"May the sun bring you energy by day,
May the moon softly restore you by night,
May the rain wash away your worries,
May the breeze blow new strength into your being.
May you walk gently through the world
and know its beauty all the days of your life."
Apache Blessing
"I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive." — Goyahkla a.k.a. Geronimo (1829-1909), a POW for 23 years
Never judge a book by its cover.
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
Source: "The Soviet School of Chess" Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.
"Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble." — Stanley Kubrick
"Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules, take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment." — Garry Kasparov
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game." — Savielly Tartakower
"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
― Winston S. Churchill
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him."
― Napoleon Bonaparte
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.
"I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective."
― Tim Tebow
"A God you understood would be less than yourself." ― Flannery O'Connor
"The journey is its own reward." — Homer
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." ― George Orwell
"In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent." ― Vasily Smyslov
"I always plan for long-term; life to me is a never-ending chess match." ― James D. Wilson
"Tis action moves the world....in the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it."
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea
"It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame."
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
"In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions."
― Vladimir Nabokov
"You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime."
― Thomas Paine
"Never play to win a pawn while your development is yet unfinished!" ― Aron Nimzowitsch
"Check your moves well, because it can cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!" ― Deyth Banger
Collection by Fredthebear.
"What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded backward."
― Samuel Reshevsky, Art of Positional Play (Note: A weak pawn cannot be defended by another pawn; it's protection must come from a piece of the back rank that might rather be more aggressively active.)
"The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'." ― Emanuel Lasker
"The move is there, but you must see it." ― Savielly Tartakower
"Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless." ― Mikhail Tal
"Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing)." ― Bill Gaede
"Chess is not a game, it's a war." ― Joshua the poetic penguin
"The King in chess is indeed a symbol of unity and wholeness and the other pieces are not separate entities but rather parts of "the One Thing", as Campbell put it."
― Roumen Bezergianov, Character Education with Chess
"In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existence is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game." ― Roumen Bezergianov
"...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.
JOURNALIST. And your plans?
PLAYER. To play!"
― Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
"There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified by the endlessness of chess."
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
"Но человек существо легкомысленное и неблаговидное и, может быть, подобно шахматному игроку, любит только один процесс достижения цели, а не самую цель."
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground Russian
"But man is a frivolous and unseemly creature and, perhaps, like a chess player, loves only one process of achieving a goal, and not the goal itself."
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground English translation
"Le jeu dechec, say the French, n'est pas assez jeu: That is, chess games and others of the same importance, are not Spill, but a Study. Such may be presented to those who have nothing to order, and who fear, out of idleness, for the rust of Hiernen, but not industrious people who seek recreation in Spill and Company." ― Ludvig Holberg, Epistles
"To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight." ― Emanuel Lasker
"She had heard of the genetic code that could shape an eye or hand from passing proteins. Deoxyribonucleic acid. It contained the entire set of instructions for constructing a respiratory system and a digestive one, as well as the grip of an infant's hand. Chess was like that. The geometry of a position could be read and reread and not exhausted of possibility. You saw deeply into the layer of it, but there was another layer beyond that, and another, and another." ― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit
"Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination." ― Emanuel Lasker, Common Sense in Chess
"Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr"
― Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy
"Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted.
Everyone has a chance at it. We're equals after all.
There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens.
We're all humans and we all have the same value." ― Cristelle Comby, Blind Chess
"Life is a mysterious and witty intermingling of fate and events." ― Alexandra Kosteniuk
"Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move."
― Michael Chabon
"Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins." ― Laura L.
"У нас есть шахматы с собой,
Шекспир и Пушкин, с нас довольно."
― Vladimir Nabokov, Стихотворения Russian
"We have chess with us,
Shakespeare and Pushkin, we've had enough." English translation
― Vladimir Nabokov, Poems
"I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around. The depths of his despair at losing, I expected, would be equal to the peaks. He'd mope about, his face fallen and miserable, his posture stooped as if his back ached. I took my hand from the piece and leaned back in deliberation."
― Rion Amilcar Scott, Insurrections: Stories
"We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?" ― Noah Boyd, Agent X
"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake." ― Emanuel Lasker
"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose." ― Bette Davis
"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe
"It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned." ― Richard Reti
"The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move." ― David Bronstein
"Unadaptability is often a virtue." ― Flannery O'Connor
"Giving doesn't always involve money." ― Charmaine J. Forde
"Win with grace, lose with dignity!" ― Susan Polgar
"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!" ― Susan Polgar
"No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don't become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!" ― Susan Polgar
"When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one." ― Emanuel Lasker
The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512.
"Capablanca didn't make separate moves - he was creating a chess picture. Nobody could compare with him in this." ― Mikhail Botvinnik
"Whether this advantage is theoretically sufficient to win or not does not worry Capablanca. He simply wins the ending. That is why he is Capablanca!"
― Max Euwe
"He (Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art." ― Philip W. Sergeant
"It's entirely possible that Capa could not imagine that there could be a better move than one he thought was good and he was usually right." ― Mike Franett
"Capablanca's games generally take the following course: he begins with a series of extremely fine prophylactic maneuvers, which neutralize his opponent's attempts to complicate the game; he then proceeds, slowly but surely, to set up an attacking position. This attacking position, after a series of simplifications, is transformed into a favorable endgame, which he conducts with matchless technique." ― Aaron Nimzowitsch
"What others could not see in a month's study, he (Capablanca) saw at a glance." ― Reuben Fine
"Capablanca invariably chose the right option, no matter how intricate the position." ― Garry Kasparov.
"He (Capablanca) had the totally undeserved reputation of being the greatest living endgame player. His trick was to keep his openings simple and then play with such brilliance that it was decided in the middle game before reaching the ending - even though his opponent didn't always know it. His almost complete lack of book knowledge forced him to push harder to squeeze the utmost out of every position." ― Bobby Fischer
"Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful – it is ‘life threatening'." ― Garry Kasparov
"A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes." ― Jose Raul Capablanca
All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.'
A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.'
All's well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.' Meanwhile, Henry Knighton's Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.'
Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.)
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Emil Joseph Diemer could make wood dance, disappear and do handstands.
David Gedult of Poland has a home here too.
Caricatures are good practice for an artsy artiste.
<Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
Blackmar Gambit – D00 – 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.f3
Blackmar-Diemer Gambit – D00 – 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3
Ryder Gambit – D00 – 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Qxf3
Hubsch Gambit – D00 – 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 Nxe4 4.Nxe4 dxe4 4.Bc4>
* Pick a defense: Opening Explorer
* Master ECO List: https://fi.wikibooks.org/wiki/Shakk...
* Dutch Staunton Gambit victories for White: Game Collection: DUTCH Staunton Gambit: White Mates in 25
* tak's Gambits against the French Defense: Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam
* BDG Trix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpV...
* Lemberger Countergambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG3...
* What would you do against the Diemer-Duhm Gambit? Opening Explorer
* Smitty's Course: http://chesspowa.blogspot.com/2009/...
* 10 Best to Watch: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c...
* 23 Opening Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5...
* Alphabetical Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis...
* Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054...
* Checkmate Art: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate
* Champion miniatures: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions
* Caviar: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...
* First one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyo...
* I'm only one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E1nl...
* I'm the one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRS...
* One minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3N...
* Round 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i2...
* 2...f5?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3a...
* Animal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8u...
* The Brown Bomber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPe...
* Looked harmless: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H-C2...
* Golden: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/avSA...
* Bird swoop: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2leD...
* Ponziani Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9gKN...
* Vienna Sacrifice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jD53...
* Advantage of the 2 Bishops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dG...
* BC Dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2I...
* So she did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGq...
* Kiddie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKS...
* 3 Kiddie Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jP...
* KID killer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3Xaf...
* 3 Wise men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws0...
* What about trams? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SzMQ...
* Circulations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTw...
* Come Jesus Come:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IcMT...
* Crazy Rook trick: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kLM3...
* Double Rook Lift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQ...
* Jaw Dropper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0o...
* C-K in 3 EZ steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtP...
* Never say 3 things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3i...
* 3 months to live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPm...
* 3 Viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7n...
* 3 for Black vs 1.e4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXM...
* 4 mantras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4w...
* Knightly MG: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XRP3...
* 4 seasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kt...
* 5 Owls of NA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdE...
* Five in '25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1...
* Let 'em have it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wi...
* Furious Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpd...
* Dominate the LS in 5 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iro...
* Do the Hustle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3k...
* 5 Rare gambits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_r...
* 5 middlegame minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLA...
* 5 embarrassments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdM...
* Endgame tactics in 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA9...
* 5 occurrences AD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJ...
* Yes, they do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mi...
* Get better in 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mc...
* Tigran's Top 5 Exch Sacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc-...
* 6 Essential Structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zu...
* Freedom is not Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89P...
* Deflection on f7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S1em...
* Punish Common Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsD...
* H2P the Delay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9a...
* Pink Elephants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVK...
* Scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6...
* 7 Deadliest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scz...
* 7 realities: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/20AY...
* 7 truths: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4LfX...
* 7 Endings to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrL...
* 8 Q tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amz...
* 8 min time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih2...
* 9 ways to defeat: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aaHZ...
* A10 Warthog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMI...
* Top 10 Dog Coms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlV...
* 10 Recent discoveries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePj...
* 10 min of Ukranian Hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l_...
* 10 Common Traps in the Sicilian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzu...
* Facts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi...
* Fraction equation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMK...
* RP knows 'em well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZw...
* GPA short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_...
* FM GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Y...
* Model GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glm...
* Win w/the GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ae...
* Anti-GPA trap #645: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyN...
* Annoying line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_L...
* GPA refuted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqr...
* Extinguish the GPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6P...
* Agadmator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoE...
* Quick either way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z0...
* Special Pete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCi...
* Fuzzy Wuzzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scU...
* The Government forbid Church attendance during COVID-19, so we did this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU...
* Of course, JT set our example back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmH...
* BGs sort of ran together: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JCQO...
* Before that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgv...
* C-K stabs f7: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MFoo...
* How to be brave: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cQI3...
* Get Discipline: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l3EI...
* Going out in style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMf...
* Greats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDU...
* The Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAA...
* lIke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5W...
* Joel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4L...
* Now the day bleeds... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4wVC...
* Own key squares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-...
* Promise: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u-sY...
* Prophylaxis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qj...
* 12 smells Verminters hate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eh...
* Don't poke your eye out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkD...
* Week 13 of '67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJ...
* RR on King Tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k59...
* RPO invention: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9FOb...
* Ridicule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEH...
* F14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2d...
* 15 Home Depot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlB...
* A lot of shoveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoO...
* Senator asks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKO...
* September: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UFmU...
* 20 Fox facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3...
* French b3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxV...
* C00 French Defense: Horwitz Attack, Papa-Ticulat Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k1...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTS...
* Unique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWY...
* Wooden stick: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JUQD...
* Won't ever forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5...
* Caro-Kann Defense: Maroczy Variation (B12) Beauty | Reykjavik Open 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtU...
* 50-year-old tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0...
* Owls attack! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-...
D00 ® Queen‘s Pawn Opening E
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 g6 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation, Kloss Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 g6 6.Bc4 Bg7 7.O-O O-O 8.Kh1 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation, Nimzowitsch Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 g6 6.Bc4 Bg7 7.Ne5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Bogoljubow Variation, Studier Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 g6 6.Bc4 Bg7 7.O-O O-O 8.Qe1 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Declined, Brombacher Counter Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 c5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Declined, Elbert Counter Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 e5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Declined, Grosshans Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Bd7 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Declined, Lamb Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 Nc6 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Declined, Langeheinecke Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 e3 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Declined, O'Kelly Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 c6 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Declined, Weinsbach Declination = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 e6 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Diemer-Rosenberg Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Be3 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Euwe Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nf3 e6 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Euwe Defense, Zilbermints Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nf3 e6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Bd3 Nc6 8.O-O Nxd4 9.Kh1 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Fritz Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Bc4 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Gedult Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.f3 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Kaulich Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 c5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Lemberger Counter Gambit, Diemer Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5 4.Be3 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Lemberger Counter Gambit, Endgame Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5 4.dxe5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Lemberger Counter Gambit, Rassmussen Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nge2 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Lemberger Counter Gambit, Simple Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nxe4 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Lemberger Counter Gambit, Sneiders Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 e5 4.Qh5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Netherlands Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 f5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Pietrowsky Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Nc6 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Ritter Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 b6 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Rook Pawn Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 h5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Ryder Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Qxf3 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Schlutter Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Nbd7 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Studier-Rasa Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Be3 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Tartakower Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Bf5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Teichmann Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Bg4 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Von Popiel Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Von Popiel Gambit, Zilbermints Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bf5 5.Bxf6 exf6 6.g4 Bg6 7.Qe2 Bb4 8.Qb5+ GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Zeller Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Bf5 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Zeller Defense, Soller Attack = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Bf5 4.f3 Nf6 5.Bc4 GL
D00 = Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Ziegler Defense = 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 c6 GL
D00 = Queen Pawn Game, Hübsch Gambit = E 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 Nxe4 GL
D00 = Queen Pawn Game, Morris Counter Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 c5 3.e4 GL
D00 = Queen Pawn Game, Steinitz Counter Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 c5 GL
D00 = Queen Pawn Game, Veresov Atack, Shaviliuk Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 e5 GL
D00 = Queen Pawn Game, Zurich Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.g4 GL
D00 = Queen Pawn Opening, Veresov Attack, Irish Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 c5 GL
D00 = Veresov Opening, Malich Gambit = E 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 c5 4.Bxf6 gxf6 5.e4 dxe4 6.d5 GL
D01 Veresov Opening E
D02 Gruenfeld Reversed Opening E
D02 = London System, Poisoned Pawn Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Qb6 5.Nc3 GL
D02 = Queen Pawn Game, Chandler Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.g3 cxd4 4.Bg2 GL
D02 = Queen Pawn Game, Zilbermints Counter Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 b5 GL
D02 = Zukertort Opening, Reversed Queen's Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 GL
D03 Torre attack (Tartakower variation) E
D04 Queen‘s pawn game E
D05 Colle System E
D06 = Queen's Gambit Refused, Austrian Defense, Gusev Counter Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5 3.cxd5 Nf6 GL
D06 = Queen's Gambit Refused, Austrian Defense, Haberditz Variation = 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5 3.cxd5 Nf6 4.e4 Nxe4 5.dxc5 Qa5+ GL
D06 = Queen's Gambit Refused, Chigorin Defense, Lazard Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e5 GL
D06 = Queen's Gambit Refused, Chigorin Defense, Modern Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 dxc4 GL
D06 = Queen's Gambit Refused, Chigorin Defense, Tartakower Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 GL
D06 = Queen's Gambit Refused, Marshall Defense, Tan Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6 3.cxd5 c6 GL
D06 = Queen's Gambit Refused, Zilbermints Gambit = E 1.d4 d5 2.c4 b5 GL
D06 = Queen's Gambit, General = 1.d4 d5 2.c4 GL
D06-D69 Queen‘s Gambit E
"Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. We think about a chess game as beginning with move one and ending with checkmate. But this is not the case. The games begins when it gets out of book, and it end when it goes into book..And this is why Game 6 between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue didn't count...Tripping and falling into a well on your way to the field of battle is not the same thing as dying in it...Deep Blue is only itself out of book; prior to that it is nothing. Just the ghosts of the game itself."
― Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Maximo wrote:
My Forking Knight's Mare
Gracefully over the squares, as a blonde or a brunette,
she makes moves that not even a queen can imitate.
Always active and taking the initiative,
she likes to fork.
She does it across the board,
taking with ease not only pawns, but also kings,
and a bad bishop or two.
Sometimes she feels like making
quiet moves,
at other times, she adopts romantic moods,
and makes great sacrifices.
But, being hers a zero-sum game,
she often forks just out of spite.
An expert at prophylaxis, she can be a swindler,
and utter threats,
skewering men to make some gains.
Playing with her risks a conundrum,
and also catching Kotov's syndrome.
Nonetheless, despite having been trampled
by her strutting ways
my trust in her remains,
unwavering,
until the endgame.
"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands." ― Renaud & Kahn
"Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem."
― Saudin Robovic
"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe
"Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game."
― Being Caballero
"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." — Garry Kasparov
"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt
"In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov
<The Fooles Mate
Black Kings Biſhops pawne one houſe.
White Kings pawne one houſe.
Black kings knights pawne two houſes
White Queen gives Mate at the contrary kings Rookes fourth houſe
— Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play>
Beale's example can be paraphrased in modern terms where White always moves first, algebraic notation is used, and Black delivers the fastest possible mate after each player makes two moves: 1.f3 e6 2.g4 Qh4#
There are eight distinct ways in which Fool's Mate can be reached in two moves. White may alternate the order of f- and g-pawn moves, Black may play either e6 or e5, and White may move their f-pawn to f3 or f4.
"You need to realize something if you are ever to succeed at chess,' she said, as if Nora had nothing bigger to think about. ‘And the thing you need to realize is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game. And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.'
Mrs. Elm"
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
Galatians 6:7 in the Bible "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap."
'Ashes to ashes dust to dust
"We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!" ― John Adams
"....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally" ― Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe
The Night
BY HENRY VAUGHAN
John 3.2
Through that pure virgin shrine,
That sacred veil drawn o'er Thy glorious noon,
That men might look and live, as glowworms shine,
And face the moon,
Wise Nicodemus saw such light
As made him know his God by night.
Most blest believer he!
Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes
Thy long-expected healing wings could see,
When Thou didst rise!
And, what can never more be done,
Did at midnight speak with the Sun!
O who will tell me where
He found Thee at that dead and silent hour?
What hallowed solitary ground did bear
So rare a flower,
Within whose sacred leaves did lie
The fulness of the Deity?
No mercy-seat of gold,
No dead and dusty cherub, nor carved stone,
But His own living works did my Lord hold
And lodge alone;
Where trees and herbs did watch and peep
And wonder, while the Jews did sleep.
Dear night! this world's defeat;
The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb;
The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat
Which none disturb!
Christ's progress, and His prayer time;
The hours to which high heaven doth chime;
God's silent, searching flight;
When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all
His locks are wet with the clear drops of night;
His still, soft call;
His knocking time; the soul's dumb watch,
When spirits their fair kindred catch.
Were all my loud, evil days
Calm and unhaunted as is thy dark tent,
Whose peace but by some angel's wing or voice
Is seldom rent,
Then I in heaven all the long year
Would keep, and never wander here.
But living where the sun
Doth all things wake, and where all mix and tire
Themselves and others, I consent and run
To every mire,
And by this world's ill-guiding light,
Err more than I can do by night.
There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!
<"Sestrilla, hafelina
Jue amourasestrilla
Awou jue selaviena
En patre jue
Translation:
Beloved one, little cat
I love you for all time
In this time
And all others"
― Christine Feehan>
"and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!"
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Here's a poem a dad wrote:
<ODE TO CHESS
Ten times I charged the grim, foreboding walls
and was pitched into the pit of defeat.
But, heedless of humiliating falls,
I clambered bravely back onto my feet
and charged again, again to be down thrust
onto the scrap heap of people who lose
onto the mound of mortifying dust
whilst my opponent sat without a bruise
upon his pedestal. We changed sides
and fought again, but I was defeated
whilst he with arrogant and haughty strides
took the throne upon which I had been seated.
Ha! Win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But I would like to beat him just the same.>
"Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles." — Garry Kasparov
"Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward." — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess
So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy.
"Don't blow your own trumpet." — Australian Proverb
Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.
"Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you." — Bobby Darnell
Democritus and the People Of Abdera
How do I hate the tide of vulgar thought!
Profane, unjust, with childish folly fraught;
It breaks and bends the rays of truth divine,
And by its own conceptions measures mine.
Famed Epicurus' master tried
The power of this unstable tide.
His country said the sage was mad –
The simpletons! But why?
No prophet ever honour had
Beneath his native sky.
Democritus, in truth, was wise;
The mass were mad, with faith in lies.
So far this error went,
That all Abdera sent
To old Hippocrates
To cure the sad disease.
"Our townsman," said the messengers,
Appropriately shedding tears,
"Has lost his wits! Democritus,
By study spoiled, is lost to us.
Were he but filled with ignorance,
We should esteem him less a dunce.
He says that worlds like this exist,
An absolutely endless list, –
And peopled, even, it may be,
With countless hosts as wise as we!
But, not contented with such dreams,
His brain with viewless "atoms" teems,
Instinct with deathless life, it seems.
And, never stirring from the sod below,
He weighs and measures all the stars;
And, while he knows the universe,
Himself he does not know.
Though now his lips he strictly bars,
He once delighted to converse.
Come, godlike mortal, try your art divine
Where traits of worst insanity combine!"
Small faith the great physician lent,
But still, perhaps more readily, he went.
And mark what meetings strange
Chance causes in this world of change!
Hippocrates arrived in season,
Just as his patient (void of reason!)
Was searching whether reason's home,
In talking animals and dumb,
Be in the head, or in the heart,
Or in some other local part.
All calmly seated in the shade,
Where brooks their softest music made,
He traced, with study most insane,
The convolutions of a brain;
And at his feet lay many a scroll –
The works of sages on the soul.
Indeed, so much absorbed was he,
His friend, at first, he did not see.
A pair so admirably matched,
Their compliments erelong despatched.
In time and talk, as well as dress,
The wise are frugal, I confess.
Dismissing trifles, they began
At once with eagerness to scan
The life, and soul, and laws of man;
Nor stopped till they had travelled over all
The ground, from, physical to moral.
My time and space would fail
To give the full detail.
But I have said enough to show
How little It's the people know.
How true, then, goes the saw abroad –
Their voice is but the voice of God?
"An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages."
― Emanuel Lasker, "Lasker's Manual of Chess", p.464
"Fancy whaore or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adverst a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, mary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own; if your knight could shuffle himself on to a new square by the sly; if your bishop, at your castling, could wheedle your pawns out of their places; and if your pawns, hating you because they are pawns, could make away from their appointed posts that you might get checkmate on a sudden. You might be the longest-headed of deductive reasoners, and yet you might be beaten by your own pawns. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with the game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for his instruments."
― George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical
<"From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
― William Shakespeare, Henry V>
"They made us many promises, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land -- and they did." — Chief Red Cloud, Oglala-Lakota Sioux, 1822-1909.
"There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better."
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.
Patience is a virtue.
<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
Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven't we metaphor?"
Thank you Qindarka!
Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline?
A: A milkshake.
The Words Of Socrates
A house was built by Socrates
That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.
Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!
"I ask," said he, "no greater bliss
Than real friends to fill even this."
And reason had good Socrates
To think his house too large for these.
A crowd to be your friends will claim,
Till some unhandsome test you bring.
There's nothing plentier than the name;
There's nothing rarer than the thing.
Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
The Dog That Dropped The Substance For The Shadow
This world is full of shadow-chasers,
Most easily deceived.
Should I enumerate these racers,
I should not be believed.
I send them all to Aesop's dog,
Which, crossing water on a log,
Espied the meat he bore, below;
To seize its image, let it go;
Plunged in; to reach the shore was glad,
With neither what he hoped, nor what he'd had.
"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."
— Billy Graham
"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
— Billy Graham
"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 Blossom
by William Blake
Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.
* Riddle-pe-free: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ― Martin Luther King Jr.
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate." ― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." ― Yogi Berra, one of the greatest Yankees of all time
Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you're not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there's no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ― Martin Luther King Jr.
"Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." ― Elizabeth Green
"Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." ― Andy (Tim Robbins), "The Shawshank Redemption"
Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Scottish Proverb
Dinner Prayer Hymn
Traditional Hymn
Lord, bless this food and grant that we
May thankful for thy mercies be;
Teach us to know by whom we're fed;
Bless us with Christ, the living bread.
Lord, make us thankful for our food,
Bless us with faith in Jesus' blood;
With bread of life our souls supply,
That we may live with Christ on high.
Amen.
French Proverb: "Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard." ― (Nothing should be left to chance.)
"There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world."
― Pierre Mac Orlan
"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer
"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant
Q: What do you call someone who draws funny pictures of cars?
A: A car-toonist.
Q: What do you call a magician on a plane?
A: A flying sorcerer.
Q: What do you call fruit playing the guitar?
A: A jam session.
Q: What do you call the shoes that all spies wear?
A: Sneakers.
Q: What do you call something you can serve, but never eat?
A: A volleyball.
Q: What did the alien say to the garden?
A: Take me to your weeder.
Q: What do you call a skeleton who went out in freezing temperatures?
A: A numb skull.
Q: What do you call a farm that grows bad jokes?
A: Corny.
"Better bend than break." ~ Scottish Proverb
Kibitzing
