Eldorado
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—
This knight so bold—
And o'er his heart a shadow—
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
‘Shadow,' said he,
‘Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?'

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,'
The shade replied,—
‘If you seek for Eldorado!'

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* Openings List: http://eudesign.com/chessops/ch-lis...

* There's more: http://162.203.35.1:78/mediawiki/in...

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

- Siegbert Tarrasch

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." ― Walt Disney

"Win with grace, lose with dignity!" ― Susan Polgar

"What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, personal and professional discipline, focus, concentration, strong nerves, the will to win, and yes, talent!" ― Susan Polgar

"No matter how successful you are (or will be), never ever forget the people who helped you along the way, and pay it forward! Don't become arrogant and conceited just because you gained a few rating points or made a few bucks. Stay humble and be nice, especially to your fans!" ― Susan Polgar

* Mankind's Savior said it, proved it: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bib...

"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

Tactical instruction and puzzles: "So 10 chess tactic challenges a day may keep the chess blunder doctor (or is it the grim reaper?) away." — blogger

"Chess is the touchstone of the intellect." — Goethe

"Hardin once said: 'To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.'" — Hober Mallow, Foundation (1951)

* Anastasia's Mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4...

* Aronian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oP...

* Amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6e...

* Angry: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0M7E...

* Attack the castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh5...

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

* B&N mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHu...

* Baby Bs will develop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip8...

* ECO "B48": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb_...

* Breaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7T...

* 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

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

* Confusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7m...

* Captain Ni Hua: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmd...

* Chaos Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhR...

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

* Chees-Its: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQf...

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

* Control the center: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mqvt...

* Crossing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6R...

* Cannes 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJG...

* Chess Masters 2025: https://www.chess.com/news/view/bbc...

* Moscow 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVV...

* Dos Hermanas 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEB...

* Danish diagonals: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3k8h...

* Daniil Li: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWu...

* Diagram it yourself: https://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-di...

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

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

* Detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7c...

* Every just scratches the surface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgF...

* Englund G: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYa...

* A line for White: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eTqc...

* Another line for White: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ziqu...

* Endgame Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5L...

* F-2s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWH...

* Fact and Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyy...

* Fast Firouzja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BS...

* Faster: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Luvz...

* Flexibility hack: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bsk_...

* Flying Pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KI...

* Grizzly behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2c...

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

* Hallin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n5...

* David Howell sighting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpG...

* He returns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN7...

* Horse heart-to-heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNR...

* Hook and Ladder mates you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN2...

* How deep is it really? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sNh9...

* Humpy knows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfV...

* Hurdles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IO...

* Improving: https://www.chessvideos.tv/article-...

* Incursion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0en...

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

* Intermezzos: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/muea...

* Itchy makes twitchy: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/cat...

* Jets: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DgmQ...

* Ju Wenjun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3in...

* King's gambit inventor? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7X...

* Kings uncrowned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5d...

* King of Gibraltar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDX...

* King's journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sR...

* Kinda Kings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsk...

* 7.10M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeS...

* All 8? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-S...

* 10 craziest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhw...

* 50 Move Rule: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aFn5...

* 60M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uni...

* 400M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF...

* 2000M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wse...

* 5000M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrY...

* Landau G: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sAau...

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

* Levy: Wikipedia article: Levy Rozman

* Level up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hu...

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

* Lock out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enC...

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

* Luo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6...

* Likeable Tal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKu...

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

* London lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvB...

* Mega: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XS...

* Morphy Miniatures:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

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

* One Game Shy: Game Collection: 107 Great Chess Battles: 1939-45 Alekhine

* Oskar plays 1e4: Oskar Oglaza

* Alapins: Game Collection: Alapin

* Aggressive Gambits: https://thechessworld.com/articles/...

* C21-C22 miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

* Danish Gambits: Game Collection: Danish Gambit Games 1-0

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

* King's Gambit start-up: Game Collection: Batsford's MCO 14 King's Gambit

* King Bishop's Gambit: Game Collection: rajat21's kings gambit

* KG Video: Game Collection: Foxy Openings - King's Gambit

* GM Gallagher is an author:
Game Collection: 0

* "Nessun Dorma" baby! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX6...

* Network for promotions: https://www.youtube.com/ChessNetwor...

* Nobody wants to be on the losing side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_B...

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

* Omega: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hpVA...

* One path is all you need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Q...

* Open files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQG...

* Pass the butter please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roY...

* Pawn grab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zug...

* Pang Bo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWU...

* Dr. Binocs Rocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceu...

* Pathetic fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cb...

* Perpetually: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/opH1...

* prodigy Roman Shogdzhiev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPP...

* Prophylactic Play vs. Pirc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfW...

* Q vs P promotion: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/scBl...

* Russian Ruys: Game Collection: Chess in the USSR 1945 - 72, Part 2 (Leach)

* Readiness matters: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oTVC...

* Recognition: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DLbK...

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

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

* Seven Cycles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3R...

* Shocking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fy...

* Slick like that: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bf-1...

* Smiling in Spanish is allowed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gb...

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

* Special forces: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Ozp...

* Speedy Gunso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVb...

* Simple ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejj...

* Starz & Stripes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tih...

* Tactics on the f-pawns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAM...

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

* Topological puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bLu8...

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

* 21st Century: Game Collection: 0

* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen

* TIP: Click on the e8 square to see a computer engine analysis of the position.

* tacticmania - Game Collection: tacticmania

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

* Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2)

* Sicilian Face Plants:
Game Collection: sicilian defense(opening traps)

* Hans On French: Game Collection: French Defense

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

* Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record...

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

* What's your type? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsH...

* Unprecedented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6o...

* Unretired: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CLVk...

* V is for Victory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2O...

* Against the VG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVS...

* Vaulting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2L...

* Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5...

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

* When you meet Whiteshark: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/INH6...

* White knuckler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZu...

* Weak spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R...

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

* Yasser has friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0f...

* Your chess level? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAy...

* Tactical Mix: Game Collection: mastering Tactical ideas by minev

* The Best of... Game Collection: World Champions' Best Games

* Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018

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

* Vladimir Bagirov Attacks: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

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

* 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

Illinois: Peoria
Established in: 1680

French settlers Robert Cavalier Sieur de LaSalle and Henri de Tonti built Fort Crevecoeur on the bank of the Illinois River in 1680. Soon, a village grew around it. Peoria's history goes back further than that. Archaeologists can trace signs of men there as far back as 10,000 B.C.E. thanks to the evidence of artifacts and burial mounds as evidence of a Native American civilization.

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

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

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

<chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<The Man In The Glass
Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.

When you get what you want in your struggle for self And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn't your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life Is the one staring back from the glass.

He's the fellow to please – never mind all the rest For he's with you, clear to the end
And you've passed your most difficult, dangerous test If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears If you've cheated the man in the glass.

This poem was first published in 1934 and is still very popular today.>

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

Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our winged horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road.
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse -
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

I'm a Pirate
by Annette Wynne

I'm a pirate in the grass—
Hear ye people as ye pass;
I'm a pirate bad and bold,
Taking dandelion gold—
All my hands and ships can hold.
I'm a pirate—how the sun
Glitters on the gold I've won;
I shall buy you house and land
And a castle silver-grand
With the gold within my hand.

Drive sober or get pulled over.

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

Feb-23-23 FSR: Thanks, Susan. I never saw Albert after my freshman year of high school (he and his family moved to the Chicago suburbs, where he went to a different school and played for a different chess team). Super nice guy. I was very surprised many years later to learn that he and your son had started this site.

* Jan-29-22 MissScarlett: There are no rules, only guidelines. Premium members such as User: chrisowen get extra leeway.

"One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It means the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funneling all awareness to the athletic task at hand." — R.A. Dickey

About 600,000,000 (Six hundred million) people know how to play chess worldwide!

In many languages, the Pawn is a foot soldier, but in German and Spanish, it's a peasant or farmer, instead!

Question: What is considered the first reality TV show? Answer: The Real World

Thank you, Qindarka!

Question: Who was Russia's first elected president? Answer: Boris Yeltsin

The folding chess board was originally invented in 1125 by a Chess-playing priest. Since the Church forbids priests to play chess, he hid his chess board by making one that looked simply like two books lying together.

The worst performance by a player was Macleod of Canada who lost 31 games in the New York double-round robin of 1889.

<the limerick. Here is one from page 25 of the Chess Amateur, October 1907:

A solver, who lived at Devizes,
Had won a great number of prizes –
A dual or cook,
He'd detect at a look,
And his head swelled up several sizes.

chess writer and poet Henry Thomas Bland.>

What?? Levy Rozman QUIT chess??

Oh, NO. Say it aint so, Levy!!

GothamChess and Anish and Academy of Chess and agadmator and Adam Ale and AnalisisParalisis and BumBobaBee and Buckeye CC and ChessBase India and chessearth.com and chessly and cclchess.com and ElyneLee and BenAndKaren Finegold and Forbes and ChessDojo and VDogg and Dexerto and Daniil Li and the Hodgetwins and Momma Cramling and chessarena.com and Mato and Alpha Central and Arno Nickel and appcracy.com and NBC Sports and Kelse and Hoffster and HannahSayce and Mikhail Korenman and Izaan and Inspector Ray and www.icu.ie and OhMyGosh and ChessPress and Jazmine and Lechenicher SchachServer and Nemsko and gameknot.com and Rubius and GMCanty and Boston Rob and Russian Paul and Sergeant Pepper and chessburgertv and RaffaelChess and RedHotPawn and The Rubin Report and Rooty Hill CC and FlyFishFood and Lake Lakengren CC and NM Ramirez and Road2GM3000 and Sky News Australia and sir_chessalot (reminds me of Phil Helmuth) and kingkhieu and TCEC_Chess_TV and Tania Sachdev and Trizze and westchess.com and ZeroSub and the Botez Sistas are my sort of secret go-tos for inspiration and information to keep y'all informed. You didn't think that an ol' bear writes all these fabulous posts all by miself, did ya?

I will miss Levy the leading internet streamer terribly. I guess this means that Nakamura will get to take his Gotham place on my roster (once again). How much do you suppose Hikaru will pay me to subscribe to all that Nakamura bragging and sarcasm?

Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC7...

Two streamers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3...

Keep it tight day and night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYO...

3 days ago: https://clips.twitch.tv/FunnyLaconi...

Not a Shrek of Levydense: https://clips.twitch.tv/AmazonianLi...

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Who boy dis? https://clips.twitch.tv/RenownedHon...

The Juicer walkin' & talkin' https://clips.twitch.tv/CourteousGl...

The USA takes Gold, Silver, and Bronze: https://www.sparkchess.com/usa-take...

Taking blindfold chess to a whole new level: https://clips.twitch.tv/SpikyPeacef...

What?? https://clips.twitch.tv/RudeColorfu...

GothamChess Roasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8W...

Never in doubt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEj...

Levy Rozman is missing out!!

WARM WATER SOCIETY (?)
Empty your mind. Be warm like a warm water. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be warm water, my friend

No thanks. I'd rather have teeth, claws and a spine and stand for something instead of being so wishy-washy. Besides, a good pot o' tea just gets gulped down.

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." ~ Portuguese Proverb

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.

"No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves (What about Scholar's Mate?). Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life." — Anonymous

Drive sober or get pulled over.

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

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." ― Thomas Jefferson, chess player

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." ― Mahatma Gandhi

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

"The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off." — Daniel Naroditsky

You can't make bricks without straw

You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

You can't take it with you when you die

You can't teach an old dog new tricks

You can't judge a book by its cover

You can't win them all

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

You pays your money and you takes your choice

You reap what you sow

You win some, you lose some

Youth is wasted on the young

The Two Bulls and the Frog

Two bulls engaged in shocking battle,
Both for a certain heifer's sake,
And lordship over certain cattle,
A frog began to groan and quake.
"But what is this to you?"
Inquired another of the croaking crew.
"Why, sister, don't you see,
The end of this will be,
That one of these big brutes will yield,
And then be exiled from the field?
No more permitted on the grass to feed,
He'll forage through our marsh, on rush and reed; And while he eats or chews the cud,
Will trample on us in the mud.
Alas! to think how frogs must suffer
By means of this proud lady heifer!"
This fear was not without good sense.
One bull was beat, and much to their expense;
For, quick retreating to their reedy bower,
He trod on twenty of them in an hour.

Of little folks it often has been the fate
To suffer for the follies of the great.

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind." — Blasie Pascal

"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.

In God we trust; all others pay cash. ~ American Proverb

Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles. ~ Senegalese Proverb

The Cat Metamorphosed Into A Woman

A bachelor caressed his cat,
A darling, fair, and delicate;
So deep in love, he thought her mew
The sweetest voice he ever knew.
By prayers, and tears, and magic art,
The man got Fate to take his part;
And, lo! one morning at his side
His cat, transformed, became his bride.
In wedded state our man was seen
The fool in courtship he had been.
No lover ever was so bewitched
By any maiden's charms
As was this husband, so enriched
By hers within his arms.
He praised her beauties, this and that,
And saw there nothing of the cat.
In short, by passion's aid, he
Thought her a perfect lady.

It was night: some carpet-gnawing mice
Disturbed the nuptial joys.
Excited by the noise,
The bride sprang at them in a trice;
The mice were scared and fled.
The bride, scarce in her bed,
The gnawing heard, and sprang again, –
And this time not in vain,
For, in this novel form arrayed,
Of her the mice were less afraid.
Through life she loved this mousing course,
So great is stubborn nature's force.

In mockery of change, the old
Will keep their youthful bent.
When once the cloth has got its fold,
The smelling-pot its scent,
In vain your efforts and your care
To make them other than they are.
To work reform, do what you will,
Old habit will be habit still.
Nor fork nor strap can mend its manners,
Nor cudgel-blows beat down its banners.
Secure the doors against the renter,
And through the windows it will enter.

"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney

Oct-04-10
I play the Fred: said...
You're distraught
because you're not
able to cope
feel like a dope
when Lasker hits
Puttin on (the Fritz)

"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

"A wise man never knows all; only a fool knows everything." — African Proverb

French Proverb: "Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard." ― (Nothing should be left to chance.)

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

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer

"As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant

18bd perjury had surgery on hiz pinky johnson so its suitable for ball point pins

<"Greetings, students. Today you will learn to transform a king into a rook. Which of course means you will transform a chess piece into a noble relative of crows and ravens. Today's lesson is no joke, but I will not mark you down for appreciating my wordplay. Watch closely as I demonstrate..." — Professor McGonagall teaching King to Rook to seventh-yearssrc

A rook is a bird related to crows and ravens.

History
During the 1990–1991 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Minerva McGonagall taught her seventh-year students in Transfiguration how to transform king chess pieces into rooks with the King to Rook spell.1>

The Rook Cancelled: https://tvline.com/news/the-rook-ca...

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

Why did the rooster cross the road?
He had something to cock-a-doodle dooo!

Why did the raccoon cross the road?
He saw you put out the garbage.

Mercury Hg 80 200.59 1.9

Next Verse:

H.T. Bland. On page 207 of the December 1929 American Chess Bulletin he exalted the challenger in that year's world championship match:

Bravo ‘Bogol', you've shown pluck.
One and all we wish you luck.
Gee, some thought you'd barged between
Other players who'd have been
Less likely straightaway to lose
Just as friend Alekhine might choose;
Undaunted, ‘Bogol', you went in
Believing you'd a chance to win.
Or failing that, to make a fight,
Which you are doing as we write.

Don't trust the smile of your opponent. ~ Babylonian Proverbs

Trust me, but look to thyself. ~ Irish Proverbs

Trust in God, but tie your camel. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

Don't trust your wife until she has borne you ten sons. ~ Chinese Proverb

If someone puts their trust in you, don't sever it. ~ Lebanese Proverb

Trust your best friend as you would your worst enemy. ~ Mexican Proverbs

"The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Jose Capablanca." — Irving Chernev

"I believe that it is best to know a 'dubious' opening really well, rather than a 'good' opening only slightly." ― Simon Williams

"There is no such thing as an absolutely freeing move. A freeing move in a position in which development has not been carried far always proves illusory, and vice versa, a move which does not come at all in the category of freeing moves can, given a surplus of tempi to our credit, lead to a very free game." ― Aron Nimzowitsch

"Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"A good player is always lucky." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"The game might be divided into three parts: the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

"An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

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

"In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and opening must be studied in relation to the end game." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

I always play carefully and try to avoid unnecessary risks. I consider my method to be right as any superfluous ‘daring' runs counter to the essential character of chess, which is not a gamble but a purely intellectual combat conducted in accordance with the exact rules of logic. – Jose Raul Capablanca

2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.

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

"If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out." ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

"My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord. And I'm perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir." — John Durham

<Steinitz's Theory
1. At the beginning of the game, Black and White are equal.

2. The game will stay equal with correct play on both sides.

3. You can only win by your opponent's mistake.

4. Any attack launched in an equal position will not succeed, and the attacker will suffer.

5. You should not attack until an advantage is obtained.

6. When equal, do not seek to attack, but instead, try to secure an advantage.

7. Once you have an advantage, attack or you will lose it.>

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

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." ― Bobby Fischer

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

"In chess, as in life, the best moves are often the ones you don't play." ― Savielly Tartakower

"A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is, there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailing prosperously before the wind, and not simply stranded barks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful." — Henry David Thoreau

"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

"It's not life or death. It's a game, and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser." — Bernhard Langer

Why did the turtle cross the road?
To get to the Shell station.

<A wise old owl sat on an oak,

The more he saw the less he spoke,

The less he spoke the more he heard,

Why aren't we like that wise old bird?>

Give a HOOT -- don't pollute!!

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

"If you open it, close it. If you turn it on, turn it off. If you take it out, put it back. If you empty it, fill it. If you fill it, empty it." — Kathryn Malter, St. Paul, MN

* Dec-12-20 MissScarlett: My advice to <acapo> is to close the pop-up ads by clicking on the little <x> in the top right corner.

<"From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." ― William Shakespeare, Henry V>

"They made us many promises, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land -- and they did." — Chief Red Cloud, Oglala-Lakota Sioux, 1822-1909.

"There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better." ― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

Patience is a virtue.

Dec-26-23 hemy: I sent email messages to <jessicafischerqueen> and <Tabanus>. I was contacted by email to both of them for many years. Responses from the mail servers were: "Sorry, your message to <her email address> cannot be delivered. This mailbox is disabled" and "Recipient address rejected: Access denied". Credits for Robert Bergersen aka <Tabanus>, include his picture, for his contribution to "Lithuanian chess history" project, you can find on page 45 of this project. He also mentioned on page 141 (with one more picture), pages 166, 1315, 1383-1386, 1823, 2807 and 3423.

"Make peace with imperfection." ― Richard Carlson

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/w2JcfP5K

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

The Sofia Rules forbid agreed draws before 30 moves. The "Bilbao" scoring system awards 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss.

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose." ― Indira Gandhi

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.

"To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment." — Richard Carlson

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

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Old Russian Proverb: "The elbow is close but you cannot bite it. (Близок локоток, да не укусишь.)" Close is no cigar.

Ya might be ah redneck if'n ya thunk "lol" means low on liquor.

"If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes."

"Here's a two-step formula for handling stress... Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff." ― Tony Robbins

Q: What do you call the lights on Noah's Ark?
A: Flood lights.

Q: What do you call a snobby criminal walking down the steps? A: A condescending con descending!

Q: What do you call a dollar frozen in a block of ice? A: Cold hard cash.

Q: What do you call a dead pine tree?
A: A nevergreen.

Q: What do you call a pencil that is broken?
A: Pointless.

Q: What do you call two birds in love?
A: Tweethearts!

Q: What do you call a sad coffee?
A: Depresso.

Q: What do you call a priest that becomes an attorney? A: Father-in-Law.

Q: What do you call a man with a toilet on his head? A: John.

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

"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

"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

"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

'A stitch in time saves nine'

"You can't hold with the hare and run with the hounds."

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

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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.

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

HUMPTY DUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty
Together again.

Q: What is money called in space?
A: Star bucks.

Q: Where do the stars go to get their milk?
A: The Milky Way.

Q: Why didn't the Dog Star laugh at the joke? A: It was too Sirius.