אם אין אני לי מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי – If I am not for myself, who will be? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, then when? This famous Hebrew saying is used to say ‘there's no time like the present'.

A00 Sub-variants:

Polish (Sokolsky) opening
1. b4

Polish, Tuebingen variation
1. b4 Nh6

Polish, Outflank variation
1. b4 c6

Benko's opening
1. g3

Lasker simul special
1. g3 h5

Benko's opening, reversed Alekhine
1. g3 e5 2. Nf3

Grob's attack
1. g4

Grob, spike attack
1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 c6 3. g5

Grob, Fritz gambit
1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4

Grob, Romford counter-gambit
1. g4 d5 2. Bg2 Bxg4 3. c4 d4

Clemenz (Mead's, Basman's or de Klerk's) opening 1. h3

Global opening
1. h3 e5 2. a3

Amar (Paris) opening
1. Nh3

Amar gambit
1. Nh3 d5 2. g3 e5 3. f4 Bxh3 4. Bxh3 exf4

Dunst (Sleipner, Heinrichsen) opening
1. Nc3

Dunst (Sleipner,Heinrichsen) opening
1. Nc3 e5

Battambang opening
1. Nc3 e5 2. a3

Novosibirsk opening
1. Nc3 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qh4

Anderssen's opening
1. a3

Ware (Meadow Hay) opening
1. a4

Crab opening
1. a4 e5 2. h4

Saragossa opening
1. c3

Mieses opening
1. d3

Mieses opening
1. d3 e5

Valencia opening
1. d3 e5 2. Nd2

Venezolana opening
1. d3 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3

Van't Kruijs opening
1. e3

Amsterdam attack
1. e3 e5 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. b3 Nf6

Gedult's opening
1. f3

Hammerschlag (Fried fox/Pork chop opening)
1. f3 e5 2. Kf2

Anti-Borg (Desprez) opening
1. h4

Durkin's attack
1. Na3

"Rule #1: Checkmate ends the game." ― Simon Williams, Chess.com

"Life is like a game of chess, changing with each move." ― Chinese Proverb

"By playing at chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution." ― Benjamin Franklin

"Even a pawn can take down a queen." ― Chanda Hahn

"A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also." ― John Gower (1857). "Confessio amantis", p.147

"The King is a fighting piece. Use it!" ― Wilhelm Steinitz

"The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ." ― John Wycliffe

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home." ― Mother Teresa

"My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal." ― Anish Giri

"When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good." ― John Knox

"Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse." ― Israel Albert Horowitz

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." ― Confucius

"Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness." ― Abraham Lincoln

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." ― Henry Clay

"What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death." ― Stonewall Jackson

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth." ― William Faulkner

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." ― James A. Garfield

"There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions." ― William Shakespeare

"Home is where the heart is." ― Pliny the Elder

"A home without books is a body without soul." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The reading of all good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries." ― Rene Descartes

"No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them." ― Harriet Beecher Stowe

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world." ― Billy Graham

"Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity." ― James A. Garfield

"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." ― B. B. King

"Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality." ― Dalai Lama

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance." ― Henry David Thoreau

"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation." ― Mahatma Gandhi

"When I was a really small kid, I used to replay a lot of games. I come from a family of teachers, and we had an amazing library. And part of it is we had a lot of chess books. Some really nice books like My System by Aron Nimzowitsch, which is very famous. Also I think a lot of grandmaster tournaments, like from GM David Bronstein ed. note: Zurich 1953 is one of the most celebrated books of all time. There was also some best games of world champions. So I was trying to play, and I think I really never tried to understand what's going on. I just liked the process of playing, of looking." ― Ian Nepomniachtchi

"In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!" — James Monroe

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." — Marilyn vos Savant

"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs." — Jim Rohn

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Action is the foundational key to all success." — Pablo Picasso

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength." — Napoleon Bonaparte

"In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent." — Vasily Smyslov

"Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them." — William Howard Taft

"A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves." — David Bronstein

"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition." — Henry Clay

"Chess is 99% tactics." — Richard Teichmann

"Chess is the art of analysis" — Mikhail Botvinnik

"Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization." — Samuel Reshevsky

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." — Vince Lombardi

"A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player." — Bobby Fischer

"To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement." — George W Truett

"As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine." — Levon Aronian

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions. These can be changed as your priorities change; new one added, and others dropped." — Christopher Columbus

"Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all." — Max Euwe

"I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy." — Stonewall Jackson

"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." — William McKinley

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

Fabiano Caruana, on having the initiative: "...generally speaking, I always advise that you trust your intuition on that and if you feel like you have initiative I think it's always better to go forward rather than go backward. If you have, let's say, the general strategy of being as active and aggressive as possible, I think that will serve you better than trying not to spoil your position or trying to play too cautiously. I can't say that's broad advice because of course every position, every game will be different. But, as a general piece of advice, I would say that when you feel that you have an initiative, try to put pressure on your opponent and try to take advantage of what you think is the advantage, that you should use that.."

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

"Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward." — Ben Carson

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." — Mary Tyler Moore

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." — George Bernard Shaw

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so." ― Mark Twain

"If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other." ― Ulysses S. Grant

"It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all." ― Saint Augustine

"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.

"I always play carefully and try to avoid unnecessary risks. I consider my method to be right as any superfluous ‘daring' runs counter to the essential character of chess, which is not a gamble but a purely intellectual combat conducted in accordance with the exact rules of logic." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!" ― Yasser Seirawan

"He (Jose R. Capablanca) can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most efficacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own." ― Max Euwe

"You will win with either color if you are the better player, but it takes longer with Black." ― Isaac Kashdan

"In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left." ― Winston Churchill

"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn." ― Harriet Beecher Stowe

Ding Liren, world chess champion: ‘I remembered Camus: ‘If you can't win, you have to resist.''

"The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous than the bullets." ― Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." — George S. Patton Jr.

"A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance." — Paul Keres

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." — Nelson Mandela

POTUS 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Pessimism never won any battle."

POTUS 35. John F. Kennedy
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

POTUS 36. Lyndon B. Johnson
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

POTUS 37. Richard M. Nixon
"Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

"Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness." ― William Henry Harrison

"I did take part in a couple of Vishy Anand's training camps. The experience has truly been invaluable. I saw from up close the level of preparation that I should be striving for." ― Anish Giri

French Proverb: "Ce n'est pas à un vieux singe qu'on apprend à faire la grimace." ― (There's no substitute for experience.)

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." ― George Washington

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand." ― Albert Einstein

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way." ― Marvin Minsky

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship." ― Amelia Earhart

"Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing." — Emma Donoghue

"Courage is grace under pressure." — Ernest Hemingway

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston Churchill

"99% of failures come from people who make excuses." — George Washington

"Chess is 99 percent tactics." — Richard Teichmann

"Statistics are no substitute for judgment." — Henry Clay

"You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself." — Alexander Alekhine

"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." — Henry Bolingbroke

"But you see when I play (through) a game of Bobby (Fischer), there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style." — Miguel Najdorf

"Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents." — Yuri Balashov

"No one can guarantee that if you train in chess you will become a grandmaster. No one can guarantee you will go on to make your living at this sport. But I can guarantee this – if you train your brain with chess, you will go much farther ahead in life than if you train with your body for other physical sports." — Wesley So

"Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything." — Magnus Carlsen

* Ataman's Minis: Game Collection: Instructive Chess Miniatures (Ataman)

<Like new-laid eggs Chess Problems are,

Though very good, they may be beaten;

And yet, though like, they're different far,

They may be cooked, but never eaten.

Source: page 58 of Poems and Chess Problems by J.A. Miles (Fakenham, 1882).>

* Only 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJ...

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

* Alapins: Game Collection: Alapin

* Alekhine's Defense: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...

* Aggressive Gambits: https://thechessworld.com/articles/...

* A07, B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack

* 107 battles: Game Collection: 107 Great Chess Battles: 1939-45 Alekhine

* An absolute belter of an encounter! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClC...

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

* Bowman's Beginner's Guide:
http://chess.jliptrap.us/BowmanBegi... Not perfect but dedicated, passionate.

* Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op...

* Back rank mating tactics: Game Collection: 610_Back rank mating tactics

* Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne

* Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Bruno's Problem: https://chessproblem.my-free-games....

* Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures

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

* Post-Beginners Book: Game Collection: Chess training for post-beginners

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

* Center Game miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Checkmate patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns

* Checkmate Art: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate

* Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-...

* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game

* C-K Examples: Game Collection: Caro Kann Lines

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

* Classic games by great players: Game Collection: Guinness Book - Chess Grandmasters (Hartston)

* Capablanca's Double Attack — having the initiative is important: https://lichess.org/study/tzrisL1R

* Caro-Kann Defense Basics: 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...

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

* 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...

* Chessbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZl...

* Chessbase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS_...

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

* The Donner Party of Misery: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...

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

* How dumb is it? Game Collection: Diemer-Duhm Gambit

* Dr. Edmund Adam Miniatures: Edmund Adam

* ...Ever?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUL...

* Ever!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5J...

* 1.e4 e5 flavor flav: Game Collection: The Open Games: 1.e4 e5

* FICS: https://www.freechess.org/

* French According to... Game Collection: The French According to ...

* Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French

* Gambits against the French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam

* Open up the French Defense?! http://studimonetari.org/edg/latex/...

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

* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...

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

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

* Gambits StL: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo...

* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz)

https://archive.org/details/the-gol...

* HOF: https://worldchesshof.org/

* Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv...

* Juniors might ask: https://www.chessforjuniors.com/

* Jobava London System trap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvU...

* No-Nonsense Beginner Guide to the Jobava London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR-...

* King Registration: https://www.kingregistration.com/to...

* Minority Attacks: Game Collection: Minority attack

Game Collection: Anti-minority attack capturing with the Knight.

* Matovinsky Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF7...

* Mughug's Italian: Game Collection: Italian

* Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III)

* Abhimanyu Mishra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4db...

* Brazilian nuts are good for you: Game Collection: 2...De7 !

* Nakhmanson Gambit: https://chesstier.com/nakhmanson-ga...

* Notable Games: Game Collection: List of Notable Games (wiki)

* Chess in old newspapers: https://www.schach-chess.com/chess-...

* Opening Names: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...

* Opening Ideas/Novelties: Game Collection: Great opening ideas

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

* Otis once ran for mayor but wasn't registered to vote! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dot...

* Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin...

* Napoleon played: https://blog.napoleon-cologne.fr/en...

* 5-step calculation process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeg...

* 50 Games to Know: https://en.chessbase.com/post/50-ga...

* Muzio Gambits: Game Collection: KGA- white passively gives up Knight muzio and

* Notable Games: Wikipedia article: List of chess games

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

* Old Scandinavian Beats: Game Collection: Beat the Scandinavian

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

* Ponziani Games: Game Collection: PONZIANI OPENING

* Play Chess Online for Free: https://boldchess.com/play/

* Praggnanandhaa stuns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggb...

* Practical Calculations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXd...

* Become a Predator at the Chessboard: https://www.chesstactics.org/

* Phalanx formation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-cNp...

* Famous Chess Photos: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/585256...

* Fallen Pieces: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SAL6...

* POTD 2023: Game Collection: Puzzle of the Day 2023

* Pawn Instruction: http://www.logicalchess.com/learn/l...

* P-K4 gambit examples: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (II)

* Pawn themes: Game Collection: Aurora

* Petrosian's Best: Game Collection: P.H.Clarke: Petrosian's Best games

* Quash the Queen's Hack Terrorist Attack 2.Qh5?! Game Collection: The Monticelli Trap

* Rules: https://www.gamecolony.com/chessrul...

* Recommendations: https://chess-site.com/

* Red States: https://www.redhotpawn.com/

* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures

* P Rep: Game Collection: E4 repertoire

* Richard Reti vs Rudolf Spielmann: search "Reti vs Spielmann"

* Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2)

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

* Switzerland bridge complex: Wikipedia article: Kapellbr%C3%BCcke

* Split the pot

* Sports Clichés: http://www.sportscliche.com/

* See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBv...

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

* She's a Stonewaller: Eneida Astolfi Perez

* Sharpen your game: https://chesspuzzle.net/

* Special Collection: Game Collection: 0

* Steinitz collection:
Game Collection: Steinitz Gambits

* Streaming the Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWn...

* String bet

* GK Sicil: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

* Extinguish the Dragon: Game Collection: 1.e4 explorations

* Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4

* B20s: Game Collection: Grand Prix (Ginger's Models)

* 21st Century: Game Collection: 0

* TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/

* Tactics course using miniatures:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/FTP...

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

* Titled Tuesday Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb7...

* Top Festivals: https://chess-site.com/articles/che...

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

* Top 100: https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml

* The Bird is underrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18d...

* Useful: https://usefulchess.com/

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

* Looking for Unorthodox? Game Collection: 6 GumboG's Unorthodox Games-Names (ECO=A,D,

* Looking for Redemption? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykH...

* Vienna 1903 KG games: Game Collection: Vienna 1903

* VP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH...

* Various miniatures: Game Collection: MINIATURES

* Bill Wall miniatures: Bill Wall

* Wall's APCT Miniatures:
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/c...

* Six Ways: https://takelessons.com/blog/6-tips...

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

Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava) Translation: He who doesn't take risks doesn't drink champagne Meaning: Fortune favours the brave

"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this." - Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...

"I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind." — Mikhail Tal

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

"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

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." ― Albert Einstein

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt

"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

"When in doubt, don't." ― Benjamin Franklin

Sleeper straddle "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ― Samuel Beckett

Indiana: Vincennes
Established in: 1732

Vincennes was founded in 1732 along the Wabash River by French military officer Francois Marie Bissot-Sieur de Vincennes, and was once a French fur trading post. It was part of New France and a military post was built there to keep the British away. Once the fur trade died down, agriculture took over.

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

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

* Short history: Game Collection: A history of chess

Picture History of Chess
by Fred Wilson

This classic photo-history offers up hundreds of photos of all the great players along with many outstanding adversaries who helped fashion the immortals. Excellent captions throughout. Hours of fascinating reading and a book I return to again and again. Many of these photos are quite old and hard to find, but collected here under one cover, in an oversized (10x12") format, printed on high-quality glossy paper.

Publisher‏: ‎ Dover Pubns; First Edition (January 1, 1981) Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎ 182 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 0486238563
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0486238562
Item Weight: ‎ 1.23 pounds
Dimensions: ‎ 8.75 x 0.5 x 11.5 inches

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. ~ Chinese Proverb

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.>

It takes about eight minutes for light from the Sun to reach our planet.

Riddle Question: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

The Persian epic Explanation of Chatrang and the Invention of Nard tells the story of chess being introduced to the royal court by an envoy from India.

Riddle Answer: Wet, duh!

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, is the largest USA national park, covering 13,000 square miles or 13.2 million acres.

<Ellison wrote:

Kamikaze
Two rows of a faceless infantry
fall into line;
I am their general
for this callous battle.

Overlords awaken;
their mirrored armies in meager shadow
to these giants that have played
the game of winning before.

The front rank advances slowly,
private by private; caressing the
battlefield as if never to return again.
The cavalry cry out into the night,
A horse's metallic neigh that pierces through
to the other side's defenses,
and the surrounding warriors join in for the hunt.

A piece for a piece;
The desperate deal is made
between the masters of their
horrified soldiers.
Do I dare repeat
such insidious acts within my fleet?

The crown shakes with fear,
for the opposing ranks are drawing near.
Towering higher than the castles upon the deck,
I make my way to the monarch in check;
Swords left littered across the field
as the fires of carnage have dwindled low,
but trampling through grief, groans, and woe,
The other side is forced to yield.>

Fourth street

Pasta is believed to have originated in China or Greece, but it became a staple in Italian cuisine.

The first reference to pasta in a book dates back to 1154.

The average Italian consumes over 51 pounds of pasta each year.

The most popular pasta shapes in Italy are spaghetti, penne, and macaroni.

Some pasta shapes are named after the objects they resemble, such as bow ties (farfalle) and ears (orecchiette).

In Italy, it is considered bad luck to cut spaghetti with a knife.

The longest strand of pasta ever made was over 1.5 miles long.

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<<<Fundamental Chess Principles> according to CJS Purdy>

On Combinations

One simultaneous double threat is better than a great many successive single threats. That is the main lesson of chess. A double threat is a combination of two threats. (pg. 31)

A combination (threat plus restraint or threat plus obstruction) may be called a "net". It is the most important kind of combination because every mate, without exception, is a "net". (pg. 32)

Watch out for pieces of limited mobility, especially pieces without retreat. Remember that one retreat may not be enough.(pg. 32 / 33)

On Tied Pieces

An important rule for avoiding a trap is this:
Where feasible, avoid using a piece to defend something that is attacked. Either protect the attacked unit with a pawn or move it away. (pg. 34)

A knight is the worst defender because he cannot possibly maintain the defense if forced to move. (pg. 34)

The best protector is a pawn - for three reasons:

There is no possibility of it being attacked by a unit of lesser value; It is a complete defense against any piece bigger than the one attacked; above all, a menial task is suited to it, whereas a piece used for defending one particular thing is wasting its talents. (pg. 35)

If you must use pieces to protect something, perhaps because it cannot move away, try to use one more than necessary! You are then free to moe any one of the protectors; not a single one is absolutely tied to its defensive task. (pg. 35)

On Position Play

Position play is the art of improving your position in small ways when no sound combination is possible. (pg. 40)

One can say that an endgame has arrived when neither side has more pieces than the equivalent of Queen plus pawn (with of course, the Kings, who are always with us). (pg. 41)

Combinations are of primary importance, position play of secondary importance. (pg. 41)

Pages refer to where content can be found in Purdy's book "Guide to Good Chess".> Posted by Chessbuzz

by W.A. Ballantine given on page 153 of the American Chess Journal, September 1878:

Charming as the sweetest music;
High above the common reach,
Easy to the bright and wise;
Splendid in the hands of genius;
Such the royal game of chess.

Al certainly offers no proof whatsoever that ratings inflation has NOT occurred. He's just arguing for the sake of bitching, his mission in life, a common angry lib who accomplishes nothing of value to others.

FTB asks again, other than Anand, what regular opponents of Carlsen will go down in history as dominant legends of classical chess? GMs Nepomniachtchi, Andreikin, Fedoseev, Giri, Baburin, etc. are hardly in the class of Petrosian, Polugaevsky, Averbakh, Spassky, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Karpov, etc. https://chesspert.com/46-best-chess...

The next generation of stars that Carlsen ducked at the 86th edition of Tata Steel 2024 just might reach legendary status someday: https://www.chess.com/news/view/11-...

The "Wimbledon of Chess" will be without Magnus Carlsen again in 2025: https://kingdomofchess.com/tata-ste... Maintaining sobriety for 13 rounds might be too much to ask these nights. Of course, that didn't stop some of the Russian greats, did it? https://news-pravda.com/usa/2024/12...

It seems clear enough that Fischer and Kasparov faced many legends. Ratings aside, their competition at the top of the leaderboards was stiffer.

Lambda makes good points:

RE: Kasparov Magnus Carlsen (kibitz #87753)

RE: Karpov Magnus Carlsen (kibitz #87755)

The Ingratitude And Injustice Of Men Towards Fortune

A trader on the sea to riches grew;
Freight after freight the winds in favour blew;
Fate steered him clear; gulf, rock, nor shoal
Of all his bales exacted toll.
Of other men the powers of chance and storm
Their dues collected in substantial form;
While smiling Fortune, in her kindest sport,
Took care to waft his vessels to their port.
His partners, factors, agents, faithful proved;
His goods – tobacco, sugar, spice –
Were sure to fetch the highest price.
By fashion and by folly loved,
His rich brocades and laces,
And splendid porcelain vases,
Enkindling strong desires,
Most readily found buyers.
In short, gold rained wherever he went –
Abundance, more than could be spent –
Dogs, horses, coaches, downy bedding –
His very fasts were like a wedding.
A bosom friend, a look his table giving,
Inquired whence came such sumptuous living.
"Whence should it come," said he, superb of brow, "But from the fountain of my knowing how?
I owe it simply to my skill and care
In risking only where the marts will bear."
And now, so sweet his swelling profits were,
He risked anew his former gains:
Success rewarded not his pains –
His own imprudence was the cause.
One ship, ill-freighted, went awreck;
Another felt of arms the lack,
When pirates, trampling on the laws,
Overcame, and bore it off a prize.
A third, arriving at its port,
Had failed to sell its merchandize, –
The style and folly of the court
Not now requiring such a sort.
His agents, factors, failed; – in short,
The man himself, from pomp and princely cheer,
And palaces, and parks, and dogs, and deer,
Fell down to poverty most sad and drear.
His friend, now meeting him in shabby plight,
Exclaimed, "And whence comes this to pass?"
"From Fortune," said the man, "alas!"
"Console yourself," replied the friendly wight:
"For, if to make you rich the dame denies,
She can't forbid you to be wise."

What faith he gained, I do not wis;
I know, in every case like this,
Each claims the credit of his bliss,
And with a heart ingrate
Imputes his misery to Fate.

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

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

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." — Suzy Kassem

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

The City Rat and the Country Rat

A city rat, one night,
Did, with a civil stoop,
A country rat invite
To end a turtle soup.

On a Turkey carpet
They found the table spread,
And sure I need not harp it
How well the fellows fed.

The entertainment was
A truly noble one;
But some unlucky cause
Disturbed it when begun.

It was a slight rat-tat,
That put their joys to rout;
Out ran the city rat;
His guest, too, scampered out.

Our rats but fairly quit,
The fearful knocking ceased.
"Return we," cried the cit,
To finish there our feast.

"No," said the rustic rat;
"Tomorrow dine with me.
I'm not offended at
Your feast so grand and free, –

"For I have no fare resembling;
But then I eat at leisure,
And would not swap, for pleasure
So mixed with fear and trembling."

Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me). Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!

FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/

Lazy Lester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gk...

Universal Turing machine
The Turing machine worked by using mathematical formulas that were then used to build the Bombe, an Enigma code-breaker. Alan Turing invented the Universal Turing Machine with the capability of doing different kinds of computation depending on the program or input. The weakness was that it could only compute one program at a time. Regardless of its limitations, the Universal Turing Machine can be considered the forerunner of modern computers.

<<<Street Window> by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)>

The pawn-shop man knows hunger,
And how far hunger has eaten the heart
Of one who comes with an old keepsake.
Here are wedding rings and baby bracelets,
Scarf pins and shoe buckles, jeweled garters,
Old-fashioned knives with inlaid handles,
Watches of old gold and silver,
Old coins worn with finger-marks.
They tell stories.>

"As a species, octopuses are very old, and it's speculated that the first octopuses appeared roughly 296 million years ago.

Their long existence has made them masters of camouflage and evasion, able to change their skin to match their environment. Octopuses also have the defensive mechanism of spewing ink and poison on enemies.

They are also smart enough to use tools to solve everyday problems in the deep sea, and some species even hide in coconut shells and carry coconuts with them if they need to hide.

With a short lifespan of anywhere from 3-5 years, it seems logical that octopuses would need such advanced defensive capabilities.

Octopuses are also semelparous, meaning they are a species that only breeds once in their lifetime, shortly dying after doing so." ― Planet Explore

The Coach and the Fly

On a sandy, uphill road,
Which naked in the sunshine glowed,
Six lusty horses drew a coach.
Dames, monks, and invalids, its load,
On foot, outside, at leisure trode.
The team, all weary, stopped and blowed:
Whereon there did a fly approach,
And, with a vastly business air.
Cheered up the horses with his buzz, –
Now pricked them here, now pricked them there,
As neatly as a jockey does, –
And thought the while – he knew It was so –
He made the team and carriage go, –
On carriage-pole sometimes alighting –
Or driver's nose – and biting.
And when the whole did get in motion,
Confirmed and settled in the notion,
He took, himself, the total glory, –
Flew back and forth in wondrous hurry,
And, as he buzz'd about the cattle,
Seemed like a sergeant in a battle,
The files and squadrons leading on
To where the victory is won.
Thus charged with all the commonweal,
This single fly began to feel
Responsibility too great,
And cares, a grievous crushing weight;
And made complaint that none would aid
The horses up the tedious hill –
The monk his prayers at leisure said –
Fine time to pray! – the dames, at will,
Were singing songs – not greatly needed!
Thus in their ears he sharply sang,
And notes of indignation ran, –
Notes, after all, not greatly heeded.
Erelong the coach was on the top:
"Now," said the fly, "my hearties, stop
And breathe; – I have got you up the hill;
And Messrs. Horses, let me say,
I need not ask you if you will
A proper compensation pay."

Thus certain ever-bustling noddies
Are seen in every great affair;
Important, swelling, busy-bodies,
And bores It's easier to bear
Than chase them from their needless care.

"<<Seven Steps to Success:> 1) Make a commitment to grow daily.

2) Value the process more than events.

3) Don't wait for inspiration.

4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.

5) Dream big.

6) Plan your priorities.

7) Give up to go up.>"
— John C. Maxwell

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.

"The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off." — Daniel Naroditsky

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." — John Wooden

In 2002 Sergey Karjakin became a grandmaster at the age of 12 years and 7 months, a record at that time.

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

The Human Seasons
by John Keats

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves

To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness—to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

Maurice Williams, the rhythm and blues singer and composer behind the classic ballad "Stay," died on Aug. 6. He was 86, according to the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame's announcement. Williams, who became a one hit wonder with the Zodiacs, wrote and performed music with other harmony groups throughout the 1960s. "Stay" rose to No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart in 1960, and was one of the shortest top songs of the era. The ballad was the Zodiac's only hit, and went on to be featured in the Dirty Dancing soundtrack and covered by the Four Seasons and Jackson Browne. According to a 2012 interview with a North Carolina publication, the song was inspired by Williams' teen-age crush, Mary Shropshire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z... The story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_V...

Chessgames.com will be unavailable August 27, 2024 from 2:45PM through 3:00PM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Igor Oleksandrovych Novikov: Wikipedia article: Igor Novikov (chess player)

* Oldest recorded game: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XyQx...

* Mysterious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2R...

* Tal tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbY...

* '77 classics: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DdYL...

<<Writing from his experience of the devastation of World War I, Edwardian poet <Alfred Noyes'> well-known "On the Western Front" speaks from the perspective of soldiers buried in graves marked by simple crosses, asking that their deaths not be in vain. Praise of the dead was not what the dead needed, but peace made by the living. An excerpt:>

We, who lie here, have nothing more to pray.
To all your praises we are deaf and blind.
We may not ever know if you betray
Our hope, to make earth better for mankind.>

"Rooks need each other in the middlegame. This is why one should generally strive to keep their rooks connected until the opposing queen is off the board. She'll snare 'em (usually from a centralized square on an open diagonal or perhaps a poisoned pawn approach of the unprotected b2/b7 and g2/g7 square next to the occupied corner) if the two rooks aren't protecting each other." ― Fredthebear

"In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end." ― Tom Seaver

<This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!> ― Fort Minor

Objective: Know how to perform mixed operations with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

If the calculations involve a combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division then

Step 1: First, perform the multiplication and division from left to right.

Step 2: Then, perform addition and subtraction from left to right.

Example:
Calculate 9 × 2 – 10 ÷ 5 + 1 =

Solution:
9 × 2 – 10 ÷ 5 + 1 (perform multiplication)

= 18 – 10 ÷ 5 + 1 (perform division)

= 18 – 2 + 1 (perform subtraction)

= 16 + 1 (perform addition)

= 17

* 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"

Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed.

"I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything." — Hulk Hogan

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.

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

In a single game of chess, there are 400 possible moves after each move played. It is possible to checkmate your opponent in just two moves.

Chess is a required school subject in Armenia. Since the 2011-2012 school year, chess lessons have been made a part of the curriculum in every public school in Armenia, making it the first country in the world to make chess mandatory in schools.

Psalm 8 King James Version

8 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

CHESS

Meet me then, within this grid,
this little wooden battlefield as equals,
as we forget our bodies to inhabit these pieces, control these spaces, trade threats and responses, send our thoughts out into possible positions, our eyes imagining nothing but sweet forks and lancing fianchettoes. We chessplayers, pretend enemies, bound to our miniature war inexplicably & inescapably: when did we find ourselves so obsessed, insidiously seduced to advances and exchanges, lost inside this abyss of infinite moves, willing servants of its rules?

― Rael

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.

"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

"The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of everyone. It is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. A free government cannot exist without religion and morals, and there cannot be morals without religion. Especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. It is the best school book in the world. I would that all our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book." ― Zachary Taylor

Deuteronomy 6:6-9: "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."

Isaiah 66:24
24 "And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

This poem is dedicated to Harris my chessplayer friend and literary commentator.

Chess The Final Metaphor

It was in a cesspool behind the place of his cousin Nick That in this pool of sewage, was born the freak called frick. On dark nights he hysterically wailed in his pool of slimy mess: "Oh why oh why, can't I play the game that humans call chess"? As the morning sun rose, begged the queen of the mighty king: Sire, can you not order the death of this awful filthy thing"? Wisely he replied: "no, I'll let frick live forever in distress While he must watch others enjoy themselves playing chess."

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

"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." — Max De Pree

"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

Ztown Robert o Zelcic or Urich? kNot Indy district of Zangilan.

"<Here's to you and here's to me, Wherever we may roam;
And here's to the health and happiness
Of the ones who are left at home>"
— Anonymous

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." — Mark Twain

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

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." — Calvin Coolidge

Psalm 96: 1-3
Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.

Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT
Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight

Q: Why did the star get arrested?
A: Because it was a shooting star.

Q: What does a star win in a competition?
A: A constellation prize.

Q: What kind of books do romantic aliens like to read? A: Love star-ries.

Q: What do starlets like to read before bed?
A: Comet books.

Q: What do you call two celebrities who get into a gun fight? A: One is a shooting star, and the other is a falling star.

"All good things must come to an end." — Geoffrey Chaucer

Mendelevium Md 101 (258) 1.3