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B50s Lost in the 50s Tonight
Compiled by fredthebear

It's the Modern Variation in chess...

When it comes to music...

* https://www.bing.com/search?q=back+...

"Alls was great in the 50's and up till about 1963 when the Beatles, free love and hippies came on the scene." Then again, Pontiac came out with the GTO in 1964!!!! (Viet Nam, the draft, assassinations, and the Civil Rights movement certainly had an impact.) * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igo...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMu...

* 1970s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-o... * For kids that had 3 dogs and a bullfrog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtY... * For happy girls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMX... * This song is about yo' momma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTu... * This song has to be included - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvJ... * You've heard this one; the remake caint holt a candle to the original - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr_... * Lordy only knows how many times I've sang along to this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rci... * Not sure how to explain this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDp... * This little ditty is a toe tapper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvU... If you aint feelin' good by now, you might need a new addiction, an older woman (Erma Bombeck?), a different hairstyle (maybe just a cocked hat), sarsaparilla, the book of Proverbs, a deck of cards, bike ride, two hour bath, adopt-a-pet, or a Richard Dryfus movie re-run. Me? I'd go hit the used book store or take a kid fishin' along a rocky point/dam (use worm, single hook, and bobber) and it's all good as long as there's a slight breeze to keep the flies & skeeters away. If it's a perfect blue bird day, settle for the water park, horse farm, or bowling alley. That'd be a ballfield or skating rink back in the day, or hangin' in the tree house.

Turn of the Century Contestants
* Set it free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-... * Dream your dream, then form a plan and DO something about it!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0I...
* Wild Horses will try to drag you away...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJI...
* Think you've got it hard?~? Remember the days gone by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKe...

So, the next time someone tries to tell you that the latest thing is the greatest thing ever, forget it. The best days are behind us, but good times are still ahead. (LeBronze fans need to hear that.)

Who said...? "The greatness of a man can always be measured by his willingness to be kind" (...especially helpful to those who cannot return the favor).

<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.>

Rebuy

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people." ― Magnus Carlsen

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

"After we have paid our dutiful respects to such frigid virtues as calculation, foresight, self-control and the like, we always come back to the thought that speculative attack is the lifeblood of chess." — Fred Reinfeld

"It is impossible to keep one's excellence in a glass case, like a jewel, and take it out whenever it is required." ― Adolf Anderssen, 1858

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

"There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England." ― Sir Edward Coke

"Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing." ― Robin Sharma

"I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest." ― Andrew Carnegie

"Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have." ― Richard Carlson

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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)

"...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … with discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self-confidence born of demonstrated ability." ― George S. Patton Jr.

"Where there's a will, there's a way."

"An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard." ― Savielly Tartakover

"In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force." ― Bobby Fischer, A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)

Zwickmuhle: to be in a quandry/predicament/ double bind/catch-22 situation, to be in a dilemma

Eyes trust themselves, ears trust others. ~ German Proverb

Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times.

"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious." ― Zhuangzi

"In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns." ― Wilhelm Steinitz

"The eighth square at last! Oh how glad I am to get here. And what is this on my head?" ― Alice (in Through The Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll)

"A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess." ― Alexandra Kosteniuk

"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil." ― JP Getty

"There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat." ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

"Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable." ― Hikaru Nakamura

"Most people work just hard enough to not get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit." ― George Carlin

"Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings." ― Lavie Tidhar, The Bookman

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." — Albert Einstein

"To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it." — Jack Burden, All The King's Men

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." — Jimmy Dean

"Chess is above all, a fight!" — Emanuel Lasker

"In chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth" — Edmar Mednis

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

"You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or not, she must face her losses and her helplessness to undo them." — Sheldon B. Kopp

"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 "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

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

"A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only difficult, but almost a matter of course." — Savielly Tartakower.

"Knowing which pieces you want to be exchanged is a great help in finding the right moves." — Graham Burgess

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

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

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

"I don't think you can really compare anyone to Fischer and I have high respect for him – he's one of the greatest chess players who ever lived!" — Wesley so

"Fischer…is abnormally sensitive to the slightest noise in the hall…Then there are other players, among them Spassky, Viktor Korchnoi, and myself. For us, it is simply boring to play in an empty hall. When we appear on the stage, we are artistes." — Mikhail Tal

"He went out of his way to provoke the opponent to attack, and, reeking of contempt and crusader's zeal, devoted himself to consolidating some of the most hideously unconsolidated positions ever seen on a chessboard." — Robert Byrne on Wilhelm Steinitz

"The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary." ― Aaron Nimzowitsch

Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy:
"Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived, he would beat anybody today in a set-match. He had complete sight of the board and seldom blundered even though he moved quite rapidly. I've played over hundreds of his games and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity."

Fredthebear gathered this collection.

"He (Jose R. Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art." ― Philip W. Sergeant

"Beautiful, cold, remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability." ― Raymond Chandler (on a Capablanca game)

"What others could not see in a month's study, he saw at a glance." ― Reuben Fine (on Capablanca)

"Capablanca invariably chose the right option, no matter how intricate the position." ― Garry Kasparov.

"Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong." — Donald Porter

"It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customer's' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship." — Mark Cuban

"Only once customer service has become habitual will a company realize its true potential." — Than Merrill

"Customers don't care about your policies. Find and engage the need. Tell the customer what you can do." — Alice Sesay Pope

"Always keep in mind the old retail adage: Customers remember the service a lot longer than they remember the price." — Lauren Freedman

"Here is a powerful yet simple rule. Always give people more than they expect to get." — Nelson Boswell

"Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them." — Kevin Stirtz

"The customer is always right." — Harry Gordon Selfridge (Not hardly says FTB.)

"Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia." ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

"Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!" ― Napoléon Bonaparte

"Be your own Sunshine. Always." ― Purvi Raniga

"Most promises featuring the word 'always' are unkeepable." ― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

"You should never say never. Just like you should never say always; because, always and never are always never true." ― J. R. Krol

"Never and Always

Never take advantage of someone whom loves you
Never avoid someone whom needs you
Never betray anyone whom has trust in you
Never forget the people that always remember you Never speak ill of a person who is not present
Never support something you know is wrong or unethical Always speak to your parents on their birthday and anniversary Always defend those who cannot defend themselves Always forgive those you love whom have made mistakes Always give something to those less fortunate than you Always remember to look back at those who helped you succeed Always call your parents and siblings on New Year's Eve." ― R.J. Intindola

American flags left on the moon will eventually get bleached white by the sun.

* Art: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate

* Assorted good games: Game Collection: assorted Good games

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

* Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Blowing Away the Castled King: Game Collection: Attack The King's Pocket

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

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

* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game

* Chicago, 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEp...

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

* Champion miniatures: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions

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

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

* Clutch Chess: A new knockout format: Clutch Champions Showdown (2020)

* Cool Math/Board Games: https://www.coolmathgames.com/1-boa...

* Deadly Battery: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

* Evans / Boris Gambit Guide: Game Collection: Evans Gambit

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

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

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

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

* LG - White wins: Game Collection: Latvian Gambit-White wins

* A great decade of chess: Game Collection: Mil y Una Partidas 1950-1959

* Great Attacks: Game Collection: great attack games

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

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

* Black Storms: Game Collection: Tal - The Modern Benoni

* Norway Blitz: Norway Chess (Blitz) (2019)

* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black

* Diagrammed Checkmate Patterns: Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns

* Defensive Replies to the Queen's Pawn: Game Collection: e6 after 1.d4

* Lekhika Dhariyal Chess Ops: https://www.zupee.com/blog/category...

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

* Dubov comes in 2nd place to you-know-who: FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial (2020)

* Many gambits from all openings by ECO code: https://www.jimmyvermeer.com/openin...

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

* elmubarak: my fav games: Game Collection: elmubarak: my fav games

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

* List of gambits: https://detailedpedia.com/wiki-List...

* Game with ...e6: Game Collection: Partidas modelo con temas variados

* The Gaw-Paw? Game Collection: GA PA Wins Draws by Black

* 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000)

* ICA Youth Resources: https://www.il-chess.org/index.php?...

* katar's hack attack: Game Collection: An Opium Repertoire for White

* Kingpin magazine: https://www.kingpinchess.net/

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

* Most Common Openings: http://www.chesskids.org.uk/grownup...

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

* Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED!

* Plenty to see: http://www.schackportalen.nu/Englis...

* POTD Scotch: Game Collection: POTD Scotch Game Scotch Gambit

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

* Pawns are the Soul of Chess: Game Collection: 0

* QP Bg2: Queen's Pawn Game (E00)

* Read The Planet Greenpawn - https://www.redhotpawn.com/

* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures

* Reasonable book choices: https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell...

* Spassky could bring the heat: Game Collection: Spassky's Best Games (Cafferty)

* Ten books for aspiring masters: http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2023...

* Stunners: Game Collection: Stunners

* Sicilians: Game Collection: Sicilian/French/Westerimen and other ...c5,...e6

* Sicilian O'Kelly leaves White all kinds of choices: Opening Explorer

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

* Two-day Online Blitz: Chessbrah May Invitational (2020)

* 12-player Online Super-Tournament won by Nakamura: Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge (2020)

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

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

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

"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...

* Bobby Fischer playing White against the Sicilian: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Bill Wall should have been on beer commercials crushing empty beer cans with his bare hands: Bill Wall

* Yasser's Book: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics

* Wild: Game Collection: Wild Games!

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

* Wikipedia on Computer Chess: Wikipedia article: Computer chess

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

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

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

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

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

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

'Don't put the cart before the horse'

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

Alaska: Kodiak
Established in: 1792

Kodiak is the main city in Kodiak Island and was founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov. It was first called Pavlovsk Gavan, which is Russian for Paul's Harbor, and was the first capital of Russian Alaska. You can still find a large Russian Orthodox church there, as well as plenty of beautiful views.

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

* Chess Principles: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm...

* World Championship matches: https://lichess.org/page/world-cham...

PRF

Lord Dunsany wrote what is perhaps the finest chess poem ever written. It marked the death of R.H.S. Stevenson and was published on page 74 of the April 1943 BCM:

One art they say is of no use;
The mellow evenings spent at chess,
The thrill, the triumph, and the truce
To every care, are valueless.

And yet, if all whose hopes were set
On harming man played chess instead,
We should have cities standing yet
Which now are dust upon the dead.

Oct-09-11 FSR: After 1.e4 e5, 2.Ba6?? is the worst move by a country mile. After that, probably 2.b4 and 2.Ke2 are the worst. 2.Qg4 and 2.g4 are also pretty bad. White still has equality after 2.Qh5, so it's actually not a <terrible> move.

Forcing moves: <The great Australian correspondence champion and teacher Cecil Purdy advised: In every position look at all checks and captures, and jump-mates, jump-checks, and jump-captures.

'Jump-moves' -- are moves that would be possible if an obstructing piece were removed.

This bit of advice comes from a book by GM Andrew Soltis -- it's called "The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess" (Batsford, 2008) -- 288 chess maxims and a short (1 page) bit of explanation and annotated example.>

The Night
BY HENRY VAUGHAN
John 3.2

Through that pure virgin shrine,
That sacred veil drawn o'er Thy glorious noon, That men might look and live, as glowworms shine, And face the moon,
Wise Nicodemus saw such light
As made him know his God by night.

Most blest believer he!
Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes
Thy long-expected healing wings could see,
When Thou didst rise!
And, what can never more be done,
Did at midnight speak with the Sun!

O who will tell me where
He found Thee at that dead and silent hour?
What hallowed solitary ground did bear
So rare a flower,
Within whose sacred leaves did lie
The fulness of the Deity?

No mercy-seat of gold,
No dead and dusty cherub, nor carved stone,
But His own living works did my Lord hold
And lodge alone;
Where trees and herbs did watch and peep
And wonder, while the Jews did sleep.

Dear night! this world's defeat;
The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat
Which none disturb!
Christ's progress, and His prayer time;
The hours to which high heaven doth chime;

God's silent, searching flight;
When my Lord's head is filled with dew, and all His locks are wet with the clear drops of night; His still, soft call;
His knocking time; the soul's dumb watch,
When spirits their fair kindred catch.

Were all my loud, evil days
Calm and unhaunted as is thy dark tent,
Whose peace but by some angel's wing or voice
Is seldom rent,
Then I in heaven all the long year
Would keep, and never wander here.

But living where the sun
Doth all things wake, and where all mix and tire Themselves and others, I consent and run
To every mire,
And by this world's ill-guiding light,
Err more than I can do by night.

There is in God, some say,
A deep but dazzling darkness, as men here
Say it is late and dusky, because they
See not all clear.
O for that night! where I in Him
Might live invisible and dim!

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.>

Democritus and the People Of Abdera

How do I hate the tide of vulgar thought!
Profane, unjust, with childish folly fraught;
It breaks and bends the rays of truth divine,
And by its own conceptions measures mine.
Famed Epicurus' master tried
The power of this unstable tide.
His country said the sage was mad –
The simpletons! But why?
No prophet ever honour had
Beneath his native sky.
Democritus, in truth, was wise;
The mass were mad, with faith in lies.
So far this error went,
That all Abdera sent
To old Hippocrates
To cure the sad disease.
"Our townsman," said the messengers,
Appropriately shedding tears,
"Has lost his wits! Democritus,
By study spoiled, is lost to us.
Were he but filled with ignorance,
We should esteem him less a dunce.
He says that worlds like this exist,
An absolutely endless list, –
And peopled, even, it may be,
With countless hosts as wise as we!
But, not contented with such dreams,
His brain with viewless "atoms" teems,
Instinct with deathless life, it seems.
And, never stirring from the sod below,
He weighs and measures all the stars;
And, while he knows the universe,
Himself he does not know.
Though now his lips he strictly bars,
He once delighted to converse.
Come, godlike mortal, try your art divine
Where traits of worst insanity combine!"
Small faith the great physician lent,
But still, perhaps more readily, he went.
And mark what meetings strange
Chance causes in this world of change!
Hippocrates arrived in season,
Just as his patient (void of reason!)
Was searching whether reason's home,
In talking animals and dumb,
Be in the head, or in the heart,
Or in some other local part.
All calmly seated in the shade,
Where brooks their softest music made,
He traced, with study most insane,
The convolutions of a brain;
And at his feet lay many a scroll –
The works of sages on the soul.
Indeed, so much absorbed was he,
His friend, at first, he did not see.
A pair so admirably matched,
Their compliments erelong despatched.
In time and talk, as well as dress,
The wise are frugal, I confess.
Dismissing trifles, they began
At once with eagerness to scan
The life, and soul, and laws of man;
Nor stopped till they had travelled over all
The ground, from, physical to moral.
My time and space would fail
To give the full detail.

But I have said enough to show
How little It's the people know.
How true, then, goes the saw abroad –
Their voice is but the voice of God?

There are 8 species of bears found worldwide. All bears are considered omnivores, but each species has a preferred diet.

Riddle: The one who has it does not keep it. It is large and small. It is any shape.

Bears like 'em too!

Answer: A gift.

Bears can weigh from 27 kg to 700 kg, and typically stand between 1 to 3 meters tall. During winter, bears hibernate up to 100 days.

<Nicole wrote:

I'm not a piece in your chess game...
I'm not a pawn in your chess game,
I'm not the person who takes the blame,
I'm not a person who can use for fame,
You act like i'm an embarrassment of shame.

But I realise my worth now,
The leader of the pack: a crowd,
The turning revolution of endow,
The piece in your game who steals the king's crown.

I'm not a piece in your chess game,
Instead, I'm you addiction which you will try to reclaim, Whilst I light my furious flames.>

"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

Fifteen fantastic facts about agriculture...

Ninety-nine percent of all U.S. farms are owned by individuals, family partnerships or family corporations.

Farmers will have to grow 70 percent more food than what is currently produced to feed the world's growing population by 2050.

Each American farmer produces food and fiber for 165 people annually, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Eight percent of U.S. farms market foods locally through farmers' markets and food hubs.

One day's production for a high-producing dairy cow yields 10.5 pounds of cheese.

Women make up 30 percent of today's farmers.

More than 20 percent of all farmers are beginning farmers.

There are 257,454 millennial farmers.

Texas has 248,809 farms, more than any other state in the nation.

About 25 percent of all U.S. agricultural products by value are exported yearly.

Careful stewardship by America's farmers spurred a 44 percent decline in erosion of cropland by wind and water since 1982.

One-third of the U.S. or 750 million acres, is covered with trees.

Many of the products we use in our everyday lives are byproducts of food produced by America's farmers and ranchers – everything from detergents and paints to X-ray film and crayons, textbooks, chalk and strings for musical instruments.

An acre of land is about the same size as a football field.

Biotechnology saved the Hawaiian papaya industry after a virus nearly wiped the crop out. — Focus On Agriculture | AUG 15, 2017, fb.org

The Earthen Pot and the Iron Pot

An iron pot proposed
To an earthen pot a journey.
The latter was opposed,
Expressing the concern he
Had felt about the danger
Of going out a ranger.
He thought the kitchen hearth
The safest place on earth
For one so very brittle.
"For you, who art a kettle,
And have a tougher skin,
There's nothing to keep you in."
"I'll be your body-guard,"
Replied the iron pot;
"If anything that's hard
Should threaten you a jot,
Between you I will go,
And save you from the blow."
This offer him persuaded.
The iron pot paraded
Himself as guard and guide
Close at his cousin's side.
Now, in their tripod way,
They hobble as they may;
And eke together bolt
At every little jolt, –
Which gives the crockery pain;
But presently his comrade hits
So hard, he dashes him to bits,
Before he can complain.

Take care that you associate
With equals only, lest your fate
Between these pots should find its mate.

"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

In 2016, a Michigan-based priest named Gerald Johnson suffered a heart attack. He says he had a near-death experience that sent him somewhere he never thought he'd visit: Hell.

Johnson says that immediately after his heart attack in February 2016, his spirit left his physical body and went down to hell, entering through "the very center of the Earth." Though he says "the things I saw there are indescribable," he did his best.

Johnson claims he saw a man walking on all fours like a dog and getting burned from head to toe:

"His eyes were bulging and worse than that: He was wearing chains on his neck. He was like a hellhound. There was a demon holding the chains."

This poem is dedicated to PhillA, who
sparked off the seed for this poem.

The Stark Naked King

When the challenge arrived from the ax wielding Philla "I must hurry and offer a bribe to his queen, thought nova, to avoid a merciless onslaught ending in bloody gore". Alas, the challenge had been secretly sent the day before. There he stood with ax and all at the castle's gate, While teasingly sending in a not-so-holy bishop as bait. High on the castle's wall nova bellowed: dump the boiling oil, To force the ax-man with his troops to screamingly recoil. To no avail, Philla hurled his castle straight upon the king, Who standing stark naked, tried to hide his private thing. So nova quickly conceded out of shameful desperation and Philla gently lowering the ax accepted nova's resignation.

While they are hibernating, bears do not urinate. Their bodies convert waste into protein.

The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph. According to Guinness World Records, the first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz—but since the speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today's standards. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s and earning Arnold the speedy distinction.

Quads

<Hush-a-bye, Baby

Hush-a-bye, Baby, upon the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
Down tumbles cradle and Baby and all.>

Feb-22-23 stone free or die: Thanks Fred for that note. At some point this topic should get brought up on the Bistro, and a proper survey of de facto usage of the various other db's made.

Feb-23-23 petemcd85: FSR: btw, has the site stopped uploading games submitted by users? The link below explains how to upload or request, to upload games: PGN Upload Utility

Usually, if its a lot of games or a tournament, You can let me know on the support forum and i will get to it as soon as possible: support forum:
chessgames.com chessforum

Please include the link to where I can find the games in PGN format. It will help get the games up quicker

Some of the sites I recommend to find reliable PGNs would be: TheWeek In Chess:
https://theweekinchess.com/a-year-o...

chess24.com:
https://chess24.com/en/dashboard'

****

P.S. The FIDE rating of the player must be over 2200 for us to upload games .

Feb-23-23 FSR: <petemcd85> I know how to upload games to the site. Hundreds of games on this site were submitted by me. However, for the past week or so, some of the games that I have submitted have not been added to the database for some reason. Is this because the games were played by me or another player whose FIDE rating is below 2200? If so, that is a departure from prior practice of many years standing. Who authorized this?

<A Burnt Ship
By John Donne (1572-1631)

Out of a fired ship, which by no way
But drowning could be rescued from the flame,
Some men leap'd forth, and ever as they came
Near the foes' ships, did by their shot decay;
So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown'd.>

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

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

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

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

<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.>

"mãos frias, coração quente". In English, it means "a cold hand, a warm heart"

Drive sober or get pulled over.

"For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." — Assiac

"mais vale um passarinho na mão do que dois a voar"

Switch your car insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds.

"The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do." — Gerald Abrahams

"Examine moves that smite! A good eye for smites is far more important than a knowledge of strategical principles." — C.J.S. Purdy

Fredthebear says exercise, prayer, and poetry are good for you.

Raise

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!

Overbet

* Know the five fundamental rules of firearm safety:

- Treat every gun as if it is loaded.

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

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

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

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

A tiny chameleon discovered in northern Madagascar and measuring just 28.9 millimeters is believed to be the smallest reptile on Earth. The itty bitty chameleon was recently discovered and reported in the January 2021 issue of Scientific Reports.

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

With an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,760 kilometers), Earth is the biggest of the terrestrial planets and the fifth largest planet in our solar system.

<God our Father, Lord, and Savior

Thank you for your love and favor

Bless this food and drink we pray

And all who share with us today.

In our Savior Jesus name,

Amen.>

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored." — Billy Graham

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

* Riddle-zapapa-dee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...

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

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

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." ― Yogi Berra, one of the greatest Yankees of all time

Dick Cavitt: "And you like that moment of just crushing the guy?"

RJ Fischer: "Right *nodding and smiling*, yeah."

Chessgames.com will be unavailable January 16, 2024 from 12:15PM through 12:45PM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience.

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.">

"There just isn't enough televised chess." — David Letterman

"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself." — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"True power is expressed in quiet confidence; it was the sea's very calmness that epitomized its mighty force." ― Emile Habiby

"Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of." ― Miguel Cervantes

Z is for Zipper (to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb")

Zipper starts with letter Z,
Letter Z, letter Z,
Zipper starts with Letter Z,
/z/, /z/, /z/, /z/!

Ace pincapable lllongheadzzz8

O Smiley auto parts

Sic Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Common unpin theme to know
Suetin vs P Travnicek, 1975
(B50) Sicilian, 8 moves, 1-0
Sic Modern Var (B50) Best to exchange c-pawn than defend it
P Michel vs J Traian Iliesco, 1943
(B50) Sicilian, 5 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Nxe4 poisoned pawn
A Pfeifer vs F Bedos, 2005
(B50) Sicilian, 5 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 P grabbing is punished
Carta vs Scarpata, 1980
(B50) Sicilian, 8 moves, 1-0
Delayed Sicilian Alapin 3.c3 Unpin miniature in 8 moves, 1-0
B Thelen vs NN, 1930
(B30) Sicilian, 8 moves, 1-0
Sic Modern Var (B50) Unique minor piece trap of Q grabbing pawn
Schult vs Dax, 1941
(B50) Sicilian, 9 moves, 1-0
Exchanges, then Q check and fork LPDO in the shooting gallery
G Wetscherek vs H Erhart, 1992
(B50) Sicilian, 10 moves, 1-0
Old Sicilian 3.c3 d5 (B30) 1-0 Pending Bb5 pin!
A Romero Echeverria vs E Nekrasova, 2014
(B30) Sicilian, 9 moves, 1-0
Unpin, Legall's Mate found in Reinfeld's Checkmate book
H Buckle vs NN, 1840
(B50) Sicilian, 10 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Delayed Alapin (B50) Pawn push creates Q+ & fork
Van Horenbeke vs M de Bolster, 1984
(B50) Sicilian, 7 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 b-pawn buster
G Stoltz vs V Ciocaltea, 1953
(B50) Sicilian, 17 moves, 0-1
Old Sicilian (B30) 1-0 Don't bring your queen out too early!
Fetzer vs Schmidt, 1951
(B30) Sicilian, 10 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Not sure what Black was thinking
Apra vs Furini, 1980
(B50) Sicilian, 10 moves, 1-0
Sic Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 The farther you get from home...
E Kostopoulos vs E Kerimov, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 10 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1/2-1/2 Rising stars
M Mosadeghpour vs M Marek, 2015
(B50) Sicilian, 11 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Wing Gambit. Deferred (B50) 1-0 P fork wins minor or Q
I Rivise vs J C Rather, 1945
(B50) Sicilian, 12 moves, 1-0
Sic Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Black plays giveaway starting w/Bxf7+
J Aulin-Jansson vs F Berend, 1982
(B50) Sicilian, 10 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def. Modern 5.Qxd4 (B50) 1-0Capture, Recapture, Q+ & F
B Kurajica vs Velimirovic, 1972
(B50) Sicilian, 15 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def Modern Bb5+ creativity (B50) 1-0 Pulsating Pins
E Tate vs C Curran, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 15 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 0-1 Bxf7+ Unpin action
Alshouha Basil vs Grischuk, 2014
(B50) Sicilian, 16 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Delayed Alapin(B50) 1-0Remove the Guard, Outnumber Be3
Kasparov vs L Evers, 1988
(B50) Sicilian, 16 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 1-0 Perhaps...
C Nanu vs V Nevednichy, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 16 moves, 1-0
it can be instructive to see great players lose a miniature
Petrosian vs Kotov, 1952
(B50) Sicilian, 17 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Modern. Anti-Qxd4 Move Order Accepted (B50) 1-0Worsens
Kaidanov vs de Firmian, 1995
(B50) Sicilian, 18 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 1/2-1/2 Kiev
S von Freymann vs M Makogonov, 1938
(B50) Sicilian, 18 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Wing Gambit. Deferred Var (B50) 1-0 Pin gets worse
Keres vs S Herseth, 1937
(B50) Sicilian, 19 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Mobility & Coordination
Yudasin vs A Lesiege, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 19 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 White has more captures
F Steil-Antoni vs C Haussernot, 2013
(B50) Sicilian, 19 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 0-1 Philidor's Legacy
S Duron Godoy vs V Garcia Castro, 2004
(B50) Sicilian, 20 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 Philidor's Legacy
NN vs T McCracken, 2007
(B50) Sicilian, 20 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) · 1-0
Keres vs Kavalek, 1969
(B50) Sicilian, 20 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 1-0 She'll mate
R Ekstrom vs I Rogers, 1985
(B50) Sicilian, 21 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 3-piece N fork
Areshchenko vs Sutovsky, 2005
(B50) Sicilian, 22 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Sac attack on 7th!
Firouzja vs M Zarkovic, 2019
(B50) Sicilian, 22 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern. Anti-Qxd4 Move Order (B50) 0-1 Turn the t
M Marlow vs I Snape, 2008
(B50) Sicilian, 23 moves, 0-1
Sicil Wing Gambit. Deferred (B50) 1-0 Sideways Swallow's Tail #
Tartakower vs J T Andor, 1952
(B50) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def. Modern Variations (B50) 1-0 A masterstroke!!
B Kovanova vs N Pogonina, 2010
(B50) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) · 1-0
I Nikolaidis vs A Katsori, 2006
(B50) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 14.?
P Popovic vs Marjanovic, 1979
(B50) Sicilian, 26 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 0-1
C Vinas Guerrero vs M Tissir, 2003
(B50) Sicilian, 27 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) · 1-0
J Levison vs B Babapour, 2011
(B50) Sicilian, 27 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Focus shifts to f7
Vasiukov vs A Schneider, 1983
(B50) Sicilian, 28 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Let's have some pictures
O Zimina vs K Cedikova, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 28 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Clearance sac into fork+
Kasparov vs P Yamamoto, 2004
(B50) Sicilian, 28 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def. Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Discovered + does it
F Amonatov vs D Gochelashvili, 2006
(B50) Sicilian, 29 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 0-1 Connected Rooks, R on 2nd
I Goutioudi vs L Rogule, 2006
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def. Delayed Alapin(B50) 1-0 N falls for Poisoned Pawn
Bacrot vs S Guliev, 1993
(B50) Sicilian, 38 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern Var 3.Bc4 Pseudo-Alapin (B50) 1-0
Aronian vs Leko, 2006
(B50) Sicilian, 38 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 R+ alleviates N fork
Vasiukov vs M I Nepomnishay, 1994
(B50) Sicilian, 40 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern Var Both 0-0-0 (B50) 0-1
W Sarwat vs V Gashimov, 2009
(B50) Sicilian, 40 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Round Eight, Game #43
Adams vs Gelfand, 1997
(B50) Sicilian, 41 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Sally Says...
J Aagaard vs E Ubilava, 2007
(B50) Sicilian, 43 moves, 1-0
Sicilian, Modern both 0-0-0 (B50) 1-0 White uses space advanta
Vasiukov vs B Arkhangelsky, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 44 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern like a Ruy Lopez (B50)1-0 R trap wins exch
J Waitzkin vs Browne, 1995
(B50) Sicilian, 45 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Simplification w/extra P
Vasiukov vs S Soylu, 1997
(B50) Sicilian, 48 moves, 1-0
Larsen: Mes 50 Meilleurs Parties, page 30
O Bernstein vs Larsen, 1954
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern (B50) 1-0 White Italian structure
N Pogonina vs L Schut, 2008
(B50) Sicilian, 50 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def. Modern / Bind (B50) 1-0 Knight pair swarms in
Vasiukov vs S Garcia Martinez, 1974
(B50) Sicilian, 38 moves, 1-0
Game 22 in The Art of Planning in Chess by GM Neil McDonald
Kasimdzhanov vs Anand, 2005
(B50) Sicilian, 38 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 1/2-1/2
Keres vs Bobotsov, 1970
(B50) Sicilian, 42 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) · 1-0
Keres vs H Ree, 1969
(B50) Sicilian, 38 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 0-1 Stockfish notes
B Kurajica vs Fischer, 1970
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 0-1blitz; notes by Stockfish
Tal vs Fischer, 1970
(B50) Sicilian, 51 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) · 1/2-1/2
Sveshnikov vs N Rashkovsky, 1973
(B50) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Zugzwang
F Vallejo Pons vs Shirov, 2002
(B50) Sicilian, 54 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var /Kopec System (B50) 1-0
R Gunajew vs M Othman, 2012
(B50) Sicilian, 44 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var /Kopec System (B50) 1-0
C Lakdawala vs C Brashers, 2000
(B50) Sicilian, 39 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Shades of Petrosian
A G Ashton vs R Eames, 2013
(B50) Sicilian, 42 moves, 1-0
Old Sicilian /Kopec System (B30) 1-0 both colors 0-0-0
G Welling vs P Cafolla, 2006
(B30) Sicilian, 43 moves, 1-0
Old Sicilian /Kopec System (B30) 0-1 both colors 0-0 quickly
D Paravyan vs V Minko, 2008
(B30) Sicilian, 63 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern (B50) 0-1 Interesting Ns & Ps ending
D Lobzhanidze vs Jobava, 1999
(B50) Sicilian, 83 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 0-1 Russian women
E Meshcheriakova vs N Pogonina, 2006
(B50) Sicilian, 48 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Short becomes IM
Short vs Andersson, 1980
(B50) Sicilian, 73 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
Kasparov vs V Rahn, 2000
(B50) Sicilian, 45 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def. Modern Bc4, d3, c3 (B50) 0-1Time trouble error
A Timofeev vs Kasparov, 2004
(B50) Sicilian, 42 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 0-1 Notes by Stockfish
Adams vs Kasparov, 1995
(B50) Sicilian, 41 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Fredthebear searched 51.?
V Malakhov vs I Khairullin, 2007
(B50) Sicilian, 53 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 0-1 World Junior Championship
R Lagunow vs Firouzja, 2018
(B50) Sicilian, 38 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Anti-Qxd4 Move Order (B50) 1/2-1/2 2 Hogs & 2 Bs
I Nataf vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2006
(B50) Sicilian, 31 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 189 My Best Games of Chess, 1905-1954 by Tartakower
J M Aitken vs Tartakower, 1947
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def: Modern. Anti-Qxd4 Move Order Accepted (B50) 0-1
M Litvinov vs D Gordievsky, 2016
(B50) Sicilian, 51 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 0-1 Wch U10
A Galymzhanov vs Y Hou, 2004
(B50) Sicilian, 56 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern. Anti-Qxd4 Move Order (B50) 1-0
Bogoljubov vs Gilg, 1949
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 1-0 Verona ITA
M Godena vs J Rowson, 2006
(B50) Sicilian, 39 moves, 1-0
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by David Bronstein, Game 8
Bronstein vs C Kottnauer, 1946
(B50) Sicilian, 42 moves, 1-0
Game 31 in 'Keres: Move by Move' by Zenon Franco Ocampos
Keres vs Ivkov, 1970
(B50) Sicilian, 37 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50) 0-1 Liverpool
J Rudd vs A David, 2007
(B50) Sicilian, 36 moves, 0-1
Nov-15-20 MordimerChess: Double discovered attack video link
Aronian vs Nepomniachtchi, 2020
(B50) Sicilian, 31 moves, 1-0
St. George Def: New St. George. Traditional (B00) 1-0 P chain
Browne vs Ljubojevic, 1972
(B00) Uncommon King's Pawn Opening, 40 moves, 1-0
Sicilian, Modern. Anti-Qxd4 Move Order Accepted (B50) 0-1B pair
P Romanovsky vs I Rabinovich, 1939
(B50) Sicilian, 40 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def: Modern. Anti-Qxd4 Move Order Accepted (B50) 1/2-
E Paehtz vs V Cmilyte, 2012
(B50) Sicilian, 58 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Def: Prins Variation. Venice Attack (B55) 0-1Stockfish
R Cardoso vs Fischer, 1957
(B55) Sicilian, Prins Variation, Venice Attack, 36 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (B51) 1-0 Pawn on the 6th
M Bartel vs Nepomniachtchi, 2015
(B51) Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack, 39 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 simul exhibition
Lasker vs D Polland, 1928
(B50) Sicilian, 34 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 Belgrade
M Czerniak vs Petrosian, 1954
(B50) Sicilian, 40 moves, 0-1
Game 60 in Bobby Fischer Rediscovered by Andy Soltis
A Bisguier vs Fischer, 1967
(B50) Sicilian, 74 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 U20
Karpov vs A Sznapik, 1969
(B50) Sicilian, 28 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Stockfish notes
E Kengis vs Gufeld, 1983
(B50) Sicilian, 56 moves, 1-0
Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Sit & spin in the corner
Kasparov vs Z Hurnik, 1993
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Simul giveaway
Kasparov vs J Firor, 1995
(B50) Sicilian, 33 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
M Hebden vs R Bates, 1995
(B50) Sicilian, 50 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Last B in trouble
Anand vs Gelfand, 1997
(B50) Sicilian, 37 moves, 1-0
Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Head straight for the EG
Kasparov vs G Jones, 1998
(B50) Sicilian, 55 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 0-1
D Salinnikov vs Miroshnichenko, 2000
(B50) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Capture-Recapture-Fork
Kasparov vs A Ringel, 2000
(B50) Sicilian, 37 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
N Shavtvaladze vs G Nikolaou, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 46 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
N Shavtvaladze vs A Tsanas, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 45 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 Round 8
S Garcia Martinez vs Jobava, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 46 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 Dubai
K Mahdy vs Jobava, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 37 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
R Zelcic vs Jobava, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
O Orel vs M Makaj, 2001
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 0-1
A Kim vs Jobava, 2002
(B50) Sicilian, 28 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin Var (B40) 1-0
Speelman vs P Gayson, 2003
(B40) Sicilian, 47 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 Plang notes
McShane vs Bologan, 2003
(B50) Sicilian, 60 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
S Barth Stanford vs V Goutor, 2004
(B50) Sicilian, 44 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
Timman vs C Zhu, 2005
(B50) Sicilian, 30 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 Get the Q in close
H Hamdouchi vs Sutovsky, 2005
(B50) Sicilian, 30 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Def. Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Interference sets up pin
Rozentalis vs G Jones, 2007
(B50) Sicilian, 31 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
E Shachar vs N Egozi, 2007
(B50) Sicilian, 46 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin/Kopec (B50) 0-1
Shabalov vs Shankland, 2008
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
M Kobalia vs K Rusev, 2008
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 0-1
M Kazakov vs Jakovenko, 2009
(B50) Sicilian, 64 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 blitz
Morozevich vs Kosteniuk, 2009
(B50) Sicilian, 48 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 0-1
J Plenca vs Swiercz, 2010
(B50) Sicilian, 25 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 St. Petersburg, RUS
S Ulyanin vs I Potyavin, 2012
(B50) Sicilian, 23 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 0-1
R Bitoon vs D H Nguyen, 2013
(B50) Sicilian, 32 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1
R Nagendra vs B Vioreanu, 2013
(B50) Sicilian, 47 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 blitz
N Kabanov vs V Artemiev, 2013
(B50) Sicilian, 30 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 blitz
Svidler vs Gelfand, 2014
(B50) Sicilian, 28 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 effortless
T Gara vs D Voit, 2016
(B50) Sicilian, 40 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1-0
Jobava vs R Jumabayev, 2017
(B50) Sicilian, 29 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1-0 Speed chess
Aronian vs Nepomniachtchi, 2020
(B50) Sicilian, 48 moves, 1-0
Delayed Alapin
Bronstein vs Kupreichik, 1978
(B50) Sicilian, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) · 1/2-1/2
G Matteucci vs A Magrin, 1952
(B50) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin Var (B40) 1/2-1/2
D Anton Guijarro vs Carlsen, 2022
(B40) Sicilian, 47 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations 3.Bc4 Nf6 (B50) 0-1
Aronian vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2022
(B50) Sicilian, 61 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Wing Gambit. Deferred Variation (B50) · 1-0
Spielmann vs S Landau, 1938
(B50) Sicilian, 25 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Wing Gambit. Deferred Var (B50) 0-1 N tumbler
M Kandic vs N Benmesbah, 2012
(B50) Sicilian, 37 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Wing Gambit. Deferred Var (B50) 1-0 Stockfish
Bronstein vs A Levin, 1969
(B50) Sicilian, 19 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Wing Gambit. Deferred Var (B50) 0-1blitz; Stockfi
Carlsen vs Vachier-Lagrave, 2019
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 internet
Aronian vs A Erigaisi, 2022
(B50) Sicilian, 51 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def Modern 0-0-0 vs 0-0 (B50) 1-0 h-file assault!
G Souleidis vs M Kopylov, 2004
(B50) Sicilian, 27 moves, 1-0
Modern Variation
Carlsen vs N Georgiadis, 2023
(B50) Sicilian, 70 moves, 1-0
29.?
J Hickl vs Csom, 1986
(B50) Sicilian, 36 moves, 1-0
Delayed Alapin
M Al Sayed vs Mamedyarov, 2005
(B50) Sicilian, 35 moves, 0-1
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 1/2-1/2 internet
Rapport vs Xiong, 2022
(B50) Sicilian, 112 moves, 1/2-1/2
Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin (B50) 0-1 27...?
P Vorontsov vs K Troff, 2012
(B50) Sicilian, 33 moves, 0-1
Delayed Alapin
Nisipeanu vs O Ribstein, 2023
(B50) Sicilian, 42 moves, 1-0
28.? palindrome
Duda vs G Gajewski, 2016
(B50) Sicilian, 78 moves, 1-0
Sicilian Def: Modern Var (B50) 1-0 Reykjavik ISL
D Ariel vs J Herms Agullo, 2011
(B50) Sicilian, 15 moves, 1-0
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