The games used in "The Big Book of Chess" by Eric Schiller.

It's a very basic book for beginners. There are no complete games given in the book, only diagrams of positions. A "Big Book" certainly should have included complete games.

This poorly edited book mislabeled some checkmating patterns but wikipedia copied this wrong information and now the entire world follows the blunders of Dr. Schiller as if the patterns are properly named.

Water's Edge

I stand upon the water's edge,
My toes sinking in the sand.
The waves crash, a tumultuous pledge
Of power and freedom, washing the land.

The sun sets in the distance,
A fiery orb slipping down.
The sky glows with a brilliant radiance,
As day gives way to night's dark gown.

I long to wade in the ocean's embrace,
To feel the salt spray on my face.
But fear tugs at my heart's trace,
A whisper of danger in this watery place.

I take a step forward, then retreat,
My courage faltering at the sand's wet heat.
But someday soon, I'll let go of defeat,
And take the plunge into the ocean's beat.

The first swimming races were held in Japan in 36 BC.

The first swimming goggles were made from tortoise shells.

Benjamin Franklin invented swim fins to help move through the water more efficiently.

"The game of chess is not just an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often pointed to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with." ― Benjamin Franklin

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" ― Abraham Lincoln

Don Schollander was the first swimmer to break 2 minutes for the 200-meter race.

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ― Charlie Chaplin

Breastroke is the oldest known form of swimming stroke.

"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." ― Garry Kasparov

"All warfare is based on deception." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard." — Reuben Fine

Freedivers can hold their breath for more than 10 minutes underwater.

"The hardest game to win is a won game." ― Emanuel Lasker (Don't relax.)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." ― Ambrose Bierce

More than half of Americans can't swim.

"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake." ― Savielly Tartakower

Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1926.

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." ― Albert Einstein

Synchronized swimming was popularized by actress Esther Williams in her "aqua musicals" of the 1940s and 1950s.

"We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre." ― Boris Spassky

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." ― John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, and former Navy Lieutenant

"In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master." ― Vasily Smyslov

Political correctness is tyranny with manners." ― Charleton Heston

"Almost immediately after Kasparov played the magic move g4, the computer started to self-destruct." — Sam Sloan

The first bikini was invented in Paris in 1946.

"In the endgame, it's often better to form a barrier to cut-off the lone king and keep shrinking the barrier than to give check. The mistaken check might give the lone king a choice move toward the center when the idea is to force the lone king to the edge of the board and then checkmate." — Fredthebear

"Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training." ― Vladimir Kramnik

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." ― Alan Dundes

"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 middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame." ― Jose Raul Capablanca

The first topless male swimming suits were worn in America in 1935.

"Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending." ― David Bronstein

"He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own." ― Max Euwe

"The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas." ― Boris Spassky

Tom Wiswell (1910-1988) made a quote regarding playing checkers worth using in chess circles. After winning a good game, I always ask myself: "Where did I go right?"

Swimming was first introduced at the Olympics in 1896.

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." ― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, and former U.S. Army Colonel

Mark Spitz beat the record for the most gold medals in one Olympic games when he won 7 gold medals at the 1972 games.

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do." ― Dylan Thomas

Competitive swimming became more popular after World War I, when "long john"-style swimming costumes went out of fashion.

Q: What 5-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?

The oldest known concrete swimming pool was built in Texas in 1915.

A: SWIMS.

The crawl/freestyle stroke is the fastest Olympic swim stroke.

Learn Chess Fast:
- One Minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ7... - How to Play: http://www.serverchess.com/play.htm...

We cannot play on this website. It is just a database for players to check out GM games, talk about them and discuss the game in general. Sites where you can play chess include:

www.playchess.com (need chessbase software)
www.net-chess.com
http://www.betterthanchess.com/
https://boldchess.com/play/
https://chess.org/
https://chess24.com/en
$$ https://www.chessclub.com/
https://www.chessfriends.com/
https://www.chesskid.com/
https://www.chesstimeapp.com/
https://www.freechess.org/play/
https://lichess.org/
https://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.c...
Lucas Chess supports DGT Eboard.

"Lucas chess is the greatest chess trainer of all time. You don't pay a cent, you get unlimited access to all sort of tactics, you get to customize the board, pieces, colors, and everything about it, it's super easy to use, it has a huge database filled to the brim with checkmate in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, you don't need WiFi access, there is no limit on how much you can learn, there's an even bigger and free catalog of bots ranging from almost everywhere you can think of, has the original grandmaster bot ELO's, and young people can learn using their own opponents.

It's even better than chess.com. That app right there should be worth money. But it's not. Why? Because people there don't care about making money. They don't just provide you with the resources. They want you to learn, outsmart their own bots, win and become a champion. It's why I use it.

I rate it a 100/10.

Also did I mention that it can analyze games with bots of all sorts of ELO's to see how they think? Use it for yourself and explore the features. You will not regret it." ― theproexpertboy

"Completely agree with theproexpertboy. LucasChess is absolutely amazing for improving in Chess. My favourite feature by far is the ability to generate trainings out of your own mistakes. You can download all your games from the website of your choice as a PGN database - then import it into a LucasChess database.

Select all relevant games and click on "mass analysis". Under the tab "wrong moves", makes sure you set an error threshold in centipawns (vs best move), check "Add to the training find best move" and pick a name. If you then navigate to Train/Find best move, you have your custom training, which is a collection of all the mistakes you made (and you now have to find the best moves instead). You can customise how close to the perfect move you have to be in centipawns in order to pass. It is like the Lichess feature "learn from your mistakes" but in aggregate over all your games. You can then choose to only repeat the positions you had issues with etc.

I have not seen anything more useful for learning from my mistakes.

Agree with 100/10." ― sohiptobesquare

Use decodechess.com for exceptional in-depth analysis of one's entire game.

SCID is a good, free database program. Sort of a free replacement for ChessBase. It is great for what it is, and that is accessing large amounts of historical games, and you can use it to save and analyze your own games. It's a very different kind of software than Lucas Chess, which a playing/training program.

"With these apps/portals one just cannot go wrong! Just make sure you have a laptop with enough processing power and ram to handle the workload when the engines start analysing! Definitely invest in a solid state drive to run one's programs on. Your RAM should be from 8 to 16GB at least. Try to have an i7 or i9 processor. Invest in a good GPU with enough RAM (4GB at least). A graphics card enables an engine like Lc0 to work properly, as the neural network requires a GPU. Stockfish 15s neural network functions off the CPU." ― flashlight002

* Aggressive England Gambit in 9 Moves
Chess notation: 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Qe7 4. Bf4 Qb4+ 5. Bd2 (5. Qd2 Qxb2 6. Qc3 Bb4) 5... Qxb2 6. Bc3 Bb4 7. Qd2 Bxc3 8. Qxc3 Qc1# 0-1.

* Amazing: Game Collection: Amazing Chess Moves (Emms)

* How to Play Chess! http://www.serverchess.com/play.htm...

* Glossary of Chess Terms: http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/glo...

* Teaching Moments: Game Collection: Teaching Moments in Chess

* General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm...

* Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess (Batsford 1986): Game Collection: Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess

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

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

* Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
Game Collection: Chessmaster '86

* Epic: Game Collection: Epic Battles of the CB by R.N. Coles - keypusher

* B23-B25: Game Collection: Sicilian Closed / Grand Prix Attack

* Brilliancies: Game Collection: Brilliancy Prizes (Reinfeld)

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

* Chess Links: http://www.chessdryad.com/links/ind...

* C45s: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...

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

It's not the quantity that counts; it's the quality. 2623

* Lasker's 200 Hours: https://chessimprover.com/emanuel-l...

* Proper Clock Usage Matters: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi...

* Using the Clock: https://www.learn-chess.com/what-ar... Note: When all is ready for the next round of the tournament to start, the arbiter typically verbally instructs all the players at once to start their own clocks. The two players shake hands signalizing readiness. With the clock ready and waiting on pause, the player with the Black pieces would punch down the button of her own clock face nearest her, thereby starting White's time and the game begins. If the Black player is not present in the playing room when the arbiter instructs the game to begin, the White player would reach across and punch down Black's clock as if the Black player had done so to start the game as normal. Black always touches the clock first. This triggers White to make the first legal move. Either player may pause the clock during on their own time if there is a question to resolve, such as an illegal move or requesting to borrow the opponent's scoresheet to make a correction. Be careful to avoid STOP the clock during the game, as this signals resignation.

* Time Controls: https://a2zchess.com/chess-time-con...

* Time Controls: https://www.chess.com/terms/chess-t...

* Analog (windup) Clock: https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi... No matter what time limit is used, set both sides of the clock so that the game always ends (the flag falls) at 6:00 o'clock.

* JC shows the way: https://chessplayeratlarge.blogspot...

* Aggressive England Gambit in 9 Moves
Chess notation: 1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Nf3 Qe7 4. Bf4 Qb4+ 5. Bd2 (5. Qd2 Qxb2 6. Qc3 Bb4) 5... Qxb2 6. Bc3 Bb4 7. Qd2 Bxc3 8. Qxc3 Qc1# 0-1.

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

* Video of common gambits: https://saintlouischessclub.org/blo...

* Don't Steal: https://www.openbible.info/topics/s...

* Opening Labels: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...

* First of each ECO: Game Collection: First of Each ECO

* Topalov Sicilians: Game Collection: World Champion on Sicilians

* Bobby Fischer, the swimmer: https://www.dispatch.com/story/life...

* BF Photos: https://search.aol.com/aol/image;_y...

<This game an Indian Brahmin did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express;
From thence the same to busy Europe sent;
The modern Lombards stil'd it pensive Chess.
— Sir John Denham>

Thank you Qindarka!

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

"If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." — Garry Kasparov

"You win some, you lose some, you wreck some." — Dale Earnhardt

"One may know how to conquer without being able to do it." ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Did you hear about the painter who was hospitalized? The doctors say it was due to too many strokes

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." — Abraham Lincoln

The Ill-Married

If worth, were not a thing more rare
Than beauty in this planet fair,
There would be then less need of care
About the contracts Hymen closes.
But beauty often is the bait
To love that only ends in hate;
And many hence repent too late
Of wedding thorns from wooing roses.
My tale makes one of these poor fellows,
Who sought relief from marriage vows,
Send back again his tedious spouse,
Contentious, covetous, and jealous,
With nothing pleased or satisfied,
This restless, comfort-killing bride
Some fault in every one descried.
Her good man went to bed too soon,
Or lay in bed till almost noon.
Too cold, too hot, – too black, too white, – Were on her tongue from morn till night.
The servants mad and madder grew;
The husband knew not what to do.
"Twas, "Dear, you never think or care;"
And, "Dear, that price we cannot bear;"
And, "Dear, you never stay at home;"
And, "Dear, I wish you would just come;"
Till, finally, such ceaseless dearing
On her husband's patience wearing,
Back to her sire's he sent his wife,
To taste the sweets of country life,
To dance at will the country jigs,
And feed the turkeys, geese, and pigs.
In course of time, he hoped his bride
Might have her temper mollified;
Which hope he duly put to test.
His wife recalled, said he,
"How went with you your rural rest,
From vexing cares and fashions free?
Its peace and quiet did you gain, –
Its innocence without a stain?"
"Enough of all," said she; "but then
To see those idle, worthless men
Neglect the flocks, it gave me pain.
I told them, plainly, what I thought,
And thus their hatred quickly bought;
For which I do not care – not I."
"Ah, madam," did her spouse reply,
"If still your temper's so morose,
And tongue so virulent, that those
Who only see you morn and night
Are quite grown weary of the sight,
What, then, must be your servants' case,
Who needs must see you face to face,
Throughout the day?
And what must be the harder lot
Of him, I pray,
Whose days and nights
With you must be by marriage rights?
Return you to your father's cot.
If I recall you in my life,
Or even wish for such a wife,
Let Heaven, in my hereafter, send
Two such, to tease me without end!"

An Olympic pool can hold up to 850,000 gallons of water. The largest swimming pool ever built was made in Moscow, Russian. The longest swimming pool is Casablanca, Morocco. It is 480 meters long and 75 meters wide, covering 8.9 acres. The largest swimming pool in the U.S. was the Fleishhacker Pool in San Francisco, but it closed in 1971. A Malaysian resort has 643 different swimming pools. An outdoor swimming pool was added to the White House in 1975 by President Gerald Ford. Home swimming pools became popular after World War II, when Hollywood movies from synchronized swimming star Esther Williams made them more desirable.

A Swimmer's Dream
BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
NOVEMBER 4, 1889

Somno mollior unda
I Dawn is dim on the dark soft water,
Soft and passionate, dark and sweet.
Love's own self was the deep sea's daughter,
Fair and flawless from face to feet,
Hailed of all when the world was golden,
Loved of lovers whose names beholden
Thrill men's eyes as with light of olden
Days more glad than their flight was fleet.

So they sang: but for men that love her,
Souls that hear not her word in vain,
Earth beside her and heaven above her
Seem but shadows that wax and wane.
Softer than sleep's are the sea's caresses,
Kinder than love's that betrays and blesses,
Blither than spring's when her flowerful tresses Shake forth sunlight and shine with rain.

All the strength of the waves that perish
Swells beneath me and laughs and sighs,
Sighs for love of the life they cherish,
Laughs to know that it lives and dies,
Dies for joy of its life, and lives
Thrilled with joy that its brief death gives — Death whose laugh or whose breath forgives
Change that bids it subside and rise.

II Hard and heavy, remote but nearing,
Sunless hangs the severe sky's weight,
Cloud on cloud, though the wind be veering
Heaped on high to the sundawn's gate.
Dawn and even and noon are one,
Veiled with vapour and void of sun;
Nought in sight or in fancied hearing
Now less mighty than time or fate.

The grey sky gleams and the grey seas glimmer,
Pale and sweet as a dream's delight,
As a dream's where darkness and light seem dimmer, Touched by dawn or subdued by night.
The dark wind, stern and sublime and sad,
Swings the rollers to westward, clad
With lustrous shadow that lures the swimmer,
Lures and lulls him with dreams of light.

Light, and sleep, and delight, and wonder,
Change, and rest, and a charm of cloud,
Fill the world of the skies whereunder
Heaves and quivers and pants aloud
All the world of the waters, hoary
Now, but clothed with its own live glory,
That mates the lightning and mocks the thunder
With light more living and word more proud.

III
Far off westward, whither sets the sounding strife, Strife more sweet than peace, of shoreless waves whose glee Scorns the shore and loves the wind that leaves them free, Strange as sleep and pale as death and fair as life, Shifts the moonlight-coloured sunshine on the sea.

Toward the sunset's goal the sunless waters crowd, Fast as autumn days toward winter: yet it seems Here that autumn wanes not, here that woods and streams Lose not heart and change not likeness, chilled and bowed, Warped and wrinkled: here the days are fair as dreams.

IV O russet-robed November,
What ails thee so to smile?
Chill August, pale September,
Endured a woful while,
And fell as falls an ember
From forth a flameless pile:
But golden-girt November
Bids all she looks on smile.

The lustrous foliage, waning
As wanes the morning moon,
Here falling, here refraining,
Outbraves the pride of June
With statelier semblance, feigning
No fear lest death be soon:
As though the woods thus waning
Should wax to meet the moon.

As though, when fields lie stricken
By grey December's breath,
These lordlier growths that sicken
And die for fear of death
Should feel the sense requicken
That hears what springtide saith
And thrills for love, spring-stricken
And pierced with April's breath.

The keen white-winged north-easter
That stings and spurs thy sea
Doth yet but feed and feast her
With glowing sense of glee:
Calm chained her, storm released her,
And storm's glad voice was he:
South-wester or north-easter,
Thy winds rejoice the sea.

V A dream, a dream is it all — the season,
The sky, the water, the wind, the shore?
A day-born dream of divine unreason,
A marvel moulded of sleep — no more?
For the cloudlike wave that my limbs while cleaving Feel as in slumber beneath them heaving
Soothes the sense as to slumber, leaving
Sense of nought that was known of yore.

A purer passion, a lordlier leisure,
A peace more happy than lives on land,
Fulfils with pulse of diviner pleasure
The dreaming head and the steering hand.
I lean my cheek to the cold grey pillow,
The deep soft swell of the full broad billow,
And close mine eyes for delight past measure,
And wish the wheel of the world would stand.

The wild-winged hour that we fain would capture
Falls as from heaven that its light feet clomb, So brief, so soft, and so full the rapture
Was felt that soothed me with sense of home. To sleep, to swim, and to dream, for ever —
Such joy the vision of man saw never;
For here too soon will a dark day sever
The sea-bird's wing from the sea-wave's foam.

A dream, and more than a dream, and dimmer
At once and brighter than dreams that flee, The moment's joy of the seaward swimmer
Abides, remembered as truth may be.
Not all the joy and not all the glory
Must fade as leaves when the woods wax hoary;
For there the downs and the sea-banks glimmer,
And here to south of them swells the sea.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." ― Dalai Lama

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

Drive sober or get pulled over.

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

"Life is fun. It's all up to the person. Be satisfied. You don't have to be ‘happy' all the time, you need to be satisfied." ― Lucille Boston Lewis, eternal optimist 101 years old

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." ― Dalai Lama

"Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song." ― Edmund Clarence Stedman

"A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!" ― Tom Wilson

Q: What does a house wear?
A: Address!

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." ― Bob Hope

<Shakespearean Puns
Perhaps no writer is better known for the use of puns than William Shakespeare. He plays with "tide" and "tied" in Two Gentlemen of Verona:

"Panthino
Away, ass! You'll lose the tide if you tarry any longer.

Launce
It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the unkindest tied that ever any man tied.

Panthino
What's the unkindest tide?

Launce
Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog."

In the opening of Richard III, the sun refers to the blazing sun on Edward IV's banner and the fact that he is the son of the Duke of York:

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York."

In this line from Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare plays on the different meanings of heavy (which also means sad) and light:

"Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; Being but heavy I will bear the light."

Later in Romeo and Juliet, a morbid pun comes from a fatally-stabbed Mercutio, where grave means serious, but also alludes to his imminent death:

"Ask for me tomorrow, you shall find me a grave man."

If you open any Shakesperean play, you're likely to find at least one pun on the page! Keep an eye out for a clever play on words example the next time you read Hamlet or watch As You Like It on the stage.>

Dec-12-16 DrGridlock: Q: When is a pin not a pin? A: When the piece is:
(i) not pinned to the king
and
(ii) in moving the piece threatens either mate or greater material gain than what it was pinned to. (iii) in moving the piece now defends the unit it was pinned to, such as Nf3xd4 and protects the Be2 that was behind the knight.

The Chess Poem by Ayaan Chettiar

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

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

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

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

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

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

<Q: What gets wetter the more it dries?

"Don't cry over spilled milk" is an idiom that means there's no point in being upset over something that has already happened and cannot be changed.

A: A towel.>

* 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"

* Riddle-xyz-pedi: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid...

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." ― John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, and former Navy Lieutenant

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ― Thomas A. Edison

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ― Abraham Lincoln

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ― Winston Churchill

Romans 15:13
13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

<"Remember us,
Should any free soul come across this place,
In all the countless centuries yet to be,
May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here by Spartan law, we lie."
― Frank Miller, 300>

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:9, 10.

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death. Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville

The U.S. National Swimming Pool Institute was founded in 1956, and still sets safety standards for pools today.

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early." — Charles Lamb

"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

Most competitive swimmers swim 6-12 miles a day.

"Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess." ― Siegbert Tarrasch

"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." — Max De Pree

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." — Charles Shulz

Australia is known as the country that is most passionate about swimming.

Australian Ian Thorpe became the youngest world champion swimmer in 1998.

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Most professional swimmers shave their whole body before they compete.

Q: What is more useful when it is broken?
A: An egg.

Many swimmers have very flexible ankles and can touch the ground with their toes while laying on their backs.

Q: I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I? A: A feather.

The first known record of people swimming dates back to Egyptian drawings from 2500 BC, with stone age paintings in the Cave of Swimmers dating back even further.

Q: Where do you take a sick boat?
A: To the dock-tor.

Swimming was known to be a noble skill for Japanese samurai.

Q: Which fish costs the most?
A: A goldfish.

In one hour, swimming burns about 40% more calories than biking. Swimming burns about 30% more calories than running per hour.

Q: What goes up, but never comes down?
A: Age.

Swimming strengthens the heart and lungs.
Swimming lowers stress and depression.

Q: A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for three nights and rode out on Friday. How is this possible? A: His horse's name is Friday.

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Q: What has a neck but no head?
A: A bottle

More than half of competitive swimmers experience shoulder pain.

Q: What is full of holes but still holds water?
A: A sponge

Swimming can improve exercise-induced asthma.
Swimming in saltwater can detoxify the skin and promote new cell growth.

Q: How do you spell COW in thirteen letters?
A: SEE O DOUBLE YOU.

Aerobic activities like swimming can reduce inflammation.

Q: Why is Europe like a frying pan?
A: Because it has Greece at the bottom.