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"Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders." — Savielly Tartakower

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

"To free your game, take off some of your adversary's men, if possible for nothing." — Captain Bertain, The Noble Game of Chess (1735)

"I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!" — Wilhelm Steinitz

"A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king." — Boonaa Mohammed

"A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe that you have an advantage, and the third … when you know you're going to lose!" — Savielly Tartakower

"Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions." — Matthew Selman (on the similarities of chess to a negotiation)

"Let the perfectionist play postal." — GM Yasser Seirawan

"You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked." — Sun Tzu

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

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

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

"I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake." ― Emanuel Lasker

"Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it - checkmate ends the game." — Nigel Short

"When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong." — Siegbert Tarrasch

"The boy doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession." — Botvinnik, said about a young 12-year-old boy named Anatoly Karpov

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

* Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess

* Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op...

* Simple tactics course using miniatures:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/FTP...

* Brilliant (and mostly famous)! Game Collection: Brilliant Miniatures

* Blackburne strikes! games annotated by Blackburne

* Checkmate Art: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate

* Crouch's book: Game Collection: Chess Secrets - Attackers (Crouch)

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

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

* Happy Days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slv...

* Learn these and burn them! https://herculeschess.com/chess-tac...

* Tactics by a different Gary: https://chessdelights.com/chess-tac...

* Greatest Hits: Game Collection: Mammoth Book-Greatest Games (Nunn/Burgess/Emms)

* 62 Masterpieces: Game Collection: Instructive Games (Chernev)

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

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

* Post-Beginners Book: Game Collection: Chess training for post-beginners

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

* Rubinstein: Game Collection: Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces

* Short history: Game Collection: A history of chess

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

* The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z...

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

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

* Z Vol 105: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 105

* 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

Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.

New York: Albany
Established in: 1624

Henry Hudson (the Hudson River is named after him) arrived in Albany in 1609, but it was already home to a Dutch trading post and the Haudenosaunee tribe, Iroquois Native Americans.

The capital of New York is also its oldest city. Originally founded as Fort Orange by the Dutch settlers in 1624, the city was officially chartered by the British government as Albany in 1686. It didn't become the capital of the state until 1797. Albany was the point of origin for the first long distance airplane flight and the first passenger railroad.

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

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

* History of Chess: https://boldchess.com/history/

* Chess Aps: https://www.wired.com/story/best-ch...

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

poem by B.H. Wood which appeared in the following issue of the Chess Amateur: December 1929 (page 56)

The Chess Cafe I

Here is the life of Chess! – What's master play But its post-mortem? Scattered far and near
Are business men at leisure, youths and grey
Ancients, immersed in mental rivalry.
Here
How happily I'm come, for here, to me,
All life is peace; my roll and coffee seem
Food of the gods; the games I play and see
Lit with the hazy luminance of a dream.
Though champions still make a toil of chess,
We revel in unsound contentedness.

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

"Sometimes in life, and in chess, you must take one step back to take two steps forward." — IM Levy Rozman, GothamChess

So much, much, much better to be an incurable optimist than deceitful and untrustworthy.

"Don't blow your own trumpet." — Australian Proverb

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

"Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you." — Bobby Darnell

Below is a Morphy acrostic by C.V. Grinfield from page 334 of the Chess Player's Chronicle, 1861: Mightiest of masters of the chequer'd board,
Of early genius high its boasted lord!
Rising in youth's bright morn to loftiest fame, Princeliest of players held with one acclaim;
Host in thyself – all-conquering in fight: – Yankees exult! – in your great champion's might.

The Dancing Bear
by James Russell Lowell

Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,
And win their dearest crowns beyond the goal
Of their own conscious purpose; they control
With gossamer threads wide-flown our fancy's play, And so our action. On my walk to-day,
A wallowing bear begged clumsily his toll,
When straight a vision rose of Atta Troll,
And scenes ideal witched mine eyes away.
'Merci, Mossieu!' the astonished bear-ward cried, Grateful for thrice his hope to me, the slave
Of partial memory, seeing at his side
A bear immortal. The glad dole I gave
Was none of mine; poor Heine o'er the wide
Atlantic welter stretched it from his grave.

The Bird Wounded By An Arrow

A bird, with plumed arrow shot,
In dying case deplored her lot:
"Alas!" she cried, "the anguish of the thought!
This ruin partly by myself was brought!
Hard-hearted men! from us to borrow
What wings to us the fatal arrow!
But mock us not, you cruel race,
For you must often take our place."

The work of half the human brothers
Is making arms against the others.

<Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علی‌رضا فیروزجا, Persian pronunciation: æliːɾeˈzɑː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɑː; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest ever 2800-rated player, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months.

A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster title at 14. At 16, Firouzja became the second youngest 2700-rated player and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rapid Chess Championship. In November 2021, at 18, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship. He won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Blitz Chess Championship. In 2022, Firouzja won the Grand Chess Tour.

Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019 because of the country's longstanding policy against competing with Israeli players.4 He played under the FIDE flag until mid-2021, when he became a French citizen and began representing France, where he had already been living.> — Wikipedia

How many chess openings are there?

Well, White has 20 possible 1st moves. Black can respond with 20 of its own. That's 400, and we're ready for move 2. I don't know them, but I would not be at all surprised if there was a name for each of them. People are like that. You really, really don't need to know them all.

If you follow the rules of thumb for good opening play, I promise you that you'll be playing a named opening. Just put the 1st 3 moves in google, and you'll get the opening's name. With that information you can find other games that started the way your game started, likely by some very good players. Also, with the name you can read about it on Wikipedia, and find out what people think of it, who plays it, and its particular traps and idiosyncrasies.

Once again, The Rules of Thumb for Good Opening Play:

- Develop your pieces quickly with an eye towards controlling the center. Not necessarily occupying the center but controlling it certainly.

- Castle your king just as soon as it's practical to do so.

- Really try not to move a piece more than once during the opening, it's a waste of valuable time.

- Connect your rooks. This marks the end of the opening. Connected rooks means that only your rooks and your castled king are on the back rank.

- Respond to threats appropriately, even if you have to break the rules. They're rules of thumb, not scripture, or physical laws.

If you and your opponent follow these rules of thumb, you'll reach the middle game ready to fight. If only you follow these rules of thumb, you're already winning! Good Hunting. -- Eric H.

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

The King Is Dead, Long Live the King By Julian Randall

Heaven is the certainty that you will be avenged I know I know the kingdom is not fair but it's what I have a montage of red and a mitosis of knuckles I'm not sure how you could expect me to love anything Ain't no question sadness is regal like that golden and replaceable once I wanted a lineage of identical men once a mouth soft and hot as the quickest way that gold can hurt you You see a pattern yet? I practice the want of nothing and fail I've been shown how ugly I can be when I am invisible I don't believe in yesterdays The throat of loneliness? Straddled with my knife I press my hands to my face and the lament is a valley the light sags through What do you do when you have lost Everything? Rewrite the history of Everything I don't like my smile because someone told me I didn't like it Now I am gorgeous in all the languages I mothered Flex the antonym of Missing I avenge myself Stretch my hands I orphan my grief for the living and it is beauty ain't no question I monarch the lonely I my own everything now I miss my love and it is an American grief I strike the smell from nostalgia cut my memory to spite my country What is the odor of nothing but my dominion in want of excess I grin and pillars of bone flower into sawed-off crowns say I flex the light and the light flexes heat shimmer unfurling like a bicep my lust a mirage where the body is merely a congealing of the river I can feel it slowly drifting away from me The world I knew is gone and getting more gone and my anthem populating my nose with an abundance of salt I slip the shroud over the life I named and forget I belonged to someone once My soverign's face is a riot of diamonds whining This will be a beautiful death and I am free and gorgeous and desperate to never have to miss anyone again I rock the jeweled shroud become the bride of my own sad light

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

Bears like 'em too.

Riddle Answer: A gift.

The Will Explained By Aesop

If what old story says of Aesop's true,
The oracle of Greece he was,
And more than Areopagus he knew,
With all its wisdom in the laws.
The following tale gives but a sample
Of what has made his fame so ample.
Three daughters shared a father's purse,
Of habits totally diverse.
The first, bewitched with drinks delicious;
The next, coquettish and capricious;
The third, supremely avaricious.
The sire, expectant of his fate,
Bequeathed his whole estate,
In equal shares, to them,
And to their mother just the same, –
To her then payable, and not before,
Each daughter should possess her part no more.
The father died. The females three
Were much in haste the will to see.
They read, and read, but still
Saw not the willer's will.
For could it well be understood
That each of this sweet sisterhood,
When she possessed her part no more,
Should to her mother pay it over?
It was surely not so easy saying
How lack of means would help the paying.
What meant their honoured father, then?
The affair was brought to legal men,
Who, after turning over the case
Some hundred thousand different ways,
Threw down the learned bonnet,
Unable to decide on it;
And then advised the heirs,
Without more thought, t" adjust affairs.
As to the widow's share, the counsel say,
"We hold it just the daughters each should pay
One third to her on demand,
Should she not choose to have it stand
Commuted as a life annuity,
Paid from her husband's death, with due congruity." The thing thus ordered, the estate
Is duly cut in portions three.
And in the first they all agree
To put the feasting-lodges, plate,
Luxurious cooling mugs,
Enormous liquor jugs,
Rich cupboards, – built beneath the trellised vine, – The stores of ancient, sweet Malvoisian wine,
The slaves to serve it at a sign;
In short, whatever, in a great house,
There is of feasting apparatus.
The second part is made
Of what might help the jilting trade –
The city house and furniture,
Exquisite and genteel, be sure,
The eunuchs, milliners, and laces,
The jewels, shawls, and costly dresses.
The third is made of household stuff,
More vulgar, rude, and rough –
Farms, fences, flocks, and fodder,
And men and beasts to turn the sod over.
This done, since it was thought
To give the parts by lot
Might suit, or it might not,
Each paid her share of fees dear,
And took the part that pleased her.
It was in great Athens town,
Such judgment gave the gown.
And there the public voice
Applauded both the judgment and the choice.
But Aesop well was satisfied
The learned men had set aside,
In judging thus the testament,
The very gist of its intent.
"The dead," Said he, "could he but know of it,
Would heap reproaches on such Attic wit.
What! men who proudly take their place
As sages of the human race,
Lack they the simple skill
To settle such a will?"
This said, he undertook himself
The task of portioning the pelf;
And straightway gave each maid the part
The least according to her heart –
The prim coquette, the drinking stuff,
The drinker, then, the farms and cattle;
And on the miser, rude and rough,
The robes and lace did Aesop settle;
For thus, he said, "an early date
Would see the sisters alienate
Their several shares of the estate.
No motive now in maidenhood to tarry,
They all would seek, post haste, to marry;
And, having each a splendid bait,
Each soon would find a well-bred mate;
And, leaving thus their father's goods intact,
Would to their mother pay them all, in fact," – Which of the testament
Was plainly the intent.
The people, who had thought a slave an ass,
Much wondered how it came to pass
That one alone should have more sense
Than all their men of most pretence.

Riddle: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?

Answer: Wet, duh!

Annabel Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

"....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

The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee.

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

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

The Blossom
by William Blake

Merry, merry sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.

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Author Biographies:
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Jamie Walter Adams
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Aeschylus, considered the father of tragedy is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays canstill be read or performed. Born: 525 BC, Eleusis, Greece. Died: 456 BC, Gela, Sicily.

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali
al-Mas'udi, was an Arab historian, geographer and Islamic scholar. Al-Masudi is considered one of the first to combine history and scientific geography in a large-scale work, Muruj adh-dhahab wa ma'adin al-jawhar, a world history. Born: 896 AD, Baghdad. Died:956 AD36

Alexander Alekhine
, PhD was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is considered one of the greatest chess players ever known for his fierce and imaginative attacking style, combined with great positional and endgame skill. Alekhine is highly regarded as a chess writer, theoretician, producing innovations in a wide range of chess openings, and giving his name to Alekhine's Defense and several other opening variations. He also composed endgame studies. Born: October 31, 1892, Moscow, Russia. Died: March24, 1946, Estoril, Portugal Viswanathan Anand
is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. Viswanathan Anand has won the World Chess Championship five times, and has been the World Champion since 2007. Born: December 11, 1969, Mayiladuthurai Hunter B. Armstrong
is the director of IHS, the martial art known as Hopology and is a leading authority on combative behavior and performance. Aristotle
was perhaps the preeminent Greek philosopher, learning directly at the hands of Plato, in addition to being the tutor of Alexander the Great. He had a profound philosophical influence on the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions. His writings included works on poetry, music, logic, linguistics, politics, government, zoology and physics. Born 284 B.C. Stagira, Chaldcidice. Died 322B.C. Euboea, modern day Greece. Fernando Arrabal-Terán
is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, poet, novelist, film director and co-founder of the Panic Movement in 1962. Born: August 11, 1932, Melilla, Spain. Yuri Sergeyevich Balashov
is a Russian chess grandmaster and FIDE senior trainer. Born: March 12,1949, Shadrinsk, Russia. Pal Benko
is a chess grandmaster with the Benko Gambit named after his style of play, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems. Born: July 14, 1928, Amiens, France. Otto von Bismark
, formally known as Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, was a conservative German statesman who dominated European affairs from the 1860s to 1890 by unifying most of the German states into a German empire thus creating a balance of power that preserved peace in Europe for more than 40 years, from 1871 until 1914. Born: April, 1, 1815,Schonhausen, Prussia. Died: July 30, 1898, Friedrichsruh, German Empire. Samuel Standidge Boden
was an English professional chess master who had a mating pattern named after his move in one of his games, Boden's Mate. Born: 1826, Kingston on the Hull, England. Died:1882, London, England. Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov
was a Russian chess grandmaster whose legacy is the Bogo-Indian Defence chess opening that was named after him. Born: April 14, 1889, Kiev, Russia. Died: June18,1952, Schwarzwald, West Germany. Napoleon Bonaparte
was a French military genius and political leader whose photographic memory and unrivaled intellectual powers enabled him to rise to power during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe. Crowned Napoleon I, he was the French Emperor from37

1804 to 1815. Born: August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica. Died: May 5, 1821, Longwood, St Helena Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik
, PhD was a Russian International Grandmaster who also was an electrical engineer and computer scientist credited as a pioneer in computer chess. Born: August 17,1911, Kuokkala, Finland. Died: May 5, 1995, Moscow, Russia. David Ionovich Bronstein
, a Soviet chess grandmaster and author of chess books and articles, was considered by his peers as a creative genius and master of tactics. Born: February 19, 1924, BilaTserkva, Ukraine. Died: December 5, 2006, Minsk, Belarus. Charles BuxtonGaius Julius Caesar
, a Roman general, statesman, and Consul, was regarded as one of the best orators and prose authors in Latin. He played a critical role in the political and military events that precipitated the demise of the Roman Republic and led to the rise of the Roman Empire. Born: July 13, 100 BC, Rome, Italy. Died: March 15, 44 BC, Rome, Italy. José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera
, a Cuban Grandmaster chess player who held world chess champion title from 1921 to 1927. He was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play and nicknamed the "Human Chess Machine", considered by many to be the most talented chess player in history. Born: November 19, 1888, Havana, Cuba. Died: March 8, 1942, New York, New York, USA. Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
, a Norwegian chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy, the No. 1ranked player in the world in 2013. His endgame skill is described as among the greatest in history. Born: November 30, 1990, Tonsberg, Norway. Ralph CharellGenrikh Chepukaitis Irving Chernev
, a Russian-American chess player and prolific chess author was a national master strength player. Born: January 29, 1900 Pryluky, Russia. Died: September 29, 1981, San Francisco,USA. Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz
, a German-Prussian soldier, military theorist and author who stressed the psychological and political aspects of war. Born: July 1, 1780, Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany. Died: November 16, 1831, Wroclaw, Poland. Edward James Mortimer Collins
was a British poet and author. Born: June 29, 1827, Plymouth, England. Died: July 28, 1876, Berkshire, England. Fabiano Cuarana
is a former chess prodigy and current grandmaster, a title he reached at 14 years old in 2007, the youngest American (and Italian – he has dual citizenship) to have reached that level. Born July 30, 1992 Miami, Florida. Nigel Davies
is an English chess Grandmaster, chess coach and chess author. Born: July 31, 1960,38

Southport, England.
Johannes Hendrikus Donner
was a Dutch chess grandmaster, chess columnist and author. Born: July6, 1927, The Hague, Netherlands. Died: November 27, 1988, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
was a Russian novelist, short story writer and essayist. Born: November 11, 1921, Moscow, Russia. Died: February 9, 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Marcel Duchamp
was a French-American painter in the style of Cubism and Dadism, sculptor, authorand chess master. Born: July 28, 1887, Blainville-Crevon, France. Died: October 2, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky
is a Russian chess trainer, International Master and author. Born: December 9, 1947, Moscow, Russia. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
was a gambler, western lawman, Deputy U.S. Marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, and is renowned for his part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Born: March 19, 1948, Monmouth, Illinois. Died: January 13, 1929, Los Angeles, California. Frederick Milne Edge, chess author.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
was an American author of essays and poetry, lecturer, chess player and leader in the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. Born: May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts. Machgielis Euwe, known as
Max Euwe, was a mathematician, chess author and Dutch chess Grandmaster. Born: May 20, 1901, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Died: November 26, 1981, Amsterdam, Netherlands. F to K:
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was a psychologist, a university professor, an International Grandmaster and author of both chess and psychology books. Born: October 11, 1914, NYC, New York. Died: March 26, 1993, NYC, New York. Robert James "Bobby" Fischer
, an American chess Grandmaster, the eleventh World Chess Champion and chess author is considered by many to be the greatest chess player who ever lived andhis variant Chess960 is becoming more popular. Born: March 9, 1943, Chicago, Illinois. Died: January17, 2008, Reykjavík, Iceland. Edward Morgan Forster
(pen name of
E. M. Forster
) was an English essayist, novelist, and librettist known for engaging topics related to class differences during the early 20 th century. Born January 1,1879, Marylbone, England. Died June 7, Coventry, England.39

Benjamin Franklin
was a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning. Franklin was a leading author of his time, newspaper editor and printer, political theorist, postmaster, scientist of international renown for his theories in electricity, inventor, musician and an avid chess player. Born: January 17,1706, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: April 17, 1790, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Frederick II of Prussia
, know as Frederick the Great, was the ruler of Prussia from 1740- 1786. He is know as a brilliant military campaigning and organizer of the Prussian army, a gifted flute player and composer, a Platonic philosopher and a lover of nature, both flora and fauna. Born: January 24, 1812,Berlin, Germany. Died: August 17, 1876, Potsdam, Germany. Svetozar Gligoric
was a Serbian and Yugoslavian grandmaster, winning the Yugoslavian championship a record twelve times. One of the most successful tournament players of the 20th century, he nonetheless had a hard time in consecutive world championship qualifying events, capping a career with a loss to Mikhail Tal in 1968. Born February 2, 1923, Belgrade. Died August 14, 2012 Belgrade, Serbia. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
was a literary celebrity of his time; a member of the Strum und Drang literary movement, a German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry memoirs, literary criticisms, essays on scientific subjects. Born: August 28, 1749, Frankfurt, Germany. Died: March 22, 1832, Weimar, Germany. Harry Golombek
was a British chess International Master, honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author and during WWII he worked at Bletchley Park British deciphering the German enigma codes. Born: March 1, 1911, London, England. Died: January 7, 1995, London, England. John Gray Michael "Mig" Greengard
is an American chess author, commentator and journalist having written several columns online and on twitter. Born: June 9, 1969, California. Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld
was a Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, a prolific chess author of over 100 books on chess and a chess trainer who started the FIDE Committee on Chess Art and Exhibition. Born: March 19, 1936, Kiev, Russia. Died: September 23, 2002, Los Angeles, California. Dan Heisman
is a United States Chess Federation National Master, chess tutor, mathematician, engineer and author. Born: 1950, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson
was a British soldier, Professor of Military Arts and History and military author. Born: 1854, Jersey, England. Died: March 5, 1903, Assuan, Egypt. Israel Albert Horowitz
was a Jewish-American International Master of chess and highly recommended chess author known for the Horowitz Defense. Born: November 15, 1907, Brooklyn, New York. Died: January 18,1973, Brooklyn, New York. Thomas Henry Huxley
was an English biologist and considered one of the best comparative anatomist of the late 19th century. He was a strong advocate of Darwin's theory of evolution. Born: May 4, 1825,40

Ealing, England. Died: June 29, 1895, Eastbourne, England. Dawid Markelowicz Janowski
was a Polish chess master whose style of quick play and tactics was devastating with the Bishop Pair. The Janowski Indian Defense is named after him. Born: May 25,1868, Vawkavysky, Poland. Died: January 15, 1927, Hyeres, France. Alfred Ernest Jones
was a British neurologist and psychoanalyst, author and Sigmund Freud's official biographer. He was a passionate chess player and authored a psychoanalytical study of the life of American chess genius Paul Morphy. Born: January 1, 1879, Gowerton, England. Died: February 11,1958, London, England. W.J. Jordan
, or
Bill Jordan
was an Australian chess FIDE Master, chess coach and computer chess programmer author of various chess tools. Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov
, PhD is a Russian chess Grandmaster and politician. Born: May23,1951, Zlatoust, Russia. Garry Kimovich Kasparov
is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, author and political activist, considered to be one of the greatest chess player of all time he was known for his chess games against the IBM computers, Deep Thought, Deep Blue, Deep Jr. and X3D Fritz. Born: April 13, 1963, Baku, Russia. Paul Keres
was an Estonian chess Grandmaster and chess author. Born: January 7, 1916, Narva, Estonia. Died: June 5, 1975, Helsinki, Finland. George Kieninger
was a German chess master and International Master. Born: June 5, 1902, Munich, Germany. Died: January 25, 1975, Dusseldorf, Germany. Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch
was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master, International Arbiter, and a chess journalist and author. Born: July 25, 1894, Vienna, Austria. Died: February 13, 1973, NYC, New York. Arthur Koestler
was a Hungarian-British author and journalist best know for his work "Darkness at Noon." Born: September 5, 1905, Budapest, Hungry. Died: March 1, 1983, London, England. Humpy Koneru
is an Indian chess Grandmaster. In January 2010 her FIDE Elo rating was 2614, ranking her number two in the world for women's players. Born: March 31, 1987, Vijayawada, India. Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi
is a Russian Grandmaster, a professional chess player and chess author. He defected from Russia in 1976, and currently resides in Switzerland. Born: March 23, 1931, Leningrad, Russia. Alexander Alexandrovich Kotov
was a Soviet chess Grandmaster and chess author. Born: August 12,1913, Tula, Russia. Died: January 8, 1981, Moscow, Russia. Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
is a Russian chess grandmaster and is credited with shaping the current opening theory of chess. Born: June 25, 1975, Tuapse, Russia.41

Stanley Kubrick
was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and chess player who said " If chess has any relationship to filmmaking, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive." He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Born: July 26,1928, Bronx, New York. Died: March 7, 1999, St Albans, England. Wu Kung-tsao
was a famous Chinese martial arts teacher of t'ai chi ch'uan. Born: 1902, China. Died:1983, China. J to N:
Omar Khayyam
was the poetic author of the
Rubaiyiat
, and a multi-disciplined philosopher, mathemetician, astronomer, and musician. Born May 18, 1048, Nishapur. Died December 4, 1131, Nishapur, modern-day Iran. Jørgen Bent Larsen
was a Danish chess Grandmaster and chess author. Larsen was regarded as a deep thinking and highly imaginative player, more willing to try unorthodox ideas and to take more risks than most of his peers. Born: March 4, 1935, Thisted, Denmark. Died: September 9, 2010, BuenosAires, Brazil. Edward Lasker
was a leading German-American chess and Go player, an International Master engineer and chess author. Born: December 3, 1885, Kempo, Poland. Died: March 25, 1981, NYC, New York. Emanuel Lasker
, PhD was a German chess player, mathematician, philosopher and World Chess Champion for 27 years who by recent analysis of his flexible approach to chess was considered one of the strongest players ever and ahead of his time. Born: December 24, 1868, Barlinke, Poland. Died: January 11, 1941, NYC, New York. Lt. Col. Robert R. Leonhard
, author of military strategies books.
David Neil Laurence Levy
, is a Scottish International Master of chess, a prolific chess author, a businessman connected with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads. Born: March 14, 1945, London, England. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
, or Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was an English soldier, military historian and leading inter-war theorist. He is credited with greatly influencing the development of armored warfare. Born: October 31, 1895, Paris, France. Died: January 29, 1970, Marlow, England. Niccolo Machiavelli
was an Italian renaissance man, known as a historian, political philosopher, humanist, and diplomat. He wrote the famous political treatise The Prince
for the Medici family in42

1953, with a more detailed version called
The Art of War
coming after his semi-forced retirement. Born May 3, 1469, Florence, Republic of Florence (Italy). Died June 21, 1527, Florence. Paul Thomas Mann
was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his use of symbolism and irony. Born: June 6, 1875, Lubeck, Germany. Died: August 12, 1955, Zurich, Switzerland. Mao Tse-tung
, later known by the simple "Chairman Mao," was a communist revolutionary, military leader, politician, and political theorist who is credited with the distinction of founding the People's Republic government of modern-day China. Born December 26, 1893, Shaoshan, Hunan. Died September 9, 1976, Beijing, China. Frank James Marshall
, was a U.S. Chess Champion know for his great tactical skill with a number of chess opening variations named after him. Born: August 10, 1877, NYC, New York. Died: November9, 1944, Jersey City, New Jersey. George Catlett Marshall, Jr.
, was General of the Army, Army of the United States, Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense during the Truman administration. The Marshall Plan (ERP) to help rebuild Europe after WWII was named after him and for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. Born: December 31,1880, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Died: October 16, 1959, Washington D.C. James Mason
was a famous American chess player of the 19th century and chess writer with a chess opening variation named after him, the Mason Variation. Born: November 19, 1949, Kilkenny, Ireland. Died: January 12, 1905, Rochdale, England. Luke James McShane
is an English chess Grandmaster and former World Youth Champion and chess prodigy, he is a strong blitz chess player, and he is fully employed as a trader in London's financial sector, therefore referred to as the world's strongest amateur. Born: January 7, 1984, London, England. Edmar John Mednis
was an American International Grandmaster of chess, engineer, stockbroker and a popular and respected chess writer. Born: March 22, 1937, Riga, Latvia. Died: February 13, 2002, Queens, New York. Deng Ming-Dao
is a Chinese American author, artist, philosopher, teacher and martial artist who studied the Taosist internal arts, Qigong and Kung-Fu. Born: 1954, San Francisco, California. Bruce A. Moon Paul Charles Morphy
was a lawyer and an American chess player called The Pride and the Sorrow because of his brief, brilliant chess career and is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. Born: June 22, 1937, New Orleans, Louisiana. Died: July 10, 1884, New Orleans, Louisiana. Alexander Sergeyvich Morozevich
is a Russian chess Grandmaster known for his unusual chess openings and is considered to be one of the best blindfold chess players in the world. Born: July 18,1977, Moscow, Russia.43

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v lasker zurich 1934
v spielmann carlsbad 1929
v lundin stockholm 1934
v maroczy bled 1931
v henneberger winterthur 1931
v thomas frankfurt 1930
v sultan khan liege 1930
v marshall berlin 1928
v reti berlin 1928
v alehine ny 1927
v tchigorin carlsbad 1907
and for a joke entry duras v nimzo san sebastian 1912 !!

A quote from the link: https://www.libertarianism.org/what...

"Modern day politicians on the left and right sometimes pay lip service to these ideas, but in practice they reject them. Legislation is all about imposing an order from above, rather than letting one emerge from below. And in creating their schemes, politicians all too often fail to give citizens their due as people, treating them as pawns and running roughshod over their rights to decide and plan for themselves."

Below is the acrostic poem by Mrs T.B. Rowland:

Tears now we sadly shed apart,
How keenly has death's sudden dart
E'en pierced a kingdom's loyal heart.

Dark lies the heavy gloomy pall
Upon our royal bower,
Kings, queens, and nations bow their heads,
Each mourn for England's flower.

Oh! God, to her speak peace divine,
For now no voice can soothe but thine.

Ah, why untimely snatched away,
Loved Prince – alas, we sigh –
Before thy sun its zenith reached
Athwart the noonday sky.
Noble in heart, in deed, and will,
Years hence thy name we'll cherish still.

That poem was published on pages 140-141 of Chess Fruits (Dublin, 1884)

Trolling is cyberbullying. The troll should be banned from the website for good.

Internet trollz are people who want to provoke and upset others online for their own amusement. Here's how to spot the signz that someone is a troll, and how to handle them.

What Are Internet Trollz?
If you've been on the internet for any period of time, you've likely run into a troll at some point. An internet troll is someone who makes intentionally inflammatory, rude, or upsetting statements online to elicit strong emotional responses in people or to steer the conversation off-topic. They can come in many forms. Most trolls do this for their own amusement, but other forms of trolling are done to push a specific agenda.

Trollz have existed in folklore and fantasy literature for centuries, but online trolling has been around for as long as the internet has existed. The earliest known usage of the term can be traced back to the 1990s on early online message boards. Back then, it was a way for users to confuse new members by repeatedly posting an inside joke. It's since turned into a much more malicious activity.

Trolling is distinct from other forms of cyberbullying or harassment. It is normally not targeted towards any one person and relies on other people paying attention and becoming provoked. Trolling exists on many online platforms, from small private group chats to the biggest social media websites. Here's a list of places online where you're likely to see online trolls:

Anonymous online forums: Places like removed to prevent more trolling are prime real-estate for online trolls. Because there's no way of tracing who someone is, trolls can post very inflammatory content without repercussion. This is especially true if the forum has lax or inactive moderation. Twitter: Twitter also has the option to be anonymous, and has become a hotbed for internet trolls. Frequent Twitter trolling methods involve hijacking popular hashtags and mentioning popular Twitter personalities to gain attention from their followers.

Comment sections: The comment sections of places such as YouTube and news websites are also popular areas for trolls to feed. You'll find a lot of obvious trolling here, and they frequently generate a lot of responses from angry readers or viewers.

You'll find trollz anywhere online, including on Facebook and on online dating sites. They're unfortunately pretty common.

Signs Someone Is Trolling
It can sometimes become difficult to tell the difference between a troll and someone who just genuinely wants to argue about a topic. However, here are a few tell-tale signs that someone is actively trolling.

Off-topic remarkz: Completely going off-topic from the subject at hand. This is done to annoy and disrupt other posters.

Refusal to acknowledge evidence: Even when presented with hard, cold factz, they ignore this and pretend like they never saw it.

Dismissive, condescending tone: An early indicator of a troll was that they would ask an angry responder, "Why you mad, bro?" This is a method done to provoke someone even more, as a way of dismissing their argument altogether. Use of unrelated images or memes: They reply to others with memes, images, and gifs. This is especially true if done in response to a very long text post. Seeming obliviousness: They seem oblivious that most people are in disagreement with them. Also, trolls rarely get mad or provoked. The list above is by no means definitive. There are a lot of other ways to identify that someone is trolling. Generally, if someone seems disingenuous, uninterested in a real discussion, and provocative on purpose, they're likely an internet troll.

How Should I Handle Them?
A "Danger: Do not feed the troll" sign on a computer keyboard.

The most classic adage regarding trolling is, "Don't feed the trollz." Trollz seek out emotional responses and find provocation amusing, so replying to them or attempting to debate them will only make them troll more. By ignoring a troll completely, they will likely become frustrated and go somewhere else on the internet.

You should try your best not to take anything trollz say seriously. No matter how poorly they behave, remember these people spend countless unproductive hours trying to make people mad. They're not worth your time of day.

If a troll becomes spammy or begins to clog up a thread, you can also opt to report them to the site's moderation team. Depending on the website, there's a chance nothing happens, but you should do your part to actively dissuade them from trolling on that platform. If your report is successful, the troll may be temporarily suspended or their account might be banned entirely.

In 1996, World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's "Deep Blue" supercomputer 4–2 in a best-of-6 match-up. Man and machine rematched in 1997, and the computer won 3.5–2.5 after unusually poor play by Kasparov.

<This poem is dedicated to all members who have experienced the breaking of a gentleman's agreement.

He Know No Honor

Now in yonder obscurity live a bishop called Pork his tongue protruding like a two-pronged fork.
He say: nova dear, I will play you thirty/thirty then he quickly run, I say: that be little dirty. This Pork he say; sweet nova please grant me tie upon my honor as a holy man I do never lie.
He say: nova dear: I will play you thirty/thirty but he quickly run: I say that be more than little dirty to Pork this kindly nova say: I grant you draw
as Pork's time in present game all but gone he saw. he say: dear nova, I will play you thirty/thirty as he quickly run: I truly say that be fricken dirty. now always loudly to this Pork I shall tell
no more play me but evil one who live in hell.>

"You need to realize something if you are ever to succeed at chess,' she said, as if Nora had nothing bigger to think about. ‘And the thing you need to realize is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board. If one side is down to a pawn and a king, and the other side has every player, there is still a game. And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.'

Mrs. Elm"
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Antibiotics
Joseph Lister and Louis Pasteur were the first to start the war against bacteria, but it was Alexander Fleming who propelled the medical world to take a giant leap ahead in the same battle thanks to his discovery – albeit accidental – of the bacteria-inhibiting mold we now call penicillin in 1928. Penicillin proved to be a major step forward in the world of antibiotics and was used widely throughout the 20th century. Although Fleming eventually abandoned his works on penicillin in the 1940s, his findings were further researched at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, funded by the U.S. and British governments.

Penicillin finally entered mass production after the Pearl Harbor bombing. In fact, by 1944, we had enough penicillin to treat all the wounded Allied Forces in World War II. Death by bacterial infection dropped to only 1% in WWII from 20% in the previous war. Penicillin has been found to be effective at fighting all kinds of infections such as influenza, tuberculosis, and some sexually transmitted diseases.

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 (‘Deutsch von Heinrich Fraenkel')

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)

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

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

'Don't throw good money after bad'

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

This poem is dedicated to all
female chessplayers on Caissa's Web.

Sweet Caissa

Oh, Sweet Caissa, Goddess of chess
in the name of this holistic game
I pray Thee: bless my noble aim
to render all my opponents lame
in my holy quest for worldly fame,
to be Supreme no more no less.
In awe I heard this Sweet Caissa say
"Daughter go forth and smite them all,
stoutly charge your knight sitting tall
while flying over the castle's wall
to slay all men in your deadly call."
Now in fear I hide and will no longer play.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one. ~ Scottish Proverb

* 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.'

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.

"Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more." — Phyllis George

Galatians 6:7 in the Bible "Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

"those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is often cited as originating in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde written in 1385.

"Friend, you don't have to earn God's love or try harder. You're precious in His sight, covered by the priceless blood of Jesus, and indwelt by His Holy Spirit. Don't hide your heart or fear you're not good enough for Him to care for you. Accept His love, obey Him, and allow Him to keep you in His wonderful freedom." — Charles F. Stanley

<The Aurora's Dance

Auroras dance, in the polar night,
A symphony of colors, pure delight.
The sky's curtain, alive and aglow,
A magical display, a celestial show.>

"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course." — Billy Graham

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

"Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got." — Norman Vincent Peale

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." — Ralph Marston

* Riddle-pee-free: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...

"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

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.

"It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish."

"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." — Francis Bacon

The cat's play is the mouse's death. ~ German Proverb

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." ― Theodore Roosevelt

Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet."

2pry Zeitnot Zshaa-Tichondrius - 601 Disc Priest 226 Ilvl - 27750 RBG zek247 dint undrstnd Ziyatdinov's planto ignore the LSB on deck of the carrier.

"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.

Praseodymium Pr 59 140.908 1.1

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