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"Chess makes a man wiser & clear-sighted." – Vladimir Putin "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
― William Westmoreland
Without freedom of speech, we wouldn't know who the idiots are. 
click for larger viewThese are the games in Neil McDonald's introductory book 'Starting Out: The Dutch Defence' by Everyman Chess (buy it here: http://www.everymanbooks.com/displa...) "Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe "It is a profound mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned." ― Richard Reti "Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers."
― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel
The Hare and the Tortoise
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart
Avails not without a timely start.
The hare and tortoise are my witnesses.
Said tortoise to the swiftest thing that is,
"I'll bet that you'll not reach, so soon as I
The tree on yonder hill we spy."
"So soon! Why, madam, are you frantic?"
Replied the creature, with an antic;
"Pray take, your senses to restore,
A grain or two of hellebore.'
"Say," said the tortoise, "what you will;
I dare you to the wager still."
It was done; the stakes were paid,
And near the goal tree laid –
Of what, is not a question for this place,
Nor who it was that judged the race.
Our hare had scarce five jumps to make,
Of such as he is wont to take,
When, starting just before their beaks
He leaves the hounds at leisure,
Thence till the kalends of the Greeks,
The sterile heath to measure.
Thus having time to browse and doze,
And list which way the zephyr blows,
He makes himself content to wait,
And let the tortoise go her gait
In solemn, senatorial state.
She starts; she moils on, modestly and lowly,
And with a prudent wisdom hastens slowly;
But he, meanwhile, the victory despises,
Thinks lightly of such prizes,
Believes it for his honour
To take late start and gain on her.
So, feeding, sitting at his ease,
He meditates of what you please,
Till his antagonist he sees
Approach the goal; then starts,
Away like lightning darts:
But vainly does he run;
The race is by the tortoise won.
Cries she, "My senses do I lack?
What boots your boasted swiftness now?
You're beat! and yet, you must allow,
I bore my house on my back."
A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che... * Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv... A Windsong by Ray Paquette (1984):
As you set sail for new horizons
May a brisk fair wind be with you
May your journey provide that mixture of
Joy, contentment, love and excitement
That gives rise to zestful anticipation
Of new adventures together.
May you cheerfully weather
the unavoidable storms together
And steer as clear of all obstacles
As the currents allow
May God Bless and keep you
Bon Voyage
* Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin... Below is the acrostic poem by Mrs T.B. Rowland:
Tears now we sadly shed apart,
How keenly has death's sudden dart
E'en pierced a kingdom's loyal heart.
Dark lies the heavy gloomy pall
Upon our royal bower,
Kings, queens, and nations bow their heads,
Each mourn for England's flower.
Oh! God, to her speak peace divine,
For now no voice can soothe but thine.
Ah, why untimely snatched away,
Loved Prince – alas, we sigh –
Before thy sun its zenith reached
Athwart the noonday sky.
Noble in heart, in deed, and will,
Years hence thy name we'll cherish still.
That poem was published on pages 140-141 of Chess Fruits (Dublin, 1884) "The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."
— Criss Jami
Thank you Qindarka!
"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 The Gulf of Tonkin Incident led to a full United States intervention in Vietnam. On August 2, 1964, the US spy ship USS Maddox sailed in the Gulf of Tonkin only to find itself attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. They fired back, damaging all three ships and forcing the attackers to retreat. On August 4, the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy detected more torpedo boats and opened fire. In hindsight, however, the second attack proved nothing more than panic, and that the USN may have detected and fired on simply flying fish. At the time, though, it led the US Congress to call on US President Lyndon B. Johnson to take the necessary measures to stop communist aggression. President Johnson responded by beginning a three-year bombing campaign over Vietnam, and later, across Indochina. Identify knight forks.
Q: What do you call a cat that likes to eat beans?
A: Puss 'n' Toots!
Q: What do you call a clown who's in jail?
A: A silicon!
Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
A: No eye deer!!
Q: What do you call a three-footed aardvark?
A: A yardvark!
Q: What do you call a dancing lamb?
A: A baaaaaa-llerina!
Q: What do you call a meditating wolf?
A: Aware wolf!
Q: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
A: A sand-witch!
Q: What do you call an avocado that's been blessed by the pope?
A: Holy Guacamole!
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‘The Unchecked Pawn': A Chess Poem by Julian Woodruff The Unchecked Pawn
Quickly Black castled king-side and planned his attack.
White then countered with confidence, primed for a sack,
with the sneakiest strategy he could contrive:
nonchalantly he pushed his f-pawn to rank 5.
I'll just nab it, thought Black, but wait … what's going on?
Devil take it, I'm sure that's a poisonous pawn! Black surveyed the board carefully. Ah, yes! I see,
that white bishop is poised to attack from c3.
Black was pleased with himself: he was using his head
in advancing his own pawn to g5 instead.
In response White paused briefly to stifle a yawn,
then dispatched the black bishop with his cheeky pawn. Now White's move left that pawn hanging, out on e6,
over-ripe for the picking; but oh, what a fix
Black was in, with a troublingly weakened back rank,
and good reason, besides, to beware his left flank.
Delay now, and the chance to fight back will be gone.
Black played rook to a5, disregarding White's pawn. Well, there's pawn to b4 … White considered a while.
An attack on Black's rook would be showing some style.
No, it's better I simply play pawn to e7:
Remember Alekhine in 1911!
What a nuisance! thought Black, frowning. Oh, how I long
To be rid of that confounded d7 pawn!
But there's also White's queen, lurking there … what a fright!
I'll block her with the bishop while threatening his knight.
With a faint smile, White then replied, sealing Black's fate:
pawn takes knight and promotes to queen—instant checkmate!
Black stared down at the board, his face pallid and drawn;
he'd been crushed through ignoring White's bantam-weight pawn. Alekhine: Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) was a Russian and French chess champion. Chess master Georges Koltanowski was best known for his blindfold chess performances, a form of chess where players do not see or touch the pieces. The players have to remember the position in their mind as it changes after each unviewable move is announced aloud. In 1937 in Edinburgh Scotland, Koltanowski set a world record in the Guinness Book of Records by playing 34 games simultaneously, 24 won and 10 drawn, 0 lost in 13.5 hours, all blindfolded.
He set another world record in 1960 in San Francisco, where he played 56 consecutive games of blindfold chess at ten seconds per move in which he won 50 and drew 6 games. "The successful farmer is said to have a "green thumb" since everything he touches spring into fruitful bloom. In chess, (Miguel) Najdorf has a similar gift. Combinations blossom in his games like buds in a fertile garden." — Hans Kmoch St. Luke
Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Drive sober or get pulled over.
"For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." — Assiac Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.' — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
"Here's to you and here's to me,
Wherever we may roam;
"There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be." – Anonymous
"It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish." "Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." — Francis Bacon The cat's play is the mouse's death. ~ German Proverb "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
― Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." 2pry Zeitnot Zshaa-Tichondrius - 601 Disc Priest 226 Ilvl - 27750 RBG zek247 dint undrstnd Ziyatdinov's planto ignore the LSB on deck of the carrier. Blindfold chess record holder Georges Koltanowski was a warm, friendly man with anecdotes and a folksy maxim. "Pawns are like buttons," he liked to say. "Lose too many and your pants fall down." Georges Koltanowski, chess player, Belgium champion, blindfold world record holder, U.S. Open tournament director, USCF president, author, prolific newspaper columnist, coach, guest lecturer and showman, born September 17, 1903 in Antwerp, Belgium; died February 5, 2000 in San Francisco, California, USA. Koltanowski, the "Dean of American chess" died at age 96 due to heart failure. "Kolti" as he was often called, was one of three founder members inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame, with Paul Morphy, the first great US champion, and the preeminent Bobby Fischer. "Debt is dumb. Cash is king." — Dave Ramsey "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
"There are good ships, and there are wood ships, ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships, and may they always be." – Anonymous "A health to the man on the trail tonight; may his grub hold out; may his dogs keep their legs; may his matches never misfire." – Jack London "I've traveled many a highway
I've walked for many a mile
Here's to the people who made my day
To the people who waved and smiled."
– Tom T. Hall
"To adventure and fellowship!" – Jeff Bezo "It is good to have an end to the journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end." – Ernest Hemingway "Here's to us that are here, to you that are there, and the rest of us everywhere."
– Rudyard Kipling
"With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding." – Sandra Lake "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." – Lao Tzu "A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships were built for." – John A. Shedd "Here's to blue skies and green lights." – Anonymous "May your joys be as deep as the ocean, and your misfortunes as light as its foam." – Irish Toast – Anonymous "Not all those who wander are lost." – J. R. R. Tolkien "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson "Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator." – Robert Orben "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." – Andre Gide "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
– Mark Twain
"Here's to wives and sweethearts.May they never meet!" - R "Part went for liquor, part went for women, and the rest I spent foolishly." useless bit of information....a shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. "Keep the people in the boat, and the water out of the boat."
(Sailing Instructor's toast)
Re: Nautical toasts
"To the ship that goes, the wind that blows and the lass who loves a sailor" "Fair winds and following seas"
"Ten fingers, twelve toes, good docking"
"Once again we have failed to die"
"Here's to you and here's to me the finest friends we'll always be, and should we every disagree, well up yours and here's to me" "Here's to being in a boat with a drink on the rocks rather than being in the drink with a boat on the rocks" "May your jib never luff"
"Mozart is the heart's touchstone" (Edwin Fischer) May you never see the back of your own neck.
And never put anything in your ear except your elbow.
Words of wisdom passed down from my father.
"It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose." - Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands I don't cuss much for a sailor - that said, I may cuss to much for a preacher...
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