Games played until checkmate. Fredthebear will eventually finish labeling the various checkmate patterns as a training exercise now and then. The games are grouped by ECO code A-E.

How to study these checkmates -- just the checkmates? Click the cursor 3-4 moves from the end of the scoresheet (listed below the board). The board position will pop up that particular click position late in the game, creating a puzzle for the reader to solve. For example, if the game lasted 40 moves, click the cursor on move 37 and that position of the 37th move will appear on the board. (This expeditiously allows the puzzle solver to skip moves 1-36.) Find the mate in three moves by clicking on the scoresheet three moves from the end of the game.

Who's turn to move? It does not matter. Find the best move for BOTH colors (this is the proper way to play chess); one color will likely be threatening checkmate. Keep in mind that a forced mate might not be available to either color. A sudden blunder at the finish allows checkmate to occur in a flash. The queen is a bloody murderer!

Typically, most masters see the unstoppable checkmate coming and resign before it happens. When a checkmate actually occurs, the loser was either taken by surprise, or graciously granted the winner the opportunity to play out a beautiful mating combination.

Some players have been taught to never resign; keep playing until there is a forced conclusion. There is nothing wrong with fighting to the finish, but when playing a master it is considered good etiquette to resign in a completely lost position. (Fredthebear always keeps stalemate possibilities in mind, as a draw is better than a loss.) Fredthebear usually does not resign immediately after dropping a piece, but he would against a great player like Bobby Fischer or Garry Kasparov!

Chessdreamer provided this collection of checkmate games. Thank you Chessdreamer!

* Checkmate patterns:
Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns A few of the checkmate pattern names appear to be made up by the book's author, but the majority are accurately named and worthwhile for study purposes. For example, Corner Mate w/a rook supported by a bishop should be properly called Mayet's Mate. That pattern is common and needs to be instantly recalled, so why haggle over it's name? The link has an excellent list of mating patterns to know.

* Blogger:

A homework assignment.

I'll come back with examples and descriptions later, but off the top of my head (and without revisiting the wiki page) the following are missing or not properly explained:

(Note - using my naming conventions, not sure if there are better alternatives, or any convention, except as noted)

Railroad Mates - one of my favorites of course, Q+R vs. K. Very useful, and common once you recognize it.

Q+B Escalator - not as common, maybe more fun though. High level, like knowing B+N checkmate.

V.V.Arabian - following Tisdell's convention. R+N, extremely common and useful.

Q+B Dovetail - Abstraction of dovetail mate (instead of pawns blocking the bishop does). Also common and useful.

Q+B Edge Mate - queen three squares off edge (e.g. on 3rd rank) - Q+B diagonals cross - common enough to be useful. This is a Balestra Mate.

Chimney Mates - the name is well used, the mates somewhat rare, but oh so fun.

Suffocation Mates - I think wiki has this category. Don't know about wiki's distinction oif a bishop covering the extra escape square vs. some other piece. The main idea is to accommodate the mates that are oh-so-close to being smother mates.

One cavaet about the Wiki categories that I've been meaning to ask here for some time concerns the directionality of some of the "dovetail" mates. I don't see much utility in subdividing a Dovetail into Cozio's Mate (I think that's what I remember). I think the distinction of whether the king is nearer the edge of the board vs. the queen(*) is irrelevant to the way the mate works."

Why yes, three it is.

Does this remind you of Athos, Porthos and Aramis, or Moe, Larry, and Curly? Maybe Alnitak, Mintaka, and Alnilam, or TV brothers Mike, Robbie, and Chip?

Some might remember Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Janice Rule, or farther back the Andrews Sisters. There was Peter, Paul & Mary; Crosby, Stills & Nash; the Supremes; Run DMC; the Police; Green Day; Beastie Boys; Nirvana; TLC; Dixie Chicks; ZZ Top; Rush; the Pointer Sisters; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Tony Orlando and Dawn (have a listen: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... ); and brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb - the Bee Gees ! ! ! (Yeah, FTB does feel like Harry at the moment.)

The tragic plane crash of 1959 was "The Day the Music Died": Wikipedia article: The Day the Music Died We lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper). Singer/song writer Don McLean sings about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_...

Let's pick up the pace. How about the record setting golden trio of Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson? Farther back was Chris Mullin, Mitch Richmond, and Tim Hardaway. Most Left Coast fans were probably thinking of the Hall of Famers Jerry West, Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain, or these '80's Lakers Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Jamaal Wilkes, and Ervin Magic Johnson.

Back East, there was Ron Francis, Jaromir Jagr, and Mario Lemieux as well as Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, and Brian Trottier. Maybe Johnny Bucyk, Phil Esposito, and Bobby Orr yet undoubtedly Paul Coffey, Mark Messier, and Wayne Gretzky.

Time remembers darker days, the meetings of the Allied "Big Three"— Franklin D. Roosevelt/Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill. Before them Emanual Lasker, Jose R. Capablanca, and Alexander Alekhine ruled the 64 squares. Today, it's AOC's three branches of American government that count: https://www.dailywire.com/news/watc...

That's nothing like the Triple Crown of American horse racing: Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes.

Skyward, there will always be a place in history for Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Greek mythology tells of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Ah, but it's the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who reign supreme. See Matthew 28:19.

Of course <whiteshark> being a whiteshark could be thinking of Brody, Quint, and Hooper singing on the boat... https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...

The Wallet

From heaven, one day, did Jupiter proclaim,
"Let all that live before my throne appear,
And there if any one has anything to blame,
In matter, form, or texture of his frame,
He may bring forth his grievance without fear.
Redress shall instantly be given to each.
Come, monkey, now, first let us have your speech. You see these quadrupeds, your brothers;
Comparing, then, yourself with others,
Are you well satisfied?" "And why not?"
Says Jock. "Haven't I four trotters with the rest? Is not my visage comely as the best?
But this my brother Bruin, is a blot
On your creation fair;
And sooner than be painted I had be shot,
Were I, great sire, a bear."
The bear approaching, does he make complaint?
Not he; – himself he lauds without restraint.
The elephant he needs must criticize;
To crop his ears and stretch his tail were wise; A creature he of huge, misshapen size.
The elephant, though famed as beast judicious,
While on his own account he had no wishes,
Pronounced dame whale too big to suit his taste; Of flesh and fat she was a perfect waste.
The little ant, again, pronounced the gnat too wee; To such a speck, a vast colossus she.
Each censured by the rest, himself content,
Back to their homes all living things were sent. Such folly lives yet with human fools.
For others lynxes, for ourselves but moles.
Great blemishes in other men we spy,
Which in ourselves we pass most kindly by.
As in this world we're but way-farers,
Kind Heaven has made us wallet-bearers.
The pouch behind our own defects must store,
The faults of others lodge in that before.

Q: What do you call someone who draws funny pictures of cars? A: A car-toonist.

Q: What do you call a magician on a plane?
A: A flying sorcerer.

Q: What do you call fruit playing the guitar?
A: A jam session.

Q: What do you call the shoes that all spies wear? A: Sneakers.

Q: What do you call something you can serve, but never eat? A: A volleyball.

Q: What did the alien say to the garden?
A: Take me to your weeder.

Q: What do you call a skeleton who went out in freezing temperatures? A: A numb skull.

Q: What do you call a farm that grows bad jokes? A: Corny.

Best Jean De La Bruyere Quotes
"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"We are afraid of the old age which we may never attain." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things." ― Jean De La Bruyere

"Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Out of difficulties, grow miracles" ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Not to be able to bear with all bad-tempered people with whom the world is crowded, shows that a man has not a good temper himself." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain and he forgets to live." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. " ― Jean de La Bruyère

"The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Many people perceive the merit of a manuscript which is read to them, but will not declare themselves in its favor until they see what success it has in the world when printed, or what intelligent men will say about it. They do not like to risk their opinion, and they want to be carried away by the crowd and dragged along by the multitude. Then they say that they were amongst the first who approved of that work, and the general public shares their opinion. Such men lose the best opportunities of convincing us that they are intelligent, clever, and first-rate critics, and can really discover what is good and what is better. A fine work falls into their hands; it is an author's first book before he has got any great name; there is nothing to prepossess anyone in his favor, and by applauding his writings one does not court or flatter the great. Zelotes, you are not required to cry out: "This is a masterpiece; human intelligence never went farther; the human speech cannot soar higher; henceforward we will judge of no one's taste but by what he thinks of this book." Such exaggerated and offensive expressions are only employed by postulants for pensions or benefices and are even injurious to what is really commendable and what one wishes to praise. Why not merely say—"That's a good book?" It is true you say it when the whole of France has approved of it, and foreigners as well as your own countrymen, when it is printed all over Europe and has been translated into several languages, but then it is too late." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others; he who leaves you after a long conversation, pleased with himself and the part he has taken in the discourse, will be your warmest admirer. Men do not care to admire you, they wish you to be pleased with them; they do not seek for instruction or even amusement from your discourse, but they do wish you to be made acquainted with their talents and powers of conversation, and the true man of genius will delicately make all who come in contact with him feel the exquisite satisfaction of knowing that they have appeared to advantage." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"A fool is an automaton, a machine with springs which turn him about always in one manner and preserve his equilibrium. He is ever the same and never changes. If you have seen him once you have seen him at every moment and period of his life. He is at best but as the lowing ox or the whistling blackbird. He is fixed and obstinate, I may say, by nature. What appears least in him is his soul; that has neither activity nor energy; it reposes." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect" ― Jean de La Bruyère

"The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"We should only endeavor to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions; this would be too great an undertaking." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"That we seldom repent of talking too little and very often of talking too much is a … maxim that everybody knows and nobody practices" ― Jean de La Bruyère

"We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"Novice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"When a book raises your spirit and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good and made by a good workman." ― Jean de La Bruyère

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing." ― Will Rogers

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket." ― Will Rogers

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." ― Will Rogers

"Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved." ― Will Rogers

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." ― Will Rogers

"Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat." ― Will Rogers

"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other." ― Will Rogers

"It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute." ― Will Rogers

"An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." ― Will Rogers

"I am not a member of any organized political party — I am a Democrat." ― Will Rogers

"You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people." ― Will Rogers

"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ― Will Rogers

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're actually paying for." ― Will Rogers

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." ― Will Rogers

"The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem." ― Will Rogers

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing." ― Will Rogers

"Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff." ― Will Rogers

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds." ― Will Rogers

"If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?" ― Will Rogers

"There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches." ― Will Rogers

"There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." ― Will Rogers

"Most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ― Will Rogers

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has." ― Will Rogers

"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago." ― Will Rogers

"You can't say civilization don't advance, in every war they kill you in a new way." ― Will Rogers

"Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know." ― Will Rogers

"It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." ― Will Rogers

"If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." ― Will Rogers

"Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364." ― Will Rogers

"It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so." ― Will Rogers

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ― Will Rogers

"Never miss a good chance to shut up." ― Will Rogers

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." ― Will Rogers

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like." ― Will Rogers

"There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." ― Will Rogers

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." ― Will Rogers

"There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works." ― Will Rogers

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance." ― Will Rogers

"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth." ― Will Rogers

"I never met a man that I didn't like." ― Will Rogers

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." ― Will Rogers

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." ― Will Rogers

"Common sense ain't common." ― Will Rogers

"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects." ― Will Rogers

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." ― Will Rogers

"You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects." ― Will Rogers

"When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging." ― Will Rogers

"Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious." ― Will Rogers

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car." ― Will Rogers

"The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer." ― Will Rogers

"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office." ― Will Rogers

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." ― Will Rogers

"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." ― Will Rogers

"If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?" ― Will Rogers

"If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out." ― Will Rogers

"A fool and his money are soon elected." ― Will Rogers

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." ― Will Rogers

"Always drink upstream from the herd." ― Will Rogers

"Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." ― Will Rogers

"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."― Will Rogers

"When you're through learning, you're through." ― Will Rogers

"I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man." ― Will Rogers

"Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was." ― Will Rogers

"Get all the good laughs you can." ― Will Rogers

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches." ― Will Rogers

"Even if you are on the right track, but just sit there, you will still get run over." ― Will Rogers

"The only way to beat the lawyers is to die with nothing." ― Will Rogers

"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." ― Will Rogers

"A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him." ― Will Rogers

"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument." ― Will Rogers

"Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so." ― Will Rogers

"The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match." ― Will Rogers

"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat." ― Will Rogers

"Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out." ― Will Rogers

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." ― Will Rogers

"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education." ― Will Rogers

"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is." ― Will Rogers

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else." ― Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ― Will Rogers

"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." ― Will Rogers

"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics." ― Will Rogers

"Lord, let me live until I die." ― Will Rogers

"Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans." ― Will Rogers

"I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good." ― Will Rogers

"When you find youself in a hole - stop digging." ― Will Rogers

"If you can't identify it, don't stick it in your mouth." ― Will Rogers

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression." ― Will Rogers

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ― Will Rogers

"It's almost been worth this depression to find out how little our big men know." ― Will Rogers

"I never met a person that I did not want to like." ― Will Rogers

"Three couples approached the Pearly Gates and asked permission from Saint Peter to enter. To the first husband he responded, "You may not enter heaven. All your life you've been obsessed with money. Why, you even married a woman named Penny!" He then turned to the second husband and responded, "You may not enter heaven. All your life you've been obsessed with food. Why, you even married a woman named Candy." Taking his wife gently by the hand and looking very sad, the third husband said, "Come on, Fanny, we might as well get out of here!" ― Kevin Kenworthy, The Best Jokes Minnie Pearl Ever Told:

"A couple was celebratin' their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a reception. They were standin' in line greetin' their friends and about halfway through, she hauled off and hit him! He looked surprised and said, "What was that for?" She said, "For fifty years of bad sex!" He thought about that a minute and then hauled off and hit her. Now it was her turn to look surprised and she said, "What on earth was that for?" And he answered, "For knowing the difference!" ― Kevin Kenworthy, The Best Jokes Minnie Pearl Ever Told:

"God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work." ― Minnie Pearl

"So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility." ― Minnie Pearl

"Take the back roads instead of the highways." ― Minnie Pearl

"Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!" ― Minnie Pearl

"The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up." ― Minnie Pearl

"Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up." ― Minnie Pearl

"Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow." ― Minnie Pearl

"Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion." ― Minnie Pearl

"Watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter." ― Minnie Pearl

"Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot." ― Minnie Pearl

"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things." ― Minnie Pearl

"It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world." ― Minnie Pearl

"Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts." ― Minnie Pearl

"When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous." ― Minnie Pearl

"They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse." ― Minnie Pearl

"My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country." ― Minnie Pearl

"I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them." ― Minnie Pearl

"I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then." ― Minnie Pearl

"Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone." ― Minnie Pearl

"Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him." ― Minnie Pearl

"I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy." ― Minnie Pearl

"That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!" ― Minnie Pearl

"Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot." ― Minnie Pearl

Wordzys:
38cry Peepy iz's perfume fumed up the room enough for three adults Moe, Larry, and Kurley fries liver attack of the three headed monster trucks stay to the right.

"When you see a good move – WAIT! – look for a better one." ― Emanuel Lasker The Portuguese chess player and author Pedro Damiano (1480–1544) first wrote this in his book "Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti" published in Rome, Italy, in 1512.

"Capablanca didn't make separate moves - he was creating a chess picture. Nobody could compare with him in this." ― Mikhail Botvinnik

"Whether this advantage is theoretically sufficient to win or not does not worry Capablanca. He simply wins the ending. That is why he is Capablanca!" ― Max Euwe

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

"It's entirely possible that Capa could not imagine that there could be a better move than one he thought was good and he was usually right." ― Mike Franett

"Capablanca's games generally take the following course: he begins with a series of extremely fine prophylactic maneuvers, which neutralize his opponent's attempts to complicate the game; he then proceeds, slowly but surely, to set up an attacking position. This attacking position, after a series of simplifications, is transformed into a favorable endgame, which he conducts with matchless technique." ― Aaron Nimzowitsch

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

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

"He (Capablanca) had the totally undeserved reputation of being the greatest living endgame player. His trick was to keep his openings simple and then play with such brilliance that it was decided in the middle game before reaching the ending - even though his opponent didn't always know it. His almost complete lack of book knowledge forced him to push harder to squeeze the utmost out of every position." ― Bobby Fischer

"A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

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In Melitopol, terrible terror has been reigning for over a year. It's quiet, you can't see it on the streets - reported CNN. Anyone who has rejected a Russian passport may become a victim of repression. They can't access the hospital, can't function normally. The "incredible" occupant also takes away the land. Arrests and torture, unfortunately, are common practices.

Partisans are engaged in attacking Russian logistics and eliminating collaborators and Russian officers. They actively cooperate with Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) and are ready for sabotage activities in case the front arrives.

Before the war, Melitopol had a population of 154,000. The city, located in the southeastern part of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region, was occupied by the Russians on March 1, 2022 Eastern Time. Since then, it has been waiting for liberation, but that does not mean that the inhabitants are idle. From the beginning of the war, there has been a partisan movement in and around the city.

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

"Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people." ― Elizabeth Green

"Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." ― Andy (Tim Robbins), "The Shawshank Redemption"

Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

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