* Amazing Armageddon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz4...* Captain Evans gambit anyone? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
* Danish Gambits: Game Collection: Danish Gambit Games 1-0
* Greco's published analysis contained many miniatures: Gioachino Greco
* Tony Miles' B00: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
* Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French
* Alekhine's French Def: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...
* A few KIAs: Game Collection: Opening Ideas
* Advance French: Game Collection: Attacking with the French
* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black
* Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES
* Newbie plays 1.e4 Scotch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h0...
* C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game
* RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures
* Del's: Game Collection: Del's hidden gems
* 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000)
* GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen
* Can you whip Taimanov's Sicilian? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
* Bg2 vs Sicilian: Game Collection: Grand Prix Attack without early Bc4
In 1090, a Chessboard with alternating light and dark squares was introduced in Europe.
* Riddle-e-dee: https://chessimprover.com/chess-rid...
During World War II, several of the world’s best chess players were code breakers.
“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
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch playing his QGD Tarrasch Defense!
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* Basic Rules: https://thechessworld.com/basic-che...
* 10 Tips: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/L...
* 10 Crazy Gambits: https://www.chess.com/blog/yola6655...
* 25 Opening Traps: https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessLor...
* 700+ games of QGD D06: Queen's Gambit Declined (D06)
* Unleash the Knight: https://cardclashgames.com/blog/che...
* MC Move-by-Move: Game Collection: Move by Move - Carlsen (Lakdawala)
* Tips for Knights & More: http://www.chesssets.co.uk/blog/tip...
* Rajnish Das Tips: https://enthu.com/blog/chess/chess-...
* Lekhika Dhariyal Chess Ops: https://www.zupee.com/blog/category...
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* GM Avetik Grigoryan: https://chessmood.com/blog/improve-...
* Spruce Variety: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/che...
* Chess is cold-steel calculation, not emotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-T...
* It takes me back where, when and who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2...
* Everyday people should play tabletop games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUU...
Note to self: A few QGA games need to be transitioned.
Place your knights in the center for greater mobility; avoid edges and the corners.
Colorado: San Luis
Established in: 1851
San Luis has a predominately Hispanic population of less than 700 people, and so the town features a very strong Spanish influence. It was once part of four Spanish land grants decreed by the King of Spain, and a classic adobe architecture and Spanish town layout remain.
* Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch...
* Three Simple Chess Tips: https://www.premierchesscoaching.co...
* 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'
Create protected outposts for your knights.
This poem is dedicated to all Caissa's members
who understand that chess is but a game.
Chess is but a Game
As he secretly rode his knight out of the castle's gate,
still believing that he could escape this inevitable fate,
the sky broke open with an array of incredible light.
and there smitten to the earth lay nova under his knight.
I am who I am and always am, spoke this thundering voice
and you, my friend nova, do not at all have another choice
but to go forth south and north, west and east
loudly proclaiming the good Word to man and beast.
Thus beset by the compelling voice from the broken sky
nova set about explaining through the word the how and why.
He travelled north and south, west and east never losing aim
to let all Caissa's members know: chess is but a game.
“In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.”
— Vasily Smyslov
“With most men life is like backgammon, half skill, and half luck, but with him it was like chess. He never pushed a pawn without reckoning the cost, and when his mind was least busy it was sure to be half a dozen moves ahead of the game as it was standing.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Guardian Angel (1867)
“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
Knights are stronger in the middle of the board.
“You can never relax. I keep the same amount of energy and concentration during the tournament.” ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York
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Identify knight forks.
Q: What do you call a cat that likes to eat beans?
A: Puss 'n' Toots!
Q: What do you call a clown who's in jail?
A: A silicon!
Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?
A: No eye deer!!
Q: What do you call a three-footed aardvark?
A: A yardvark!
Q: What do you call a dancing lamb?
A: A baaaaaa-llerina!
Q: What do you call a meditating wolf?
A: Aware wolf!
Q: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
A: A sand-witch!
Q: What do you call an avocado that's been blessed by the pope?
A: Holy Guacamole!
Where can the opponent's knight land in two moves? Would that be a problem?
M.Hassan: <Eggman>: Scarborough Chess Club which is said to be the biggest chess club in Canada, arranges tournaments under the name of "Howard Rideout" tournaments. Is he the same Rideout that you are mentioning?. I only know that this is to commemorate "Rideout" who has been a player and probably in that club because the club is over 40 years old.
This tournament is repeated year after year and at the beginning of the season when the club resumes activity after summer recession in September. Zxp
PeterB: Eggman and Mr. Hassan - you are right, Howard Ridout was a long time member of the Scarborough Chess Club! He was very active even when I joined in 1969, and was still organizing tournaments at the time of his death in the 1990s. This game is a good memorial to him! Theodorovitch was a Toronto master rated about 2250 back then, perhaps about 2350 nowadays.
'Ask no questions and hear no lies
* The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev - https://lichess.org/study/KMMrJvE1
* Legendary: Game Collection: The 12 Legendary Games of the Century
* Knight Power: https://fmochess.com/the-power-of-t...
'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
The Words Of Socrates
A house was built by Socrates
That failed the public taste to please.
Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all
Agreed that the apartments were too small.
Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!
"I ask," said he, "no greater bliss
Than real friends to fill even this."
And reason had good Socrates
To think his house too large for these.
A crowd to be your friends will claim,
Till some unhandsome test you bring.
There's nothing plentier than the name;
There's nothing rarer than the thing.
* Famous Chess Photos: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/585256...
* Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED!
* tacticmania - Game Collection: tacticmania
* Passive, but playable in the Russian Game: Game Collection: Alpha Russian (White)
* Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French
* Gambits against the French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam
* Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate...
* Fabulous chess brilliancies:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/...
* Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom...
* Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018
* Glossary: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar...
Petrosian's mastery of a closed position:
<In what appears to be perfectly equal positions, Petrosian consistently finds seemingly innocuous moves that gradually overwhelm his opponent. He accomplishes his objective simply by exchanging pieces and manoeuvring for victory without taking unnecessary risks. This essentially defensive technique has the virtue, when it doesn't utterly succeed, of producing a draw.>
― Larry Evans, introduction to game 3 from My 60 Memorable Games by Robert James Fischer.
'April showers bring forth May flowers
* QGD: Game Collection: QUEEN'S GAMBIT DECLINED
* Checkmate brevities: Game Collection: Art of Checkmate
* Crouch's book: Game Collection: Chess Secrets - Attackers (Crouch)
* Dr. Edmund Adam Miniatures: Edmund Adam
* Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French
* Alekhine's French Def: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che...
* A few KIAs: Game Collection: Opening Ideas
* Advance French: Game Collection: Attacking with the French
* Black Defends: Game Collection: Opening repertoire black
* Masterful: Game Collection: FRENCH DEFENSE MASTERPIECES
* KID 0-1s: Game Collection: K.I.D B wins E98
<In a park people come across a man playing chess against a dog. They are astonished and say:“What a clever dog!”
But the man protests:
“No, no, he isn’t that clever. I’m leading three games to one!”>
Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
'Ashes to ashes dust to dust
“We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!” ― John Adams
The Fox and the Goat
A fox once journeyed, and for company
A certain bearded, horned goat had he;
Which goat no further than his nose could see.
The fox was deeply versed in trickery.
These travellers did thirst compel
To seek the bottom of a well.
There, having drunk enough for two,
Says fox, "My friend, what shall we do?
It's time that we were thinking
Of something else than drinking.
Raise you your feet on the wall,
And stick your horns up straight and tall;
Then up your back I'll climb with ease,
And draw you after, if you please."
"Yes, by my beard," the other said,
"It's just the thing. I like a head
Well stocked with sense, like thine.
Had it been left to mine,
I do confess,
I never should have thought of this."
So Renard clambered out,
And, leaving there the goat,
Discharged his obligations
By preaching thus on patience:
"Had Heaven put sense your head within,
To match the beard on your chin,
You would have thought a bit,
Before descending such a pit.
I'm out of it; good bye:
With prudent effort try
Yourself to extricate.
For me, affairs of state
Permit me not to wait."
Whatever way you wend,
Consider well the end.
“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove you the better player.” ― English Proverb
“For a period of ten years--between 1946 and 1956--Reshevsky was probably the best chessplayer in the world. I feel sure that had he played a match with Botvinnik during that time he would have won and been World Champion.”
― Bobby Fischer
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.” ― Alexander Alekhine
“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chessplayer's nature.” ― Rudolf Spielmann
“To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.” ― Mikhail Tal
“Boring? Who's boring? I am Fredthebear. My mind is always active, busy.”
“He had the totally undeserved reputation of being the greatest living endgame player. His trick was to keep his openings simple and then play with such brilliance that it was decided in the middle game before reaching the ending - even though his opponent didn't always know it. His almost complete lack of book knowledge forced him to push harder to squeeze the utmost out of every position.” ― Bobby Fischer (on Capablanca)
“You cannot play chess unless you have studied his (Jose R. Capablanca) games.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik
“We can compare Capablanca with Mozart, whose charming music appeared to have been a smooth flow. I get the impression that Capablanca did not even know why he preferred this or that move, he just moved the pieces with his hand. If he had worked a lot on chess, he might have played worse because he would have started to try to comprehend things. But Capablanca did not have to comprehend anything, he just had to move the pieces!” ― Vladimir Kramnik
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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.
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.
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.” — Billy Graham
“Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.”
— 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-freee-die: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...
* Reuben Fine can show you the not-so-easy way. Sign up for free and you can read books for free: https://archive.org/details/chessea...
'As you sow so shall you reap
“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” ― Indira Gandhi
“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.”
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)
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“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
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
Galatians 6:7 in the Bible “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created, by the, you know the, you know the thing.” ― Joe Biden, botching USA Declaration of Independence quote.
“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.”
― Yogi Berra, one of the greatest Yankees of all time
St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet."
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“Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey
<“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence>
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) played chess. It was one of his favorite games. He started playing in his 20s and owned several nice chess sets. Dr. William Small probably introduced chess to Jefferson around 1762. Dr. Small was a professor of mathematics at the College of William and Mary who taught Jefferson.
In India, chess was initially known as the ‘Game of Kings.’
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REMODE:
In 1090, a Chessboard with alternating light and dark squares was introduced in Europe.
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During World War II, several of the world’s best chess players were code breakers.
In India, chess was initially known as the ‘Game of Kings.’
“In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.” — Charles Buxton
“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” — Rudolph Spielmann
“A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only difficult, but almost a matter of course.” — Savielly Tartakower.
“Knowing which pieces you want to be exchanged is a great help in finding the right moves.” — Graham Burgess
“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 don’t think you can really compare anyone to Fischer and I have high respect for him – he’s one of the greatest chess players who ever lived!” — Wesley so
“Fischer…is abnormally sensitive to the slightest noise in the hall…Then there are other players, among them Spassky, [Viktor] Korchnoi, and myself. For us, it is simply boring to play in an empty hall. When we appear on the stage, we are artistes.” — Mikhail Tal
“He went out of his way to provoke the opponent to attack, and, reeking of contempt and crusader’s zeal, devoted himself to consolidating some of the most hideously unconsolidated positions ever seen on a chessboard.”
— Robert Byrne on Wilhelm Steinitz
“The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary.” ― Aaron Nimzowitsch
Bobby Fischer on Paul Morphy:
“Perhaps the most accurate player who ever lived, he would beat anybody today in a set-match. He had complete sight of the board and seldom blundered even though he moved quite rapidly. I've played over hundreds of his games and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity.”
“He (Jose R. Capablanca) makes the game look easy. Art lies in the concealment of art.” ― Philip W. Sergeant
“Beautiful, cold, remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability.”
― Raymond Chandler (on a Capablanca game)
“What others could not see in a month's study, he saw at a glance.”
― Reuben Fine (on Capablanca)
“Capablanca invariably chose the right option, no matter how intricate the position.” ― Garry Kasparov.
“Capablanca's games generally take the following course: he begins with a series of extremely fine prophylactic maneuvers, which neutralize his opponent's attempts to complicate the game; he then proceeds, slowly but surely, to set up an attacking position. This attacking position, after a series of simplifications, is transformed into a favorable endgame, which he conducts with matchless technique.” ― Aaron Nimzowitsch
“The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with [Jose] Capablanca.” — Irving Chernev
“The peculiarity of his style is that only rarely does he make moves which no one else would make.” — Max Euwe on Vassily Smyslov
“When his opponent forces him into wild play, his performance is stunning.”
— Robert Byrne on Tigran Petrosian
“You can never relax. I keep the same amount of energy and concentration during the tournament.” ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York
“Most promises featuring the word 'always' are unkeepable.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
“You should never say never. Just like you should never say always; because, always and never are always never true.” ― J. R. Krol
“Never and Always
Never take advantage of someone whom loves you
Never avoid someone whom needs you
Never betray anyone whom has trust in you
Never forget the people that always remember you
Never speak ill of a person who is not present
Never support something you know is wrong or unethical
Always speak to your parents on their birthday and anniversary
Always defend those who cannot defend themselves
Always forgive those you love whom have made mistakes
Always give something to those less fortunate than you
Always remember to look back at those who helped you succeed
Always call your parents and siblings on New Year’s Eve.”
― R.J. Intindola
“I learned that you have to study more to keep improving (to avoid plateauing). (...) I also realized I had to move slower because I was moving very quickly and making easy blunders.” ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York
“It's a lot of things [that I consider (what opening to play)]. Obviously, my opponent's rating—I don't want to play an equal game where I don't have many winning chances. But also, my mood is important, and my opponent's styles themselves.” ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York
“You can never relax. I keep the same amount of energy and concentration during the tournament.” ― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York
“I don't think about it (representing African-Americans) during the games, but I certainly do think about how few African-Americans there are at the top level. So, I try to do my best to motivate more people like us to give it a try and hopefully succeed.”
― 13-year-old FM Brewington Hardaway from New York
Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
~ Scottish Proverb
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Alaska: Kodiak
Established in: 1792
Kodiak is the main city in Kodiak Island and was founded in 1792 by Aleksandr Andreyevich Baranov. It was first called Pavlovsk Gavan, which is Russian for Paul's Harbor, and was the first capital of Russian Alaska. You can still find a large Russian Orthodox church there, as well as plenty of beautiful views.
* Chess History: https://www.britannica.com/topic/ch...
* Chess Principles: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm...
* Linus: https://zoboko.com/text/o1qn0yy8/ch...
* List of gambits: https://detailedpedia.com/wiki-List...
* Fried Fox is awful: https://allchessopenings.blogspot.c...
* The Gaw-Paw? Game Collection: GA PA Wins Draws by Black
* Chicago, 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEp...
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEp...
* Defensive Replies to the Queen's Pawn: Game Collection: e6 after 1.d4
* QP Bg2: Queen's Pawn Game (E00)
* Game with ...e6: Game Collection: Partidas modelo con temas variados
* Sicilians: Game Collection: Sicilian/French/Westerimen and other ...c5,...e6
* Sicilian O'Kelly leaves White all kinds of choices: Opening Explorer
* Wikipedia on Computer Chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compu...
* elmubarak: my fav games: Game Collection: elmubarak: my fav games
* assorted Good games Compiled by rbaglini: Game Collection: assorted Good games
* Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz): Game Collection: 0
* LAST COLLECTION Compiled by Jaredfchess: Game Collection: LAST COLLECTION
* 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
“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn
“Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self-image and self-esteem.”
― Saudin Robovic
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.” ― Max Euwe
“Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
― Being Caballero
“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
“In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov
<The Fooles Mate
Black Kings Biſhops pawne one houſe.
White Kings pawne one houſe.
Black kings knights pawne two houſes
White Queen gives Mate at the contrary kings Rookes fourth houſe
— Beale, The Royall Game of Chesse-Play
Beale's example can be paraphrased in modern terms where White always moves first, algebraic notation is used, and Black delivers the fastest possible mate after each player makes two moves: 1.f3 e6 2.g4 Qh4#
There are eight distinct ways in which Fool's Mate can be reached in two moves. White may alternate the order of f- and g-pawn moves, Black may play either e6 or e5, and White may move their f-pawn to f3 or f4.>
“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
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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 !!
People believe what they want to believe, truth or not.
“Search for the grain of truth in other opinions.” ― Richard Carlson
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him” (James 1:5).
The Bear
~ Author Unknown ~
Here is a cave, (make a fist)
Inside is a bear. (put a thumb inside fist)
Now he comes out
To get some fresh air. (pop out thumb)
He stays out all summer
In sunshine and heat.
He hunts in the forest
For berries to eat. (move thumb in circle)
When snow starts to fall,
He hurries inside
His warm little cave,
And there he will hide. (put thumb back inside fist)
Snow covers the cave
Like a fluffy white rug.
Inside the bear sleeps
All cozy and snug. (cover fist with other hand)
Old Russian Proverb:
Чему́ быть, того́ не минова́ть
Pronunciation: ChiMU BYT’, taVOH ni mihnoVAT’
Translation: You can’t avoid that which is meant to happen
Meaning: Whatever shall be, will be.
Engineer Ralph Baer is often held to be the "father of video games." His "Brown Box" video game system, designed in 1967, paved the way for all future consoles.
“mãos frias, coração quente“. In English, it means “a cold hand, a warm heart”
Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac
“mais vale um passarinho na mão do que dois a voar“
Contrary to popular belief, the first video game was not Pong. It was preceded by Tennis for Two in 1958 and Spacewar! in 1962.
Q: What do you call something that goes up when the rain comes down?
A: An umbrella.
Q: What do you call a doctor who fixes websites?
A: A URL-ologist.
Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A: A dinosnore.
Q: What do you call a Christmas tree that knows karate
A: Spruce Lee.
Q: What does a triangle call a circle?
A: Pointless.
Q: What do you call a piece of sad cheese?
A: Blue cheese.
Q: What do you call a cow in an earthquake?
A: A milkshake.
Q: What do you call an M&M that went to college?
A: A smarty.
The Man And His Image
To M. The Duke De La Rochefoucauld.
A man, who had no rivals in the love
Which to himself he bore,
Esteemed his own dear beauty far above
What earth had seen before.
More than contented in his error,
He lived the foe of every mirror.
Officious fate, resolved our loverFrom such an illness should recover,
Presented always to his eyes
The mute advisers which the ladies prize; –
Mirrors in parlours, inns, and shops, –
Mirrors the pocket furniture of fops, –
Mirrors on every lady's zone,[13]
From which his face reflected shone.
What could our dear Narcissus do?
From haunts of men he now withdrew,
On purpose that his precious shape
From every mirror might escape.
But in his forest glen alone,
Apart from human trace,
A watercourse,
Of purest source,
While with unconscious gaze
He pierced its waveless face,
Reflected back his own.
Incensed with mingled rage and fright,
He seeks to shun the odious sight;
But yet that mirror sheet, so clear and still,
He cannot leave, do what he will.
Before this, my story's drift you plainly see.
From such mistake there is no mortal free.
That obstinate self-lover
The human soul does cover;
The mirrors follies are of others,
In which, as all are genuine brothers,
Each soul may see to life depicted
Itself with just such faults afflicted;
And by that charming placid brook,
Needless to say, I mean your Maxim Book.
This is one of La Fontaine's most admired fables, and is one of the few for which he did not go for the groundwork to some older fabulist. The Duke de la Rochefoucauld, to whom it was dedicated, was the author of the famous "Reflexions et Maximes Morales," which La Fontaine praises in the last lines of his fable. La Rochefoucauld was La Fontaine's friend and patron. The "Maximes" had achieved a second edition just prior to La Fontaine's publication of this first series of his Fables, in 1668. "The Rabbits" (Book 10, Fable 15.), published in the second collection, in 1678-9, is also dedicated to the Duke, who died the following year, 1680.
“There just isn’t enough televised chess.” — David Letterman
“Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.”
— Siegbert Tarrasch
“True power is expressed in quiet confidence; it was the sea's very calmness that epitomized its mighty force.” ― Emile Habiby
“Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and in good breeding, and all these qualities may exist in an ugly man. And when we focus our attention upon that beauty, not upon the physical, love generally arises with great violence and intensity. I am well aware that I am not handsome, but I also know that I am not deformed, and it is enough for a man of worth not to be a monster for him to be dearly loved, provided he has those spiritual endowments I have spoken of.”
― Miguel Cervantes
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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.
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.
A TISKET A TASKET
A tisket, a tasket
A green and yellow basket.
I wrote a letter to my love
And on the way I dropped it.
I dropped it, I dropped it
And on the way I dropped it.
A little boy he picked it up
And put it in his pocket.
16 yellow #2 pencilz
“When you’re lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.” ― Aristotle
“The habit of holding a Man in the hand, and moving it first to one square and then to another, in order to engage the assistance of the eye in deciding where it shall actually be placed, is not only annoying to the adversary but a practical infraction of the touch-and-move principle.” ― Howard Staunton
“A bad plan is better than none at all.” ― Frank Marshall
<Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
Bombardment of Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, New York, 1865The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in the middle of the Civil War, wrote this poem which has more recently been adapted as a modern Christmas classic. Longfellow wrote this on Christmas Day in 1863, after his son had enlisted in the Union's cause and had returned home, seriously wounded. The verses which he included and are still generally included, speak of the despair of hearing the promise of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" when the evidence of the world is clearly that war still exists.
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."
The original also included several verses referring specifically to the Civil War. Before that cry of despair and answering cry of hope, and after verses describing the long years of hearing of "peace on earth, goodwill to men" (a phrase from the Jesus birth narratives in the Christian scriptures), Longfellow's poem includes, describing the black cannons of the war:
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!>
*At some time or other tournament player learns a few opening lines, some tactical ideas, the most basic mating patterns, and a few elementary endgames. As he gets better and more experienced, he significantly adds to this knowledge. However, the one thing that just everybody has problem is planning. From Z to class E (under 1200) D to Master, I get blank stares when asking what plan they had in mind in a particular position. Usually the choice of a plan (if they had any plan at all) is based on emotional rather than chess-specific considerations. By emotional, I mean that the typical player does what he feels like doing rather than the board "telling him what to do. This is somewhat cryptic sentence leads us to the following extremely important concept: if you want to be successful, you have to base your moves and plans on the specific imbalance-oriented criteria that exist in that given position, not your mood, taste and/or feared. Literally every non-master's games are filled with examples of "imbalance avoidance". Beginners, of course, simply don't know what imbalances are. Most experienced players have heard of the term and perhaps even tried to make use of them from time to time, however once the rush of battle takes over, isolated moves and raw aggression (or terror, if you find yourself defending) push any and all thoughts of imbalances out the door. In this case, chess becomes empty move-by-move, threat-by-threat (either making them or responding to them) affair. What is this mysterious allusion of the chessboard's desires (i.e., doing what the chess board wants you to do)? What is this "imbalance-oriented criteria? ― How To Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
“To a good listener, half a word is enough”
– Portuguese Proverb
The Old Man And His Sons
All power is feeble with dissension:
For this I quote the Phrygian slave.
If anything I add to his invention,
It is our manners to engrave,
And not from any envious wishes; –
I'm not so foolishly ambitious.
Phaedrus enriches often his story,
In quest – I doubt it not – of glory:
Such thoughts were idle in my breast.
An aged man, near going to his rest,
His gathered sons thus solemnly addressed:
"To break this bunch of arrows you may try;
And, first, the string that binds them I untie."
The eldest, having tried with might and main,
Exclaimed, "This bundle I resign
To muscles sturdier than mine."
The second tried, and bowed himself in vain.
The youngest took them with the like success.
All were obliged their weakness to confess.
Unharmed the arrows passed from son to son;
Of all they did not break a single one.
"Weak fellows!" said their sire, "I now must show
What in the case my feeble strength can do."
They laughed, and thought their father but in joke,
Till, one by one, they saw the arrows broke.
"See, concord's power!" replied the sire; "as long
As you in love agree, you will be strong.
I go, my sons, to join our fathers good;
Now promise me to live as brothers should,
And soothe by this your dying father's fears."
Each strictly promised with a flood of tears.
Their father took them by the hand, and died;
And soon the virtue of their vows was tried.
Their sire had left a large estate
Involved in lawsuits intricate;
Here seized a creditor, and there
A neighbour levied for a share.
At first the trio nobly bore
The brunt of all this legal war.
But short their friendship as It was rare.
Whom blood had joined – and small the wonder! –
The force of interest drove asunder;
And, as is wont in such affairs,
Ambition, envy, were co-heirs.
In parcelling their sire's estate,
They quarrel, quibble, litigate,
Each aiming to supplant the other.
The judge, by turns, condemns each brother.
Their creditors make new assault,
Some pleading error, some default.
The sundered brothers disagree;
For counsel one, have counsels three.
All lose their wealth; and now their sorrows
Bring fresh to mind those broken arrows.
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.
“Only those who want everything done for them are bored.” — Billy Graham
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this 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-z-dee: https://www.briddles.com/riddles/ch...
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Never reply to an anonymous letter.”
― Yogi Berra, MLB Hall of Fame catcher
“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
― Yogi Berra, 10-time World Series champion
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1. There are over 319 billion possible combinations.
2. The chess board has a theoretical limit of 5,949 moves.
3. The longest chess game ever played was I.Nikolic vs. Arsovic, Belgrade 1989, which lasted 269 moves and ended in a draw.
4. The Spanish innovation of allowing pawns to advance two squares on their first move instead of one was introduced in 1280.
5. According to the US Chess Federation, there are an estimated 169 Octillion ways to play the first ten chess game moves.
6. The first-ever outer space chess game was held on June 9, 1970, between space and Earth. The game ended in a draw.
7. The last known victory of a human over a top-performing computer in a standard chess tournament was the Ponomariov vs. Fritz game on November 21, 2005.
8. The priest who was prohibited from playing chess created the folding chessboard.
9. In November 1988, a computer called DeepThought was the first to defeat an international grandmaster in Long Beach, California.
10. The name “Checkmate” comes from the Persian term “Shah Mat,” which means “the King is slain.”
11. In 1973, the Cleveland Police conducted a Chess Tournament raid.
12. A Knight’s tour has over 122 million possibilities.
13. For more than 26 years and 337 days, Dr. Emanuel Lasker from Germany held the World Chess Champion title longer than any other player ever.
14. In 1090, a Chessboard with alternating light and dark squares was introduced in Europe.
15. During World War II, several of the world’s best chess players were code breakers.
16. There are eight distinct Mate options in two moves and 355 distinct Mate options in three movements from the start position.
17. Play Chess with Your Eyes Shut.
18. Russia is often referred to as the “Chess Kingdom.”
19. A Triumph for the Ages.
20. The first-year chess players are known as “rookies.”
21. The tumbling chess clock is a mechanical clock with a distinctive name.
22. The Unintended Consequence.
23. Chess Master with Unparalleled Versatility.
24. Chess was the Second Book in English.
25. Fool’s Mate: In two moves, defeat your chess opponent.
26. In India, chess was initially known as the ‘Game of Kings.’
27. The youngest ever chess champion, still regarded as the greatest chess player of all time!
28. In 1951, Alan Turing developed the world’s first computer chess program.
29. The World Chess Federation, or Fédération Internationale des Échecs, is the formal name of FIDE, which alternatively means, International Chess Federation.
30. Chess is a popular game that has been shown to improve memory function—often mentioned in psychology books as a highly effective way to advance one’s intelligence.
31. Blathy, Otto was credited with creating the most prolonged Chess Problem and solved it in 290 moves.
32. Chess enjoyed a resurgence during the Cold War.
33. Janos French, a Hungarian player, set the record in 1960 for playing 52 different opponents concurrently, blindfolded.
34. The 1972 World Chess Championship, dubbed the “Match of the Century,” was held in Reykjavik between Boris Spassky and Robert “Bobby” Fischer.
35. In a match between Mason-Mackenzie in London in 1882, there were 72 consecutive Queen Moves.
36. The 100 Moves is a chess match between M. Walker and Thorton that was played without capture.
37. There are over one thousand chess distinct openings.
38. Castling used to be two moves long, with R-KB1 moving to a single move and K-KN1 on the following.
39. On the TV show Star Trek, Kirk, and Spock have engaged in three chess games. All three games were won by Kirk.
40. In 1972, Iceland established a 24-hour Police Guard around the chess match seats of Fischer and Spassky’s to keep out intruders in the chess game.
41. After one move each, there are 400 distinct possibilities in the game of chess.
42. The tiniest handmade chess set is 8 mm x 8 mm or 0.32 in x 0.32 in size.
43. After three chess moves, there are over 9 million different possibilities.
44. The biggest chess piece, a king piece, which is 6.09 m (20 ft.) tall, is the most significant tallest chess piece in existence.
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