The A names collection of Fredthebear has branched off again. Adolf Anderssen, Alexander Alekhine, Mickey Adams, and Vishy Anand already have their own separate collections.

The games of <Levon Aronian>, rated as high as 2835 are the main focus of this list. FTB has not done a specific search of his career as of yet, so many interesting games must be outstanding.

* Tweet: Arianne Caoili In February 2015, Arianne Caoili and Levon Aronian announced on Twitter that they are engaged. They married on September 30, 2017.

* Lev: https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/

* Like it's nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE_...

* Aronian ranked above two world champions: http://www.bworldonline.com/content...

* Match Aronian! Game Collection: Match Aronian!

* past games: Game Collection: Aronian's Games 4 Study

* Adolf Anderssen miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Alatortsev by Resignation Trap: Game Collection: Chess a la Torte: Games of Vladimir Alatortsev

* Analyze: Game Collection: Läufer gegen Springer (Varnusz)

* Beginner Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4K...

* Best chess of 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPA...

* Brilliancies: Game Collection: Brilliancies @ best games

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

* Chess 9LX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLD...

1802 - Earliest known American chess book, Chess Made Easy, by J. Humphreys.

* Basics of the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8a...

* Brief Caro-Kann Defense Variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-...

* Black stops losing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgX...

* Use the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtP...

* Three Caro-Kann Traps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNp...

* The Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3H...

* Beat the Caro-Kann Quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhj...

* Crush the Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXv...

* The Caro-Kann, Advance Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npq...

* Gokerkan vs Niemann 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gw...

* Classical Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1...

* Main Ideas of the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN...

* Magnus plays the Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDa...

* Karpov's Caro-Kann Defense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa4...

* ...c6 against all by Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCZ...

* ...c6 speedrun by Hansen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDU...

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

* Dangerous Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI_...

* C-K Advance, Botvinnik-Carls Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWb...

* Caro-Kann, Fantasy Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4e...

* Caro-Kann, Korchnoi Variation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF3...

* Complete Caro-Kann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZ...

* Chess960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60a...

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

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

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

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

* Expanded Edition:
Game Collection: 125 Greatest Chess Games

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

* Forney's Collection: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Feeling Punny? Don't tell Fredthebear. Use the Submission Page: Pun Submission Page

* Epic: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3wNf...

* Fischer King: https://chessteachersandlearners.bl... - https://www.reddit.com/r/chess960/c... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/buhU...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9cUp...
- Flexcamo

* Fischer Random 960: https://chess960frc.blogspot.com/ - https://www.appconner.com/app-chess... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wfPl...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jbw3...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4eeb...

* Freestyle Chess 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2u...

* Gain space in the center, develop knights toward the center, pawn break beside obstructed pawn, capture for free, pin the invader on the open file, attack the defender/a more important piece, add attackers to the defendant and defender, exchange and displace, discovered check, check, check rearranges the position and fork the queen for free: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2ry0... - https://real-chess-online.en.softon...
- https://www.youtube.com/user/MatoJe...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gh5A...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fAdc...

* CGs member Tryfon Gavriel: https://www.youtube.com/user/kingsc... - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4r...

* GK Sicilians: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen - https://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vd59...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fX2o...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lJ2V...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pv...

* GM puzzle challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-z...

* Glossary P: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o4CZ...

* 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/user/MatoJe...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iVVM...

* Greatest Game Ever Against MC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XW...

* How to Study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQ...

* How IM Rosen does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGd...

* How Molton does it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zE...

1813 - The Liverpool Mercury prints the world's earliest chess column.

* IECC: https://www.chess-iecc.com/

* Javed's way: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...

* King walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0C...

1824 - Earliest known British correspondence chess match, London-Edinburgh.

* Language pieces: https://usefulchess.com/rules/chess...

- https://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/5... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T1Pw...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3-3W...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jTJv...
- https://lichess.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YESE...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m0nX...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nfo7...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dbZK...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PAcu...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vs_r...
- https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessV...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h-6B...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HjKF...

* Lesser Moves after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3: https://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T6aJ...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JB-5...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B1Va...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aTEC...

* Legall's mating attack on the left side: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CTFO... - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_5t1...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pQCB...
- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nPzA...

* Miniatures of the Champs: Game Collection: Champions miniature champions

* Mistakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3L...

* Middlegame priorities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVa...

* Miles Ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvk...

1830 - Earliest recorded instance of a modern female chess player.

* Lasker's Manual: Game Collection: Manual of Chess (Lasker)

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

* Monday Puzzles: Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2017

* Nunn's Chess Course: Game Collection: Lasker JNCC

* Pinch of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_...

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

* NE: https://metrowestchess.org/

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

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

* Old Sicilian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY2...

1834 - Earliest recorded international challenge match: Alexander McDonnell (Ireland) versus Louis de la Bourdonnais (France) at the Westminster Chess Club, London.

* Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED!

* Pawn Structures: Game Collection: Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide

* Perfect game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWS...

* Peter, Paul, and Mary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-... Troubling times, it was.

1845 - Telegraph is used to transmit moves in a match between London and Portsmouth.

* Queen's Gambit intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwP...

* Rossolimo & Moscow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4a...

* Sicilian Closed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_...

* Sicilians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX0...

* Sir Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion states "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

1846 - Deutsche Schachzeitung is the first German chess magazine.

* TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/

* Vital principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXy...

* WR Chess Masters 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Y...

* 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

1848 - Earliest known instance of a game played between blind players.

Minnesota: Wabasha
Established in: 1830

Wabasha was named after Indian Chief of the Sioux Nation, Chief Wa-pa-shaw, who lived in the valley. His nephew, Augustin Rocque, was the first white settler in the area. Wabasha was established in 1830, though it has been continuously occupied since 1826.

Some believe Stillwater, Minnesota, is the state's oldest town because it was incorporated in 1854, while Wabasha wasn't incorporated until 1858. But according to the year of first settlement, the Second Treaty of Prairie du Chien drafted in 1830 establishes that Wabasha preceded it.

Minnesota: Marine General Store, Marine on St Croix

The oldest general store in Minnesota, Marine General Store in Marine on St Croix may have retained its original wood panel flooring and mid-19th-century interior, but it's also adopted some modern touches, like the solar panels on the roof which power the place. You can pick up all your essentials and more here, and their deli offers fresh salads, sandwiches, and lunch specials like tacos or spaghetti and meatballs. Alternatively, just pick up an ice cream cone and kick back on the leafy outdoor patio.

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

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

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

* Chess History: https://www.chessjournal.com/chess-...

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

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

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

1849 - Staunton chess set created by Nathaniel Cook.

This poem is dedicated to all Caissa's members who understand that chess is but a game.

Chess is but a Game

As he secretly rode his knight out of the castle's gate, still believing that he could escape this inevitable fate, the sky broke open with an array of incredible light. and there smitten to the earth lay nova under his knight. I am who I am and always am, spoke this thundering voice and you, my friend nova, do not at all have another choice but to go forth south and north, west and east
loudly proclaiming the good Word to man and beast. Thus beset by the compelling voice from the broken sky nova set about explaining through the word the how and why. He travelled north and south, west and east never losing aim to let all Caissa's members know: chess is but a game.

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

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

I told my doctor that I broke my arm in two places – he told me to stop going to those places.

Blogger: Always plan out the moves for both sides. It can be easy to tunnel vision on your own side, but if you always prepare yourself by thinking "what would I do if i were my opponent?" you often can perform better and formulate more complex ideas.

Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER

Blogger: I also love Levy Rozman's principles of "Checks, Captures, Attacks" for analysis importance, and "disprove the move" in calculation (the latter basically means you should never justify how a move could succeed, but instead justify why the move can't fail)

Blogger: Never without a good reason exchange your piece(s) if trading helps develop your opponent's piece(s).

Jupiter and the Thunderbolts

Said Jupiter, one day,
As on a cloud he lay,
"Observing all our crimes,
Come, let us change the times,
By leasing out anew
A world whose wicked crew
Have wearied out our grace,
And cursed us to our face.
Hie hellward, Mercury;
A Fury bring to me,
The direst of the three.
Race nursed too tenderly,
This day your doom shall be!"
Even while he spoke their fate,
His wrath began to moderate.

O kings, with whom His will
Has lodged our good and ill,
Your wrath and storm between
One night should intervene!

The god of rapid wing,
And lip unfaltering,
To sunless regions sped,
And met the sisters dread.
To grim Tisiphone,
And pale Megaera, he
Preferred, as murderess,
Alecto, pitiless.
This choice so roused the fiend,
By Pluto's beard she swore
The human race no more
Should be by handfuls gleaned,
But in one solid mass
The infernal gates should pass.
But Jove, displeased with both
The Fury and her oath,
Despatched her back to hell.
And then a bolt he hurled,
Down on a faithless world,
Which in a desert fell.
Aimed by a father's arm,
It caused more fear than harm.
(All fathers strike aside.)
What did from this betide?
Our evil race grew bold,
Resumed their wicked tricks,
Increased them manifold,
Till, all Olympus through,
Indignant murmurs flew.
When, swearing by the Styx,
The sire that rules the air
Storms promised to prepare
More terrible and dark,
Which should not miss their mark.
"A father's wrath it is!"
The other deities
All in one voice exclaimed;
"And, might the thing be named,
Some other god would make
Bolts better for our sake."
This Vulcan undertook.
His rumbling forges shook,
And glowed with fervent heat,
While Cyclops blew and beat.
Forth, from the plastic flame
Two sorts of bolts there came.
Of these, one misses not:
It's by Olympus shot, –
That is, the gods at large.
The other, bearing wide,
Hits mountain-top or side,
Or makes a cloud its targe.
And this it is alone
Which leaves the father's throne.

Q: What do you call it when one cow spies on another cow? A: A steak-out.

Artificial Castling:
Refers to a maneuver of multiple separate moves by the king and by a rook where they end up as if they had castled. Also known as castling by hand.

<Q: <What did <whiteshark> say when he ate the clownfish?>

A: This tastes a little funny.>

Blogger: Another good principle to note is "responsibility confines." It is when an opponent's piece must stay in a certain area to prevent checkmate or an immense loss of material. The defending piece's responsibilities keep it confined, tied down to an area. For example, if I have my rooks lined up on the file, getting ready to back rank mate my opponent's king, my opponent's rooks MUST stay on the first rank to prevent checkmate. That means I can bring a different piece like my bishop onto the second rank to help attack the confined rooks and king without worry about it being captured, because the instant one of the confined rooks goes to the second rank to capture my pesky bishop, I can deliver back rank mate.

The Hog, the Goat, and the Sheep

A goat, a sheep, and porker fat,
All to the market rode together.
Their own amusement was not that
Which caused their journey there.
Their coachman did not mean to "set them down"
To see the shows and wonders of the town.
The porker cried, in piercing squeals,
As if with butchers at his heels.
The other beasts, of milder mood,
The cause by no means understood.
They saw no harm, and wondered why
At such a rate the hog should cry.
"Hush there, old piggy!" said the man,
"And keep as quiet as you can.
What wrong have you to squeal about,
And raise this devilish, deafening shout?
These stiller persons at your side
Have manners much more dignified.
Pray, have you heard
A single word
Come from that gentleman in wool?
That proves him wise." "That proves him fool!"
The testy hog replied;
"For did he know
To what we go,
He'd cry almost to split his throat;
So would her ladyship the goat.
They only think to lose with ease,
The goat her milk, the sheep his fleece:
They're, maybe, right; but as for me,
This ride is quite another matter.
Of service only on the platter,
My death is quite a certainty.
Adieu, my dear old piggery!"
The porker's logic proved at once
Himself a prophet and a dunce.

Hope ever gives a present ease,
But fear beforehand kills:
The wisest he who least foresees
Inevitable ills.

The Autobahn in Germany has sections with no speed limits. The Autobahn, Germany's famous highway system, features stretches where there are no official speed limits. However, even without speed limits, drivers are expected to exercise caution and adhere to safe driving practices.

<<Pat-a-Cake>

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Pat it and prick it and mark it with "B",
Put it in the oven for baby and me.

Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Roll it up, roll it up;
And throw it in a pan!
Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man.>

Double-entry accounting:
The basic foundation of double-entry accounting is that the sum of all debits must be equal to the sum of all credits; very simple in theory but complicated in real-life. First introduced in 1494 by Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan monk, this accounting system has been the core methodology of bookkeeping used worldwide. It is used in all accounting systems, from those applied in families to calculate income and expenses to complex financial reports of the world's largest corporations.

Bloggers: General Chess Principles (combined/modified)

1. Aim into/Control the center of board. Starting w/a center pawn is recommended; advancing two adjacent center pawns (e-, d-, and/or c-pawns) is ideal when safe to do so. <1.f3/f6> is the worst opening move, as the king's knight belongs on that square.

3. Develop knights toward the center before bishops, before the queen, preparing to castle the king safely away. Wait-and-see with the bishops because they have more choices of good squares than do the knights.

2. Develop all four minor pieces (knights and bishops) quickly -- no sleeping on back row original squares. It is usually wise for most of your pawns, especially the outer pawns, to remain still in the opening. The pawn-and-bishop fianchetto on the flank is the only good outer pawn move. From the long diagonal, the bishop aims through the center of the board, corner-to-corner at the rooks.

4. Don't waste time moving the same piece twice in the opening while your other pieces still sit on their home square. Try to develop a different piece each turn until your king gets castled away. Castling is a developing move for the rook!

5. Don't lead out with the queen too early (unless she can check and fork an unprotected/loose piece, gaining material). Early queen moves can be punished by threatening to capture her with a gain of time (she loses time when forced to retreat) and by attacking the now undefended c-pawn that she used to protect.

6. Castle before move 10 (unless the center remains closed). Try to develop a different piece each turn until your king gets castled away. Castling is a developing move for the rook!

7. Connect your rooks for mutual protection and increased power together. This means no king or minor pieces stuck between the two rooks.

8. Rooks should go on open or half-open files where your pawn has been removed. This allows the rooks to aim and advance down the board.

9. Knights on the rim are dim/grim, their chances are slim. The knights cover the most squares (the maximum of 8) when placed within the big center (c3 to f3 to f6 to c6).

10, 11, 12. Avoid having double, isolated, and backward pawns (weak pawns). These weak pawns cannot be protected by another pawn. Thus, your pieces are burdened with defending weak pawns.

13. Don't trade your bishop for a knight without a good reason. Having the bishop pair is considered an advantage amongst masters.

14. Avoid moving the pawns in front of your castled king. However, after 0-0 short castling on the kingside, making an escape square/air hole/luft might be necessary at some point.

15. Don't open the center if your king is not yet castled. A king without pawn cover is badly exposed to attacks.

16. 2 minor pieces (knight/bishop) are better than rook+pawn. Such a tussle often occurs on the f2/f7 squares after castling kingside.

17. 3 minors are better than a queen, assuming the minor pieces are safely protected from the queen.

18. Rooks are strong on 7th rank to gobble opposing pawns, cut off the opposing king on the back row, and threatening a rook roller/ladder mate

19. Doubled rooks on an open file are very strong. The opponent will often try to arrange the same toward you!

20. Bishops are better in open positions (less pawns). Knights are better in closed positions (more pawns). Games usually become open eventually where the long range of the bishop could be the telling difference.

21. Best way to deal with a flank attack is to counterattack the center.

22. Pawns should capture towards the center of board. Exception: If your Nc3/Nc6 (developed queen's knight) is exchanged in the opening, it is often better to capture out with the d-pawn to free your queen and queen's bishop at once.

23. In the endgame, the king is a fighting piece -- use it!

24. Rooks belong behind passed pawns of either color. They have more scope from behind the advancing pawn.

25. 2 connected passed pawns safely on 6th rank will promote against a rook. The rook can get aligned to capture either pawn, but the other will advance and promote.

26. Attack the base of a pawn chain. The base/backward pawn is weak for it has no other pawn protection.

27. Knights are the best blockaders of pawns. It is often wise to protect the knight from behind, perhaps w/a rook.

28A. If your position is cramped, trade pieces
28B. Trade your passive/worst placed piece for your opponent's active/better placed one. A trade of like pieces is not always equal because one piece or the other had a more important/more useful role!

29A. When ahead material, trade like pieces but not pawns. This is called simplification. 29B. When ahead material, try to maintain pawns on both sides of the board to stretch the defense thin.

30. When down material, trade your pawns but not pieces. This frees your few remaining pieces to move about instead of guarding your pawns. Of course, if you can create a distant passed pawn by advancing it past instead of trading it, that should be considered.

31. Opposite colored bishops are dangerous in the middlegame as each bishop is unopposed on its color.

32. Endgames: Which endings are drawish? Opposite colored bishop endings are drawish. The light-squared bishop can capture unprotected pawns on the light squares from near or far, and the dark-squared bishop can do the same on the dark squares. Neither bishop can do anything to the other bishop.

33. Don't play "hope" chess. Expect the opponent to see your threat and play the correct reply.

34A. When you see a good move -- WAIT, and keep looking for a better move. You can always go back and play that good move later if nothing else turns up. 34B. Always look for Forcing moves: Checks, Captures, Threats/Attacks. Look for Forcing moves your opponent can do next if allowed, then find your move options and compare the danger, the speed of the attacks. Your opponent's next move is just as important as yours, so know can happen before you decide.

35. Know the right time to ignore principles. Some principles are more constant than others; it all depends upon the specific situation.

Blogger: A related thought to principle 35: these principles can give contradicting advice. In a given position, you need to weigh which of the principles is more important in that situation. Calculation and a lot of experience helps you to decide which principle is more important in a given situation.

Blogger: I would add Principle #36. Always think twice before moving a pawn because you can't move it back. If you make a poor move with your other pieces you can move them back, but pawns only go forwards. A lot of beginners make pawn moves when they can't think of any other moves and often they do it with little thought.

The Falcon and the Capon

You often hear a sweet seductive call:
If wise, you haste towards it not at all; –
And, if you heed my apologue,
You act like John de Nivelle's dog.

A capon, citizen of Mans,
Was summoned from a throng
To answer to the village squire,
Before tribunal called the fire.
The matter to disguise
The kitchen sheriff wise
Cried, "Biddy – Biddy – Biddy! – "
But not a moment did he –
This Norman and a half –
The smooth official trust.
"Your bait," said he, "is dust,
And I'm too old for chaff."
Meantime, a falcon, on his perch,
Observed the flight and search.
In man, by instinct or experience,
The capons have so little confidence,
That this was not without much trouble caught,
Though for a splendid supper sought.
To lie, the morrow night,
In brilliant candle-light,
Supinely on a dish
"Midst viands, fowl, and fish,
With all the ease that heart could wish –
This honour, from his master kind,
The fowl would gladly have declined.
Outcried the bird of chase,
As in the weeds he eyed the skulker's face,
"Why, what a stupid, blockhead race! –
Such witless, brainless fools
Might well defy the schools.
For me, I understand
To chase at word
The swiftest bird,
Aloft, over sea or land;
At slightest beck,
Returning quick
To perch on my master's hand.
There, at his window he appears –
He waits you – hasten – have no ears?"
"Ah! that I have," the fowl replied;
"But what from master might betide?
Or cook, with cleaver at his side?
Return you may for such a call,
But let me fly their fatal hall;
And spare your mirth at my expense:
Whatever I lack, it's not the sense
To know that all this sweet-toned breath
Is spent to lure me to my death.
If you had seen on the spit
As many of the falcons roast
As I have of the capon host,
You would, not thus reproach my wit."

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

Blogger: The best defense is a good offense. By doing so, your opponent will be too occupied defending themselves to stage an attack of their own

"There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world." ― Pierre Mac Orlan

"....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally." — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe

'Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted'

The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

"Sorry don't get it done, Dude!" — John Wayne, Rio Bravo

"Gossip is the devil's telephone. Best to just hang up." — Moira Rose

'Don't throw good money after bad'

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

Blogger: Something that helped me was to look for attacking moves as a way to interrupt the opponent if you need to escape danger or develop a stuck piece. If I can safely threaten one of my opponent's pieces, many times he needs to defend it or move it, which can buy me an extra turn (the initiative), and with the board a little bit different on my next turn it can sometimes give me better move choices without the opponent having made much progress, if that makes sense. This relates to CJS Purdy's principle of temporarily ignoring a threat to make an equal or greater threat elsewhere. — FTB

'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'

The Words Of Socrates

A house was built by Socrates
That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.
Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!

"I ask," said he, "no greater bliss
Than real friends to fill even this."
And reason had good Socrates
To think his house too large for these.
A crowd to be your friends will claim,
Till some unhandsome test you bring.
There's nothing plentier than the name;
There's nothing rarer than the thing.

His bark is worse than his bite. ~ Canadian proverb

Do not yell "dinner" until your knife is in the loaf. ~ Canadian proverb

Easier said than done. ~ Canadian proverb

All Hallows moon, witches soon. ~ Canadian proverb

You can't catch skunks with mice. ~ Canadian proverb

Waste not want not. ~ Canadian proverb

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.

"Everyone should know how to play chess." — José Raúl Capablanca

Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

'Finders keepers, losers weepers'
No, turn it over to Lost and Found.

Drive sober or get pulled over.

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

Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.' — W.E. Napier (1881-1952)

Blogger:
1. Beware of focusing too much on your own attack. You may miss major threats from your opponent. Stay vigilant!

2. Beware of intuition. It lies! You must calculate, calculate, calculate.

3. Beware of sneaky moves from your opponent in a winning endgame. You may be suckered into a stalemate.

<<Lord Dunsany mentioned that after <Jose Raul Capablanca>'s death he published the following epitaph in CHESS, June 1942, page 131:>

Now rests a mind as keen,
A vision bright and clear
As any that has been
And who is it lies here?

One that, erstwhile, no less
Than Hindenburg could plan,
But played his game of chess
And did no harm to man.>

The British Empire was the largest empire in world history. The British Empire was most powerful in the 1920s, when it controlled 23 percent of the world's population and approximately 13.7 million square miles of territory—or nearly a quarter of the Earth's land area, according to a report from Statista.

Dinamus wrote:

Strings
Surrogate pawn
In the light of day
These moves aren't yours
In this game we play

Make a move
Take your time
In the end
It's still all mine

You'll be the first to laugh
At the end of my string
you'll know it's all pretend
'Cause I always win

"Pawns are the soul of chess." — François-André Danican Philidor

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

"When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don't worry about losing a pawn on the queen side." ― Garry Kasparov

The Wolf and the Hunter

You lust of gain, – foul fiend, whose evil eyes Regard as nothing the blessings of the skies,
Must I for ever battle you in vain?
How long demandest you to gain
The meaning of my lessons plain?
Will constant getting never cloy?
Will man never slacken to enjoy?
Haste, friend; you have not long to live:
Let me the precious word repeat,
And listen to it, I entreat;
A richer lesson none can give –
The sovereign antidote for sorrow –
ENJOY! – 'I will." – But when? – 'Tomorrow. – " Ah! death may take you on the way,
Why not enjoy, I ask, today?
Lest envious fate your hopes ingulf,
As once it served the hunter and the wolf.

The former, with his fatal bow,
A noble deer had laid full low:
A fawn approached, and quickly lay
Companion of the dead,
For side by side they bled.
Could one have wished a richer prey?
Such luck had been enough to sate
A hunter wise and moderate.
Meantime a boar, as big as ever was taken,
Our archer tempted, proud, and fond of bacon.
Another candidate for Styx,
Struck by his arrow, foams and kicks.
But strangely do the shears of Fate
To cut his cable hesitate.
Alive, yet dying, there he lies,
A glorious and a dangerous prize.
And was not this enough? Not quite,
To fill a conqueror's appetite;
For, before the boar was dead, he spied
A partridge by a furrow's side –
A trifle to his other game.
Once more his bow he drew;
The desperate boar on him came,
And in his dying vengeance slew:
The partridge thanked him as she flew.

Thus much is to the covetous addressed;
The miserly shall have the rest.

A wolf, in passing, saw that woeful sight.
"O Fortune," cried the savage, with delight,
"A fane to you I'll build outright!
"Four carcasses! how rich! But spare –
"I'll make them last – such luck is rare,"
(The miser's everlasting plea.)
"They'll last a month for – let me see –
One, two, three, four – the weeks are four
If I can count – and some days more.
Well, two days from now
And I'll commence.
Meantime, the string on this bow
I'll stint myself to eat;
For by its mutton-smell I know
It's made of entrails sweet."
His entrails rued the fatal weapon,
Which, while he heedlessly did step on,
The arrow pierced his bowels deep,
And laid him lifeless on the heap.

Hark, stingy souls! insatiate leeches!
Our text this solemn duty teaches, –
Enjoy the present; do not wait
To share the wolf's or hunter's fate.

"So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it." ― Josh Waitzkin

Blogger: Bishop tip: in the endgame, keep your king on an opposite-colored square as the opposing bishop. Skewers are common in the endgame.

Blogger:
1) generally speaking, do not exchange a ‘good bishop' for a bad bishop that lacks mobility.

2) create open diagonals for bishops to increase their extended space coverage

3) attack supported pawns with minority attack or the base/backward pawn of the pawn chain ― FTB

4) keep tempo/initiative, or fight to get it by making threats

5) create space for mobility, flexibility but keep out the opponent

6) support all pieces, when possible. Don't leave hanging/unprotected pieces

7) understand tactics like forks, pins and x-rays Oh, it's much more serious than that. Eat, drink, and sleep tactical puzzles to magnify your eagle eye for capturing prey with ease and advantage, then prevail with the larger remaining army. Your chess success depends upon seeing possible tactics for both sides; avoiding getting ambushed is just as important as snatching them off. ― FTB

The Chess Poem by Ayaan Chettiar

8 by 8 makes 64
In the game of chess, the king shall rule
Kings and queens, and rooks and knights
Bishops and Pawns, and the use of mind

The Game goes on, the players think
Plans come together, form a link
Attacks, checks and capture
Until, of course, we reach a mate

The Pawns march forward, then the knights
Power the bishops, forward with might
Rooks come together in a line
The Game of Chess is really divine

The Rooks move straight, then take a turn
The Knights on fire, make no return
Criss-Cross, Criss-Cross, go the bishops
The Queen's the leader of the group

The King resides in the castle
While all the pawns fight with power
Heavy blows for every side
Until the crown, it is destroyed

The Brain's the head, The Brain's the King,
The Greatest one will always win,
For in the game of chess, the king shall rule,
8 by 8 makes 64!

"and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!" ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Proverbs 26 Berean Standard Bible

1 Like snow in summer and rain at harvest,

honor does not befit a fool.

2 Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow,

an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,

and a rod for the backs of fools!

4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly,

or you yourself will be like him.

5 Answer a fool according to his folly,

lest he become wise in his own eyes.

6 Like cutting off one's own feet or drinking violence

is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.

7 Like lame legs hanging limp

is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

8 Like binding a stone into a sling

is the giving of honor to a fool.

9 Like a thorn that falls into the hand of a drunkard

is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

10 Like an archer who wounds at random

is he who hires a fool or passerby.

11 As a dog returns to its vomit,a

so a fool repeats his folly.

12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes?

There is more hope for a fool than for him.

13 The slacker says, "A lion is in the road!

A fierce lion roams the public square!"

14 As a door turns on its hinges,

so the slacker turns on his bed.

15 The slacker buries his hand in the dish;

it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.

16 The slacker is wiser in his own eyes

than seven men who answer discreetly.

17 Like one who grabs a dog by the ears

is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.

18 Like a madman shooting firebrands

and deadly arrows,

19 so is the man who deceives his neighbor

and says, "I was only joking!"

20 Without wood, a fire goes out;

without gossip, a conflict ceases.

21 Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire,

so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels

that go down into the inmost being.

23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel

are burning lips and a wicked heart.

24 A hateful man disguises himself with his speech,

but he lays up deceit in his heart.

25 When he speaks graciously, do not believe him,

for seven abominations fill his heart.

26 Though his hatred is concealed by deception,

his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

27 He who digs a pit will fall into it,

and he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.

28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes,

and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

* Crafty Endgame Trainer: https://www.chessvideos.tv/endgame-...

* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev) - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1

* Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century

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

* 2012-2015 Attacks: Game Collection: 2012-2015 Attacking Games (Naiditsch/Balogh)

"Strategy without tactics results in the longest path to victory. Tactics without strategy is but noise before defeat." ― Sun Tsu

"He who takes the Queen's Knight's pawn will sleep in the streets!" ― anonymous

I'm so good at sleeping I can do it with my eyes closed!

<from the simpleton poet:

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.

Chess is creative.
And a journey too.

Good in the morning.
Or just before bed.

Play cheater_1, with engine.
Or OTB, all in your head.>

Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; his love endures forever.

"The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third." ― Gale Sayers

"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?" — Queen Elizabeth II

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ― Benjamin Franklin

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

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ― Denis Waitley

Luck never gives; it only lends. ~ Scottish Proverb

"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

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

"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

Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction."

<<<High Flight> BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.>

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.>

Bless Us, O Lord
Traditional Catholic Prayer

Bless us, O Lord,

And these Thy gifts

Which we are about to receive,

Through Thy bounty

Through Christ our Lord we pray.
Amen.

"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

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ― Howard Thurman

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"Stay sharp, play smart, and take care." ― NM Nelson Lopez

Z is for Zookeeper (to the tune of "Do You Know the Muffin Man?")

Oh do you know the zookeeper,
The zookeeper, the zookeeper?
Oh, do you know the zookeeper
Who works down at the zoo?

Q: Why did the rubber chicken cross the road?
A: To stretch her legs.

Sing it Frankie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEc...

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