- "Deutsche Schachzeitung"
Compiled by Calli
1847 vol 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=I6... 1848 vol 3 (now viewable!) http://books.google.com/books?id=Ma... 1849 vol 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=R6... 1850 vol 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=x6... 1851 vol 6 (now viewable, but missing first 164 pages) http://books.google.com/books?id=zK... 1852 vol 7 (Adolf Anderssen, Nathan) http://books.google.com/books?id=U6... 1853 vol 8 (Adolf Anderssen, E. Kossak) http://books.google.com/books?id=-K... 1854 vol 9 (now viewable) http://books.google.com/books?id=C6... 1855 vol 10 (Adolf Anderssen, E. Kossak) http://books.google.com/books?id=Ya... 1856 vol 11 (Adolf Anderssen, E. Kossak) http://books.google.com/books?id=aq... 1857 vol 12 (Adolf Anderssen, J. Dufresne) http://books.google.com/books?id=ba... 1858 vol 13 (Adolf Anderssen, Max Lange) http://books.google.com/books?id=fK... 1859 vol 14 (Adolf Anderssen, Max Lange) http://books.google.com/books?id=ha... 1860 vol 15 (Adolf Anderssen, Max Lange) http://books.google.com/books?id=Qn... 1861 vol 16 (Max Lange, Berthold Suhle, Philip Hirschfeld) http://books.google.com/books?id=mq... 1862 vol 17 (Max Lange, Philip Hirschfeld) http://books.google.com/books?id=sq... 1863 vol 18 (Max Lange) http://books.google.com/books?id=ZH... 1864 vol 19 (Max Lange) http://books.google.com/books?id=kS... 1865-1866 vols 20-21 (E. v. Schmidt, J. Minckwitz) http://books.google.com/books?id=5y... 1866 vol 21 (E. v. Schmidt, J. Minckwitz) http://books.google.com/books?id=16... 1867 vol 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=7K... 1868 vol 23 (J. Minckwitz) http://books.google.com/books?id=8K... 1869 vol 24 (J. Minckwitz) http://books.google.com/books?id=G6... 1870 vol 25 (J. Minckwitz) http://books.google.com/books?id=I6... 1882 vol 37 (J. Minckwitz) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1883 vol 38 (J. Minckwitz) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1884 vol 39 (J. Minckwitz) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210...
On google http://books.google.com/books?id=iX... 1885 vol 40 (J. Minckwitz) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1886 vol 41 (J. Minckwitz) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1887 vol 42 (Von Bardeleben, H. Von Gottschall) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1888 vol 43 (Von Bardeleben, H. Von Gottschall) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1889 vol 44 (Von Bardeleben, H. Von Gottschall) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1889-1890 vols 44-45 (Von Bardeleben, H. Von Gottschall eds.) http://books.google.com/books?id=Bz... 1891-1892 vols 46-47 (H. Von Gottschall ed.) http://books.google.com/books?id=gS... 1893-1894 vols 48-49 (H. Von Gottschall ed.) http://books.google.com/books?id=lC... 1895-1896 vols 50-51 (H. Von Gottschall ed.) http://books.google.com/books?id=ky... 1897-1898 vol 52-53 (S. Tarrasch ed.) http://books.google.com/books?id=xy... 1899-1900 vols 54-55 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter eds.) http://books.google.com/books?id=9j... 1901-1902 vols 56-57 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter eds.) http://books.google.com/books?id=TD... 1903-1904 vols 58-59 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter eds.) http://books.google.com/books?id=Ny... 1904 vol 59 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter) http://books.google.com/books?id=UX... 1905-1906 vols 60-61 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter eds.) http://books.google.com/books?id=5S... 1907 vol 62 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1908 vol 63 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1909 vol 64 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1910 vol 65 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1913 vol 68 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1915 vol 70 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter)
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1916 vol 71 (Johann Berger, Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1917 vol 72 (Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1918 vol 73 (Carl Schlechter) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1919 vol 74 (Jacques Mieses) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1920 vol 75 (Jacques Mieses) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1921 vol 76 (Jacques Mieses) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1922 vol 77 (Friedrich Palitzsch) http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210... 1923 Vol 78 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt...
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0 games, - "Monte Carlo 1903"
Compiled by suenteus po 147, Pawn and Two
The quarter of Monte Carlo in the principality of Monaco hosted the third of four chess master tournaments, designed to help bolster tourism during the winter season, in 1903. Only fourteen chess masters participated in the double round robin event, since Mikhail Chigorin was turned away for his criticism of games won by Prince Dadian of Mingrelia, and Semion Alapin, Isidor Gunsberg, and David Janowski were forced to decline due to their invitations being sent last minute. Games were played between February 10th and March 17th in the Monte Carlo Casino. When the players complained of the noise to tournament director Arnous de Rivière he told them they would just have to get used to it. Siegbert Tarrasch won the tournament after several losses in the opening rounds. Geza Maróczy who had won the tournament the previous year came in second. Harry Nelson Pillsbury, whose health in the last few years was steadily declining, managed only third place in what would be his penultimate international tournament. This was also another tournament that would contribute to Richard Teichmann's nickname of "Richard the Fifth" as he placed fifth in the standings just behind Carl Schlechter. Despite the absence of the alternate scoring for draws or replayed games (rules in place in the previous two installments), all of the games were hard fought each round of this event. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Tarrasch 20/26 ** ½½ ½1 0½ 0½ 01 11 11 11 11 1½ 11 11 11 2nd Maróczy 19/26 ½½ ** ½½ ½½ ½½ 11 01 11 01 01 11 11 11 11 3rd Pillsbury 18½/26 ½0 ½½ ** 11 11 1½ 1½ 01 0½ ½1 1½ 1½ 11 11 4th Schlechter 17/26 1½ ½½ 00 ** ½½ ½1 1½ ½1 01 ½0 1½ 11 11 11 5th Teichmann 16½/26 1½ ½½ 00 ½½ ** 10 ½½ 1½ ½1 10 01 11 11 11 6th Marco 15½/26 10 00 0½ ½0 01 ** 1½ 11 1½ 1½ ½1 ½0 11 11 7th Wolf 14/26 00 10 0½ 0½ ½½ 0½ ** 01 1½ 11 11 01 01 11 8th Mieses 13/26 00 00 10 ½0 0½ 00 10 ** 11 11 1½ 01 ½1 11 9th Marshall 12/26 00 10 1½ 10 ½0 0½ 0½ 00 ** 11 01 01 10 11 =10th Taubenhaus 10½/26 00 10 ½0 ½1 01 0½ 00 00 00 ** ½½ 11 10 11 =10th Mason 10½/26 0½ 00 0½ 0½ 10 ½0 00 0½ 10 ½½ ** ½1 1½ 11 12th Albin 8/26 00 00 0½ 00 00 ½1 10 10 10 00 ½0 ** 0½ 11 13th Reggio 7½/26 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 ½0 01 01 0½ 1½ ** 11 14th Moreau 0/26 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 **
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182 games, 1903 - "New York 1893, The Impromtu Tournament" /Cali
Compiled by Cali
All games are in the database. Still need a couple of corrections and a write up but progress has been made!
table[
* was Missing
Rd 1 b1, Jasnogrodsky-Schmidt 0-1
Rd 1 b2, Taubenhaus-Albin 1/2-1/2,
adj. till Oct 4 - 100 moves
Rd 1 b3, Pillsbury-Gossip 1-0
Rd 1 b4, Lasker vs Hanham 1-0
Rd 1 b5, Lee-Ryan 1-0
Rd 1 b6, Olly-Delmar 0-1,
submitted 3/2/2013, in by 5/17/2013
Rd 1 b7, Pollock vs Showalter 1/2-1/2
postponed and played Oct 4
Rd 2 b1, Albin-Pollock 0-1
Rd 2 b2, Gossip-Taubenhaus 0-1
Rd 2 b3, Hanham-Pillsbury 1-0
Rd 2 b4, Ryan-Lasker 0-1
Rd 2 b5, Delmar-Lee 1/2-1/2
drawn in 58 submitted 3/2/2013, in by 5/17/2013
Rd 2 b6, Schmidt-Olly 1-0 won in 58
Rd 2 b7, Showalter-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 won in 72
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
― Oprah Winfrey
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." ― C.S. Lewis *Rd 3 Jasnogrodsky-Olly 1-0 submitted 3/2/2013, in by 5/17/2013 *Rd 4 Olly-Lee 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 5 Pollock-Ryan 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013 (in db as Pollock-Schmidt- fixed!))
*Rd 6 Hanham-Albin 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 6 Delmar-Pollock 1-0 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 6 Gossip-Jasnogrodsky 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 7 Albin-Ryan 0-1 submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 8 Delmar-Albin 0-1 submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 8 Ryan-Gossip 1-0 submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 8 Olly-Pollock 1-0 forfeit
*Rd 9 Pollock-Lee 2nd board submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 9 Gossip-Delmar 5th board submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 9 Hanham-Ryan 6th board submitted 3/10/2013
“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
*Rd 10 Delmar-Hanham 1st board - submitted 3/11/2013
Rd 10 Schmidt-Gossip 2nd board - OK
Rd 10 Olly-Albin 3rd board - OK
Rd 10 F J Lee-Showalter 4th board - OK
Rd 10 Lasker-W Pollock 5th board - OK
Rd 10 Pillsbury-Taubenhaus 6th board - OK
*Rd 10 Jasnogrodsky-Ryan 7th board - submitted 3/11/2013 Rd 11 Pollock-Pillsbury 1-0,1st board - OK
Rd 11 Showalter-Lasker 1-0, 2nd board - OK
*Rd 11 Albin-Lee 1-0, 3rd board - submitted 3/30/2013
*Rd 11 Gossip-Olly 1/2-1/2, 4th board - submitted 3/30/2013
Rd 11 Hanham-Schmidt 1-0, 5th board - OK
*Rd 11 Ryan-Delmar 1/2-1/2, 6th board - submitted 3/30/2013
Rd 11 Taubenhaus-Jasnorodsky 1-0, 7th board -OK
Rd 12 Schmidt-Ryan 1-0, 1st board - OK
*Rd 12 Olly-Hanham 0-1, 2nd board - submitted 3/30/2013
*Rd 12 Lee-Gossip 1-0, 3rd board - submitted 3/30/2013
Ed 12 Lasker-Albin 1-0, 4th board - OK
Rd 12 Pillsbury-Showalter 1-0, 5th board - OK
Rd 12 Taubenhaus-Pollock 0-1, 6th board - OK
*Rd 12 Jasnogrodsky-Delmar 0-1, 7th board - submitted 3/30/2013 Rd 13 Showalter-Taubenhaus 1-0, 1st board - OK
Rd 13 Albin-Pillsbury 1-0, 2nd board - Ok
Rd 13 Gossip-Lasker 0-1, 3rd board - OK
Rd 13 Hanham-Lee 0-1,4th board - OK
*Rd 13 Ryan-Olly 1-0, 5th board - submitted 3/30/2013
Rd 13 Delmar-Schmidt 1-0, 6th board - OK
Rd 13 Pollock-Jasnogrodsky 1-0, 7th board - wrong result in DB
]table
1893
Sept 30 Pollock and Showalter got permission to start with the second round and make up their game on Oct 4. 7th Taubenhaus-Olly 0-1, Pollock-Schmidt 0-1, Albin-Ryan*(not submitted yet) 0-1, Hanham-Gossip* 0-1, Jasno-Lasker 0-1, Pillbury-Lee 0-1, Showalter-Delmar 1/2-1/2 ‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!’
8th Ryan-Gossip* 1-0, Delmar-Albin*(not submitted yet) 0-1, Schmidt-Showalter 0-1, Olly-Pollock 1-0 (forfeit), Lee-Taubenhaus 1/2-1/2, Lasker-Pillsbury 1-0, Hanham-Jasnogrodsky* 1-0 9th Taubenhaus-Lasker 0-1, Pollock-Lee 0-1, Showalter-Olly 0-1, Albin-Schmidt 1-0, Gossip-Delmar, Hanham-Ryan 1-0, Pillsbury-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 10th Lasker-Pollock 0-1, Lee-Showalter 0-1, Olly-Albin 0-1, Schmidt-Gossip 1-0, Delmar-Hanham 1-0, Pillsbury-Taubenhaus 1-0, Ryan-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 11th Lasker-Showalter 1-0, Albin-Lee 1-0, Gossip-Olly 1/2-1/2,
Hanham-Schmidt 1-0, Ryan-Delmar 1/2-1/2, Taubenhaus-Jasnorodsky 1-0,
Pollock-Pillsbury
12th Schmidt-Ryan 1-0, Olly-Hanham 0-1, Lee-Gossip 1-0,
Lasker-Albin 1-0, Pillsbury-Showalter 1-0, Taubenhaus-Pollock 0-1, Jasnogrodsky-Delmar 0-1 13th Showalter-Taubenhaus 1-0, Albin-Pillsbury 1-0, Gossip-Lasker 0-1, Hanham-Lee 0-1, Ryan-Olly 1-0, Delmar-Schmidt 1-0, Pollock-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “The game of chess is not just an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often pointed to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.” ― Benjamin Franklin "It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid." ― Viswanathan Anand "Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration." ― C.J.S. Purdy The Hare and the Tortoise
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart
Avails not without a timely start.
The hare and tortoise are my witnesses.
Said tortoise to the swiftest thing that is,
"I'll bet that you'll not reach, so soon as I
The tree on yonder hill we spy."
"So soon! Why, madam, are you frantic?"
Replied the creature, with an antic;
"Pray take, your senses to restore,
A grain or two of hellebore.'
"Say," said the tortoise, "what you will;
I dare you to the wager still."
It was done; the stakes were paid,
And near the goal tree laid –
Of what, is not a question for this place,
Nor who it was that judged the race.
Our hare had scarce five jumps to make,
Of such as he is wont to take,
When, starting just before their beaks
He leaves the hounds at leisure,
Thence till the kalends of the Greeks,
The sterile heath to measure.
Thus having time to browse and doze,
And list which way the zephyr blows,
He makes himself content to wait,
And let the tortoise go her gait
In solemn, senatorial state.
She starts; she moils on, modestly and lowly,
And with a prudent wisdom hastens slowly;
But he, meanwhile, the victory despises,
Thinks lightly of such prizes,
Believes it for his honour
To take late start and gain on her.
So, feeding, sitting at his ease,
He meditates of what you please,
Till his antagonist he sees
Approach the goal; then starts,
Away like lightning darts:
But vainly does he run;
The race is by the tortoise won.
Cries she, "My senses do I lack?
What boots your boasted swiftness now?
You're beat! and yet, you must allow,
I bore my house on my back."
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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91 games, 1893-1894 - "Tal's Tournament and Matches 1949-1973" per JFQ
Compiled by jessicafischerqueen!!
This metacollection is the first half of a project meant to feature every known tournament and match Mikhail Tal played in his career. The second half can be found here: Game Collection: Tal's Tournament and Matches 1974-1992 There are many links to <Tournament Pages> and supplementary games collections here, and I will provide at least one game from each event, except where no game appears to be available. If you find any errors or you know of an event I missed, please leave a note for me in my forum: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
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<Riga Junior Championship Semifinal 1949> Tal won his first 3 games. He had a 4th category rating.
[Mikhail Tal, "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" (Cadogan 1997), p.19; Hilary Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959" (Batsford 1980), p.2 ] <Riga Junior Championship 1949>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.2 ] <Ratmir Kholmov Simultaneous Exhibition 1949> In Riga.
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.2 ] <Riga Palace of Pioneers Championship 1949>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.34-37; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.2-3 ] <Tournament of Pioneer's Palaces of the 3 Baltic Republics 1949> In Vilnius. 2d board for Riga, with +1 -3 =0. Tal won the "most interesting game" prize for his victory over an Estonian player- a "luxurious edition of Tolstoy's 'Peter the First.'" Riga finished last.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.20; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.3 ] <Riga Junior Club Championship 1949>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.3 ] <USSR Junior Championship 1949> In Riga.
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.3-4 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship Semifinal 1949> In Yaroslavl. 8th board for Latvia, with +1 -? =?. Latvia finished 4th in semifinal "A group," behind Estonia, Lithuania and Belarus. Latvia did not make it to the final, held in Moscow. There appears to be no surviving game from this event. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.20; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.5; Olimpbase "USSR Other Championships-Soviet Junior Team Chess Championship-1949" http://www.olimpbase.org/; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Latvian Junior Championship 1950> In Riga.
[Alexander Khalifman et al, "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD); "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.5 ] <Riga Championship Quarterfinal 1950> 1st, with 12.5/13. Tal achieved 1st category rank. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.23; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.7 ] <Riga Championship Semifinal 1950>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.23; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.7-8 ] <Riga Championship 1951> (14 Jan - 18 Feb) Shared 10th, behind Koblents, Zagoriansky and Pasmans, with +5 -6 =8. Based on this result, Tal was invited to play in the Latvian championship.
[Gino Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955" (McFarland 2010), pp.64-65; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.23; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.9 ] <Latvian Championship 1951> In Riga (3 March - 1 April) Shared 9th, behind Pasman, Koblents, Akmentinsh and others, with +5 -6 =8.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.65; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Edward Winter, ed. "World Chess Champions" (Pergamon Press 1981), p.153 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship Semifinal 1951> In Kishinev. Latvia beat Moldavia and progressed to the final in Leningrad. There may be no surviving game from this event. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.22; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.9 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship Final 1951> In Leningrad. 3d board for Latvia, scoring 3.5. Latvia finished 5th, behind Moscow, Ukraine, Leningrad and RSFSR, ahead of Kyrgystan, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.22; Olimpbase "USSR Other Championships-Soviet Junior Team Chess Championship" http://www.olimpbase.org/; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp. 93-94; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.9 ] <Riga 1st Category Tournament 1951>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.12-14 ] <Riga Championship Semifinal 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.15-16 ] <Riga Championship 1952>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.37-41; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.16-18 ] <Riga Club Championship 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.18 ] <Latvian Championship Quarterfinal 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.18 ] <Latvian Championship 1952> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1952 In Riga (20 Feb - 20 March) 7th, behind Klavins, Pasman, Balinsh and others, with +7 -4 =6.
[Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.164 ] <Latvian Junior Championship 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.21 ] <Latvian Championship Semifinal 1953>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.22-23 ] <Latvian Championship 1953> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1953 In Riga (20 Feb - 22 March) 1st over Koblents, Gipslis, Klovans, Pasman and Zdanovs, with +12 -2 =5. Tal was awarded the title of Candidate Master.
[Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.280; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.22,25 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship 1953> In Kharkov. 1st board for Latvia. Latvia finished 1st in "Final group 2," over Armenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Uzbekistan and Kirgizia. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.26; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Riga Championship 1953>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.49-53; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.28-29 ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1953> In Leningrad (September) 2d board for Latvia, with +3 -1 =3. Latvia finished 4th, behind Leningrad, RSFSR and Moscow, ahead of Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and Estonia. Tal achieved his master norm, but so had Klavins, who had gained more points on 3d board. Klavins was awarded the master title, but Tal had to play a match against Saigin in order to gain his title. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.26; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp.305-307 ] <Tallinn-Riga Match 1954> In Tallinn. 1st board vs. Keres, with +0 -1 =1. Tal's loss in game one was the first time he played a grandmaster in a tournament. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.27; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.425 ] <Latvian Championship 1954> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1954 In Riga (12 Feb - 14 March) Shared 2nd with Gipslis, behind Klovans, ahead of Klavins, Pasman, Skuya and Zilber, with +14 -3 =2.
[Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.385; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.32-35 ] <Master Title Qualification Match 1954> Game Collection: Tal-Saigin Master Title Qualification Match 1954 In Riga (summer). Tal beat Saigin +4 -2 =8. Although he should have received the Soviet master title at this point, in his autobiography Tal explains that he was not actually awarded the title until after he played in the <USSR Clubs Team Championship>, which was held 3-17 September in Riga: "The year (1954) was concluded at home, in Riga, by the Team Championship of the Country, only this time for adults. Here for the first time I won against a Grandmaster, the USSR champion Yuri Averbakh. After this, still a candidate master, I drew a couple of games, and then received notification that I was a master." "...although formally I took part with the 'rank' of candidate master, the decision was expected to arrive literally any day." Yuri Averbakh says this story is a myth, and that Tal was indeed awarded the master title shortly after his match with Saigin.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.409; Winter, p.155; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.28-31, 55; Yuri Averbakh, "Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes" Steve Giddins transl. (New In Chess 2011), pp.143-144 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship 1954> In Leningrad (9-23 Aug) 1st board for Latvia, scoring 7/9. Latvia finished 3d, behind RSFSR and Moscow, ahead of Leningrad, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Armenia and Estonia. [http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.30 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1954> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1954 In Riga (3-17 Sept) 4th board for Daugava, with +1 -3 =6. Daugava finished 10th, behind Spartak (Petrosian), Nauka (Korchnoi), Medik (Chistiakov), Lokomotiv (Aronin), Trud (Suetin), Iskra (Taimanov), Dinamo (Lisitsin), Zenit (Averbakh) and Soviet Army (Kan). Tal's win against Averbakh was his first victory over a grandmaster. Tal states this was when he was awarded the Soviet master title.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.30-31; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp.416-418; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1954sc/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1954sc/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1954sc/195... ] <Riga Championship 1954>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.44-46 ] <Latvian Championship 1955> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1955 In Riga (14 Jan - 1 Feb) 2nd, behind Gipslis, ahead of Klasups, Zdanovs, Klavins, Zilber and Koblents, with +11 -2 =6. [Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.493 ] <USSR Championship Quarterfinal 1955> In Vilnius (5 May - 3 June) Shared 3rd with Chukaev, behind Kholmov and Nei, ahead of Gipslis, Klasups and Lein, with +7 -2 =8. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.507; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.31-33 ] <Latvia-RSFSR Match 1955> In Riga (13 July - 1 Aug) 2nd board, with +4 -2 =5. RSRSR beat Latvia 66.5 - 54.5 [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.523; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1955> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1955 In Lugansk (4-27 Sept) (Lugansk was called Voroshilovgrad between 1935-1958). Tal says this event was played some time between (Feb-May). Bronze medal on 2nd board for Latvia, with <+2 -0 =7.> Latvia finished 4th, behind RSFSR, Leningrad and Ukraine, ahead of Moscow, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Georgia and Uzbekistan. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.31; http://www.olimpbase.org/1955st/195... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp.518-520; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk ] <USSR Championship Semifinal 1955> In Riga (15 Nov - 13 Dec) 1st over Borisenko, Bannik, Zurakhov, Korchnoi, Boleslavsky, Gregenidze and Furman, with +10 -3 =5. [Winter, p.153; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.492; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.33-34 ] USSR Championship (1956) <23d USSR Championship> In Leningrad (10 Jan - 15 Feb) Shared 5th with Polugaevsky and Kholmov, behind Spassky, Taimanov, Averbakh and Korchnoi, with +6 -2 =9.
[Bernard Cafferty and Mark Taimanov, "The Soviet Championships" (Cadogen 1998), pp. 88-91; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.60-61 ] <Uppsala Student Olympiad 1956> Game Collection: Tal at the Uppsala Student Olympiad 1956 (5-15 April) Gold medal on 3rd board, with +5 -0 =2. The USSR 1st over Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the USA. This was Tal's first event outside the Soviet Union.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.62; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1956y/1956... http://www.olimpbase.org/1956y/1956... http://www.olimpbase.org/1956y/1956... Gino Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960" (Mcfarland, 2010), pp.89-91 ] <Tartu-Riga Match 1956> In Tartu, Estonia. Tal 5th in individual standings, with +1 -1 =2. Riga beat Tartu 8.5 - 7.5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.96; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.62 ] <USSR Championship Semifinal 1956> In Tbilisi (18 Nov - 18 Dec) Shared 5th with Gurgenidze, behind Petrosian, Furman, Antoshin and Korchnoi, with +6 -2 =11.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.71; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] USSR Championship (1957) <24th USSR Championship> In Moscow (20 Jan - 22 Feb) 1st, over Bronstein, Keres, Spassky, Tolush, Kholmov, Korchnoi, Petrosian and Boleslavsky, with +9 -2 =10.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.92-95; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] <Reykjavik Student Olympiad 1957> Game Collection: Tal at the Reykjavik Student Olympiad 1957 (11-26 July) Tal scored +7 -0 =3 on 1st board. According to <Olimpbase>, this gave Tal the gold medal, but according to http://www.suomenshakki.fi/arkisto/..., the medal rankings were "calculated directly from points scored and not, as usual, by percentages." In this case, Miroslav Filip, who played three more games than Tal, would have received the gold medal on 1st board. The USSR 1st over Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USA, Romania, East Germany and Iceland.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.184-185; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... Winter, p.153 ] <1st European Team Championship Final 1957> Game Collection: Tal at the 1st European Team Championship 1957 In Vienna and Baden (22-28 Aug) Shared gold medal on 4th board with Trifunović, with +2 -1 =2. The USSR finished 1st over Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and West Germany. During the event FIDE voted to award Tal with the international grandmaster title. [Winter, p.153; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.185-186; http://www.olimpbase.org/1957e/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957e/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957e/1957... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.66-67 ] <Milan-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Milan (27-28 Oct) 1st board vs. Ferrantes, with +2 -0 =0. Riga won 8-2. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.190 ] <Venice-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Venice (31 Oct - 1 Nov) 1st board vs. Szabados, with +2 -0 =0. Riga won 9.5 - .5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.193 ] <Reggio Emilia-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Reggio Emilia (2-3 Nov) 1st board vs. Romani, with +2 -0 =0. Riga won 7.5 - 2. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.191 ] <Florence-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Florence (4-5 Nov) 1st board vs. Scafarelli, with +1 -0 =1. Riga won 6.5 - 3.5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.188 ]
<Rome-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Rome (6-7 Nov) 1st board vs. Giustolisi, with +1 -0 =1. Riga won 8.5 - 1.5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.191 ] USSR Championship (1958) <25th USSR Championship> In Riga (12 Jan - 12 Feb) 1st over Petrosian, Bronstein, Averbakh, Polugaevsky, Spassky, Geller, Gurgenidze, Boleslavsky and Korchnoi, with +9 -3 =7. This was also a FIDE zonal tournament, giving Tal the right to play in the Portoroz interzonal.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.96-98; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.67 ] <Riga Team Championship 1958>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.115 ] Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. <Latvian Championship 1958> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1958 In Riga (13 April - 11 May) 3d, behind Zilber and Gipslis, with +16 -2 =1. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.255; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Winter, p.153 ] <Varna Student Olympiad 1958> Game Collection: Tal at the Varna Student Olympiad 1958 (5-20 July) Gold medal on 1st board, with +7 -0 =3. The USSR 1st over Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, USA, Argentina and East Germany.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.287-289; http://www.olimpbase.org/1958y/1958... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958y/1958... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958y/1958... Winter, p.153; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.73-74 ] Portoroz Interzonal (1958) (5 Aug - 12 Sept) 1st over Gligoric, Petrosian, Benko, Olafsson, Fischer, Bronstein and Averbakh, with +8 -1 =11. This was Tal's first international tournament in a non-team event. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.250; Winter, p.154; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.105 ] <Munich Olympiad 1958> Game Collection: Tal at the Munich Olympiad 1958 (1-23 Oct) Gold medal on 1st reserve board, with +12 -0 =3. Tal also won a special prize for highest percentage in the final, scoring 8/9. The USSR 1st over Yugoslavia, Argentina, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and West Germany.
[Árpád Földeák, "Chess Olympiads 1927-1968" Robert Ejury , Jeno Bochkor and Peter Clarke transl. (Dover 1969), pp.264-267; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.281-286; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1958/1958i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958/1958u... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958/1958f... Winter, p.153 ] USSR Championship (1959) <26th USSR Championship> In Tbilisi (9 Jan - 11 Feb) Shared 2d with Spassky, behind Petrosian, ahead of Taimanov, Kholmov, Polugaevsky, Averbakh, Keres, Korchnoi and Geller, with +9 -3 =7. [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.99-102; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] <Latvian "Olympiad" 1959 (Swiss Tournament)> In Riga.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.111; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.147 ] <Riga Club Match 1959>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.147-148] <Estonia-Latvia Match 1959> In Talinn (18-19 April) 1st board vs. Keres, with +0 -0 =2. Latvia won 9.5 - 8.5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.385 ] Zuerich (1959) (19 May - 8 June) 1st over Gligoric, Fischer, Keres, Larsen and Unzicker, with +10 -2 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.374; Winter, p.153; ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1959> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1959 In Moscow (6-15 Aug) Last place in the 1st board individual standings, behind Spassky, Nezhmetdinov, Gurgenidze, Botvinnik and Geller, with +0 -3 =3. Latvia finished 6th in "Final Group A," behind Moscow, Leningrad, Ukraine, RSFSR and Georgia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.377-379; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1959st/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1959st/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1959st/195... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.115 ] Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959) (7 Sept - 29 Oct) 1st over Keres, Petrosian, Smyslov, Fischer, Gligoric, Olafsson and Benko, with +16 -4 =8.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.310; Winter, p.153; Harry Golombek, "4th Candidates' Tournament, 1959- Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade- September 7th - October 29th" (Hardinge Simpole 2009), pp.1-272 (originally published in the BCM Quarterly No.3, 1960) ] <Riga International 1959> (5-21 Dec) 4th, behind Spassky, Mikenas and Tolush, ahead of Sliwa, Gipslis, Teschner, Nei and Pietzsch, with +7 -2 -4. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.352; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1959/... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.124; Winter, p.153 ] Botvinnik - Tal World Championship Match (1960) In Moscow (15 March - 5 May) Tal scored +6 -2 =13 to become the 7th world chess champion.
[Mikhail Tal, "Tal-Botvinnik 1960" 5th edition (Russell Enterprises, Inc. 2000), pp.6-210; Winter, p.155; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.480 ] <West Germany-USSR Match 1960> Game Collection: Tal at the West Germany-USSR Match 1960 In Hamburg (27 July - 5 Aug) 1st in individual standings with +7 -0 =1. The USSR won 51 -13. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.497; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.166; Hilary Thomas, "Complete games of Mikhail Tal 1960-66" (Batsford 1979), pp.9-11 ] <Leipzig Olympiad 1960> Game Collection: Tal at the Leipzig Olympiad 1960 (17 Oct - 9 Nov) Silver medal on 1st board, with +8 -1 =6. The USSR 1st over USA, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Argentina and West Germany.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.484-490; Földeák, pp.286-297; http://www.olimpbase.org/1960/1960i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1960/1960u... http://www.olimpbase.org/1960/1960f... Winter, p.153 ] <Prague Radio Simul 1960> Tal scored +11 -0 =9 against 20 of Czechoslovakia's strongest young players. [ "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.167 ] <Stockholm 1960-1961> (29 Nov 1960 - 8 Jan 1961) 1st over Uhlmann, Kotov, Book, Unzicker, Johannessen and Nilsson, with +8 -0 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963" (McFarland 2013), p.5; Winter, p.153 ] Tal - Botvinnik World Championship Rematch (1961) In Moscow (15 March - 12 May) Tal scored +5 -10 =6, losing his world championship title to Botvinnik. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.125; Winter, p.155 ] <2d European Team Championship Final 1961> Game Collection: Tal at the 2nd European Team Championship 1961 In Oberhausen (20 June - 2 July) 2d board, with +3 -1 =5. The USSR 1st over Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, West Germany and Spain.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.132-134; Winter, p.153; http://www.olimpbase.org/1961e/1961... http://www.olimpbase.org/1961e/1961... http://www.olimpbase.org/1961e/1961... ] Bled (1961) (3 Sept - 3 Oct) 1st over Fischer, Petrosian, Keres, Gligoric, Geller, Trifunovic, Parma, Matanovic, Biguier, Darga, Donner and Najdorf, with +11 -1 =7.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.17-18; Winter, p.154 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Semifinal 1961> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1961 In Riga (8-19 Oct) 1st board for Daugava, with +1 -1 =1. Daugava finished 2d, behind Trud, ahead of Kalev, Dynamo, Vodnik, The Red Flag and Žalgiris. Daugava qualified for the finals in Moscow (22-29 Dec).
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.134; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1961sc/196... http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... ] USSR Championship 1961b (1961) <29th USSR Championship> In Baku (16 Nov - 20 Dec) Shared 4th with Vasiukov, behind Spassky, Polugaevsky and Bronstein, ahead of Averbakh, Taimanov, Gipslis, Keres and Smyslov, with +7 -3 =10 [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.112-115; Winter, p.154 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Final 1961> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1961 In Moscow (22-29 Dec) 1st board for Daugava, with +0 -1 =4. Daugava finished 5th, behind Burevestnik, Avangard, Trud and Spartak, ahead of Red Army.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.130-131; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1961sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1961sc/196... http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... ] Curacao Candidates (1962) In Willemstad, Curacao (2 May - 26 June) Shared last with Filip, behind Petrosian, Keres, Geller, Fischer, Korchnoi and Benko. Tal withdrew after 21 rounds due to illness.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.237-238; Winter, p.154 ] <Varna Olympiad 1962> Game Collection: Tal at the Varna Olympiad 1962 (16 Sept - 10 Oct) Gold medal on 2d reserve board, with +7 -0 =6. The USSR 1st over Yugslavia, Argentina, USA, Hungary, Bulgarian, West Germany and East Germany.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.250-255; Földeák, pp.311-321; http://www.olimpbase.org/1962/1962i... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1962/1962u... http://www.olimpbase.org/1962/1962f... ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1962> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1962 In Leningrad (20 Oct - 2 Nov) Shared 6th with Boleslavsky in the 1st board individual standings, with +1 -0 =7. Latvia finished 4th, behind Leningrad, RSFSR and Moscow, ahead of Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania and Moldavia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.243-245; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Hilary Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-1966" (Arco 1979), pp.61-62; http://www.olimpbase.org/1962st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1962st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1962st/196... ] <Netherlands-USSR Match 1962> In The Hague (3-4 July) 4th board vs. Kramer, with +1 -0 =1. The USSR won 8.5 - 3.5. Tal's two games against Kramer appear to be unavailable.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.258 ]
USSR Championship (1962) <30th USSR Championship> In Erevan (21 Nov - 20 Dec) Shared 2d with Taimanov, behind Korchnoi, ahead of Kholmov, Spassky, Stein, Aronin, Bannik and Kots, with +11 -3 =5.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.116-119; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.154 ] <Asztalos Memorial 1963> In Miskolc (4-26 July) 1st over Bronstein, Bilek, Szabo, Filip, Dely, Flesch, Forintos and others, with +10 -0 =5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.327; Winter, p.154 ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1963> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1963 In Moscow (7-16 Aug) Tal scored +3 -2 =0 in semifinal group 1. Latvia finished 3d in the group, behind Moscow and Georgia, and thus did not qualify for final group 1. In final group 2, Tal scored +2 -0 =2, and Latvia finished 2d, behind Estonia, ahead of Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Moldavia and Armenia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.370-372; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-1966," pp.74-76; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Alexander Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" (Chess Stars 1995), pp.16-21 ] <Capablanca Memorial 1963> Game Collection: Tal at the Capablanca Memorial 1963 In Havana (25 Aug - 24 Sept) Shared 2d with Geller and Pachman, behind Korchnoi, ahead of Ivkov, Barcza, Darga, Uhlmann, Trifunovic,Bobotsov and others, with +14 -3 =4.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.320; Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.22-33 ] Moscow (1963) <Moscow Central Chess Club International> (29 Oct - 20 Nov) 2d behind Smyslov, ahead of Gligoric, Antoshin, Vladimirov, Liberzon, Keres, Simagin, Szabo and Hort, with +7 -1 =7.
[Thomas, "Complete games of Mikhail Tal 1960-66," pp.84-88; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1963/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.329-330; Winter, p.154 ] Hastings (1963/64) (30 Dec - 8 Jan) 1st over Gligoric, Lengyel, Khasin, Norman Littlewood and Brinck-Claussen, with +5 -0 -4. [Di Felice, Gino "Chess Results 1964-1967" (McFarland 2013), p.2; Winter, p.154 ] Reykjavik (1964) (14 Jan- 2 Feb) 1st over Gligoric, Johannessen, Olafsson, Wade, Palmason and others, with +12 -0 =1. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.66; Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.49-55 ] Amsterdam Interzonal (1964) (20 May - 21 June) Shared 1st with Smyslov, Larsen and Spassky, ahead of Stein, Bronstein, Ivkov, Reshevsky, Portisch, Gligoric and Darga. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.5-6; Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.56-68 ] <Kislovodsk International 1964> Game Collection: Tal at Kislovodsk 1964 (10-25 July) 1st over Stein, Averbakh, Bradvarevic, Liberzon, Khasin, Ciocaleta and Fuchs, with +6 -1 =3. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.45; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1964/... Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.69-74 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Semifinal 1964> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1964 In Tallinn. Daugava finished 1st over Spartak, Kalev, Moldova, Jõud, Žalgiris, and The Red Flag. Daugava qualified for the final in Moscow.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1964sc/196... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.75-81 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Final 1964> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1964 In Moscow (11-21 Oct) 1st board for Daugava. Tal shared the gold medal with Botvinnik, with +3 -0 =3. Daugava finished 6th, behind Burevestnik, Soviet Army, Spartak and Avangard, ahead of Lokomotiv.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.96-98; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1964sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1964sc/196... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.75-81 ] USSR Championship (1964/65) <32d USSR Championship> In Kiev (25 Dec - 27 Jan) 3d, behind Korchnoi and Bronstein, ahead of Stein, Kholmov, Shamkovich, Lein, Krogius, Lutikov and Averbakh, with +9 -3 =7. [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.124-127; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Latvian Championship 1965> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1965 In Riga (4-26 March) 1st over Gipslis, Klovans, Smits, Kirilov and Kapengut, with +8 -0 =6. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.175-176; Winter, p.154; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... ] Tal - Portisch Candidates Quarterfinal (1965) In Bled (26 June - 10 July) 1st, with +4 -0 =3. Tal advanced to the semifinals. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.206; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.101-107] Tal - Larsen Candidates Semifinal (1965) In Bled (26 July - 8 Aug) 1st, with +3 -2 =5. Tal advanced to the final match. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.206; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.108-116 ] Spassky - Tal Candidates Final (1965) In Tbilisi (1-26 Nov) 2d, with +1 -4 =6. Tal was eliminated by Spassky. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.206; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.117-124 ] <Sarajevo 1966> Game Collection: Tal at Sarajevo 1966 (20 March - 7 April) Shared 1st with Ciric, over Ivkov, Pachman, Matulovic, Pietzsch, Janosevic, Minev, Jansa and Kotov, with +9 -2 =4. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.303; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.125-132 ] <Kislovodsk International 1966> Game Collection: Tal at Kislovodsk 1966 (22 July - 8 Aug) 6th, behind Geller, Stein, Kholmov, Lutikov and Fuchs, with +4 -4 =3. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.262; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1966/... Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.133-139 ] <Tal-Bronstein Training Match 1966> In Moscow Game Collection: Tal-Bronstein Training Match 1966 (19-20 Sept) 1st, with +1 -0 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.322; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.140-141 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1966> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1966 In Moscow (24 Sept - 5 Oct) 3rd board for Daugava. Shared bronze medal with Petrosian (Spartak), with +2 -0 =8. Daugava finished 6th in the final, behind Soviet Army, Trud, Spartak, Burevestnik and Avangard.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.333; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1966sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966sc/196... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-1966," pp.142-144; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.142-146 ] <Havana Olympiad 1966> Game Collection: Tal at the Havana Olympiad 1966 (25 Oct - 20 Nov) Gold medal on 3d board, with +11 -0 =2. The USSR 1st over USA, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany and Denmark.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.324-332; Földeák, pp.358-372; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1966/1966i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966/1966f... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966/1966u... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.147-153 ] Palma de Mallorca (1966) (27 Nov - 18 Dec) 1st over Pomar, Portisch, Ivkov, Matanovic, Pfleger, Shamkovich and O'Kelly de Galway, with +9 -0 =6. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.289-290; Winter, p.154 ] Moscow (1967) <50th Jubilee International> (21 May - 16 June) Shared 2d with Gipslis, Bobotsov and Smyslov, behind Stein, ahead of Portisch, Bronstein, Spassky, Geller, Keres, Petrosian, Najforf, Gehorghiu and Gligoric, with +5 -2 =10. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.398; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1967/... Winter, p.154 ] <Yugoslavia-USSR Match 1967> In Budva (21 June - 5 July) This was an 11 round all-play-all format. Shared 2d with Gligoric, behind Korcnhoi, ahead of Gipslis, Bukic, Geller, Ciric, Ivkov, Taimanov, Bogdanovic, Minic and Suetin, with +3 -1 =7. The USSR won 43.5 - 28.5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.469 ]
<USSR Republics Team Championship 1967> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1967 In Moscow (23 July - 3 Aug) 1st board for Latvia, with +1 -0 =4 in Semifinal Group 2 and +3 -0 =2 in Final Group 2. Latvia finished 3d in Semfinal Group 2, and did not qualify for Final Group 1. Latvia finished 1st in Final Group 2, over Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Estonia and Armenia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.453-462; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... Hilary Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973" (Batsford 1979), pp.7-9; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.180-184 ] <Latvia-Romania Match 1967> In Riga (October) 1st board vs Ciocaltea, with +1 -0 =1. Romania won 11 - 9. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.474; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... ] USSR Championship (1967) <35th USSR Championship (Swiss System)> In Kharkov (7-27 Dec) Shared 1st with Polugaevsky, over Vasyukov, Taimanov, Platonov, Sakharov and Antoshin, with +7 -0 =6. [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.137-140; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.154 ] <Wijk aan Zee 1968> Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1968 Game Collection: Tal at Wijk aan Zee 1968 (10-28 Jan) Shared 2nd with Hort and Portisch, behind Korchnoi, ahead of Gheorghiu, Ciric, Matanovic, Ivkov, Ree and Bobotsov, with +5 -2 =8. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970" (McFarland 2013), pp.92-93; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.193-200] Tal - Gligoric Candidates Quarterfinal (1968) In Belgrade (22 April - 14 May) 1st, with +3 -1 =5. Tal advanced to the semifinals.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.95: Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.203-209 ] <Tal-Korchnoi Candidates Semifinal Match 1968> Game Collection: Korchnoi - Tal Candidates Semifinal 1968 In Moscow (26 June - 15 July) 2d, with +1 -2 =7. Tal was eliminated by Korchnoi. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.95; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.210-216 ] <Karseladze Memorial 1968> Game Collection: Tal at the Karseladze Memorial 1968 In Gori (13-30 Nov) 1st, over Geller, Gurgenidze, Gaprindashvili, Gufeld, Dzhindzhikhashvili, Grigorian and Chikovani, with +6 -1 =3. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.35; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.217-221] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1968> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1968 In Riga (11-24 Dec). 1st board for Daugava. Tal finished 6th, behind Polugaevsky, Geller, Kholmov, Keres and Stein, ahead of Bronstein, Mikenas, Shamkovich, I. Zaitsev, Mozionzhik and Hermlin, with +3 -2 =6. Daugava finished 7th, behind Burevestnik, Soviet Army, Spartak, Trud, Avangard and Lokomotiv, ahead of Kalev, Moldova, Dinamo, Žalgiris and Jõud.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... "Complete Games of Tal 1967- 1973, p.10; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1968sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1968sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1968sc/196... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.222-227 ] USSR Championship (1968/69) <36th USSR Championship 1968-1969> In Alma-Ata (30 Dec 1968 - 1 Feb 1969) Shared 6th with Vasiukov, Klovans, Podgaets and Kholmov, behind A. Zaitsev, Polugaevsky, Lutikov, Liberzon and Tseshkovsky, with +6 -4 =9.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.141-143; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] <Alma-Ata Blitz Tournament 1968-1969> 1st over Vasiukov, Polugaevsky, Bagirov, Zaitsev, Lein, Gurgenidze, Tsheshkovsky, Podgaets, Lutikov and Siniavsky, with +14 -2 =1. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.128 ] <Tal-Larsen Candidates 3d Place Playoff Match 1969> Game Collection: Larsen - Tal 3rd place Candidates Playoff 1969 In Eersel (10-23 March) Tal lost, with +1 -4 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.227; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.239-243 ] USSR Championship (1969) <37th USSR Championship and FIDE Zonal> In Moscow (5 Sept - 12 Oct) Shared 14th with Liberzon, behind Petrosian, Polugaevsky, Geller, Smyslov, Taimanov, Stein, Balashov, Platonov, Kholmov, Gipslis, Savon, Averkin and Zhukovitsky, with +6 -7 =9.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.144-149; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Goglidze Memorial International 1969-1970> Game Collection: Tal at the Goglidze Memorial 1969-1970 In Tbilisi (18 Dec 1969 - 5 Jan 1970) Shared 1st with Gurgenidze, over Hort, Gufeld, Suetin, Ciocaltea, Dzhindzhikhashvili, Spiridonov, Shamkovich, Bronstein, Kholmov, Fuchs, Haag and Kostro, Masic and Lein, with +7 -1 =7. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," pp.254-255; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1969/... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.255-260 ] <Moscow Blitz Tournament 1970> 2d to Vasiukov, ahead of Lein, A. Zaitsev, Chepukaitis, Gusev, Aberbakh, Tataev, Tsarev, Bolovich, Bronstein, and 13 others.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.312 ]
<Georgian Championship 1970> In Poti. Tal competed hors concours, and finished 1st over Gurgenidze, Dzhindzhikhashvili, Ubilava, Chechelian and Buslaev, with +9 -1 =4. Gurgenidze became the Georgian champion.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.324; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.394 ] USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970) In Belgrade (29 March - 5 April) 9th board vs Najdorf, with +1 -1 =2. The USSR won 20.5 - 19.5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.374; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1970g/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970g/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970g/1970... ] <Herceg Novi Blitz Tournament 1970> (8-9 April) 2d to Fischer, ahead of Korchnoi, Petrosian, Bronstein, Hort, Matulovic, Smyslov, Reshevsky, Uhlmann, Ivkov and Ostojic, with +12 -5 =5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.295; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.66-69 ] <4th European Team Championship Final 1970> Game Collection: Tal at the 4th European Team Championship 1970 In Kapfenberg (9-18 May) Gold medal on 7th board, with +4 -0 =2. The USSR 1st over Hungary, East Germany, Yugslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Spain and Denmark.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," pp.360-362; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1970e/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970e/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970e/1970... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.271-273 ] <USSR Cup Preliminary 1970> In Dnepropetrovsk (8-21 Aug) A match knockout format. Tal beat Bagirov +2 -0 =2; beat Gufeld +1 -0 =3; and lost to Savon +0 -1 =3. He was knocked out and thus did not advance to the final in Moscow.
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.72-75; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," pp.283-286; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.274-279 ] <Masters vs Grandmasters Match 1970> In Sochi (13 Oct-2 Nov) 1st over Kuzmin, Tukmakov, Stein, Suetin, Kupreichik, Shamkovich, Liberzon, Podgaets and Korchnoi, with +9 -2 =3.
[Victor Korchnoi, "Korchnoi's 400 Best Games" (Arco 1978), p.178; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.378; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.280-287 ] <Baltic Clubs Cup 1971> In Riga. Contested between the cities of Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. Tal 1st board for Riga, scoring +0 -0 =1 vs. Mikenas (Vilnius), and +1 -0 =0 vs Vooremaa (Tallinn). Riga 1st with 12.5, over Tallinn with 11 and Vilnius with 6.5.
[Khalifman et al, "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.97 ] <Tallinn International 1971> Game Collection: Tal at Tallinn 1971 (21 Feb - 14 March) Shared 1st with Keres, over Bronstein, Stein, A. Zaitsev, Smekjal, Barcza, Furman, Vooremaa, Westerinen, Daskalov, Wade, Bisguier and Myagmarsuren, with +9 -1 =5. ["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1971/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.72; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.290-298 ] <National Blitz Tournament 1971> In Moscow (31 March) Shared 4th with Karpov, Kholmov and Vasiukiov, behind Petrosian, Korchnoi and Balashov, with +8 -4 =3. ["Byulleten Tsentralnago Shakhmatnogo Kluba SSSR 1971," no.4, p.8. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" (McFarland 2014), p.44 ] <Moscow Blitz Tournament 1971> 1st over Grigorian, Gufeld, Zlotnik, Vasiukov, Dzhindzhikhashvili and others, with +17 -0 =0. ["Byulleten Tsentralnago Shakhmatnogo Kluba SSSR 1971," no.6, p.16. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.46 ] <Fizkultura Blitz Tournament 1971> In Riga. 3rd, behind Gipslis and Smits, ahead of Kirpicikovs, Vitolins and others, with +11 -3 =1. ["Shakhmaty Riga" 1971, no.20, p.12. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.65 ] <Pärnu 1971> (June) Shared 2d with Keres, behind Stein, ahead of Bronstein, Karner, Etruk, Nei, Lutikov and others, with +7 -1 =5.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.58 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1971> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1971 In Rostov-on-Don (Semifinal 1-3 Aug; Final 5-10 Aug) Gold medal on 1st board for Daugava, with +1 -0 =2 in the preliminary and +2 -0 =1 in the final. In the preliminary Daugava finished 3d to Burevestnik and Avangard, only advancing to the Final B round, where they finished 2d to Moldova, ahead of Zenit, Dinamo and Vodnik.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.97-100; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.306-308; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973" pp.91-92] USSR Championship (1971) <39th USSR Championship> In Leningrad (14 Sept - 18 Oct). Shared 2nd with Smyslov, behind Savon, ahead of Karpov, Stein, Balashov, Bronstein, Polugaevsky, Taimanov, Kapengut, Krogius, Platonov, Lein, Geller and others, with +9 -3 =9.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.154-156; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] Moscow (1971) <Alekhine Memorial> (24 Nov - 18 Dec) Shared 6th with Spassky, behind Karpov, Stein, Smyslov, Tukmakov and Petrosian, ahead of R. Byrne, Hort, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Olafsson, Gheorghiu, Savon, Uhlmann, Balashov, Parma and Lengyel, with +4 -2 =11. ["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1971/... Bernard Cafferty, "Tal's 100 Best Games 1961-1973" (Batsford 1975), p.165; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.45 ] <Leningrad-Latvia Match 1972> In Leningrad (11-13 Feb) 1st board for Latvia vs Korchnoi, with +0 -0 =2. Leningrad won 15 - 9. This was a training tournament for the upcoming USSR teams championship.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," p.106; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.197-198 ] <Baltic Capitals Championship 1972> In Vilnius. Tal scored +0 -1 =2. This was a training tournament for the upcoming USSR teams championship.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.107-108; "Shakhmaty Riga" 1972, no.8, p.6. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.195 ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1972> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1972 In Moscow (1-13 March). Also labeled the "First USSR Olympiad." 1st board for Latvia, with +3 -1 =0 in the preliminary and +1 -0 =3 in the final, for a total of +4 -1 =3. In Preliminary Group 2, Latvia finished 2d to Moscow, ahead of Belarus, Kazakhistan and Tajikistan. Latvia qualified for Final Group A, finishing last, behind Moscow, RSFRS, Ukraine, Leningrad and Georgia.
[Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.183-185; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp. 333-337 ] <National Blitz Tournament 1972> In Moscow (11-12 May) 7th, behind Karpov, Tukmakov, Korchnoi, Kholmov, Vasiukov and Gufeld, ahead of Stein, Bronstein, Polugaevsky, Taimanov and others, with +14 -11 =7. ["Byulleten Tsentralnago Shakhmatnogo Kluba SSSR 1971," no.6, pp.8-9. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.144 ] <Fizkultura Blitz Tournament 1972> In Riga. 2nd, behind Luckans, ahead of Smits, Petkevics and others, with +17 -1 =1.
["Shakhmaty Riga" 1971, no.18, p.18. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.159-160 ] <Latvian Blitz Championship 1972> In Riga. Shared 1st with Smits, over Luckans, Vitolins, Klovans, Zilber and others, with
=18 -0 =1. ["Shakhmaty Riga" 1971, no.8, recto Back-cover. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.160 ] <Ilmar Raud Memorial 1972> Game Collection: Tal at the Ilmar Raud Memorial 1972 In Viljandi (5-18 July) 2nd to Dvoretsky, ahead of Donchenko, Shamkovich, Suetin, Yim, Etruk and others, with +9 -1 =3.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.112-115; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.172-173; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.338-342 ] Sukhumi (1972) (16 Aug - 4 Sept) 1st over Savon, Taimanov, M. Mukhin, Beliavsky, Liberzon, Kholmov, Murey, Espig, Huebner, Honfi, Gufeld, Suttles, Ree, Kirov and Jansa, with +7 -0 =8.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.11, 403-404; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1972/... Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.116-120 ] <Skopje Olympiad 1972> Game Collection: Tal at the Skopje Olympiad 1972 (19 Oct - 13 Nov) Gold medal on 4th board, with +12 -0 =4. The USSR 1st over Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Netherlands, East Germany, USA and Spain.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972e... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972f... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972u... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.351-360 ] USSR Championship (1972) <40th USSR Championship> In Baku (16 Nov - 25 Dec) This was also a FIDE Zonal Tournament. 1st over Tukmakov, Kuzmin, Savon, M. Mukhin, Vasiukov, Balashov, Bagirov, Furman, Kholmov, Lein and others, with +9 -0 =12.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.157-159; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.117 ] <Wijk aan Zee 1973> (13 Jan - 3 Feb) 1st over Balashov, Vasukiov, Hort, Planinc, Andersson, Enklaar, Ribli, Ljubojevic, Najdorf and Szabo, with +6 -0 =9.
[Winter, p.154; "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.273-274 ] Tallinn (1973) (20 Feb - 13 March) 1st over Polugaevsky, Balashov, Bronstein, Spassky, Keres, Andersson, Nei, Timman and others, with +9 -0 =6.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1973/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.264 ] <Moscow Pioneer's Tournament 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Moscow Pioneer's Tournament 1973 Six city teams competed, each team consisting of one grandmaster paired with 6 pioneers from their respective cities. Each grandmaster played a clock simul against the pioneers from each of the opposing 5 teams. Tal's Riga team finished 3d, behind Moscow (Smyslov), Leningrad (Spassky), ahead of Kiev (Bronstein), Cheliabinsk (Karpov) and Tbilisi (Petrosian).
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.148-149 ] <Moscow Match Tournament 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Moscow Match -Tournament 1973 (25-29 April) 3rd board for team USSR One, with +1 -0 =1 vs Bronstein (team USSR Two); +0 -2 =0 vs Balashov (team USSR Youth). USSR One finished 1st over USSR Youth and USSR Two.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/match_tm... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.150-151; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.279-280; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.150-151 ] Leningrad Interzonal (1973) (2-27 June) Shared 8th with Gligoric and Taimanov, behind Korchnoi, Karpov, Byrne, Smejkal, Huebner, Larsen and Kuzmin, with +6 -6 =5.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.233 ] <5th European Team Championship Final 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the 5th European Team Championship 1973 In Bath (6-13 July) 5th board, with +2 -0 =4. The USSR 1st over Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, West Germany, England, Romania and Switzerland.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://www.olimpbase.org/1973e/1973... http://www.olimpbase.org/1973e/1973... http://www.olimpbase.org/1973e/1973... ] <Chigorin Memorial 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Chigorin Memorial 1973 In Sochi (1-22 September) 1st over Spassky, Krogius, Smejkal, Andersson, Timman, Kholmov, Suetin, Balashov and Filip, with +7 -0 =8.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1973/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.261 ] USSR Championship (1973) <41st USSR Championship> In Moscow (2-26 Oct) Shared 9th with Keres, Taimanov and Savon, behind Spassky, Karpov, Petrosian, Polugaevsky, Korchnoi, Kuzmin, Geller and Grigorian, with +3 -4 =10.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.160-163; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Latvia-RSFSR Match 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvia-RSFSR Match 1973 In Riga (21-27 Nov) 1st board for Latvia, with +2 -0 =4. RSFSR won 28 - 26.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.176-177; "Shakhmaty Riga" 1974, no.6, p.13. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.286 ] <Third Latvian Blitz Championship 1973> In Riga (December) 1st, over Smits, Vitolins, Zlotnik, Luckans, Petkevics, Zilber and others, with +17 -1 =1. ["Shakhmaty Riga" 1974, no.5, p.18. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.254 ] <Dubna International 1973> (5-26 Dec) Shared 1st with Kholmov, over Vaganian, Lutikov, Vasukiov and Espig, with +7 -0 =8.
[Winter, p.154; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1973/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.222-223 ] Hastings (1973/74) (27 Dec 1973 - 13 Jan 1974) Shared 1st with Kuzmin, Szabo and Timman, ahead of Gligoric, Keene, Adorjan, Benko, Hartston, Basman, Suttles, Pytel, Miles, Garcia, Stean and Rellstab, with +5 -0 =10.
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143 games, 1949-1974 - # New in Chess Book of Chess Improvement
Compiled by Qindarka
'The New in Chess Book of Chess Improvement'
Compiled and edited by Stephen Giddins.
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." ― Dalai Lama "There are three constants in life...change, choice and principles."
― Stephen Covey
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.”
― Charles Swindoll
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." ― Voltaire “The game of chess is not just an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often pointed to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.” ― Benjamin Franklin "Chess is imagination." ― David Bronstein
"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though." ― Boris Spassky "The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas." ― Boris Spassky "For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true; but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot!"
― Viswanathan Anand
"The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward."
― Viswanathan Anand
"You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent."
― Viswanathan Anand
"I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come."
― Viswanathan Anand
"Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake."
Viswanathan Anand
"Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position." ― Viswanathan Anand "If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order." ― Viswanathan Anand "Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at."
― Viswanathan Anand
"Parents, first and foremost, it is important to... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I believe in exposing children to as many hobbies and extracurricular activities as possible." ― Viswanathan Anand "Each match I play is the most important one yet." ― Viswanathan Anand "Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it."
― Viswanathan Anand
"Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)" ― Viswanathan Anand "For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion."
― Viswanathan Anand
"I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board."
― Viswanathan Anand
"For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one."
― Viswanathan Anand
"Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". Der Spiegel interview, en.chessbase.com. "There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player." ― Viswanathan Anand
"A win is a win, which is about that particular moment." ― Viswanathan Anand "When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat."
― Viswanathan Anand
"Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work."
― Viswanathan Anand
"It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practice often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer." ― Viswanathan Anand "Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind." ― Viswanathan Anand "It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid." ― Viswanathan Anand * Accidents: Game Collection: Accidents in the opening * Attack: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Attacking Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Brilliancies: Game Collection: Modern Chess Brilliancies (Evans) * Draws: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Interesting Draws (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Endgames: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Endgames (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Fight! Game Collection: 2012-2015 Fighting Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Kasparov's Qkst: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Positional: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Positional Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Miscellaneous: Game Collection: ! Miscellaneous games * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics "A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game." ― Richard Reti "Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration." ― C.J.S. Purdy "I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision." ― Viswanathan Anand "Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes." ― Viswanathan Anand "In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second-best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive." ― Viswanathan Anand “All warfare is based on deception.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
– Part I
It is an ancient mariner
And he stoppeth one of three.
–“By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stoppest thou me?
The bridegroom’s doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
Mayst hear the merry din.”
He holds him with his skinny hand,
“There was a ship,” quoth he.
“Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!”
Eftsoons his hand dropped he.
He holds him with his glittering eye–
The wedding-guest stood still,
And listens like a three-years’ child:
The mariner hath his will.
The wedding-guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed mariner.
“The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.
The sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.
Higher and higher every day,
Till over the mast at noon–”
The wedding-guest here beat his breast,
For he heard the loud bassoon.
The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her goes
The merry minstrelsy.
The wedding-guest he beat his breast,
Yet he cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed mariner.
“And now the storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong;
He struck with his o’ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.
With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
And southward aye we fled.
Listen, stranger! Mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice mast-high came floating by,
As green as emerald.
And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken–
The ice was all between.
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
At length did cross an albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God’s name.
It ate the food it ne’er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through!
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners’ hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white moon-shine.”
“God save thee, ancient mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!–
Why lookst thou so?” “With my crossbow
I shot the albatross.
– Part II
The sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.
And the good south wind still blew behind,
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for food or play
Came to the mariners’ hollo!
And I had done an hellish thing,
And it would work ‘em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!
Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head,
The glorious sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
‘Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist.
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down,
‘Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deeps did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch’s oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.
And some in dreams assured were
Of the spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.
And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
Ah! wel-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the albatross
About my neck was hung.
– Part III
There passed a weary time. Each throat
Was parched, and glazed each eye.
A weary time! A weary time!
How glazed each weary eye,
When looking westward, I beheld
A something in the sky.
At first it seemed a little speck,
And then it seemed a mist;
It moved and moved, and took at last
A certain shape, I wist.
A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!
And still it neared and neared:
As if it dodged a water sprite,
It plunged and tacked and veered.
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
We could nor laugh nor wail;
Through utter drouth all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,
And cried, A sail! a sail!
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard me call:
Gramercy! they for joy did grin,
And all at once their breath drew in,
As they were drinking all.
See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more!
Hither to work us weal;
Without a breeze, without a tide,
She steadies with upright keel!
The western wave was all aflame.
The day was well nigh done!
Almost upon the western wave
Rested the broad bright sun;
When that strange shape drove suddenly
Betwixt us and the sun.
And straight the sun was flecked with bars,
(Heaven’s mother send us grace!)
As if through a dungeon grate he peered
With broad and burning face.
Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud)
How fast she nears and nears!
Are those her sails that glance in the sun,
Like restless gossameres?
Are those her ribs through which the sun
Did peer, as through a grate?
And is that woman all her crew?
Is that a Death? and are there two?
Is Death that woman’s mate?
Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man’s blood with cold.
The naked hulk alongside came,
And the twain were casting dice;
‘The game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!’
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
The sun’s rim dips; the stars rush out:
At one stride comes the dark;
With far-heard whisper, o’er the sea,
Off shot the spectre bark.
We listened and looked sideways up!
Fear at my heart, as at a cup,
My lifeblood seemed to sip!
The stars were dim, and thick the night,
The steersman’s face by his lamp gleamed white;
From the sails the dews did drip–
Till clomb above the eastern bar
The horned moon, with one bright star
Within the nether tip.
One after one, by the star-dogged moon,
Too quick for groan or sigh,
Each turned his face with ghastly pang,
And cursed me with his eye.
Four times fifty living men,
(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
They dropped down one by one.
Their souls did from their bodies fly–
They fled to bliss or woe!
And every soul, it passed me by,
Like the whizz of my crossbow!”
– Part IV
“I fear thee, ancient mariner!
I fear thy skinny hand!
And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
As is the ribbed sea-sand.
I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
And thy skinny hand, so brown.”–
“Fear not, fear not, thou wedding-guest!
This body dropped not down.
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie:
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.
I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gushed,
A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust.
I closed my lids, and kept them close,
Till the balls like pulses beat;
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye,
And the dead were at my feet.
The cold sweat melted from their limbs,
Nor rot nor reek did they:
The look with which they looked on me
Had never passed away.
An orphan’s curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man’s eye!
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die.
The moving moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide:
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside–
Her beams bemocked the sultry main,
Like April hoar-frost spread;
But where the ship’s huge shadow lay,
The charmed water burnt alway
A still and awful red.
Beyond the shadow of the ship,
I watched the water snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.
Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.
O happy living things! No tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
And I blessed them unaware.
The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
– Part V
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary-Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from heaven,
That slid into my soul.
The silly buckets on the deck,
That had so long remained,
I dreamt that they were filled with dew;
And when I awoke, it rained.
My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My garments all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
And still my body drank.
I moved, and could not feel my limbs:
I was so light–almost
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.
And soon I heard a roaring wind:
It did not come anear;
But with its sound it shook the sails,
That were so thin and sere.
The upper air bursts into life!
And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
To and fro they were hurried about!
And to and fro, and in and out,
The wan stars danced between.
And the coming wind did roar more loud,
And the sails did sigh like sedge;
And the rain poured down from one black cloud;
The moon was at its edge.
The thick black cloud was cleft, and still
The moon was at its side:
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The lightning fell with never a jag,
A river steep and wide.
The loud wind never reached the ship,
Yet now the ship moved on!
Beneath the lightning and the moon
The dead men gave a groan.
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise.
The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The mariners all ‘gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do;
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools–
We were a ghastly crew.
The body of my brother’s son
Stood by me, knee to knee:
The body and I pulled at one rope,
But he said nought to me.”
“I fear thee, ancient mariner!”
“Be calm, thou wedding-guest!
‘Twas not those souls that fled in pain,
Which to their corses came again,
But a troop of spirits blessed.
For when it dawned–they dropped their arms,
And clustered round the mast;
Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
And from their bodies passed.
Around, around, flew each sweet sound,
Then darted to the sun;
Slowly the sounds came back again,
Now mixed, now one by one.
Sometimes a-dropping from the sky
I heard the skylark sing;
Sometimes all little birds that are,
How they seemed to fill the sea and air
With their sweet jargoning!
And now ‘twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute;
And now it is an angel’s song,
That makes the heavens be mute.
It ceased; yet still the sails made on
A pleasant noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
Till noon we silently sailed on,
Yet never a breeze did breathe:
Slowly and smoothly went the ship,
Moved onward from beneath.
Under the keel nine fathom deep,
From the land of mist and snow,
The spirit slid: and it was he
That made the ship to go.
The sails at noon left off their tune,
And the ship stood still also.
The sun, right up above the mast,
Had fixed her to the ocean:
But in a minute she ‘gan stir,
With a short uneasy motion–
Backwards and forwards half her length
With a short uneasy motion.
Then like a pawing horse let go,
She made a sudden bound:
It flung the blood into my head,
And I fell down in a swound.
How long in that same fit I lay,
I have not to declare;
But ere my living life returned,
I heard and in my soul discerned
Two voices in the air.
‘Is it he?’ quoth one, ‘Is this the man?
By him who died on cross,
With his cruel bow he laid full low
The harmless albatross.
The spirit who bideth by himself
In the land of mist and snow,
He loved the bird that loved the man
Who shot him with his bow.’
The other was a softer voice,
As soft as honeydew:
Quoth he, ‘The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.’
– Part VI
FIRST VOICE
‘But tell me, tell me! speak again,
Thy soft response renewing–
What makes that ship drive on so fast?
What is the ocean doing?’
SECOND VOICE
‘Still as a slave before his lord,
The ocean hath no blast;
His great bright eye most silently
Up to the moon is cast–
If he may know which way to go;
For she guides him smooth or grim.
See, brother, see! how graciously
She looketh down on him.’
FIRST VOICE
‘But why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?’
SECOND VOICE
‘The air is cut away before,
And closes from behind.
Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high!
Or we shall be belated:
For slow and slow that ship will go,
When the mariner’s trance is abated.’
I woke, and we were sailing on
As in a gentle weather:
‘Twas night, calm night, the moon was high;
The dead men stood together.
All stood together on the deck,
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
All fixed on me their stony eyes,
That in the moon did glitter.
The pang, the curse, with which they died,
Had never passed away:
I could not draw my eyes from theirs,
Nor turn them up to pray.
And now this spell was snapped: once more
I viewed the ocean green,
And looked far forth, yet little saw
Of what had else been seen–
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
But soon there breathed a wind on me,
Nor sound nor motion made:
Its path was not upon the sea,
In ripple or in shade.
It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek
Like a meadow-gale of spring–
It mingled strangely with my fears,
Yet it felt like a welcoming.
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sailed softly too:
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze–
On me alone it blew.
O dream of joy! is this indeed
The lighthouse top I see?
Is this the hill? is this the kirk?
Is this mine own country?
We drifted o’er the harbour bar,
And I with sobs did pray–
O let me be awake, my God!
Or let me sleep alway!
The harbour bay was clear as glass,
So smoothly it was strewn!
And on the bay the moonlight lay,
And the shadow of the moon.
The rock shone bright, the kirk no less,
That stands above the rock:
The moonlight steeped in silentness
The steady weathercock.
And the bay was white with silent light,
Till rising from the same,
Full many shapes, that shadows were,
In crimson colours came.
A little distance from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turned my eyes upon the deck–
O Christ! what saw I there!
Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat,
And, by the holy rood!
A man all light, a seraph man,
On every corse there stood.
This seraph band, each waved his hand:
It was a heavenly sight!
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light;
This seraph band, each waved his hand,
No voice did they impart–
No voice; but oh! the silence sank
Like music on my heart.
But soon I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the pilot’s cheer;
My head was turned perforce away
And I saw a boat appear.
The pilot and the pilot’s boy,
I heard them coming fast:
Dear Lord in heaven! it was a joy
The dead men could not blast.
I saw a third–I heard his voice:
It is the hermit good!
He singeth loud his godly hymns
That he makes in the wood.
He’ll shrieve my soul, he’ll wash away
The albatross’s blood.
– Part VII
This hermit good lives in that wood
Which slopes down to the sea.
How loudly his sweet voice he rears!
He loves to talk with mariners
That come from a far country.
He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve–
He hath a cushion plump:
It is the moss that wholly hides
The rotted old oak stump.
The skiff boat neared: I heard them talk,
‘Why, this is strange, I trow!
Where are those lights so many and fair,
That signal made but now?’
‘Strange, by my faith!’ the hermit said–
‘And they answered not our cheer!
The planks look warped! and see those sails,
How thin they are and sere!
I never saw aught like to them,
Unless perchance it were
Brown skeletons of leaves that lag
My forest-brook along;
When the ivy tod is heavy with snow,
And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
That eats the she-wolf’s young.’
‘Dear Lord! it hath a fiendish look,’
The pilot made reply,
‘I am a-feared’–‘Push on, push on!’
Said the hermit cheerily.
The boat came closer to the ship,
But I nor spake nor stirred;
The boat came close beneath the ship,
And straight a sound was heard.
Under the water it rumbled on,
Still louder and more dread:
It reached the ship, it split the bay;
The ship went down like lead.
Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound,
Which sky and ocean smote
Like one that hath been seven days drowned
My body lay afloat;
But swift as dreams, myself I found
Within the pilot’s boat.
Upon the whirl, where sank the ship,
The boat spun round and round;
And all was still, save that the hill
Was telling of the sound.
I moved my lips–the pilot shrieked
And fell down in a fit;
The holy hermit raised his eyes,
And prayed where he did sit.
I took the oars: the pilot’s boy,
Who now doth crazy go,
Laughed loud and long, and all the while
His eyes went to and fro.
‘Ha! ha!’ quoth he, ‘full plain I see,
The devil knows how to row.’
And now, all in my own country,
I stood on the firm land!
The hermit stepped forth from the boat,
And scarcely he could stand.
‘Oh shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!’
The hermit crossed his brow.
‘Say quick,’ quoth he, ‘I bid thee say–
What manner of man art thou?’
Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched
With a woeful agony,
Which forced me to begin my tale;
And then it left me free.
Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.
I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
The moment that his face I see,
I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach.
What loud uproar bursts from that door!
The wedding-guests are there:
But in the garden-bower the bride
And bridemaids singing are:
And hark the little vesper bell,
Which biddeth me to prayer!
O wedding-guest! This soul hath been
Alone on a wide wide sea:
So lonely ‘twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
Oh sweeter than the marriage feast,
‘Tis sweeter far to me,
To walk together to the kirk
With a goodly company!–
To walk together to the kirk,
And all together pray,
While each to his great Father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends
And youths and maidens gay!
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou wedding-guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
The mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone: and now the wedding-guest
Turned from the bridegroom’s door.
He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
"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 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.” "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 The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel #
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97 games, 1936-2013 - 1 Alexander Alekhine's Best Games
The best games of Alekhine's career.
“Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.” ― Max Euwe “During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.” ― Alexander Alekhine When asked, "How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?", I responded: “I'm very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his.” ― Alexander Alekhine “Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!” ― Alexander Alekhine “I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.” ― Alexander Alekhine “I am Alekhine, chess champion of the world. I need no passport.” ― Alexander Alekhine “What I do is not play but struggle.” ― Alexander Alekhine “I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.” ― Alexander Alekhine “Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.” ― Alexander Alekhine “To win against me, you must beat me three times: in the opening, the middlegame and the endgame.” ― Alexander Alekhine “He lived in and for chess like no one before him, nor any since until Fischer.” ― Taylor Kingston (on Alekhine) “No master before or since sank himself with greater gusto into what Vladimir Nabokov called Caissa’s “abysmal depths.” ― Larry Parr (on Alekhine) “I just can’t win in such a way!” ― Jose R. Capablanca (on an Alekhine combination in the 11th game of their title match) “It was impossible to win against Capablanca; against Alekhine it was impossible to play.” ― Paul Keres “Against Alekhine you never knew what to expect. Against Capablanca, you knew what to expect, but you couldn't prevent it!” ― George Thomas “Alekhine's chess is like a god's.” ― Chess World Magazine “In playing through an Alekhine game one suddenly meets a move which simply takes one's breath away.” ― C. H. O'D. Alexander “Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.” ― Max Euwe “Capablanca never took his eyes off the chorus; Alekhine never looked up from his pocket chess set.” ― A patron who took both players to a show in 1922 “Capablanca was the greatest talent, but Alekhine was the greatest in his achievements.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Sir, I am the book! – Alexander Alekhine (to a player who, not realizing who Alekhine was, had commented on each of Alekhine's moves with, "The book says…") “The openings consist of Alekhine's games with a few variations. – Source Unknown “While he was hospitalized (during WW I) after being wounded (a contusion of the spine), he became the strongest blindfold chess player in the world. That's how great this guy was. I mean, when normal people go to the hospital, they are totally sad and in pain. Instead, he devoted himself to blindfold chess and became the best in the world in an extremely short period of time. You have to love this guy.” ― Terry Crandall (on Alekhine) “Since we are, of course, the two best blindfold players in the world, I think it would be better if we had recourse to a chessboard and men.” ― Alexander Alekhine (to Reti when they disagreed during a blindfold analysis session) “Analyze! Analyze! Analyze! That was the doctor’s motto, and his deeply ingrained habit of investigating every line was obviously unsuitable in rapid transit.” ― Arthur Dake (on Alekhine's relative weakness in rapid play) “I learned a lot about how the world champion analyzed chess positions. Alekhine taught me to sit on my hands and not to play the first move that came to mind, no matter how good it looked. He examined everything, whipping through an astonishing number of variations.” ― Arnold Denker “Alekhine's attacks came suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky.” ― Garry Kasparov “I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.” ― Rudolf Spielmann “I can see the combinations as well as Alekhine, but I cannot get into the same positions.” ― Rudolf Spielmann “Somehow the match will never take place.” ― Alexander Alekhine (on his avoidance of a rematch with Capablanca) “It is bad to be a self-centered manipulative alcoholic liar who seduces women for their money.” ― Taylor Kingston (on Alekhine, of course) “Alexander Alekhine may have been a drunk and anti-Semite, but he certainly had manners: he showed up for the last game of his losing match in 1935 wearing a tuxedo, and gave his "Hurrah to the new World Champion!” ― Alex Yermolinsky “Alekhine grew out of the combination. He is in love with it. Everything strategic is only a preperation for him, almost a neccessary evil. The stunning blow, the unexpected thrust - this is his element... His imagination catches fire in the attack on the king.” ― Emanuel Lasker “Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the past 15-20 years.” ― Jose Raul Capablanca “Alekhine is dear to the chess world, mainly as an artist. Typical of him are deep plans, far-sighted calculation and inexhaustible imagination. However, his main strength, which developed from year to year, was his combinative vision: he saw combinations with great ease and accuracy. For this reason Alekhine's combinations possessed such staggering, crushing force... Yes, this truly was an amazing gift!” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “The name of Alekhine is illuminated by the brilliance of his chess combinations. Alekhine possessed an exceptionally rich chess imagination, and his skill in creating combinativ ve complications is incomparable. it should be mentioned that Alekhine had a mastery of technique, and his striving for combinations was not an end to itself, but stemmed logically from the demands of the position.” ― Vasily Smyslov “In Alekhine we are captivated by his exceptional combinative talent and his whole-hearted love for chess.” ― Mikhail Tal “I consider Alexander Alekhine to be a very great player. Possibly, because for me and for many he remains an enigma. He considered that chess was closest to an art, and he was able to demonstrate this with his optimistic, eternally youthful play.” ― Boris Spassky “Alekhine is a player I've never really understood; yet, strangely, if you've seen one Alekhine game you've seen them all. He always wanted a superior center; he maneuvered his pieces towards the King's-side, and around the twenty-fifth move began to mate his opponent.” ― Robert Fischer “Alekhine has never been a hero of mine, and I've never cared for his style of play. There is nothing light or breezy about it; it worked for him, but it could scarcely work for anybody else.” ― Robert J. Fischer “His conceptions were gigantic, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas. It's hard to find mistakes in his games, but in a sense his whole method was a mistake.” ― Robert J. Fischer (on Alekhine) “He had great imagination; he could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history... Many consider Alekhine a great opening theoretician, but I don't think he was. He played book lines, but didn't know them very well. He always felt that his natural powers would get him out of any dilemma.” ― Robert J. Fischer “The next (after Steinitz) changes were outlined by Alekhine, but applied and developed by Botvnnik - the scientific approach to chess... Alekhine worked a great deal at home. He won a number of well-known games, by right from the opening holding his opponent in a vice prepared at home. And his grip was strong: after seizing his victim, he would no longer release him.” ― Anatoly Karpov “In contrast to Fischer with his propensity for clarity, and to Karpov who grew up on Capablanca's games, from my early years I was enormously influenced by Alekhine's play and won over by his unprecedented feat in the 1927 match. I admired the refinement of his ideas, and I tried as far as possible to imitate his furious attacking style, with its sudden and thunderous sacrifices.” ― Garry Kasparov “Alekhine definitely was a workaholic. He had a strategic talent and was the first player who had a conscious feel for dynamics.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “Fortune favors the bold, especially when they are Alekhine.” ― Lodewijk Prins “His fantastic combinative vision was based on a sound positional foundation, and was the fruit of strong, energetic strategy. Therefore Alekhine can safely be called the pioneer of the universal style of play, based on a close interweaving of stategic and tactical motifs.” ― Garry Kasparov I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
Apr-05-23 WannaBe: Can a vegan have a 'beef' with you? Or Vegans only have 'beet' with you?
I am confused.
Apr-05-23 Cassandro: Vegan police officers should be exempt from doing steak-outs. “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” — Fanny Fern All The World’s A Stage
William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. “A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior — mentally or otherwise.”
— Captain Kirk
“Now, I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!” — Edith Keeler “Live long and prosper!” — Spock
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120 games, 1907-1943 - 1 C05 French: Tarrasch [White] shallow Cal
“If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.”
― Walter Reuther
“What gives chess its great fascination is that the K, Q, R, B, N, and P move in different ways. In consequence we get a colorful diversity of possibilities unequaled in any other board game.” ― Fred Reinfeld “Every Pawn is a potential Queen.” ― James Mason “You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood.” — Captain Kirk "It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid." ― Viswanathan Anand “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte "Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration." ― C.J.S. Purdy "No man has ever listened himself out of a job." ― Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States “One man cannot summon the future. But one man can change the present!” — Spock “To all mankind — may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth.” — Garth * Accidents: Game Collection: Accidents in the opening * Attack: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Attacking Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Brilliancies: Game Collection: Modern Chess Brilliancies (Evans) * Draws: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Interesting Draws (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Endgames: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Endgames (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Fight! Game Collection: 2012-2015 Fighting Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Kasparov's Qkst: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES * Positional: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Positional Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * POTD: Game Collection: POTD French 2 * Miscellaneous: Game Collection: ! Miscellaneous games Light Switches Riddle: There Are 3 Light Bulbs In Three Separate Rooms...
Riddle: There are 3 light bulbs in three separate rooms. in front of you, there is a panel with 3 separate switches. They only turn on or off. You may look inside each room only once. How can you tell which bulb belongs to which switch?
Riddle Answer below.
Answer: You turn on any two switches, leave them for a few minutes, and turn one switch off. You enter each room only once. you know that the lightbulb that is lit belongs to the switch that was left on, the bulb that is off, but hot, belongs to the switch you turned off, and the cold bulb belongs to the switch you never touched.
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105 games, 1896-2013 - 1 Chess Prehistory
Compiled by Joe Stanley
* First of each ECO: Game Collection: First of Each ECO “Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney “If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.”
― Walter Reuther
“Every Pawn is a potential Queen.” ― James Mason “What gives chess its great fascination is that the K, Q, R, B, N, and P move in different ways. In consequence we get a colorful diversity of possibilities unequaled in any other board game.” ― Fred Reinfeld “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte “There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” ― H. G. Wells. "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
Do You Have It?
Riddle: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it? Answer: Nothing.
The Triumph of Life
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task
Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth
Rejoicing in his splendour, & the mask
Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth.
The smokeless altars of the mountain snows
Flamed above crimson clouds, & at the birth
Of light, the Ocean’s orison arose
To which the birds tempered their matin lay,
All flowers in field or forest which unclose
Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,
Swinging their censers in the element,
With orient incense lit by the new ray
Burned slow & inconsumably, & sent
Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air,
And in succession due, did Continent,
Isle, Ocean, & all things that in them wear
The form & character of mortal mould
Rise as the Sun their father rose, to bear
Their portion of the toil which he of old
Took as his own & then imposed on them;
But I, whom thoughts which must remain untold
Had kept as wakeful as the stars that gem
The cone of night, now they were laid asleep,
Stretched my faint limbs beneath the hoary stem
Which an old chestnut flung athwart the steep
Of a green Apennine: before me fled
The night; behind me rose the day; the Deep
Was at my feet, & Heaven above my head
When a strange trance over my fancy grew
Which was not slumber, for the shade it spread
Was so transparent that the scene came through
As clear as when a veil of light is drawn
O’er evening hills they glimmer; and I knew
That I had felt the freshness of that dawn,
Bathed in the same cold dew my brow & hair
And sate as thus upon that slope of lawn
Under the self same bough, & heard as there
The birds, the fountains & the Ocean hold
Sweet talk in music through the enamoured air.
And then a Vision on my brain was rolled.
As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay
This was the tenour of my waking dream.
Methought I sate beside a public way
Thick strewn with summer dust, & a great stream
Of people there was hurrying to & fro
Numerous as gnats upon the evening gleam,
All hastening onward, yet none seemed to know
Whither he went, or whence he came, or why
He made one of the multitude, yet so
Was borne amid the crowd as through the sky
One of the million leaves of summer’s bier.—
Old age & youth, manhood & infancy,
Mixed in one mighty torrent did appear,
Some flying from the thing they feared & some
Seeking the object of another’s fear,
And others as with steps towards the tomb
Pored on the trodden worms that crawled beneath,
And others mournfully within the gloom
Of their own shadow walked, and called it death …
And some fled from it as it were a ghost,
Half fainting in the affliction of vain breath.
But more with motions which each other crost
Pursued or shunned the shadows the clouds threw
Or birds within the noonday ether lost,
Upon that path where flowers never grew;
And weary with vain toil & faint for thirst
Heard not the fountains whose melodious dew
Out of their mossy cells forever burst
Nor felt the breeze which from the forest told
Of grassy paths, & wood lawns interspersed
With overarching elms & caverns cold,
And violet banks where sweet dreams brood, but they
Pursued their serious folly as of old ….
And as I gazed methought that in the way
The throng grew wilder, as the woods of June
When the South wind shakes the extinguished day.—
And a cold glare, intenser than the noon
But icy cold, obscured with [[blank]] light
The Sun as he the stars. Like the young moon
When on the sunlit limits of the night
Her white shell trembles amid crimson air
And whilst the sleeping tempest gathers might
Doth, as a herald of its coming, bear
The ghost of her dead Mother, whose dim form
Bends in dark ether from her infant’s chair,
So came a chariot on the silent storm
Of its own rushing splendour, and a Shape
So sate within as one whom years deform
Beneath a dusky hood & double cape
Crouching within the shadow of a tomb,
And o’er what seemed the head, a cloud like crape,
Was bent a dun & faint etherial gloom
Tempering the light; upon the chariot’s beam
A Janus-visaged Shadow did assume
The guidance of that wonder-winged team.
The Shapes which drew it in thick lightnings
Were lost: I heard alone on the air’s soft stream
The music of their ever moving wings.
All the four faces of that charioteer
Had their eyes banded . . . little profit brings
Speed in the van & blindness in the rear,
Nor then avail the beams that quench the Sun
Or that his banded eyes could pierce the sphere
Of all that is, has been, or will be done.—
So ill was the car guided, but it past
With solemn speed majestically on . . .
The crowd gave way, & I arose aghast,
Or seemed to rise, so mighty was the trance,
And saw like clouds upon the thunder blast
The million with fierce song and maniac dance
Raging around; such seemed the jubilee
As when to greet some conqueror’s advance
Imperial Rome poured forth her living sea
From senatehouse & prison & theatre
When Freedom left those who upon the free
Had bound a yoke which soon they stooped to bear.
Nor wanted here the true similitude
Of a triumphal pageant, for where’er
The chariot rolled a captive multitude
Was driven; althose who had grown old in power
Or misery,—all who have their age subdued,
By action or by suffering, and whose hour
Was drained to its last sand in weal or woe,
So that the trunk survived both fruit & flower;
All those whose fame or infamy must grow
Till the great winter lay the form & name
Of their own earth with them forever low,
All but the sacred few who could not tame
Their spirits to the Conqueror, but as soon
As they had touched the world with living flame
Fled back like eagles to their native noon,
Of those who put aside the diadem
Of earthly thrones or gems, till the last one
Were there;—for they of Athens & Jerusalem
Were neither mid the mighty captives seen
Nor mid the ribald crowd that followed them
Or fled before . . Now swift, fierce & obscene
The wild dance maddens in the van, & those
Who lead it, fleet as shadows on the green,
Outspeed the chariot & without repose
Mix with each other in tempestuous measure
To savage music …. Wilder as it grows,
They, tortured by the agonizing pleasure,
Convulsed & on the rapid whirlwinds spun
Of that fierce spirit, whose unholy leisure
Was soothed by mischief since the world begun,
Throw back their heads & loose their streaming hair,
And in their dance round her who dims the Sun
Maidens & youths fling their wild arms in air
As their feet twinkle; they recede, and now
Bending within each other’s atmosphere
Kindle invisibly; and as they glow
Like moths by light attracted & repelled,
Oft to new bright destruction come & go.
Till like two clouds into one vale impelled
That shake the mountains when their lightnings mingle
And die in rain,—the fiery band which held
Their natures, snaps . . . ere the shock cease to tingle
One falls and then another in the path
Senseless, nor is the desolation single,
Yet ere I can say where the chariot hath
Past over them; nor other trace I find
But as of foam after the Ocean’s wrath
Is spent upon the desert shore.—Behind,
Old men, and women foully disarrayed
Shake their grey hair in the insulting wind,
Limp in the dance & strain, with limbs decayed,
Seeking to reach the light which leaves them still
Farther behind & deeper in the shade.
But not the less with impotence of will
They wheel, though ghastly shadows interpose
Round them & round each other, and fulfill
Their work and to the dust whence they arose
Sink & corruption veils them as they lie
And frost in these performs what fire in those.
Struck to the heart by this sad pageantry,
Half to myself I said, “And what is this?
Whose shape is that within the car? & why”-
I would have added—”is all here amiss?”
But a voice answered . . “Life” . . . I turned & knew
(O Heaven have mercy on such wretchedness!)
That what I thought was an old root which grew
To strange distortion out of the hill side
Was indeed one of that deluded crew,
And that the grass which methought hung so wide
And white, was but his thin discoloured hair,
And that the holes it vainly sought to hide
Were or had been eyes.—”lf thou canst forbear
To join the dance, which I had well forborne,”
Said the grim Feature, of my thought aware,
“I will now tell that which to this deep scorn
Led me & my companions, and relate
The progress of the pageant since the morn;
“If thirst of knowledge doth not thus abate,
Follow it even to the night, but I
Am weary” . . . Then like one who with the weight
Of his own words is staggered, wearily
He paused, and ere he could resume, I cried,
“First who art thou?” . . . “Before thy memory
“I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did, & died,
And if the spark with which Heaven lit my spirit
Earth had with purer nutriment supplied
“Corruption would not now thus much inherit
Of what was once Rousseau—nor this disguise
Stained that within which still disdains to wear it.—
“If I have been extinguished, yet there rise
A thousand beacons from the spark I bore.”—
“And who are those chained to the car?” “The Wise,
“The great, the unforgotten: they who wore
Mitres & helms & crowns, or wreathes of light,
Signs of thought’s empire over thought; their lore
“Taught them not this—to know themselves; their might
Could not repress the mutiny within,
And for the morn of truth they feigned, deep night
“Caught them ere evening.” “Who is he with chin
Upon his breast and hands crost on his chain?”
“The Child of a fierce hour; he sought to win
“The world, and lost all it did contain
Of greatness, in its hope destroyed; & more
Of fame & peace than Virtue’s self can gain
“Without the opportunity which bore
Him on its eagle’s pinion to the peak
From which a thousand climbers have before
“Fall’n as Napoleon fell.”—I felt my cheek
Alter to see the great form pass away
Whose grasp had left the giant world so weak
That every pigmy kicked it as it lay—
And much I grieved to think how power & will
In opposition rule our mortal day—
And why God made irreconcilable
Good & the means of good; and for despair
I half disdained mine eye’s desire to fill
With the spent vision of the times that were
And scarce have ceased to be . . . “Dost thou behold,”
Said then my guide, “those spoilers spoiled, Voltaire,
“Frederic, & Kant, Catherine, & Leopold,
Chained hoary anarch, demagogue & sage
Whose name the fresh world thinks already old—
“For in the battle Life & they did wage
She remained conqueror—I was overcome
By my own heart alone, which neither age
“Nor tears nor infamy nor now the tomb
Could temper to its object.”—”Let them pass”—
I cried—”the world & its mysterious doom
“Is not so much more glorious than it was
That I desire to worship those who drew
New figures on its false & fragile glass
“As the old faded.”—”Figures ever new
Rise on the bubble, paint them how you may;
We have but thrown, as those before us threw,
“Our shadows on it as it past away.
But mark, how chained to the triumphal chair
The mighty phantoms of an elder day—
“All that is mortal of great Plato there
Expiates the joy & woe his master knew not;
That star that ruled his doom was far too fair—
“And Life, where long that flower of Heaven grew not,
Conquered the heart by love which gold or pain
Or age or sloth or slavery could subdue not—
“And near [[blank]] walk the [[blank]] twain,
The tutor & his pupil, whom Dominion
Followed as tame as vulture in a chain.—
“The world was darkened beneath either pinion
Of him whom from the flock of conquerors
Fame singled as her thunderbearing minion;
“The other long outlived both woes & wars,
Throned in new thoughts of men, and still had kept
The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors
“If Bacon’s spirit [[blank]] had not leapt
Like lightning out of darkness; he compelled
The Proteus shape of Nature’s as it slept
“To wake & to unbar the caves that held
The treasure of the secrets of its reign—
See the great bards of old who inly quelled
“The passions which they sung, as by their strain
May well be known: their living melody
Tempers its own contagion to the vein
“Of those who are infected with it—I
Have suffered what I wrote, or viler pain!—
“And so my words were seeds of misery—
Even as the deeds of others.”—”Not as theirs,”
I said—he pointed to a company
In which I recognized amid the heirs
Of Caesar’s crime from him to Constantine,
The Anarchs old whose force & murderous snares
Had founded many a sceptre bearing line
And spread the plague of blood & gold abroad,
And Gregory & John and men divine
Who rose like shadows between Man & god
Till that eclipse, still hanging under Heaven,
Was worshipped by the world o’er which they strode
For the true Sun it quenched.—”Their power was given
But to destroy,” replied the leader—”I
Am one of those who have created, even
“If it be but a world of agony.”—
“Whence camest thou & whither goest thou?
How did thy course begin,” I said, “& why?
“Mine eyes are sick of this perpetual flow
Of people, & my heart of one sad thought.—
Speak.”—”Whence I came, partly I seem to know,
“And how & by what paths I have been brought
To this dread pass, methinks even thou mayst guess;
Why this should be my mind can compass not;
“Whither the conqueror hurries me still less.
But follow thou, & from spectator turn
Actor or victim in this wretchedness,
“And what thou wouldst be taught I then may learn
From thee.—Now listen . . . In the April prime
When all the forest tops began to burn
“With kindling green, touched by the azure clime
Of the young year, I found myself asleep
Under a mountain which from unknown time
“Had yawned into a cavern high & deep,
And from it came a gentle rivulet
Whose water like clear air in its calm sweep
“Bent the soft grass & kept for ever wet
The stems of the sweet flowers, and filled the grove
With sound which all who hear must needs forget
“All pleasure & all pain, all hate & love,
Which they had known before that hour of rest:
A sleeping mother then would dream not of
“The only child who died upon her breast
At eventide, a king would mourn no more
The crown of which his brow was dispossest
“When the sun lingered o’er the Ocean floor
To gild his rival’s new prosperity.—
Thou wouldst forget thus vainly to deplore
“Ills, which if ills, can find no cure from thee,
The thought of which no other sleep will quell
Nor other music blot from memory—
“So sweet & deep is the oblivious spell.—
Whether my life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
“Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
I know not. I arose & for a space
The scene of woods & waters seemed to keep,
“Though it was now broad day, a gentle trace
Of light diviner than the common Sun
Sheds on the common Earth, but all the place
“Was filled with many sounds woven into one
Oblivious melody, confusing sense
Amid the gliding waves & shadows dun;
“And as I looked the bright omnipresence
Of morning through the orient cavern flowed,
And the Sun’s image radiantly intense
“Burned on the waters of the well that glowed
Like gold, and threaded all the forest maze
With winding paths of emerald fire—there stood
“Amid the sun, as he amid the blaze
Of his own glory, on the vibrating
Floor of the fountain, paved with flashing rays,
“A shape all light, which with one hand did fling
Dew on the earth, as if she were the Dawn
Whose invisible rain forever seemed to sing
“A silver music on the mossy lawn,
And still before her on the dusky grass
Iris her many coloured scarf had drawn.—
“In her right hand she bore a crystal glass
Mantling with bright Nepenthe;—the fierce splendour
Fell from her as she moved under the mass
“Of the deep cavern, & with palms so tender
Their tread broke not the mirror of its billow,
Glided along the river, and did bend her
“Head under the dark boughs, till like a willow
Her fair hair swept the bosom of the stream
That whispered with delight to be their pillow.—
“As one enamoured is upborne in dream
O’er lily-paven lakes mid silver mist
To wondrous music, so this shape might seem
“Partly to tread the waves with feet which kist
The dancing foam, partly to glide along
The airs that roughened the moist amethyst,
“Or the slant morning beams that fell among
The trees, or the soft shadows of the trees;
And her feet ever to the ceaseless song
“Of leaves & winds & waves & birds & bees
And falling drops moved in a measure new
Yet sweet, as on the summer evening breeze
“Up from the lake a shape of golden dew
Between two rocks, athwart the rising moon,
Moves up the east, where eagle never flew.—
“And still her feet, no less than the sweet tune
To which they moved, seemed as they moved, to blot
The thoughts of him who gazed on them, & soon
“All that was seemed as if it had been not,
As if the gazer’s mind was strewn beneath
Her feet like embers, & she, thought by thought,
“Trampled its fires into the dust of death,
As Day upon the threshold of the east
Treads out the lamps of night, until the breath
“Of darkness reillumines even the least
Of heaven’s living eyes—like day she came,
Making the night a dream; and ere she ceased
“To move, as one between desire and shame
Suspended, I said—’If, as it doth seem,
Thou comest from the realm without a name,
” ‘Into this valley of perpetual dream,
Shew whence I came, and where I am, and why—
Pass not away upon the passing stream.’
” ‘Arise and quench thy thirst,’ was her reply,
And as a shut lily, stricken by the wand
Of dewy morning’s vital alchemy,
“I rose; and, bending at her sweet command,
Touched with faint lips the cup she raised,
And suddenly my brain became as sand
“Where the first wave had more than half erased
The track of deer on desert Labrador,
Whilst the fierce wolf from which they fled amazed
“Leaves his stamp visibly upon the shore
Until the second bursts—so on my sight
Burst a new Vision never seen before.—
“And the fair shape waned in the coming light
As veil by veil the silent splendour drops
From Lucifer, amid the chrysolite
“Of sunrise ere it strike the mountain tops—
And as the presence of that fairest planet
Although unseen is felt by one who hopes
“That his day’s path may end as he began it
In that star’s smile, whose light is like the scent
Of a jonquil when evening breezes fan it,
“Or the soft note in which his dear lament
The Brescian shepherd breathes, or the caress
That turned his weary slumber to content.—
“So knew I in that light’s severe excess
The presence of that shape which on the stream
Moved, as I moved along the wilderness,
“More dimly than a day appearing dream,
The ghost of a forgotten form of sleep
A light from Heaven whose half extinguished beam
“Through the sick day in which we wake to weep
Glimmers, forever sought, forever lost.—
So did that shape its obscure tenour keep
“Beside my path, as silent as a ghost;
But the new Vision, and its cold bright car,
With savage music, stunning music, crost
“The forest, and as if from some dread war
Triumphantly returning, the loud million
Fiercely extolled the fortune of her star.—
“A moving arch of victory the vermilion
And green & azure plumes of Iris had
Built high over her wind-winged pavilion,
“And underneath aetherial glory clad
The wilderness, and far before her flew
The tempest of the splendour which forbade
Shadow to fall from leaf or stone;—the crew
Seemed in that light like atomies that dance
Within a sunbeam.—Some upon the new
“Embroidery of flowers that did enhance
The grassy vesture of the desart, played,
Forgetful of the chariot’s swift advance;
“Others stood gazing till within the shade
Of the great mountain its light left them dim.—
Others outspeeded it, and others made
“Circles around it like the clouds that swim
Round the high moon in a bright sea of air,
And more did follow, with exulting hymn,
“The chariot & the captives fettered there,
But all like bubbles on an eddying flood
Fell into the same track at last & were
“Borne onward.—I among the multitude
Was swept; me sweetest flowers delayed not long,
Me not the shadow nor the solitude,
“Me not the falling stream’s Lethean song,
Me, not the phantom of that early form
Which moved upon its motion,—but among
“The thickest billows of the living storm
I plunged, and bared my bosom to the clime
Of that cold light, whose airs too soon deform.—
“Before the chariot had begun to climb
The opposing steep of that mysterious dell,
Behold a wonder worthy of the rhyme
“Of him whom from the lowest depths of Hell
Through every Paradise & through all glory
Love led serene, & who returned to tell
“In words of hate & awe the wondrous story
How all things are transfigured, except Love;
For deaf as is a sea which wrath makes hoary
“The world can hear not the sweet notes that move
The sphere whose light is melody to lovers—-
A wonder worthy of his rhyme—the grove
“Grew dense with shadows to its inmost covers,
The earth was grey with phantoms, & the air
Was peopled with dim forms, as when there hovers
“A flock of vampire-bats before the glare
Of the tropic sun, bring ere evening
Strange night upon some Indian isle,—thus were
“Phantoms diffused around, & some did fling
Shadows of shadows, yet unlike themselves,
Behind them, some like eaglets on the wing
“Were lost in the white blaze, others like elves
Danced in a thousand unimagined shapes
Upon the sunny streams & grassy shelves;
“And others sate chattering like restless apes
On vulgar paws and voluble like fire.
Some made a cradle of the ermined capes
“Of kingly mantles, some upon the tiar
Of pontiffs sate like vultures, others played
Within the crown which girt with empire
“A baby’s or an idiot’s brow, & made
Their nests in it; the old anatomies
Sate hatching their bare brood under the shade
“Of demon wings, and laughed from their dead eyes
To reassume the delegated power
Arrayed in which these worms did monarchize
“Who make this earth their charnel.—Others more
Humble, like falcons sate upon the fist
Of common men, and round their heads did soar,
“Or like small gnats & flies, as thick as mist
On evening marshes, thronged about the brow
Of lawyer, statesman, priest & theorist,
“And others like discoloured flakes of snow
On fairest bosoms & the sunniest hair
Fell, and were melted by the youthful glow
“Which they extinguished; for like tears, they were
A veil to those from whose faint lids they rained
In drops of sorrow.—I became aware
“Of whence those forms proceeded which thus stained
The track in which we moved; after brief space
From every form the beauty slowly waned,
“From every firmest limb & fairest face
The strength & freshness fell like dust, & left
The action & the shape without the grace
“Of life; the marble brow of youth was cleft
With care, and in the eyes where once hope shone
Desire like a lioness bereft
“Of its last cub, glared ere it died; each one
Of that great crowd sent forth incessantly
These shadows, numerous as the dead leaves blown
“In Autumn evening from a popular tree—
Each, like himself & like each other were,
At first, but soon distorted, seemed to be
“Obscure clouds moulded by the casual air;
And of this stuff the car’s creative ray
Wrought all the busy phantoms that were there
“As the sun shapes the clouds—thus, on the way
Mask after mask fell from the countenance
And form of all, and long before the day
“Was old, the joy which waked like Heaven’s glance
The sleepers in the oblivious valley, died,
And some grew weary of the ghastly dance
“And fell, as I have fallen by the way side,
Those soonest from whose forms most shadows past
And least of strength & beauty did abide.”—
“Then, what is Life?” I said . . . the cripple cast
His eye upon the car which now had rolled
Onward, as if that look must be the last,
And answered …. “Happy those for whom the fold
Of …
“A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior — mentally or otherwise.”
— Captain Kirk
“Now, I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!” — Edith Keeler “Live long and prosper!” — Spock
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74 games, 1497-1927 - 1 Colle System Classics (Koltanowski variation)
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The Colle system has been described as the easiest good opening system to learn for white. It allows white to develop his pieces behind a wall of pawns before initiating action and avoids several black defenses. The system is not forcing and does not put the opposing player under a great amount of pressure, but has a deceptive sting that will surprise many opponents. Essentially, it is a Semi-Slav defense "reversed", and the extra tempo gives White attacking possibilities not usually seen from the black side. However, if white doesn't win in the opening or middle game, he often will have a pawn majority of 3-2 on the Q side which can be a winning ending. The opening is not regarded as challenging enough for GM level chess, but for club players it is still viable and is a good introduction to QP openings. This is the one of the earliest and most successful "program" openings, and is very solid and sound. * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics 03 08 zb2cr: move 25. zooter Frit z drip drip drip Kh1? 50 Wise Quotes That Will Inspire You to Success in Life Life is a gift that has been given to you. It is in your hands to make the best out of it--dare to believe that you can. Through the ups and downs, you'll find a lesson to learn that will make you a better person. Each experience--good and bad--makes you grow. Get along with life and surely, things will become easier for you. Live for today and enjoy every moment. Capture the best that life has to offer you. Here's a collection of valuable quotes about life to inspire you to make the best out of it: “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.” ― John C. Maxwell “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.” ― Wayne Dyer “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” Charles Swindoll “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
― William James
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” ― Scott Hamilton “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ― Leo Buscaglia “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ― Confucius “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama “There are three constants in life...change, choice and principles.”
― Stephen Covey
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them--that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ― John F. Kennedy “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ― Albert Einstein “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.”
― Charles Swindoll
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ― Voltaire “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ― Maya Angelou “Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.” ― John F. Kennedy “There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela “If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” ― Jim Rohn “I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
― Michael Jordan
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” ― C.S. Lewis “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ― Henry Ford “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas A. Edison “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” ― Amelia Earhart “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt “Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” ― Thomas Jefferson “The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” ― Vince Lombardi “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.” ― Brian Tracy “Today is life--the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.” ― Dale Carnegie “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.” ― Tony Robbins “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” ― Les Brown “Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” ― Aristotle “Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.” ― Elbert Hubbard “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” ― Billy Graham “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” ― Rosa Parks “My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose--somehow we win out.” ― Ronald Reagan “Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” ― Vivian Komori “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery--there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” ― Rick Warren “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” ― Matt Cameron “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ― Henry Ford “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas A. Edison “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” ― Amelia Earhart “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” ― Garry Kasparov “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” — Dr. Boyce “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “All warfare is based on deception.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Tal was a fearless fighter. Nobody could successfully accomplish so many incorrect maneuvers! He simply smashed his opponents.” ― Bent Larsen “I was surprised by his ability to figure out complex variations. Then the way he sets out the game; he was not interested in the objectivity of the position, whether it's better or worse, he only needed room for his pieces. All you do then is figure out variations which are extremely difficult. He was tactically outplaying me and I made mistakes.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik (on Tal) “It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.” ― Viswanathan Anand “Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration.” ― C.J.S. Purdy “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, and former General of the Army “A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.” ― Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Insufficient facts always invite danger.” — Spock “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ― Sun Tzu “I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” ― Bobby Fischer “I think Capablanca was one of the most important world champions for me. I studied his games, and a good book about Capablanca's games was written by International Master Vasily Panov, a Russian master. There was quite a strong influence of Capablanca's style.” ― Anatoly Karpov “Compassion: that’s the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.” — Dr. McCoy “Chess isn’t for the timid.” ― Irving Chernev “Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.” ― Indian Proverb “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 “If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” ― Garry Kasparov “In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess – Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer – were born in America.” ― Garry Kasparov “There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” ― H. G. Wells. 51 Olamide Zaccheaus xp zaniflush no more
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23 games, 1908-2001 - 1 Collections in Idleness 6 Compiled by xajikAD
Compiled by xajik
If you like the other 5 installations, you're gonna love this set of amazing games... Thanks for visiting...
* Fireside book: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess * Giuoco Pianissimo: Game Collection: GIUOCO PIANISSIMO * Two Knts Defense: Game Collection: Two Knights Defence by Beliavsky mikhalchisin Uncompromising Chess, by Belyavsky, Alexander (User: Resignation Trap) Game Collection: Uncompromising Chess by Alexander Beliavsky ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Uncompromisin... Understanding Chess Move by Move: A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-by-Step How Chess Games Are Won, by Nunn, John (User: PhilipTheGeek) Game Collection: Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Understanding... General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... “On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” ― Emanuel Lasker “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela “It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.” ― Viswanathan Anand “Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration.” ― C.J.S. Purdy “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States & former Army Colonel * Accidents: Game Collection: Accidents in the opening * Attack: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Attacking Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Brilliancies: Game Collection: Modern Chess Brilliancies (Evans) * Draws: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Interesting Draws (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Endgames: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Endgames (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Fight! Game Collection: 2012-2015 Fighting Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Kasparov's Qkst: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * Positional: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Positional Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Miscellaneous: Game Collection: ! Miscellaneous games * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” ― General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur Kasparov vs. Deep Blue; A Limerick
by Edward D. Collins
"Man versus Machine" it was billed
And each day the auditorium filled!
An interesting fight -
With Garry first to have White
Can anyone claim they weren't thrilled?
The first game proved Garry still King
"Deep Blue hasn't learned anything!"
Quickly out of its book
It later "won" Garry's Rook
Does this thing even belong in the ring?
But then Kasparov resigned in Game 2
And at the time nobody knew
Later shown he could draw
Did this stick in his craw?
Others may be wondering too!
"The printouts!" Kasparov cried
"Why was I so flatly denied?"
So they were then sealed
Only later revealed
One point each -- this match is now tied!
Games 3, 4, and 5 were all drawn
Deep Blue did indeed have some brawn!
It's now winner take all
So don't fumble the ball
(Or in our case don't fumble a pawn!)
Game 6 was the most startling yet
And I'm sure it cost many a bet
Deep Blue sacked a Knight
Quickly proved this was right
And so began all the talk on the "Net"
This chess match made worldwide news
And most thought that Deep Blue would lose
But with its three-and-a-half
If you do the math
You'll find Garry's the one with the "blues!"
No machine has done it 'till now
Bested our champion in match play -- kapow!
While few thought it would
Deep Blue proved that it could
And Garry is wondering "How?"
"I was not in the mood to fight"
Said the champ to the press that night
"But let this be clear"
"I guarantee -- do you hear?"
"I will tear it to pieces!" -- he might!
So, in New York on the eleventh of May
Of '97, the records will say
A machine, no less
Sat down to play chess
And proved that it really can play!
"Rematch" was then heard through the land
It is something we ALL should demand
For if Deep Blue will square-off
One more time with Kasparov
The games would be certainly grand!
We really have nothing to fear
Computers can help us, it's clear
And although Deep Blue won
And had its day in the sun
I think "chess" was the real winner here!
“In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess – Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer – were born in America.” ― Garry Kasparov All The World’s A Stage
William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. * Riddle-xp-freee: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid... Apr-05-23 WannaBe: Can a vegan have a 'beef' with you? Or Vegans only have 'beet' with you?
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Apr-05-23 Cassandro: Vegan police officers should be exempt from doing steak-outs. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death.
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville
“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 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.” “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 69z Barry "The Hatchet" Vagnoni does it free and e z way
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111 games, 1851-2018 - 1 Dirty Didactic Dozen JoEve Stein
Compiled by sorokahdeen
Didactic Games for Lorelei in attack
General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... “On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” — Emanuel Lasker “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.” — Being Caballero “Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” — Garry Kasparov “Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.” — Evan Esar “In the endgame, it's often better to form a barrier to cut-off the lone king and keep shrinking the barrier than to give check. The mistaken check might give the lone king a choice move toward the center when the idea is to force the lone king to the edge of the board and then checkmate.” — Fredthebear * Good Historical Links: https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/in... * Attack: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Attacking Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Draws: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Interesting Draws (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Endgames: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Endgames (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Fight! Game Collection: 2012-2015 Fighting Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Positional: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Positional Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Miscellaneous: Game Collection: ! Miscellaneous games * Stein: Game Collection: Move by Move - Stein (Engqvist) * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics * Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... The Stag and the Vine
A stag, by favour of a vine,
Which grew where suns most genial shine,
And formed a thick and matted bower
Which might have turned a summer shower,
Was saved from ruinous assault.
The hunters thought their dogs at fault,
And called them off. In danger now no more
The stag, a thankless wretch and vile,
Began to browse his benefactress over.
The hunters, listening the while,
The rustling heard, came back,
With all their yelping pack,
And seized him in that very place.
"This is," said he, "but justice, in my case.
Let every black ingrate
Henceforward profit by my fate."
The dogs fell to – 'twere wasting breath
To pray those hunters at the death.
They left, and we will not revile "em,
A warning for profaners of asylum.
poem by B.H. Wood, entitled ‘The Drowser’:
Ah, reverie! Ten thousand heads I see
Bent over chess-boards, an infinity
Of minds engaged in battle, fiendishly,
Keenly, or calmly, as the case may be:
World-wide, the neophyte, the veteran,
The studious problemist, the fairy fan ...
“What’s that? – I’m nearly sending you to sleep?
Sorry! – but this position’s rather deep.” Source: Chess Amateur, September 1929, page 268. Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death.
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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43 games, 1851-2013 - 1 Dry Rub
Compiled by Gottschalk
“Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney “If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.”
― Walter Reuther
“Every Pawn is a potential Queen.” ― James Mason “What gives chess its great fascination is that the K, Q, R, B, N, and P move in different ways. In consequence we get a colorful diversity of possibilities unequaled in any other board game.” ― Fred Reinfeld “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte “There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” ― H. G. Wells. "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... “On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” — Emanuel Lasker I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
“You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer "Be active. I do things my way, like skiing when I’m 100. Nobody else does that even if they have energy. And I try to eat pretty correctly and get exercise and fresh air and sunshine.” ― Elsa Bailey, first time skier at age 100 "Don't look at the calendar, just keep celebrating every day." ― Ruth Coleman, carpe diem at age 101 A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Apr-05-23 WannaBe: Can a vegan have a 'beef' with you? Or Vegans only have 'beet' with you?
I am confused.
Apr-05-23 Cassandro: Vegan police officers should be exempt from doing steak-outs. The Serpent and the File
A serpent, neighbour to a smith,
(A neighbour bad to meddle with,)
Went through his shop, in search of food,
But nothing found, it's understood,
To eat, except a file of steel,
Of which he tried to make a meal.
The file, without a spark of passion,
Addressed him in the following fashion:
"Poor simpleton! you surely bite
With less of sense than appetite;
For before from me you gain
One quarter of a grain,
You'll break your teeth from ear to ear.
Time's are the only teeth I fear."
This tale concerns those men of letters,
Who, good for nothing, bite their betters.
Their biting so is quite unwise.
Think you, you literary sharks,
Your teeth will leave their marks
On the deathless works you criticise?
Fie! fie! fie! men!
To you they're brass – they're steel – they're diamond! “A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior — mentally or otherwise.”
— Captain Kirk
“Now, I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!” — Edith Keeler “Live long and prosper!” — Spock
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102 games, 1906-2005 - 1 E Steinitz
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You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game Stephen Moss
Sat 14 Nov 2020 01.56 EST
The first thing to say about chess is that we are not all natural geniuses like Beth Harmon, the star of The Queen’s Gambit, who is taught the game by grumpy but lovable janitor Mr Shaibel at the age of nine and is very soon beating him. The daughter of a maths PhD, she sees the patterns and movement in chess immediately, can visualise effortlessly – being able to memorise moves and play without a board is the sign of chess mastery – and sees whole games on the ceiling of her orphanage dormitory. She is a prodigy, just like world champion Bobby Fischer, on whom Walter Tevis based the novel from which the TV series is drawn. We are mere mortals. So how do we get good? First, by loving chess. “You can only get good at chess if you love the game,” Fischer said. You need to be endlessly fascinated by it and see its infinite potential. Be willing to embrace the complexity; enjoy the adventure. Every game should be an education and teach us something. Losing doesn’t matter. Garry Kasparov, another former world champion, likes to say you learn far more from your defeats than your victories. Eventually you will start winning, but there will be a lot of losses on the way. Play people who are better than you, and be prepared to lose. Then you will learn.
If you are a beginner, don’t feel the need to set out all the pieces at once. Start with the pawns, and then add the pieces. Understand the potential of each piece – the way a pair of bishops can dominate the board, how the rooks can sweep up pawns in an endgame, why the queen and a knight can work together so harmoniously. Find a good teacher – your own Mr Shaibel, but without the communication issues.
Once you have established the basics, start using computers and online resources to play and to help you analyse games. lichess.org, chess.com and chess24.com are great sites for playing and learning. chessbomb.com is a brilliant resource for watching top tournaments. chessgames.com is a wonderful database of games. chesspuzzle.net is a great practice program. decodechess.com attempts to explain chess moves in layperson’s language. There are also plenty of sophisticated, all-purpose programs, usually called chess engines, such as Fritz and HIARCs that, for around £50, help you deconstruct your games and take you deeply into positions. But don’t let the computer do all the work. You need to engage your own brain on the analysis. And don’t endlessly play against the computer. Find human opponents, either online or, when the pandemic is over, in person.
Bobby Fischer was stripped of his world title in 1975 after he refused to defend the title due to a row over the format. Photograph: RFS/AP
Study the games of great masters of the past. Find a player you like and follow their careers. Fischer is a great starting point – his play is clear and comprehensible, and beautifully described in his famous book My 60 Memorable Games. Morphy (Harmon’s favourite), Alekhine, Capablanca, Tal, Korchnoi and Shirov are other legendary figures with whom the aspiring player might identify. They also have fascinating life stories, and chess is about hot human emotions as well as cold calculation. Modern grandmaster chess, which is based heavily on a deep knowledge of opening theory, is more abstruse and may be best avoided until you have acquired deep expertise. The current crop of leading grandmasters are also, if we are brutally honest, a bit lacking in personality compared with the giants of the past.
Children will often find their school has a chess club, and that club may even have links with Chess in Schools and Communities, which supplies expert tutors to schools. Provision tends to be much better at primary than secondary level, and after 11 children will probably be left to their own devices if they want to carry on playing.
If a player is really serious, she or he should join their local chess club. There is likely to be one meeting nearby, or there will be once the Covid crisis is over. At the moment, clubs are not meeting and there is very little over-the-board chess being played. Players are keeping their brains active online, where you can meet players from all over the world. That is fun, but be aware that some players are likely to be cheating – using chess engines to help them, making it hard for you to assess how good your play is. And you also get some abuse online from players who want to trash-talk. You are also likely to be playing at very fast time controls – so-called blitz chess – and that is no way to learn to really think about chess.
If you want to start playing over-the-board tournaments (when they resume), you will need to join the chess federation in your respective country. After you’ve played the requisite number of official games, you will get a rating – a bit like a handicap in golf – and can then start being paired with players of your own strength in matches. But until then, the key is to keep enjoying chess and searching for the elusive “truth” in a position. If you see a good move, look for a better one. You can always dig a little deeper in the pursuit of something remarkable and counterintuitive. Beauty and truth: the essence of chess.
Stephen Moss is the author of The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life), published by Bloomsbury * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics 408 zb2cr: move 25. zooter Frit z drip drip drip Kh1? Vermontoad
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94 games, 1834-2010 - 1 Essential CE's: The tournament players Reign
Copied from 2021
“Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney “On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” ― Emanuel Lasker “What gives chess its great fascination is that the K, Q, R, B, N, and P move in different ways. In consequence we get a colorful diversity of possibilities unequaled in any other board game.” ― Fred Reinfeld “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 “To win against me, you must beat me three times: in the opening, the middlegame and the endgame.” ― Alexander Alekhine “Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.” ― Bent Larsen “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ― John F. Kennedy “There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.” ― Boris Spassky “Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” ― Garry Kasparov “Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.” ― Viswanathan Anand “Boxing is like a chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalize on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it is not about aggression. Avoiding knockout is tactical.” ― Nicola Adams “There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” ― H. G. Wells. * How to Play Chess! http://www.serverchess.com/play.htm... * Glossary of Chess Terms: http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/glo... * Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess (Batsford 1986): Game Collection: Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess * General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... * Endgames of WCs: Game Collection: Endgames World champions - part two * Teaching Moments: Game Collection: Teaching Moments in Chess * JC shows the way: https://chessplayeratlarge.blogspot... * Forney's Collection: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Morphy Miniatures:
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Game Collection: Uhlmann's 60 French Defence Games ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Frenc... I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
The Wishes
Within the Great Mogul's domains there are
Familiar sprites of much domestic use:
They sweep the house, and take a tidy care
Of equipage, nor garden work refuse;
But, if you meddle with their toil,
The whole, at once, you're sure to spoil.
One, near the mighty Ganges flood,
The garden of a burgher good
Worked noiselessly and well;
To master, mistress, garden, bore
A love that time and toil outwore,
And bound him like a spell.
Did friendly zephyrs blow,
The demon's pains to aid?
(For so they do, it's said.)
I own I do not know.
But for himself he rested not,
And richly blessed his master's lot.
What marked his strength of love,
He lived a fixture on the place,
In spite of tendency to rove
So natural to his race.
But brother sprites conspiring
With importunity untiring,
So teased their goblin chief, that he,
Of his caprice, or policy,
Our sprite commanded to attend
A house in Norway's farther end,
Whose roof was snow-clad through the year,
And sheltered human kind with deer.
Before departing to his hosts
Thus spake this best of busy ghosts:
"To foreign parts I'm forced to go!
For what sad fault I do not know; –
But go I must; a month's delay,
Or week's perhaps, and I'm away.
Seize time; three wishes make at will;
For three I'm able to fulfil –
No more." Quick at their easy task,
Abundance first these wishers ask –
Abundance, with her stores unlocked –
Barns, coffers, cellars, larder, stocked –
Corn, cattle, wine, and money, –
The overflow of milk and honey.
But what to do with all this wealth!
What inventories, cares, and worry!
What wear of temper and of health!
Both lived in constant, slavish hurry.
Thieves took by plot, and lords by loan;
The king by tax, the poor by tone.
Thus felt the curses which
Arise from being rich, –
"Remove this affluence!" they pray;
The poor are happier than they
Whose riches make them slaves.
"Go, treasures, to the winds and waves;
Come, goddess of the quiet breast,
Who sweet'nest toil with rest,
Dear Mediocrity, return!"
The prayer was granted as we learn.
Two wishes thus expended,
Had simply ended
In bringing them exactly where,
When they set out they were.
So, usually, it fares
With those who waste in such vain prayers
The time required by their affairs.
The goblin laughed, and so did they.
However, before he went away,
To profit by his offer kind,
They asked for wisdom, wealth of mind, –
A treasure void of care and sorrow –
A treasure fearless of the morrow,
Let who will steal, or beg, or borrow.
* Riddle-zap-rock: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid... Checkmate by treecards
In front of the king,
white moves his pawn.
The opponent begins,
with a sign and yawn.
White Bishop from C,
moves to F five.
Followed by adrenaline,
Queen is more than alive.
Black moves his pawn,
foolishly to B four.
It looks tragically close,
to the end of his war.
The white Queen glides,
elegantly to the right side.
Shocks her opponent,
and rips out his pride.
It was a beautifully executed,
and efficient checkmate.
Opponent lacked caution,
and now rest with his fate.
This wonderful game,
that we all call chess.
Your odds are reduced,
each time you guess.
Remember to follow,
your strategy and tact.
When you see opportunity,
make sure you act.
At the end of the day,
hope you enjoy.
Many sweet games,
it’s much more than a toy.
Old Russian Proverb: "A drop hollows out a stone." Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac The Hare and the Partridge
Beware how you deride
The exiles from life's sunny side:
To you is little known
How soon their case may be your own.
On this, sage Aesop gives a tale or two,
As in my verses I propose to do.
A field in common share
A partridge and a hare,
And live in peaceful state,
Till, woeful to relate!
The hunters' mingled cry
Compels the hare to fly.
He hurries to his fort,
And spoils almost the sport
By faulting every hound
That yelps on the ground.
At last his reeking heat
Betrays his snug retreat.
Old Tray, with philosophic nose,
Snuffs carefully, and grows
So certain, that he cries,
"The hare is here; bow wow!"
And veteran Ranger now, –
The dog that never lies, –
"The hare is gone," replies.
Alas! poor, wretched hare,
Back comes he to his lair,
To meet destruction there!
The partridge, void of fear,
Begins her friend to jeer:
"You bragged of being fleet;
How serve you, now, your feet?"
Scarce has she ceased to speak, –
The laugh yet in her beak, –
When comes her turn to die,
From which she could not fly.
She thought her wings, indeed,
Enough for every need;
But in her laugh and talk,
Forgot the cruel hawk!
Feb-09-12
ray keene: nimzos best endgames
v lasker zurich 1934
v spielmann carlsbad 1929
v lundin stockholm 1934
v maroczy bled 1931
v henneberger winterthur 1931
v thomas frankfurt 1930
v sultan khan liege 1930
v marshall berlin 1928
v reti berlin 1928
v alehine ny 1927
v tchigorin carlsbad 1907
and for a joke entry duras v nimzo san sebastian 1912 !! “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama “Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.”
― Cherry Adair, Kiss and Tell
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel “There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” ― H. G. Wells. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel “What gives chess its great fascination is that the K, Q, R, B, N, and P move in different ways. In consequence we get a colorful diversity of possibilities unequaled in any other board game.” ― Fred Reinfeld “The game of chess is not just an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often pointed to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.” ― Benjamin Franklin “In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.” — Charles Buxton “Chess is imagination.” ― David Bronstein
“Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.” ― Bent Larsen “Boxing is like a chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalize on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it is not about aggression. Avoiding knockout is tactical.” ― Nicola Adams “Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.” ― Boris Spassky “The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.” ― Boris Spassky “Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.” ― Viswanathan Anand “A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” — Dr. Boyce “Life is fun. It’s all up to the person. Be satisfied. You don’t have to be ‘happy’ all the time, you need to be satisfied.” ― Lucille Boston Lewis, eternal optimist 101 years old “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama “There are three constants in life...change, choice and principles.”
― Stephen Covey
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them--that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ― John F. Kennedy “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ― Albert Einstein “When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.”
― Charles Swindoll
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ― Voltaire “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” ― Maya Angelou “Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.” ― John F. Kennedy “There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ― Nelson Mandela “If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” ― Jim Rohn “I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
― Michael Jordan
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” ― C.S. Lewis 144 xp Zeus in peril eight red herring after sunset gravel knightmares
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“Chess is intellectual gymnastics.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz “The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.” ― Thomas A. Edison “Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverance and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.” ― Lev Polugaevsky “Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.”
― Vladimir Kramnik
“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 middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.”
― Jose Raul Capablanca
“Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.” ― David Bronstein “He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.” ― Max Euwe General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... “It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.” ― Adolf Anderssen “Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations - should not absorb or engross the thoughts of those who worship at its shrine, but should be kept in the background, and restrained within its proper province. As a mere game, a relaxation from the severe pursuits of life, it is deserving of high commendation.” ― Paul Morphy “On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.” ― Emanuel Lasker “Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” ― Savielly Tartakower “In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).”
― Judit Polgar
“Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.”
― Miguel Najdorf
“Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.”
― Samuel Reshevsky
“When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This game is now the most important to me. But of course I am not a computer and you cannot simply press a button, delete, and everything you want to forget disappears automatically. But if you want to play well, it's important to concentrate on the now.” ― Vassily Ivanchuk “The pawns are the soul of chess.” ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor “A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.” ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor “It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.” ― Efim Geller “Remember us,
Should any free soul come across this place,
In all the countless centuries yet to be,
May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones,
Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here by Spartan law, we lie.”
― Frank Miller, 300
“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” ― Bobby Fischer “However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.” ― Paul Keres “A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.” ― Alexander Morozevich “You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.” ― Alexander Alekhine “It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.” ― Viktor Korchnoi “Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.”
― Max Euwe
“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. “I won't be lectured on gun control by an administration that armed the Taliban.” ― voter “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel “As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.” ― Levon Aronian “Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing chess positions accurately.”
― Mikhail Botvinnik
“When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.” ― Mark Taimanov “It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.” ― Yuri Averbakh “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.” ― Edgar Allan Poe “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” ― Henry Ford “First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same species. Our lifetimes overlap. The meetings between humans are so unlikely as to be miraculous. To laugh, to cry, and to fall in love. Everyone is made up of a collection of 1% chances. Thus, I am dazzled by the fact that there are so many miracles in this world.” ― Hikaru Nakamura “I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.” ― Magnus Carlsen. A nice way of saying that most movie content is unrealistic, foolish, contrived, immoral, not intellectually stimulating. “We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.” ― Boris Spassky “In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.” ― Vasily Smyslov * Assorted Good games Compiled by rbaglini: Game Collection: assorted Good games * GK's Scheveningen: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Poisoned Pawn: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENCE-WINAWER “The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.” ― Galileo Galilei And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” ― Alexander Graham Bell “You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “Be active. I do things my way, like skiing when I’m 100. Nobody else does that even if they have energy. And I try to eat pretty correctly and get exercise and fresh air and sunshine.” ― Elsa Bailey, first time skier at age 100 “Don't look at the calendar, just keep celebrating every day.” ― Ruth Coleman, carpe diem at age 101 “Your will shall decide your destiny.” ― Charlotte Bronte * Positional: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Positional Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * POTD: Game Collection: POTD French 2 * Killer Dutch: Game Collection: Bowen Island Dutch Killer Dutch * Miscellaneous: Game Collection: ! Miscellaneous games Light Switches Riddle: There Are 3 Light Bulbs In Three Separate Rooms...
Riddle: There are 3 light bulbs in three separate rooms. in front of you, there is a panel with 3 separate switches. They only turn on or off. You may look inside each room only once. How can you tell which bulb belongs to which switch? Answer: You turn on any two switches, leave them for a few minutes, and turn one switch off. You enter each room only once. you know that the lightbulb that is lit belongs to the switch that was left on, the bulb that is off, but hot, belongs to the switch you turned off, and the cold bulb belongs to the switch you never touched. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
“The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth that everything is dependent on the Eternal Creator and Sustainer; the more I feel that the so-called science, I am occupied with, is nothing but an expression of the Supreme Will, which aims at bringing people closer to each other in order to help them better understand and improve themselves.” ― Guglielmo Marconi A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
“To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.” —Nicolaus Copernicus The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.” — Aristotle “A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior — mentally or otherwise.”
— Captain Kirk
“Now, I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!” — Edith Keeler “Live long and prosper!” — Spock
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” — Charles Dickens 32z Za’Darius Smith & Wesson don't be messin' Zoltan Almasi periodic rot
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60 games, 1886-2010 - 1 Gino tried to play the piano but the keys stic
1.e4e5 2.Nf3Nf6 3.Bc4Bc5
Gioachino Greco (c. 1600 – c. 1634)
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.
14 Do everything in love.
1.e4e5 2.Nf3Nf6 3.Bc4Bc5
“If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.”
― Walter Reuther
“Every Pawn is a potential Queen.” ― James Mason “What gives chess its great fascination is that the K, Q, R, B, N, and P move in different ways. In consequence we get a colorful diversity of possibilities unequaled in any other board game.” ― Fred Reinfeld “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte “There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.” ― H. G. Wells. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game Stephen Moss
Sat 14 Nov 2020 01.56 EST
The first thing to say about chess is that we are not all natural geniuses like Beth Harmon, the star of The Queen’s Gambit, who is taught the game by grumpy but lovable janitor Mr Shaibel at the age of nine and is very soon beating him. The daughter of a maths PhD, she sees the patterns and movement in chess immediately, can visualise effortlessly – being able to memorise moves and play without a board is the sign of chess mastery – and sees whole games on the ceiling of her orphanage dormitory. She is a prodigy, just like world champion Bobby Fischer, on whom Walter Tevis based the novel from which the TV series is drawn. We are mere mortals. So how do we get good? First, by loving chess. “You can only get good at chess if you love the game,” Fischer said. You need to be endlessly fascinated by it and see its infinite potential. Be willing to embrace the complexity; enjoy the adventure. Every game should be an education and teach us something. Losing doesn’t matter. Garry Kasparov, another former world champion, likes to say you learn far more from your defeats than your victories. Eventually you will start winning, but there will be a lot of losses on the way. Play people who are better than you, and be prepared to lose. Then you will learn.
If you are a beginner, don’t feel the need to set out all the pieces at once. Start with the pawns, and then add the pieces. Understand the potential of each piece – the way a pair of bishops can dominate the board, how the rooks can sweep up pawns in an endgame, why the queen and a knight can work together so harmoniously. Find a good teacher – your own Mr Shaibel, but without the communication issues.
Once you have established the basics, start using computers and online resources to play and to help you analyse games. lichess.org, chess.com and chess24.com are great sites for playing and learning. chessbomb.com is a brilliant resource for watching top tournaments. chessgames.com is a wonderful database of games. chesspuzzle.net is a great practice program. decodechess.com attempts to explain chess moves in layperson’s language. There are also plenty of sophisticated, all-purpose programs, usually called chess engines, such as Fritz and HIARCs that, for around £50, help you deconstruct your games and take you deeply into positions. But don’t let the computer do all the work. You need to engage your own brain on the analysis. And don’t endlessly play against the computer. Find human opponents, either online or, when the pandemic is over, in person.
Bobby Fischer was stripped of his world title in 1975 after he refused to defend the title due to a row over the format. Photograph: RFS/AP
Study the games of great masters of the past. Find a player you like and follow their careers. Fischer is a great starting point – his play is clear and comprehensible, and beautifully described in his famous book My 60 Memorable Games. Morphy (Harmon’s favourite), Alekhine, Capablanca, Tal, Korchnoi and Shirov are other legendary figures with whom the aspiring player might identify. They also have fascinating life stories, and chess is about hot human emotions as well as cold calculation. Modern grandmaster chess, which is based heavily on a deep knowledge of opening theory, is more abstruse and may be best avoided until you have acquired deep expertise. The current crop of leading grandmasters are also, if we are brutally honest, a bit lacking in personality compared with the giants of the past.
Children will often find their school has a chess club, and that club may even have links with Chess in Schools and Communities, which supplies expert tutors to schools. Provision tends to be much better at primary than secondary level, and after 11 children will probably be left to their own devices if they want to carry on playing.
If a player is really serious, she or he should join their local chess club. There is likely to be one meeting nearby, or there will be once the Covid crisis is over. At the moment, clubs are not meeting and there is very little over-the-board chess being played. Players are keeping their brains active online, where you can meet players from all over the world. That is fun, but be aware that some players are likely to be cheating – using chess engines to help them, making it hard for you to assess how good your play is. And you also get some abuse online from players who want to trash-talk. You are also likely to be playing at very fast time controls – so-called blitz chess – and that is no way to learn to really think about chess.
If you want to start playing over-the-board tournaments (when they resume), you will need to join the chess federation in your respective country. After you’ve played the requisite number of official games, you will get a rating – a bit like a handicap in golf – and can then start being paired with players of your own strength in matches. But until then, the key is to keep enjoying chess and searching for the elusive “truth” in a position. If you see a good move, look for a better one. You can always dig a little deeper in the pursuit of something remarkable and counterintuitive. Beauty and truth: the essence of chess.
Stephen Moss is the author of The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life), published by Bloomsbury Apr-05-23 WannaBe: Can a vegan have a 'beef' with you? Or Vegans only have 'beet' with you?
I am confused.
Apr-05-23 Cassandro: Vegan police officers should be exempt from doing steak-outs. “A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior — mentally or otherwise.”
— Captain Kirk
“Now, I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days and the years ahead are worth living for!” — Edith Keeler “Live long and prosper!” — Spock
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41 games, 1900-2019 - 1 Instant Mess Trompowsky & D Leningrad
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A QUICK FIX opening selection, here are some good choices. “Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney “Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got.” — Norman Vincent Peale “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston * Riddle-z-piddle: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid... “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 “Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard.” — Reuben Fine Old Russian Proverb: "A drop hollows out a stone." Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac “Life is fun. It’s all up to the person. Be satisfied. You don’t have to be ‘happy’ all the time, you need to be satisfied.” ― Lucille Boston Lewis, eternal optimist 101 years old “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.” ― Dalai Lama “Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” ― John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, and former Navy Lieutenant “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” ― John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, and former Navy Lieutenant Examine and remove.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10. Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death.
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas A. Edison “In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill
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210 games, 1866-2017 - 1 miniature pool
Just some games that caught my eye.
“Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney “Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Above the clouds I lift my wing
To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
To Earth I bring;
Then let me soar and sing!” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman
“Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “No clouds are in the morning sky,
The vapors hug the stream,
Who says that life and love can die
In all this northern gleam?
At every turn the maples burn,
The quail is whistling free,
The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs
Are dropping for you and me.
Ho! hillyho! heigh O!
Hillyho!
In the clear October morning.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “War! war! war!
Heaven aid the right!
God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight!
God send the women sleep in the long, long night,
When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.”
― Edmund Clarence Stedman
“Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell!” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music;
the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art;
there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Is there a rarer being,
Is there a fairer sphere
Where the strong are not unseeing,
And the harvests are not sere;
Where, ere the seasons dwindle
They yield their due return;
Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
While the flames of youth still burn?” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “A poet must sing for his own people.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman
“The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “The imagination never dies.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.”
― Edmund Clarence Stedman
“Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.”
― Edmund Clarence Stedman
“Music waves eternal wands,--
Enchantress of the souls of mortals!” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman
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78 games, 1755-2023 - 1 Queen's Pawn Openers Romans Strike
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"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." ― Voltaire "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no passion to be found playing small--in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." ― Nelson Mandela "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
― Michael Jordan
“I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.”
― Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Tal was a fearless fighter. Nobody could successfully accomplish so many incorrect maneuvers! He simply smashed his opponents. ― Bent Larsen “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “All warfare is based on deception.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War Magnus Carlsen, who has been ranked the No. 1 chess player in the world since 2011, announced he will not defend his world championship title. "The conclusion is very simple that I am not motivated to play another match," the five-time world champion said on his podcast, The Magnus Effect. The championship matches are held every two years and the next is scheduled for 2023. "I simply feel that I don't have a lot to gain," Carlsen added. "I don't particularly like it, and although I'm sure a match would be interesting for historical reasons and all of that, I don't have any inclinations to play and I will simply not play the match." Reminds me of Ogden Nash:
"Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.
Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!
We really look all right to us,
As you no doubt delight the eye
Of other hippopotami."
Romans 15:13
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Tom Wiswell (1910-1988) made a quote regarding playing checkers worth using in chess circles.
After winning a good game, I always ask myself: "Where did I go right?" You cannot play on this website. It is just a database for players to check out GM games, talk about them and discuss the game in general. sites where you can play chess include: www.playchess.com (need chessbase software)
www.freechess.org
www.net-chess.com
Old Russian Proverb: "Strike while the iron is hot. (Куй железо, пока горячо.)" Use the opportunity while it’s possible or lose it. T - Z (12 books)
Taimanov's Selected Games, by Taimanov, Mark (User: Malacha) Game Collection: Games from Taimanov's Book: TAIMANOV'S SELECTED ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Taimanovs-Sel... Tigran Petrosian, World Champion, by O'Kelly de Galway, A.O. (User: Resignation Trap) Game Collection: Tigran V. Petrosian - A Stupendous Tactician ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b... The Times Winning Moves, by Keene, Ray and Jacobs, Byon (User: McCool) Game Collection: 0 ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Times-Winning... Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors, by Snyder, Robert M. (User: takchess) Game Collection: 0 ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Unbeatable-Ch... Uncompromising Chess, by Belyavsky, Alexander (User: Resignation Trap) Game Collection: Uncompromising Chess by Alexander Beliavsky ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Uncompromisin... Understanding Chess Move by Move: A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-by-Step How Chess Games Are Won, by Nunn, John (User: PhilipTheGeek) Game Collection: Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Understanding... Understanding the Queen's Indian Defense, by Soltis, Andy, Edmar Mednis, Raymond Keene and John Grefe (User: suenteus po 147) Game Collection: Understanding the Queen's Indian Defense ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Queens-Indian... Winning Chess Brilliancies, by Seirawan, Yasser (User: dac1990) Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Brilliancies ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Chess... Winning Chess Tactics, by Seirawan, Yasser (User: Bears092) Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics Winning With the French, by Uhlmann, Wolfgang (User: MidnightDuffer)
Game Collection: Uhlmann's 60 French Defence Games ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Frenc... The World's Great Chess Games, by Fine, Reuben (User: GeauxCool) Game Collection: 0 ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b... Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953, by Bronstein, David (User: takbook) Game Collection: 0 ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Zurich-Intern... Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953, by Bronstein, David (User: bennyr) Game Collection: Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953
♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Zurich-Intern... Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953, by Bronstein, David (User: suenteus po 147) Game Collection: WCC Index (Zurich 1953) ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Zurich-Intern... I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death.
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville
“Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.” ― Indian Proverb "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 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.” "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 May-10-23 stone free or die: <CIO> no, it's very rare that I blow the whistle despite the rightist propaganda asserting otherwise.
I often (maybe even generally) provide public notice at the time - e.g. with <opie>'s pyscho post(s) most recently. I can't remember - did he post it here too? If he did I might have blown the whistle here - but I don't remember doing so. I do remember blowing the whistle over on <perf>'s player page, and on <Suzz>'s forum - but just for that one post. My only comment was that it was a personal attack. Very generic. * * * * *
OTOH - I did try blowing the whistle on a few of <Fred>'s posts about a month or two ago, sans public notice. This was done in the expectation that <CG> would not only delete the posts, but also act to dampen the attacks as they had promised. AFAIK they only deleted the posts. When I realized they were going to allow the behavior to continue I returned to my default position, i.e. that blowing the whistle is fairly useless beyond just getting a particular post deleted. Given this, I'd rather complain publicly and have the record there for all to see. .
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177 games, 1620-2023 - 1 Scotch and Evans Gambit Study
29 games, 1851-2011
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Kibitzing
