- * CT-ART
For under 10 bucks, one can buy Maxim Blokh's CT-art for your smart phone. This will keep you busy and sharp for a few years. A great bargain. I created this collection to highlight what moves got them to the tactical turning point.
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85 games, 1837-1993 - 1...d6. A very interesting opening with no name
Create your opening repertoire by picking up lines you like from the Pirc, Modern, Philidor, Old Indian, King Indian, Hippopotamus, Rat Defense (while having more possibilities to avoid the lines you don't trust)
It is too early to characterize this repertoire or the kind of players using it.
Usually supporters of 1..d6 appreciate:
-little provocations (as shown by players like Bent Larsen, Anthony Miles, Tigran Petrosian, Julian Hodgson, Michael Basman, Rainer Schlenker, Stefan Bücker, Baadur Jobava and Jules Welling
-to have "The space DISadvantage", appreciate Reti's theory about controlling versus occupying space, prefer the counterattack above blunt attacks and gambits
-are not afraid for an early exchange of queens also giving up the right to castle after 1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe dxe4.QxQ KxQ and 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 (starting off as a Pirc or 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 in the Philidor sequence) 4.dxe5 dxe5 5.Qxd8+ Kxd8.===
Some sources:
(1)"Play 1…d6 Against Everything: A Compact and Ready-to-use Black Repertoire for Club Players", New in Chess, 2017, 208 pages by Erik Zude and Jörg Hickl (2)"A Cunning Chess Opening for Black: Lure Your Opponent into the Philidor Swamp!", New in Chess, 2015, 288 pages by Sergey Kasparov (3) "The Old Indian: Move by Move", Everyman, 2015, 496 pages by Junior Tay (4) "1...d6: Move by Move", Everyman, 2012, 400 pages by Cyrus Lakdawala (5) "The New Old Indian: A Repertoire for Black Against 1 d4", 2011, 160 pages by Alexander Cherniaev and Eduard Prokuronov (6) "The Philidor Files: Detailed Coverage of a Dynamic Opening", Everyman Chess, 2007, 304 pages by Christian Bauer (7) "A Universal Weapon 1.d4 d6: The All-Purpose Defence for Black", Chess Stars, 2011, 224 pages by Vladimir Barsky (8) "Geheimwaffe Philidor", Chessgate, 2005, 132 pages by Christian Seel (9) "An Explosive Chess Opening Repertoire for Black", Gambit, 2002, 192 pages by Jouni Yrjola and Jussi Tella ===
Content/ The Umbrella Themes for the games
1) Endgame Variation
-1a)The d4-Endgame Variation
-1b)The e4-Endgame Variation
2) Philidor
3) Pirc
4) Modern (Setups after 1.e4. Hedgehog, Hippopotamus etc.) 5) The Old Indian
6) The Wade Defence (Also called Hodgson or Tartakower Defence, with The Pribyl/Rat) Appendix
I The pros of Space Advantage
II The contras of Space Advantage
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19 games, 1919-2014 - 101 greatest moves ever played(by krabbe)
88 games, 1858-1998 - 125 Greatest Chess Games
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according to The Mammoth Book of The World's Greatest Chess Games, New Expanded Edition, by Graham Burgess, John Nunn, and John Emms. # above the game represents how many votes it gets by these 3 authors. In several games here, some opening move orders are slightly different from the book.
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125 games, 1834-2010 - 3101 greatest moves ever played (by krabbe)
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* Evolution: Game Collection: # Chess Evolution Volumes 51-100 * FIDE Laws of Chess: https://rcc.fide.com/2023-laws-of-c... * Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES * Old P-K4 Miniatures: Game Collection: Games for Classes * Play Stockfish 1-10: https://labinatorsolutions.github.i... * Russians - Chernev: Game Collection: The Russians Play Chess by Irving Chernev * Smyslov Brevities: Game Collection: Smyslov brevities * Shirov Minis: Game Collection: Shirov miniatures * Tactics Explained: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Winter's Chess Thoughts: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... Here is what Vladimir Kramnik has to say:
"Botvinnik’s example and teaching established the modern approach to preparing for competitive chess: regular but moderate physical exercise; analyzing very thoroughly a relatively narrow repertoire of openings; annotating one’s own games, those of past great players and those of competitors; publishing one’s annotations so that others can point out any errors; studying strong opponents to discover their strengths and weaknesses; ruthless objectivity about one’s own strengths and weaknesses." “Reading can take you places you have never been before.” — Dr. Seuss The talking dog
A guy spots a sign outside a house that reads “Talking Dog for Sale.” Intrigued, he walks in. “So what have you done with your life?” he asks the dog. “I’ve led a very full life,” says the dog. “I lived in the Alps rescuing avalanche victims. Then I served my country in Iraq. And now I spend my days reading to the residents of a retirement home.” The guy is flabbergasted. He asks the dog’s owner, “Why on earth would you want to get rid of an incredible dog like that?” The owner says, “Because he’s a liar! He never did any of that!” — Submitted by Harry Nelson
"Havana" by Camila Cabello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3v...
New Best Game of 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Q... “Bloody Mary”: https://www.historyhit.com/facts-ab... <Principles of Chess
01. Develop your pieces quickly.
02. Control the center.
03. Try to put your pieces on squares that give them maximum space. 04. Try to develop your knights towards the center. 05. A knight on the rim is dim.
06. Don't take unnecessary chances.
07. Play aggressive.
08. Calculate forced moves first.
09. Always ask yourself, "Can he put me in check or win a piece?" 10. Have a plan. Every move should have a purpose. 11. Assume your opponent's move is his best move. 12. Ask yourself, "why did he move there?" after each opponent move. 13. Play for the initiative and controlling the board. 14. If you must lose a piece, get something for it if you can. 15. When behind, exchange pawns. When ahead, exchange pieces. 16. If you are losing, don't give up fighting. Look for counterplay. 17. Don't play unsound moves unless you are losing badly. 18. Don't sacrifice a piece without good reason. 19. If you are in doubt of an opponent's sacrifice, accept it. 20. Attack with more that just one or two pieces. 21. Do not make careless pawn moves. They cannot move back. 22. Do not block in your bishops.
23. Bishops of opposite colors have the greatest chance of drawing. 24. Try not to move the same piece twice or more times in a row. 25. Exchange pieces if it helps your development. 26. Don't bring your queen out early.
27. Castle soon to protect your king and develop your rook. 28. Develop rooks to open files.
29. Put rooks behind passed pawns.
30. Study rook endgames. They are the most common and most complicated. 31. Don't let your king get caught in the center. 32. Don't castle if it brings your king into greater danger from attack. 33. After castling, keep a good pawn formation around your king. 34. If you only have one bishop, put your pawns on its opposite color. 35. Trade pawns pieces when ahead in material or when under attack. 36. If cramped, free your game by exchanging material. 37. If your opponent is cramped, don't let him get any freeing exchanges. 38. Study openings you are comfortable with.
39. Play over entire games, not just the opening. 40. Blitz chess is helpful in recognizing chess patterns. Play often. 41. Study annotated games and try to guess each move. 42. Stick with just a few openings with White, and a few openings with Black. 43. Record your games and go over them, especially the games you lost. 44. Show your games to higher rated opponents and get feedback from them. 45. Use chess computers and databases to help you study and play more. 46. Everyone blunders. The champions just blunder less often. 47. When it is not your move, look for tactics and combinations. 48. Try to double rooks or double rook and queen on open files. 49. Always ask yourself, "Does my next move overlook something simple?" 50. Don't make your own plans without the exclusion of the opponent's threats. 51. Watch out for captures by retreat of an opponent's piece. 52. Do not focus on one sector of the board. View thw whole board. 53. Write down your move first before making that move if it helps. 54. Try to solve chess puzzles with diagrams from books and magazines. 55. It is less likely that an opponent is prepared for off-beat openings. 56. Recognize transposition of moves from main-line play. 57. Watch your time and avoid time trouble.
58. Bishops are worth more than knights except when they are pinned in. 59. A knight works better with a bishop than another knight. 60. It is usually a good idea to trade down into a pawn up endgame. 61. Have confidence in your game.
62. Play in as many rated events as you can.
63. Try not to look at your opponent's rating until after the game. 64. Always play for a win.
(If a win is no longer possible, then play for a draw.)>
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88 games, 1858-1998 - 41_R+N - TActical TAngos
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Müller/Lamprecht say that 15% of all games reach an ending of rook and minor piece vs rook and minor piece, so that you can expect to get such one in every tournament. Their statistics, with relative percentage frequencies, rounded: ♖♗ vs ♖♘ (45%)
♖♗ vs ♖♗ (22%) same coloured ♗
♖♗ vs ♖♗ (13%) opp. coloured ♗
<♖♘ vs ♖♘ (20%)> external lectures: http://roman-chess.blogspot.de/2012... Christopher Lutz in "Endspieltraining für die Praxis" sagt: <Die Kombination von ♖+♘ ist taktisch äußerst kompliziert. Konkrete Varianten haben den Vorrang vor allgemeinen strategischen Überlegungen. Man beachte den hochtaktischen Verlauf von [C Lutz vs Huebner, 1994 <...>> "In endings with rook and knight against rook and knight a slight initiative usually weighs heavily" - GM Karsten Müller
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388 games, 1896-2022 - 500 Master Games of Chess
'500 Master Games of Chess' by Savielly Tartakower and Julius Du Mont.
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489 games, 1788-1938 - 51a1_IQP on d4
< "He who fears an Isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess." <>>
~ Siegbert Tarrasch
< "The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard." <>>
~ Aaron Nimzowitsch
<The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. <>>
~ Richard Reti
This collection shows how to take advantage of the dynamic possibilities of the isolated d pawn. If the isolani manages to advance, look out! On the other hand, if it is firmly blockaded, it tends to become a liability that leads to a lost endgame as pieces are exchanged. I find this strategic struggle utterly fascinating. The Isolated Queen's Pawn (or as google translated it from Portugiese <the Pawn Isolated Lady> - (L-O-L) can play a dangerous role in attack, espeically when it advances to disorient the enemy army. Most games in this collection examplify this theme. However, sometimes it can be properly blockaded and eventually captured. 'Understanding Pawn play in chess' by Drazen Marovic has a nice treatment of the subject of IQP. An equally good treatment is available in 'Pawn structure chess' by Andrew Soltis recommended/check:
Game Collection: IQP / http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... / Game Collection: IQP wins / Game Collection: IQP loses / Game Collection: IQP /
Game Collection: nexus IQP position /
Game Collection: IQP Wins. * Game Collection: PANOV BOTVINNIK ATTACK These games all reach the same IQP position after 7 complete moves. There are myriad move orders to reach the position, including lines of the following openings: Alapin Sicilian, Panov Caro-Kann, Symmetrical English, Semi-Tarrasch, Scandinavian transfer to Panov. Botvinnik believed that studying certain structures which could arise from numerous openings was a good way to prepare. The main structure which Botvinnik studied was the Panov. I don't know if this exact position was one that he studied, but it seems to be a nexus for many openings which result in IQP positions. Some examples of players who have followed the main line continuation from the nexus position most frequently on the white side are Judit Polgar and Jovan Petronic. On the black side we see the Caro-Kann adherents Anatoly Karpov, Allan Stig Rasmussen, and especially Eduard Meduna. I will cite instances where the nexus position is mentioned in books when I find them. Soltis=the book by Soltis titled Pawn Structure Chess. I don't own a database to search so I am relying on online tools. Andrzej Maciejewski v Marek Vokac, Prague 1990 is the only master game I can find which follows the Alapin Sicilian to a position which could have resulted from the nexus: 1 e4 c5 2 c3 d5 3 exd5 Nf6 4 d4 cxd4 5 cxd4 Nxd5 6 Nc3 e6 7 Nf3 Be7 8 Bd3 0-0 9 0-0 Nc6. George-Gabriel Grigore v Serban Neamtu, Romania 1992 is an example of the move order from the Slav Exchange 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 cxd5 cxd5 4 Nc3 Nc6 5 e4 Nf6 6 exd5 Nxd5 7 Nf3 e6. Here is another move order: Scandinavian, Kadas Gambit, transfer to Panov 1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Nf6 3 c4 c6 4 d4 cxd5 5 Nc3 Nc6 6 cxd5 Nxd5 7 Nf3 e6. These are the relevant ECO codes: A04, A15, A16, A17, A30, A34, A35, A40, A46, B01, B10, B13, B14, B21, B22, D02, D04, D10, D41, E10. 
click for larger view"Imagine the following pawn skeleton: White: pawns on a2, b2, d4, f2, g2, h2: Black: pawns on a7, b7, e6, f7, g7, h7. Despite its static weakness, the isolated pawn on d4 is filled with a certain dynamic power. We must distinguish with absolute accuracy between "static" and "dynamic" because this is the only way to understand completely. A static weakness shows up in the endgame and in two ways: firstly, the d4-pawn needs protection and, secondly, "neighbouring weak squares" show up clearly (e.g. the black king can try to get to c4 or e4 via d5). As far as dynamic strength is concerned, there is the pawn's lust to expand (d4-d5!) and in addition White can plan to leave his isolated pawn where it is and occupy one of the dynamically extremely valuable squares e5 or c5 which have been created by the d4-pawn." - Nimzowitsch, The Praxis of My System
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Baburin, Winning Pawn Structures leider zur Zeit nicht mehr erhältlich (Juni 2007) 256 S., kart., Batsford 1998/2001, Euro 25,00 " Zielgruppe: DWZ 1600-2350
Eine Zeitlang war dieses Buch nicht erhältlich, dann doch wieder nachgedruckt - aber der Autor bat, das Buch nicht zu kaufen, wegen ungeklärter Honorarzahlungen. Im Moment scheint aber wieder alles in Ordnung, und wir dürfen dieses Buch ruhigen Gewissens empfehlen.
Der erste Schwachpunkt eines sehr starken Buches ist - der Titel. Dieser sollte heißen Isolanistellungen. Denn Thema ist der klassische isolierte Damenbauer, entstehend aus Tarrasch-Verteidigung, Semi-Tarrasch, Caro-Kann/Panow-Angriff, Nimzowitsch-Indisch mit 4.e3, Sizilianisch 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 usw. Kürzer behandelt werden die verwandten Typen "Hängebauern" (z.B. nach Sd5xSc3 b2xc3 bei weißem Isolani d4) und "Widder" (sich gegenüberstehende Einzelbauern d4/d5).
Der irisch-russische GM Baburin illustriert in überzeugender Weise alle typischen Angriffs-, Verteidigungs- und Endspielpläne. Und beileibe nicht nur die naheliegenden Pläne,die "jeder kennt" bzw. zu kennen meint! (z.B. die Standardopfer auf f7 und e6). Da kommt auch mal die Isolaniseite auf der c-Linie, bringt den Turm auf der 3. Reihe zum Einsatz (z.B. Ta1-a3-h3 oder Td1-d3-g3) oder spielt einen Angriff mittels h2-h4-h5 - ein weniger bekanntes, aber mitunter effektvolles Motiv.
Das Buch ist mithin Pflicht für alle Spieler, bei denen Isolanistellungen eine wesentliche Stelle im Eröffnungsrepertoire einnimmt.
Ein kleiner Vorbehalt nichtsdestotrotz: In den (ansonsten hervorragend ausgewählten!) Beispielen gewinnt praktisch immer die Isolaniseite, wenn sie Angriff/Initiative im Mittelspiel hat. Bzw. in typischen Endspielen, wo naturgemäß die gegen den Isolani spielende Seite den Vorteil hat, verdichtet sie diesen Vorteil in praktisch allen Beispielen zum Gewinn. Dies entspricht nicht der Realität! Wie sowohl das Gefühl wie auch ein Spezialrecherche in Datenbanken zeigt, bleibt ein typisches Endspiel - sagen wir mit Läufer und Springer beiderseits - in der Mehrzahl der Fälle remis; nur seltener führt der Vorteil auch zum ganzen Punkt. Umgekehrt führt längst nicht jede Stellung mit starkem Königsangriff der Isolaniseite zum Erfolg; die notorisch komplizierten Opferwendungen führen auch gern mal zum Dauerschach oder zu unklaren Positionen.
Zwar zeigt Baburin jedesmal, wo die letztlich unterlegene Seite hätte besser spielen können. Trotzdem - ich habe ein bißchen Angst, daß solchermaßen im Kopf ein statistisch verzerrtes Abbild der Realität entsteht.
Trotz dieses kleinen Vorbehaltes ein starkes Buch, einwandfrei produziert und mit umfangreichem Inhalt, so daß der Preis nicht so sehr schmerzt - verglichen mit einigen anderen teuren, dünnen und letztlich billig gemachten Batsford-Produktionen.
Zur Zielgruppe: Obwohl die Arbeit an speziellen strategischen Formation (wie hier Isolanistellungen) erst ab ca. DWZ 1800 Sinn macht, scheint mir hier eine Ausnahme gegeben: Baburins Partiekommentare sind sehr eingängig und leichtverständlich. Auch der starke Turnierspieler (um 2200) kann zweifellos profitieren. Für Spieler ab IM-Stärke ist der Inhalt vielleicht doch wieder zu allgemein; wenig tiefe Analyse, wenig "Hyperpräzision", auch in Bezug auf die Eröffnungstheorie (hier würde ich mir z.B. noch präzisere Vergleiche in der Beurteilung verwandter Stellungen, die sich z.B. durch ein Tempo mehr/weniger oder eine andere Nuance unterscheiden, wünschen)."
http://www.kaniaverlag.de/htm/tarra...
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244 games, 1877-2022 - 78 The QGD Slav/Semi-Slav
from Zhbugnoimt
“Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.”
― Indian Proverb
“It’s an eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game.” ― Paul Morphy “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.
"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. “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 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." * Good Historical Links: https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/in... * Attack: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Attacking Games (Naiditsch/Balogh) * Cheating: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... It's not the quantity that counts; it's the quality. * 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 * Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... The Rat Retired From The World
The sage Levantines have a tale
About a rat that weary grew
Of all the cares which life assail,
And to a Holland cheese withdrew.
His solitude was there profound,
Extending through his world so round.
Our hermit lived on that within;
And soon his industry had been
With claws and teeth so good,
That in his novel hermitage,
He had in store, for wants of age,
Both house and livelihood.
What more could any rat desire?
He grew fair, fat, and round.
"God's blessings thus redound
To those who in His vows retire.'
One day this personage devout,
Whose kindness none might doubt,
Was asked, by certain delegates
That came from Rat-United-States,
For some small aid, for they
To foreign parts were on their way,
For succour in the great cat-war.
Ratopolis beleaguered sore,
Their whole republic drained and poor,
No morsel in their scrips they bore.
Slight boon they craved, of succour sure
In days at utmost three or four.
"My friends," the hermit said,
"To worldly things I'm dead.
How can a poor recluse
To such a mission be of use?
What can he do but pray
That God will aid it on its way?
And so, my friends, it is my prayer
That God will have you in his care."
His well-fed saintship said no more,
But in their faces shut the door.
What think you, reader, is the service
For which I use this niggard rat?
To paint a monk? No, but a dervise.
A monk, I think, however fat,
Must be more bountiful than that.
I entered ten puns in our contest to see which would win.
No pun in ten did.
“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 Feb-13-11 keypusher: <scutigera: They give this as one of Myagmarsuren's notable games with 162 others in the database?>
notable games are selected based on how many games collections they are in. The Chess Poem by Ayaan Chettiar
8 by 8 makes 64
In the game of chess, the king shall rule
Kings and queens, and rooks and knights
Bishops and Pawns, and the use of mind
The Game goes on, the players think
Plans come together, form a link
Attacks, checks and capture
Until, of course, we reach a mate
The Pawns march forward, then the knights
Power the bishops, forward with might
Rooks come together in a line
The Game of Chess is really divine
The Rooks move straight, then take a turn
The Knights on fire, make no return
Criss-Cross, Criss-Cross, go the bishops
The Queen’s the leader of the group
The King resides in the castle
While all the pawns fight with power
Heavy blows for every side
Until the crown, it is destroyed
The Brain’s the head, The Brain’s the King,
The Greatest one will always win,
For in the game of chess, the king shall rule,
8 by 8 makes 64!
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 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
Calories 160
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500 games, 1886-2015 - How to Play Chess Endings Znosko-Borovsky
Znosko-Borovsky, Eugene. How to play chess endings. Dover Publications Inc., New York, (1940) reprinted 1974. 0-486-21170-3
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32 games, 1858-1938 - Accidents in the opeming
Cloned.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein
“Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” — Savielly Tartakower “Pawns are the soul of chess.” — François-André Danican Philidor “To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing.” — Captain Bertain, The Noble Game of Chess (1735) “I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!” — Wilhelm Steinitz “A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.” — Boonaa Mohammed “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” — Ellen Goodman “You have enemies? Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill May-23-23 Rdb: Hey <fredthebear> , do you know that your buddy... everyday ? Great ! Awesome.
You are so righteous.
Let no one say that great crusader <fredthebear> is dishonest. “All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” ― Walt Disney “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar * Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures * Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne * Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op... * Bowman's Beginner's Guide:
http://chess.jliptrap.us/BowmanBegi...
Not perfect but dedicated, passionate.
* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Checkmate brevities: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate * Beat the QGD Exchange: Game Collection: Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation * Giannis says: https://www.suffernchessclub.com/se... * PGN Language Conversion: http://www.code.gr/chess-converter/... * Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/
* Simple tactics course using miniatures:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/FTP... * Short Match: Game Collection: Match Short-Karjakin * Today's Titans: search "Sergey Karjakin vs Magnus Carlsen" * Tim's list of records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Loser: User: ljfyffe * Same Loser: User: Larryfyffe * Predator On-line: https://www.bustedmugshots.com/ohio... * Dec-12-20 MissScarlett: My advice to <acapo> is to close the pop-up ads by clicking on the little <x> in the top right corner. Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
~ Scottish Proverb
Alaska: Kodiak
Established in: 1792
Kodiak is the main city in Kodiak Island and was founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov. It was first called Pavlovsk Gavan, which is Russian for Paul's Harbor, and was the first capital of Russian Alaska. You can still find a large Russian Orthodox church there, as well as plenty of beautiful views. * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named wtharvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air .... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
“No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves (What about Scholar's Mate?). Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life.” — Anonymous Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
― Thomas Jefferson, chess player
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
You can't make bricks without straw
You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds You can't take it with you [when you die]
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
You can't judge a book by its cover
You can't win them all
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar You pays your money and you takes your choice
You reap what you sow
You win some, you lose some
Youth is wasted on the young
The Camel and the Floating Sticks
The first who saw the humpbacked camel
Fled off for life; the next approached with care;
The third with tyrant rope did boldly dare
The desert wanderer to trammel.
Such is the power of use to change
The face of objects new and strange;
Which grow, by looking at, so tame,
They do not even seem the same.
And since this theme is up for our attention,
A certain watchman I will mention,
Who, seeing something far
Away on the ocean,
Could not but speak his notion
That It was a ship of war.
Some minutes more had past, –
A bomb-ketch It was without a sail,
And then a boat, and then a bale,
And floating sticks of wood at last!
Full many things on earth, I wot,
Will claim this tale, – and well they may;
They're something dreadful far away,
But near at hand – they're not.
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Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever. “A God you understood would be less than yourself.” ― Flannery O'Connor Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. * Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/
* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century FACTRETRIEVER 2020: Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk. 'A stitch in time saves nine'
“You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds.” Q: How do you know which cow is the best dancer?
A: See which one has the best moo-ves.
Q: What does the cow band play?
A: Moo-sic!
slaw1998: In my spine there sends a shiver
When a player sends his pieces up the river
Into loose en prise encapture, enrapture,
Does it to my heart receive it well
Yet other players bring me down
Their defense sends my attack the other way around
And Tal and others would be quite displeased
Like I, to have the attack no hope of being released So I'll go on shedding pieces
With combos, like a magic stall,
And hope that some day
I can beat them all.
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves” — J.M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) A man who spent his life delighting the masses with his words, perfectly understood that you reap what you sow, and that when we make other people happy, we often find happiness ourselves. “Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. “The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.” — Daniel Naroditsky <Writing from his experience of the devastation of World War I, Edwardian poet Alfred Noyes' well-known "On the Western Front" speaks from the perspective of soldiers buried in graves marked by simple crosses, asking that their deaths not be in vain. Praise of the dead was not what the dead needed, but peace made by the living. An excerpt:We, who lie here, have nothing more to pray.
To all your praises we are deaf and blind.
We may not ever know if you betray
Our hope, to make earth better for mankind.> “Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks aren't protecting each other.” ― Fredthebear “In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics, you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” ― Tom Seaver “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” — Ancient Chinese Proverb This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
― Fort Minor
chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.
Another example of his way with words is the start of ‘Internal Fires’, a poem published on page 57 of the March 1930 American Chess Bulletin: I used to play chess with the dearest old chap,
Whom naught could upset whatever might hap.
He’d oft lose a game he might well have won
But made no excuse for what he had done.
If a piece he o’erlooked and got it snapped up
He took it quite calmly and ne’er ‘cut up rough’. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner “Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward.” — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy. Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." Isaiah 66:24
24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' “The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”
— Billy Graham
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato “Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau <What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?Answer: NOON.
* Riddle-xp-dee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch... Grandpa went out for a walk and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible? Answer: Grandpa’s bald!>
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 5zshhz! fish spawn afta shave long promotion run up riva. ^Dudz
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164 games, 1560-2006 - Accidents in the opeming
Cloned.
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein
“Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” — Savielly Tartakower “Pawns are the soul of chess.” — François-André Danican Philidor “To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing.” — Captain Bertain, The Noble Game of Chess (1735) “I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!” — Wilhelm Steinitz “A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.” — Boonaa Mohammed “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.” — Ellen Goodman “You have enemies? Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill May-23-23 Rdb: Hey <fredthebear> , do you know that your buddy... everyday ? Great ! Awesome.
You are so righteous.
Let no one say that great crusader <fredthebear> is dishonest. “All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” ― Walt Disney “Win with grace, lose with dignity!” ― Susan Polgar “What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!” ― Susan Polgar “No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don’t become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!” ― Susan Polgar * Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures * Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne * Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op... * Bowman's Beginner's Guide:
http://chess.jliptrap.us/BowmanBegi...
Not perfect but dedicated, passionate.
* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R * Checkmate brevities: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate * Beat the QGD Exchange: Game Collection: Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation * Giannis says: https://www.suffernchessclub.com/se... * PGN Language Conversion: http://www.code.gr/chess-converter/... * Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/
* Simple tactics course using miniatures:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/FTP... * Short Match: Game Collection: Match Short-Karjakin * Today's Titans: search "Sergey Karjakin vs Magnus Carlsen" * Tim's list of records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Loser: User: ljfyffe * Same Loser: User: Larryfyffe * Predator On-line: https://www.bustedmugshots.com/ohio... * Dec-12-20 MissScarlett: My advice to <acapo> is to close the pop-up ads by clicking on the little <x> in the top right corner. Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
~ Scottish Proverb
Alaska: Kodiak
Established in: 1792
Kodiak is the main city in Kodiak Island and was founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov. It was first called Pavlovsk Gavan, which is Russian for Paul's Harbor, and was the first capital of Russian Alaska. You can still find a large Russian Orthodox church there, as well as plenty of beautiful views. * Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch... WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today. There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry
There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.
There once was a website named wtharvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!
High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air .... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
“No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves (What about Scholar's Mate?). Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life.” — Anonymous Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
― Thomas Jefferson, chess player
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
You can't make bricks without straw
You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds You can't take it with you [when you die]
You can't teach an old dog new tricks
You can't judge a book by its cover
You can't win them all
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar You pays your money and you takes your choice
You reap what you sow
You win some, you lose some
Youth is wasted on the young
The Camel and the Floating Sticks
The first who saw the humpbacked camel
Fled off for life; the next approached with care;
The third with tyrant rope did boldly dare
The desert wanderer to trammel.
Such is the power of use to change
The face of objects new and strange;
Which grow, by looking at, so tame,
They do not even seem the same.
And since this theme is up for our attention,
A certain watchman I will mention,
Who, seeing something far
Away on the ocean,
Could not but speak his notion
That It was a ship of war.
Some minutes more had past, –
A bomb-ketch It was without a sail,
And then a boat, and then a bale,
And floating sticks of wood at last!
Full many things on earth, I wot,
Will claim this tale, – and well they may;
They're something dreadful far away,
But near at hand – they're not.
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We apologize for this inconvenience.
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever. “A God you understood would be less than yourself.” ― Flannery O'Connor Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. * Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/
* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1 * Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century FACTRETRIEVER 2020: Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk. 'A stitch in time saves nine'
“You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds.” Q: How do you know which cow is the best dancer?
A: See which one has the best moo-ves.
Q: What does the cow band play?
A: Moo-sic!
slaw1998: In my spine there sends a shiver
When a player sends his pieces up the river
Into loose en prise encapture, enrapture,
Does it to my heart receive it well
Yet other players bring me down
Their defense sends my attack the other way around
And Tal and others would be quite displeased
Like I, to have the attack no hope of being released So I'll go on shedding pieces
With combos, like a magic stall,
And hope that some day
I can beat them all.
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves” — J.M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) A man who spent his life delighting the masses with his words, perfectly understood that you reap what you sow, and that when we make other people happy, we often find happiness ourselves. “Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. According to Chessmetrics, Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924. “The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.” — Daniel Naroditsky <Writing from his experience of the devastation of World War I, Edwardian poet Alfred Noyes' well-known "On the Western Front" speaks from the perspective of soldiers buried in graves marked by simple crosses, asking that their deaths not be in vain. Praise of the dead was not what the dead needed, but peace made by the living. An excerpt:We, who lie here, have nothing more to pray.
To all your praises we are deaf and blind.
We may not ever know if you betray
Our hope, to make earth better for mankind.> “Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks aren't protecting each other.” ― Fredthebear “In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics, you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.” ― Tom Seaver “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” — Ancient Chinese Proverb This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
― Fort Minor
chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.
Another example of his way with words is the start of ‘Internal Fires’, a poem published on page 57 of the March 1930 American Chess Bulletin: I used to play chess with the dearest old chap,
Whom naught could upset whatever might hap.
He’d oft lose a game he might well have won
But made no excuse for what he had done.
If a piece he o’erlooked and got it snapped up
He took it quite calmly and ne’er ‘cut up rough’. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner “Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward.” — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy. Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Deuteronomy 6:6-9: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." Isaiah 66:24
24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind." Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.' “The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”
— Billy Graham
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato “Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau <What four-letter word can be written forward, backward, or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?Answer: NOON.
* Riddle-xp-dee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch... Grandpa went out for a walk and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible? Answer: Grandpa’s bald!>
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 5zshhz! fish spawn afta shave long promotion run up riva. ^Dudz
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164 games, 1560-2006 - 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 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 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 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
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120 games, 1907-1943 - Amazing Chess Moves (Emms)
'The Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time' by John Emms.
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171 games, 1857-1999 - AUSTRIAN ATTACK
48 games, 1931-2006 - Black plays 1...d6
These games show an interesting, relatively rare, Black response to 1.d4. These games feature many early Queen exchanges, all initiated by White. Amazingly, this exchange favors Black. This anomaly is what first attracted me to this opening. The Black King is safe in the center with the Queens off the board. Since both players are out of book almost immediately, this opening is a true test of chess skill. Almost all of these games reach an exciting endgame.
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58 games, 1953-2018 - Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
By Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Ph.D. and Donn Mosenfelder (Bantam Books, 1972). This is an interesting little book for beginners. It is mostly comprised of checkmate puzzles. Eighteen of the puzzles in the book are taken from (or based on) positions in certain of Fischer's games. Those games are listed here.
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18 games, 1957-1965 - Brutal Attacking Chess
All opening traps,mating themes,and tactics that every chess player should know. All Classic Games you need to know.Attacking 0-0.Double Bishop Attacks.I wish I could have reviewed the games in this collection when I first learned chess at age 14.My hope is this will help someone who is just learning the game and those of us who keep falling for opening traps.
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399 games, 1620-2007 - Chernev's "The Most Instructive Games of Chess"
30 games, 1873-1960 - Chess Pearls By Shailesh J.Nanal
Games that show some outstanding leaps in all departments of the game.These are the games which really deepens the mystery of chess with every move.
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59 games, 1838-2012
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Kibitzing
