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9 Size 9 or 10 Copied "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 “In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.” — Vasily Smyslov “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 “My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.” ― Aeschylus, Agamemnon “Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” ― Garry Kasparov “After we have paid our dutiful respects to such frigid virtues as calculation, foresight, self-control and the like, we always come back to the thought that speculative attack is the lifeblood of chess.” — Fred Reinfeld “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.” “Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.” ― Hikaru Nakamura “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 “Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.” ― Evan Esar “All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.” ― Casey Stengel 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. “There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.” ― Sir Edward Coke “Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing.” ― Robin Sharma “I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.” ― Andrew Carnegie “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 “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 “We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” ― Winston S. Churchill “Men fight wars. Women win them.” ― Queen Elizabeth I of England “Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in "The Bad Man" and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.” ― Laraine Day “Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.” ― Alfred Hitchcock “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 * Anderssen - Steinitz Match: Anderssen - Steinitz (1866) * One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini * Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Alekhine getz blitzed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8H... * Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Checkmate Patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns * Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: 0 * Glossary: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Classic games by great players: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston) * 1992: Game Collection: Spassky-Fischer Match 1992 * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel * Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Bobby Fischer Rediscovered/Andrew Soltis (97 games): Game Collection: Bobby Fischer Rediscovered (Andy Soltis) * 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) * Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga... * Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/ * Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/ * Slow and steady wins the race: https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sp... * 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... * Vienna 1903 KG games: Game Collection: Vienna 1903 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... <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/ 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. * Beauty Prize: Game Collection: Les Prix de Beauté aux Echecs (I) * Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Brilliancies: Game Collection: brilliacies * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games: Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * C-K Examples: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines * Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * GK Sicilian: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit * LG - White wins: Game Collection: Latvian Gambit-White wins * Uncommon KP Gambits: Game Collection: Unusual Gambits * Katar's Repertoire: Game Collection: An Opium Repertoire for White * Names and Places: Game Collection: Named Mates * Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga... <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.”> Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times. “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 A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che... Dionysius1: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb! 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 The Satyr and the Traveller Within a savage forest grot A satyr and his chips Were taking down their porridge hot; Their cups were at their lips. You might have seen in mossy den, Himself, his wife, and brood; They had not tailor-clothes, like men, But appetites as good. In came a traveller, benighted, All hungry, cold, and wet, Who heard himself to eat invited With nothing like regret. He did not give his host the pain His asking to repeat; But first he blew with might and main To give his fingers heat. Then in his steaming porridge dish He delicately blew. The wondering satyr said, "I wish The use of both I knew." "Why, first, my blowing warms my hand, And then it cools my porridge." "Ah!" said his host, "then understand I cannot give you storage. "To sleep beneath one roof with you, I may not be so bold. Far be from me that mouth untrue Which blows both hot and cold." Ephesians 6:4: "Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." 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." 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." <Riddle Question: What word is always pronounced wrong? Everyone should get this right. Riddle Answer: Wrong! Q: What did one hat say to the other? R: You wait here. I’ll go on a head. Fredthebear created this collection.> 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. Dover publishers have downsized their chess book offerings as decades have passed, but many of the all-time classics written in English descriptive notation remain available at affordable prices: https://doverpublications.ecomm-sea... Those who pitch their tent on the Rogoff page having no use for classic chess books can find adult coloring books at Dover publishers. It's a great, versatile publishing company! For club players, I would recommend "Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur" by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden (as well as Max Euwe's "The Logical Approach to Chess," "Strategy & Tactics in Chess," and "The Road to Chess Mastery" from other book dealers, likely used) before reading James Mason's "The Art of Chess" which is 340 pages! Mason does not spoon-feed the reader as much as Euwe does IMHO. Those readers demanding an algebraic notation offering from Dover Publishers would do well to buy any book by Tim Harding. Also, if memory serves correctly, there are two tournament books published in algebraic notation: Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929 by Aron Nimzovich, translated by Jim Marfia (30 games) and Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein (210 games). The sign says "free shipping" on orders over $25.00. Several chess offerings are available as e-books. You can bundle -- get both versions and save a bunch. For those wondering about adult coloring e-books, well... I'll have to get back to you on that one, the pace of new technology being what it is. <Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I. ― Henry VIII of England> 1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4. “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. “Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.” ― Leo Durocher “Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn’t given freely by another person, it isn’t worth having.” ― Unknown “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 'A problem shared is a problem halved' 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth' St. Marher, 1225: "And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." worsdyfun 04zp copy that Zdanovs oh no Zelinsky forced Zanzit barrowed Chicago but never returned deposit to sendr Zaza Harganszhiya feeling the pressure. 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. 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 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. JACK AND JILL Jack and Jill Went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down And broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after. 155 games, 1620-2019 9 Sudgon's Scandis [White] “Si vis pacem, para bellum” ― Cicero Thank you Chessmaster, Sudgon, Gabon, and Fredthebear! 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! * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ The Two Mules Two mules were bearing on their backs, One, oats; the other, silver of the tax. The latter glorying in his load, Marched proudly forward on the road; And, from the jingle of his bell, It was plain he liked his burden well. But in a wild-wood glen A band of robber men Rushed forth on the twain. Well with the silver pleased, They by the bridle seized The treasure-mule so vain. Poor mule! in struggling to repel His ruthless foes, he fell Stabbed through; and with a bitter sighing, He cried, "Is this the lot they promised me? My humble friend from danger free, While, weltering in my gore, I'm dying?" "My friend," his fellow-mule replied, "It is not well to have one's work too high. If you had been a miller's drudge, as I, You would not thus have died." Riddle: What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks? Scroll down for Riddle Answer... FACTRETRIEVER: Monarch caterpillars breathe through holes in the sides of their bodies. Riddle Answer: Day, and night 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. “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. 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." 95 games, 1851-2014 9 Tarrasch Def Rules! Frank Cal16 Some inspiring wins for Black in the Tarrasch Defense to the Queen's Gambit. Classical lines (g3) first, then...other stuff. This collection of 16 games was Compiled by Eric Schiller. Thank you Eric Schiller! * Ideas: https://thechessworld.com/articles/.... How many chess openings are there? Well, White has 20 possible 1st moves. Black can respond with 20 of its own. That’s 400, and we’re ready for move 2. I don’t know them, but I would not be at all surprised if there was a name for each of them. People are like that. You really, really don’t need to know them all. If you follow the rules of thumb for good opening play, I promise you that you’ll be playing a named opening. Just put the 1st 3 moves in google, and you’ll get the opening’s name. With that information you can find other games that started the way your game started, likely by some very good players. Also, with the name you can read about it on Wikipedia, and find out what people think of it, who plays it, and its particular traps and idiosyncrasies. Once again, The Rules of Thumb for Good Opening Play: - Develop your pieces quickly with an eye towards controlling the center. Not necessarily occupying the center but controlling it certainly. - Castle your king just as soon as it’s practical to do so. - Really try not to move a piece more than once during the opening, it’s a waste of valuable time. - Connect your rooks. This marks the end of the opening. Connected rooks means that only your rooks and your castled king are on the back rank. - Respond to threats appropriately, even if you have to break the rules. They’re rules of thumb, not scripture, or physical laws. If you and your opponent follow these rules of thumb, you’ll reach the middle game ready to fight. If only you follow these rules of thumb, you’re already winning! Good Hunting. -- Eric H. “The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “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 "If you can’t take (constructive) criticism, consider taking up another game, perhaps solitaire." — Jeremy Silman "Where there's a will, there's a way." “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” — Charles Dickens “The journey is its own reward.” — Homer 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? “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 “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.” “When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one.” ― Emanual Lasker “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 “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 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 * 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 * 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... * Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * 21st Century: Game Collection: 0 * B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger’s Models) * GPA: https://chesstier.com/grand-prix-at... * GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Glossary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss... * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ “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 I have a fear of speed bumps. But I am slowly getting over it. * Riddle-e-dee: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid... I was wondering why the frisbee was getting bigger, then it hit me. 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 “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 “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 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." ― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion 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. 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 Two artists had an art contest. It ended in a draw. FACTRETRIEVER 2020: Gummy bears were originally called "dancing bears." Sea otters have the thickest fur of any mammal, at 1 million hairs per square inch. 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. 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 INTELLECT ― Victor Kahn The world as we view it is much like a dance, you can take what is coming and live it by chance… Or seek answers to questions and live it by choice, just follow your heart and answer its voice. Chance brings that karmic phenomenon, manifested reactions from what you have done. Look for a place that’s hidden within, search for the message, that’s where to begin. Talk to yourself, have conversation inside, it’s a matter of choice, create from the mind. Picture yourself in a world all your own, then bring it to life from the seed to the sown. Search & discover the source of white light, don’t settle for anything, reach for the heights. Your goals are the answer to what you achieve, and it’s almost like magic when you start to believe. Truth & intuition …bring gifts to rejoice, go it by chance or live it by choice! Pwordyfun: 7pm foam zeruption Zatonskih zan IKrush whirl adoptied from Ukrn promotion. Karn was on brain salad surgery not Tarkus or Ed Van Halena on keyboard #3. It's all but over now in Nome, Alaska. "I should have shot the horse," was chips and salsa only comment. Eye speculation wuz she dezired two sam's pal thee whtie fudge b4all ran out. Say less read mort. * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ “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 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. A TISKET A TASKET A tisket, a tasket A green and yellow basket. I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I dropped it. I dropped it, I dropped it And on the way I dropped it. A little boy he picked it up And put it in his pocket. tsk. 20 games, 1906-2003 9 tpstar 2N aka JP Compiled by tpstar 1-100 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. 0-0 100-199 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nxe4! 5. Nxe4 d5 200-299 400-499 9. Nh3 700-799 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. ed Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dc bc 8. Be2 h6 9. Nf3 e4 10. Ne5 Bc5 11. c3 Bd6 Q: How does the ocean say hi? A: It waves! “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 "Where there's a will, there's a way." “An isolated Pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.” ― Savielly Tartakover “In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.” ― Bobby Fischer, A bust to the King's Gambit (1960) Zwickmuhle: to be in a quandry/predicament/ double bind/catch-22 situation, to be in a dilemma Eyes trust themselves, ears trust others. ~ German Proverb Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times. “Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.” ― Zhuangzi “Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.” ― Anthony Santasiere “A wood-pusher overlooks the ranks.” ― Old Russian saying “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 “Have a good reason/explanation for each move, and know what will happen next before you make the move. <When in doubt, don't move a pawn.> A pawn move is a permanent commitment easily restricted (no retreat to safety, no capturing, jumping or side-step around an obstruction in its path) and should be made for a useful, lasting reason. A settling pawn move turns over the initiative. Play with your pieces! It's far better to play with your active pieces off the back rank, as pieces have superior mobility to escape, threaten, or defend more squares in more directions.” ― Fredthebear “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) “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 “My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” ― JP Getty “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 “Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.” ― Hikaru Nakamura “If you’re too open-minded; your brains will fall out.” ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” ― Albert Einstein Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” “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 “Most people work just hard enough to not get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” ― George Carlin “Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.” ― Zig Ziglar “Time is the ultimate currency.” ― Elon Musk 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.> 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.chessjournal.com/chess-... "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 Q: How do trees get online? A: They just log on. If you didn’t know your age, how old would you be? Q: What do you call a couple of chimpanzees sharing an Amazon account? No, they're not monkeys... A: PRIME-mates. The Camel and the Floating Sticks The first who saw the humpbacked camel Fled off for life; the next approached with care; The third with tyrant rope did boldly dare The desert wanderer to trammel. Such is the power of use to change The face of objects new and strange; Which grow, by looking at, so tame, They do not even seem the same. And since this theme is up for our attention, A certain watchman I will mention, Who, seeing something far Away on the ocean, Could not but speak his notion That It was a ship of war. Some minutes more had past, – A bomb-ketch It was without a sail, And then a boat, and then a bale, And floating sticks of wood at last! Full many things on earth, I wot, Will claim this tale, – and well they may; They're something dreadful far away, But near at hand – they're not. <How many chess openings are there? Well, White has 20 possible 1st moves. Black can respond with 20 of its own. That’s 400, and we’re ready for move 2. I don’t know them, but I would not be at all surprised if there was a name for each of them. People are like that. You really, really don’t need to know them all. If you follow the rules of thumb for good opening play, I promise you that you’ll be playing a named opening. Just put the 1st 3 moves in google, and you’ll get the opening’s name. With that information you can find other games that started the way your game started, likely by some very good players. Also, with the name you can read about it on Wikipedia, and find out what people think of it, who plays it, and its particular traps and idiosyncrasies. Once again, The Rules of Thumb for Good Opening Play: - Develop your pieces quickly with an eye towards controlling the center. Not necessarily occupying the center but controlling it certainly. - Castle your king just as soon as it’s practical to do so. - Really try not to move a piece more than once during the opening, it’s a waste of valuable time. - Connect your rooks. This marks the end of the opening. Connected rooks means that only your rooks and your castled king are on the back rank. - Respond to threats appropriately, even if you have to break the rules. They’re rules of thumb, not scripture, or physical laws. If you and your opponent follow these rules of thumb, you’ll reach the middle game ready to fight. If only you follow these rules of thumb, you’re already winning! Good Hunting. -- Eric H.> “The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca * Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game * RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * Robert Fischer's Best Games by KingG (127 games, a ton of quotes): Game Collection: Robert Fischer's Best Games * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ Zelma Lavone King - U.S. prisoner arrested January 30, 1968 in Phoenix, AriZona. “He who is quick to borrow is slow to pay.” ― German proverb “I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.” ― Thomas Jefferson “Virtue has never been as respectable as money.” ― Mark Twain “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” ― Warren Buffett “Whoever said 'money can't buy happiness' didn't know where to go shopping.” ― Bo Derek The Eagles' stadium once had a courtroom. Veterans Stadium, where the Philadelphia Eagles once played, included a stadium courtroom and jail to handle the team's notoriously rowdy fans. As a former judge for the so-called "Eagles Court" explained, "Eagles Court was a lot of fun and it served a purpose. One of the interesting facts that came out of Eagles Court was that 95 percent of the people arrested were not from Philadelphia. But Philadelphia was getting broad-brushed as the city with horrible, horrible fans." (Unverified as of this post.) 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. 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 (The Bishop's Opening, Berlin Defense) Then 3.d4 (Ponziani's Gambit) and some variation thereafter. Wikipedia shows that the following are closely related: * 3...exd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 (Center Game, by transposition) * 3...exd4 4.Nf3 (Urusov Gambit) o 4...Bc5 5.0-0 Nc6 (Max Lange Attack, by transposition) o 4...Nc6 (Two Knights Defense, by transposition) o 4...Nxe4 5.Qxd4 (Urusov Gambit Accepted) <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).> "You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds." Red State: https://www.redhotpawn.com/ Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R Golden Treasury of Chess: - Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 - https://archive.org/details/mostins... Glossary: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... Classic games by great players: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston) "What goes around, comes around." 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. Chessgames.com will be unavailable Friday, February 17, 2023 from 11AM through 11:30AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience. 1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight. ~ Scottish Proverb Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. ~ Scottish Proverb <Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I. ― Henry VIII of England> 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. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked at me surprised. <Riddle Question: A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. How? Scroll down for the answer... * Riddle-free-xp: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid... Answer to the Riddle above: She fell off the bottom step.> “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 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. 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... “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 Philippians 4:7 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. “Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.” ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well "In Vino Veritas" 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 “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 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. 1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 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. MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids all in a row Frank and his eldest daughter Nancy: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Gold Au 79 “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 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 "If you can’t take (constructive) criticism, consider taking up another game, perhaps solitaire." — Jeremy Silman "Where there's a will, there's a way." * 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. “Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.” — Lysa TerKeurst “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 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 “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” ― Voltaire “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 “A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.” ― Yogi Berra werdfun 5zshhz! Zengis Kahnn fish spawn d4 fidi zoccolo fesso zborris29 Zaitsev system, which defends the Rook, Zelic 21...Bxe5 tactics fo breakfast tuna on a troll fo lunch an aftanoon bicycle rodeo william give u game sum need edward punch. Zelma Lavone King - U.S. prisoner arrested January 30, 1968 in Phoenix, Arizona. Frank and his eldest daughter Nancy: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Gold Au 79 Charge! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charg.... “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 “He who is quick to borrow is slow to pay.” ― German proverb “I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.” ― Thomas Jefferson “Virtue has never been as respectable as money.” ― Mark Twain “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” ― Warren Buffett “Whoever said 'money can't buy happiness' didn't know where to go shopping.” ― Bo Derek * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ “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 “[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 Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” * 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 Nov-28-22 pony up or die: Sorry <perf> I screwed up bad copying the data from the <Opening Tree> - mixing the frequency for 6...Qg3 instead of the scoring. Kinda stupid - my apologies. The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882 “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. “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 Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees —Those dying generations—at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect. An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress, Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence; And therefore I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium. O sages standing in God’s holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul. Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come. “Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.” — Lysa TerKeurst “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 * 4 Miniz: zPonziani, zKieseritzky, zPhilidor, zFrankenstein-Dracula: z https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... “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 “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 any more, 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. 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. 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... "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 Philippians 4:7 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. “Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.” ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well “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 “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... "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 Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 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) Q: Why do we tell actors to “break a leg?” A: Because every play has a cast. “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 Old Russian Proverb: "Every sandpiper praises its own swamp. (Всяк кулик свое болото хвалит.)" People tend to have high opinion about the place where they live. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” ― Thomas Jefferson, chess player An Irish Blessing: May we all feel… happy and contented, healthy and strong, safe and protected and living with ease… ~ Oct-09-11 FSR: After 1.e4 e5, 2.Ba6?? is the worst move by a country mile. After that, probably 2.b4 and 2.Ke2 are the worst. 2.Qg4 and 2.g4 are also pretty bad. White still has equality after 2.Qh5, so it's actually not a <terrible> move. * Glossary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss... Switch your pawn insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds. 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 Switch your pawn insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds. “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 * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ “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 “It's a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse.” ― Paul Dietzel “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 “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 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. 1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 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. MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids all in a row Frank and his eldest daughter Nancy: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Gold Au 79 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35 “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 * Checkmate brevities: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate * Crouch's book: Game Collection: Chess Secrets - Attackers (Crouch) 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. 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. * 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. 139 games, 1861-2015 9 White - Sicilian: Closed, Nd4 Pawz Compiled by gaborn Jun-13-09 technical draw: My first "advise" is to learn to spell "advice". * Anti-Sicilians: Game Collection: Anti-Sicilian Repertoire with 2.Nc3 * Beautiful Combos: Game Collection: beautifull attacking combinations * Morphy - Move by Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Morphy (Franco) * Mastering Tactics: Game Collection: mastering Tactical ideas by minev * Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES * Miniatures 1940s & 1950s: Game Collection: Modern Chess Miniatures * M60MG: Game Collection: My Sixty Memorable Games (Fischer) * 100 CM Trade Secrets: Game Collection: 100 Chess Masters Trade Secrets -Soltis * Tarrasch's 300 Games: Game Collection: Tarrasch's 300 Chess Games * World's Greatest: Game Collection: World's Great Chess Games (Fine) * 21st Century Games: Game Collection: 0 * Tata Steel Masters Tournament 2023: Tata Steel Masters (2023) * Z4all is a tool: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... 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! * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ * Glossary: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * Pawn sacrifices: Game Collection: The Gambiteer * Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv... * 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-... "After we have paid our dutiful respects to such frigid virtues as calculation, foresight, self-control and the like, we always come back to the thought that speculative attack is the lifeblood of chess." — Fred Reinfeld “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 loser is always at fault.” — Vasily Nikolayevich Panov 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." * There are around 5,000 commercial airplanes flying over the United States at any given time. * It would take you more than 400 years to spend a night in all of Las Vegas's hotel rooms. Drive sober or get pulled over. 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. Candidate for a Pullet Surprise by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar I have a spelling checker, 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. Too many zsockies on CGs. Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. "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 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. Riddle: If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there? Riddle Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet. 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. 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 Ass And His Masters A gardener's ass complained to Destiny Of being made to rise before the dawn. "The cocks their matins have not sung," said he, vere I am up and gone. And all for what? To market herbs, it seems. Fine cause, indeed, to interrupt my dreams!" Fate, moved by such a prayer, Sent him a currier's load to bear, Whose hides so heavy and ill-scented were, They almost choked the foolish beast. "I wish me with my former lord," he said; "For then, whenever he turned his head, If on the watch, I caught A cabbage-leaf, which cost me nothing. But, in this horrid place, I find No chance or windfall of the kind: Or if, indeed, I do, The cruel blows I rue." Anon it came to pass He was a collier's ass. Still more complaint. "What now?" said Fate, Quite out of patience. "If on this jackass I must wait, What will become of kings and nations? Has none but he anything here to tease him? Have I no business but to please him?" And Fate had cause; – for all are so. Unsatisfied while here below Our present lot is aye the worst. Our foolish prayers the skies infest. Were Jove to grant all we request, The din renewed, his head would burst. “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 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. “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 “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 Jupiter and the Farmer Of yore, a farm had Jupiter to rent; To advertise it, Mercury was sent. The farmers, far and near, Flocked round, the terms to hear; And, calling to their aid The various tricks of trade, One said It was rash a farm to hire Which would so much expense require; Another, that, do what you would, The farm would still be far from good. While thus, in market style, its faults were told, One of the crowd, less wise than bold, Would give so much, on this condition, That Jove would yield him altogether The choice and making of his weather, – That, instantly on his decision, His various crops should feel the power Of heat or cold, of sun or shower. Jove yields. The bargain closed, our man Rains, blows, and takes the care Of all the changes of the air, On his peculiar, private plan. His nearest neighbours felt it not, And all the better was their lot. Their year was good, by grace divine; The grain was rich, and full the vine. The renter, failing altogether, The next year made quite different weather; And yet the fruit of all his labours Was far inferior to his neighbours'. What better could he do? To Heaven He owns at last his want of sense, And so is graciously forgiven. Hence we conclude that Providence Knows better what we need Than we ourselves, indeed. "Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess." ― Siegbert Tarrasch “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 The Pawn Who Had to Go The little pawn screamed: "I cannot hold it any more, 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. /7xp zoober zoomed into bill wall. That jalen hurtz. 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. 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. STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT Star light, star bright First star I see tonight I wish I may, I wish I might Have this wish I wish tonight Why did the turtle cross the road? To get to the Shell station. 14 games, 1996-2009 91 Anti Marshall C91 New by shibumi Anti-Marshall C91 New Compiled by shibumi Huck (“Michael”) Hudson Alekhine 1. Behind the able man there are able men. Chinese 2. Pierce the abscess. (i.e. come to the point.) Bantu 3. An abscess heals when opened. (i.e. peace comes by sharing your troubles with another.) Bantu 4. Abundance causes poverty. German 5. Abundance creates daintiness. Italian 6. Abundance is a friendly fellow, he is loved by big and small. Semitic 7. The abuse of a thing is no argument against its use. Latin 8. It is honorable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused. Latin 9. The pig which is once seen in the crevice of the fence is accused of all faults. Finnish 10. He who accused too many accuses himself. 11. Acorns were good till corn was discovered. Latin 12. One does not sleep to sleep, but to act. German 13. Virtue consists in action. Dutch 14. For the sake of one good action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten. Chinese Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. One actor cannot perform a play. Chinese He is a man who acts like a man. Danish Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. Welsh When the rabbit has escaped comes advice. Spanish He who will not take advice gets knowledge when trouble overtakes him. Kaffir Advice given in the midst of a crowd is loathsome. Arabian After-advice is a fool’s advice. German Good advice is no better than bad advice unless it is taken at the right time. Danish Advice is not compulsion. German Advisers are not the payers. French Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than small-pox. Failing to obtain a lovely woman, affection is lavished on animals. Sanskrit The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Spanish Don’t let your age ask: “Where was your youth?” Serbian Age makes many a man white but not better. Danish They agree like the clocks of London. (i.e. there is no agreement.) English Without conversation there is no agreement. Montenegrin He who aims at an iron target gets the bullet in his face. German Ale sellers should not be tale-tellers. English “All but” saves many a man. Danish “Almost” and “very nigh” saves many a lie. English “Almost” never killed a fly. German Who lives by the altar must serve the altar. German There is no fall for an ambassador. Turkish Don’t say amen to an unacceptable prayer. Turkish An amiable person is never good-for-nothing. Sudanic He that boasts of his ancestors confesses he has no virtue of his own. Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been asses. German There is no higher ancestry than Adam. Philippine He that is slow to anger is of great understanding. He that can reply calmly to an angry man is too hard for him. English The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. Italian Who sees with the eye of another is as blind as a mole. German When another man suffers a piece of wood suffers. Arabian It is not easy to know your butter in another man’s cabbage. Danish Another man’s horse and your own whip can do a great deal. Danish From another’s cart you must get off halfway. Polish He who builds on another’s ground loses his stone and mortar. Italian Another’s misfortune is only a dream. French No answer is also an answer. Danish Who answers suddenly knows little. A coconut-shell full of water is an ocean to an ant. Indian Even an ant is eight spans long as measured by its own hand. Tamil In the ant’s house dew is a deluge. Persian The blow falls more lightly when anticipated. Latin The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail. English Waiting on the table is a powerful way to get up an appetite. Negro It is difficult to satisfy one’s appetite by painting pictures of cakes. Chinese He who would not lose his appetite should not go into the kitchen. German See how we apples swim! Quoth the horse-turd. English A gentle word will make the argument strong. Welsh Even workhouses have their aristocracy. Maga Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach. English Two are an army against one. Icelandic A featherless arrow does not fly. Sudanic The perfection of art is to conceal art. An artist lives everywhere. English He who wants a good deal must not ask for a little. Italian To ask in anger is to go to sea in a storm. French Do not ask me whose son I am, but who I am. Russian Never ask of him who has, but of him who wishes you well. Spanish Asking costs little. Italian He who first asks does not give very willingly. Polish He that asks faintly begs a denial. English He denies himself who asks what is impossible to grant. Because he cannot beat the ass, he strikes his saddle. Latin is summoned to the wedding, it is to carry When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray. Hungarian If an ass kicks you, don’t kick him back. Italian The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles. English Whip the saddle, that the ass may meditate. Bulgarian He that makes himself an ass must not take it ill if men ride him. What good can it do an ass to be called a lion? English They invited an ass to the wedding feast and he said: “Assuredly they want some more wood and water.” Bosnian To lather an ass’s head is only wasting soap. Spanish That’s a vicious animal, when one attacks him, he defends himself. French Things hardly attained are longer retained. English Two attorneys can live in a town, when one cannot. English If my aunt had been a man, she’d have been my uncle. English Go to your aunt’s house but not every day. Spanish He who is in a position of authority, never coughs. (i.e. need not remind others of his presence.) Sudanic It is not for a man in authority to sleep a whole night. Avarice increases with wealth. Italian Awls are not carried in a sack. Bulgarian The axe attacks the forest, from whence it got its own handle. Indian The End 32 games, 1950-2016 91 c4e4 Capture I don’t cook my cabbage twice. (i.e. I don’t repeat my tale.) Irish You cackle often, but never lay an egg. English It is as yet an unborn calf. (i.e. an unrealized ambition.) Bantu They think a calf a muckle beast that never saw a cow. Scottish The greatest calf is not the sweetest veal. English It is not known what calf the cow will have. Bantu If thou suffer a calf to be laid on thee, within a little they’ll clap on the cow. Italian There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. French Everything with a crooked neck is not a camel. German The camel has his own opinion and the camel driver has his. African They said to the camel-bird, “Take up a load”; he replied, “I am a bird.” They said, “Fly”’ he said: “I am a camel.” Persian At the foot of the candle it is dark. (i.e. at the foot of the throne are scheming men.) See the candle light before you blow out the match. Negro One sees no further than the candle lights. Walloon He burns one candle to seek another. English He uses a cannon to shoot a sparrow. Chinese Capon comes to him who eats capon. French Carefulness can go everywhere. Chinese Light cares speak, great ones are dumb. English When the house is built the carpenter is forgotten. Indian A carpenter is known by his chips. English He’s not the best carpenter that makes the most chips. English He who is carried does not realize that the town is far off. Hamitic You can’t carry what you can’t lift. Russian “Will pay” is a fine bird but “cash down” sings. Spanish The cask can give no other wine than what it contains. Italian When cat and mouse agree the farmer has no chance. Dutch What should you expect from a cat except a kitten? Irish A cat in gloves catches no mice. English They turn the cat in the pan. (i.e. change sides.) English 268. After eating nine hundred rats, the cat is now going on a pilgrimage. (i.e. pretending to turn over a new leaf.) Italian 269. The cat loves fish but is loath to wet her feet. Italian 270. The cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat. Italian 271. Honest is the cat when the meat is out of reach. Who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats. German 273. If you do not rear cats, you will raise mice. Bulgarian 274. There are no cattle without a dung-heap. Bantu 275. The cause finds arms. 276. The most cautious passes for the most chaste. Spanish There are many crosses upon a cemetery, but no cares. Russian A centipede doesn’t stop for a game leg. Burmese Hit one ring and the whole chain will resound. Bantu Old chains gall less than new. English Something must be left to chance. English To change and to better are two different things. German Change yourself and fortune will change with you. Portuguese When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. Japanese He who chastises one threatens a hundred. Italian It’s like the chastity of an ugly woman. Singhalese He is never likely to have a good thing cheap that is afraid to ask a price. English If you buy meat cheap, when it boils you will smell what you have saved. Arabic It is well worth while letting oneself be cheated sometime. Latin The chemist’s shop is an expensive kitchen. (i.e. ill health is costly.) Czech Take the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat’s paw. English First chew and then spit. Czech The chief has no relative. Bantu A chief’s weights are not the same as a poor man’s weights. Sudanic If the child does not cry, the mother does not understand it. Russian Many kiss the child for the nurse’s sake. English Even a child may beat a man that’s bound. English It is easier to bear a child once a year than to shave every day. (Said by soldiers to their wives.) Russian A child regards his father’s guest as a slave. Sudanic The sucking child says, “Mother is the best cook.” (i.e. don’t express preference without trying an alternative.) Bantu A child that asks questions is not stupid. Sudanic The illegitimate child was hidden in a bottle, and he put forth a finger. (i.e. the secret could not be suppressed.) Bantu If with the right hand you flog the child, with the left draw him unto your breast. Sudanic With one child you may walk; with two you may ride; when you have three, at home you must bide. Cornish The judgment of children – what they hear at home. Basque Bells call each other to church, but go not themselves. English You’re in the right church, but in the wrong pew. (i.e. partly right and partly wrong.) Negro A rich church – poor peasants. German Let the church stand in the church-yard. The nearer to church, the farther from God. French The poorer the church, the purer the church. English In the visible church, the true Christians are invisible. German In the primitive church there were chalices of wood and priests of gold; in the modern church there are chalices of gold and priests of wood. German In the city where you wish to sell flowers, do not kick up the dust. Oriental Where you cannot climb over you must creep under. Danish He that never climbed never fell. English The worst clothed are still put to the windward. French He who clothes himself with bad cloth clothes himself twice in the year. Brazilian Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. English It isn’t in a coal sack that one finds white flour. Walloon A thread-bare coat is armor proof against highwaymen. English Cobbler, do not judge above the shoe. Latin Day can dawn even without the cock. Serbian A cockroach is always wrong when arguing with a chicken. A cockroach stands no chance in a fowl country. Negro A bad coin knows many people. Slovenian Let them that be cold blow at the coal. English Cold teaches to steal coal. Arabic It is poor comfort for one who has broken his leg that another has broken his neck. Danish It is a fine thing to command, though it is but a herd of cattle. Spanish If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully. English He who commences many things, finishes but few. English When you have no companion, consult your walking-stick. Albanian If your companion is a good one, Bagdad becomes quite near. Turkish A good companion makes a heaven out of hell. German A merry companion on the road is as good as a nag. English A company of men is as good as a miracle. (i.e. in unity there is strength.) Indian Company in distress makes trouble less. French The world is Allah’s, the land is the Pasha’s, but the company rules. (i.e. the British Indies company.) Indian Pleasant company shortens the miles. German The shortest road’s where the company’s good. Scottish Comparison is no proof. French He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still. English Confession is as medicine to him who goes astray. Latin Confidence is a plant of slow growth. English Confidence is the companion of success. English He hath conquered that hath made his enemies fly. He who considers everything decides nothing. Chinese Be constant; if you say “one,” do not say “two.” Arabic To contradict sometimes means to knock at the door to know whether there is anyone in the house. French Although there exist three hundred and forty-six subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. Chinese When the cook and steward fall out, we hear who stole the butter. Dutch The cook should have his master’s palate. Latin He is a poor cook that cannot lick his own fingers. English Cooks are not to be taught in their own kitchen. English All are not cooks who carry long knives. Dutch Copper produces a copper mass. (i.e. you get what you pay for.) Italian A lame man copulates best. Greek The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest pull. Spanish The cork is always bigger than the mouth of the bottle. Estonian He measures another’s corn by his own bushel. English To correct Magnificat before one has learnt Te Deum. English None goes to the gallows for giving ill counsel. English If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it. English Good counsel is better than a great army. German Wheresoever we live well, that is our country. English Every man loves his country, even if it be hell. Persian When you go to a country where they all dance with one foot, then dance with one foot too. Negro Fine or not, it is my country’s wine. Chinese He that counts all costs, will never put plough in the earth. English Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. English The steps at court are slippery. Danish The soup at court is very good, but you have to jump high for it. Czech Whoso will dwell in court must needs curry favor. English That which covers thee discovers thee. English You cannot strip two skins off one cow. Chinese One can stand being kicked by both hind legs at once if the cow be a good milker. Indian Milk the cow, but don’t pull off the udder. Dutch A cow does not calve in the herd. (i.e. a secret is not told in a crowd.) Bantu A cow is not called dappled unless she has a spot. Danish One who does what he says is not a coward. Sudanic Reasoning is the shackle of the coward. Hamitic A coward calls himself cautious and a miser thrifty. One coward makes ten. German In the house of the coward there is no weeping. (i.e. because he always turns up safe.) Bantu Between two cowards, he has the advantage who first detects the other. Italian Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. English Cowards run the greatest danger of any men in a battle. English Cowards’ weapons neither cut nor pierce. Italian If the crab is small it associates with a smaller kind of crab. Sudanic He who is of the craft can discourse about it. Italian Craftsmen are brothers. Welsh Creditors have better memories than debtors. English A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished. Successful crime is called a virtue. He does the crime who profits by it. French A crocodile in water can destroy an elephant; out of the stream it is overcome by a dog. Burmese The strength of the crocodile is in the water. Bantu Cross in a crowd, the crocodile won’t eat you. Malay Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water’s calm. Malayan Don’t curse the crocodile’s mother before you cross the river. Bantu If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. English The crow does not louse the buffalo to clean him, but to feed itself. Bulgarian When the crow is your guide he will lead you to the corpses of dogs. Arabic A whitewashed crow will not remain white long. Chinese Call out a name in a crowd and someone is sure to answer. Chinese A crowd is not company. He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing. Spanish The greatest cunning is to have none at all. French Where there is no hope of a cure, one saves the medicine. German It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. Idle curiosity sometimes fills the mousetrap. Dutch Curses, like processions, come back to their starting-point. Italian A thousand curses never tore a shirt. Syriac Once is no custom. Italian Be a custom good or bad a peasant will have it continue in force. Spanish Custom is the guide of the ignorant. English Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools. English A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken. French Men do more from custom than from reason. Latin Custom without reason is but an ancient error. English Where it is customary the cow is put to bed. Swiss Bad customs are better broke then kept up. English Huck (“Michael”) Hudson The End 14 games, 1873-2017 91 Defensa Philidor, ese campo de minas Hay que andar con pies de plomo al jugar esta apertura con negras. Sobre todo con el alfil de rey, que parece que le hayan echado un mal de ojo. Deflection You will neither dance nor hold the candle. Scottish More belongs to dancing than a pair of dancing shoes. Dutch They love dancing well that dance among thorns. English One danger is not overcome without another. Italian Better face a danger once than be always in fear. English Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. English He that will not sail until all dangers are over must not put to sea. Joan is as good as my lady in the dark. English It is ill to drive black hogs in the dark. English He who gropes in the dark finds what he would not. When the date-crop is over everyone mocks at the palm tree. Abyssinian I say it to you, daughter, hear it, daughter-in-law. Spanish It is still the first day. Indian There is a day to be born and a day to die. Chinese There is a day to cast your nets and a day to dry your nets. Chinese In the east there are many days and they all pass away in the west. Finnish One of these days is none of these days. English Is it the days you would count? The hairs of a cow are few. Bantu There’s a cure for everything but stark dead. Irish The dead are at the mercy of the living. Persian When one is dead it is for a long time. French The real dead one must not seek in graves. German A deaf hearer makes a crazy answerer. Danish When the deaf gives the blind a lamp he receives bagpipes. German A deaf man laughs twice. (i.e. when he sees others laughing and when he learns the point.) Afghanistan It is only the first bottle that is dear. French The first breath is the beginning of death. English He hauls a long rope who expects another’s death. Italian The old man runs away from death, but the child stands and looks at it. Sudanic Death doesn’t look at our teeth. Russian Death for a common cause is beautiful. Russian We do not get even death free of charge, for it costs us our life. Russian He who is afraid of death has lost his life. Estonian Death helps out of difficulties but demands high payment. Swedish Death is a black camel which kneels at every man’s gate. Turkish Death is the poor man’s physician. German The man in debt is a swimmer with his boots on. Negro Deceiving of a deceiver is no knavery. English He that once deceives is ever suspected. English If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. English In the inn of decision men sleep well. Oriental Deeds are fruits, words are leaves. Let men know by your own deeds who were your ancestors. Japanese He who can shoot a deer lets the hare run away. German The deer-hunter does not look at the hare. Chinese Better deny at once than promise long. Danish He who depends on another, dines ill and sups worse. English The destitute does not live, but dies by inches. Russian Mankind bestows more applause on her destroyers than her benefactors. English A man without determination is but an untempered sword. Chinese Deviate an inch and lose a thousand miles. Chinese Don’t mention the cross to the devil. Italian It is good sometimes to hold a candle to the devil. English Make not even the devil blacker than he is. English “You look like a runner,” quoth the devil to the crab. You would do little for God if the devil were dead. Scottish If you have swallowed the devil, you may swallow his horns. English The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. English It’s long ere “likely to die” fills the churchyard. Scottish If we go forward we die; if we go backward we die; better go forward and die. Bantu He hath lived ill that knows not how to die well. English He wants to die with all his teeth in his head. (i.e. die young.) North American Indian He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam. English There is no difference between bread-and-milk and milk-and-bread. (i.e. don’t split hairs.) Breton What one knows not how to do is difficult, what one knows how to do is not. Chinese The dinner-bell’s always in tune. Negro He who washes off the dirt washes off the luck. Chinese Count the disadvantages first, then the advantages. Indian Murder may be condoned but discourtesy never. Chinese Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. English He who disparages wants to buy. Italian He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to command. Spain Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live. English The bone is left in the hand of the distributor. Finnish If you don’t want anyone to know it, don’t do it. Chinese If you do it, don’t talk about it. German If you do what people tell you, you will be fishing hare in the sea and hunting fish in the woods. Bulgarian Do not adjust your sandals in a melon field, or arrange your hat under a plum tree. (i.e. lest you be thought stealing.) Chinese “Don’t do it” is the best remedy for “Let it not be known.” Sudanic Do not ask the doctor, ask the patient. German A doctor bald to the nape of his neck is not likely to cure anybody of baldness. Sudanic The doctor cures the sick man who does not die. Japanese The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient. Polish When everybody is doing well, the doctor is miserable. Hungarian The doctor is never killed because the patient dies. Sudanic The gentle-handed doctor makes a stinking wound. French If you do not pay the doctor who has cured you, beware of falling ill again. Chinese The more doctors, the more diseases. Portuguese Good doctrine needs no miracle. Japanese The doctrine that enters only into the eye and ear is like the repast one takes in a dream. Chinese A great many shoes are worn out before a man does what he says. I will not keep a dog, and bark myself. English The dog barks, but the camel passes on. Semitic None but a dog bites in his own house. (i.e. said of a person who quarrels with his guests.) Semitic The dog bites the stone, not him that throws it. English When a dog cannot bark it has a bone in its mouth. (i.e. a man cannot reprove another if he has sinned in the same way.) Bantu A good dog deserves a bone. English An old dog does not bark for nothing. French A dog does not long remain tied to a sausage. German In beating a dog, first find out who his owner is. Chinese If the dog goes when the cat comes, there will be no fight. Chinese A wet dog has no master. (i.e. no one wants to claim a miserable thing.) Bantu Beware the dog himself; his shadow does not bite. Danish Every dog is a lion at home. English When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink. English The dog is the same, he has only changed his collar. Spanish If you want a pretense to whip a dog, it is enough to say he ate up the frying-pan. English A dog limps when it likes. (Said to one who makes pretexts.) Breton He has the black dog on his back. (i.e. he is in low spirits.) English The dog on three legs isn’t always lame. Negro He that wants to hang a dog says it bites the sheep. Danish The leaner the dog the fatter the flea. German If you would entice a dog to you, don’t hold a stick in your hand. Bantu Keep the bone and the dog will follow you. Irish A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone. English Don’t pelt the dog with meat dumplings. Chinese In every country dogs bite. English The dog’s kennel is not a place to keep a sausage. Danish A dog’s tears drop inside. (i.e. a poor man has no means of expressing his grief.) Bantu Dogs which fight each other unite against the wolf. Armenian He that lies down with dogs will get up with fleas. Spanish A dogmatical tone, a pragmatical pate. English In doing we learn. English If something is done for you, it must always be reckoned as good. Chinese He that is a donkey and believes himself a deer finds out his mistake at the leaping of the ditch. Italian The trot of a donkey does not last long. German When you go to a donkey’s house don’t talk about ears. Negro When one door closes, a hundred are barred. Spanish A creaking door hangs long on its hinges. (i.e. a complaining sick person lives long.) English A door must be either open or shut. (i.e. there is only one alternative.) French Where one door shuts another opens. Spanish Beware of a door that has too many keys. (i.e. beware of a secret widely held.) Portuguese When you doubt do not act. Latin With great doubts comes great understanding; with small doubts comes little understanding. Chinese Doubts mean losing half of one’s case beforehand. Chinese A dragon stranded in shallow water furnishes amusement for the shrimps. Chinese Dragons beget dragons; phoenixes hatch out phoenixes. Chinese A slice of ham is better than a fat pig in a dream. German A dream grants what one covets when awake. German When troubles are few, dreams are few. Chinese Dreams are themselves nothing but dreams. Spanish Three-tenths of good looks are due to nature, seven-tenths to dress. Chinese Friends are at fault when a man is allowed to wear his dress awry. Chinese You look at what I drink and not at my thirst. Spanish They speak of my drink, that never consider my drouth. Scottish If you don’t drink, the price of wine is of no interest. Chinese Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst. German First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man. Japanese It is easier to drink two glasses than to excuse yourself from one. Polish He speaks in his drink what he thought in his drouth. English I hate a man with a memory at a drinking bout. German He who likes drinking is always talking of wine. Italian He who would drive another over three dikes must climb over two himself. Dutch Drive not away what never came near you. Danish A little drop of water silences a boiling pot. German Drops excavate rocks. Bulgarian A drowning man would catch at razors. Italian Where drums speak out, laws hold their tongues. If everyone tells you you are drunk, go to bed – even if you are perfectly sober. Serbian To a drunken man the sea is only knee-deep. Russian What has been said in a drunken state has been thought out beforehand. Flemish “Who can help sickness?” quoth the drunken wife as she fell in the gutter. Scottish To come home with a duck in the mouth. (i.e. to be successful.) English The quiet duck puts his foot on the unobservant worm. Chinese The song of the dumb is murmured to himself. Malay He that blows in the dust, fills his eyes with it. English Better walk in the dust than crawl near the throne. German Don’t talk small to a dwarf. Chinese A dwarf on a giant’s shoulders sees further of the two. English A dwarf sees giants everywhere. German When with dwarfs do not talk about pygmies. Chinese The End 21 games, 1750-2018 91 P/L/C Black Highlights by GumboGambit and Chessmaster. Victories by Black playing Pirc versions (1.d6 2. Nf6). These would include Mainline/Modern (g6, Bg7), Lion (e5, Nd7), and Czech (c6), variations. For the most part, the opposition is either GM-level or similar skill level to that of Black. Fischer, Karpov and Kasparov are among the victims. This is to show that the system can work even against strong competition. * Black ...d6 Resources: Game Collection: 1...d6. A very interesting opening with no name * Old Indian by Day, Old Indian at Night: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * 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... Never judge a book by it's cover. "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 "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 doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit, one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss." — Anatoly Karpov 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 It was impossible to win against Capablanca; against Alekhine it was impossible to play. – Paul Keres 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 “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 “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 "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 Thank you whiteshark! * Fabulous chess brilliancies: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054... The thought crossed my gentle mind that CGs needs some additional avatar variance of figures like Emory and Andrew Tate, Tani Adewumi, James Black Jr., Ambakisye Osayaba, Tom "Murph" Murphy, and Pontus Carlsson, Taahir Levi, Praggy and Pentala Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, Adhiban Baskaran, Manuel Aaron, and Juan Carlos González Zamora, María Teresa Mora Iturralde, Daniela De la Parra, Alejandra Guerrero Rodríguez, Azarya Jodi Setyaki, Medina Warda Aulia, Errol Tiwari, Elshan Moradiabadi, Joey Razo, Collette McGruder, Diamond Shakoor, Phiona Mutesi, Jessica Hyatt, Jean-Pierre and Koneru Humpy, Tania Sachdev, Rout Padmini and Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue, Medhat Moheb, Yao Ming and Awonder Liang, Jeffery Xiong and Liem Le, Li Chao and the like. Our avatars are rather lily silly; not everybody looks like Smith, Jones, Thomas, or Mikhail. On the other hand, we definitely need some redheads too (Anna Rudolf, Isla Fisher, Jude Acers, Prince Harry, Ed Sheeran)!! I'd say at least a dozen redheads, some with and without beards. Some Canadians too! * C21-C22 miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Danish Gambits: Game Collection: Danish Gambit Games 1-0 * Javed's way: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * King's Gambit start-up: Game Collection: Batsford's MCO 14 King's Gambit * King Bishop's Gambit: Game Collection: rajat21's kings gambit * KG Video: Game Collection: Foxy Openings - King's Gambit * GM Gallagher is an author: Game Collection: 0 * Old P-K4 Miniatures: Game Collection: Games for Classes * Ponziani Games: Game Collection: PONZIANI OPENING * Aggressive Gambits: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... * Volo plays the KP faithfully: Volodymyr Onyshchuk * 20 Various Italian Games: Game Collection: Italian Game * C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game * RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems * 21st Century: Game Collection: 0 * GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * TIP: Click on the e8 square to see a computer engine analysis of the position. * Hans On French: Game Collection: French Defense * Alapins: Game Collection: Alapin * Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * 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... “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 “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 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. “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 “In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.” — Vasily Smyslov “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 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> "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 <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 Wolf Accusing The Fox Before The Monkey A wolf, affirming his belief That he had suffered by a thief, Brought up his neighbour fox – Of whom it was by all confessed, His character was not the best – To fill the prisoner's box. As judge between these vermin, A monkey graced the ermine; And truly other gifts of Themis Did scarcely seem his; For while each party plead his cause, Appealing boldly to the laws, And much the question vexed, Our monkey sat perplexed. Their words and wrath expended, Their strife at length was ended; When, by their malice taught, The judge this judgment brought: "Your characters, my friends, I long have known, As on this trial clearly shown; And hence I fine you both – the grounds at large To state would little profit – You wolf, in short, as bringing groundless charge, You fox, as guilty of it." Come at it right or wrong, the judge opined No other than a villain could be fined. 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 Three Kings By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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. 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". 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!" Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight. ~ Scottish Proverb “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “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 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 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. * 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. “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 “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. 124 games, 1912-2015 91 Philidor ideas New moves in philidor defense, and old indian Pursuit A bad padlock invites a picklock. People paid in advance have broken arms. French He who hides his pain finds no cure. Turkish Painters and poets have leave to lie. English There is no making pancakes without breaking the eggs. Italian Paper does not blush. Italian Paper is patient. French The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot. English You can’t use paper to wrap up fire. Chinese One cannot enter Paradise in spite of the saints. Italian Never ask pardon before you are accused. English In every pardon there is love. Welsh A city that parleys is half gotten. Scottish He who carries his head between his ears needs no passport. German Without the past we never could have had the present. Chinese The best patch is off the same cloth. Spanish Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a farthing apiece. Italian An hour’s patience will procure a long period of rest. Arabian The purse of the patient protracts his cure. German Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. English Who pays well is well served. German Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will find a time to throw them. Portuguese If you wish for peace, be prepared for war. English A cake eaten in peace is worth two in trouble. English Peace without truth is poison. German The pear falls under the pear tree. Albanian Those who wear pearls do not know how often the shark bites the leg of the diver. Abyssinian No shears cut closer than when a peasant becomes a nobleman. German The peasant carries the sack, whatever you put in it. Russian The Pope and the peasant know more than the Pope alone. Montenegrin If I peddle salt it rains, if I peddle flour, the wind blows. (i.e. unlucky.) Japanese It is easy to curse the pedestrian when you are on horseback. Serbian He who peeps through a hole may see what will vex him. English A pen and ink are the best witnesses. Portuguese Every one hath a penny for a new alehouse. English We are people because of other people. Bantu Perhaps hinders folks from lying. French All is not lost that is in peril. English He who recognizes the disease is the physician. Bantu A physician is an angel when employed, but a devil when one must pay him. English An inexperienced physician makes a humpy churchyard. Czech The sick man is the garden of the physicians. Bantu Physicians and judges murder with impunity. Russian Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists. Latin Pictures are the books of the unlearned. English If you pull one pig by the tail all the rest squeak. Dutch He that has but one pig easily fattens it. Italian In the time of need the pig is called uncle. Albanian Pigs fly in the air with their tails forward. (i.e. said after hearing an unlikely story.) English A pilgrimage does not make a man a saint. Danish In a calm sea every man is a pilot. German A good pilot is not known when the sea is calm and the weather fair. Danish The paleness of the pilot is a sign of a storm. English It is not in the pilot’s power to prevent the wind from blowing. Spanish The point of a pin is the easiest one to find. Negro The pine wishes herself a shrub when the axe is at her root. English He that touches pitch shall be defiled. English Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. English He that pities another remembers himself. Scottish A pitiful look asks enough. English Sit in your place, and none can make you rise. Scottish The plaintiff should be heard once, the defendant twice. German When you have the plate and spoon, there is no soup. Albanian An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation. Portuguese He has a good pledge of the cat who has her skin. French He who ploughs from West to East loses a loaf in every furrow. (i.e. the sun cannot shine on both sides of the furrow.) Italian The great poet must be either gifted or exiled. Bosnian Poison should be tried out on a frog. Bantu There are no miracles in politics. Maga When you go into politics put on your old trousers. German The poor cannot, the rich will not. German The poor do penance for the follies of their superiors. Italian To the poor even the wedding night is short. Polish The poor lives as the wet burns. Finnish In the house of the poor one does not untie one’s packet. (i.e. so as not to be obliged to give.) Bantu “I have had it” is a poor man. German The poor man and the fire do not like to be poked. Hamitic If the poor man associates with the rich, he will soon have no trousers to wear. Chinese A poor man doubles labors. Basque A poor man is hungry after eating. Portuguese When a poor man makes a proverb it does not spread abroad. Sudanic The poor man pays for all. English The poor man waited a thousand years before the gate of Paradise, then while he snatched one little nap, it opened and shut. Persian When God lets it rain, the poor man’s nettles thrive even as the rich man’s roses. German The poor man’s shilling is but a penny. Scottish The poor man’s wisdom is as useless as a palace in a wilderness. Oriental Much wisdom is lost in poor men’s mouths. German Poor people entertain with the heart. Negro Bad wine is given to drive away poor relations. French The potter eats off broken dishes. Sudanic All is lost when the people fear death less than poverty. Chinese Poverty and hunger have many learned disputes. German Poverty and wealth are twin sisters. Albanian Poverty is a blessing hated by all men. Italian Poverty is a garment of fire. Italian Poverty is not a shame; but the being ashamed of it is. English Poverty is the cow of the rich man. German Poverty is the hands and feet of wealth. German Poverty is the sixth sense. German The poverty of the poor shall end when they regard the want of each other. Singhalese Without practice one cannot even clean his teeth. Singhalese Never praise a ford till you are over. English Praise from Sir Hubert is praise indeed. English Praise teachers while they are present; subordinates when their work is done, and friends when absent. Siamese Let every man praise the bridge he goes over. English Praise the day at evening. Irish An honest man is hurt by praise unjustly bestowed. French Things hate being praised prematurely. Bantu Clever preacher, short sermon. Japanese It is easy preaching to the fasting with a full belly. Italian He preaches well that lives well. Spanish Mr. Headshaker’s prediction – if it’s not a boy, it’s a girl. Malay Pretty girl, dirty tricks. Negro Never say “no” from pride, or “yes” from weakness. Spanish It is not necessary for priests to marry as long as the peasants have wives. German The vices of a prince draw shoals of followers. When the prince wants a minister to die, he dies. Chinese When a prince wants an apple, his servant gathers them all from the tree. Swedish To be a complete man one should have spent three years at a public school, one at a University, and two in prison. Russian Prison and Lent were made for the poor. Spanish A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. Italian To whisper proclamations is ridiculous. English In the land of promise a man may die of hunger. Dutch Promise is a bridge of words, unsafe to walk across. German He loses his thanks who promises and delays. English Promises and undressed cloth are apt to shrink. Danish Promising is not giving but serves to content fools. Portuguese A proof too many will not spoil the case. Portuguese Property is theft. French In prosperity no altars smoke. Italian Who is proud on an ass will run mad on a horse. Montenegrin Proverbs are constantly warring against each other. Swiss Proverbs lie on the lips of fools. English He that proves too much proves nothing. Latin God will provide, but a bundle of straw will not be amiss. Spanish Painting the pump will not clean the well. English If you have an empty purse, keep honey in your mouth. Spanish A purse without money is called leather. Italian Put it on thick, and a little will stick. English The putting-off man sharpens his arrows when he sees the boar. Japanese Queenside Quackery has no friend like gullibility. English An old quarrel is easily renewed. Italian The roots of quarrels are three, namely: Yes! what! and you! Tibetan One cannot with decency complain of the action of another in excelling him: those quarrels which have their origin in envy are not easily made up. Sudanic A good question is like one beating a bell. Chinese Unsettled questions have no pity for the repose of nations. Swiss The End 4 games, 2000-2004 98_A45 - Trompowski trumps Cloned Here's a <MUST SEE> appetizer for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sey... refering to Vaganian vs Kupreichik, 1974 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompo... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompo... Opening Explorer (after 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5) Opening Explorer (after 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. h4 ) check also Game Collection: Tromfovsky Opening - Rey ... and Game Collection: Anti-KIDs ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 <Winning with the Trompowsky> by Peter Wells 004 Annotated Bibliography 005 Introduction 013 1 2...Ne4 Introduction and Minor Lines 023 2 2...Ne4 3 Bf4 c5 4 f3 Qa5+ 5 c3 Nf6 The Attacking Repertoire with 6 d5!? 050 3 2...Ne4 3 Bf4 c5 4 f3 Qa5+ 5 c3 Nf6 The Solid Repertoire with 6 Nd2 074 4 2...Ne4 3 Bf4 d5 Introduction and the Attacking Repertoire with 4 f3 091 5 2...Ne4 3 Bf4 d5 The Solid Repertoire with 4 e3!? 120 6 2...c5 Introduction and the Solid Repertoire with 3 Bxf6 141 7 2...c5 The Attacking Repertoire with 3 d5!? 173 8 2...e6 3 e4!? 209 9 2...d5 Introduction and 3 Bxf6 232 10 2...g6 and Other Minor 2nd Moves 239 Index of Main Variations 240 Index of Games ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 Die Trompowsky-Eröffnung (1. d4 Sf6 2. Lg5) gehört wohl zu denen abseits der großen Hauptkomplexe, die in den letzten zehn Jahren die rasanteste Entwicklung hinter sich haben. Auch literarisch ist dies der Fall: Als Quellen sind allein fünf größere Werke seit 1995 angegeben (auf Deutsch ein Buch von Gerstner und eine CD von Knaak). Und trotzdem gibt es schon wieder jede Menge neuer Entwicklungen - ein bezeichnendes Beispiel: In einer der Hauptvarianten, 1.d4 Sf6 2.Lg5 Se4 3.Lf4 c5 4.f3 Da5+ 5.c3 Sf6 6.Sd2 cxd4 7.Sb3 Db6 8.Dxd4 Sc6 9. Dxb6 axb6, sind dem Zug 10.Sd4 in älteren Büchern nur etwa 10 bis 20 Zeilen gewidmet, bei Wells breitet er sich als absolute Nr. 1 unter diversen Alternativen über fast acht Seiten aus. Und obwohl das Buch nur Empfehlungen für Weiß beinhaltet und keinesfalls mit Varianten überladen ist (dazu später mehr), hat es einen doch recht erheblichen Umfang erreicht. Die Frage, ob ein neues Trompowsky-Buch schon wieder sinnvoll oder gar notwendig ist, kann also wohl bedenkenlos mit Ja beantwortet werden (zumal das relativ neueste der anderen Werke, ein spanisches, hier zu Lande so gut wie unbekannt sein dürfte). Wie gesagt, ist es ein Repertoirebuch, dem der Leser folgen sollte, um davon zu profitieren; eine grundlegende Wahl bleibt ihm aber: Zu den drei Hauptsystemen gibt Wells jeweils ein doppeltes Angebot, einmal offensiv, einmal solide. Mir scheinen damit eigentlich auch alle wichtigen und aktuellen Varianten abgedeckt; hier aber doch noch ein paar Hinweise, was drin ist und was nicht: Nach 2...Se4 wird nur 3.Lf4 behandelt (nicht 3.Lh4 oder 3.h4), nach 3...c5 4.F3 Da5+ 5.c3 Sf6 dann 6.d5 (offensiv) und 6.Sd 2 (solid). Bei 3...d5 liegt die Wahl zwischen 4.e3 (solid) bzw. 4.f3 Sf6 5.e4 (offensiv) und 2.-c5 wird mit 3.Lf6 (solid) oder 3. d5 (offensiv) beantwortet, aber 3.Sc3 bleibt weg. Und zu 2...e6 3.e4 h6 4. Lf6 Dxf6 ist anzumerken, dass Wells immer den f-Bauern frei haben will, das ältere 5.Sf3 (zu dem es eine Menge Material gibt) fehlt also völlig. Wer den Ideen des Autors folgt, wird aber m.E. sehr gut bedient. Im Vergleich zu anderen Büchern dieses Kalibers bringt Wells trotz der beachtlichen Seitenzahl relativ wenig Varianten (vor allem praktisch keine kompletten unkommentierten Datenbankpartien) und ziemlich viele Erklärungen, die auch allgemein-strategische und turnierpraktische Dinge umfassen; er ist offensichtlich immer bemüht, verbal und mit Varianten den Kern einer Sache zu treffen und das weniger Wichtige kurz zu halten bzw. ganz wegzulassen. Dazu kommen viele eigene Ideen, Analysen und Empfehlungen. Sicher muss davon noch manches praktisch ausprobiert werden, bevor man ein genaues Urteil treffen kann (ich selbst will mich dabei zurückhalten, da meine letzten Trompowsky-Erfahrungen schon einige Jahre her und also nicht mehr auf neuestem Stand sind, während Wells nicht nur GM ist, sondern auch reichlich Trompowsky-Praxis mit beiden Farben besitzt), aber zumindest bei der ersten Lektüre macht es durchweg einen starken Eindruck. Wells versucht m.E. auch nicht, die weißen Chancen gezielt "gut zu schreiben" (wie manche einschlägig bekannten Spezialisten), es kommt auch keineswegs immer ein nachweisbares Plus für Weiß heraus, sondern das Hauptgewicht liegt darauf, dass der bessere Kenner in relativ ungewöhnlichen Stellungen auf praktische Vorteile hoffen kann. Technisch habe ich ein paar Fehler entdeckt, z.B. bei Zugumstellungen oder bei einer Variante, wo der 10. und 11. Zug von Schwarz jeweils Da6 heißen, aber das stört keinesfalls den Gesamteindruck. FM Gerd Treppner, Rochade Europa 08/2003 Vorbildlich in jeder Beziehung der englische GM Wells: Ausgiebige Erläuterungen in strategischer, theoretischer und turnierpraktischer Hinsicht. Detaillierte Analysen (in die seine Erfahrungen aus Sitzungen mit Hodgson, McShane und anderen einfließen) dort, wo sie sein müssen. Es handelt sich um ein Repertoirebuch, wobei der Autor allerdings meist zwei Züge zur Auswahl stellt: einen aktiven und einen eher soliden. Freaks mögen bedauern, dass die eine oder andere extravagante Spielweise wie z. B. 1. d4 Sf6 2.L.g5 Se4 3. h4 c5 4. d:c5 Da5+ 5. Sd2 Lg5 6. h:g5 g6 7. Th4!? (Wells behandelt nur 3. Lf4) oder 2... c5 3. Sc3 c:d4 4.D:d4 Sc6 5. Dh4 (besprochen wird 3. L:f6 und 3. d5) wegfiel - das ist der Preis für den o. g. Ansatz. Aufschlussreich ist Wells' Parallelanalyse, beispielsweise zu Varianten aus dem Ben-Oni. Der Autor wägt nach etwa 1. d4 Sf6 2. Lg5 Se4 3. Lf4 c5 4. f3 Da5+ 5. c3 Sf6 6. d5 d6 7. e4 g6 das Für und Wider ab (Besonderheiten im Vergleich zu Ben-Oni sind die Stellung von Da5 und des c3). Neben der strategischen befindet sich auch die theoretische Diskussion auf der Höhe, wichtig ist z. B. das klare Herausstellen des "Handels mit Optionen": dieser und jener Zug führen meist zur selben Stellung, indes erlaubt Zug A die Abweichung x und Zug B die Abweichung y. Lieber Leser, entscheide selbst, was dir unangenehmer wäre. Erläuterungen dieser Art sucht man bei Müller/Voigt und Gutman vergebens. Platz wird an anderer Stelle gespart, z. B. widmet Wells dem anspruchslosen 2... e6 3. e4 Le7 nur eine Seite, obwohl es Tonnen von Partien dazu gibt. Aber das Spiel gestaltet sich unproblematisch; gesunder Menschenverstand reicht aus, um mit Weiß das etwas bessere Spiel zu erlangen. Hingegen wird 3... h6 4. L:f6 D:f6 (z. B. 5. Sc3 d6 6. Dd2 g5!?), wo Schwarz im Austausch für seinen Raumnachteil das Läuferpaar erhält, penibel abgehandelt. Fazit: Alle Erläuterungen sind auf den Punkt gebracht, hinzu kommt eine gute Recherche. Eines der überzeugendsten Eröffnungsbücher der letzten Jahre! Ein reichlich fades (aber nicht unübersichtliches) Layout mit vergessener Silbentrennung ist ein kleiner, nicht dem Autor anzulastender Kritikpunkt. Harald Keilhack Schach 06/2004 Nach einer relativ ruhigen Phase zeigt sich der englische Verlag Batsford in letzter Zeit wieder erfreulich produktiv, mit "Winning with the Trompowsky" ist dort nach längerer Zeit sogar wieder ein Eröffnungsbuch erschienen. Schon die Kombination von Thema und Autor weckt eine gewisse Vorfreude: Die Trompowsky-Eröffnung hat sich zwar längst als vollwertig etabliert, ist aber dennoch nicht besonders häufig anzutreffen und genießt noch einen gewissen exotischen Ruf. Ihre enorme Spanne an unterschiedlichen Stellungstypen, eine im Vergleich zu anderen Eröffnungen noch nicht ganz ins uferlose gehende Theorie und die Möglichkeit, bereits im zweiten Zug den weiteren Verlauf selbst bestimmen zu können machen sie zu einer für ein breites Spektrum von Spielern sehr interessanten Eröffnung. Der Autor wiederum hat sich unter anderem durch seine Arbeit für das ChessBase Magazin einen Namen gemacht, in dem er eine Rubrik über Strategie im Schach betreut. Davon profitiert nun auch dieses Buch, denn man merkt Peter Wells darin die Erfahrung bei der Erklärung strategischer Aspekte an. Damit wollen wir nun etwas genauer auf "Winning with the Trompowsky" eingehen. Zunächst einmal handelt es sich um ein Repertoire-Buch für Weiß-Spieler mit der Ausgangsstellung 1.d4 Sf6 2.Lg5. Nach einer ersten Einführung folgen die zehn Kapitel mit der Theorie und zahlreichen praktischen Beispielen. Dabei zeigen sich schnell zwei wesentliche Punkte dieses Buches. Zum einen versteht es der Autor, beim Leser durch gute Erklärungen ein gutes Verständnis zu entwickeln, wozu auch die Erörterung von Vor-und Nachteilen bei der Wahl der Zugfolge und der Bezug auf ähnliche Stellungstypen aus anderen Systemen gehört. Zum anderen bietet er in allen wichtigen Hauptvarianten die Wahl zwischen einem "soliden" und einem "aggressiven" Repertoire. Wir wollen hier den Aufbau der Kapitel kurz skizzieren, damit auch erfahrene Trompowsky-Anhänger entscheiden können, ob ihnen das hier erstellte Repertoire zusagt, denn die Qualität und die Tiefe des Repertoires ist sicher nicht nur für Neueinsteiger sehr zu empfehlen. Nach einem einführenden Kapitel über 2...Se4 und einer Besprechung der Nebenvarianten folgen zwei Kapitel über die Hauptvariante 2...Se4 3.Lf4 c5 4.f3 Da5+ 5.c3 Sf6. Dabei wird zuerst das "Angriffs-Repertoire" mit 6.d5 besprochen, danach kommt das "solide" Repertoire mit 6.Sd2 an die Reihe. Gegen 2...Se4 3.Lf4 d5 gibt es wieder eine Einführung, ein "Angriffs-Repertoire" mit 4.f3, das nächste Kapitel zeigt dann das "solide" 4.e3. Diese fünf Kapitel nehmen bereits etwa die Hälfte des Buches ein, nun steht mit 2...c5 ein weiterer Schwerpunkt auf dem Programm. Wieder bietet Wells eine Einführung und erarbeitet ein "solides" Repertoire mit 3.Lxf6, das "Angriffs-Repertoire" im nächsten Kapitel ist auf 3.d5 aufgebaut. Die restlichen drei Kapitel beschäftigen sich mit den sonstigen Möglichkeiten für Schwarz, also z.B. mit 2...e6 (worauf 3.e4 vorgeschlagen wird), 2...d5 (mit 3.Lxf6) und 2...g6 und sonstige Nebenvarianten im zweiten Zug. Die Theorie ist übrigens auf ausführlich kommentierten Musterpartien aufgebaut, die die wichtigsten Abspiele darstellen. In den Kommentaren finden sich natürlich noch viele zusätzliche Abspiele, mit denen Sie das Repertoire ergänzen oder anders gestalten können. Insgesamt umfasst das Buch 52 dieser Musterpartien, unter den Weiß-Spielern finden sich übrigens neben dem Trompowsky-Guru Hodgon auch Weltklassespieler wie Akopian, Lputjan oder Adams. Als Fazit bleibt die Feststellung, wie beeindruckend vielseitig sich diese Eröffnung präsentiert und somit für jeden Geschmack etwas bietet, und das alles wird in "Winning with the Trompowsky" auch noch sehr überzeugend dargestellt. Weitere Pluspunkte verdienen die klaren Einschätzungen von Wells, durch die man sich gut orientieren kann, das mit 240 kompakt bedruckten Seiten sehr umfangreiche Material sowie der gute Druck. Mit zumindest grundlegenden Englischkenntnissen sollte dieses gelungene Eröffnungsbuch gut zu meistern sein. Schachmarkt 02/2004 ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 - ♗g5 234 games, 1926-2022 98_B20_2.b3 Sicilly n stuff Moshe Czerniak has played 2.b3 since 1943: so Czerniak Variation is more appropriate. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... = (33 games) Most contributions: Repertoire Explorer: Tamaz Gelashvili (white) (91 gasmes) Robert Snyder is a US National Master andthe author of a pamphlet, <The Snyder Sicilian>, analyzing <1.e4 c5 2.b3>. Only game here: R Snyder vs J Peters, 1976 = = = I like it after <1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3> (Kaufman recommends this in his first repertoire book, "The Chess Advantage In Black and White") - against 2...d6 or Nc6 he goes for 3.Bb5. I think the thing is, after e6 and b3, black might liked to have played e5 in one go with a c5/d6/e5 pawn structure, knights on c6 / e7 and kingside fianchetto. (A Botvinnik structure). Playing b3 early lets black go for this formation straight away. This may be a subjective judgement on my part, I do admit. <Bibliography on 2.b3 vs the Sicilian> An early b3 for White is gaining legitimacy, as witnessed by the recent high-level appearance of the Nimzo-Larsen Attack with 1.b3 (consider, for instance, the games of Baadur Jobava and Elisabeth Paehtz). So it should hardly surprise us that an early b3 is being used with greater frequency against the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.b3), and analysis and experience show that it represents a fully legitimate system. Those seeking an unusual way of meeting these two most common Black defenses to 1.e4 would do well study 2.b3 against both lines due to the possible transpositions between them, as shown by the repertoire of IM/WGM Eva Repkova. Dr. Richard Lewis of the Kenilworth Chess Club has been using this repertoire for over 40 years, and theory is just catching up with him... <The Sicilian with 2.b3 (Snyder Sicilian, Czerniak Attack, b3 Sicilian)> Most 1.e4 players these days accept that the Sicilian is a tough nut to crack, so they are happy just to reach an interesting position where they might feel more comfortable than their opponents. The line 1.e4 c5 2.b3 (or 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3, sometimes called the Westerinen Variation) definitely serves that purpose and has been used occasionally by some very strong GMs, including Nigel Short, Boris Spassky, and Alexander Morozevich, and has been the main anti-Sicilian weapon of such strong players GM Tamaz Gelashvili , IM Moshe Czerniak, and IM/WGM Eva Repkova. It was first used in Cochrane - Staunton, London Match 2 1842 and tried out recently by current World Champion Magnus Carlsen. I suggest that the name Czerniak Attack should take the place of Snyder Sicilian, especially given the reputation problems of the latter. Game collections can be found at 365chess, ChessTempo, Chess.com, <the Snyder variation at Chessgames, and B20 Sicilian Snyder White at Chessgames. > What follows is a bibliography of sources I have in my possession or could find easily. As always, I welcome reader additions and corrections. An Anti-Sicilian Line: b3 before d4 by Dennis Monokroussos, ChessLecture.com (June 5, 2014). A just-released 87-minute DVD available from ChessLecture.com directly, featuring games with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3. "An Anti-Sicilian Line: b3 before d4, Part 1" by Dennis Monokroussos, ChessLecture.com (June 5, 2013). A 32 minute video featuring Carlsen - Svidler, World Blitz Championship (Moscow) 2009. For subscribers only. "An Anti-Sicilian Line: b3 before d4, Part 2" by Dennis Monokroussos, ChessLecture.com (June 12, 2013). A 25 minute video featuring Kavalek - Hracek, Ceska Trebova 1998. For subscribers only. Experts on the Anti-Sicilian by Jacob Aagaard and John Shaw, Quality Chess (2011): 432-441. Download PDF contents. The last chapter features Peter Heine Nielsen's cheeky recommendation for Black of 2.b3 g6, with continuations like 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Qf3 Bg7 5.e5 Ng8 6.e6 Nf6, or 4…Nc6 5.e5 Nh5, or 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e5 Nh5. "Sicilian: The Czerniak Attack" by Arthur Kogan, Secrets of Opening Surprises #9 (2008): 123-136. Makes an excellent case for calling the opening the "Czerniak Attack" after its most highly regarded early adopter. Sample games include Czerniak - Cebalo, Zagreb 1969; Mamedyarov - van Wely, Wijk aan Zee 2008; Gelashvili - Gagunashvili, Batumi 2001; Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004; Gelashvili - Reddmann, Hamburg 1999; and Short - Thorfinnsson, Reykjavik 2000. Fighting the Anti-Sicilians by Richard Palliser, Everyman Chess (2007): 189-200. Explores 2...d6 and 2...Nc6, though I think 2...e6 would have fit better with his overall repertoire. Sample games in the notes include Buchnicek - Plachetka, Czech League 2005; Jiangchuan - Xu Jun, Shenzhen 1992; Rogers - Ostermeyer, Biel 1984; Dos Santos - Pedersen, Matinhos 1994; and Minasian - Aronian, Omsk 1996. Estudio Casero Defensa Siciliana con 1.e4 c5 2.b3!? by Job Sepúlveda, Proletario (2007). Anti-Sicilians by Jonathan Rowson, ChessPublishing (May 2006). By subscription. Gold Medals, Opening Lanes #71 by Gary Lane, ChessCafe (2004). Lane analyzes the game Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004, which a reader sent suggesting the b3 Sicilian be renamed "the Short variation." But I think there are enough Short Variations already. "The Sicilian, Snyder Variation, Part One" and "Part Two" by Andrew Martin at Chessville (March 2004) -- via the Internet Archive. Part One's "Nosher on the Ocher" discusses Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004, while Part Two discusses Pessi - Miron, Romania 2003. From the web archive. "The Verdict, Part One" and Part Two by Andrew Martin at Jeremy Silman's website (March 2004) -- via the Internet Archive. A Little different from the article Martin published at Chessville, but Part One features Arp - Zomer, NED 2004 and Part Two features Short - Prasad, Mumbai 2004. From the web archive. The Chess Advantage in Black and White by Larry Kaufman, Random House (2004): 115-117, 128-133. Demonstrates a surprising interest in b3 lines, via a Rossolimo move order or via 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3. Games include Akopian - Fominyh, Ubeda 2001; C. Horvath - Fogarasi, Budapest 2002; Anand - Leko, Bastia 2001; and Berzins - Meijers, Latvia 2002. Schachtraining: Geheimwaffen in der Eroffnung by Stefan Kindermann (circa 2002-2003) Features some excellent PGN downloads with analysis covering all major lines following 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3!? which is practically a cross-over variation. From the internet archive. Anti-Sicilians, A Guide for Black by Dorian Rogozenko, Gambit (2003). Recommends 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.b3 b6!? and 2.b3 b6!? Black Repertoire, Sicilian, 2.b3 and Games by Eric Tangborn, Geocities (circa 1998) Black's perspective from IM Tangborn. Foxy Chess Openings, 149 (Vol. 2): White Repertoire Against the Sicilian, Center Counter & Pirc by Andrew Martin (no date). "Volume Two continues Martin’s new 'Winning Repertoire Series for White – 1.e4', which outlines a complete repertoire system for the first player, built around the King’s Pawn opening. Here IM Martin covers how to answer the Sicilian, the Center Counter and the Pirc. After 1.e4 c5 White will continue 2.b3! and enter prepared territory; if 1.e4 d5 we follow with 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Rb1!, and the Pirc meets with 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be2 Bg7 5.g4! and attack as shown." Sicilian Unusual [B20] Survey, by Tamas Horvath, ChesssBase Encyclopedia (1993). Covers 2...d6 (e.g.: Spassky - Huebner, Bueonos Aires 1978; Tschichowani-Lapenis, Belzy 1979) and 2...e6 (e.g.; Spassky-Hernandez, Buenos Aires 1978; Kanzler-Ionov, Daugavpils 1979). Sicilian 2.b3, Snyder Sicilian: A Complete Opening System against the Sicilian with 2.b3 by Robert M. Snyder, Players Press (1984). A 125 page pamphlet by the notorious chess teacher and child molester, featured on "America's Most Wanted." I have not seen this item. De schaakopening. Siciliaans-flanksystemen: het 2. f2-f4 complex, het vleugelgambiet 2. b2-b4, de 2. b2-b3 variant by Paul Boersma, Andriessen (1983). Thanks MNb. Source: http://kenilworthian.blogspot.de/20... = = = Game Collection: B20 Sicilian: Snyder (White) Game Collection: the Snyder Variation 41 games, 1852-2017 98_B22_Alapin Sillycian 2.c3 by whiteshark Cloned 98_B22_Alapin Sillycian 2.c3 Advocating 2...d6 * 1994: Ljubojevic vs J Polgar, 1994 * 2016: K Kiik vs V Artemiev, 2016 * Evolution: Game Collection: # Chess Evolution Volumes 51-100 * MT Facts: https://www.chessjournal.com/facts-... * Play Stockfish 1-10: https://labinatorsolutions.github.i... * Tactics Explained: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... 31 games, 1943-2019 99 Fred WIlson's book Fred Wilson's book "Simple Attacking Plans", Mongoose Press, 2012. Inflated. Thank you Daffy! * More Attacks: Game Collection: Thirteen instructive attacks * Blowing Away the Castled King: Game Collection: Attack The King's Pocket * Danish Gambits: Game Collection: Danish Gambit Games 1-0 * Variety: Game Collection: TacticalArchives * 50 Ways: Game Collection: 50 Ways to Win at Chess * Spassky's Closed Sicilians: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * The King of Gambits: Game Collection: Foxy Openings - King's Gambit * A1912: Game Collection: Abbazia 1912 * Don't Steal: https://www.openbible.info/topics/s... * Fork OVerload (Remove the Defender): Game Collection: FORK-OVERLOAD OR HOOK-AND-LADDER TRICK * Oskar plays 1e4: Oskar Oglaza Adams Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 5.Bb3 Nc6 6.d4) Adelaide Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 f5) Alapin Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.0-0 Bg4 6.h3 h5) Alapin Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Be3) Albin Counter Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5) Alekhine Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Be7 6.Nxe4 Nf6 7.N2g3 0-0 8.Be2 Nc6) Allgaier Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ng5) Andreaschek Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Nf3 e5 4.c3) Anti-Meran Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 5.Bg5) Anti-Moscow Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 c6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 g5 7.Bg3 dxc4 8.e4) Balogh Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.e4 d6) Basque Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.d4 exd4 7.e5 Ne4 8.c3) Belgrade Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nd5) Bellon Gambit (1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 e4 4.Ng5 b5) Benko Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5) Bertin (Three Pawns) Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Be7 4.Bc4 Bh4+ 5.g3 fxg3 6.0-0 gxh2+ 7.Kh1) Bishop’s Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4) Blackburne Shilling Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4) Blackburne Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ng5 h6 6.Nxf7 Kxf7 7.Nc3) Blackmar–Diemer Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 – also (1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 dxe4 4.f3) Blumenfeld Counter Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 b5) Blumenfeld Reversed Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 3.e3 c5 4.b4) Boden–Kieseritzky Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nxe4 4.Nc3) Boehnke Gambit (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 e6 3. dxe6 Bxe6) Brentano Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g5) Breyer Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Qf3) Bronstein Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.0-0 Nc6 6.c3 Nf6 7.d4) Bryan Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5) Bryan (Kieseritzky) CounterGambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 b5) Budapest Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5) Calabrian Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 f5) Carrera (Basman) Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Qe2) Catalan Queens Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3) Charousek Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 e4 4.d3 Nf6 5.dxe4 Nxe4 6.Qe2) Chicago Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nxe5 Nxe5 4.d4) Cochrane Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nxf7) Colorado Gambit (1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 f5) Cunningham Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Be7) Dada Gambit (1.g3 e5 2.Bg2 d5 3.b4) Danish Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3) Danube Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.d5 b5) De Smet Gambit (1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 e5 3.dxe5 d6) Diemer Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.e4) Diemer–Duhm Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c4) Double Muzio Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.0-0 gxf3 6.Qxf3 Qf6 7.e5 Qxe5 8.Bxf7+) Duras Gambit (Fred Defence) (1.e4 f5 2.exf5 Kf7) Elephant Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5) Englund Gambit (1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Qe7 4.Qd5 f6 5.exf6 Nxf6) Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4) Evans Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 d5) Fajarowicz Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4) Falkbeer Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5) Four Pawns Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.b4 Bxb4 4.f4 exf4 5.Nf3 Be7 6.d4 Bh4+ 7.g3 fxg3 8.0-0 gxh2+ 9.Kh1) Franco-Hiva Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 f5) Frankenstein–Dracula Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 5.Bb3 Nc6 6.Nb5 g6 7.Qf3 f5 8.Qd5 Qe7 9.Nxc7+ Kd8 10.Nxa8 b6) French: Wing Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.e5 c5 4.b4) Fried Liver Attack Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.Nxf7 Kxf7) From Gambit (1.f4 e5) Fyfe Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.d4) Gent Gambit (1.Nh3 d5 2.g3 e5 3.f4 Bxh3 4.Bxh3 exf4 5.0-0 fxg3 6.hxg3) Ghulam Khassim Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.d4) Gianutio Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 f5) Ginsburg Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5.Bc4) Godley Gambit (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Nf6) Göring Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3) Greco Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.f4) Grünfeld Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bf4 Bg7 5.e3 0-0) Halasz Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.f4) Halibut Gambit (1.c4 b5) Halloween Gambit (Müller–Schultze) Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe5) Hamppe–Muzio Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.Bc4 g4 6.0-0) Hanstein Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.0-0) Harksen Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.c4) Herrstrom Gambit (1.Nf3 g5) Hubsch Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 Nxe4 4.Nxe4 dxe4 4.Bc4) Icelandic Gambit (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.c4 e6) Italian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d4) Jerome Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ Kxf7) John Tracy Gambit (1.e4 Nf6 2.Nf3) Karpov Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.Nbd2 Nc5) Kasparov Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nb5 d6 6.c4 Nf6 7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 d5) Keres Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nc3) Khan Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 d5) Kieseritzky Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5) King’s Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4) Kotrč–Mieses Gambit (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.b4) Krejcik Gambit (1.e4 Nf6 2.Bc4 Nxe4 3. Bxf7+) Krol Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.f4 d5 3.Nf3) Lasker Gambit (1.d4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 c6 (or 4…g6) 5.f3) Latvian Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.g4) Lewis Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.d4) Lisitsin Gambit (1.Nf3 f5 2.e4) Locock Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Ng5 h6 5.Nxf7) Lopez Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 f5) Lopez Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Qe2 Nf6 4.d3 Nc6 5.c3 Ne7 6.f4) Lopez–Gianutio Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 f5) Marshall Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.e4) McDonnell Double Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.b4 Bxb4 4.f4) McDonnell Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Nc3) Michel Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2. c4 d4 3. b4 c5) Milner-Barry Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.Nc3 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4) Moller Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Nc3 Nxe4 8.0-0 Bxc3 9.d5) Morphy Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Nf3) Morra Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.c3) Muzio Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.0-0) Nakhmanson Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.O-O Nxe4 6.Nc3) Nimzowitsch Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.Qg4) Orthoschnapp Gambit (1.e4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.cxd5 exd5 4.Qb3) Paris Gambit (1.Nh3 d5 2.g3 e5 3.f4 Bxh3 4.Bxh3 exf4 5.0-0) Petroff Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.c3 Qe7 5.d4) Philidor Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 Bg7 5.h4) Philidor Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5) Pierce Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.d4 g4 6.Bc4) Poisoned Pawn (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6 8.Qd2 Qxb2) Polerio Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4) Ponziani Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 f5) Ponziani Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4) Portsmouth Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.b4) Portuguese Gambit (1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4) Quade Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Nc3) Queen’s Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4) Rasa–Studier Gambit (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.f3) Relfsson Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bb5) Reti (Landstrasse) Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.c4) Rice Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.Bc4 d5 7.exd5 Bd6 8.0-0) Rosentreter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.d4 g4) Ross Gambit – (1.Nf3 e5) Rotary-Albany Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 b6) Rousseau Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f5) Rubinstein Counter Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nc3 e6 5.Nxd5 exd5 6.d4 Nc6) Ryder Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Qxf3) Salvio Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Ne5) Schliemann (Jaenisch) Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5) Scotch Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4) Sicilian Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be2 Bb4 7.0-0) Slav Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e4) Smith–Morra Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3) Sorensen Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.d4 g4 5.Ne5) Spanish Counter Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d5) Spielmann Gambit (1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e5 Nfd7 4.e6) Stafford Gambit (1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 Nc6) Stamma Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.h4) Staunton Gambit Deferred (1.d4 f5 2.c4 e6 3.e4) Staunton Gambit (1.d4 f5 2.e4) Steinitz Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4) Steinitz Counter Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 c5) Sturm Gambit (1.f4 d5 2.c4) Swiss Gambit (1.f4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.g4) Tarrasch Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.dxc5 d4 6.Na4 b5) Tartakower (Lesser Bishop’s) Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Be2) Tartakower (Fischer) Gambit (1.b4 e5 2.Bb2 f6 3.e4) Tennison Gambit (1.e4 d5 2.Nf3) Tolush–Geller Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e4 b5 6.e5) Triple Muzio Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.0-0 gxf3 6.Qxf3 Qf6 7.e5 Qxe5 8.Bxf7+ Kxf7) Tumbleweed Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Kf2) Two Knights’ Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5) Urusov Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4) Urusov (Ponziani) Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nf3) Van Weersel Attack (1.e4 c6 2.c4 d5 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Qb3) Vienna Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4) Villemson Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.d4) Von Hennig–Schara Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 cxd4) Vukovic Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 Nf6 4. d4 Nxe4 5. d5 Bc5) Wagner Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 c5 4.e4) Ware Gambit (1.a4 e5 2.a5 d5 3.e3 f5 4.a6) White Gambit (1.c4 d5 2.b3 dxc4 3.bxc4 Qd4 4.Nc3) Wild Muzio Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Bxf7+) Wilkes-Barre/Traxler Variation (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5) Williams Gambit (1.f4 d5 2.e4) Wing Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.b4) Wing Gambit Deferred (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 (or 2…e6) 3.b4) Wing Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.b4) Wing Gambit Delayed (1.e4 c5 2.a3 Nc6 (or 2…e6) 3. b4) Zollner Gambit (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be2 Bg7 7.Be3 Nc6 8.0-0 0-0 9.f4 Qb6 10.e5) 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. REMOVE BELOW 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. The Cock and the Pearl A cock scratched up, one day, A pearl of purest ray, Which to a jeweller he bore. "I think it fine," he said, "But yet a crumb of bread To me were worth a great deal more." So did a dunce inherit A manuscript of merit, Which to a publisher he bore. "It's good," said he, "I'm told, Yet any coin of gold To me were worth a great deal more." 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.” — 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) 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. 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 Z is for Zipper (to the tune of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”) Zipper starts with letter Z, Letter Z, letter Z, Zipper starts with Letter Z, /z/, /z/, /z/, /z/! umf x67 Nez cpresoz zwisch en z oot pergatory Zanov shot at Zedinsky solf Zhavlious fumed 64sqz Zajogin cldnt login but Nez cpresoz sumhou managd tosign outr space, force, time, android K safety council. Nez cpresoz Zvjaginsev Lenzerk Zuidema tried Maroczy Al's pin varied with Stoltz Attack <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. This poem is dedicated to all members who strive to become Masters of chess. yakisoba's combination in the middle of a cold Canadian winter night a phantom creature was riding a stallion knight but lo and behold it is the man called yakisoba together with a bishop and queen chasing nova. though the old bishop was getting pooped out the merry queen in her glory was bouncing about while riding hard yakisoba grinningly thought "I know what to do with that nova when caught." there on top of the castle was nova in hiding strapped to a kite for a quick get-away gliding, then trembling he realized to his consternation: he was being killed by the bishop-queen combination. * 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.’ 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. 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. “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 Z is for Zookeeper (to the tune of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?”) Oh do you know the zookeeper, The zookeeper, the zookeeper? Oh, do you know the zookeeper Who works down at the zoo? Q: Why did the turkey cross the road? A: To prove he wasn’t chicken! Play Chess by William Hartston & Jeremy James. PB, Algebraic, 96 pg., Published by BBC 1980. Brilliant Chess by William Hartston (for beginners; 96 pages) Teach Yourself Chess by William Hartston Teach Yourself Better Chess by William Hartston The Guinness Book of Chess Grandmasters by William Hartston Improve Your Chess (75 lessons) by William Hartston The Penguin Book of Chess Openings by William Hartston Benoni by William R. Hartston The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston The Battle of Baguio City: Karpov-Korchnoi 1978 by William Hartston Karpov Versus Korchnoi: World Chess Championships, 1981 by William Hartston The Brussels Encounter : OHRA by Raymond D. Keene, Andrew Martin, William Hartston, et al. The Psychology of Chess by William Hartston and Peter C. Wason The Book of Numbers: The Ultimate Compendium of Facts about Figures by William Hartston What Are the Chances of That?: Fabulous Facts about Figures by William Hartston 46 games, 1620-2022 A 1. Nf3! Repertoire (Version 2.0) 1...Nf6 Eng1 (English Symmetrical Hedgehog) 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. g3 b6 5. Bg2 Bb7 6. O-O Be7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4 ... Space, mobility, and weaknesses are principal factors. Likely endgame involves advanced pawns and rook(s). 1...d5 SS1 (Semi-Slav) 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O “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 * 50 Games to Know: https://en.chessbase.com/post/50-ga... * 100: Game Collection: 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures * 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) * Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games: Game Collection: Chessmaster '86 * Capablanca - Alekhine video links: https://search.aol.com/aol/video;_y... * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel * Erroneous Piece Trades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC... * Favorite Son: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S... * Fischer's Unbreakable Record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP... * Flip the Finish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWH... * Glossary: 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... * B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger’s Models) * How dumb is it? 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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-... 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 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. Chessgames.com will be unavailable October 13, 2023 from 11:30AM through 11:45AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience. 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. “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 * Beauty Prize: Game Collection: Les Prix de Beauté aux Echecs (I) * Bill Addison (1933-2008): https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Brutal: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Katar's Repertoire: Game Collection: An Opium Repertoire for White * Names and Places: Game Collection: Named Mates * C-Ks: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines * Pretzels? 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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 <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. 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! “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/ Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Drive sober or get pulled over. “For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assia “Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” — Winnie the Pooh 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 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. “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 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 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 wordyfun: 032 rxp Felix Dzagnidze zombd Zelinsky fust NewJzy Zaza Bakgandzhiyo ztecho22 muzio far out-of-print scratch, scratch, scratched th rash on hes... 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. MFL “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. “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. 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.' '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 Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight. ~ Scottish Proverb Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. ~ Scottish Proverb 14 games, 1974-2000 A09 Reti: Gambit [Black] by chess.master A09 Reti: Gambit [Black] by chess.master Reti Warm-up: https://thechessopenings.com/reti-o... Legall's Mate in six moves: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Chess Pathways: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Avoid this early draw: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Solomon Explains: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... c4 can be delayed as long as White develops a different piece each turn: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... The Chess Website: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... White prevents an early ...e5: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Kevin Speaks Again: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Anderssen's 1.a3: Game Collection: Anderssen's 1. a3 Beat the QGD Exchange: Game Collection: Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation Chess Terms: https://chessmart.com/pages/chess-t... Fine's Passion: Game Collection: Passion for Chess (Fine) Evolution: Game Collection: # Chess Evolution Volumes 51-100 Seven Reasons: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... GM lectures on Reti Opening: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... GM lectures on Richard Reti: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... * Play Stockfish 1-10: https://labinatorsolutions.github.i... * She turned back... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J9... * Tactics Explained: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” – J.K. Rowling Turtle gets mugged A turtle is crossing the road when he’s mugged by two snails. When the police show up, they ask him what happened. The shaken turtle replies, “I don’t know. It all happened so fast.” — Submitted by Debby Carter Research Every rag wants to be sent to the wash. Italian Rain doesn’t remain in the sky. Estonian The rainbow might be better looking if it wasn’t such a cheap show. Negro He built a wine shop out of a raisin. (i.e. made a crime out of nothing.) Egyptian He became a raisin before he was a grape. (i.e. a student pretends to be a scribe.) Semitic Rats do not play tricks with kittens. Spanish Rats know the way of rats. Chinese A man of reading understands half a word. Irish Who gives many reasons tells many lies. Russian Open rebuke is better than secret hatred. Who receives should thank, who gives should be silent. German A reflection does not see itself. Bantu Refused with kindness is half promised. German A relative on Adam’s side. (i.e. an answer to one boasting of relationship to a notability.) Polish All religions start from Asia. Japanese Where remedies are needed, sighing avails not. Italian The best remedy for a dispute is not to discuss it. Bantu Who repairs not his gutter, repairs his whole house. Spanish The reply to a Turkish question should be in Turkish. Persian There are some reproaches which commend, and some praises which slander. French Reputation is commonly measured by the acre. In things that must be, it is good to be resolute. English A following commands respect. Italian Respect, disrespect and suspect spoil the world. Italian Revenge a hundred years old has still its milk teeth. Italian In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. English Wait for time and place to take your revenge for it is never well done in a hurry. Italian He who cannot revenge himself is weak; he who will not is contemptible. Italian The reverse side has its reverse side. (i.e. everything has its front and back.) Japanese Revolutions are not made with rose-water. English The rich add riches to riches; the poor add years to years. Chinese Kissing the young and giving short measure to the rich are no sin. Serbian The rich impoverish, the poor enrich. German A rich man is either himself an unjust one, or the heir of one. Latin The illness of the rich is known to all, but not even the death of the poor. Finnish The rich knows not who is his friend. English Having become rich, one must jump for joy in the dark corner. Bantu How is it that the rich only are niggardly? Malay If one became rich through hard work, a donkey would have a packsaddle of gold. French A man cannot grow rich without his wife’s leave. Irish If you are rich, you speak the truth; if you are poor, your words are but lies. Chinese The rich man and the ashtray become dirtier as they heap up. Japanese The rich man has five senses, the poor man six. Swedish Before the rich man is willing to give, the poor man dies. Turkish Do not examine the reindeer given you by the rich man lest you find it to be without horns. Finnish The rich man will feed the rich man, the poor man will feed the rich man. Indian Rich men’s spots are covered with money. English The slave of riches is poverty. Estonian Ridicule is the test of truth. More belongs to riding than a pair of riding boots. German The bare right is almost injustice. Irish It is not enough to be right, one should know how to profit by it. Italian Who comes out of a river fears no rain. Slovenian Do not push the river; it will flow by itself. Polish Be the road crooked or straight, the highway is the short cut. Irish Don’t leave the high road for a short cut. Portuguese A mile round the road is shorter than half a mile across the field. Negro He who goes two roads at the same time splits his hip joint. Bantu The robber has committed one crime, and the robbed a thousand. Georgian Many speak of Robin Hood that never shot his bow. English He who has left a rogue behind him has made a good day’s journey. German When a rogue kisses you count your teeth. Hebrew Room can always be found for a delicacy. Hebrew There is always room for one who is wanted. Sudanic He has got the two ends of the rope and leave to pull. Irish The rope has never been made that binds thoughts. Swedish The last rose that falls off makes the rose-bush a bush. German Plant roses for him who plants thorns for you. For you they are roses, for him a trident. Indian A change of rulers is the joy of fools. Roumanian It is not enough to run; one must start in time. French You run too fast, you run twice. Negro Not all who turn their backs are running away. Swedish What is the use of running when we are not on the right road? German He runs as fast as if he had eggs in his shoes. Dutch If you beat a Russian he can even make you a watch. Russian The End 37 games, 1923-2013 Accidents in the opeming Cloned. “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 “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 “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 “You have enemies? Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill 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. “All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” ― Walt Disney “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 * Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures * Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne * Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op... * Bowman's Beginner's Guide: http://chess.jliptrap.us/BowmanBegi... 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Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves. ~ Scottish Proverb Alaska: Kodiak Established in: 1792 Kodiak is the main city in Kodiak Island and was founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov. It was first called Pavlovsk Gavan, which is Russian for Paul's Harbor, and was the first capital of Russian Alaska. You can still find a large Russian Orthodox church there, as well as plenty of beautiful views. * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... 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! 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. “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 You can't make bricks without straw You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds You can't take it with you [when you die] You can't teach an old dog new tricks You can't judge a book by its cover You can't win them all You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar You pays your money and you takes your choice You reap what you sow You win some, you lose some Youth is wasted on the young The Camel and the Floating Sticks The first who saw the humpbacked camel Fled off for life; the next approached with care; The third with tyrant rope did boldly dare The desert wanderer to trammel. Such is the power of use to change The face of objects new and strange; Which grow, by looking at, so tame, They do not even seem the same. And since this theme is up for our attention, A certain watchman I will mention, Who, seeing something far Away on the ocean, Could not but speak his notion That It was a ship of war. Some minutes more had past, – A bomb-ketch It was without a sail, And then a boat, and then a bale, And floating sticks of wood at last! Full many things on earth, I wot, Will claim this tale, – and well they may; They're something dreadful far away, But near at hand – they're not. Chessgames.com will be unavailable August 28, 2023 from 1:00AM through 1:30AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience. 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. * Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/ * 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 2020: 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.” Q: How do you know which cow is the best dancer? A: See which one has the best moo-ves. Q: What does the cow band play? A: Moo-sic! 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. “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves” — J.M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) A man who spent his life delighting the masses with his words, perfectly understood that you reap what you sow, and that when we make other people happy, we often find happiness ourselves. “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 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. 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 <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 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 “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” — Ancient Chinese Proverb 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 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 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. 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 only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” — Billy Graham “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato “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 <What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? Answer: NOON. * Riddle-xp-dee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch... Grandpa went out for a walk and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible? Answer: Grandpa’s bald!> “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Even Napoleon had his Watergate.” ― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion Ah, St. Marher, 1225: "And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 5zshhz! fish spawn afta shave long promotion run up riva. ^Dudz 164 games, 1560-2006 Best Attacking games book by Naidistsch us Here are most of the games (starred *) from this 50 game book, beautiful & full of energy. But there are more games added, like say 154 to be precise between the same opponents as referred in this book, which gives the idea of background and efforts made by player to clinch that vital point. * Yasser's Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics * Jeopardy: Game Collection: The King in Jeopardy * Karpov's Best: Game Collection: Anatoly Karpov - My 300 Best Games * Mammoth Book: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms) * Morphy pounds Philidor's Defense: Game Collection: White - Philidor: Morphy * Old Game Collections: Game Collection: 2 Favorite Games (1515-1916) Compiled by wanabe2 * Informant Best Games 1-100: Game Collection: # Chess Informant Best Games 1-100 * Shirov Minis: Game Collection: Shirov miniatures * Survival Guide: Game Collection: John Emms: Survival Guide to Competitive Chess * Stein: Game Collection: Leonid Stein - Master of Attack * Stonewall Attack by Soltis: Game Collection: The Stonewall Attack - Soltis * Tal: Game Collection: Tal: Move by Move * Theory & Practice: Game Collection: Chess Openings: Theory and Practice, Section 1 * 2007: Game Collection: # Greatest Tournaments 2007 * GOTD 2015: Game Collection: Game of the Day 2015 * Chess Terms: https://chessmart.com/pages/chess-t... “A game played by men of equal strength, if played accurately, will end in a draw, and it is apt to be dull.” — Emanuel Lasker “Fischer is like Zeus; he is the God of the gods.” — Nigel Short “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ― Stephen King Apr-13-63 Congratulations to the greatest chess player who ever lived! It is unbelievable that Garry Kasparov celebrates his 60th birthday today. He played five of the best games in the history of the royal game: 1. A. Karpov - G. Kasparov, Moscow (m/16) 1985; 2. G. Kasparov - V. Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999; 3. A. Karpov - G. Kasparov, Linares 1993; 4. G. Kasparov - V. Anand, New York (m/10) 1995; 5. G. Kasparov - L. Portisch, Niksic 1983. Kasparov's Evan's Gambit game against V. Anand is one of his most reprinted games in Russian chess literature: Kasparov vs Anand, 1995. Did you hear about the guy who invented the knock-knock joke? He won the “no-bell” prize. Oct-27-23 TimmyDurty: Hi, I am new here. I paid for the premium subscription but am still receiving ads and pop ups every time I do something. Is there something I need to do to stop these ads??? Thank you! Best, Tim Oct-27-23 MissScarlett: Click on Prefs in the top left banner, select <Do not display 3rd party ads> and see what happens. NIÑO GENIO nos da UNO de los MEJORES MOMENTOS de la HISTORIA del AJEDREZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ps... "Dancing Queen" by ABBA (1974): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFr... New Best Game of 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Q... “Bloody Mary”: https://www.historyhit.com/facts-ab... Q: What did Blackbeard say when he turned 80? A: “Aye, matey.” “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 Q: What’s the most terrifying word in nuclear physics? A: “Oops!” Kasparov He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut. English A full kettle boils slowly. (i.e. good things come slowly.) Turkish All the keys hang not at one man’s girdle. English Not to aid one in distress is to kill him in your heart. Sudanic He who kills his own body works for the worms. Negro A single kind word keeps one warm for three winters. Chinese If the king at noon-day says it is night, behold the stars. Arabic The king never leaves hold until the people pull too hard for him. French For the righteous king the whole people is an army. Persian The king’s favor is no inheritance. English Kings love the treason but not the traitor. English A king’s messenger has no guilt. Bantu It is like a kiss, good for nothing until divided. Romany Kisses are keys. English Frequent kisses end in a baby. Hungarian Up to the knee is permitted. German Even in the sheath the knife must be sharp. Finnish One always knocks oneself on the sore place. French When one re-knots a broken cord it holds, but one feels the knot. German All knots come to the comb. Italian There are three things which if a man does not know he cannot live too long in the world: what is too much for him, what is too little for him, and what is just right for him. Bantu Those who know how to do a thing do not find it difficult; those who find it difficult know not how to do it. Chinese It is easier to know how to do a thing than to do it. Chinese Three know it, all know it. Italian “I know it perfectly” prevents the wasp from learning to make honey. Sudanic If people do not know much, do not laugh at them, for every one of them knows something that you do not. Romany They that know one another, salute afar off. English The more you know, the more luck you have. Burmese I know well what I say when I ask for bread. Spanish You don’t know what there is in a man till you have hit him on the nose. Norwegian When you don’t know what to do, wait. English No one is born knowing how to do more than whimper. Maltese To know and to know you know, not to know, and to know you do not know, this is knowledge. Chinese One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. English Knowledge is a wild thing and must be hunted before it can be tamed. Persian He that knows little soon repeats it. Spanish Who knows most forgives most. Italian Who knows nothing, doubts nothing. French Only he who knows the cause of a quarrel knows how to dispute. Sudanic Lucena Position The laborer is always in the sun, the plantation owner in the shade. Sudanic Laborers are never paid. German Often the best way of giving oneself what one lacks is to take from oneself what one has. Persian He who places his ladder too steeply will easily fall backwards. Czech You a lady and I a lady, who will milk the cow? Serbian A lame man won’t walk with one who is more lame. French Why light a lamp if it has no wick in it? (i.e. why cast amorous glances if you don’t mean it?) Malayan He’s a lamp under a torch. (i.e. one insignificant before another.) Indian Who has land, has war. English If the landlady’s fair, the wine too is fair. German To murder a landlord is to remove forty sins from one’s soul. Russian With each newly learned language you acquire a new soul. Slovakian A large lantern with a small light. Flemish We hounds slew the dear, quoth the lapdog. Scottish Seldom is the last of anything better than the first. Irish The later in the evening, the nicer the people. Dutch We must laugh before we are happy, lest we should die without having laughed. French Mr. “Laugh in the eyes” – in his heart there are other things. Bantu He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first. English Right is older than the law. Estonian Show me the man and I’ll show you the law. (i.e. to show the partiality of judges.) Scottish Agree, for the law is costly. English The law on the table, justice under the table. Estonian Those who do not honor the law praise those who break it. Sudanic The law says what the king pleases. French In a thousand pounds of law there’s not an ounce of love. English The sight of money to a law officer is like the sight of blood to a fly. Chinese He that is suffered to do more than is fitting, will do more than is lawful. English For sovereign power all laws are broken. Spanish Laws catch flies but let hornets go free. English Laws go where dollars please. Portuguese It is not important who writes down the laws on paper, but it is important who puts them into effect. Russian Laws without penalties are bells without clappers. Czech May you have a lawsuit in which you know that you are in the right. (A Gipsy curse.) Spanish Even rest will make the lazy tired. Hungarian Who leads an ox to drink must first wet his own feet. Chinese One must draw back in order to leap further. French He who would leap high must take a long run. Danish Everyone who learned archery from me, in the end made me his butt. Persian Long are the arms of a learned man. Burmese Learning which does not advance each day will daily decrease. Chinese Leaves don’t spring straight from the tree, they come from the buds. German He that fears leaves must not come into a wood. English A wooden leg is better than no leg. English It is not much to give a leg to him who gave you the fowl. Spanish To be for one day entirely at leisure is to be for one day an immortal. Chinese Is it necessary to add acid to the lemon? Indian He that lends, gives. English A letter is half a meeting. Bantu A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. English If you are a liar, recollect. Egyptian One must follow the liar to the door of the lie. Georgian Liars have need of good memories. English Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. English “They say so” is half a lie. Italian “They say” is own brother to a lie. Bantu The best walker is a lie. Welsh A travelled man hath leave to lie. English Don’t tell a shallow lie and get it scratched up by the hen with one chick. Malay At the near end of the market-square he told a lie; at the far end he himself believed it. Turkish A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. English You can go all through the country with a lie, but if you are found out, how are you going to travel back? Czech A lie can go around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. A lie has no legs. English A lie has short legs. Italian A lie, in order to live, requires ten others for food. German He who tells a lie in the presence of intimates is indeed a master mind. Sudanic The credit got by a lie lasts only till the truth comes out. English With a lie one goes far, but not back again. Yiddish He who wishes to lie should take care that the testimony is afar off. Hebrew Give a lie twenty-four hours’ start and you can never overtake it. English Lie you for me, and I’ll swear for you. English Who travels alone tells lies. Sudanic From long journeys long lies. Spanish A tale half told is the father of many lies. Chinese If lies are to be believed they must be patched with truth. Danish Lies buzz like flies, but truth has the brilliance of the sun. Arabic If lies were as heavy as stones to carry, many would prefer the truth. Swedish He that lies on the ground cannot fall. Latin He who lies on the ground must expect to be trodden on. German Life is a queer man. Irish Life is a dancing girl. He who despises his own life is soon master of another’s. English You lift it, I’ll do the groaning. Russian There is more light than can be seen through the window. Russian Limits and boundaries, arguments and fights. Russians To limp on the same foot with someone. (i.e. to share the same fault.) Spanish The lioness bears but one cub – but it is a lion. Montenegrin Do not raise lion cubs in a city. Persian A man is a lion in his own cause. English What is said over a dead lion is not said in the eyes of a living one. Negro Through lack of a lion the fox will ascend to the throne. Welsh It is a base thing to tear a dead lion’s beard off. A lion’s skin is never cheap. English The lower lip scorns the upper lip. (i.e. the pot calls the kettle black.) Hamitic Listen at the key-hole and you’ll hear news of yourself. Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but follow no one absolutely. Chinese Listen to what they say of others and you will know what they say of you. Cuban What little John has learned old John cannot unlearn. Slovakian A little pot is soon hot. (i.e. a small man angers quickly.) English When men speak ill of thee, live so nobody may believe them. One must live so that others can live too. Russian What is really a load should not be called an ornament. Sudanic A slice off a cut loaf is never missed. Negro If you give the loan of your breeches, don’t cut off the buttons. Irish There is no lock if the pick is of gold. Spanish A lock is only made for an honest man. (i.e. it is no protection against thieves.) Yiddish Long is not forever. German He who turns to look a second time will lose nothing. Chinese Of two lookers-on one is sure to become a player. German Lookers-on see eight pieces ahead of the players. Japanese He who has his nail torn off his fingers looks at it often. Italian No one looks for another behind the door if he has not hidden himself there first. German A man cannot be known by his looks, nor can the sea be measured with a bushel basket. Chinese He only loosed the tent peg. Egyptian His Lordship has promised me a fur coat and already I feel warm. Polish Losers are always in the wrong. Spanish Let that which is lost be for God. Spanish The value of lost goods is always weighed with double weights. Swiss He who has lost his oxen is always hearing bells. Spanish When you come out twice by the same tree you have lost your way. Sudanic “We two have much to think about,” said the louse on the head of the philosopher. German One does not love another if one does not accept anything from him. Sudanic Whom we love best, to them we can say least. English You may condemn the one you love, but you pay his fine for him. Bantu One buys and sells love for love. German If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty. English Love is like soup, the first mouthful is very hot, and the ones that follow become gradually cooler. Spanish The anger of those in love is like the spider’s web. Italian Love is one-eyed, but hate is blind. German Faults are thick where love is thin. English Love makes time pass, and time makes love pass. German It is only the truly virtuous man who can love, or who can hate, others. Chinese As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred. English Love yourself, then you will have no rivals. Estonian I never loved them that find fault with my shoes, and give me no leather. Scottish Lovers always think that other people have had their eyes put out. Spanish Were you as black as a mulberry, you are white for him who loves you. French Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Italian When my luck is harder my mouth is bolder. Finnish Luck is loaned and not owned. Norwegian Luck will carry a man across the brook if he is not too lazy to leap. Danish Pitch the lucky man into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. Arabic The End 206 games, 1922-2017 Bl FR ADV <14 million-year-old vehicle tracks According to a researcher called Dr. Koltypin, millions of years ago advanced technologies existed on Earth, and the traces we see in the above image were left behind by vehicles 14 million years ago As noted by Russian Geologists, these mysterious traces are at least 14 million old and were left behind by “vehicles” that belonged to a currently “unknown ancient civilization” that inhabited our planet in the past. Many researchers believe that we are not the first society to rule over this planet. In fact, a number of authors have claimed that many other advanced civilizations called this planet home in the past. According to Dr. Koltypin and many other archaeologists, which have adopted new ways of thinking, these ancient “car tracks” are one of the best-preserved pieces of evidence which undoubtedly prove the existence of highly advanced ancient civilizations that inhabited our planet in the distant past.> Pawns are the soul of chess. Move too many pawns and you are toast. If you don't move enough pawns, you are cramped for space. Thank you Jake, lomez. See French Defence compiled by ChessPraxis. Opening repertoire key games compiled by chessbuzz See Play the French 4th Edition by John Watson compiled by shoshonte Another chess creation by Fred Iyak <Mohenjo-Daro The archaeological site of Mohenjo Daro is considered by many ancient astronaut theorists as one of the best examples of ancient alien contact. The destruction of this once great city has been a mystery for archaeologists and experts for decades. Ancient Astronaut theorists claim that thousands of years ago, advanced alien civilizations visited Earth, and nuclear bombs were used to destroy this city. The city was discovered in 1992 when Indian archaeologist R. Banardzhi found the ancient ruins on the banks of the Indus River. Questions such as the cause of the destruction and the fate of its inhabitants remain a mystery to scholars. Some researchers have postulated theories that this city was destroyed by the gods, with “advanced nuclear weapons.”> “Un croquis vaut mieux qu” — Napoleon Bonaparte “The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.” — Napoleon Bonaparte “You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.” — Napoleon Bonaparte * French Rep: Game Collection: French Defense * Hans On French: Game Collection: French Defense * French Victories: Game Collection: French - Advance/Tarrasch/Exchange/etc * TFD: https://chessentials.com/category/l... <The underground city of Derinkuyu Another incredible feat of ancient engineering. Thousands of years ago, ancient people excavated hundreds of meters into the Earth, building one of the greatest ancient underground cities on Earth. This incredible underground city has challenged the views and theories of archaeologists and engineers ever since its discovery. Many mysteries engulf this underground city. No one has been able to understand why and how it was built. While some authors indicate it was created to protect its inhabitants from climate change, extreme temperatures or even war, there are others who believe that its purpose is far more mysterious.> C02 French, advance variation 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 French, advance, Steinitz variation 3...c5 4.dxc5 French, advance, Nimzovich variation 3...c5 4.Qg4 French, advance, Nimzovich system 3...c5 4.Nf3 French, advance variation (3...c5 4.c3) 3...c5 4.c3 French, advance, Wade variation 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4...Qb6 5.Nf3 Bd7 French, advance variation (4...Qb6 5.Nf3 Bd7) 4...Nc6 French, advance, Paulsen attack 5.Nf3 French, advance, Milner-Barry gambit 5...Qb6 6.Bd3 French, advance, Euwe variation 5...Bd7 * Theory: http://162.203.35.1:78/mediawiki/in... <A Massive knife discovered underwater Not much can be found about this mysterious image, but we’ll include it just for fun. We see a massive knife, held by three scuba drivers somewhere on Earth’s ocean. The image has been widely shared among people on social networks, and many consider it evidence that, before written history, perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, giants walked on Earth. More than likely, it’s a prop that ended up somehow in the ocean, but who knows for sure?> 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 "We do not remember days, we remember moments." ― Cesare Pavese Fredthebear remembers, most of the times. 7,000 year-old road found under the Mediterranean Sea in Croatia <Sacsayhuamán Sacsayhuamán is without a doubt one of the most incredible ancient sites ever discovered on the planet. Why? Not only because of the history of this ancient city but because of the supermassive stones used in its construction. The ceremonial complex is well-known for its impeccable masonry that is so precise that engineers today have no clue how it was made. Some of the stones at Sacsayhuamán are so perfectly fitted that not a single sheet of paper can fit in between.> The Fashion of the Champion by Wayne Proudlove Posted: Aug-26-09 The success of the victor depends on the factors that take shape after the dream/ Obstacles that prevent him from confirming the win are like walking a thin and high beam/ For the opponent is prepared and often uses his skills in ways that are not quite what they seem/ This holds true for both those working alone and members of some kind of team/ But one thing remains certain and it's through much experience I've deemed/ It takes not just understanding or mastery even, but to perform under pressure extreme. <The Gate of The Sun ( Puerta del Sol) The Gate of the Sun is a megalithic solid stone arch or gateway located in Tiwanaku, an ancient mysterious city located in Bolivia. Archaeologists believe this ancient city was the center of a vast empire during the first millennium AD. And despite the fact that we know a lot about South American ancient civilizations, researchers are still not able to figure out the meaning of some of the drawings that are enshrined in the monuments of the ancient city. Some experts believe these depictions have a great astrological and astronomical value, while other authors believe it is a gateway to another world.> 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 Longyou Caves The Longyou Caves are out of this world. This incredible set of caves is little talked about. The Longyou Caves are a set of artificial caves that are believed to be at least 2000 years old and happen to be one of the largest structures ever excavated by man. Researchers have been baffled by the size and precision of the caves. Archaeologists, engineers, architects, and geologists from around the world have tried to figure out how, why and when were these artificial caves were built, but no one has offered a single solution to the many mysteries surrounding the caves.> The Fireside Book of Chess is a huge grab bag, accenting the lighter side of chess. It is a reservoir into which the reader can dip to provide countless hours of relaxation and entertainment. Since it makes few demands on the reader, it is a virtually perfect gift for Christmas or any other time of the year. Messers. Chernev and Reinfeld have stuffed their grab bag with golden nuggets. They have included stories and articles by unsung chess heroes like Billy Rose, veteran experts like Alfred Kreymborg, and devoted lovers of the game like Gerald Kersh and Solomon Hecht. The chess games contained were selected for their brevity as well as brilliance; some are amusing, others as devastating as an avalanche. There are sections on “Remarkable Games and the Stories Behind Those Games”, “Combinations”, “Quickies”. “Simultaneous Exhibitions”, “Women in Chess”, “Slugging Matches”, and twenty other such diversions. In brief, The Fireside Book of Chess contains everything necessary to delight the reader who knows that this ancient game is the most exciting and entertaining of all civilized sports. The Fireside Book of Chess is the World's Greatest Collection of stories, cartoons and amusing anecdotes about the game of chess. It also has curious and interesting chess games such as the game where the Champion of France lost in four moves, which is the quickest loss in chess history by a master. This book is famous not for the games it contains but for the stories, fiction and cartoons about chess. However, included is a selection of the games converted into Algebraic Notation in the back pages of this book. Nimzowitsch vs J Szekely, 1927 <The underwater city of Yonaguni – Japan Referred to as Japans Atlantis, some authors argue the Yonaguni complex is an ancient monument left behind by an ancient civilization that existed on Earth before the last Ice Age. These alleged ancient remains were discovered accidentally by scuba instructor Khachiro Arataki. Some underwater archaeologists, as well as many authors, refer to this ancient complex as one of the most important underwater discoveries in recent years. The discovery of the Yonaguni complex has questioned several scientific theories. The incredibly carved rock sank is believed to have sunken more than 12,000 years ago, much before the Ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids. Mainstream archaeology and science argue that no advanced civilizations existed on Earth before the last Ice Age and that ancient mankind was not able to carve such a complex structure.> Delaware: Lewes Established in: 1631 As the first town in the first state, Lewes enjoys a special sort of charming history. The quaint town is full of historical touches and is a great place to visit. Located where the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean meet, there is also plenty of nature to be found. * Brief History of Chess: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... <Giant Stone Spheres These giant stone spheres have been present from Costa Rica to Bosnia & Herzegovina, they come in all sorts of sizes. They were first found in South America in the 1930s by workers who were clearing jungle to make way for a plantation of bananas. South American legends say that hidden within the rocks are unimaginable treasures. This has led to the destruction of many of these spheres by people who did not recognize their historical value. Despite the fact that many of these spheres were destroyed, no one has ever found anything inside them. Similar spheres can be found in Europe in Bosnia & Herzegovina near Visoko. No one can explain what these giant stone spheres are made for.> 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. “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 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 “A bad plan is better than none at all.” ― Frank Marshall <2 billion-year-old Natural Nuclear Reactor In 1972, researchers confirmed the discovery of a set of Natural Nuclear Reactors in Gabon. Ever since, scientists have scratched their heads trying to understand how it is possible that these nuclear reactors developed in Gabon two billion years ago, and did not come into existence at any other place on the Planet. As claimed by experts, more than two billion years ago, parts of the African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. According to scientists, this mysterious “natural” nuclear reactor had the ability to produce modest energy. Scientists estimate the Oklo reactors would have had samples with roughly 3.6% uranium-235 — that’s close to the enrichment threshold of modern nuclear reactors.> * Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES “I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.” ― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan I went to a wedding where two satellite dishes got married. The ceremony wasn’t great, but the reception was amazing. (to the tune of "Did I Remember," hit song from 1936) by beatgiant Did I remember to tell you I play chess, and I am livin' to kibitz alone? Did I remember to say I'm here all day, and just how carried away with GMs' play? Chess was on my screen and that was all I knew, Posting a mate in 2, what did I say to you? Did I remember to tell you I play chess, And pray forever more the site's online? “I went frantically mad with chess. I bought a chess-board. I bought Il Calabrese. I shut myself up in my room and spent days and nights there with a will to learn all the games by heart, to cram them into my head willy-nilly, to play alone without end or remission. After two or three months working in that fine way, and after unimaginable endeavours, I went to the Cafe with a lean and sallow face, and nearly stupid. I made a trial, playing with Monsieur Bagueret again. He beat me once, twice, twenty times.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Q: What do you call a magician who lost their magic? A: Ian. zako7 studied Szabo until Zerquera convinced z that puffi waz BAD for hiz organz. Donation was out of the question. “Celebration” By Kool & The Gang (1980): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gw... New Best Game of 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Q... 504 Gateway Time-out 305 games, 1620-2023 Bl Glimpse of History for reference... Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in "The Art of Chess Combination" wrote : Some players believe that a combination is a spontaneous creation, that the possibility of a sacrifice springs up in the mind like a flash of genius, as surprising to the player as to his opponent. The truth is that combinations due to pure chance are not merely fantastic. There are combinations based on the opponent's errors; and most "traps" may be classed among these. There is even the type of player, the coffee-house expert, who speculates on the ignorance and inexperience of his adversaries. But this is detestable and inglorious style of play, based on others; weaknesses, no one one's own strength. True combination is quite another matter. The crown of a fine player's logical chess, it must be prepared, and not left to chance. Fred Wilson explains in "303 Tricky Chess Tactics" : A combination is a tactical maneuver in which you sacrifice material to obtain an advantage, or at least to improve your position. So, strategy then, is your general plan, while tactics are your specific means of carrying it out. In "The Game of Chess" by Siegbert Tarrasch we are told : Tactics are the most important element of the Middle Game. We must above all "see" what is more or less hidden. We must exploit opportunities for combinations wherever they are offered. Here there is only an illusory guard, there our opponent has a man quite unguarded, or a double attack, etc., is possible. Over and over again there occur the tactical maneuvers ... and these opportunities must frequently be created by a sacrifice. Mistakes by our opponent must be recognized as such, and also those that we ourselves are about to make. Irving Chernev quoted Emanuel Lasker in "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played": In the beginning of the game ignore the search for combinations, abstain from violent moves, aim for small advantages, accumulate them, and only after having attained these ends search for the combination - and then with all the power of will and intellect, because then the combination must exist, however deeply hidden. Al Horowitz gave his own uniquely expressed thoughts on combinations in "Chess for Beginners": The word "combination" can be taken to have two meanings. We think of a combination as being a series of moves, at least one of which is a sacrifice, to reach a certain goal. The word "combination" also conveys that the pieces are acting in concert, each participating piece contributing some necessary element to the plan. The "sacrifice" is the surprise "gimmick" which.... gives away some material in astonishing fashion in order to gain something of even greater value later on. The astonishment we feel lends a very pleasant quality to the process; but the success of the scheme gives us a lordly feeling of successful achievement. Of course, when a clever scheme is upset by an even more ingenious rejoinder, our delight is often met with chagrin. “Chess not only teaches us to analyze 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 “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 “On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” ― Emanuel Lasker “Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.” ― Holly Black, The Wicked King “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 most helpful thing I learnt from chess is to make good decisions on incomplete data in a limited amount of time.” ― Magnus Carlsen “I am not the piece, I am not of the piece, I am not in the piece. I am the move” ― Niranjan Navalgund “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 “Remember that in chess, it's only the square you land on that matters.” ― Bill Robertie, Beginning Chess Play “The pieces are connected to each other and the King and they are in this dynamic rhythm amongst themselves and with the opponent’s pieces, wherein lies their purpose. Each move is an attempt to change that balance and to establish a new, more favorable balance and that is why in chess (and in life) we are most vulnerable when we are most aggressive—the aggressive move essentially causes us to lose balance.” ― Roumen Bezergianov, Character Education with Chess "To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing." ― Captain Bertin, The Noble Game of Chess (1735) “Chess enjoys a not wholly undeserved reputation for psychic derangement. It is an endeavor associated, when not with frank madness, with oddness and isolation. I remember a psychiatrist friend visiting me at a chess club in downtown Boston once. He walked in, sat down, looked around and said, ‘Jeez, I could run a group here.” ― Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors “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 “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 “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 “Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.” ― Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess “In life, as in chess, learning must be constant - both new things and fresh ways of learning them. The process will invariably involve a certain degree of unlearning, and possessing the readiness to that is utterly important. If your way of doing things isn't working, clinging to your conclusions is only going to hold you back. You have to get to the root of a snag in order to make a breakthrough, because it's possible that what you thought you knew isn't actually the way it is. Unlearning is perhaps the hardest thing to do, but it is a necessity if growth and success are your goals.” ― Vishwanathan Anand The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York. “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 “I always plan for longterm, life to me is a never ending chess match” ― James D. Wilson “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.” ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit “It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go “She had heard of the genetic code that could shape an eye or hand from passing proteins. Deoxyribonucleic acid. It contained the entire set of instructions for constructing a respiratory system and a digestive one, as well as the grip of an infant's hand. Chess was like that. The geometry of a position could be read and reread and not exhausted of possibility. You saw deeply into the layer of it, but there was another layer beyond that, and another, and another.” ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit “If one reads attentively, Wittgenstein writes as much in one of the rare pas- sages in which he makes use (in English) of the term “to constitute” with respect to the rules of chess: What idea do we have of the king of chess, and what is its relation to the rules of chess? . . . Do these rules follow from the idea? No, the rules are not something contained in the idea and got by analyzing it. They constitute it. . . . The rules constitute the “freedom” of the pieces. (Wittgenstein 5, p. 86) Rules are not separable into something like an idea or a concept of the king (the king is the piece that is moved according to this or that rule): they are immanent to the movements of the king; they express the autoconstitution process of their game. In the autoconstitution of a form of life what is in question is its freedom.” ― Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer “What I wanted to tell you about Philidor was that Diderot wrote him a letter. You know Diderot?" "The French Revolution?" "Yeah. Philidor was doing blindfold exhibitions and burning out his brain, or whatever it was they thought you did in the eighteenth century. Diderot wrote him: 'It is foolish to run the risk of going mad for vanity's sake.' I think of that sometimes when I'm analyzing my ass over a chessboard.” ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit “I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and disappointments are still sufficiently fresh in my mind. Much as I would like to, I cannot say this about these few games which will be given below. In fact, if the annotator should begin to use phrases of the type: 'in reply to...I had worked out the following variation...', the reader will rightly say 'Grandmaster, you are showing off', since the 'oldest' of these games is now more than 25 years old, and even the 'newest' more than 20. Therefore, I would ask you not to regard the following 'stylised' annotations too severely. ” ― Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal “In general, the side with less space tries to exchange pieces to release some of the pressure that the opponent's pieces exert on him.” ― IM Asaf Givon * 99 Luft Balloons: Game Collection: 99 Schönheitspreise (Steinkohl) * Colorado Gambit: https://chessmood.com/blog/complete... * 200 Modern Brilliancies: Game Collection: 0 * 2000#: Game Collection: Checkmate 2000 * Informant 22: Game Collection: Chess Informant 22 * 2002#: Game Collection: Checkmate 2002 * Short History: https://chessmart.com/pages/history... * Informant 21: Game Collection: Chess Informant 21 * 2001#: Game Collection: Checkmate 2001 * Chess Terms: https://chessmart.com/pages/chess-t... * Informant 23: Game Collection: Chess Informant 23 * 2003#: Game Collection: Checkmate 2003 * Three of the Greatest: https://chessmart.com/pages/chess-m... * 2004#: Game Collection: Checkmate 2004 * 2005#: Game Collection: Checkmate 2005 * What is my opponent aiming at? How many times? Always COUNT Attackers vs Defenders (exclude defenders that can be eliminated/removed, such as a strong pin, undermining the defender by capturing it first, or advancing pawn poke displacement taking flight from the fight to save itself). Can the defender be removed? Can a new attacker pile on? Of course, an undefended piece is a good target if the attacker plies a worthwhile double attack when only one of the targets can be saved per turn. A mere single threat (just one target) to the undefended piece merely gives it a choice of how to protect itself, including moving to a better square with its own threat. Double attacks are double the trouble, if not more. The relative values of the units must always be considered when threats to capture exist; if a lowly pawn defends, the opposing queen won't likely initiate the capture sequence because she's so valuable. Furthermore, an "equal" exchange of like pieces (same relative value) is not necessarily an even trade, as one of the pieces was likely more valuable to its army in a positional sense than the other. This falls under the art of exchange. Always know what happens AFTER an exchange sequence has occurred that rearranges/empties the board! The last piece to capture in an exchange sequence is NOT necessarily the last word on the matter, as the opponent may now respond to a square that was previously unprofitable before the trading. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNF... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BER... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VN... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npN... Chess is a game of choices. Take a minute or two and quickly consider all the forcing moves: checks and cut-offs, captures, threats/aims (tactics, pile on a current target, gain of tempo), pawn promotions. If the forcing moves are not profitable, then correct your problem spot, or seek to develop/mobilize: blockade weak pawns, infiltrate weak squares, seize open lines and form batteries and/or crossfires, etc. Consider each of the pieces and move possibilities to improve their production or to do a necessary job/prevention, especially outnumbering on a square or line, advancing/permanent penetration, and watch those tricky knights changing colors! Where can they go next? Would that present a problem for me? Remember, king safety and piece activity are paramount. Pawn moves are slow and weakening; use them sparingly w/a clear purpose -- never randomly for no particular reason. Don't leave your king exposed to check. Don't leave your minor pieces (knights and bishops) sleeping on the back row. The center pawns and minor pieces do the early fighting. Do aim at your own units for their protection. Don't automatically play the first or second move that you see -- consider the best option for each of the pieces and then compare/contrast, starting with the opponent's army first, and then your own army. What will my opponent do next if I allow it? If I do this, will my piece get pinned or forked? The best plan of choice might have more than one purpose and usually generates ideas of two or three future moves as a follow up/strongest continuation. One thing leads to another, and another. This is a lot to think about, and there's plenty of strategical concepts not listed (analyze forcing moves/tactics to checkmate or gain material before general strategy to correct or improve one's position), so one must develop the habit of looking for candidate moves at a glance. Otherwise, s/he falls into time trouble on the clock spending too much time looking at all the options. Pace yourself! If it is a casual game without a clock, taking too much time to make your next move will eventually cause your opponent not to bother playing you again. “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.” — Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898) “Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.” ― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea “They say that chess was born in bloodshed.” ― Paolo Maurensig, La variante di Lüneburg "No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead." ― Alexander Suvarov “The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ― Colin Powell “The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country” ― George S. Patton Jr. “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 “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 "We do not remember days, we remember moments." ― Cesare Pavese “I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.” ― Boris Gelfand “Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.” – Siegbert Tarrasch “Chess, it’s the struggle against error.” ― Johannes Zukertort “You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “When you don’t know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea — it’s sure to be wrong!” ― Siegbert Tarrasch “What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.” ― Samuel Reshevsky, Art of Positional Play “You need to realise 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 realise 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 “In chess a combination is a forced sequence of moves that begins with a sacrifice.” ― Howcast video “The game gives us a satisfaction that life denies us. And for the chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.” ― Emanuel Lasker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0H... - https://thechessworld.com/articles/... - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... - https://www.chess.com/article/view/... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzg... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boR... "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 “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 “The pin is mightier than the sword” ― Fred Reinfeld “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.” ― Pierre Mac Orlan “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 MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge. “I remember, back in college, how many possibilities life seemed to hold. Variations. I knew, of course, that I'd only live one of my fantasy lives, but for a few years there, I had them all, all the branches, all the variations. One day I could dream of being a novelist, one day I would be a journalist covering Washington, the next - oh, I don't know, a politician, a teacher, whatever. My dream lives. Full of dream wealth and dream women. All the things I was going to do, all the places I was going to live. They were mutually exclusive, of course, but since I didn't have any of them, in a sense I had them all. Like when you sit down at a chessboard to begin a game, and you don't know what the opening will be. Maybe it will be a Sicilian, or a French, or a Ruy Lopez. They all coexist, all the variations, until you start making the moves. You always dream of winning, no matter what line you choose, but the variations are still … different." … "Once the game begins, the possibilities narrow and narrow and narrow, the other variations fade, and you're left with what you've got - a position half of your own making, and half chance, as embodied by that stranger across the board. Maybe you've got a good game, or maybe you're in trouble, but in any case there's just that one position to work from. The might-have-beens are gone." (Unsound Variations)” ― George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs, Volume II “Life is an exchange; you'd think a chess player would know that.” ― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land “Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).” ― Bill Gaede “A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.” ― William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born, is to remain always a child." ― Cicero A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote" “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 Due to earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 49,000 feet (15,000 metres). “Papi taught me every piece has its own space. Papi taught me every piece moves in its own way. Papi taught me every piece has its own purpose. The squares do not overlap. & neither do the pieces. The only time two pieces stand in the same square is the second before one is being taken & replaced.” ― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land “The final aim of all of us playing on the board of life is to somehow break out of this board and be free” ― Vineet Raj Kapoor, UNCHESS: Untie Your Shoes and Walk on the Chessboard of Life Diamonds are the hardest natural substance. Diamonds are not the hardest substance of all-time, but it is the strongest substance naturally found on Earth. Chessgames.com will be unavailable Friday, February 17, 2023 from 11AM through 11:30AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience. The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J. Out of 118 chemical elements, only this letter feels left out. A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che... Doinysius1: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb! * Riddle-free-zool: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid... “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 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! "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 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. WISE OLD OWL A wise old owl lived in an oak. The more he saw the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that wise old bird? 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. 210 games, 1843-2018

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