A bad opening for bad asst players.

Thank you wolf1994, smalldreams, sneaky pete, patzer2. Thank you Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Namath, Johnny Cash, Donald Duck, Tonto, Swanson, Elvis, Dr. Who, Sting and Marlon Brando. Obviously Will Smith, Ashton Kutcher, Keith Urban, Justin Bartha, Winston Jamison, minions, Maroon 5, Robbie Williams, Bart Simpson and South Park caint hang w/the legends, no way.

"He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.'
Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates." ― George Orwell, 1984

"No one has ever been able to study chess in its entirely, not even the World Champions, but everybody can play and receive a lot of enjoyment from it." — David Bronstein (1924-2006)

"He (GM David Bronstein) was the most fascinating chess personality that I ever met. I know many of his games and studied them profoundly in my earlier years. Most of them are stored forever in my memory." — IM Nikolay Minev (1931-2017)

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." — E.E. Cummings

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are." — Beyoncé

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'" — Audrey Hepburn

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go." — Dr. Seuss

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." — Winston Churchill

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try." — Rosa Parks

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them." — Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." — Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger." — Serena Williams

"I'm more interested in the games than the people." — Magnus Carlsen

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." — Aristotle

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ― Winston Churchill

"I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up." ― Magnus Carlsen

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." ― Mark Twain

Napoleon took 187,600 horses with his army as he rode into Russia in 1812, only 1,600 came back.

"There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things." ― Gerald R. Ford

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ― Eleanor Roosevelt

"I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be." ― Joyce Meyer

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anaïs Nin

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." — Ella Fitzgerald

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." — Maya Angelou

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." — Dolly Parton

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them." — Viola Davis

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected." — Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way." — Ella Baker

"It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela

"Don't count the days, make the days count." — Muhammad Ali

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." — Geena Davis

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." — Toni Morrison

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." — Carol Burnett

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes." — Eleanor Roosevelt

"When it comes to luck, you make your own." — Bruce Springsteen

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built." — Simone Biles

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." — Truman Capote

"Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination." — Fred Reinfeld

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it." — Taylor Swift

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own." — Michelle Obama

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." — Oscar Wilde

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn't define your beauty." — Lady Gaga

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you." — Mary Lou Retton

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you'll get to where you want." — Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself." — Gabrielle Union

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny." — Oprah Winfrey

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." — Duke Ellington

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." — Bonnie Prudden

"When you can't find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example." — Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion." — Amanda Gorman

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes." — Maggie Kuhn

"It's a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It's to be whole." — Jane Fonda

"I'm like a bad penny, I always turn up." — Indiana Jones, 'The Last Crusade' (1989)

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." — Lucille Ball

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." — Robert Frost

"Life is like a chess game. Every decision, just like every move, has consequences. Therefore, decide wisely!" ― Susan Polgar

"When people insult and disrespect you, the best revenge is to continue to win, and win, and win…." ― Susan Polgar

"The mind has no restrictions. The only restriction is what you believe you cannot do. So go ahead and challenge yourself to do one thing every day that scares you." ― Susan Polgar

Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)

"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

* 100: Game Collection: 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures

* Basic Rules: https://thechessworld.com/basic-che...

* Brick The standard brick size in the United States is 2 ½ x 3 ¾ x 8 inches.

* How to Play: https://www.ymimports.com/pages/how...

* Borg Defence: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch...

* Common Phrases and Terms: https://www.ragchess.com/chess-basi...

* Colors-reversed: Game Collection: Colors-Reversed Openings

* Counterattack in the center: Game Collection: MEET FLANK ATTACK WITH COUNTERATTACK IN CENTER

* 1947: USSR Championship (1947)

* 1966 US Championship: United States Championship (1966/67)

* Emre: https://chessdoctrine.com/chess-ope...

* Endgame course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cB...

* Endgame instruction: Game Collection: Instructive Endgame

* Endgame principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhU...

* Fidu-what? https://articles.smartasset.com/fin...

* Failing is a part of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nja...

* Fischer Wins: Game Collection: Bobby Fischer Wins With The King's Indian Attack

* Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...

* Have a bite of Fred's burger:
https://www.thedaddest.com/trending...

* Alpha Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis...

* Greats: Game Collection: These were the greatest...

* Greats: Game Collection: Chess Mastery

* GM Arthur Bisguier's Tips: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/L... Back in the days before Stockfish, Bisguier would publicly analyze (criticize) games off the scoresheets submitted by individual players in the lecture room at large USA chess tournaments.

* Javed's way: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...

* Logic Puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToI...

* Malaguena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxD...

* Middlegames: Game Collection: Learn from the Masters-Middlegames (Tactics)

* No he didn't? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoC...

* NE: https://metrowestchess.org/

* Play: https://play.chessbase.com/en/

* Q takedowns: Game Collection: Trapped Queen

* Revived: http://gbcmartinsburg.com/

* Rajnish Das Tips: https://enthu.com/blog/chess/chess-...

* Secrets of Combination: Game Collection: Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Volume II

* Spruce Variety: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/che...

* Swiss champion: Wikipedia article: Henri Grob

* See links in notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKH...

* Suetin's book: Game Collection: Das Schachgenie Botwinnik (Suetin)

* Don't Steal: https://www.openbible.info/topics/s...

* Tips to keep your head together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNi...

* The ABCs: Game Collection: The ABC of the Ruy Lopez

* Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI6...

* Shirov miniatures: Game Collection: Shirov miniatures

* Tactical Games: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics

* tacticmania - Game Collection: tacticmania

* More teenage tagging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU9...

* Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm

* 700+ games of QGD: Queen's Gambit Declined (D06)

* Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm

* Top Games by Year: Wikipedia article: List of chess games

* Terminology: https://www.angelfire.com/games5/ch...

* Unusual: Game Collection: Playing against unusual openings

* USCF: https://new.uschess.org/

* The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z...

* Variety: Game Collection: TacticalArchives

* Spider's Weave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_C...

* Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom...

* Winning Strategies: Game Collection: winning strategies dunnington

* Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S...

* Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev)

* Why You Lose at Chess: Second Edition (Dover Chess) by Tim Harding (Author)

* Weak Pawn example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDL...

* Weak Pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALj...

* You don't see this everyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk...

* Young MC's best: https://www.chessjournal.com/best-c...

* Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105

* Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/

WTHarvey:
There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles did daily delay,
The brain-teasers so tough,
They made us all huff and puff,
But solving them brought us great satisfaction today.

There once was a website named WTHarvey
Where chess puzzles were quite aplenty
With knight and rook and pawn
You'll sharpen your brain with a yawn
And become a master of chess entry

There once was a site for chess fun,
Wtharvey.com was the chosen one,
With puzzles galore,
It'll keep you in store,
For hours of brain-teasing, none done.

There once was a website named WTHarvey,
Where chess puzzles were posted daily,
You'd solve them with glee,
And in victory,
You'd feel like a true chess prodigy!

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

'Don't put the cart before the horse'

"Examine what is said, not who is speaking." ~ African Proverb

Montana: Stevensville
Established in: 1841

Stevensville was officially founded in 1841, when Father Pierre Jean De Smet rolled in with three carts, building St. Mary's Mission — the Northwest's first church and school. It was originally named St. Mary's Mission, then Fort Owen. It was finally named Stevensville after Issac Stevens, the first Governor of the Montana territory.

* Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-...

* World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO...

The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations.

Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother

<<<chess writer and poet <Henry Thomas Bland>

Another example of his way with words is the start of ‘Internal Fires', a poem published on page 57 of the March 1930 American Chess Bulletin:>

I used to play chess with the dearest old chap,
Whom naught could upset whatever might hap.
He'd oft lose a game he might well have won
But made no excuse for what he had done.
If a piece he o'erlooked and got it snapped up

He took it quite calmly and ne'er ‘cut up rough'.>

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ― William Faulkner

"Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward." — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess

So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy.

Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." ― Leonardo da Vinci

The Council Held By The Rats

Old Rodilard, a certain cat,
Such havoc of the rats had made,
It was difficult to find a rat
With nature's debt unpaid.
The few that did remain,
To leave their holes afraid,
From usual food abstain,
Not eating half their fill.
And wonder no one will
That one who made of rats his revel,
With rats passed not for cat, but devil.
Now, on a day, this dread rat-eater,
Who had a wife, went out to meet her;
And while he held his caterwauling,
The unkilled rats, their chapter calling,
Discussed the point, in grave debate,
How they might shun impending fate.
Their dean, a prudent rat,
Thought best, and better soon than late,
To bell the fatal cat;
That, when he took his hunting round,
The rats, well cautioned by the sound,
Might hide in safety under ground;
Indeed he knew no other means.
And all the rest
At once confessed
Their minds were with the dean's.
No better plan, they all believed,
Could possibly have been conceived,
No doubt the thing would work right well,
If any one would hang the bell.
But, one by one, said every rat,
"I'm not so big a fool as that."
The plan, knocked up in this respect,
The council closed without effect.

And many a council I have seen,
Or reverend chapter with its dean,
That, thus resolving wisely,
Fell through like this precisely.

To argue or refute
Wise counsellors abound;
The man to execute
Is harder to be found.

Around the World
Riddle: What travels around the world but stays in one spot?

FACTRETRIEVER: Even though dragonflies have six legs, they cannot walk.

Riddle Answer: A stamp.

A chess prodigy, Bobby Fischer defeated Donald Byrne in "The Game of the Century" in 1956. Fischer won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14 in 1957. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament.

M.Hassan: <Eggman>: Scarborough Chess Club which is said to be the biggest chess club in Canada, arranges tournaments under the name of "Howard Rideout" tournaments. Is he the same Rideout that you are mentioning?. I only know that this is to commemorate "Rideout" who has been a player and probably in that club because the club is over 40 years old. This tournament is repeated year after year and at the beginning of the season when the club resumes activity after summer recession in September. Zxp

PeterB: Eggman and Mr. Hassan - you are right, Howard Ridout was a long time member of the Scarborough Chess Club! He was very active even when I joined in 1969, and was still organizing tournaments at the time of his death in the 1990s. This game is a good memorial to him! Theodorovitch was a Toronto master rated about 2250 back then, perhaps about 2350 nowadays.

* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://archive.org/details/mostins... - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1

* Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century

* Life lessons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxE...

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history. He is best known for his theory of relativity, specifically the groundbreaking special theory of relativity published in 1905 and the general theory of relativity published in 1915. These theories revolutionized our understanding of space, time, gravity, and the fundamental nature of the universe.

Beyond his scientific work, Einstein was also known for his insightful philosophical and humanitarian views. He was a vocal advocate for pacifism, civil rights, and social justice. His intellectual legacy continues to influence scientific research and discussions about the nature of the universe.

Bearly Thinking: https://www.etsy.com/listing/972054...

The thought crossed my gentle mind that CGs needs some additional avatar variance of figures like Emory and Andrew Tate, Tani Adewumi, James Black Jr., Ambakisye Osayaba, Tom "Murph" Murphy, and Pontus Carlsson, Taahir Levi, Praggy and Pentala Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, Adhiban Baskaran, Manuel Aaron, and Juan Carlos González Zamora, María Teresa Mora Iturralde, Daniela De la Parra, Alejandra Guerrero Rodríguez, Azarya Jodi Setyaki, Medina Warda Aulia, Errol Tiwari, Elshan Moradiabadi, Joey Razo, Collette McGruder, Diamond Shakoor, Phiona Mutesi, Jessica Hyatt, Jean-Pierre and Koneru Humpy, Tania Sachdev, Rout Padmini and Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue, Medhat Moheb, Yao Ming and Awonder Liang, Jeffery Xiong and Liem Le, Li Chao and the like. Our avatars are rather lily silly; not everybody looks like Smith, Jones, Thomas, or Mikhail.

On the other hand, we definitely need some redheads too (Anna Rudolf, Isla Fisher, Jude Acers, Prince Harry, Ed Sheeran)!! I'd say at least a dozen redheads, some with and without beards. Some Canadians too!

Trust me, but look to thyself. ~ Irish Proverbs

Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

Don't trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons. ~ Chinese Proverb

If someone puts their trust in you, don't sever it. ~ Lebanese Proverb

Trust your best friend as you would your worst enemy. ~ Mexican Proverbs

The Hog, the Goat, and the Sheep

A goat, a sheep, and porker fat,
All to the market rode together.
Their own amusement was not that
Which caused their journey there.
Their coachman did not mean to "set them down"
To see the shows and wonders of the town.
The porker cried, in piercing squeals,
As if with butchers at his heels.
The other beasts, of milder mood,
The cause by no means understood.
They saw no harm, and wondered why
At such a rate the hog should cry.
"Hush there, old piggy!" said the man,
"And keep as quiet as you can.
What wrong have you to squeal about,
And raise this devilish, deafening shout?
These stiller persons at your side
Have manners much more dignified.
Pray, have you heard
A single word
Come from that gentleman in wool?
That proves him wise." "That proves him fool!"
The testy hog replied;
"For did he know
To what we go,
He'd cry almost to split his throat;
So would her ladyship the goat.
They only think to lose with ease,
The goat her milk, the sheep his fleece:
They're, maybe, right; but as for me,
This ride is quite another matter.
Of service only on the platter,
My death is quite a certainty.
Adieu, my dear old piggery!"
The porker's logic proved at once
Himself a prophet and a dunce.

Hope ever gives a present ease,
But fear beforehand kills:
The wisest he who least foresees
Inevitable ills.

<Atterdag: Geoff - are you a descendant of Wordsworth?: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem
Apparell'd in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more. :-)

Sally Simpson: Hi Atterdag,
This is my tribute to Wordsworth. (Daffodils.)

I wandered lonely as a pawn,
o'er a field coloured brown and cream,
When suddenly I ran out of squares
and discovered I was now a Queen.>

Isolated pawns require a very expensive therapy, for keeping them alive.

Q: What do you call the lights on Noah's Ark?
A: Flood lights.

Q: What do you call a snobby criminal walking down the steps? A: A condescending con descending!

Q: What do you call a dollar frozen in a block of ice? A: Cold hard cash.

Q: What do you call a dead pine tree?
A: A nevergreen.

Q: What do you call a pencil that is broken?
A: Pointless.

Q: What do you call two birds in love?
A: Tweethearts!

Q: What do you call a sad coffee?
A: Depresso.

Q: What do you call a priest that becomes an attorney? A: Father-in-Law.

Q: What do you call a man with a toilet on his head? A: John.

The Lion and the Rat

To show to all your kindness, it behoves:
There's none so small but you his aid may need.
I quote two fables for this weighty creed,
Which either of them fully proves.
From underneath the sward
A rat, quite off his guard,
Popped out between a lion's paws.
The beast of royal bearing
Showed what a lion was
The creature's life by sparing –
A kindness well repaid;
For, little as you would have thought
His majesty would ever need his aid,
It proved full soon
A precious boon.
Forth issuing from his forest glen,
T" explore the haunts of men,
In lion net his majesty was caught,
From which his strength and rage
Served not to disengage.
The rat ran up, with grateful glee,
Gnawed off a rope, and set him free.

By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.

Acts 20:35 "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

According to Chessmetrics, Emanuel Lasker was #1 for longer than anyone else in history: 292 different months between June 1890 and December 1926. That's a timespan of 36 1/2 years, in which Lasker was #1 for a total of 24 years and 4 months. Lasker was 55 years old when he won New York 1924.

"Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that information." ― Josh Keller

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

* Know the five fundamental rules of firearm safety:

- Treat every gun as if it is loaded.

- Never point a weapon at anything you don't intend to destroy.

- Never put your finger on a gun's trigger until you make a conscious decision to shoot.

- Always be sure of your target, what's beyond it, and what's between you and your target.

- When not in use, a firearm needs to be locked in some kind of secure container—a gun vault is best. If it cannot be secured in a locked location, then a trigger lock should be applied. A loaded firearm should never be unattended.

1.Nf3 is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4.

"Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." ― Charles F. Stanley

Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world." — Billy Graham

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness." — Billy Graham

"Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got." — Norman Vincent Peale

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." — Ralph Marston

* Riddle-xp-freee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...

* Riddle-pony-ryder: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid...

"Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities. Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy." ― Norman Vincent Peale

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

"As you make your bed, so you must lie on it." – Portuguese Proverb

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"It ain't over 'til it's over, no matter how over it looks." ― Yogi Berra

77rd fall frosty freeze will die pest will cry dead lvs lie then flakes fly from sky.

<By Night when Others Soundly Slept By Anne Bradstreet

1 By night when others soundly slept
And hath at once both ease and Rest,
My waking eyes were open kept
And so to lie I found it best.

2 I sought him whom my Soul did Love,
With tears I sought him earnestly.
He bow'd his ear down from Above.
In vain I did not seek or cry.

3 My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good;
He in his Bottle put my tears,
My smarting wounds washt in his blood,
And banisht thence my Doubts and fears.

4 What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Loue him to Eternity.

Source: The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet (1981)>

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Basman's Folly: Embracing Chaos with 1.g4!? by Cyrus Lakdawala, Carsten Hansen

There is also a g-pawn push in the napoleon attack: 1. Nc3 e5 2. Nf3 nc6 3. D4 exd4 4. Nxd4 bc5 5. Nf5 Qf6 6. G4!!

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Come, Lord Jesus, our guest to be

And bless these gifts

Bestowed by Thee.

And bless our loved ones everywhere,

And keep them in Your loving care.
Amen.