when the game begins, but their potential is remarkable. Most of the time, they'll be taken by the other side and held captive until the end of the game. But if you're careful - if you keep your eyes open and pay attention to what your oppenent is doing, if you protect your pawns and they reach the other side of the board, do you know what happens then?' I shook my head, and she smiled.
"Your pawn becomes a queen."... 'Because they kept moving forward and triumphed against impossible odds, they become the most powerful piece in the game.” ― Aimee Carter, Pawn “Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.” ― Austin Grossman, You “Tablebases [logs of complete chess games played backwards from the end-state of checkmate] are the clearest case of human chess vs. alien chess. A decade of trying to teach computers how to play endgames was rendered obsolete in an instant thanks to a new tool. This is a pattern we see over and over again in everything related to intelligent machines. It's wonderful if we can teach machines to think like we do, but why settle for thinking like a human if you can be a god? (jm3: Frustratingly for the humans, it was not disclosed whether IBM's Deep Blue stored and consulted endgame tablebases during competition).”
― Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins “I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.” ― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club “The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.” ― H.G. Wells Question: What do you call a woman that knows where her husband is, at all times?
Answer: A widow
Question: What is the only number spelled out in English that has the same number of letters as its value?
Answer: Four
Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. If the game is well-played, the rook's first move is usually sideways. Chessgames.com will be unavailable January 16, 2024 from 12:15PM through 12:45PM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance.
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The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” — Anonymous “Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.” — Phyllis George Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. "Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley 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.
“It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” — Francis Bacon The cat’s play is the mouse’s death. ~ German Proverb “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 2pry Zeitnot Zshaa-Tichondrius - 601 Disc Priest 226 Ilvl - 27750 RBG zek247 dint undrstnd Ziyatdinov's planto ignore the LSB on deck of the carrier. “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey A toast for friendship:
‘Here’s to Tall Ships,
Here’s to Small Ships,
Here’s to all the Ships at Sea.
But the best Ships are Friendships,
Here’s to You and Me!’
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"May the sun bring you energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May the breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk gently through the world
and know its beauty all the days of your life." Apache Blessing “I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” — Goyahkla a.k.a. Geronimo (1829-1909), a POW for 23 years Never judge a book by its cover.
“The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.” ― Barbara Sher “We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.” ― Marcel Proust “No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.” ― Alfred North Whitehead “Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.” ― Charles Baudelaire “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.” ― Bette Davis “Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned.” ― Richard Reti “The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.” ― David Bronstein “Unadaptability is often a virtue.” ― Flannery O'Connor “Giving doesn't always involve money.” ― Charmaine J. Forde “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar “When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one.” ― Emanuel Lasker
The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512. “Capablanca didn't make separate moves - he was creating a chess picture. Nobody could compare with him in this.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Whether this advantage is theoretically sufficient to win or not does not worry Capablanca. He simply wins the ending. That is why he is Capablanca!”
― Max Euwe
“He (Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art.” ― Philip W. Sergeant “It's entirely possible that Capa could not imagine that there could be a better move than one he thought was good and he was usually right.” ― Mike Franett “Capablanca's games generally take the following course: he begins with a series of extremely fine prophylactic maneuvers, which neutralize his opponent's attempts to complicate the game; he then proceeds, slowly but surely, to set up an attacking position. This attacking position, after a series of simplifications, is transformed into a favorable endgame, which he conducts with matchless technique.” ― Aaron Nimzowitsch “What others could not see in a month's study, he (Capablanca) saw at a glance.” ― Reuben Fine “Capablanca invariably chose the right option, no matter how intricate the position.” ― Garry Kasparov. “He (Capablanca) had the totally undeserved reputation of being the greatest living endgame player. His trick was to keep his openings simple and then play with such brilliance that it was decided in the middle game before reaching the ending - even though his opponent didn't always know it. His almost complete lack of book knowledge forced him to push harder to squeeze the utmost out of every position.” ― Bobby Fischer “A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.’ A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.’ All’s well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.’ Meanwhile, Henry Knighton’s Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The Night
BY HENRY VAUGHAN
John 3.2
Through that pure virgin shrine,
That sacred veil drawn o’er Thy glorious noon,
That men might look and live, as glowworms shine,
And face the moon,
Wise Nicodemus saw such light
As made him know his God by night.
Most blest believer he!
Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes
Thy long-expected healing wings could see,
When Thou didst rise!
And, what can never more be done,
Did at midnight speak with the Sun!
O who will tell me where
He found Thee at that dead and silent hour?
What hallowed solitary ground did bear
So rare a flower,
Within whose sacred leaves did lie
The fulness of the Deity?
No mercy-seat of gold,
No dead and dusty cherub, nor carved stone,
But His own living works did my Lord hold
And lodge alone;
Where trees and herbs did watch and peep
And wonder, while the Jews did sleep.
Dear night! this world’s defeat;
The stop to busy fools; care’s check and curb;
The day of spirits; my soul’s calm retreat
Which none disturb!
Christ’s progress, and His prayer time;
The hours to which high heaven doth chime;
God’s silent, searching flight;
When my Lord’s head is filled with dew, and all
His locks are wet with the clear drops of night;
His still, soft call;
His knocking time; the soul’s dumb watch,
When spirits their fair kindred catch.
Were all my loud, evil days
Calm and unhaunted as is thy dark tent,
Whose peace but by some angel’s wing or voice
Is seldom rent,
Then I in heaven all the long year
Would keep, and never wander here.
But living where the sun
Doth all things wake, and where all mix and tire
Themselves and others, I consent and run
To every mire,
And by this world’s ill-guiding light,
Err more than I can do by night.
There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!
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You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
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“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov “He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.
'White to play and mate in two moves.'
Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Golf clubs
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.
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. ― Scottish Proverb Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) Song of the Storm-Swept Plain
William D. Hodjkiss
The wind shrills forth
From the white cold North
Where the gates of the Storm-god are;
And ragged clouds,
Like mantling shrouds,
Engulf the last, dim star.
Through naked trees,
In low coulees,
The night-voice moans and sighs;
And sings of deep,
Warm cradled sleep,
With wind-crooned lullabies.
He stands alone
Where the storm’s weird tone
In mocking swells;
And the snow-sharp breath
Of cruel Death
The tales of its coming tells.
The frightened plaint
Of his sheep sound faint
Then the choking wall of white—
Then is heard no more,
In the deep-toned roar,
Of the blinding, pathless night.
No light nor guide,
Save a mighty tide
Of mad fear drives him on;
‘Till his cold-numbed form
Grows strangely warm;
And the strength of his limbs is gone.
Through the storm and night
A strange, soft light
O’er the sleeping shepherd gleams;
And he hears the word
Of the Shepherd Lord
Called out from the bourne of dreams.
Come, leave the strife
Of your weary life;
Come unto Me and rest
From the night and cold,
To the sheltered fold,
By the hand of love caressed.
The storm shrieks on,
But its work is done—
A soul to its God has fled;
And the wild refrain
Of the wind-swept plain,
Sings requiem for the dead.
“Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.”
― Chris Burkmenn
Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. ~ Scottish Proverb Q. How can you tell when Bill Clinton is lying?
A. His lips are moving
Q. What's the difference between Bill Clinton and a dog?
A. A dog chases his own tail.
“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus “I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” ― Anna Kendrick Never judge a book by its cover.
Herein lay the rub. The Americans, like all Western armies, defined "winning" as killing the enemy and securing control over the battlefield. Their opponents in previous conflicts had generally accepted the same definition. Not so the Moros. What was important to them was the struggle and how one conducted oneself, personally and as a people, not necessarily a measurable outcome. They knew from the beginning they were no match for American firepower. It was a one-sided contest, what today is termed "asymmetric warfare," but so what? Their measure was how well one did against the odds, the more overwhelmingly they were against one, the greater the glory. And being that life is transitory anyway, what mattered most was how much courage was shown and how well did one die. The Americans and the Moros were using different score cards for the same game. To the Moros, it was they who had "won." — Robert A. Fulton Chessgames.com will be unavailable August 28, 2023 from 1:00AM through 1:30AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance.
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An Animal In The Moon
While one philosopher affirms
That by our senses we're deceived,
Another swears, in plainest terms,
The senses are to be believed.
The twain are right. Philosophy
Correctly calls us dupes whenever
On mere senses we rely.
But when we wisely rectify
The raw report of eye or ear,
By distance, medium, circumstance,
In real knowledge we advance.
These things has nature wisely planned –
Whereof the proof shall be at hand.
I see the sun: its dazzling glow
Seems but a hand-breadth here below;
But should I see it in its home,
That azure, star-besprinkled dome,
Of all the universe the eye,
Its blaze would fill one half the sky.
The powers of trigonometry
Have set my mind from blunder free.
The ignorant believe it flat;
I make it round, instead of that.
I fasten, fix, on nothing ground it,
And send the earth to travel round it.
In short, I contradict my eyes,
And sift the truth from constant lies.
The mind, not hasty at conclusion,
Resists the onset of illusion,
Forbids the sense to get the better,
And never believes it to the letter.
Between my eyes, perhaps too ready,
And ears as much or more too slow,
A judge with balance true and steady,
I come, at last, some things to know.
Thus when the water crooks a stick,
My reason straightens it as quick –
Kind Mistress Reason – foe of error,
And best of shields from needless terror!
The creed is common with our race,
The moon contains a woman's face.
True? No. Whence, then, the notion,
From mountain top to ocean?
The roughness of that satellite,
Its hills and dales, of every grade,
Effect a change of light and shade
Deceptive to our feeble sight;
So that, besides the human face,
All sorts of creatures one might trace.
Indeed, a living beast, I believe,
Has lately been by England seen.
All duly placed the telescope,
And keen observers full of hope,
An animal entirely new,
In that fair planet, came to view.
Abroad and fast the wonder flew; –
Some change had taken place on high,
Presaging earthly changes nigh;
Perhaps, indeed, it might betoken
The wars that had already broken
Out wildly over the Continent.
The king to see the wonder went:
(As patron of the sciences,
No right to go more plain than his.)
To him, in turn, distinct and clear,
This lunar monster did appear. –
A mouse, between the lenses caged,
Had caused these wars, so fiercely waged!
No doubt the happy English folks
Laughed at it as the best of jokes.
How soon will Mars afford the chance
For like amusements here in France!
He makes us reap broad fields of glory.
Our foes may fear the battle-ground;
For us, it is no sooner found,
Than Louis, with fresh laurels crowned,
Bears higher up our country's story.
The daughters, too, of Memory, –
The Pleasures and the Graces, –
Still show their cheering faces:
We wish for peace, but do not sigh.
The English Charles the secret knows
To make the most of his repose.
And more than this, he'll know the way,
By valour, working sword in hand,
To bring his sea-encircled land
To share the fight it only sees today.
Yet, could he but this quarrel quell,
What incense-clouds would grateful swell!
What deed more worthy of his fame!
Augustus, Julius – pray, which Caesar's name
Shines now on story's page with purest flame?
O people happy in your sturdy hearts!
Say, when shall Peace pack up these bloody darts,
And send us all, like you, to softer arts?
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” ― Corrie ten Boom “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” — Vladimir Kramnik “I’ve come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” — Marcel Duchamp “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.> “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 Democritus and the People Of Abdera
How do I hate the tide of vulgar thought!
Profane, unjust, with childish folly fraught;
It breaks and bends the rays of truth divine,
And by its own conceptions measures mine.
Famed Epicurus' master tried
The power of this unstable tide.
His country said the sage was mad –
The simpletons! But why?
No prophet ever honour had
Beneath his native sky.
Democritus, in truth, was wise;
The mass were mad, with faith in lies.
So far this error went,
That all Abdera sent
To old Hippocrates
To cure the sad disease.
"Our townsman," said the messengers,
Appropriately shedding tears,
"Has lost his wits! Democritus,
By study spoiled, is lost to us.
Were he but filled with ignorance,
We should esteem him less a dunce.
He says that worlds like this exist,
An absolutely endless list, –
And peopled, even, it may be,
With countless hosts as wise as we!
But, not contented with such dreams,
His brain with viewless "atoms" teems,
Instinct with deathless life, it seems.
And, never stirring from the sod below,
He weighs and measures all the stars;
And, while he knows the universe,
Himself he does not know.
Though now his lips he strictly bars,
He once delighted to converse.
Come, godlike mortal, try your art divine
Where traits of worst insanity combine!"
Small faith the great physician lent,
But still, perhaps more readily, he went.
And mark what meetings strange
Chance causes in this world of change!
Hippocrates arrived in season,
Just as his patient (void of reason!)
Was searching whether reason's home,
In talking animals and dumb,
Be in the head, or in the heart,
Or in some other local part.
All calmly seated in the shade,
Where brooks their softest music made,
He traced, with study most insane,
The convolutions of a brain;
And at his feet lay many a scroll –
The works of sages on the soul.
Indeed, so much absorbed was he,
His friend, at first, he did not see.
A pair so admirably matched,
Their compliments erelong despatched.
In time and talk, as well as dress,
The wise are frugal, I confess.
Dismissing trifles, they began
At once with eagerness to scan
The life, and soul, and laws of man;
Nor stopped till they had travelled over all
The ground, from, physical to moral.
My time and space would fail
To give the full detail.
But I have said enough to show
How little It's the people know.
How true, then, goes the saw abroad –
Their voice is but the voice of God?
Riddle Question: The one who has it does not keep it. It is large and small. It is any shape. Riddle Answer: A gift.
Strike while the iron is hot
Actions speak louder than words
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”. — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein “You have enemies? Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill “Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” — Ellen Goodman “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” — Ancient Chinese Proverb “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” — Mahatma Gandhi “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” — Mahatma Gandhi “Never be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself.” — Robert Frost “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
— Confucius
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — JK Rowling “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkien “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — Mark Twain “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” — Albert Einstein “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll “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 “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” — John Wooden “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson "It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish." The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.” ― Anonymous “A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.”
― Jose Raul Capablanca
“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.” ― Jean de La Bruyère This poem is dedicated to all Caissa's members
who understand that chess is but a game.
Chess is but a Game
As he secretly rode his knight out of the castle's gate,
still believing that he could escape this inevitable fate,
the sky broke open with an array of incredible light.
and there smitten to the earth lay nova under his knight.
I am who I am and always am, spoke this thundering voice
and you, my friend nova, do not at all have another choice
but to go forth south and north, west and east
loudly proclaiming the good Word to man and beast.
Thus beset by the compelling voice from the broken sky
nova set about explaining through the word the how and why.
He travelled north and south, west and east never losing aim
to let all Caissa's members know: chess is but a game. “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “mais vale um passarinho na mão do que dois a voar“ “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Place your knights in the center for greater mobility; avoid edges and the corners. The Chess Poem by Ayaan Chettiar
8 by 8 makes 64
In the game of chess, the king shall rule
Kings and queens, and rooks and knights
Bishops and Pawns, and the use of mind
The Game goes on, the players think
Plans come together, form a link
Attacks, checks and capture
Until, of course, we reach a mate
The Pawns march forward, then the knights
Power the bishops, forward with might
Rooks come together in a line
The Game of Chess is really divine
The Rooks move straight, then take a turn
The Knights on fire, make no return
Criss-Cross, Criss-Cross, go the bishops
The Queen’s the leader of the group
The King resides in the castle
While all the pawns fight with power
Heavy blows for every side
Until the crown, it is destroyed
The Brain’s the head, The Brain’s the King,
The Greatest one will always win,
For in the game of chess, the king shall rule,
8 by 8 makes 64!
“The open file, being cleared of pawns, offers no permanent targets. The advantage of controlling an open file consists mainly in the chance of penetrating the enemy position and switching to horizontal activity.” ― Hans Kmoch <Seven Most Important Middlegame Principles
Yury Markushin
1. Centralize your pieces
2. Trade your flank pawns for the central pawns
3. Avoid pawn weaknesses
4. Avoid creating weak squares in your position
5. Always blockade your opponent’s isolated pawn with a knight 6. Occupy open files with your rooks
7. Keep the bishop pair>
H.T. Bland. On page 207 of the December 1929 American Chess Bulletin he exalted the challenger in that year’s world championship match: Bravo ‘Bogol’, you’ve shown pluck.
One and all we wish you luck.
Gee, some thought you’d barged between
Other players who’d have been
Less likely straightaway to lose
Just as friend Alekhine might choose;
Undaunted, ‘Bogol’, you went in
Believing you’d a chance to win.
Or failing that, to make a fight,
Which you are doing as we write.
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.” ― Jean de La Bruyère “Out of difficulties, grow miracles” ― Jean de La Bruyère “Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself.”
― Jean de La Bruyère
“The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.” ― Jean de La Bruyère “A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.” ― Jean de La Bruyère “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” ― Will Rogers “Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.” ― Will Rogers “Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.” ― Will Rogers “Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers
“Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.” ― Minnie Pearl “Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.”
― Minnie Pearl
“They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.” ― Minnie Pearl The Blossom
by William Blake
Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.
In Melitopol, terrible terror has been reigning for over a year. It's quiet, you can't see it on the streets - reported CNN. Anyone who has rejected a Russian passport may become a victim of repression. They can't access the hospital, can't function normally. The "incredible" occupant also takes away the land. Arrests and torture, unfortunately, are common practices. Partisans are engaged in attacking Russian logistics and eliminating collaborators and Russian officers. They actively cooperate with Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) and are ready for sabotage activities in case the front arrives. Before the war, Melitopol had a population of 154,000. The city, located in the southeastern part of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region, was occupied by the Russians on March 1, 2022 Eastern Time. Since then, it has been waiting for liberation, but that does not mean that the inhabitants are idle. From the beginning of the war, there has been a partisan movement in and around the city. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” ― Elizabeth Green “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” ― Andy (Tim Robbins), “The Shawshank Redemption” Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Scottish Proverb Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you’re not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there’s no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section. French Proverb: “Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard.” ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight.” — The Revenant Chess Quotes from Garry Kasparov
Mr. Kasparov needs no introduction. He was ranked world’s number one for 225 out of 228 months from 1986 to his retirement from chess in 2005. Kasparov holds a record of 15 consecutive professional tournament victories and 11 chess Oscars! He became a youngest ever world champion at the age of 22, defeating Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov held the title for 15 years!
“Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.” ― Garry Kasparov “This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it’s at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.” ― Garry Kasparov “Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful – it is ‘life threatening’.” ― Garry Kasparov “Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.” ― Garry Kasparov “By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.” ― Garry Kasparov “When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queen side.” ― Garry Kasparov “Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.” ― Garry Kasparov “By strictly observing Botvinnik’s rule regarding the thorough analysis of one’s own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continues development of chess mastery.” ― Garry Kasparov “The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.” ― Garry Kasparov “I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.” ― Garry Kasparov “In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess – Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer – were born in America.” ― Garry Kasparov “Who else in chess history has won so many serious games with the help of brilliant tactical strokes?” – on Alexander Alekhine ― Garry Kasparov “When I was preparing for one term’s work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.” ― Garry Kasparov “Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.” ― Garry Kasparov “The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent.” ― Garry Kasparov “Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to be the norm. Our best minds have gone into financial engineering instead of real engineering, with catastrophic results for both sectors.” ― Garry Kasparov “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 “Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.” ― Garry Kasparov “I have found that after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.” ― Garry Kasparov “The highest art of the chess player lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.” ― Garry Kasparov “The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren’t as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you’ll succeed; make bad ones and you’ll fail.” ― Garry Kasparov “Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.” ― Garry Kasparov “For me, chess is a language, and if it’s not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.” ― Garry Kasparov “I’ve seen – both in myself and my competitors – how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.” ― Garry Kasparov “Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.” ― Garry Kasparov “Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don’t have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.” ― Garry Kasparov “The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.” ― Garry Kasparov “If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” ― Garry Kasparov “Vishy is a brilliant player. But it is very difficult to compete at 40. He is up against people half his age. I will be surprised if he can go on any longer. He can fight against anyone but time.” ― Garry Kasparov Refranes españoles / Spanish Sayings
Más vale pájaro en mano que cien volando. A bird in the hand is worth more than 100 flying. (A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.) Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente. Eyes that do not see, heart that does not feel. No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano. Not through much awaking early does the dawn come earlier. El amor es ciego. Love is blind.
Perro que no camina, no encuentra hueso. The dog that doesn't walk doesn't find a bone. (You can't succeed if you don't try.) Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres. Tell me with whom you walk and I will tell you who you are. (A man is known by the company he keeps.) El diablo sabe más por viejo que por diablo. The devil knows more due to being old than by being the devil. A la luz de la tea, no hay mujer fea. By the light of the torch there is no ugly woman. Haz el bien, y no mires a quién. Do the good, and don't look at whom. (Do what is right, not what will gain approval.) El que nació para tamal, del cielo le caen las hojas. The leaves fall from the sky for him who was born for the tamal (a traditional Mexican food made from corn leaves). No hay mal que por bien no venga. There is no bad from which good doesn't come. Quien no tiene, perder no puede. He who doesn't have is unable to lose. (You can't lose what you don't have.) No todo lo que brilla es oro. Not all that shines is gold. (Not everything that glitters is gold.) Perro que ladra no muerde. The dog that barks doesn't bite. A caballo regalado no se le mira el diente. Don't look at the tooth of a horse that was given. (Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.) A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando. To God praying and with the mallet using. (God helps those who help themselves.) Eso es harina de otro costal. That is wheat from a different bag. (It's a bird of a different feather.) De tal palo, tal astilla. From such a stick, such a splinter. (A chip off the old block.) Para el hombre no hay mal pan. (O, para el hambre no hay mal pan.) There is no bad bread for man. (Or, there is no bad bread for hunger.) Las desgracias nunca vienen solas. Misfortunes never come alone. (Bad things happen in threes.) De buen vino, buen vinagre. From good wine, good vinegar. El que la sigue, la consigue. He who follows it attains it. (You get what you work for.) Saliste de Guatemala y te metiste en Guatepeor. You left Guate-bad and went to Guate-worse. A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda. God helps the one who arises early. (God helps those who help themselves. The early bird catches the worm. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.) Camarón que se duerme, se lo lleva la corriente. The shrimp that falls asleep gets carried away by the current. Del dicho al hecho, hay mucho trecho. From the saying to the act, there is much distance. (Saying something and doing it are two different things.) Si quieres el perro, acepta las pulgas. If you want the dog, accept the fleas. (If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Love me, love my faults.) De noche todos los gatos son negros. At night all cats are black. Lo que en los libros no está, la vida te enseñará. That which isn't in books, life will teach you. (Life is the best teacher.) La ignorancia es atrevida. Ignorance is courageous. Cada uno lleva su cruz. Everyone carries his cross. (We each have our own cross to bear.) “Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science.” — Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as Baron von der Lasa, 17 October 1818, Berlin – 27 July 1899, Storchnest near Lissa, Greater Poland, then German Empire) To the modern chess world he is known above all as the main author of the Handbuch des Schachspiels (first published in 1843), along with his friend Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, who died in 1840. Q: What do you call a joke you make in the shower?
A: A clean joke!
Q: What do you call an elephant that doesn't matter?
A: An irrelephant!
Q: What do you call a pony with a cough?
A: A little horse!
Q: What do you call a farm that makes bad jokes?
A: Corny!
Q: What do you call a deer that costs a dollar?
A: A buck!
Q: What do you call a fake noodle?
A: Impasta!
Q: What do you call a cat on the rocks?
A: One cool cat!
Q: What do you call the fear of being trapped in a chimney?
A: Claus-traphobia!
“Here’s a two-step formula for handling stress...
Step number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Step number two: Remember it’s all small stuff.”
― Tony Robbins
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. “Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” — Charles F. Stanley “To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?” — Queen Elizabeth II wordsyfun
48xp L Zaid Tacocchio peeked up eza wally's pride b4 HOCF askd CIOD to open athe zodiacaleon bad zappasta gaspd last requested Dzagnidze instead of Dzindzi's line of playday. The Black Lab
By Heather, age 13, Mississippi USA
The black Lab runs gracefully,
Down the yard, looking for me.
This black lab is a special friend,
He is there for me until the end.
But the thing that matters the most to me,
This black Lab is my little Sammy.
French Proverb: “Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard.” ― (Nothing should be left to chance.) “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight.” — The Revenant Dinner Prayer Hymn
Traditional Hymn
Lord, bless this food and grant that we
May thankful for thy mercies be;
Teach us to know by whom we're fed;
Bless us with Christ, the living bread.
Lord, make us thankful for our food,
Bless us with faith in Jesus' blood;
With bread of life our souls supply,
That we may live with Christ on high.
We pray in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus,
Amen
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever. Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Psalm 34:8
Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. <A wise old owl sat on an oak,The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke the more he heard,
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?> Give a HOOT -- don't pollute!!
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” ― Chauncey Depew “The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.” ― Alfred North Whitehead “Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.” ― Dwight Morrow “First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game.” ― Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch “Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”
Source: "The Soviet School of Chess" Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001. “Life is like a chess game. If you play the right move, at the right time you’ll win the game.” ― Sruti “I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one.” ― David Levy “Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “Those who think that it’s easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game, a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed” ― Victor Kortchnoi “Boxing is like a chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalize on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it is not about aggression. Avoiding knockout is tactical.” ― Nicola Adams “In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.”
― Bobby Fischer, A bust to the King's Gambit (1960) “Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.”
― Anthony Santasiere
“A wood-pusher overlooks the ranks.” ― Old Russian saying “You can retreat pieces… but not pawns. So always think twice about pawn moves.” ― Michael Stean “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 “Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf.” ― Cecil Purdy “In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz “The eighth square at last! Oh how glad I am to get here. And what is this on my head?” ― Alice (in Through The Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll) “When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one.” ― Emanuel Lasker
The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512. “Capablanca didn't make separate moves - he was creating a chess picture. Nobody could compare with him in this.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Whether this advantage is theoretically sufficient to win or not does not worry Capablanca. He simply wins the ending. That is why he is Capablanca!”
― Max Euwe
“He (Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art.” ― Philip W. Sergeant “It's entirely possible that Capa could not imagine that there could be a better move than one he thought was good and he was usually right.” ― Mike Franett “Capablanca's games generally take the following course: he begins with a series of extremely fine prophylactic maneuvers, which neutralize his opponent's attempts to complicate the game; he then proceeds, slowly but surely, to set up an attacking position. This attacking position, after a series of simplifications, is transformed into a favorable endgame, which he conducts with matchless technique.” ― Aaron Nimzowitsch “What others could not see in a month's study, he (Capablanca) saw at a glance.” ― Reuben Fine “Capablanca invariably chose the right option, no matter how intricate the position.” ― Garry Kasparov. “He (Capablanca) had the totally undeserved reputation of being the greatest living endgame player. His trick was to keep his openings simple and then play with such brilliance that it was decided in the middle game before reaching the ending - even though his opponent didn't always know it. His almost complete lack of book knowledge forced him to push harder to squeeze the utmost out of every position.” ― Bobby Fischer “A woman can beat any man; it’s difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That’s why I like chess.” ― Alexandra Kosteniuk “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” ― Edward Everett Hale “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
Henry David Thoreau
Philippians 4:7
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. “As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave.”
― James Jones, The Thin Red Line
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living
“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” ― William Penn “Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” ― Alan Watts “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Lost Time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
“Time spent with a cat is never wasted.” ― Colette “A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.” ― Criss Jami, Healology “The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.”
― Teck Foo Check, The Autobiography of Sun Tzu “Behind every move I make on the chess board lies a story of calculation, intuition, and passion. With every game, I discover more about myself and the endless possibilities of the game.” ― medicosaurabh “Ecco, sai giocare a scacchi. Adesso devi diventare un giocatore. Ci vorrà un po' di più.”
― Guenassia Jean-Michel, Le Club des incorrigibles optimists “People are like chess pieces!” ― Deyth Banger “The only easy day was yesterday.” ― US Navy SEALs “Gameplay is all our life. Either we guard, attack or develop pieces.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor, UNCHESS: Untie Your Shoes and Walk on the Chessboard of Life “The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It “As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.”
― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life “Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.”
― Mickey Mantle
“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 are like chess players who are trying to predict the opponent’s future moves, but in this case, we are dealing with life itself. True masters do not play the game on a single chessboard, but on multiple chessboards at the same time. And what’s the difference between grandmasters and masters? Surprises. The moves that cannot be predicted by the opponent. Life can play a simultaneous game with seven billion people at the same time and it can take each and every one of us by surprise. And we still believe we are capable of winning, because we can predict three of four moves ahead. We are insignificant.” ― Jaka Tomc, 720 Heartbeats “The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.” ― Mikhail Tal “I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House
“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction.” ― Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes “The move is there, but you must see it.” ― Savielly Tartakower “You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin “Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It’s about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn’t won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that’s when you’ve lost.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills “The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.”
― Teck Foo Check, The Autobiography of Sun Tzu “War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words “The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art Of War “Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.” ― Jacques Ellul “Time is an illusion.” ― Albert Einstein
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” ― George Harrison “My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” ― JP Getty “Life is like a chess game. Every decision, just like every move, has consequences. Therefore, decide wisely!” ― Susan Polgar “When people insult and disrespect you, the best revenge is to continue to win, and win, and win….” ― Susan Polgar “The mind has no restrictions. The only restriction is what you believe you cannot do. So go ahead and challenge yourself to do one thing every day that scares you.” ― Susan Polgar “You cannot play at chess if you are kind-hearted.” ― French Proverb “The first principle of attack–Don’t let the opponent develop!” ― Reuben Fine “You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove you the better player.” ― English Proverb 'An army marches on its stomach
“For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.” ― Alexander Alekhine “We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chessplayer's nature.” ― Rudolf Spielmann “To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.” ― Mikhail Tal “Boring? Who's boring? I am Fredthebear. My mind is always active, busy.” “There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym 'As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it
“It is impossible to keep one's excellence in a glass case, like a jewel, and take it out whenever it is required.” ― Adolf Anderssen, 1858 “It's a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse.” ― Paul Dietzel 'As you sow so shall you reap
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
— Melody Beattie
“Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.” ― Richard Reti “Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.” ― Mikhail Tal “Alekhine was the rock-thrower, Capablanca the man who made it all seem easy” ― Hans Ree “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “The chess heroes nowadays should not forget that it was owing to Fischer that they are living today in four- and five-star hotels, getting appearance fees, etc.” ― Lev Khariton “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” ― Criss Jami “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Max De Pree James 1:5
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” “Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings 'April showers bring forth May flowers
“Once in a lobby of the Hall of Columns of the Trade Union Center in Moscow a group of masters were analyzing an ending. They could not find the right way to go about things and there was a lot of arguing about it. Suddenly Capablanca came into the room. He was always find of walking about when it was his opponent's turn to move. Learning the reason for the dispute the Cuban bent down to the position, said 'Si, si,' and suddenly redistributed the pieces all over the board to show what the correct formation was for the side trying to win. I haven't exaggerated. Don Jose literally pushed the pieces around the board without making moves. He just put them in fresh positions where he thought they were needed. Suddenly everything became clear. The correct scheme of things had been set up and now the win was easy. We were delighted by Capablanca's mastery.” ― Alexander Kotov “Capablanca had that art which hides art to an overwhelming degree.”
― Harry Golombek
“I have known many chess players, but only one chess genius, Capablanca.”
― Emanuel Lasker
“I think Capablanca had the greatest natural talent.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik * Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Robert Fischer's Best Games by KingG (127 games, a ton of quotes):
Game Collection: Robert Fischer's Best Games * Bobby Fischer Rediscovered/Andrew Soltis (97 games):
Game Collection: Bobby Fischer Rediscovered (Andy Soltis) * 1992: Game Collection: Spassky-Fischer Match 1992 * Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black * Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES * Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga... * C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game * RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * Glossary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss... * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel
* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * Pawn sacrifices: Game Collection: The Gambiteer * Common gambits video: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo... * The Center Fork Trick is very common: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv... * KG Video: Game Collection: Foxy Openings - King's Gambit * Forney's Collection: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Fred Reinfeld could've written this if only they had cell phones back when: https://socialself.com/blog/how-to-... * Only in blitz (and not in public!): Opening Explorer * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Flip the Finish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWH... * Evolution Newsletter: Game Collection: # Chess Evolution Volumes. 151-200 * KO After KO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwP... * Miniature Mates: Game Collection: Checkmate miniatures * 4 Miniz: zPonziani, zKieseritzky, zPhilidor, zFrankenstein-Dracula: z https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * 29 traps: https://www.chessonly.com/chess-ope... * Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018 * B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack * Brilliancies: Game Collection: Brilliancy Prizes (Reinfeld) * Center Fork Trick is very common: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Chess Links: http://www.chessdryad.com/links/ind... * Danish treats: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (I) * 1.d4: Game Collection: Winning with 1 d4! * Glossary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss... * Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) https://archive.org/details/the-gol... * Greatest Hits: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms) * Epic: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher * Extinguish the Dragon: Game Collection: 1.e4 explorations * “Messi of Chess”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0w... * RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... “The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution” ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov... * Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2) * Sicilian Alapin Miniature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLk... * Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * GK Scheveningen: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4 * 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c... * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn “Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” — Garry Kasparov “You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.” — Dale Earnhardt “In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского
Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava)
Translation: He who doesn’t take risks doesn’t drink champagne
Meaning: Fortune favours the brave
"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
— Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”
— Mikhail Tal
Nevada: Genoa
Established in: 1851
Geoa was founded back in 1851 as a trading post and provisioning station meant to serve passing wagon trains. It was originally known as Mormon Station because the first settlers were Mormon, and was part of Utah. It was renamed Genoa in 1855 by Mormon leader Orson Hyde, who named it in honor of Christopher Columbus's birthplace of Genoa, Italy. Genoa is a tiny town — according to its website, just 250 people live there. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
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’. Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our winged horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road.
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse -
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Riddle Question: What word is always pronounced wrong? A dog that barks all the time gets little attention. ~ Argentine proverb Riddle Answer: Wrong!
Caissa, The Chess Lord.
Lord, I play three hundred hours of chess,
indeed, Lord, in thirty days more or less.
I have done my best under gruelling stress,
Yet I'm not happy with my snailing progress.
Yes, Lord. Caissa, to you I sadly do confess:
my constant losing has put me in distress.
I beg of you, Lord, Caissa, help me to re-assess
so I can beat those who keep me in this mess.
Lord, with your blessing and your skills I guess
I would always win and so powerfully aggress,
that all my opponents would humbly express:
hark here cometh the unbeatable king of chess.
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Don’t trust the smile of your opponent. ~ Babylonian Proverbs Trust me, but look to thyself. ~ Irish Proverbs
Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb Don’t trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons. ~ Chinese Proverb If someone puts their trust in you, don’t sever it. ~ Lebanese Proverb Trust your best friend as you would your worst enemy. ~ Mexican Proverbs <Jonathan Moya wrote:
The King’s Rumination
Befuddled with thought
the king sought the oracle.
“Count the sands,
calculate the seas,”
she said.
Of the king’s future,
she spoke nothing.
Henceforth he
contented only
in his nightmares.>
'Attack is the best form of defence
morfishine: "I like the Schliemann Defense, along with the Falkbeer counter-gambit and other chancy openings. Enterprising chess is the most fun, even if one meets with disaster from time-to-time. I'd rather go down swinging." Why do banks have branches if money doesn’t grow on trees? <The ascension of the improbable new chess world champion Ding Liren (April, 2023) altered that category. Ding Liren, age 30 is the highest rated Chinese player ever and the first to play in the candidates matches. That is a story in itself.Ding Liren was the highest rated blitz player in the world at 2875 in 2016. GM Ding's skill at speed chess served him well with a mere minute remaining in the dramatic fourth and final rapid tiebreaker when he eschewed a certain perpetual check draw to play for the win and did indeed win in dramatic fashion over Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi. GM Ding had found himself in time trouble throughout the match. Magnus Carlsen of Norway ruled classical chess for 10 years from 2013-2023. He is a five-time world champion. Carlsen, just days before his 23rd birthday, defeated Viswanathan Anand. He defeated Anand in a rematch in 2014. Carlsen defended his title against Sergey Karjakin in 2016, Fabiano Caruana in 2018, and Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2021. Carlsen declined to defend his title against Nepomniachtchi in 2023. Gee, was there an actual checkmate between Ding and Nepo?> Maximo wrote:
My Forking Knight's Mare
Gracefully over the squares, as a blonde or a brunette,
she makes moves that not even a queen can imitate.
Always active and taking the initiative,
she likes to fork.
She does it across the board,
taking with ease not only pawns, but also kings,
and a bad bishop or two.
Sometimes she feels like making
quiet moves,
at other times, she adopts romantic moods,
and makes great sacrifices.
But, being hers a zero-sum game,
she often forks just out of spite.
An expert at prophylaxis, she can be a swindler,
and utter threats,
skewering men to make some gains.
Playing with her risks a conundrum,
and also catching Kotov’s syndrome.
Nonetheless, despite having been trampled
by her strutting ways
my trust in her remains,
unwavering,
until the endgame.
Blindfold chess record holder Georges Koltanowski was a warm, friendly man with anecdotes and a folksy maxim. “Pawns are like buttons,” he liked to say. “Lose too many and your pants fall down.” Georges Koltanowski, chess player, Belgium champion, blindfold world record holder, U.S. Open tournament director, USCF president, author, prolific newspaper columnist, coach, guest lecturer and showman, born September 17, 1903 in Antwerp, Belgium; died February 5, 2000 in San Francisco, California, USA. Koltanowski, the "Dean of American chess" died at age 96 due to heart failure. "Kolti" as he was often called, was one of three founder members inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame, with Paul Morphy, the first great US champion, and the preeminent Bobby Fischer. <The Fooles Mate
Black Kings Biſhops pawne one houſe.
White Kings pawne one houſe.
Black kings knights pawne two houſes
White Queen gives Mate at the contrary kings Rookes fourth houſe
— Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play
Beale's example can be paraphrased in modern terms where White always moves first, algebraic notation is used, and Black delivers the fastest possible mate after each player makes two moves: 1.f3 e6 2.g4 Qh4# There are eight distinct ways in which Fool's Mate can be reached in two moves. White may alternate the order of f- and g-pawn moves, Black may play either e6 or e5, and White may move their f-pawn to f3 or f4.> 'Ashes to ashes dust to dust
“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>
'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer “Funny, funny Jude (The Man in the Red Beret). You play with little pieces all day long, and you know what? You’ll live to be an old, old man someday. And here I am.” — Janis Joplin Jude Acers set a Guinness World Record for playing 117 people in simultaneous chess games on April 21, 1973 at the Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon. On July 2-3, 1976 Jude played 179 opponents at Mid Isle Plaza (Broadway Plaza) in Long Island, New York for another Guinness record. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
'Ask no questions and hear no lies
QUESTION: “What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” Sophocles: The Sphinx’s riddle
Written in the fifth century B.C., Oedipus the King is one of the most famous pieces of literature of all time, so it makes sense that it gave us one of the most famous riddles of all time. In this tragic story of Oedipus, who fulfills his destiny even as he’s trying to avoid it, one of the happier moments comes when the title character solves the Sphinx’s riddle. With the head of a woman and the body of a lion, the monstrous Sphinx stood guard at the gates of the city of Thebes. She would tell every traveler a riddle, and would let them pass if they got it right, but would make a meal of them if they got it wrong. Despite these high stakes, Oedipus got the riddle right: can you? “What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?” Answer:
A human. Humans crawl on hands and knees (“four legs”) as a baby, walk on two legs in mid-life (representing “noon,”) and use a walking stick or cane (“three legs”) in old age. Here are some more brain teasers that will leave you scratching your head. “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 The Pawn Who Had to Go
The little pawn screamed: "I cannot hold it anymore, get me a pot or I will do exactly what I did before." Everybody laughed with the exception of the opposing king who guessed what was on the mind of this filthy thing. But nobody had time to fetch a pot or even a plastic bag They were too busy to ensure that the game became a drag. The guys in white kept running back and forth but no change. The guys in black stayed also within the very same range. Suddenly the unhappy pawn who had screamed for a pot, did a weird little dance while moving up one slot. Now standing near the king he simply pulled his pants down and peed straight up against the king's beautiful crown. "May your jib never luff"
M.Hassan: <Eggman>: Scarborough Chess Club which is said to be the biggest chess club in Canada, arranges tournaments under the name of "Howard Rideout" tournaments. Is he the same Rideout that you are mentioning?. I only know that this is to commemorate "Rideout" who has been a player and probably in that club because the club is over 40 years old.
This tournament is repeated year after year and at the beginning of the season when the club resumes activity after summer recession in September. Zxp PeterB: Eggman and Mr. Hassan - you are right, Howard Ridout was a long time member of the Scarborough Chess Club! He was very active even when I joined in 1969, and was still organizing tournaments at the time of his death in the 1990s. This game is a good memorial to him! Theodorovitch was a Toronto master rated about 2250 back then, perhaps about 2350 nowadays. “I've never met a checkers player I didn't like; they're all even-tempered. Chess players are egotistical. They think they're intellectuals and that everyone else is beneath them.” ― Don Lafferty, draughts grandmaster * Know the five fundamental rules of firearm safety: - Treat every gun as if it is loaded.
- Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to destroy. - Never put your finger on a gun's trigger until you make a conscious decision to shoot. - Always be sure of your target, what's beyond it, and what's between you and your target. - When not in use, a firearm needs to be locked in some kind of secure container—a gun vault is best. If it cannot be secured in a locked location, then a trigger lock should be applied. A loaded firearm should never be unattended. 1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4. Perpetual check feels like nothing else in a dead lost position. <Sarah wrote:
checkmate
It's like we’re playing chess.
Moving strategically, testing boundaries,
all while watching each other’s expression.
We all know how this games ends…
The queen destroys you and steals your heart.> - The longest a chess game could possibly be is 5,949 moves. * The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev = https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century "Zeitnot" is German for "time pressure."
“....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally.” — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee. “Sorry don't get it done, Dude!” — John Wayne, Rio Bravo "Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose <There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, “A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances.” This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square.Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, “[Bishops and rooks] complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen.” Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, “The queen and knight are [able] to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop.” When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, “I think it’s true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops.” He continues, “Of course, I’m not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.”> “Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks aren't protecting each other.” ― Fredthebear “In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” ― Tom Seaver This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
― Fort Minor
Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world."
— Billy Graham
"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness." — 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 <Q: Why was six afraid of seven?
A: Because seven ate nine.
* Riddle-zxp-die: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch... Q: What did the fish say when he hit the wall?
A: "Dam.">
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
Wordzy
5zshhz! Zengis Kahnn fishez sphahn d4 fidi zoccolo fesso zborris29 Zaitsev system, which deaf ends the Book, Zelic 21...Bxe5 tactix fo brkfast tuna zona troll fo lunch an aftanoon bisickl rodeo william give u game sum need edward punch. Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. RING AROUND THE ROSIE
Ring around the rosie
A pocket full of posies
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.
Sing it Frankie! https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... /? Q: Why did the turtle cross the road?
A: To get to the Shell station.
Roger. Copy that. 9360
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“Problems are only opportunities in disguise.” ― Alfred North Whitehead “The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” ― William Osler “The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.” ― Jarome Iginla “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” ― Tony Robbins “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” ― Lee Iacocca “Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.” ― Indira Gandhi “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” ― William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) “Chess is a constant learning process. You can always improve, no matter how good you are.” — Magnus Carlsen Full of grapes
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* 101 Robatsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD1... * Nepo's Immortal!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_... * Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED! * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Perpetuals: Game Collection: Defensive Combinations (Perpetual Check) * Dr. Petar Trifunović (31 August 1910, Dubrovnik - 8 December 1980, Belgrade) was an International Grandmaster and five-times Yugoslav Champion of chess. https://gambiter.com/chess/players/... * Pawn Instruction: http://www.logicalchess.com/learn/l... * Pawn Structures: Game Collection: Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide * Pin power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5r... * Pirc Defense, Classical: Game Collection: Pirc, Classical Variation * The Chess Portal will broaden your horizons: http://schackportalen.nu/English/es... * Passive, but playable in the Russian Game: Game Collection: Alpha Russian (White) * Queen Pawn Games: Game Collection: ANIL RAJ.R'S QUEEN PAWN GAMES * QGD: Game Collection: QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED * Reasonable 1.d4 Repertoire: Game Collection: d4 repertoire for white * Random: Game Collection: Random Stuff * Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/ * Results: https://chess-results.com/TurnierSu... * Queen vs Rook Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn... * Simple EG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejj... * GM Endgames: Game Collection: Grandmaster Preparation - Endgame Play * Use your King: Game Collection: ABC Games for Lessons * Sicilian styles: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... * Santeramo's Sicilian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8... * So True: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/gre... * Sports Clichés: http://www.sportscliche.com/
* Spruce Variety: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/che... * Tops 1959: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kch... * Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm * Top Games by Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... * Terminology: https://www.angelfire.com/games5/ch... "Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
- Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
* Theater chess: Grand Prix Hamburg (2019) * That's a lot of counting: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/st... * U12: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cTJB... * Underpromotion to B or Hyena? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2JA5... * 2020 Candidates Tournament: World Championship Candidates (2020/21) * US Championships: US Championship (2019) * USA Presidents who played chess: https://en.chessbase.com/post/which... * Variety pack: Game Collection: KID games * Bill Wall should have been on beer commercials crushing empty beer cans with his bare hands:
Bill Wall * Vienna Qf3: Game Collection: Vienna Gambit with Qf3 * Vienna Nxf7: Game Collection: White - Vienna: Nxf7 * Washington Square Park: https://greenwichvillagehistory.wor... * Watch out: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FK1s... * Wikipedia on Computer Chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compu... * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * Your Chess Battle Plan: https://forwardchess.com/blog/revie... * You Don't See This Everyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZN... * Yasser's Book: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics * 0ZeR0's Favs Vol 269: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 269 * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ “Pawns are the soul of the game.” – François-André Danican Philidor “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 “Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.” – Nigel Short “Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf.” – Cecil Purdy The Frogs Asking A King
A certain commonwealth aquatic,
Grown tired of order democratic,
By clamouring in the ears of Jove, effected
Its being to a monarch's power subjected.
Jove flung it down, at first, a king pacific.
Who nathless fell with such a splash terrific,
The marshy folks, a foolish race and timid,
Made breathless haste to get from him hid.
They dived into the mud beneath the water,
Or found among the reeds and rushes quarter.
And long it was they dared not see
The dreadful face of majesty,
Supposing that some monstrous frog
Had been sent down to rule the bog.
The king was really a log,
Whose gravity inspired with awe
The first that, from his hiding-place
Forth venturing, astonished, saw
The royal blockhead's face.
With trembling and with fear,
At last he drew quite near.
Another followed, and another yet,
Till quite a crowd at last were met;
Who, growing fast and strangely bolder,
Perched soon on the royal shoulder.
His gracious majesty kept still,
And let his people work their will.
Clack, clack! what din beset the ears of Jove?
"We want a king," the people said, "to move!"
The god straight sent them down a crane,
Who caught and slew them without measure,
And gulped their carcasses at pleasure;
Whereat the frogs more wofully complain.
"What! what!" great Jupiter replied;
"By your desires must I be tied?
Think you such government is bad?
You should have kept what first you had;
Which having blindly failed to do,
It had been prudent still for you
To let that former king suffice,
More meek and mild, if not so wise.
With this now make yourselves content,
Lest for your sins a worse be sent."
“When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one.” ― Emanuel Lasker
The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512. “Capablanca didn't make separate moves - he was creating a chess picture. Nobody could compare with him in this.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Whether this advantage is theoretically sufficient to win or not does not worry Capablanca. He simply wins the ending. That is why he is Capablanca!”
― Max Euwe
“He (Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art.” ― Philip W. Sergeant “It's entirely possible that Capa could not imagine that there could be a better move than one he thought was good and he was usually right.” ― Mike Franett “Capablanca's games generally take the following course: he begins with a series of extremely fine prophylactic maneuvers, which neutralize his opponent's attempts to complicate the game; he then proceeds, slowly but surely, to set up an attacking position. This attacking position, after a series of simplifications, is transformed into a favorable endgame, which he conducts with matchless technique.” ― Aaron Nimzowitsch “What others could not see in a month's study, he (Capablanca) saw at a glance.” ― Reuben Fine “Capablanca invariably chose the right option, no matter how intricate the position.” ― Garry Kasparov. “He (Capablanca) had the totally undeserved reputation of being the greatest living endgame player. His trick was to keep his openings simple and then play with such brilliance that it was decided in the middle game before reaching the ending - even though his opponent didn't always know it. His almost complete lack of book knowledge forced him to push harder to squeeze the utmost out of every position.” ― Bobby Fischer Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar
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It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
“The chess heroes nowadays should not forget that it was owing to Fischer that they are living today in four- and five-star hotels, getting appearance fees, etc.” ― Lev Khariton <Atterdag: Geoff - are you a descendant of Wordsworth?:
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparell'd in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
:-)
Sally Simpson: Hi Atterdag,
This is my tribute to Wordsworth. (Daffodils.)
I wandered lonely as a pawn,
o'er a field coloured brown and cream,
When suddenly I ran out of squares
and discovered I was now a Queen.>
“Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” ― Charles F. Stanley Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. Isolated pawns require a very expensive therapy, for keeping them alive. The Ingratitude And Injustice Of Men Towards Fortune A trader on the sea to riches grew;
Freight after freight the winds in favour blew;
Fate steered him clear; gulf, rock, nor shoal
Of all his bales exacted toll.
Of other men the powers of chance and storm
Their dues collected in substantial form;
While smiling Fortune, in her kindest sport,
Took care to waft his vessels to their port.
His partners, factors, agents, faithful proved;
His goods – tobacco, sugar, spice –
Were sure to fetch the highest price.
By fashion and by folly loved,
His rich brocades and laces,
And splendid porcelain vases,
Enkindling strong desires,
Most readily found buyers.
In short, gold rained wherever he went –
Abundance, more than could be spent –
Dogs, horses, coaches, downy bedding –
His very fasts were like a wedding.
A bosom friend, a look his table giving,
Inquired whence came such sumptuous living.
"Whence should it come," said he, superb of brow,
"But from the fountain of my knowing how?
I owe it simply to my skill and care
In risking only where the marts will bear."
And now, so sweet his swelling profits were,
He risked anew his former gains:
Success rewarded not his pains –
His own imprudence was the cause.
One ship, ill-freighted, went awreck;
Another felt of arms the lack,
When pirates, trampling on the laws,
Overcame, and bore it off a prize.
A third, arriving at its port,
Had failed to sell its merchandize, –
The style and folly of the court
Not now requiring such a sort.
His agents, factors, failed; – in short,
The man himself, from pomp and princely cheer,
And palaces, and parks, and dogs, and deer,
Fell down to poverty most sad and drear.
His friend, now meeting him in shabby plight,
Exclaimed, "And whence comes this to pass?"
"From Fortune," said the man, "alas!"
"Console yourself," replied the friendly wight:
"For, if to make you rich the dame denies,
She can't forbid you to be wise."
What faith he gained, I do not wis;
I know, in every case like this,
Each claims the credit of his bliss,
And with a heart ingrate
Imputes his misery to Fate.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) played chess. It was one of his favorite games. He started playing in his 20s and owned several nice chess sets. Dr. William Small probably introduced him to the game. Q: What do you call a pony with a cough?
A: A little horse!
Q: What do you call a deer that costs a dollar?
A: A buck!
Q: What do you call a fake noodle?
A: Impasta!
Q: What do you call a cat on the rocks?
A: One cool cat!
Q: What do you call the fear of being trapped in a chimney?
A: Claus-traphobia!
The Fowler, the Hawk, and the Lark
From wrongs of wicked men we draw
Excuses for our own:
Such is the universal law.
Would you have mercy shown,
Let yours be clearly known.
A fowler's mirror served to snare
The little tenants of the air.
A lark there saw her pretty face,
And was approaching to the place.
A hawk, that sailed on high
Like vapour in the sky,
Came down, as still as infant's breath,
On her who sang so near her death.
She thus escaped the fowler's steel,
The hawk's malignant claws to feel.
While in his cruel way,
The pirate plucked his prey,
On himself the net was sprung.
"O fowler," prayed he in the hawkish tongue,
"Release me in your clemency!
I never did a wrong to you."
The man replied, "It's true;
And did the lark to you?"
“They made us many promises, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land -- and they did.” — Chief Red Cloud, Oglala-Lakota Sioux, 1822-1909. “There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" * Roger that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... “The only way to change anything in Russia is a revolution” ― Daniil Dubov
https://en.chessbase.com/post/dubov... Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. <“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”>
― William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Chess is above all, a fight!” — Emanuel Lasker Below is the acrostic poem by Mrs T.B. Rowland:
Tears now we sadly shed apart,
How keenly has death’s sudden dart
E’en pierced a kingdom’s loyal heart.
Dark lies the heavy gloomy pall
Upon our royal bower,
Kings, queens, and nations bow their heads,
Each mourn for England’s flower.
Oh! God, to her speak peace divine,
For now no voice can soothe but thine.
Ah, why untimely snatched away,
Loved Prince – alas, we sigh –
Before thy sun its zenith reached
Athwart the noonday sky.
Noble in heart, in deed, and will,
Years hence thy name we’ll cherish still.
That poem was published on pages 140-141 of Chess Fruits (Dublin, 1884) The 20-40-40 rule in chess is a rule for players rated below 2000 that states 20% of your study should be dedicated to openings, 40% to the middlegame, and 40% to the endgame. “Prepare for the worst but hope for the best.” ― The Wondrous Tale of Alroy by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1833 Virgil’s Aeneid: “Fortune favors the bold.” Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” is often cited as originating in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385. “[It is] the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.” The phrase appeared in Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, in 1615. “I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.” ― Paul Kane “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” ― Napoleon Hill Actions speak louder than words
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ― Plato “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu <Proverbs 14 King James Version> 14 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. 2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. 3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. 4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox. 5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. 6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. 7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. 9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. 12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. 15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. 16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. 17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. 18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. 19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. 20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends. 21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. 22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. 23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. 24 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly. 25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. 26 In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. 27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. 28 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince. 29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. 31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. 33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known. 34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. 35 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame. Distracted driving is deadly too: https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving... Driving iza mental activity, so put that damn cell phone away when UR behind the wheel!! The Earthen Pot and the Iron Pot
An iron pot proposed
To an earthen pot a journey.
The latter was opposed,
Expressing the concern he
Had felt about the danger
Of going out a ranger.
He thought the kitchen hearth
The safest place on earth
For one so very brittle.
"For you, who art a kettle,
And have a tougher skin,
There's nothing to keep you in."
"I'll be your body-guard,"
Replied the iron pot;
"If anything that's hard
Should threaten you a jot,
Between you I will go,
And save you from the blow."
This offer him persuaded.
The iron pot paraded
Himself as guard and guide
Close at his cousin's side.
Now, in their tripod way,
They hobble as they may;
And eke together bolt
At every little jolt, –
Which gives the crockery pain;
But presently his comrade hits
So hard, he dashes him to bits,
Before he can complain.
Take care that you associate
With equals only, lest your fate
Between these pots should find its mate.
Collected by Fredthebear
“True power is expressed in quiet confidence; it was the sea's very calmness that epitomized its mighty force.” ― Emile Habiby “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer Switch your pawn insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds. “In chess, as in life, the best moves are often the ones you don’t play.”
― Savielly Tartakower
The Night
BY HENRY VAUGHAN
John 3.2
Through that pure virgin shrine,
That sacred veil drawn o’er Thy glorious noon,
That men might look and live, as glowworms shine,
And face the moon,
Wise Nicodemus saw such light
As made him know his God by night.
Most blest believer he!
Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes
Thy long-expected healing wings could see,
When Thou didst rise!
And, what can never more be done,
Did at midnight speak with the Sun!
O who will tell me where
He found Thee at that dead and silent hour?
What hallowed solitary ground did bear
So rare a flower,
Within whose sacred leaves did lie
The fulness of the Deity?
No mercy-seat of gold,
No dead and dusty cherub, nor carved stone,
But His own living works did my Lord hold
And lodge alone;
Where trees and herbs did watch and peep
And wonder, while the Jews did sleep.
Dear night! this world’s defeat;
The stop to busy fools; care’s check and curb;
The day of spirits; my soul’s calm retreat
Which none disturb!
Christ’s progress, and His prayer time;
The hours to which high heaven doth chime;
God’s silent, searching flight;
When my Lord’s head is filled with dew, and all
His locks are wet with the clear drops of night;
His still, soft call;
His knocking time; the soul’s dumb watch,
When spirits their fair kindred catch.
Were all my loud, evil days
Calm and unhaunted as is thy dark tent,
Whose peace but by some angel’s wing or voice
Is seldom rent,
Then I in heaven all the long year
Would keep, and never wander here.
But living where the sun
Doth all things wake, and where all mix and tire
Themselves and others, I consent and run
To every mire,
And by this world’s ill-guiding light,
Err more than I can do by night.
There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!
“A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is, there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailing prosperously before the wind, and not simply stranded barks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful.” — Henry David Thoreau “There just isn’t enough televised chess.” — David Letterman “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt “It's not life or death. It's a game, and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.” — Bernhard Langer Q: Why did the turtle cross the road?
A: To get to the Shell station.
"Zeitnot" is German for "time pressure."
"Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose blogger cinephilia once said: "The flawless game is impossible. Feed off your opponent's mistakes like a leech." “There’s always a hidden owl in knowledge.” – E.I. Jane “If you open it, close it. If you turn it on, turn it off. If you take it out, put it back. If you empty it, fill it. If you fill it, empty it.” — Kathryn Malter, St. Paul, MN “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
— Christopher Hitchens
A Word To Husbands by Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
“When you’re lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.” ― Aristotle “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” ― Patrick Henry When it's your move, pretend for a moment that it's actually your opponent's move. What good moves can your opponent make right now?
This makes it much easier to see your opponent's threats, IMO. FTB says "What will my opponent do next if I let him/her? What move will bother me the most?" GM Maurice Ashley’s sage advice: ‘Embrace chaos’ he says, meaning that sometimes one has to accept chaos as an integral part of reality, not resisting it. “Success is never so interesting as struggle” ― Willa Cather “The habit of holding a Man in the hand, and moving it first to one square and then to another, in order to engage the assistance of the eye in deciding where it shall actually be placed, is not only annoying to the adversary but a practical infraction of the touch-and-move principle.” ― Howard Staunton “The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.” ― Sun Tzu “A bad plan is better than none at all.” ― Frank Marshall “No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower Alex Lenderman (GM-elect) gave the advice - “It's all about good pieces, get good pieces!” That was helpful to blogger. Of course once they're good you have to know what to do with 'em (tactics). FTB says: Make yourself a list of possible targets (seeds of destruction) and memorize it -- keep the list by your computer. You need to know what you should be looking for, and you just might find it. “A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.”
― Caryl Chessman
Fischer supposedly said "Don't give up... even if you're in big trouble... Chess is a kaleidoscope- it's ever changing- ...and opportunities suddenly appear." “You can’t hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey
<<“Humble and Grumble”> by Eldred Herbert> Humble and Grumble were identical twins,
And Humble was ever so meek;
Grumble did nothing but grumble all day,
Some may even call him a freak.
Humble was happy and everyone’s friend,
Grumble was jealous of course;
Humble was happy to follow the Lord,
But Grumble, an immoral source.
Humble was never seen wearing a frown,
And Grumble, ne’er seen with a smile;
Humble won friends by just being himself,
But, Grumble, he won them by guile.
So Grumble, please follow Humble, your twin,
And Humble, don’t grumble, I pray,
For grumble will make you like Grumble, your twin,
Please Grumble, be humble today.
The checker at the grocery store asked me if I wanted my milk in a bag.
I told her to leave it in the carton.
What's the Lion King's favorite month?
DeSIMBA!
What's a King's favorite beverage?
Royal-Tea
Perfectly spell-checked poem
- I have a spelling checker.
- It came with my PC,
- It plainly marks four my revue,
- Mistakes I cannot sea.
- I've run this poem threw it,
- I'm sure your pleased to no,
- Its letter purfect in it's weigh,
- My checker tolled me sew.
- Cents I began to youse it,
- I'm reel, reel pleased eye I got won.
- My righting's sew much bettor now,
- Ware wood eye bee without won.
A priest, a rabbi, and a chicken walk into a bar. The bartender says "Nope! We don't do jokes here, get out!"
And the chicken says, "Come on guys, I know a place across the street." Why was the king only 12 inches tall?
cebause he was a ruler.
<<“Sonnet 29”> by William Shakespeare> When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. “It’s All I Have To Bring Today” by Emily Dickinson It’s all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
“A Glimpse” by Walt Whitman
A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word. <<“A Love Song for Lucinda”> by Langston Hughes> Love
Is a ripe plum
Growing on a purple tree.
Taste it once
And the spell of its enchantment
Will never let you be.
Love
Is a bright star
Glowing in far Southern skies.
Look too hard
And its burning flame
Will always hurt your eyes.
Love
Is a high mountain
Stark in a windy sky.
If you
Would never lose your breath
Do not climb too high.
<<“Sonnet XLIII”> by Elizabeth Barrett Browning> How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“Defeated by Love” by Rumi
The sky was lit
by the splendor of the moon
So powerful
I fell to the ground
Your love
has made me sure
I am ready to forsake
this worldly life
and surrender
to the magnificence
of your Being
“Love Is A Place” by E.E. Cummings
Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds
<<“Your Feet”> by Pablo Neruda> When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,
your hard little feet.
I know that they support you,
and that your sweet weight
rises upon them.
Your waist and your breasts,
the doubled purple
of your nipples,
the sockets of your eyes
that have just flown away,
your wide fruit mouth,
your red tresses,
my little tower.
But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.
* S L O W L Y : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KYUb... Better to go in your pants than go in the bush?! Give the man credit for having a wad of paper in his hand. It musta been the intimidating ponytail that saved him. If this were a bear, give the creature your picnic basket, your keys and wallet, or tell a bunch of clean dad jokes. Of course, prayer is always helpful.
<<<Daniel 6> New King James Version>The Plot Against Daniel
6 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; 2 and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss. 3 Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. 4 So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him. 5 Then these men said, “We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.” 6 So these governors and satraps thronged before the king, and said thus to him: “King Darius, live forever! 7 All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. 8 Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” 9 Therefore King Darius signed the written decree. Daniel in the Lions’ Den
10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. 11 Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12 And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king’s decree: “Have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” 13 So they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.” 14 And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. 15 Then these men approached the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed.” 16 So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” 17 Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed. Daniel Saved from the Lions
18 Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him. 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” 21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! 22 My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” 23 Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God. Darius Honors God
24 And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den. 25 Then King Darius wrote:
To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
26 I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God,
And steadfast forever;
His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed,
And His dominion shall endure to the end.
27 He delivers and rescues,
And He works signs and wonders
In heaven and on earth,
Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.> “Awakening In New York” by Maya Angelou
Curtains forcing their will
against the wind,
children sleep,
exchanging dreams with
seraphim. The city
drags itself awake on
subway straps; and
I, an alarm, awake as a
rumor of war
lie stretching into dawn
unasked and unheeded.
“Housekeeping” by Natasha Tretheway
We mourn the broken things, chair legs
wrenched from their seats, chipped plates,
the threadbare clothes. We work the magic
of glue, drive the nails, mend the holes.
We save what we can, melt small pieces
of soap, gather fallen pecans, keep neck bones
for soup. Beating rugs against the house,
we watch dust, lit like stars, spreading
across the yard. Late afternoon, we draw
the blinds to cool the rooms, drive the bugs
out. My mother irons, singing, lost in reverie.
I mark the pages of a mail-order catalog,
listen for passing cars. All day we watch
for the mail, some news from a distant place.
“September Tomatoes” by Karina Borowicz
The whiskey stink of rot has settled
in the garden, and a burst of fruit flies rises
when I touch the dying tomato plants.
Still, the claws of tiny yellow blossoms
flail in the air as I pull the vines up by the roots
and toss them in the compost.
It feels cruel. Something in me isn’t ready
to let go of summer so easily. To destroy
what I’ve carefully cultivated all these months.
Those pale flowers might still have time to fruit.
My great-grandmother sang with the girls of her village
as they pulled the flax. Songs so old
and so tied to the season that the very sound
seemed to turn the weather.
“Good Bones” by Maggie Smith
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real @#$%hole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.
“The Peace Of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Life rarely goes to plan.
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” <<Good-Night>I.
Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be GOOD night.
II.
How can I call the lone night good,
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood--
Then it will be--GOOD night.
III.
To hearts which near each other move
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never SAY good-night.
Published by Leigh Hunt over the signature Sigma, The Literary Pocket-Book, 1822.> Silent, Silent Night
by William Blake [1757-1827]
Silent Silent Night
Quench the holy light
Of thy torches bright
For possessd of Day
Thousand spirits stray
That sweet joys betray
Why should joys be sweet
Used with deceit
Nor with sorrows meet
But an honest joy
Does itself destroy
For a harlot coy
<<Night>
by William Blake [1757-1827]>
THE sun descending in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest.
And I must seek for mine.
The moon, like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.
Farewell, green fields and happy grove,
Where flocks have took delight:
Where lambs have nibbled, silent move
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing
And joy without ceasing
On each bud and blossom,
And each sleeping bosom.
They look in every thoughtless nest
Where birds are cover'd warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
When wolves and tigers howl for prey,
They pitying stand and weep,
Seeking to drive their thirst away
And keep them from the sheep.
But, if they rush dreadful,
The angels, most heedful,
Receive each mild spirit,
New worlds to inherit.
And there the lion's ruddy eyes
Shall flow with tears of gold:
And pitying the tender cries,
And walking round the fold:
Saying, 'Wrath, by His meekness,
And, by His health, sickness,
Are driven away
From our immortal day.
'And now beside thee, bleating lamb,
I can lie down and sleep,
Or think on Him who bore thy name,
Graze after thee, and weep.
For, wash'd in life's river,
My bright mane for ever
Shall shine like the gold
As I guard o'er the fold.'
<<A Winter Night>
by Sara Teasdale [1884-1933]>
My window-pane is starred with frost,
The world is bitter cold to-night,
The moon is cruel, and the wind
Is like a two-edged sword to smite.
God pity all the homeless ones,
The beggars pacing to and fro.
God pity all the poor to-night
Who walk the lamp-lit streets of snow.
My room is like a bit of June,
Warm and close-curtained fold on fold,
But somewhere, like a homeless child,
My heart is crying in the cold.
Last Night As I Was Sleeping
by Antonio Machado [1875-1939]
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.
Last night as I slept,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.
By Night when Others Soundly Slept
By Anne Bradstreet
1
By night when others soundly slept
And hath at once both ease and Rest,
My waking eyes were open kept
And so to lie I found it best.
2
I sought him whom my Soul did Love,
With tears I sought him earnestly.
He bow’d his ear down from Above.
In vain I did not seek or cry.
3
My hungry Soul he fill’d with Good;
He in his Bottle put my tears,
My smarting wounds washt in his blood,
And banisht thence my Doubts and fears.
4
What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I’ll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Loue him to Eternity.
Source: The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet (1981) Caissa, The Chess Lord.
Lord, I play three hundred hours of chess,
indeed, Lord, in thirty days more or less.
I have done my best under gruelling stress,
Yet I'm not happy with my snailing progress.
Yes, Lord. Caissa, to you I sadly do confess:
my constant losing has put me in distress.
I beg of you, Lord, Caissa, help me to re-assess
so I can beat those who keep me in this mess.
Lord, with your blessing and your skills I guess
I would always win and so powerfully aggress,
that all my opponents would humbly express:
hark here cometh the unbeatable king of chess.
This poem is dedicated to Peyton, Wizard Number 1 in chess and true magician in poetry no less Nova's Silent Prayer
Caissa, before Thee stands the erring little nova
who wandered far and wide till rejected by Jehovah
with downcast eyes he offers Thee a barrel of wine
which will turn Thine winking eyes inte a woozy shine.
Yet all he wants is but some real consideration
from the subjects in the Realm of Thine creation
and this tiny favor that will put him in elation:
to render perfect all his scripted chess notation. This poem is dedicated to Alex, son of Lisa and John (SNOWBEAR). The Cry of Snowbear's Son
Loyal subjects, hear ye hear ye all
The king's bishop invites you to a ball
The pawns,black and white are welcome too
merrily we'll dance the whole night through.
Snowbear's cry can be heard in this wintery night:
go dog go fetch me that wild white night
who will with wit and charm lead the queen
away to his private pasture, so heavenly green.
Later that year the night kept prancing about
not looking well nor feeling so manly stout
then suddenly he knew he need no longer wait
as he heard his new born son loudly cry "checkmate". This poem is dedicated to Chris Hadlock (CLH) who gathered 20 rating points while this poem was being composed. Rating is Naught but a Number Thing
Said the black pawn flirtingly to the white queen,
"Let me capture you so my needy master can hurry about
Gathering more rating points to increase his worldly clout".
Moving swiftly she asked "rating what does that mean"?
Behind the castle's wall a snichering knight replied.
"It's a number thing proclaiming who has the greater skill
In manoeuvring us about at our witty master's will
But the truth of this number thing by many is becried.
Some masters blow up their little size as they sing
While others make themselves look smaller than small.
For hidden reasons tall is small and small is tall.
But all in all rating is naught but a number thing." This poem is dedicated to PhillA, who sparked off the seed for this poem. The Stark Naked King
When the challenge arrived from the ax wielding Philla
"I must hurry and offer a bribe to his queen,thought nova,
to avoid a merciless onslaught ending in bloody gore".
Alas, the challenge had been secretely sent the day before.
There he stood with ax and all at the castle's gate,
While teasingly sending in a not-so-holy bishop as bait.
High on the castle's wall nova bellowed: dump the boiling oil,
To force the ax-man with his troups to screamingly recoil.
To no avail, Philla hurled his castle straight upon the king,
Who standing stark naked, tried to hide his private thing.
So nova quickly conceded out of shameful desperation
and Philla gently lowering the ax accepted nova's resignation. This poem is dedicated to all members who have experienced the breaking of a gentleman's agreement. <He Know No Honor> Now in yonder obscurity live a bishop called Pork
his tongue protruding like a two-pronged fork.
He say: nova dear, I will play you thirty/thirty
then he quickly run, I say: that be little dirty.
This Pork he say; sweet nova please grant me tie
upon my honor as a holy man I do never lie.
He say: nova dear: I will play you thirty/thirty
but he quickly run: I say that be more than little dirty
to Pork this kindly nova say: I grant you draw
as Pork's time in present game all but gone he saw.
he say: dear nova, I will play you thirty/thirty
as he quickly run: I truly say that be fricken dirty.
now always loudly to this Pork I shall tell
no more play me but evil one who live in hell.
This poem is dedicated to all Caissa members who strongly believe in Freedom of Movement. <Chess Charter of Rights> Hear ye hear ye all in this great realm of our bewildered king, Free,
Who has stomped, peeled and bedrivelled this here very strange decree.
Which will soon if not later be delivered not so fresh from the press.
And hence will be known as the Charter of Rights in the game of chess.
You have the right to believe every tale no matter how small or how tall.
But you don't have the right to peddle your beliefs not at all not at all.
You have the right to the essentials of life if you know what I mean
But you don't have the right to screwing around with my loving queen.
You have the right to be here or there but you must always be somewhere.
But you don't have the right jumping around at will from square to square.
You have the right to move about only yes only on your master's indication.
And that in accordance to My Rules and your predestined move limitation. This poem is dedicated to all Caissa members who are the Silent Majority. <The Silent Majority> Spoke the silent pawn to the opposing queen:
Your master is a filthy man and also very mean.
He does naught but curse and foulmouth my gentle master.
Your king ought to punish him real fast if not faster.
because we are all tired of his filthy ranting and raving.
We want to play chess which is our gift and inborn craving.
But if he is allowed to continue to act like a filthy prick,
we'll catch him and drown him in the cesspool with frick.
Replied the queen smilingly though in a very loud voice:
Fear not silent majority because that is also our choice.
So it came about, that one could hear in the deep of night
an inhuman scream of the filthy man who died slowly of fright.
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96 games, 1790-2009 - Publications by Year & Unconfirmed Source _9s
“Sonnet 18”
by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. “The words of truth are simple.” ― Aeschylus “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. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” ― Confucius “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
— Dolly Parton
“A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.” ― Naval Ravikant “Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.” ― Seneca “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth John 14:6
“<I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.>” ― Jesus Christ “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ― Buddha “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” ― William Shakespeare “Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.” ― William Napier / Irving Chernev “Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi.” ― Greg Baum. “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” ― Robert Hughes “Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” ― Savielly Tartakower “Pawns are the soul of the game.” ― François-André Danican Philidor “The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz “I believe that it is best to know a 'dubious' opening really well, rather than a 'good' opening only slightly.” ― Simon Williams “There is no such thing as an absolutely freeing move. A freeing move in a position in which development has not been carried far always proves illusory, and vice versa, a move which does not come at all in the category of freeing moves can, given a surplus of tempi to our credit, lead to a very free game.”
― Aron Nimzowitsch
“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove you the better player.” ― English Proverb “For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chess player in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.” ― Alexander Alekhine “We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chess player's nature.” ― Rudolf Spielmann “To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.” ― Mikhail Tal “Boring? Who's boring? I am Fredthebear. My mind is always active, busy. If you're bored, follow your uncle around or go ride your bike.” “Capa's games looked as though they were turned out by a lathe, while Alekhine's resembled something produced with a mallet and chisel.” ― Charles Yaffe “Whereas Anderssen and Chigorin looked for accidental positions, Capablanca is guided by the logicality of strong positions. He values only that which is well-founded: solidity of position, pressure on a weak point, he does not trust the accidental, even if it be a problem-like mate, at the required moment he discovers and carries out subtle and far-sighted combinations...”
― Emanuel Lasker
“Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with its logic.” ― Garry Kasparov Soviet Middlegame Technique written by Peter Romanovsky is a classic in Soviet Chess texts. First published in 1929, it’s stood the test of time by being one of the few pieces of literature to stay in the “best chess books” conversation for nearly a century now. “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”
― Queen Elizabeth II
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln “Proper preparation prevents poor performance.” ― Stephen Keague “The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat. So people who don’t know what they’re doing, or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self.” — Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), You’ve Got Mail “The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”
― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” ― Douglas MacArthur “Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers.”
― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel
“In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.”
— Vasily Smyslov
Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times. Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool. ~ Nigerian Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. ~ Twi Proverb The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.’ A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.’ All’s well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.’ Meanwhile, Henry Knighton’s Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra “A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”
— Eeyore
ABC poker
* A Chess Course for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOI... * Chess for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6... * Che brides a room: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-G_p... * Control the Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Y... * Control the Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S4... * So calm, cool, collected in the Center Game that she has time for a sip: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qWo-... * 50 Games to Know: https://en.chessbase.com/post/50-ga... * 100: Game Collection: 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures * Aagh! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NXaY... * A lot of love: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3df3... * Basic Rules: https://thechessworld.com/basic-che... * Common Phrases and Terms: https://www.ragchess.com/chess-basi... * One of the best: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vtnW... * One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini * One good turn deserves another:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gKdx...
* 1981: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aagq... * Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Attack with Qh5/Qh4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ3... * Qh5 in the Open Sicilian: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T7o5... * Anderssen - Steinitz Match: Anderssen - Steinitz (1866) * Assorted good games: Game Collection: assorted Good games * You're astounding: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jq_W... * April 30, 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxq... * #atchafalayabasin
* Bishop pair mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZGqy... * Blackburne-Schilling Gambit forks: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SVBe... * Beauty Prize: Game Collection: Les Prix de Beauté aux Echecs (I) * B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger’s Models) * Bill Addison (1933-2008): https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Mr. Bean: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iIT6... * Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black * Brutal: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Budapest Chess Olympiad 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YX... * Certainly brilliant if not pre-arranged: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s6gt... * Cod, Cape Cod!? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J3kP... * Common pawn mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYX... * Learn the Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvE... * Caro-Kann Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juB... * C-Ks: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines * C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Chess Terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVv... * Chokepoint: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kk6T... * Capablanca - Alekhine: https://search.aol.com/aol/video;_y... * Oh say can you see... the bear? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PD... * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel
* Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * Double attack met with double attack in the French Defense! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rYCY... * Double check opening trap: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dsij... * Dojo 1.e4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE7...
You don't have to act like a grandmaster. However, grandmasters usually play the statistically best opening moves (established book theory) according to database game collections comparing wins and draws to losses. Play what you like, but PREDICT The Near Future (the best next move): understand what will likely happen next (the move that stings the most that you don't want to happen) BEFORE you move. Sometimes your best move is to not allow what the opponent will do next. At other times, you should ignore your opponent's threat because you can make a more dangerous threat against his king or queen if you act immediately! Don't just pick out a move that looks good. First you must PREDICT The Near Future... know what will likely happen next against a strong opponent BEFORE you ever move. It's like having a look out see the night riders coming and warn you to hurry to get ready to avoid being surprised by hostiles. * Dojo 1.d4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdo... * Dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VMrV... * Just Don't Blunder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=261... * Empires come and go: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o9qO... * elmubarak: Game Collection: elmubarak: my fav games * The are exceptions: https://academicchess.com/worksheet... * Erroneous Piece Trades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC... * Pawn Endgame composed by <Ivan Sindler> in 1957: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l95... * 5 Sicilian traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cju... * Pop the pony on f6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLK... * Top 6 traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYO... * 7 Best gambits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGe... * 8 Queen traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmU... * Far out: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5N6P... * Favorite Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Fianchetto Q sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQa... * Fundamentals: Game Collection: Chess Fundamentals (Capablanca) * Fried Liver for beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra7... * Fertilizer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/raGc... * Fischer's Unbreakable Record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP... * See, follow, act: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JsuU... * Flip the Finish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWH... * Gambits refuted: https://chessmood.com/courses?scrol... * Get 'er done! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/igbK... * Get off your rating plateau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuK... * Get a load of this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7UFF... * Glossary NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/... * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) * GToC Book: https://archive.org/details/the-gol... * By Grace: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CgQ5... * GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at...
* Genesis Chapter 2, Verse 24: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HuW_... * GM Judit Polgar, 45th Chess Olympiad Budapest 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7l... * GM Neiksans Boot Camp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l6... * Head shaker: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y27R... * He found... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3... * Halosar Trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSE... * How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit * How to blunder less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Y... * Hyperaccelerated Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iPeX... * The horse is unique: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dz0V... * The Italian Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0... * Job: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jvx0... * JonathanJ's favorites 4: Game Collection: JonathanJ's favorite games 4 * Jorundte's favorites: Game Collection: jorundte's favorite games * Joe Medicine Crow: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CzH5... * Magic square checkmate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Yrn... * King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to... * The King of Aram inscription: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d04v... * This is why you don't resign: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4kvF... * This little light of mine: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eThK... * Ray Keene's favorite games: Game Collection: ray keene's favorite games * Kindness always comes back around: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AKtq... * Keep your mind on what you want to happen, not what you don't want to happen. * We know: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9a_v... * Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyP... * The B-K Killer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXy... * Knocked over: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a9hQ... * Learn the Evans and Nakhmanson Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG5... * London System Combos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b5... * Remarkable longevity achieves greatness, but is not the only kind: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ibwf... * Minichess: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FyrH... * Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer... * Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES * MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala) * Modern bias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIq... * Morality does not evolve: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZHgS... * N, B & K vs lone K: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n5xV... * Nunn's Chess Course: Game Collection: Lasker JNCC * Nuremberg 1896: Nuremberg (1896) * Names and Places: Game Collection: Named Mates * Nervous? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QKwo... * Now that's a blunder: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5AYy... * O'Sullivan Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dzFS... * Oldest Nation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MxMK... * Open file traps in the opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM8... * Open file trap in the Petroff Defense: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_f9h... * Open file miniature in the Scotch Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iWHB... * Out of the clear blue sky: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SYLa... * Of course, I watched a replay or two: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ALLS... * Gain the opposition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sB... * Pause button upper left: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o4Vr... * Painful: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w6mQ... * Prodigy Nodirbek Abdusattorov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-t... * Pen tricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJ... * People on Another Level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7V... * Pocket aces
* No positional checklist: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E1vx... * Potter variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldq... * Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/ * Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kkm7... * Pawn storms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jny... * He paid our debt out of love: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dd3r... * Pretzels? Game Collection: Special Pretzel Collection * Progress is still progress no matter how slow. * And then he proposed to his girlfriend on national TV: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kS2o... * Punish the white Q's try for Scholar's Mate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vegx... * Punish Scholar's Mate Version 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB5... * Question of the Day, dedicated to devilish cyberbullies everywhere who fabricate, mischaracterize, and falsify rather than improve their own life: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uupd... * Queen's Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwP... * H2P the QG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mts... * Meet Albin CG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCk... * Queen vs Rook Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJn... * Rook EG promotion: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/d9on... * Reunited: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bPUP... * Rousseau Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f6wQ... * Roll Tide: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sZoU... * Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces * R U KIDding me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhW... * GothamChess KID setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK0... * Dojo's KID is versatile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6H... * Katar's Repertoire: Game Collection: An Opium Repertoire for White * RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Rook and King vs lone King Mate: "Make the box smaller." https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zOva...
Did you hear "Do NOT give a check until it's checkmate."
1. March your king into the center to force the lone king to leave the center.
2. Build a box/barrier/enclosure with your R protected by your K. Keep your R & K connected. This keeps the lone king in just one of the four corner areas instead of roaming free all over.
3. Shrink the box/barrier/enclosure smaller if you can. Keep repeating this step.
4. If you cannot make the box/barrier/enclosure smaller with your R, then you move your king, but keep your R & K connected.
5. Do not give a check until it's checkmate. * The Box Method: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B2ig... * The Regulators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAn... * Real Swag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgY... * Sicilian Wing Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMe... * Sicilian Wingers: Game Collection: wing gambit victories * Smyslov/Niemann Crash Through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fc... * Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4 * GK Sicilian: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Saved to flourish, not aborted: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3tkP... * "So you wanna be good at chess? Make sure your endgames are on par." https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LAsg... * Stacked deck: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8bsC... * Staircase pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvw... * Staircase mystery: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ny4u... * Stumped? Gain leverage, apply pressure: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OUVC... * Tactics (Forcing sequence) vs Strategy (Plan to improve your position/mobility): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iYON... * Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics * Traps You Should Learn Before Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1I... * Timing and touch is everything: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ztyn... * Traxlered in 8 moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNY... * Traxler Counterattack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibt... * Teach this EG to beginners: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aHvN... * Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vzTx... * They knew firsthand of His omnipotence; love is loyalty: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sDJQ... * The Pawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YG... * The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z... * Underpromotion to draw: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k61E... * Variety Pack: Game Collection: KID games * Vaishali is unstoppable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGy... * Venice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hoCJ... * Volunteers, obviously: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zjlS... * Walkin' in Budapest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQy... * Walkin' in Memphis:
* In the Wilderness: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Svyz... * When to change openings: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JtjB... * The Worst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-... * Develop wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W83b... * The opponent does not have to cooperate with your plans: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ADFh... * Colle-Zukertort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BG... * 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
'A rising tide lifts all boats'
'Don't put the cart before the horse'
Create protected outposts for your knights.
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
~ Scottish Proverb
Connecticut: Windsor
Established in: 1633
Windsor was Connecticut's first English settlement, with a perfect location on the water. Today, the city uses its "first town" status to create a historical atmosphere ideal for tourism. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... * King of Persia contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGw... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... * ASDFASDFASDLFKHASDF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTo... * Pure chess history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nou... * In the history of mankind: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pRGZ... The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston
William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations. Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.
Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother
For blessings and God’s provision
Heavenly Father,
I pray that you will bless me and show me how to live a life for you. Give me the fortitude, insight, and bravery to overcome the difficulties that life throws at me. I pray for abundant love, support, gladness, and success in all my endeavors. May your strength and sustenance cover me today and every day.
I pray these in Jesus’ mighty name.
Amen.
The Frog and the Rat
They to bamboozle are inclined,
Says Merlin, who bamboozled are.
The word, though rather unrefined,
Has yet an energy we ill can spare;
So by its aid I introduce my tale.
A well-fed rat, rotund and hale,
Not knowing either Fast or Lent,
Disporting round a frog-pond went.
A frog approached, and, with a friendly greeting,
Invited him to see her at her home,
And pledged a dinner worth his eating, –
To which the rat was nothing loath to come.
Of words persuasive there was little need:
She spoke, however, of a grateful bath;
Of sports and curious wonders on their path;
Of rarities of flower, and rush, and reed:
One day he would recount with glee
To his assembled progeny
The various beauties of these places,
The customs of the various races,
And laws that sway the realms aquatic,
(She did not mean the hydrostatic!)
One thing alone the rat perplexed, –
He was but moderate as a swimmer.
The frog this matter nicely fixed
By kindly lending him her
Long paw, which with a rush she tied
To his; and off they started, side by side.
Arrived on the lakelet's brink,
There was but little time to think.
The frog leaped in, and almost brought her
Bound guest to land beneath the water.
Perfidious breach of law and right!
She meant to have a supper warm
Out of his sleek and dainty form.
Already did her appetite
Dwell on the morsel with delight.
The gods, in anguish, he invokes;
His faithless hostess rudely mocks;
He struggles up, she struggles down.
A kite, that hovers in the air,
Inspecting everything with care,
Now spies the rat belike to drown,
And, with a rapid wing,
Upbears the wretched thing,
The frog, too, dangling by the string!
The joy of such a double haul
Was to the hungry kite not small.
It gave him all that he could wish –
A double meal of flesh and fish.
The best contrived deceit
Can hurt its own contriver,
And perfidy does often cheat
Its author's purse of every stiver.
Hit & Run
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Nitfest
M.Hassan: <Eggman>: Scarborough Chess Club which is said to be the biggest chess club in Canada, arranges tournaments under the name of "Howard Rideout" tournaments. Is he the same Rideout that you are mentioning?. I only know that this is to commemorate "Rideout" who has been a player and probably in that club because the club is over 40 years old.
This tournament is repeated year after year and at the beginning of the season when the club resumes activity after summer recession in September. Zxp PeterB: Eggman and Mr. Hassan - you are right, Howard Ridout was a long time member of the Scarborough Chess Club! He was very active even when I joined in 1969, and was still organizing tournaments at the time of his death in the 1990s. This game is a good memorial to him! Theodorovitch was a Toronto master rated about 2250 back then, perhaps about 2350 nowadays. <My Everything Friend
You magnify my happiness.
When I am feeling glad;
You help to heal my injured heart
Whenever I am sad.
You’re such a pleasure in my life;
I hope that you can see
How meaningful your friendship is;
You’re a total joy to me.
— Joanna Fuchs>
“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ― Denis Waitley “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle Psalm 31:24
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord! “The wind cannot defeat a tree with strong roots.” — The Revenant <There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, “A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances.” This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square.Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, “[Bishops and rooks] complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen.” Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, “The queen and knight are [able] to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop.” When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, “I think it’s true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops.” He continues, “Of course, I’m not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.”> Machgielis "Max" Euwe
Fifth World Chess Champion from 1935 to 1937
Birthdate: May 20, 1901
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: November 26, 1981
Max Euwe scripted history when he became the first chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. A PhD in math, he also taught both math and computer programming, apart from publishing a mathematical analysis of chess. A chess world champion, he also served as the president of FIDE. * Finegold lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-q... greersome wrote:
There once was a woman from Mizes
Who had chess sets of two different sizes
One was quite small
Almost nothing at all
But the other was large and won prizes!
runner-runner flush draw
“For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
<Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me).
Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!> FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/ The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
card shark
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt “Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” — Henry Ford “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“In order to write about life first you must live it.” — Ernest Hemingway “My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I’m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.” — John Durham “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” — Frank Sinatra Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our winged horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road.
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse -
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
“The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King” pages 24-25 of The Year Book of the United States Chess Federation 1944 (Chicago, 1945), which published ‘Brave Heart’, Anthony Santasiere’s tribute to Frank J. Marshall. Written in August 1942 for Marshall’s 65th birthday, it began: Brave Heart –
We salute you!
Knowing neither gain nor loss,
Nor fear, nor hate –;
But only this –
To fight – to fight –
And to love.
Santasiere then gushes on in a similar vein for another 40 lines or so, and we pick up the encomium for its final verse: For this – dear Frank –
We thank you.
For this – dear Frank –
We love you!
Brave heart –
Brave heart –
We love you!
On the TV show Star Trek, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) have engaged in three chess games. All three games were won by Kirk. In 1972, Iceland established a 24-hour police guard around the world chess championship match seats of Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky to keep out intruders and alleviate concerns of subterfuge. After one move each, there are 400 distinct possibilities in the game of chess. Sep-07-24 Cecco: According to this engine the much criticized 34. ... h2 is the best move.
Sep-07-24 offramp: I was wondering about all the chess engines that disappeared from our world.
What happened to Mephisto? I used to play that board/set in a London department store. Gandalf has gone. Shredder has gone. Rybka went suddenly down the toilet. AlphaZero is not commercially available; it probably gave up chess to mine bitcoins. Bee-nado is coming! The best-known engines now seem to be Fritz and Stockfish. I often have a look at TCEC, which is always interesting. It's the chess version of <RobotWars>. Sep-07-24 Muttley101: <offramp> if you're unaware of the story of Rybka, the ICCA (or whatever they are/were called), claimed that Rybka contained large sections of code copied from Oakfoam, and banned it from computer chess competitions. If I recall correctly, Chessbase took on the developers and incorporated Rybka's techniques into Fritz.
The DCNN that underpins Alphazero was bought by Google and is being used to investigate all sorts of research problems, for example: drug design, protein folding. Not hard to find information, amazing stuff. In any case, Leela (amongst others) used the DCNN architecture (Google published numerous articles on techniques, they are wonderful), and the recent work on KANs is another example of how the area is developing. Have fun reading up.
Sep-07-24
offramp: User: Muttley101 your précis is perfect. I'm going to have a look.
When I lost to Mephisto I must have thought, "This game will create protein folding." <“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V>
“They made us many promises, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land -- and they did.” — Chief Red Cloud, Oglala-Lakota Sioux, 1822-1909. “There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. Patience is a virtue.
Dec-26-23 hemy: I sent email messages to <jessicafischerqueen> and <Tabanus>. I was contacted by email to both of them for many years. Responses from the mail servers were:
"Sorry, your message to <her email address> cannot be delivered. This mailbox is disabled" and "Recipient address rejected: Access denied".
Credits for Robert Bergersen aka <Tabanus>, include his picture, for his contribution to "Lithuanian chess history" project, you can find on page 45 of this project. He also mentioned on page 141 (with one more picture), pages 166, 1315, 1383-1386, 1823, 2807 and 3423. <A Time to Talk
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
— Robert Frost>
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Railroad Mate:
“Chess: From Beginner to Advanced at Warp Speed” by Fred Reinfeld “The Immortal Game: Anderssen vs. Kieseritzky” “The Evergreen Game: Anderssen vs. Dufresne” * https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/oth... Phone scammers are getting smarter with their tactics like AI voice scams. And if you’re not careful, they could make big bucks off of you, the unsuspecting caller. Aside from hanging up if you hear this four-word phrase, there's something else you can do to avoid becoming a victim and to keep up with your smartphone security and privacy. Certain area codes can warn potential targets that the call isn't safe, according to Joseph Steinberg, CEO of SecureMySocial. Although scam callers once used a 900 number, they’ve changed their methods as the general public became aware of their tactic. Now, many scam phone numbers have different area codes, including 809, which originates in the Caribbean. Another area code to look out for may look like it's coming from the United States, but isn't. "Criminals have been known to use caller IDs with the area code 473, which appears to be domestic, but is actually the area code for the island of Grenada," Steinberg says. Watch out for these phone call scams that could steal your money, too. By the way, those calls add up fast. You could be charged for taking a call from any of these foreign countries, according to AARP. Plus, scammers can swindle you out of your money through phony vacation scams and fake stories about danger or money problems. iPhone scams and Uber scams are also on the rise, making Apple fans and Uber users alike more wary. Make sure you know how to avoid Uber scams and how to stop spam texts on your phone. To play it extra safe, Steinberg recommends never answering or returning a call from a number you don't recognize. If you actually know the person, they can always leave a voicemail. "Remember that it's unlikely that someone you do not know—who is in distress at a location with which you are not familiar—would dial a random number in another country and ask you to help them," he says. "They would call the police." It can't hurt to be wary of possible scam phone numbers with the following international area codes. And watch out for these Facebook Marketplace scams before you go shopping. Scam phone numbers: International Area Codes with a +1 Country Code 232—Sierra Leone
242 — Bahamas
246 — Barbados
268 — Antigua
284 — British Virgin Islands
345 — Cayman Islands
441 — Bermuda
473 — Grenada, Carriacou, and Petite Martinique 649 — Turks and Caicos
664 — Montserrat
721 — Sint Maarten
758 — St. Lucia
767 — Dominica
784 — St. Vincent and Grenadines
809, 829, and 849 — The Dominican Republic
868 — Trinidad and Tobago
869 — St. Kitts and Nevis
876 — Jamaica
It's important to note that scammers can create scam phone numbers by spoofing numbers from many area codes, not just the ones listed above. Remember, a good rule of thumb is if you don't recognize the phone number, don't pick up your phone and let it go to voicemail. This can help you avoid falling for common phone scams, such as those pesky car extended warranty calls. By the way—if you are charged for picking up a scam call, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recommends contacting your phone company to try and take care of the matter. You can also file a complaint about the scam call with the FCC. Next, read about these online scams you need to be aware of and how to avoid them. Also, read up on what doxxing is and how it sets you up to be hacked. “It's time to go.” ― Raven
“Make peace with imperfection.” ― Richard Carlson Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' * The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/w2JcfP5K * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century The Sofia Rules forbid agreed draws before 30 moves. The "Bilbao" scoring system awards 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. “You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” ― Indira Gandhi Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. “To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment.” — Richard Carlson Bee-nado is coming!
The Old Woman And Her Two Servants
A beldam kept two spinning maids,
Who plied so handily their trades,
Those spinning sisters down below
Were bunglers when compared with these.
No care did this old woman know
But giving tasks as she might please.
No sooner did the god of day
His glorious locks enkindle,
Than both the wheels began to play,
And from each whirling spindle
Forth danced the thread right merrily,
And back was coiled unceasingly.
Soon as the dawn, I say, its tresses showed,
A graceless cock most punctual crowed.
The beldam roused, more graceless yet,
In greasy petticoat bedight,
Struck up her farthing light,
And then forthwith the bed beset,
Where deeply, blessedly did snore
Those two maid-servants tired and poor.
One oped an eye, an arm one stretched,
And both their breath most sadly fetched,
This threat concealing in the sigh –
"That cursed cock shall surely die!"
And so he did: they cut his throat,
And put to sleep his rousing note.
And yet this murder mended not
The cruel hardship of their lot;
For now the twain were scarce in bed
Before they heard the summons dread.
The beldam, full of apprehension
Lest oversleep should cause detention,
Ran like a goblin through her mansion.
Thus often, when one thinks
To clear himself from ill,
His effort only sinks
Him in the deeper still.
The beldam, acting for the cock,
Was Scylla for Charybdis" rock.
Q: Did you hear about the kidnapping at school?
R: It’s okay. He woke up.
Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. Riddle: If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there? Skip down for the answer... Dionysis1: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb! Riddle Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet. Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
~ Scottish Proverb
PinkFaerie5 wrote:
Leopard King Coronation
bird of paradise flew in
briefing the leopard king
a candle was tossed
but isn’t he disguised? a pheasant asked
Yes, wearing a butterfly mask
and one of your feathers
the pheasant was pleased
which is why I left, said the bird
I thought he would be wearing my feather
feelings are always being hurt
at coronations of leopard kings
this was no exception
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” — Steve Jobs “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston “A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.” — Maya Angelou “I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance: waiting for the bathroom.” — Bob Hope “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca <“Ozymandias”
by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”> “True power is expressed in quiet confidence; it was the sea's very calmness that epitomized its mighty force.” ― Emile Habiby “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.”
― Pierre Mac Orlan
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer "As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant <“It’s All I Have To Bring Today” by Emily DickinsonIt’s all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.>
Our Heavenly Father, kind and good,
We thank Thee for our daily food.
We thank Thee for Thy love and care.
Be with us Lord, and hear our prayer.
Amen.
<Page 166 of The Personality of Chess by I.A. Horowitz and P.L. Rothenberg (New York, 1963) gave ‘a hitherto unpublished limerick-acrostic:Caissa, the goddess of Chess,
Has this task, no more and no less;
Every game, match and damn bit,
Sicilian and gambit
She must ever be ready to bless.>
“In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca I always play carefully and try to avoid unnecessary risks. I consider my method to be right as any superfluous ‘daring' runs counter to the essential character of chess, which is not a gamble but a purely intellectual combat conducted in accordance with the exact rules of logic. ― Jose Raul Capablanca 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. “Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom.” ― Charles F. Stanley Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. Isolated pawns require a very expensive therapy, for keeping them alive. * Riddle-ziggy-bean: 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
<"The Chess Players" was a film written and directed by Satyajit Ray in 1977, based on Munshi Premchand’s short story of the same name. Two chess-mad noblemen, Mir and Mirza, are so obsessed with their game that they refuse to notice the turmoil of the British incursions seething around them, not to mention the disintegration of their marriages. Despite these catastrophes, Ray’s touch in the film is light, as is Howard Altmann’s in the poem of the same name.> wordyfun:
032 rxp Felix Dzagnidze zombd Zelinsky fust NewJzy Zaza Bakgandzhiyo ztecho22 muzio far out-of-print scratch, scratch, scratched th rash on hes... “There just isn’t enough televised chess.” — David Letterman “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt “Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.” — Siegbert Tarrasch Friendly Tree, This Is Your Day
By Annette Wynne
Friendly tree, this is your day,
So we’ll stop our work and play
And talk of you,
And all the things that you do.
Standing still and quiet there,
Sending branches into air,
Making pleasant shade around,
Delving far beneath the ground,
Holding all year safe from harm
Little nest within your arm,
Keeping firmly where you are,
Reaching up to touch a star,
Growing, working, just as I,
Seeking God within the sky.
x25p atz Zhuravliov prejudice pawnz crie Zdanovs vote4 Zelinsky perfoam “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey Whiff
Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun." LONDON BRIDGE
London Bridge is falling down
Falling down
Falling down
London Bridge is falling down
My Fair Lady.
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