Gioachino Greco's games are worthy of study, a violent precursor to attacking artists Adolph Anderssen and Paul Morphy.

<A Word To Husbands by Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.>

Revelation 22:12-20 King James Version

12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

* Chess Step-by-Step: https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-...

* Amateur / Pins: http://amateur-chess.blogspot.com/

* Artful: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate

* Attackers: Game Collection: Chess Secrets - Attackers (Crouch)

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

* Book: Game Collection: Dismantling the Sicilian (Jesus de la Villa)

* Children's Chess: https://chessimprover.com/category/...

* Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate...

* Caviar: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

* Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86

* CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel

* 10 Tips: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/L...

* 10 Crazy Gambits: https://www.chess.com/blog/yola6655...

* B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack

* 25 Opening Traps: https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessLor...

* 150 Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH4...

* Black attack!
Game Collection: Modern Defence Reversed

* FIDE Laws of Chess (2018): https://www.schachschiri.de/fide_18...

* Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018

* Be aggressive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFl...

* Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns

* Basics of the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8a...

* Brief Caro-Kann Defense Variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-...

* Black stops losing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgX...

* Use the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtP...

* Three Caro-Kann Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNp...

* The Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3H...

* Beat the Caro-Kann Quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhj...

* Crush the Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXv...

* The Caro-Kann, Advance Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npq...

* Gokerkan vs Niemann 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gw...

* Classical Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1...

* Main Ideas of the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN...

* Magnus plays the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDa...

* Karpov's Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa4...

* ...c6 against all by Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCZ...

* ...c6 speedrun by Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDU...

* Dangerous Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI_...

* C-K Advance, Botvinnik-Carls Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWb...

* Caro-Kann, Fantasy Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4e...

* Caro-Kann, Korchnoi Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3...

* Complete Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZ...

* Instructive Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLp...

* Chess - The Art of the Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3P...

* Chess is cold-steel calculation, not emotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-T...

* Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems

* 1.d4 some Panov Attack: Game Collection: Rick Prep

* 1.d4 various: Game Collection: d2-d4 and win

* Starting Out 1d4: Game Collection: Starting Out: 1 d4!

* Winning w/1.d4: Game Collection: Winning with 1 d4!

* Against 1.d4: Game Collection: Against d4 favs

* Funny moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mx...

* Glossary W: Wikipedia article: Glossary of chess

* How did Spassky handle it? Game Collection: 0

* Intro to FRC: https://www.chessable.com/blog/an-i...

* Improver: https://chessimprover.com/author/br...

* Jimmy's place: http://www.jimmyvermeer.com/
Jimmy is a CGs member.

* Mississippi Fred: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKP...

* Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc...

* Old P-K4 Miniatures: Game Collection: Games for Classes

* Prep for Ivan: http://gettingto2000.blogspot.com/

* John's brother Lee: https://hotoffthechess.com/

* Checkmate Puzzle Patternz: https://www.serverchess.com/mateinN...

* Chess Puzzles: https://chesspuzzle.net/

* Puzzles Col: Tactics Archive

* Play for free: https://www.freechess.org/

* QGD D06: Queen's Gambit Declined (D06)

* Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record...

* Susan Polgar Daily: https://chessdailynews.com/

* Short and Quick:
Game Collection: SHORT AND QUICK

* Tactical Motifs: https://chesstempo.com/tactical-mot...

* Gambits by ECO code: https://www.jimmyvermeer.com/openin...

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

* Bill Wall miniatures: Bill Wall

* Wikipedia on Computer Chess: Wikipedia article: Computer chess

* Weird to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcV...

* Wedge Pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNG...

* When to trade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGa...

* When not to castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cto...

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

* Weather or not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU5...

<Whispering Winds
Whispering winds, a sailor's friend,
Guiding home, around the bend.
The canvas full, the journey's end,
In every port, a newfound friend.>

* Winning closed positions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6L...

* What to do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X3...

* What's the UK difference? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e4wj...

* What if? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Z...

* Wild horse: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/feSl...

* Wrong board set-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxu...

* "You can't be somebody else. You gotta be yourself." ― Rafael the genius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7...

* Y U shouldn't trust the evaluation bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bR...

* Youtubers: https://maroonchess.com/best-chess-...

* 0ZeR0's Favs Vol 149: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 149

* Scripps finale 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP3...

* 2022 game of the year? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObF...

* 90m+30spm(1): Chennai Grand Masters (2023)

<Harbor Light
Harbor lights, a guiding glow,
Through peaceful bays and currents slow.
A sailor's journey, a tale to tell,
Of seas conquered and storms quelled.>

* 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!

"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

Kansas: Leavenworth
Established in: 1827

Fort Leavenworth was established in 1827 and is still in use today, making it the third-oldest continuously active military base in the US. It was the largest city on the Missouri River during the Civil War, according to the city's official website.

Leavenworth was founded by Colonel Henry Leavenworth in 1827, and once played a vital role as peacemaker between Native American tribes and settlers heading west. It eventually became known as the "jumping point" of the opening of the West.

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

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

* History of Chess: https://boldchess.com/history/

* Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch...

* Chess History: https://www.chessjournal.com/chess-...

* Fredthebear is the original creator of this time period collection.

<Chess has six different kinds of pieces, and they all interact in myriad ways. Your opponent's own pieces can often be used against him.

While the Queen is the strongest piece, it is the weakest defender; and while the pawn is the weakest piece, it is the strongest defender.

José Raúl Capablanca used the principle "Cutting off pieces from the scene of action.">

"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective." Source: "The Soviet School of Chess" Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.

"To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game." — Savielly Tartakower

"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

"Confidence is very important – even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake." — Viswanathan Anand

Aristotle once asked "What is it about a thing that makes a thing what it is?"

"It is only after our basic needs for food and shelter have been met that we can hope to enjoy the luxury of theoretical speculations." — Aristotle.

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born, is to remain always a child." — Cicero

"Life is a gameboard. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. Make a move to be victorious." — Napolean Hill

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it." — Sai Baba

"Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices, and adjust when circumstances change." — Susan Polgar

"If you wish to succeed you must brave the risk of failure." — Garry Kasparov

"Life is like a game of chess. I cannot undo the moves but I can make the next step better." — Edwin Tan

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." — Cesare Pavese

"Chess is a matter of delicate judgment, knowing when to punch and how to duck." — Bobby Fischer

"Attack! Always Attack!" — Adolf Anderssen

"What we think, we become." — Buddha

"Avoid exposing your king to check." — Yasser Seirawan, paraphrased

"Protect your pieces."

"Safety first is fine, but first, last and always is fatal." — Al Horowitz

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." — Buddha

"Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains." — Rick Kennedy

"The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with the better position runs the risk of losing it." — Wilhelm Steinitz

"Simple plans are best. Tactics will prevail." — C.J.S. Purdy

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." — Buddha

"Creating little plans. Now, when we think about plans in chess, we think about grand grandmaster plans. You have to calculate ten moves deep. You have to know what's going to happen in ten moves, know that strong. What Jonathan Hawkins talks about IM Hawkins book: Amateur to IM is you have to create small plans which are doable which you can execute easily. One, two, three move plans which your opponent is not going to be able to prevent, which are easy to visualize and execute." — @HangingPawns

"All things being equal, the player will prevail who first succeeds in uniting the efforts of both rooks in an important direction." — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

"People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must always have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it." — Jose Raul Capablanca

"Life is a chess match. Every decision you make has a consequence to it." — P.K. Subban

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." — Buddha

"Chess is rarely a game of ideal moves. Almost always, a player faces a series of difficult consequences whichever move he makes." — David Shenk

"We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear." — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

"The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains." — Rudolf Spielmann

"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

"Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them." — Magnus Carlsen

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." — Buddha

"For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." — Jesus Christ

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." — Confucius

"Chess is not only knowledge and logic." — Alexander Alekhine

"Chess is like life. To succeed in either one takes patience, planning, concentration, the willingness to set goals, and an inclination to see deeply into things. You have to go for the thing beyond. Chess is about seeing the underlying reality." — Maurice Ashley

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." — Buddha

"Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine." — Rudolph Spielmann

"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves." — Bobby Fischer

"I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Now I attack because I know it works best." — Garry Kasparov

"It is my style to take my opponent and myself on to unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves." — David Bronstein

"I'm convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing." — Vladimir Kramnik

"So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you." ― Jesus Christ

"Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, chess recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It's eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game." — Paul Morphy

"Chess, it's the struggle against error." — Johannes Zukertort

"Every chess master was once a beginner." — Irving Chernev

"Chess holds its master in its own hand, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." — Albert Einstein

"Nobody ever won a chess game by resigning." — Savielly Tartakower

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?" — Buddha

"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." — Savielly Tartakower

"It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men." — Savielly Tartakower

"One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"Up to this point, White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess." — William Napier / Irving Chernev

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness." — Arthur Schopenhauer

"Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for." — Hans Ree

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule." — Buddha

"A chess game in progress is… a cosmos unto itself, fully insulated from an infant's cry, an erotic invitation, or war." — David Shenk

"It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chess players, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit." — James Mortimer

"The pin is mightier than the sword." — Fred Reinfeld

"The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary." — Aaron Nimzovich

"If you don't know what to do, find your worst piece and look for a better square." — Gerald Schwarz

"You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life." — Garry Kasparov

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." — Buddha

"There is no remorse like the remorse of chess." — H. G. Wells

"By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking." — Anatoly Karpov

"The only thing chess players have in common is chess." — Lodewijk Prins

"Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing." — Robert Hübner

"One bad move nullifies forty good ones." — Bernhard Horwitz

"If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off." — Nigel Short

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind." — Blaise Pascal

"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve." — Buddha

C.J.S. Purdy (Five times Australian Champion, IM, and the first World Champion of Correspondence Chess) summed up the answer to your question in one simple phrase: "Look for moves that smite!"

"Faint heart never won fair lady." ~ Portuguese Proverb

"Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it's much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by." — Garry Kasparov

"The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it." — Aron Nimzowitsch

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." — William Shakespeare

"Even the laziest king flees wildly in the face of a double check." — Aron Nimzowitsch

"It is never safe to take the queen knight pawn with the queen – even when it is safe." ~ Hungarian proverb

"The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient." — Aron Nimzowitsch

"Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game." — Nigel Short

"Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf." — Cecil Purdy

"Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders." — Savielly Tartakower

"Man's nature is as thin as sheets of tissue paper; the world is like a game of chess, varying at every move." ~ Chinese proverb

"If you see a good move, look for a better one." — Emanuel Lasker

"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake." —Savielly Tartakower

"The hardest game to win is a won game." — Emanuel Lasker

"Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it." — Wilhelm Steinitz

"A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused." — Rudolf Spielmann

"We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chess player's nature." — Rudolf Spielmann

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." — Henry Ford

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." — William Shakespeare

"Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent. It's precisely these qualities that distinguish great players." — Garry Kasparov

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent." — Buddha

"Too many times, people do not try their best. They do not have the keen spirit, the winning spirit. And once you make it you have got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That is why I don't clown around. I do not believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously." — Bobby Fischer

"The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says." — Hikaru Nakamura

"A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment." ~ Chinese Proverb

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another." — Marcel Duchamp

"The stomach is an essential part of the chessmaster." — Bent Larsen

"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground." — Buddha

"If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position. Instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw." — Jeremy Silman

"If you're going to make your mark among masters, you've to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master." — Mikhail Botvinnik

"One gets to know people well when playing at chess and on journeys." — Russian Proverb

"The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours of study is a talent." — Garry Kasparov

"You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.... I can't understand people who don't like work ..." — Anne Frank (1929–1945)

"Those who think that it's easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game, a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed." — Victor Kortchnoi

"What is the object of playing a gambit opening?… To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: ‘I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening." — Mikhail Tal

"I consider Fischer to be one of the greatest opening experts ever." — Keith Hayward

"Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position. Adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." — Bruce A. Moon

"Chess players are an impecunious lot." — Samuel Reshevsky

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." — Buddha

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." — Jesus Christ

"In chess the important thing is to apply what you know…it is important to understand that during a game of chess we do not learn things...we apply things we know (I keep stressing this)." — Tartajubow

"It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit – one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss." — Anatoly Karpov

"It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms." — David Bronstein

"It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard." — David Bronstein

"Why are not more King's Gambits played nowadays? Well, in the first place, if you offered the King's Gambit to a master, eight times out of ten he would decline it, either with 2. … d5 or 2. … Bc5." — Frank Marshall

"By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!" — Emanuel Lasker

"Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five." — David Bronstein

"First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"It is not enough to be a good player… you must also play well." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"Tactics flow from a superior position." — Bobby Fischer

"In chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated." — Emanuel Lasker

"The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world." — H.G. Wells

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." — Jesus Christ

"The older I grow, the more I value Pawns." — Paul Keres

"The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly." — Irving Chernev

"One bad move nullifies forty good ones." — Bernhard Horwitz

"Every Pawn is a potential Queen." — James Mason

"Chess is 99 percent tactics." — Richard Teichmann

"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind." — Bobby Fischer

"Chess demands total concentration." — Bobby Fischer

"Chess is everything: art, science and sport." — Anatoly Karpov

"Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic." — Mikhail Botvinnik)

"I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me." — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

"Boxing is like a chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalize on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it is not about aggression. Avoiding knockout is tactical." – Nicola Adams

"Drawing is rather like playing chess. Your mind races ahead of time that you eventually make." – David Hockney

"No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal – the search for truth." – Vasily Smyslov

"When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyze concrete variations." – Mikhail Botvinnik

"In life, as in chess, one's own pawns block one's way. A man's very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him. – Charles Buxton

"Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!" -- Allan Rufus

"Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind." – Bobby Fischer

"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters." ― Gary Kasparov

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." ― Emo Philips

"Chess does not drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane." ― Bill Hartston

"Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles." ― Garry Kasparov

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head." ― Arthur Schopenhauer

"During a chess competition a chess master should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk." ― Alexander Alekhine

"Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess." ― Evan Esar

"The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move." ― David Bronstein

"Chess is the art of analysis." ― Mikhail Botvinnik

"Chess makes a man wiser & clear-sighted." ― Vladimir Putin

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer

"The essence of chess is thinking about what CHESS is." ― David Bronstein

"Chess isn't for the timid." ― Irving Chernev

"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe." ― Indian Proverb

"The history of chess is largely a chronicle of self-imposed intimidation and untimely excitement." ― W.E. Napier

"If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation." ― David Bronstein

"You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief you're the best, and that you'll win every time." ― Magnus Carlsen

"Without error there can be no brilliancy." ― Emanuel Lasker

"Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." ― Sun Tzu.

"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." ― Savielly Tartakower

"Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation." ― Max Euwe

"He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage." ― Emanuel Lasker

"Things often did not reach the endgame!" ― Boris Spassky

"After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived." ― Edmar Mednis

"The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient." ― Aron Nimzowitsch

"Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice." ― Garry Kasparov

"Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there." ― Hikaru Nakamura

"There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play chess." ― Mortimer Collins

"Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin." ― Hikaru Nakamura

"Chess is life and every game is like a new life." ― Eduard Gufeld

"It's an eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game." ― Paul Morphy

"Chess is as much a mystery as women." ― C.J.S. Purdy

"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways." ― Vladimir Kramnik

"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

"In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov

"Chess isn't always about winning. Sometimes, it is simply about learning and so is life." ― Anonymous

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ― Confucius

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." ― Nelson Mandela

"It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another." ― George MacDonald

"Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey." ― Urijah Faber

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ― Eleanor Roosevelt

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." ― Martha Graham

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one." ― Mark Twain

"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life." ― Arthur Schopenhauer

"When your house is on fire, you cannot be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, do not worry about losing a pawn on the queenside." ― Garry Kasparov

"Learn to play many roles, to be whatever the moment requires. Adapt your mask to the situation." ― Robert Greene

"Tactics is knowing what to do when there's something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there's nothing what to do." ― Savielly Tartakower

"Some part of a mistake is always correct." ― Savielly Tartakower

"It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men." ― Savielly Tartakower

"The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure." ― Michael Stean

"That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one." ― Bobby Fischer

"Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment, and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us." ― Garry Kasparov

"I see only one move ahead, but always the best move." ― Charles Jaffe

"Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame." ― Lajos Portisch.

"The highest part of the chess player lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do." ― Garry Kasparov

"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." ― Garry Kasparov

"There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world." ― Pierre Mac Orlan

"To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess." ― Mikhail Tal

"I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player." ― Mikhail Tal

"The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak." ― Boris Spassky

"As proved by evidence, it (chess) is more lasting in its being and presence than all books and achievements; the only game that belongs to all people and all ages; of which none knows the divinity that bestowed it on the world, to slay boredom, to sharpen the senses, to exhilarate the spirit." ― Stefan Zweig

"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe

"Life is like chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game." ― Being Caballero

"Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half." ― Jan Timman

"Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE." ― Alan Rufus

"Sometimes it's better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." ―Tony Blair

"Life is like a chess game. If you play the right move, at the right time you'll win the game." ― Sruti

"I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one." ― David Levy

"When you're lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war." ― Aristotle

"A bad plan is better than none at all." ― Frank Marshal "Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all." ― Mikhail Chigorin

What kind of tea is hard to swallow?
Reality.

"Chess is a simple game, but it is that very simplicity that makes the player's personalities come out." ― Gamou Jirou

"Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend; Let him think both bishops are holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him love his queen." ― Mark Lawrence (Prince of Thorn)

"Alekhine is a player I've never really understood. He always wanted a superior centre; he maneuvered his pieces toward the kingside, and around the 25th move, began to mate his opponent. He disliked exchanges, preferring to play with many pieces on the board. His play was fantastically complicated, more so than any player before or since." ― Bobby Fischer

"The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chess board." ― Simon Williams

"For in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind." ― Richard Réti

"Chess is rarely a game of ideal moves. Almost always, a player faces a series of difficult consequences whichever move he makes." ― David Shenk

"After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived." ― Edmar Mednis

"There is no remorse like the remorse of chess." ― H. G. Wells

"You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player." ― José Raúl Capablanca

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." ― Isaac Newton

"My main purpose is to gain recognition for myself by means of a new idea of which no one has conceived, or perhaps has been unable to practice; that is, good play of the pawns; they are the soul of chess: it is they alone that determine the attack and the defense, and the winning or losing of the game depends entirely on their good or bad arrangement." ― François-André Danican Philidor

"I've come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." ― Marcel Duchamp

Kevin Spraggett talks about his thoughts on what it takes to reach the magic 2200 level. "A chess master is a very competent player who has not only achieved the firm UNDERSTANDING that the game of chess is actually a series of 'mini-games' (i.e. opening, middlegame, endgame), each with its own very distinct characteristics, but has also achieved the ABILITY to construct his own chess game from these very same elements."

‘… I have always been an erratic player, even when I was at my best. At that time, when Marshall and myself entered a tournament, the general opinion was that we could as well finish at the top as at the tail of it.' ― Jacques Mieses, BCM, October 1944, page 232.

"There are two types of sacrifices: Correct ones and mine." ― Mikhail Tal

"My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian." ― Samuel Reshevsky

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." ― Thomas Jefferson

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." ― Isaac Asimov

"If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win." ― Walter Reuther

"In chess, just as in life, today's bliss may be tomorrow's poison." ― Assaic

"People who claim they understand chess actually don't." — Robert Hübner

"At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." ― Italian proverb

"The game of chess is not just an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of chess, in which we have often pointed to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with." ― Benjamin Franklin

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." ― Ralph Charell

Did you hear the story about the claustrophobic astronaut? He just needed some space.

"Fact and fable are commonly intermingled, and chess historians have a hard time disentangling them, for the game's literature is particularly blighted by untrustworthy assertions, rickety anecdotes and dubious quotes. The intention of the Chess Notes series, which began in 1982, is to sort out fact from fable and to present fresh, accurate material." ― Edward Winter

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering." ― Aeschylus

"And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time." ― Jesus Christ

"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying." ― Martin Luther

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." ― Buddha

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." ― Mark Twain

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ― Maya Angelou

"Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human." ― Tony Robbins

Riddle Question: Two people are playing chess. They play five games. They both win three games. Without any ties, draws, or surrenders, how is this possible?

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." ― Steve Jobs

Riddle Answer: They are playing with different people.

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." ― Henry David Thoreau

Riddle Question: How many squares are in a chessboard?

Riddle Answer: 204 squares. 64 one-by-one squares, 49 two-by-two, 36 three-by-three, 25 four-by-four, 16 five-by-five, 9 six-by-six, 4 seven-by-seven, and 1 eight-by-eight.

"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good." ― Buddha

Question: What did the chess player say to the waiter?

Answer: Check, please.

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." ― Aeschylus

"Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits." ― Buddha

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." ― Jesus Christ

"Compassion is the basis of morality." ― Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is a well-known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well." ― Aron Nimzowitsch

"I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." ― Aeschylus

"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom." ― Arthur Schopenhauer

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." ― Buddha

"When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box." ― Irish Saying

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." ― Democritus

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people." ― Arthur Schopenhauer

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ― Buddha

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." ― Winston Churchill

"For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?" ― Jesus Christ

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ― Rabindranath Tagore

"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." ― Jesus Christ

Black resigns.

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

"The words of truth are simple." ― Aeschylus

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ― Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is only after our basic needs for food and shelter have been met that we can hope to enjoy the luxury of theoretical speculations." ― Aristotle.

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." ― Buddha

"A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

"I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

"Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. 'I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.' " —Stella Chess (20th century)

"Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.

"Are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law." —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

"It's a great huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best." —Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898)

"I do wish you'd stop reading my mind.... It's so frightfully disconcerting—like being followed up one's trousers." —Abraham Polonsky, U.S. screenwriter, Frank Butler, and Helen Deutsch. Mitchell Leisen. Col. Deniston (Ray Milland)

The Ill-Married

If worth, were not a thing more rare
Than beauty in this planet fair,
There would be then less need of care
About the contracts Hymen closes.
But beauty often is the bait
To love that only ends in hate;
And many hence repent too late
Of wedding thorns from wooing roses.
My tale makes one of these poor fellows,
Who sought relief from marriage vows,
Send back again his tedious spouse,
Contentious, covetous, and jealous,
With nothing pleased or satisfied,
This restless, comfort-killing bride
Some fault in every one descried.
Her good man went to bed too soon,
Or lay in bed till almost noon.
Too cold, too hot, – too black, too white, – Were on her tongue from morn till night.
The servants mad and madder grew;
The husband knew not what to do.
"Twas, "Dear, you never think or care;"
And, "Dear, that price we cannot bear;"
And, "Dear, you never stay at home;"
And, "Dear, I wish you would just come;"
Till, finally, such ceaseless dearing
On her husband's patience wearing,
Back to her sire's he sent his wife,
To taste the sweets of country life,
To dance at will the country jigs,
And feed the turkeys, geese, and pigs.
In course of time, he hoped his bride
Might have her temper mollified;
Which hope he duly put to test.
His wife recalled, said he,
"How went with you your rural rest,
From vexing cares and fashions free?
Its peace and quiet did you gain, –
Its innocence without a stain?"
"Enough of all," said she; "but then
To see those idle, worthless men
Neglect the flocks, it gave me pain.
I told them, plainly, what I thought,
And thus their hatred quickly bought;
For which I do not care – not I."
"Ah, madam," did her spouse reply,
"If still your temper's so morose,
And tongue so virulent, that those
Who only see you morn and night
Are quite grown weary of the sight,
What, then, must be your servants' case,
Who needs must see you face to face,
Throughout the day?
And what must be the harder lot
Of him, I pray,
Whose days and nights
With you must be by marriage rights?
Return you to your father's cot.
If I recall you in my life,
Or even wish for such a wife,
Let Heaven, in my hereafter, send
Two such, to tease me without end!"

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

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ― Howard Thurman

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.

"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

Our Heavenly Father, kind and good,

We thank Thee for our daily food.

We thank Thee for Thy love and care.

Be with us Lord, and hear our prayer.
Amen.

<Chris Chaffin wrote:

master/piece
She moves him ‘round the chess board,
dodging bishops, pawns and rooks.
She coaxes him from square to square
without a second look.

The white knight cannot catch him.
Piece by piece, the foe now yields.
Her king is safe; the game is done.
The queen controls the field.>

"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

"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

"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

"Hindsight is always 20/20."

* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-...

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

"Life's too short to worry about things you can't change."

<Steinitz's Theory
1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal.

2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides.

3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.

4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer.

5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained.

6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage.

7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it.>

"It's All I Have To Bring Today" by Emily Dickinson

It's all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

Question: What U.S. state's constitution is the longest in the world? Answer: Alabama – 310,000 words.

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." — Buddha

Question: What country has the most vending machines per capita? Answer: Japan – one for every 23 people.

The Man and the Wooden God

A pagan kept a god of wood, –
A sort that never hears,
Though furnished well with ears, –
From which he hoped for wondrous good.
The idol cost the board of three;
So much enriched was he
With vows and offerings vain,
With bullocks garlanded and slain:
No idol ever had, as that,
A kitchen quite so full and fat.
But all this worship at his shrine
Brought not from this same block divine
Inheritance, or hidden mine,
Or luck at play, or any favour.
Nay, more, if any storm whatever
Brewed trouble here or there,
The man was sure to have his share,
And suffer in his purse,
Although the god fared none the worse.
At last, by sheer impatience bold,
The man a crowbar seizes,
His idol breaks in pieces,
And finds it richly stuffed with gold.
"How's this? Have I devoutly treated,"
Says he, "your godship, to be cheated?
Now leave my house, and go your way,
And search for altars where you may.
You're like those natures, dull and gross,
From, which comes nothing but by blows;
The more I gave, the less I got;
I'll now be rich, and you may rot."

Riddle Question: Two people were playing chess. They both won. How is this possible?

Did you hear about the guy who invented the knock-knock joke? He won the "no-bell" prize.

Riddle Answer: They were playing two different games, against other opponents.

My Wage
by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.

"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

"I've come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." ― Marcel Duchamp

"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways." ― Vladimir Kramnik

Matthew 23:12 King James Bible
"And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted." ― Jesus Christ, teaching humility

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The Lenape, Manhattan's original inhabitants, called the island Manahatta, which means "hilly island."

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