The Netherlands national anthem Wilhelmus is the oldest national anthem in the world. It was written in 1568 and became official in 1932.

SLEEP WALKING
by Gerrit Achterberg, translated by David Colmer

Last night I walked with you
along sleep's muted avenues,
and now the day has dawned
I see that nothing's changed,
except those two, who in their mutual night
were perfectly united,
having left me alone again come morning
to walk together further in the light.

Gerrit Achterberg (1905-1962) was a respected and influential poet, whose psychiatric problems were reflected in the obsessiveness of much of his poetry. Committed to a mental hospital in 1937 for murdering his landlady and assaulting her daughter, the notoriety this brought contributed to his myth. His collected poems have been reprinted thirteen times.

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

"Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time." ― Dustin Diamond, Actor

"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory." ― Max Euwe https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LXP6...

The Netherlands literally means "low countries." As 50% of the land of the country is just over 1m above sea level. Moreover, 21% of its population and 26% of its area is below sea level.

"The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board." ― Efim Geller

"Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess." ― Vasily Smyslov

"No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics." ― Samuel Reshevsky

"Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous." ― Abdelkader El Djezairi

"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." ― Abigail Adams

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

"When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games, I knew the winning method." ― Garry Kasparov

"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

"As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave." ― James Jones, The Thin Red Line

"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience." ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time." ― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living

"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" ― Dr. Seuss

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." ― William Penn

"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like." ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never." ― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others." ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." ― Alan Watts

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed." ― Mahatma Gandhi

"Lost Time is never found again."
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

"Time spent with a cat is never wasted." ― Colette

"A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful." ― Criss Jami, Healology

"The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds." ― Teck Foo Check, The Autobiography of Sun Tzu

"Behind every move I make on the chess board lies a story of calculation, intuition, and passion. With every game, I discover more about myself and the endless possibilities of the game." ― medicosaurabh

"Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DGXm...

"But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction." ― Jennifer duBois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

"The move is there, but you must see it." ― Savielly Tartakower

"You may delay, but time will not." ― Benjamin Franklin

"Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It's about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn't won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that's when you've lost." ― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides." ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field." ― Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

"Strategy requires thought; tactics requires observation." ― Max Euwe

"Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization." ― Jacques Ellul

"Ecco, sai giocare a scacchi. Adesso devi diventare un giocatore. Ci vorrà un po' di più." ― Guenassia Jean-Michel, Le Club des incorrigibles optimists

"People are like chess pieces!" ― Deyth Banger

"The only easy day was yesterday." ― US Navy SEALs

"Gameplay is all our life. Either we guard, attack or develop pieces." ― Vineet Raj Kapoor, UNCHESS: Untie Your Shoes and Walk on the Chessboard of Life

"The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention." ― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe and the second largest in the world. Between 1962 and 2004, it was also the world's busiest port. Shanghai, China has the biggest port in the world.

"As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter." ― Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do." ― Mickey Mantle

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

"We are like chess players who are trying to predict the opponent's future moves, but in this case, we are dealing with life itself. True masters do not play the game on a single chessboard, but on multiple chessboards at the same time. And what's the difference between grandmasters and masters? Surprises. The moves that cannot be predicted by the opponent. Life can play a simultaneous game with seven billion people at the same time and it can take each and every one of us by surprise. And we still believe we are capable of winning, because we can predict three of four moves ahead. We are insignificant." ― Jaka Tomc, 720 Heartbeats

"The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it." ― Mikhail Tal

"I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for." ― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

"The move is there, but you must see it." ― Savielly Tartakower

"You may delay, but time will not." ― Benjamin Franklin

"Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It's about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn't won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that's when you've lost." ― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds." ― Teck Foo Check, The Autobiography of Sun Tzu

"War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides." ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field." ― Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

"Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization." ― Jacques Ellul

"Time is an illusion." ― Albert Einstein

"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is." ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one." ― George Harrison

"You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep." ― Pawan Mishra

* GM Arthur Bisguier's Tips: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/L... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-x...
Back in the days before Stockfish, Bisguier would publicly analyze (criticize) games off the scoresheets submitted by individual players in the lecture room at large USA chess tournaments. - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BOOo...

* Absolute beginner tactics: https://www.chessable.com/typical-t... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbM... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRzH...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W44G...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GvoL...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2v... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JWnw...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TBnT...

* Learn the Classical Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRc... - https://www.chess.com/blog/Craiggor... - https://www.chess.com/lessons/the-c...

* The ABCs: Game Collection: The ABC of the Ruy Lopez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18n... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZL...

* Acts 16:31: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fyVW... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QR_7...

* A90 world championship 1935: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TME...

* Beat the Classical Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plo... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znl...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G41...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhY...

* Jan Pinski's Classical Dutch book: Game Collection: Classical Dutch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC2... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/id7a...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3D5z...

* Dutch by ECO: Game Collection: The Dutch Defense - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Am1i...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oIKi...

* Dutch chess training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=d... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRzH...
- https://wtharvey.com/dutch.html
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8GAS...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTa...

* 1.d4 e6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aiEA...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ie9V...

* He offers a French Defense and transposes from 1...e6: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VPv8...

* The Essence of Chess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eej... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RrJc...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mU21...

* Chess Endgame Training by Bernd Rosen

* The Chess Endgame Exercise Book by John Nunn

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

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

* Greatest Hits: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ridk...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6XOQ...

* Gallagher says: Game Collection: Winning With The King's Gambit - Joe Gallagher - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jrN0...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/im8N...

* How to handle losing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrg... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mho9...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-4yo...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PDdG...

* Intermezzo Check: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/avmP... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6-73...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/059Q...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pkl3...

* Jim's Classical Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wha... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/garO...

* Janzen-Korchnoi Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuy... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/379g...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6tEl...

* Jambalaya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzj... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/asCo...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gsmp...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XZT4...

* Joint locks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn2... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w4Tu...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5NR1...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L0tN...

* Kill the Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dr... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRzH...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/teFj...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RVDH...

* Lisitsyn Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9K... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ug1Z...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VUWC...

"If you have a long-range win, but don't have an immediate knockout, Stop ALL Enemy Counterplay." ― IM Jeremy Silman pg. 273. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V1dj...

* Dismantle the London System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymb... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVX...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wq...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49l...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W2...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzW...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy-...

* 62 Masterpieces: Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sv5W...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BcAJ...

* Malaguena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxD... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/APpo...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6bT9...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hzV_...

* MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XltN...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yQag...

* Make a Stand: https://www.history.com/topics/amer... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s-s6...

* Modern Chess Strategy (Dover Chess) by Ludek Pachman - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Fyf...

* Paul Morphy's Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdr...

* NE: https://metrowestchess.org/

* Old News: https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Arjk...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4A9E...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XNvs...

* Old Characterz: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A51z...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0dpR...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PyhV...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GuuC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UUQN...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UK0n...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gn6b...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LZ1_...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4f6Q...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wXuT...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V4ll...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kgXC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kIm2...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tqd1...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_HKL...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T6Bz...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FSro...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dmJb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H7FR...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Cnsa...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pjzj...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RhbX...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cFSL...
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- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9bo9...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJt6...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i_a7...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0FEm...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9POC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AJnX...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1wa7...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DodC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RWN7...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6qVC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R_XU...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ualM...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iAXl...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eyhe...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jVqb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hrpi...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z5M4...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CmZu...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gfft...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RhW-...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-Xt-...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4a5G...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SbXr...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dcuf...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4yEv...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IOMS...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j8My...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b91B...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fl9A...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A3Lk...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8ZFJ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bg4I...

* Logic Puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToI... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KAqX...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Doc3...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bSwE...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pd9g...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5nOM...

* Play: https://play.chessbase.com/en/
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mWyT...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i3oJ...

* Positional Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNq... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F81...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YLTJ...

* Pawn Structure edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO4... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TJhg...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hnJ5...

* Queen Maxima: https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/que...

* Revived: http://gbcmartinsburg.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Bfa...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHA...

* Rajnish Das Tips: https://enthu.com/blog/chess/chess-... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/THOt...

* Spruce Variety: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/che...

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jHIt...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kyYb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Ax_...

* Simon Williams Dutch Speed Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZL... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Am1i...

* Tips to keep your head together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNi... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XHNn...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAF...

* Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI6... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MBwS...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GrPV...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BOAz...

* Two years is quite awhile if you're young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeK...

* Spider's Weave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_C... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y0bc...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WYfU...

* USCF: https://new.uschess.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cTC9...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/naSA...

* The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fBFZ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l56l...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cAFn...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BnDk...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TnSe...

* Unbeaten Marathon of Chess: https://www.voaafrica.com/a/nigeria...

* Three-minute pastry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIa... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gY1z...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YTlc...

* Versatile Dutch Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVN... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NbKH...

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

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HhdO...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yd7s...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa5...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uztT...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dbsx...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CV76...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X4bo...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/25jV...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/turp...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5_MP...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NSfH...

* Will Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9S...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vdtf...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5NR1...

* Wonders and Curiosities: Game Collection: Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Chernev) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nG1m...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k0Ei...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rgkC...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kDuG...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I-3q...
- AI creation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dVPT...

* Why You Lose at Chess: Second Edition (Dover Chess) by Tim Harding https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PUBU... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jDXV...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PVqj...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iKTb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ommd...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C-Dt...

* Weak Pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDL... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALj...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PMRB...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/51oW...

* Weak Squares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvY... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XxBP...

* You don't see this everyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtk... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tVXn...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0gir...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B0_R...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rUO0...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ir3P...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8sOY...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wngb...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PsJP...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_o13...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DycY...

* Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105 - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pYwN...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H9uo...

* 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!

five-four combo

'A rising tide lifts all boats'

'Don't put the cart before the horse'

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

Kansas: Leavenworth
Established in: 1827

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

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

* "Insane" rarely is: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gJZz...

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

* Chess Love Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhJ...

* Evolution of the WCC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GY...

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

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

The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players by William Hartston William Hartson traces the development of the game from its Oriental origins to the present day through the lives of its greatest exponents - men like Howard Staunton, who transformed what had been a genteel pastime into a competitive science; the brilliant American Paul Morphy, who once played a dozen simultaneous games blindfold; the arrogant and certified insane Wilhelm Steinitz; the philosopher and mathematician Emanual Lasker; Bobby Fischer, perhaps the most brilliant and eccentric of them all; and many other highly gifted individuals. Hartson depicts all their colorful variety with a wealth of rare illustrations.

Format: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 006015358X
ISBN13: 9780060153588
Release Date: January 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Length: 192 Pages
Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Eilfan ywmodryb dda
Meaning: A good aunt is a second mother

<<<chess writer and poet <Henry Thomas Bland>:

Another example of his way with words is the start of ‘Internal Fires', a poem published on page 57 of the March 1930 American Chess Bulletin:>

I used to play chess with the dearest old chap,
Whom naught could upset whatever might hap.
He'd oft lose a game he might well have won
But made no excuse for what he had done.
If a piece he o'erlooked and got it snapped up

He took it quite calmly and ne'er ‘cut up rough'.>

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ― William Faulkner

"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.

Old Russian Proverb: "Scythe over a stone." (Нашла коса на камень.) The force came over a stronger force.

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." ― Leonardo da Vinci

A SOFT STONE
by Hagar Peeters translated by Judith Wilkinson

I am the stone my parents once decided
to stumble over only once, so I'm alone.

I am the pebble-stone of contention in the gravel at the front door of their cardboard façade,
I commemorate – as a memorial stone –
the end of what was once a home,

I am the gravestone of a person without surname, the rock that Sisyphus was condemned to by the gods, the millstone round the cripple's neck.

I carve myself into a thousand toez
to stub them endlessly on the slightest thingz.
I am a soft stone from which no shoot springz.

The shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar war, lasted 38 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g1Vk... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iZBM...

Vincent Van (1853-1890) Gough was a famous Dutch painter. There is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to this famous painter. The museum has a collection of over 200 paintings, 500 drawings, and 750 written documents. The museum is visited by some 1.5 million visitors each year. https://www.bing.com/images/search?...

<<Machgielis "Max" Euwe > PhD (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. Euwe played his first tournament at age 10, winning every game. He won every Dutch chess championship that he entered from 1921 until 1952, and won the title again in 1955; his 12 titles are still a record.

Euwe (pronounced uhr-vu, or perhaps er-vor as rhyming with fervor; and er-vay as rhyming with survey) was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion (1935–37). Before facing Alexander Alekhine, Euwe became the amateur world chess champion, in 1928, in The Hague, Netherlands. Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. https://museum.fide.com/champions/m...
Birthplace: the Watergraafsmeer, Amsterdam, Netherlands <Max Euwe> scripted history when he became the first chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. A PhD in math, he also taught both math and computer programming, apart from publishing a mathematical analysis of chess. A chess world champion, he also served as the president of FIDE.> https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.... - https://www.chessjournal.com/max-eu...
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"There's something wrong with that man (Max Euwe). He's too normal." ― Bobby Fischer

<<CHESS>

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

― Rael

'Don't change horses in midstream'

A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che...

Barry Greenstein

You have questions? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a2VF...

'Nomen nominandum' a.k.a 'the name to be named' zsfool did not know NN.

'Don't count your chickens before they are hatched'

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.

Big Mistake: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iw1S...

<Helen Bevan on X
@HelenBevan
A Dutch proverb: "Trust arrives on a tortoise & leaves on a horse".

How to build trust like a tortoise:
1) Consistency
2) Transparency
3) Active listening
4) Fulfil promises
5) Respect boundaries

How to stop trust from eroding in a horse situation: 1) Acknowledge mistakes
2) Apologise sincerely
3) Make amends
4) Avoid repeat offences>

from AWATER
by Martinus Nijhoff translated by David Colmer

I've seen a man. He doesn't have a name.
Just give him all our first names rolled in one. He is a father's son and born of woman.
Each morning by the rosy light of dawn,
he leaves his suburb, walking past my window.
When evening blues the sky, he comes back home.
At work his colleagues know him as Awater.
Behold this man who's clad in camel's hair
thread through a needle's eye. His meagre body is fed on meals of honeycomb and locusts.
The meaning of his cries is lost to all.
It's wilderness where he lifts up his arms.
He has a monkish air, a soldier's look,
but no one says a prayer or blows a horn
when solemn books are opened at the office.
They sit at desks as if they're in a temple
and write in Arabic mixed with Italian.
Columns of enigmatic words rise up
in numbers fluttering down like flakes of ash.
Inside the silent room the summer's back.
A salty tang wafts from the steady clack
of metal hammers typing balderdash.
Read it, it doesn't say what it says. It says: ‘Oh, Mother, you will never wear the fur
you counted every penny to afford,
and I won't come into your public ward
on my days off with flowers in my hand…
I'll take the roses to Churchyard Row instead.' That's what it says. Awater's stony face
shows motionless how deeply he is moved.
What time is it? He rests his heavy head.
The phone is sleeping on a green baize bed.
The cups have been collected on a trolley.
The clock ticks – chimes – ticks and ticks until five thirty. It chimes again and all the lamps go out.

Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) was a poet, editor, essayist, playwright and translator (of Eliot and Shakespeare amongst others) and is widely seen as the most important Dutch poet of the pre-war period. His long poem ‘Awater' is the classic of modern Dutch poetry.

InkHarted wrote:

Checkmate.
I started off as an equal
I have everything that they do
my life was one and the same as my foe
childish battles of lesser
I won baring cost of a little
but as time outgrew my conscience
I found that the pieces were moving against me
with time my company reduced
they left one by one
all in time forgetting me
my castles collapsed
my religion dissuaded
my protectors in hiding
I could not run anymore
I have been cornered to a wall
as the queen left silently
without saying goodbye
I could not live any longer
she was most precious to me
I could not win without her by my side
so the king knelt down and died.

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 (‘Deutsch von Heinrich Fraenkel')

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." — Winnie the Pooh

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)

As Time Goes By
Songwriters: Max Steiner.

You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by
Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man, and man must have his mate
That no one can deny
It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do-or-die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by
Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate
Woman needs man, and man must have his mate
That no one can deny
It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do-or-die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

Body parts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sNVt...

Dialing *67 conceals your number from someone you call. There are similar numbers you can dial to respond to mystery callers.

The first is *69, which traces the number of the last person who called you. It works even for anonymous or hidden calls, so you can get the phone number and exact time they called. Once you have that number, you can block it on your phone so it can't call you anymore.

Anna Kournikova

Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you're not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there's no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section.

Riddle Question: <A woman shoots her <husband>. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

Human noses and ears get bigger as we age
It's pretty common to see the claim that our nose and ears are the only parts of our body that keep growing as we age, but that's not exactly true. Our nose and ears stop growing along with the rest of our body, but thanks to the weight of gravity, both parts continue to lengthen over time, according to the Discovery Channel.

Riddle Answer: The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her <husband>, developed it, and hung it up to dry.

Chessgames.com will be unavailable March 12, 2023 from 2:00AM through 4:00AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience.

The Netherlands remained neutral in the World War I but was invaded and occupied by Germany in the World War II. After World War II, some 500,000 Dutch left the country in search of better opportunities. - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VqGV...
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* Weird is what you're not used to: https://chessentials.com/weird-ches...

<<limerick, entitled ‘The Solver's Plight' was by ‘A.J.F.' A.J. Fink and was published on page 22 of Chess Potpourri by Alfred C. Klahre (Middletown, 1931):>

There was a man from Vancouver
Who tried to solve a two-mover;
But the boob, he said, ‘"Gee",
I can't find the "Kee",
No matter HOW I manouvre.'>

'Don't let the cat out of the bag'

Lazy Harry
by The Brothers Grimm

Harry was lazy, and although he had nothing else to do but drive his goat daily to pasture, he nevertheless groaned when he went home after his day's work was done. "It is indeed a heavy burden," said he, "and a wearisome employment to drive a goat into the field this way year after year, till late into the autumn! If one could but lie down and sleep, but no, one must have one's eyes open lest it hurts the young trees, or squeezes itself through the hedge into a garden, or runs away altogether. How can one have any rest, or peace of one's life?" He seated himself, collected his thoughts, and considered how he could set his shoulders free from this burden. For a long time all thinking was to no purpose, but suddenly it was as if scales fell from his eyes. "I know what I will do," he cried, "I will marry fat Trina who has also a goat, and can take mine out with hers, and then I shall have no more need to trouble myself."

So Harry got up, set his weary legs in motion, and went right across the street, for it was no farther, to where the parents of fat Trina lived, and asked for their industrious and virtuous daughter in marriage. The parents did not reflect long. "Birds of a feather, flock together," they thought, and consented.

So fat Trina became Harry's wife, and led out both the goats. Harry had a good time of it, and had no work that he required to rest from but his own idleness. He only went out with her now and then, and said, "I merely do it that I may afterwards enjoy rest more, otherwise one loses all feeling for it."

But fat Trina was no less idle. "Dear Harry," said she one day, "why should we make our lives so toilsome when there is no need for it, and thus ruin the best days of our youth? Would it not be better for us to give the two goats which disturb us every morning in our sweetest sleep with their bleating, to our neighbor, and he will give us a beehive for them. We will put the beehive in a sunny place behind the house, and trouble ourselves no more about it. Bees do not require to be taken care of, or driven into the field; they fly out and find the way home again for themselves, and collect honey without giving the very least trouble." "Thou hast spoken like a sensible woman," replied Harry. "We will carry out thy proposal without delay, and besides all that, honey tastes better and nourishes one better than goat's milk, and it can be kept longer too."

The neighbor willingly gave a beehive for the two goats. The bees flew in and out from early morning till late evening without ever tiring, and filled the hive with the most beautiful honey, so that in autumn Harry was able to take a whole pitcherful out of it.

They placed the jug on a board which was fixed to the wall of their bed-room, and as they were afraid that it might be stolen from them, or that the mice might find it, Trina brought in a stout hazel-stick and put it beside her bed, so that without unnecessary getting up she might reach it with her hand, and drive away the uninvited guests. Lazy Harry did not like to leave his bed before noon. "He who rises early," said he, "wastes his substance."

One morning when he was still lying amongst the feathers in broad daylight, resting after his long sleep, he said to his wife, "Women are fond of sweet things, and thou art always tasting the honey in private; it will be better for us to exchange it for a goose with a young gosling, before thou eatest up the whole of it." "But," answered Trina, "not before we have a child to take care of them! Am I to worry myself with the little geese, and spend all my strength on them to no purpose." "Dost thou think," said Harry, "that the youngster will look after geese? Now-a-days children no longer obey, they do according to their own fancy, because they consider themselves cleverer than their parents, just like that lad who was sent to seek the cow and chased three blackbirds." "Oh," replied Trina, "this one shall fare badly if he does not do what I say! I will take a stick and belabour his skin for him with more blows than I can count. Look, Harry," cried she in her zeal, and seized the stick which she had to drive the mice away with, "Look, this is the way I will fall on him!" She reached her arm out to strike, but unhappily hit the honey-pitcher above the bed. The pitcher struck against the wall and fell down in fragments, and the fine honey streamed down on the ground. "There lie the goose and the young gosling," said Harry, "and want no looking after. But it is lucky that the pitcher did not fall on my head. We have all reason to be satisfied with our lot." And then as he saw that there was still some honey in one of the fragments he stretched out his hand for it, and said quite gaily, "The remains, my wife, we will still eat with a relish, and we will rest a little after the fright we have had. What matters if we do get up a little later the day is always long enough." "Yes," answered Trina, "we shall always get to the end of it at the proper time. Dost thou know that the snail was once asked to a wedding and set out to go, but arrived at the christening. In front of the house it fell over the fence, and said, 'Speed does no good.'"

Je weet nooit hoe en koe een haas vangt
› You will never know how a cow catches a hare Never rule anything out, no matter how unlikely

Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, approximately 3000 miles (4850 km) in diameter, hardly larger than the moon. Despite being the smallest, it's extremely dense. In fact, it's the second densest planet after Earth. It's also the closest planet to the sun, making it dangerous to explore. Mercury is 48 million miles from the earth. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hpl5...

Je moet een gegeven paard niet in de bek kijken
› You should never look at a given horse in the mouth You cannot complain about something that is for free

"My teacher Dutch advised me to be less impulsive in speech - think your words through before expressing them, better use a proverb or expression, than convey them in your own words, she advised me. Proverbs and expressions are solid and especially powerful when used at the right moment. She was right, after all." ― NN

Wie boter op het hoofd heeft, moet uit de zon blijven › He who has butter on his head should stay out of the sun First look at yourself before judging others

Proverbs 14:29-35

29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who is quick-tempered * exalts folly.

30 A tranquil heart is life to the body, But passion is rottenness to the bones.

31 He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, But he who is gracious to the needy honors Him.

32 The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, But in the hearts of fools it is made known.

34 Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people.

35 The king's favor is toward a servant who acts wisely, But his anger is toward him who acts shamefully.

"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world." ― Billy Graham

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness." ― Billy Graham

"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

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education." ― Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." ― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion

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.
Amen.

"You don't have to show up to every argument you're invited to." —Someonetobetoday

"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

Fredthebear created this collection. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OlRd...

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.

"Debt is dumb. Cash is king." — Dave Ramsey

A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events.

During the Middle Ages, jesters are often thought to have worn brightly colored clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern. Their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. Jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal among them were song, music, and storytelling, but many also employed acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes (such as puns, stereotypes, and imitation), and performing magic tricks. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style. Many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences.

Silence is the best reply to a fool. ― Joker

Always Remember, the beginning is the hardest part. ― Joker

Did you hear about the mathematician who's afraid of negative numbers? He'll stop at nothing to avoid them.

Mercury Hg 80 200.59 1.9

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Doei: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Cto6...