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0 games, - "Monte Carlo 1903"
Compiled by suenteus po 147, Pawn and Two
The quarter of Monte Carlo in the principality of Monaco hosted the third of four chess master tournaments, designed to help bolster tourism during the winter season, in 1903. Only fourteen chess masters participated in the double round robin event, since Mikhail Chigorin was turned away for his criticism of games won by Prince Dadian of Mingrelia, and Semion Alapin, Isidor Gunsberg, and David Janowski were forced to decline due to their invitations being sent last minute. Games were played between February 10th and March 17th in the Monte Carlo Casino. When the players complained of the noise to tournament director Arnous de Rivière he told them they would just have to get used to it. Siegbert Tarrasch won the tournament after several losses in the opening rounds. Geza Maróczy who had won the tournament the previous year came in second. Harry Nelson Pillsbury, whose health in the last few years was steadily declining, managed only third place in what would be his penultimate international tournament. This was also another tournament that would contribute to Richard Teichmann's nickname of "Richard the Fifth" as he placed fifth in the standings just behind Carl Schlechter. Despite the absence of the alternate scoring for draws or replayed games (rules in place in the previous two installments), all of the games were hard fought each round of this event. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Tarrasch 20/26 ** ½½ ½1 0½ 0½ 01 11 11 11 11 1½ 11 11 11 2nd Maróczy 19/26 ½½ ** ½½ ½½ ½½ 11 01 11 01 01 11 11 11 11 3rd Pillsbury 18½/26 ½0 ½½ ** 11 11 1½ 1½ 01 0½ ½1 1½ 1½ 11 11 4th Schlechter 17/26 1½ ½½ 00 ** ½½ ½1 1½ ½1 01 ½0 1½ 11 11 11 5th Teichmann 16½/26 1½ ½½ 00 ½½ ** 10 ½½ 1½ ½1 10 01 11 11 11 6th Marco 15½/26 10 00 0½ ½0 01 ** 1½ 11 1½ 1½ ½1 ½0 11 11 7th Wolf 14/26 00 10 0½ 0½ ½½ 0½ ** 01 1½ 11 11 01 01 11 8th Mieses 13/26 00 00 10 ½0 0½ 00 10 ** 11 11 1½ 01 ½1 11 9th Marshall 12/26 00 10 1½ 10 ½0 0½ 0½ 00 ** 11 01 01 10 11 =10th Taubenhaus 10½/26 00 10 ½0 ½1 01 0½ 00 00 00 ** ½½ 11 10 11 =10th Mason 10½/26 0½ 00 0½ 0½ 10 ½0 00 0½ 10 ½½ ** ½1 1½ 11 12th Albin 8/26 00 00 0½ 00 00 ½1 10 10 10 00 ½0 ** 0½ 11 13th Reggio 7½/26 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 ½0 01 01 0½ 1½ ** 11 14th Moreau 0/26 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 **
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182 games, 1903 - "My Best Games of Chess, 1905-1954"
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201 complete games and 49 game fragments from Tartakower's book. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Volume One
1905 - 1930
Position I: Tartakower vs M Billecard, 1907 after Black's 25th move.
'Storm over Asia'
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26.Qd8 Qe4 27.Be7 1-0
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position II: F Lee vs Tartakower, 1907 after White's 37th move. The Dynamic Principle
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37...e4 38.Bd5 Ke5 39.Bxb7 g3 40.Bxa6 Bxf2 41.Kd1 f5 42.b4 f4 43.c4 Rg1 44.Rxg1 Bxg1 45.c5 g2 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position III: S von Freymann vs Tartakower, 1909, after White's 37th move. The Art of Liquidation
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37.Rb6 b3 38.Rxb3 Qd1 39.Rb6 Rxf2+ 40.Kxf2 Rc2+ 41.Kg3 Qg1+ 42.Kf4 Rxh2 43.Qg4 Qh1 44.Rb8 Kg8 45.e4 Rh4 46.e5 h5 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position IV: Gruenfeld vs Tartakower, 1922, after White's 39th move. 
click for larger view 39...Bxg2 40.Rg4 Bf3 41.Rxf4+ Ke3 42.Rf7 Kf2 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position V: Spielmann vs Tartakower, 1923, after White's 21th move. The King's Flight 
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21...Kf6 22.Qxb7 Qf4+ 23.Kb1 Qxf2 24.Qc6+ Kg5 25.h4+ Kg4 26.Rdf1 Qb6 27.Qc4 Rd2 28.b4 Qe3 29.Rh3 Qb6 30.Rhf3 Rxg2 31.Rf4+ Kg3 32.Qd5 Re8 33.Qd7 Qa6 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position VI: Tartakower vs Lasker, 1924
after Black's 18th move. A Missed Opportunity 
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"I could have obtained a clear advantage, if not even a decisive one, by the double sacrifice of the exchange" (Tartakower):
19.Rxf6!! Bxf6 20.Rxf6!! gxf6 21.Ng4
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Position VII: Tartakower vs Alekhine, 1924
after Black's 28th move. Running Amok
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Analysis: 29.c6!! Qxc6 30.Re7 f6 31.Rxg7 Rd6 32.Rg8+ Kxg8 33.Qg4+ and wins.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position VIII Tartakower vs Reti, 1925
after Black's 37th move. Royal Labours
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38.Kc2 Kd6 39.Kc3 Ke5 40.a5 d4 41.Kc4 d3 42.Kc3 Kd6 43.f3 Kd5 44.b6 axb6 45.a6 Kc6 46.b5+ 1-0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position IX R Michell vs Tartakower, 1925 after White's 40th move. The Work of Two Bishops 
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40...Kg7 41.Kf1 Bc6 42.Ng1 g5 43.Nf3 h5 44.Be2 Re4 45.Bd3 Rf4 46.Ke2 g4 47.hxg4 hxg4 48.Nh2 g3 49.Nf3 d4 50.Rf1 b4 51.Nd2 Rh4 52.Nf3 Rh8 53.Kd2 Rh2 54.Nxh2 gxh2 55.Rh1 Be5 56.Bf1 Be4 57.Kd1 Kf6 58.Kd2 Kg5 59.Kd1 Kg4 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Position X L Prokes vs Tartakower, 1925 after White's 35th move. (a) As the Crow Flies 
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35...Qxa2 36.Qxb5 Qb1+ 37.Kg2 Bxc3...
Tartakower: "After some useful liquidation the position after White's 48th move in the same game was the following" (b) Duel of Two Bishops
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48...Bc5+ 49.Ke2 Bd4 50.Kd3 Bxc3 51.Kxc3 Kf5 52.Kd3 Kg4 53.Ke4 Kxg3
54.Kxe5 Kf3 55.Kd4 Kf4 56.Kd5 e5 0-1
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XI Gilg vs Tartakower, 1926
after White's 91th move. Another Travelling King 
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91...Rg1 92.Ra2 Kf3 93.Ra3+ Kf4 94.Ra4+ Kg3 95.Ra3+ Kh4 96.Ra4+ Rg4 97.Ra1 Re4 98.Rh1+ Kg4 99.Rg1+ Kf5 100.Re1 Kf6 101.Kh7 Kg5 102.h6 Re7+ 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Position XII H Friedmann vs Tartakower, 1927 after White's 23rd move. The Storm 
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23...Rxc1 24.Rxc1 Bxf4 25.exf4 Nxf4 26.Qe3 Bxg2 27.Re1 Bd5 28.Qg3 Nh3+ 29. Kf1 f4 30. Qg4 Nf6 31. Qe2
f3 32.Nxf3 Nf4 0-1
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XIII Rubinstein vs Tartakower, 1927 after White's 27th move. The Rescue 
click for larger view27...bxc4 28.Bxh7+ Kxh7 29.Rf7 Rxb2+ 30.Kg1 c3 31.Qf6 Rb1+ 32.Kf2 Rb2+ 33.Ke1 Rb1+ 34.Kf2 Rb2+ 1/2-1/2 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XIV E G Sergeant vs Tartakower, 1927 after White's 49th move. 
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49...Kf5 50.Bd2 Re4 51.Bxa5 bxa5 52.Nd2 Rf4+ 53.Rf3 g4 54.Rxf4+ Kxf4 55.e6 Bf6 56.Kg2 Ke3 57.Nc4+ dxc4 58.d5 cxb3 59.d6 b2 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XV Tartakower vs P Leonhardt, 1928
after Black's 21st move.
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22.Be1 Qa3 23.Nb5 Qxa2 24.Bc3 d4 25.Bxd4 f6 26.Rb2 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Position XVI H A Cadman vs Tartakower, 1929 after White's 18th move. Abduction of a Pawn 
click for larger view 18...Bxg2 19.Kxg2 Qg6+ 20.Kh1 Qe4+ 21.Kg1 Qxe2 22.h3 Re8 23. Ra1 Re6 24.Qc3 Rg6+ 25.Kh1 Rd3 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XVII L Prokes vs Tartakower, 1929
after White's 32nd move. Conflict of Squares 
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32.Ra1 Kd6 33.Kf1 Kc5 34.Ke1 Kd4 35.Kd2 Bd5 36.g3 Rb2+ 37.Ke1 Bb3 38.h4 f6 39.Ba6 Kc3 40.Bb5 Kb4 41.Bd7 Ra2 42.Rb1 Kc3 43.Rc1+ Rc2 44.Rb1 Rb2 45.Rc1+ Bc2 46.h5 Rb7 47.Bc6 Re7+ 48.Kf1 Kb2 49.Rxc2+ Kxc2 50.hxg6 hxg6 51.f3 Kb3 52.g4 Rc7 53.Be8 g5 54.Kf2 Kc3 55.Bb5
Kd4 56.Kg3 Ke3 57.Be8 Rc1 58.Bb5 Rg1+ 59.Kh2 Kf2 60.Bc6 Rc1 61.Bd5 Rc7 62.Be4 Rg7 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XVIII M Romi vs Tartakower, 1930
after White's 32nd move. In the Net 
click for larger view 32...h4 33.g4 Rh1+ 34.Kg2 Qf1+ 35.Kf3 Rh3+ 36.Ke4 Qc4+ 37.Ke5 Qxc5+ 38.Kf6 Rxe3 39.fxe3 e5 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Position XIX Znosko-Borovsky vs Tartakower, 1930 after White's 34th move.
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34...b4 35.Rxb7 Qa6+ 36.Bd3 Qxb7 37.Qxb7+ Kxb7 38.h5 b3 39.h6 a5 40.h7 a4 41.Bc4 Rh8 42.Bd3 a3 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SOME POSITIONS FROM THE HAMBURG OLYMPIAD IN 1930 Position XX J Gudmundsson vs Tartakower, 1930 after White's 26th move.
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26...Nxd4 27.Qd1 Qxe5 28.fxe5 Rf1+ 29.Kg2 R8f2+ 30.Kh3 Rxd1 31.Rxd1 Ne6 32.b4 Re2 33.Rxd5 cxd5 34.c6 Rf2 35.Bf4 Nxf4+ 0-1 Position XXI Tartakower vs K Treybal, 1930 after Black's 40th move.
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41.Rd4 Kd8 42.Nc4 Ke7 43.Rd6 Rb8 44.Bc2 Rb7 45.Kd4 Ne4 46.Bxe4 fxe4 47.Kxe4 1-0 Position XXII Yates vs Tartakower, 1930
after White's 30th move.
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30...Nxe4 31.dxe4 Bxf1 32.Rxf1 Rxe4 33.Nh3 Rd2 34.Ng5 Rf4 35.Ra1 Rxb2 36.Nf3 Re4 37.Na4 Rc2 38.h3 Ree2 39.Rb1 Rxg2 40.Rxb4 Rgf2 41. Rb3 Rxa2 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XXIII D Przepiorka vs Tartakower, 1930 after White's 26th move. Taking by Assault 
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26...Nxd4 27.cxd4 Qxd4 28.Kc2 Nc5 29.Be2 Qxa1 30.Bb2 Qxa2 31.Qf3
Rh2 32.g4 d4 0-1
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1931 - 1954
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position I O.Garcia Vera - Tartakower, Exhibition Game, Rosario 1931
after White's 36th move. Only one Tempo!
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36...d3 37.Qa6+ Ke5 38.Qxd3 Qh4+ 39.Qh3 Qxh3 40.Kxh3 Kd4 41.Kg4 f6 42.Kf4 Kc4 43.Ke4 Kb3 44.Kd5 Kxb2 45.Ke6 Kxa3 46.Kxf6 a5 47.Kxg6 a4 48.g4 Kb4 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position II Tartakower vs S Landau, 1931 after Black's 68th move. The Blockade 
click for larger view 69.Bxb6 Rff7 70.Ra8 cxb6 71.Rxd8 Qh7 72.Rh8 1-0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position III Tartakower vs Flohr, 1932 after Black's 24th move. Geometrical Ending 
click for larger view 25.Nd4 a6 26.Kc2 Bc8 27.Kd3 Bd7 28.g4 g5 29.Ke4 Kf7 30.f4 Ke7
31.f5 Be8 32.Nc6+ Bxc6 33.dxc6 Kf7 34.Kd5 Ke7 35.a4 a5 36.Kd4 Kf7 37.Kc3 Ke7 38.b4 Kf7 39.bxa5 bxa5 40.Kd4 Ke8 41.Kd5 Kf7 42.c5 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Position IV Tartakower vs A Gromer, 1933
after Black's 41st move. Unequal Weapons
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42.Nh3 Kg6 43.Kg4 a5 44.Nf2 Bg7 45.a4 b6 46.Nh3 Bh6 47.Ng1 Bg7 48.Nf3 Bf6 49.Kf4 Kf7 50.Kf5 Ke7 51.Nh2 Kf7 52.Nf3 Ke7 53.e5 dxe5 54.Nxe5 Bg7 55.Ng6+ Kd6 56.Nf4 Bh6 57.Nd5 Bd2 58.Nxb6 Bc1 59.Nd5 Bd2
60.Nf6 Kc7 61.Ke6 Bb4 62.Nd5+ Kb7 63.Kd6 Ba3 64.Nf6 Bb4 65.Nd7 Ba3 66.Kd5 1-0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position V Tartakower vs E Klein, 1935 after Black's 39th move. The Pawn Phalanx
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40.g4 Kf6 41.h4 Ra2+ 42.Kg3 Re2 43.Kf3 Rh2 44.h5 Rh3+ 45.Kf2 Rh2+ 46.Kg3 Rh1 47.Rc6+ Kg7 48.hxg6 fxg6 49.f5 gxf5 50.gxf5 h5 51.Rg6+
Kf7 52.Kf4 h4 53.e4 h3 54.Ke5 Ra1 55.Rh6 Ra3 56.Kf4 Rb3 57.e5 Kg7 58.Rh5 Rb4+ 59.Kg5 Rb3 60.f6+ Kf7 61.Rh7+ Kg8 62.f7+ Kf8 63.e6 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position VI Tartakower - I.Schaechter, Jurata 1937 after the 64th move. No Trumps
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65.Bd2 Bd3 66.b4 Re2 67.Bc3 Rg2 68.Rd5 Kg6 69.Rd7 Rxg5+ 70.Kd6 Kh7 71.Rxa7 Bf1 72.Rf7 Bg2 73.a7 Rg3 74.Be5 Rg6+ 75.Kc5 Rg5 76.Kd4 Bh1 77.b5 Rg1 78.Kxc4 Rg2 79.Rxg7+ Rxg7 80.Bxg7 Kxg7 81.Kc5 Kf8 82.Kd6 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position VII Tartakower vs Szabo, 1938
after Black's 36th move. The Pincers 
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37.g5 Bf8 38.Rd2+ Ke5 39.Nd4 Rxd4 40.cxd4+ Ke4 41.Kc3 Ke3 42.Rd1 Ke2 43.Rff1 1-0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position VIII (a) Tartakower - Winter, after Black's 31st move in the second game of a short match played in Paris, August 1938 (+2, -1, =2). As the Crow Flies 
click for larger view 32.d6 Qxd6 33.Qh4 Qg6 34.Nd5 Kh8 35.Qe7 Re8 36.Qf6+ 1-0 (b) Tartakower- Winter, after the 42nd move in a game from the same
match. 
click for larger view43.f5 exf5 44.Nxf5 Qb1 45.Qf3 Rxc2 46.Ne7+ Kg7 47.Qf6+ 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position IX Tartakower vs Denker, 1946 after Black's 40th move. A Massive Ending 
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41.Kc5 h1=Q 42.Rxh1 Rxb3 43.Re4 Rb7 44.Kc6 Rbb2 45.Rh7+ Kf6 46.Rhxe7 Rdc2 47.c5 Rb3 48.R4e6+ Kf5 49.Re2 Kf6 50.R7e6+ Kf7 51.Rxc2 Kxe6 52.Re2+ Kf7 53.Kc7 Rc3 54.c6 Rc1 55.Kd7 Rd1+ 56.Kc8 Rc1 57.c7 Rb1 58.Re4 Rb2 59.Kd7 Rd2+ 60.Kc6 Rc2+ 61.Kd6 Rc1 62.Re5 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Positon X L Prins vs Tartakower, 1946 after
White's 29th move. A Diabolical Trap
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29...Kh8?! 30.Qe4!?? Rg8! 31.Rf4 Bf3+ 0-1
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XI Vidmar vs Tartakower, 1946 after White's 39th move. The Bludgeon
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39...c4 40.Rf1 g4 41.Qg3 Bd6 42.Kh1 d3 43.Qe3 Nf3 44.Bxf3 Qh5 45.Qd4+ Be5 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XII Euwe vs Tartakower, 1946
after White's 49th move. The Last Act
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49...h5 50.Kb6 h4 51.Kc6 h3 52.Kd6 h2 53.Rb1 Kf5 54.Rh1 Kf4 55.Rxh2 Kxf3 56.Ke5 g4 57.Ra2 g3 1/2-1/2 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XIII Yanofsky vs Tartakower, 1946 after White's 60th move. Miraculous Escape
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60...Nd4+ 61.Rxd4 Rxd4 62.Kc3 Rg4 63.b5 Kf6 64.b6 Ke6 65.b7 Rg8 66.Bf4 Kd5 67.Kb4 Rg1 68.b8=Q Rb1+ 1/2-1/2
1/2-1/2
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XIV Tartakower vs C H Alexander, 1947
after Black's 24th move. What Continuation?
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25.Rf1 Qg6 26.Nb4 Ra8 27.Qxa8 Nxe3 28.Nxd5+ cxd5 29.Qa5+ b6 30.Rf7+ 1-0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XV Tartakower - A. Gromer, after Black's 66th move in the
fourth game of a match played at Paris in February, 1947 (+2, -0, =4). The Pass
click for larger view67.Kg6 Bf3 68.f5 Ke8 69.f6 Bd5 70.Kxh5 Kf7 71.Kg5 Be4 72.h5 Ke6 73.Bc5 Bc2 74.Be7 Bb1 75.Kf4 Bc2 76.Ke3 Bd1 77.h6 Bc2 78.Kd4 Bd3 79.Kc5 Kd7 80.Kd5 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XVI Tartakower - Golombek, Baarn 1947 after Black's 33rd move. Pawns and Their Secrets
click for larger view34.Kd3 Ke7 35.Kc3 a5 36.Kd4 Kd6 37.g4 f6 38.g5 fxg5 39.fxg5 Kc6 40.a3 Kd6 41.b4 a4 42.h3 1-0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XVII Tartakower - Sacconi, Venice 1947 after Black's 56th move. A Rook in the Rookery
click for larger view57.Kf4 Re2 58.h4 Re1 59.Kg4 Re5 60.Rf8+ Kg6 61.h5+ Kh6 62.Rf6+ Kg7 63.Rf7+ Kh6 64.Re7 Rg5+ 65.Kf4 Rxh5 66.Rxh7+ 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XVIII Benko vs Tartakower, 1948
after White's 38th move. A Knight Duel
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38...Qd4 39.Qxd4 exd4 40.Ne1 Kf6 41.Nd3 g5 42.Kg2 gxh4 43.f4 h3+ 44.Kxh3 Nxf4+ 45.Nxf4 Ke5 46.Kg3 Kxe4 47.Ng2 Kxd5 48.Kf3 Kc4 49.Nf4 Kb3 50.Nd3 d5 51.Nb4 Kxb2 52.Nxd5 Kxa3 53.Nc7 Kb4 54.Ne6 Kc3 55.Nc7 Kc4 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XIX Tartakower vs J Enevoldsen, 1948 after Black's 27th move in the 5th game of a match played at Copenhagen, December 1948 (+1, -2, =3). The Danger Zone
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28.Rcf1 Nxd5 29.Rxf7 Nxc3 30.bxc3 Ba5 31.Rf6+ Kd5 32.Bxg6 Bxc3+ 33.Kd3 Bxd4 34.Bf7+ Kc5 35.Rf5+ 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XX Tartakower - Wade, Bewerwijk 1949 after Black's 45th move. Heroic Pawn
click for larger view46.g5 Kd4 47.Kc2 Kc5 48.Ra7 Rxh4 49.Rc7+ Kb4 50.a3+ Kxa3 51.Kc3 Rh3+ 52.Kd4 Rg3 53.Ra7+ Kb4 54.Rb7+ Ka5 55.c5 Rxg5 56.c6 Rg1 57.Rb8 Rc1 58.Kd5 f5 59.Kd6 Rd1+ 60.Ke6 Rc1 61.Kd7 Rd1+ 62.Kc8 f4 63.c7 f3 64.Kb7 f2 65.c8=Q Rb1+ 66.Ka7 Rxb8 67.Qa6+ 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XXI Tartakower - Hugot, Paris 1949 after Black's 30th move. The Domesticated Knight
click for larger view31.Qxc6 bxc6 32.d4 Kg6 33.Bd7 Nf5 34.Bxc6 Nxd4 35.Bxd5 f5 36.Kg2 Nc2 37.Kf3 Nb4 38.Bc4 Nc6 39.Kf4 Kf6 40.a3 Ne7 41.Ke3 Ke5 42.Bf7 Nd5+ 43.Bxd5 Kxd5 44.Kf4 Kc4 45.Kxf5 Kb3 46.g4 hxg4 47.Kxg4 Kxb2 48.h5 Kxa3 49.h6 1-0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XXII Tartakower - H.G. Rhodes, after Black's 35th move in the fourth game of a match played in Southport at the end of April, 1950 (+3, -0, =3). Supporting Squares
click for larger view36.Kd2 Kd6 37.Kc3 Kc6 38.Kb4 Kd6 39.Ka4 Kc6 40.b3 Kc7 41.b4 Kc6 42.b5+ Kd7 43.Kb4 Kd6 44.h3 h5 45.h4 axb5 46.Kxb5 Kc7 47.Kc5 1-0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XXIII F Mastichiadis vs Tartakower, 1950
after White's 31st move. Ill-fortune
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31...Rxg2+ 32.Rxg2 Rh1+ 33.Kf2 Bxd5 34. Rg1 Rh3 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XXIV C. Grodner - Tartakower, Paris 1953 after White's 31st move. The Last Act
click for larger view31...Qf4 32.Bg2 Nh5 33.Ra3 Ng3+ 34.Rxg3 Qxg3 35.Nc3 Rf1 0-1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XXV W. Morena - Tartakower after White's 48th move in a game from the match Saar-France, played at Paris, March 28, 1954. The Final Assault
click for larger view48...Re5 49.Qc3 Rh5+ 50.Kg2 Kh7 51.b4 Bf5 52.Qd2 Bh3+ 53.Kg1 Qf1+ 54.Rxf1 Rxf1+ 55.Kh2 Bg4+ 56.Kg2 Rhh1 0-1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Position XXVI Tartakower - Dr. M. Falk, from a game played in Paris, 1954. Prophecy
click for larger view1.Rf3 h4 2.Bc7 Nxh2 3.Qxa7+ Kxa7 4.Ra3#
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead, you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw.”
― IM Jeremy Silman
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church....a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes.”
― Charles Swindoll
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201 games, 1905-1953 - "New York 1893, The Impromtu Tournament"
Compiled by Cali
All games are in the database. Still need a couple of corrections and a write up but progress has been made!
table[
* was Missing
Rd 1 b1, Jasnogrodsky-Schmidt 0-1
Rd 1 b2, Taubenhaus-Albin 1/2-1/2,
adj. till Oct 4 - 100 moves
Rd 1 b3, Pillsbury-Gossip 1-0
Rd 1 b4, Lasker vs Hanham 1-0
Rd 1 b5, Lee-Ryan 1-0
Rd 1 b6, Olly-Delmar 0-1,
submitted 3/2/2013, in by 5/17/2013
Rd 1 b7, Pollock vs Showalter 1/2-1/2
postponed and played Oct 4
Rd 2 b1, Albin-Pollock 0-1
Rd 2 b2, Gossip-Taubenhaus 0-1
Rd 2 b3, Hanham-Pillsbury 1-0
Rd 2 b4, Ryan-Lasker 0-1
Rd 2 b5, Delmar-Lee 1/2-1/2
drawn in 58 submitted 3/2/2013, in by 5/17/2013
Rd 2 b6, Schmidt-Olly 1-0 won in 58
Rd 2 b7, Showalter-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 won in 72
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
― Oprah Winfrey
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." ― C.S. Lewis *Rd 3 Jasnogrodsky-Olly 1-0 submitted 3/2/2013, in by 5/17/2013 *Rd 4 Olly-Lee 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 5 Pollock-Ryan 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013 (in db as Pollock-Schmidt- fixed!))
*Rd 6 Hanham-Albin 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 6 Delmar-Pollock 1-0 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 6 Gossip-Jasnogrodsky 0-1 submitted 3/2/2013
*Rd 7 Albin-Ryan 0-1 submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 8 Delmar-Albin 0-1 submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 8 Ryan-Gossip 1-0 submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 8 Olly-Pollock 1-0 forfeit
*Rd 9 Pollock-Lee 2nd board submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 9 Gossip-Delmar 5th board submitted 3/10/2013
*Rd 9 Hanham-Ryan 6th board submitted 3/10/2013
“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
*Rd 10 Delmar-Hanham 1st board - submitted 3/11/2013
Rd 10 Schmidt-Gossip 2nd board - OK
Rd 10 Olly-Albin 3rd board - OK
Rd 10 F J Lee-Showalter 4th board - OK
Rd 10 Lasker-W Pollock 5th board - OK
Rd 10 Pillsbury-Taubenhaus 6th board - OK
*Rd 10 Jasnogrodsky-Ryan 7th board - submitted 3/11/2013 Rd 11 Pollock-Pillsbury 1-0,1st board - OK
Rd 11 Showalter-Lasker 1-0, 2nd board - OK
*Rd 11 Albin-Lee 1-0, 3rd board - submitted 3/30/2013
*Rd 11 Gossip-Olly 1/2-1/2, 4th board - submitted 3/30/2013
Rd 11 Hanham-Schmidt 1-0, 5th board - OK
*Rd 11 Ryan-Delmar 1/2-1/2, 6th board - submitted 3/30/2013
Rd 11 Taubenhaus-Jasnorodsky 1-0, 7th board -OK
Rd 12 Schmidt-Ryan 1-0, 1st board - OK
*Rd 12 Olly-Hanham 0-1, 2nd board - submitted 3/30/2013
*Rd 12 Lee-Gossip 1-0, 3rd board - submitted 3/30/2013
Ed 12 Lasker-Albin 1-0, 4th board - OK
Rd 12 Pillsbury-Showalter 1-0, 5th board - OK
Rd 12 Taubenhaus-Pollock 0-1, 6th board - OK
*Rd 12 Jasnogrodsky-Delmar 0-1, 7th board - submitted 3/30/2013 Rd 13 Showalter-Taubenhaus 1-0, 1st board - OK
Rd 13 Albin-Pillsbury 1-0, 2nd board - Ok
Rd 13 Gossip-Lasker 0-1, 3rd board - OK
Rd 13 Hanham-Lee 0-1,4th board - OK
*Rd 13 Ryan-Olly 1-0, 5th board - submitted 3/30/2013
Rd 13 Delmar-Schmidt 1-0, 6th board - OK
Rd 13 Pollock-Jasnogrodsky 1-0, 7th board - wrong result in DB
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1893
Sept 30 Pollock and Showalter got permission to start with the second round and make up their game on Oct 4. 7th Taubenhaus-Olly 0-1, Pollock-Schmidt 0-1, Albin-Ryan*(not submitted yet) 0-1, Hanham-Gossip* 0-1, Jasno-Lasker 0-1, Pillbury-Lee 0-1, Showalter-Delmar 1/2-1/2 ‘May your Departures equal your Landfalls!’
8th Ryan-Gossip* 1-0, Delmar-Albin*(not submitted yet) 0-1, Schmidt-Showalter 0-1, Olly-Pollock 1-0 (forfeit), Lee-Taubenhaus 1/2-1/2, Lasker-Pillsbury 1-0, Hanham-Jasnogrodsky* 1-0 9th Taubenhaus-Lasker 0-1, Pollock-Lee 0-1, Showalter-Olly 0-1, Albin-Schmidt 1-0, Gossip-Delmar, Hanham-Ryan 1-0, Pillsbury-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 10th Lasker-Pollock 0-1, Lee-Showalter 0-1, Olly-Albin 0-1, Schmidt-Gossip 1-0, Delmar-Hanham 1-0, Pillsbury-Taubenhaus 1-0, Ryan-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 11th Lasker-Showalter 1-0, Albin-Lee 1-0, Gossip-Olly 1/2-1/2,
Hanham-Schmidt 1-0, Ryan-Delmar 1/2-1/2, Taubenhaus-Jasnorodsky 1-0,
Pollock-Pillsbury
12th Schmidt-Ryan 1-0, Olly-Hanham 0-1, Lee-Gossip 1-0,
Lasker-Albin 1-0, Pillsbury-Showalter 1-0, Taubenhaus-Pollock 0-1, Jasnogrodsky-Delmar 0-1 13th Showalter-Taubenhaus 1-0, Albin-Pillsbury 1-0, Gossip-Lasker 0-1, Hanham-Lee 0-1, Ryan-Olly 1-0, Delmar-Schmidt 1-0, Pollock-Jasnogrodsky 1-0 “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “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 "It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid." ― Viswanathan Anand "Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration." ― C.J.S. Purdy The Hare and the Tortoise
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart
Avails not without a timely start.
The hare and tortoise are my witnesses.
Said tortoise to the swiftest thing that is,
"I'll bet that you'll not reach, so soon as I
The tree on yonder hill we spy."
"So soon! Why, madam, are you frantic?"
Replied the creature, with an antic;
"Pray take, your senses to restore,
A grain or two of hellebore.'
"Say," said the tortoise, "what you will;
I dare you to the wager still."
It was done; the stakes were paid,
And near the goal tree laid –
Of what, is not a question for this place,
Nor who it was that judged the race.
Our hare had scarce five jumps to make,
Of such as he is wont to take,
When, starting just before their beaks
He leaves the hounds at leisure,
Thence till the kalends of the Greeks,
The sterile heath to measure.
Thus having time to browse and doze,
And list which way the zephyr blows,
He makes himself content to wait,
And let the tortoise go her gait
In solemn, senatorial state.
She starts; she moils on, modestly and lowly,
And with a prudent wisdom hastens slowly;
But he, meanwhile, the victory despises,
Thinks lightly of such prizes,
Believes it for his honour
To take late start and gain on her.
So, feeding, sitting at his ease,
He meditates of what you please,
Till his antagonist he sees
Approach the goal; then starts,
Away like lightning darts:
But vainly does he run;
The race is by the tortoise won.
Cries she, "My senses do I lack?
What boots your boasted swiftness now?
You're beat! and yet, you must allow,
I bore my house on my back."
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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91 games, 1893-1894 - "Riga Interzonal 1979"
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To find a challenger to the World Champion Anatoly Karpov it was necessary to qualify eight players for the Candidates quarterfinal knock-out matches that would conclude in 1980. Two players, Viktor Korchnoi and Boris Spassky were qualified by having reached the Korchnoi - Spassky Candidates Final (1977/78). The other six players would qualify from two interzonal tournaments: Riga (this page) and Rio de Janeiro Interzonal (1979). In Rio, Robert Huebner, Lajos Portisch, and Tigran Petrosian qualified. To play in the interzonals, the players had to qualify from zonal tournaments. For the Riga interzonal, Miles had qualified from the Amsterdam (1978) zonal tournament. Grünfeld had qualified from Lucerne (1979), Tarjan and Mednis from the US Championship (1978), Rodriguez from Ito (1978), Adorjan, Ribli and Gheorghiu from Warsaw (1979), Ljubojevic and Bouaziz from Praia da Rocha (1978), Tseshkovsky, Romanishin and Kuzmin from Lvov (1978), and Trois and Riemsdijk from Tramandai (1978).[1] Larsen and Polugaevsky had qualified from having reached the Candidates matches in 1977.[2] Mikhail Tal from the host country had a wild card, which had caused protests in Russia.[3] Roman Hernandez Onna was originally placed in the draw as no. 1, but on his failure to arrive his name was withdrawn. The draw was accordingly modified. Lubomir Kavalek had qualified from the USA zone, but due to his injury to a leg, in playing tennis as part of his physical preparation, he could not travel and his place was taken by Mednis. Vlastimil Hort withdrew at the last moment through sickness, and was replaced by Romanishin.[4] Arbiters: Miroslav Filip (chief) and Lev Abramov (deputy), assisted by Vladimir Dvorkovich (secretary), Vladas Mikenas, Zigfrid Rekshan and Paul Podniyek.[4] The venue was a scene in the newly constructed "Rajnis-teatern"[5] (= Daile Theatre[6]). According to the drawing system, players from the same country could not meet the last six rounds. Tal met Tseshkovsky, Polugaevsky, Kuzmin and Romanishin in the first four! After his draw offer in round 1 was refused, he defeated them one by one.[3] And in the end he won an interzonal for the third time. "Perhaps because of a close professional and personal relationship with World Champion Anatoly Karpov, Tal's play has steadied and his results improved. According to the Soviet grandmaster and writer Alexander Kotov, Tal is now playing the best chess of his life".[7] <Daile Theatre, Riga (Latvia) 5-29 September 1979> table[
Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pts
1 GM Tal 2615 * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 14
2 GM Polugaevsky 2625 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 11½
=3 GM Adorjan 2525 ½ ½ * ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 11
=3 GM Ribli 2595 ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 11
=5 GM Gheorghiu 2540 0 ½ 1 0 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 10½
=5 GM Romanishin 2560 0 0 1 1 ½ * 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 10½
7 GM Larsen 2620 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 * 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 10
=8 GM Kuzmin 2565 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 9
=8 GM Miles 2560 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 9
=8 GM Tseshkovsky 2560 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 9
11 GM Tarjan 2525 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 8
12 IM Grünfeld 2430 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0 1 1 0 ½ 1 7½
13 GM Ljubojevic 2590 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ 1 1 0 6½
=14 IM Bouaziz 2420 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 5½
=14 IM Mednis 2510 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 1 5½
=14 IM Riemsdijk 2435 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 ½ ½ * ½ 0 5½
17 IM Trois 2415 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 5
18 IM Rodriguez 2370 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 1 ½ * 4 ]table Tal and Polugaevsky advanced to the Polugaevsky - Tal Candidates Quarterfinal (1980). The shared third place had to be decided by a playoff, and this took place a few weeks later. Condition: best of six games or first to get 3,5 points. If 3-3, the winner would be the one with best Sonneborn-Berger score in the interzonal (Adorjan).[8] Playoff in Budapest Oct. - Nov. 1979:
table[
Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts
1 GM Adorjan 2525 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 3
2 GM Ribli 2595 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ 3 ]table
Adorjan advanced to the Huebner - Adorjan Candidates Quarterfinal (1980). Playoff games: see Game Collection: Budapest Interzonal Playoff 1979. Tournament books: [[Interzonal tournaments. Riga -79. Rio de Janeiro -79]] by V. I. Chepizhny (Physical Culture and Sports, Moscow 1980. 415 p.) (in Russian, covers the playoff, not seen); [[Riga Interzonal 1979]] by Anthony Miles and Jonathan Speelman (Batsford, London 1979. 80 p.) (with round dates). [1)] [Mark Weeks at http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/zon.... ] [2)] [Tidskrift för Schack vol. 85 (1979) p. 11. ] [3)] [Tidskrift för Schack vol. 85 p. 237. The text says "in Soviet". ] [4)] [Miles' tournament book. ] [5)] [Tidskrift för Schack vol. 85 p. 240. ] [6)] [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped.... ] [7)] [Shelby Lyman in Springfield Union 7 October 1979 p. 111. ] [8)] [Harry Golombek in The Times 17 November 1979 p. 13. ] [Original collections: Game Collection: Interzonals 1979: Riga by User: capybara and Game Collection: Riga Interzonal 1979 by User: Tabanus. ]
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153 games, 1979 - "Tal's Tournament and Matches 1949-1973"
Compiled by jessicafischerqueen
This metacollection is the first half of a project meant to feature every known tournament and match Mikhail Tal played in his career. The second half can be found here: Game Collection: Tal's Tournament and Matches 1974-1992 There are many links to <Tournament Pages> and supplementary games collections here, and I will provide at least one game from each event, except where no game appears to be available. If you find any errors or you know of an event I missed, please leave a note for me in my forum: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
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<Riga Junior Championship Semifinal 1949> Tal won his first 3 games. He had a 4th category rating.
[Mikhail Tal, "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal" (Cadogan 1997), p.19; Hilary Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959" (Batsford 1980), p.2 ] <Riga Junior Championship 1949>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.2 ] <Ratmir Kholmov Simultaneous Exhibition 1949> In Riga.
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.2 ] <Riga Palace of Pioneers Championship 1949>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.34-37; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.2-3 ] <Tournament of Pioneer's Palaces of the 3 Baltic Republics 1949> In Vilnius. 2d board for Riga, with +1 -3 =0. Tal won the "most interesting game" prize for his victory over an Estonian player- a "luxurious edition of Tolstoy's 'Peter the First.'" Riga finished last.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.20; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.3 ] <Riga Junior Club Championship 1949>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.3 ] <USSR Junior Championship 1949> In Riga.
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.3-4 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship Semifinal 1949> In Yaroslavl. 8th board for Latvia, with +1 -? =?. Latvia finished 4th in semifinal "A group," behind Estonia, Lithuania and Belarus. Latvia did not make it to the final, held in Moscow. There appears to be no surviving game from this event. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.20; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.5; Olimpbase "USSR Other Championships-Soviet Junior Team Chess Championship-1949" http://www.olimpbase.org/; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Latvian Junior Championship 1950> In Riga.
[Alexander Khalifman et al, "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD); "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.5 ] <Riga Championship Quarterfinal 1950> 1st, with 12.5/13. Tal achieved 1st category rank. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.23; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.7 ] <Riga Championship Semifinal 1950>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.23; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.7-8 ] <Riga Championship 1951> (14 Jan - 18 Feb) Shared 10th, behind Koblents, Zagoriansky and Pasmans, with +5 -6 =8. Based on this result, Tal was invited to play in the Latvian championship.
[Gino Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955" (McFarland 2010), pp.64-65; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.23; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.9 ] <Latvian Championship 1951> In Riga (3 March - 1 April) Shared 9th, behind Pasman, Koblents, Akmentinsh and others, with +5 -6 =8.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.65; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Edward Winter, ed. "World Chess Champions" (Pergamon Press 1981), p.153 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship Semifinal 1951> In Kishinev. Latvia beat Moldavia and progressed to the final in Leningrad. There may be no surviving game from this event. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.22; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.9 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship Final 1951> In Leningrad. 3d board for Latvia, scoring 3.5. Latvia finished 5th, behind Moscow, Ukraine, Leningrad and RSFSR, ahead of Kyrgystan, Lithuania, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.22; Olimpbase "USSR Other Championships-Soviet Junior Team Chess Championship" http://www.olimpbase.org/; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp. 93-94; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.9 ] <Riga 1st Category Tournament 1951>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.12-14 ] <Riga Championship Semifinal 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.15-16 ] <Riga Championship 1952>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.37-41; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.16-18 ] <Riga Club Championship 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.18 ] <Latvian Championship Quarterfinal 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.18 ] <Latvian Championship 1952> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1952 In Riga (20 Feb - 20 March) 7th, behind Klavins, Pasman, Balinsh and others, with +7 -4 =6.
[Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.164 ] <Latvian Junior Championship 1952>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.21 ] <Latvian Championship Semifinal 1953>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.22-23 ] <Latvian Championship 1953> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1953 In Riga (20 Feb - 22 March) 1st over Koblents, Gipslis, Klovans, Pasman and Zdanovs, with +12 -2 =5. Tal was awarded the title of Candidate Master.
[Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.280; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.22,25 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship 1953> In Kharkov. 1st board for Latvia. Latvia finished 1st in "Final group 2," over Armenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Uzbekistan and Kirgizia. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.26; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Riga Championship 1953>
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.49-53; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.28-29 ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1953> In Leningrad (September) 2d board for Latvia, with +3 -1 =3. Latvia finished 4th, behind Leningrad, RSFSR and Moscow, ahead of Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and Estonia. Tal achieved his master norm, but so had Klavins, who had gained more points on 3d board. Klavins was awarded the master title, but Tal had to play a match against Saigin in order to gain his title. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.26; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp.305-307 ] <Tallinn-Riga Match 1954> In Tallinn. 1st board vs. Keres, with +0 -1 =1. Tal's loss in game one was the first time he played a grandmaster in a tournament. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.27; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.425 ] <Latvian Championship 1954> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1954 In Riga (12 Feb - 14 March) Shared 2nd with Gipslis, behind Klovans, ahead of Klavins, Pasman, Skuya and Zilber, with +14 -3 =2.
[Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.385; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.32-35 ] <Master Title Qualification Match 1954> Game Collection: Tal-Saigin Master Title Qualification Match 1954 In Riga (summer). Tal beat Saigin +4 -2 =8. Although he should have received the Soviet master title at this point, in his autobiography Tal explains that he was not actually awarded the title until after he played in the <USSR Clubs Team Championship>, which was held 3-17 September in Riga: "The year (1954) was concluded at home, in Riga, by the Team Championship of the Country, only this time for adults. Here for the first time I won against a Grandmaster, the USSR champion Yuri Averbakh. After this, still a candidate master, I drew a couple of games, and then received notification that I was a master." "...although formally I took part with the 'rank' of candidate master, the decision was expected to arrive literally any day." Yuri Averbakh says this story is a myth, and that Tal was indeed awarded the master title shortly after his match with Saigin.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.409; Winter, p.155; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.28-31, 55; Yuri Averbakh, "Centre-Stage and Behind the Scenes" Steve Giddins transl. (New In Chess 2011), pp.143-144 ] <USSR Republics Junior Team Championship 1954> In Leningrad (9-23 Aug) 1st board for Latvia, scoring 7/9. Latvia finished 3d, behind RSFSR and Moscow, ahead of Leningrad, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Armenia and Estonia. [http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.30 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1954> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1954 In Riga (3-17 Sept) 4th board for Daugava, with +1 -3 =6. Daugava finished 10th, behind Spartak (Petrosian), Nauka (Korchnoi), Medik (Chistiakov), Lokomotiv (Aronin), Trud (Suetin), Iskra (Taimanov), Dinamo (Lisitsin), Zenit (Averbakh) and Soviet Army (Kan). Tal's win against Averbakh was his first victory over a grandmaster. Tal states this was when he was awarded the Soviet master title.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.30-31; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp.416-418; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1954sc/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1954sc/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1954sc/195... ] <Riga Championship 1954>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.44-46 ] <Latvian Championship 1955> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1955 In Riga (14 Jan - 1 Feb) 2nd, behind Gipslis, ahead of Klasups, Zdanovs, Klavins, Zilber and Koblents, with +11 -2 =6. [Winter, p.153; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.493 ] <USSR Championship Quarterfinal 1955> In Vilnius (5 May - 3 June) Shared 3rd with Chukaev, behind Kholmov and Nei, ahead of Gipslis, Klasups and Lein, with +7 -2 =8. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.507; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.31-33 ] <Latvia-RSFSR Match 1955> In Riga (13 July - 1 Aug) 2nd board, with +4 -2 =5. RSRSR beat Latvia 66.5 - 54.5 [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.523; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1955> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1955 In Lugansk (4-27 Sept) (Lugansk was called Voroshilovgrad between 1935-1958). Tal says this event was played some time between (Feb-May). Bronze medal on 2nd board for Latvia, with <+2 -0 =7.> Latvia finished 4th, behind RSFSR, Leningrad and Ukraine, ahead of Moscow, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Georgia and Uzbekistan. ["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.31; http://www.olimpbase.org/1955st/195... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," pp.518-520; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk ] <USSR Championship Semifinal 1955> In Riga (15 Nov - 13 Dec) 1st over Borisenko, Bannik, Zurakhov, Korchnoi, Boleslavsky, Gregenidze and Furman, with +10 -3 =5. [Winter, p.153; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1951-1955," p.492; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.33-34 ] USSR Championship (1956) <23d USSR Championship> In Leningrad (10 Jan - 15 Feb) Shared 5th with Polugaevsky and Kholmov, behind Spassky, Taimanov, Averbakh and Korchnoi, with +6 -2 =9.
[Bernard Cafferty and Mark Taimanov, "The Soviet Championships" (Cadogen 1998), pp. 88-91; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.60-61 ] <Uppsala Student Olympiad 1956> Game Collection: Tal at the Uppsala Student Olympiad 1956 (5-15 April) Gold medal on 3rd board, with +5 -0 =2. The USSR 1st over Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the USA. This was Tal's first event outside the Soviet Union.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.62; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1956y/1956... http://www.olimpbase.org/1956y/1956... http://www.olimpbase.org/1956y/1956... Gino Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960" (Mcfarland, 2010), pp.89-91 ] <Tartu-Riga Match 1956> In Tartu, Estonia. Tal 5th in individual standings, with +1 -1 =2. Riga beat Tartu 8.5 - 7.5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.96; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.62 ] <USSR Championship Semifinal 1956> In Tbilisi (18 Nov - 18 Dec) Shared 5th with Gurgenidze, behind Petrosian, Furman, Antoshin and Korchnoi, with +6 -2 =11.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.71; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] USSR Championship (1957) <24th USSR Championship> In Moscow (20 Jan - 22 Feb) 1st, over Bronstein, Keres, Spassky, Tolush, Kholmov, Korchnoi, Petrosian and Boleslavsky, with +9 -2 =10.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.92-95; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] <Reykjavik Student Olympiad 1957> Game Collection: Tal at the Reykjavik Student Olympiad 1957 (11-26 July) Tal scored +7 -0 =3 on 1st board. According to <Olimpbase>, this gave Tal the gold medal, but according to http://www.suomenshakki.fi/arkisto/..., the medal rankings were "calculated directly from points scored and not, as usual, by percentages." In this case, Miroslav Filip, who played three more games than Tal, would have received the gold medal on 1st board. The USSR 1st over Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USA, Romania, East Germany and Iceland.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.184-185; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957y/1957... Winter, p.153 ] <1st European Team Championship Final 1957> Game Collection: Tal at the 1st European Team Championship 1957 In Vienna and Baden (22-28 Aug) Shared gold medal on 4th board with Trifunović, with +2 -1 =2. The USSR finished 1st over Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and West Germany. During the event FIDE voted to award Tal with the international grandmaster title. [Winter, p.153; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.185-186; http://www.olimpbase.org/1957e/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957e/1957... http://www.olimpbase.org/1957e/1957... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.66-67 ] <Milan-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Milan (27-28 Oct) 1st board vs. Ferrantes, with +2 -0 =0. Riga won 8-2. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.190 ] <Venice-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Venice (31 Oct - 1 Nov) 1st board vs. Szabados, with +2 -0 =0. Riga won 9.5 - .5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.193 ] <Reggio Emilia-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Reggio Emilia (2-3 Nov) 1st board vs. Romani, with +2 -0 =0. Riga won 7.5 - 2. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.191 ] <Florence-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Florence (4-5 Nov) 1st board vs. Scafarelli, with +1 -0 =1. Riga won 6.5 - 3.5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.188 ]
<Rome-Riga Match 1957> Game Collection: Tal's Italian Tour 1957 In Rome (6-7 Nov) 1st board vs. Giustolisi, with +1 -0 =1. Riga won 8.5 - 1.5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.191 ] USSR Championship (1958) <25th USSR Championship> In Riga (12 Jan - 12 Feb) 1st over Petrosian, Bronstein, Averbakh, Polugaevsky, Spassky, Geller, Gurgenidze, Boleslavsky and Korchnoi, with +9 -3 =7. This was also a FIDE zonal tournament, giving Tal the right to play in the Portoroz interzonal.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.96-98; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.67 ] <Riga Team Championship 1958>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.115 ] Psalms 31:24 - Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. <Latvian Championship 1958> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1958 In Riga (13 April - 11 May) 3d, behind Zilber and Gipslis, with +16 -2 =1. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.255; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Winter, p.153 ] <Varna Student Olympiad 1958> Game Collection: Tal at the Varna Student Olympiad 1958 (5-20 July) Gold medal on 1st board, with +7 -0 =3. The USSR 1st over Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, USA, Argentina and East Germany.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.287-289; http://www.olimpbase.org/1958y/1958... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958y/1958... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958y/1958... Winter, p.153; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.73-74 ] Portoroz Interzonal (1958) (5 Aug - 12 Sept) 1st over Gligoric, Petrosian, Benko, Olafsson, Fischer, Bronstein and Averbakh, with +8 -1 =11. This was Tal's first international tournament in a non-team event. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.250; Winter, p.154; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.105 ] <Munich Olympiad 1958> Game Collection: Tal at the Munich Olympiad 1958 (1-23 Oct) Gold medal on 1st reserve board, with +12 -0 =3. Tal also won a special prize for highest percentage in the final, scoring 8/9. The USSR 1st over Yugoslavia, Argentina, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and West Germany.
[Árpád Földeák, "Chess Olympiads 1927-1968" Robert Ejury , Jeno Bochkor and Peter Clarke transl. (Dover 1969), pp.264-267; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.281-286; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1958/1958i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958/1958u... http://www.olimpbase.org/1958/1958f... Winter, p.153 ] USSR Championship (1959) <26th USSR Championship> In Tbilisi (9 Jan - 11 Feb) Shared 2d with Spassky, behind Petrosian, ahead of Taimanov, Kholmov, Polugaevsky, Averbakh, Keres, Korchnoi and Geller, with +9 -3 =7. [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.99-102; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] <Latvian "Olympiad" 1959 (Swiss Tournament)> In Riga.
["The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.111; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," p.147 ] <Riga Club Match 1959>
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959," pp.147-148] <Estonia-Latvia Match 1959> In Talinn (18-19 April) 1st board vs. Keres, with +0 -0 =2. Latvia won 9.5 - 8.5. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.385 ] Zuerich (1959) (19 May - 8 June) 1st over Gligoric, Fischer, Keres, Larsen and Unzicker, with +10 -2 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.374; Winter, p.153; ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1959> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1959 In Moscow (6-15 Aug) Last place in the 1st board individual standings, behind Spassky, Nezhmetdinov, Gurgenidze, Botvinnik and Geller, with +0 -3 =3. Latvia finished 6th in "Final Group A," behind Moscow, Leningrad, Ukraine, RSFSR and Georgia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.377-379; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1959st/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1959st/195... http://www.olimpbase.org/1959st/195... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.115 ] Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959) (7 Sept - 29 Oct) 1st over Keres, Petrosian, Smyslov, Fischer, Gligoric, Olafsson and Benko, with +16 -4 =8.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.310; Winter, p.153; Harry Golombek, "4th Candidates' Tournament, 1959- Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade- September 7th - October 29th" (Hardinge Simpole 2009), pp.1-272 (originally published in the BCM Quarterly No.3, 1960) ] <Riga International 1959> (5-21 Dec) 4th, behind Spassky, Mikenas and Tolush, ahead of Sliwa, Gipslis, Teschner, Nei and Pietzsch, with +7 -2 -4. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.352; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1959/... "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.124; Winter, p.153 ] Botvinnik - Tal World Championship Match (1960) In Moscow (15 March - 5 May) Tal scored +6 -2 =13 to become the 7th world chess champion.
[Mikhail Tal, "Tal-Botvinnik 1960" 5th edition (Russell Enterprises, Inc. 2000), pp.6-210; Winter, p.155; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.480 ] <West Germany-USSR Match 1960> Game Collection: Tal at the West Germany-USSR Match 1960 In Hamburg (27 July - 5 Aug) 1st in individual standings with +7 -0 =1. The USSR won 51 -13. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," p.497; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.166; Hilary Thomas, "Complete games of Mikhail Tal 1960-66" (Batsford 1979), pp.9-11 ] <Leipzig Olympiad 1960> Game Collection: Tal at the Leipzig Olympiad 1960 (17 Oct - 9 Nov) Silver medal on 1st board, with +8 -1 =6. The USSR 1st over USA, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Argentina and West Germany.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1956-1960," pp.484-490; Földeák, pp.286-297; http://www.olimpbase.org/1960/1960i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1960/1960u... http://www.olimpbase.org/1960/1960f... Winter, p.153 ] <Prague Radio Simul 1960> Tal scored +11 -0 =9 against 20 of Czechoslovakia's strongest young players. [ "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.167 ] <Stockholm 1960-1961> (29 Nov 1960 - 8 Jan 1961) 1st over Uhlmann, Kotov, Book, Unzicker, Johannessen and Nilsson, with +8 -0 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963" (McFarland 2013), p.5; Winter, p.153 ] Tal - Botvinnik World Championship Rematch (1961) In Moscow (15 March - 12 May) Tal scored +5 -10 =6, losing his world championship title to Botvinnik. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.125; Winter, p.155 ] <2d European Team Championship Final 1961> Game Collection: Tal at the 2nd European Team Championship 1961 In Oberhausen (20 June - 2 July) 2d board, with +3 -1 =5. The USSR 1st over Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, West Germany and Spain.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.132-134; Winter, p.153; http://www.olimpbase.org/1961e/1961... http://www.olimpbase.org/1961e/1961... http://www.olimpbase.org/1961e/1961... ] Bled (1961) (3 Sept - 3 Oct) 1st over Fischer, Petrosian, Keres, Gligoric, Geller, Trifunovic, Parma, Matanovic, Biguier, Darga, Donner and Najdorf, with +11 -1 =7.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.17-18; Winter, p.154 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Semifinal 1961> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1961 In Riga (8-19 Oct) 1st board for Daugava, with +1 -1 =1. Daugava finished 2d, behind Trud, ahead of Kalev, Dynamo, Vodnik, The Red Flag and Žalgiris. Daugava qualified for the finals in Moscow (22-29 Dec).
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.134; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1961sc/196... http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... ] USSR Championship 1961b (1961) <29th USSR Championship> In Baku (16 Nov - 20 Dec) Shared 4th with Vasiukov, behind Spassky, Polugaevsky and Bronstein, ahead of Averbakh, Taimanov, Gipslis, Keres and Smyslov, with +7 -3 =10 [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.112-115; Winter, p.154 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Final 1961> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1961 In Moscow (22-29 Dec) 1st board for Daugava, with +0 -1 =4. Daugava finished 5th, behind Burevestnik, Avangard, Trud and Spartak, ahead of Red Army.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.130-131; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1961sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1961sc/196... http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... ] Curacao Candidates (1962) In Willemstad, Curacao (2 May - 26 June) Shared last with Filip, behind Petrosian, Keres, Geller, Fischer, Korchnoi and Benko. Tal withdrew after 21 rounds due to illness.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.237-238; Winter, p.154 ] <Varna Olympiad 1962> Game Collection: Tal at the Varna Olympiad 1962 (16 Sept - 10 Oct) Gold medal on 2d reserve board, with +7 -0 =6. The USSR 1st over Yugslavia, Argentina, USA, Hungary, Bulgarian, West Germany and East Germany.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.250-255; Földeák, pp.311-321; http://www.olimpbase.org/1962/1962i... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1962/1962u... http://www.olimpbase.org/1962/1962f... ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1962> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1962 In Leningrad (20 Oct - 2 Nov) Shared 6th with Boleslavsky in the 1st board individual standings, with +1 -0 =7. Latvia finished 4th, behind Leningrad, RSFSR and Moscow, ahead of Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania and Moldavia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.243-245; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Hilary Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-1966" (Arco 1979), pp.61-62; http://www.olimpbase.org/1962st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1962st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1962st/196... ] <Netherlands-USSR Match 1962> In The Hague (3-4 July) 4th board vs. Kramer, with +1 -0 =1. The USSR won 8.5 - 3.5. Tal's two games against Kramer appear to be unavailable.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.258 ]
USSR Championship (1962) <30th USSR Championship> In Erevan (21 Nov - 20 Dec) Shared 2d with Taimanov, behind Korchnoi, ahead of Kholmov, Spassky, Stein, Aronin, Bannik and Kots, with +11 -3 =5.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.116-119; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.154 ] <Asztalos Memorial 1963> In Miskolc (4-26 July) 1st over Bronstein, Bilek, Szabo, Filip, Dely, Flesch, Forintos and others, with +10 -0 =5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.327; Winter, p.154 ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1963> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1963 In Moscow (7-16 Aug) Tal scored +3 -2 =0 in semifinal group 1. Latvia finished 3d in the group, behind Moscow and Georgia, and thus did not qualify for final group 1. In final group 2, Tal scored +2 -0 =2, and Latvia finished 2d, behind Estonia, ahead of Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Moldavia and Armenia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.370-372; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1963st/196... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-1966," pp.74-76; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Alexander Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" (Chess Stars 1995), pp.16-21 ] <Capablanca Memorial 1963> Game Collection: Tal at the Capablanca Memorial 1963 In Havana (25 Aug - 24 Sept) Shared 2d with Geller and Pachman, behind Korchnoi, ahead of Ivkov, Barcza, Darga, Uhlmann, Trifunovic,Bobotsov and others, with +14 -3 =4.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," p.320; Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.22-33 ] Moscow (1963) <Moscow Central Chess Club International> (29 Oct - 20 Nov) 2d behind Smyslov, ahead of Gligoric, Antoshin, Vladimirov, Liberzon, Keres, Simagin, Szabo and Hort, with +7 -1 =7.
[Thomas, "Complete games of Mikhail Tal 1960-66," pp.84-88; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1963/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1961-1963," pp.329-330; Winter, p.154 ] Hastings (1963/64) (30 Dec - 8 Jan) 1st over Gligoric, Lengyel, Khasin, Norman Littlewood and Brinck-Claussen, with +5 -0 -4. [Di Felice, Gino "Chess Results 1964-1967" (McFarland 2013), p.2; Winter, p.154 ] Reykjavik (1964) (14 Jan- 2 Feb) 1st over Gligoric, Johannessen, Olafsson, Wade, Palmason and others, with +12 -0 =1. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.66; Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.49-55 ] Amsterdam Interzonal (1964) (20 May - 21 June) Shared 1st with Smyslov, Larsen and Spassky, ahead of Stein, Bronstein, Ivkov, Reshevsky, Portisch, Gligoric and Darga. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.5-6; Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.56-68 ] <Kislovodsk International 1964> Game Collection: Tal at Kislovodsk 1964 (10-25 July) 1st over Stein, Averbakh, Bradvarevic, Liberzon, Khasin, Ciocaleta and Fuchs, with +6 -1 =3. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.45; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1964/... Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.69-74 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Semifinal 1964> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1964 In Tallinn. Daugava finished 1st over Spartak, Kalev, Moldova, Jõud, Žalgiris, and The Red Flag. Daugava qualified for the final in Moscow.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1964sc/196... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.75-81 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship Final 1964> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1964 In Moscow (11-21 Oct) 1st board for Daugava. Tal shared the gold medal with Botvinnik, with +3 -0 =3. Daugava finished 6th, behind Burevestnik, Soviet Army, Spartak and Avangard, ahead of Lokomotiv.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.96-98; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1964sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1964sc/196... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.75-81 ] USSR Championship (1964/65) <32d USSR Championship> In Kiev (25 Dec - 27 Jan) 3d, behind Korchnoi and Bronstein, ahead of Stein, Kholmov, Shamkovich, Lein, Krogius, Lutikov and Averbakh, with +9 -3 =7. [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.124-127; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Latvian Championship 1965> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvian Championship 1965 In Riga (4-26 March) 1st over Gipslis, Klovans, Smits, Kirilov and Kapengut, with +8 -0 =6. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.175-176; Winter, p.154; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... ] Tal - Portisch Candidates Quarterfinal (1965) In Bled (26 June - 10 July) 1st, with +4 -0 =3. Tal advanced to the semifinals. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.206; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.101-107] Tal - Larsen Candidates Semifinal (1965) In Bled (26 July - 8 Aug) 1st, with +3 -2 =5. Tal advanced to the final match. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.206; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.108-116 ] Spassky - Tal Candidates Final (1965) In Tbilisi (1-26 Nov) 2d, with +1 -4 =6. Tal was eliminated by Spassky. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.206; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.117-124 ] <Sarajevo 1966> Game Collection: Tal at Sarajevo 1966 (20 March - 7 April) Shared 1st with Ciric, over Ivkov, Pachman, Matulovic, Pietzsch, Janosevic, Minev, Jansa and Kotov, with +9 -2 =4. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.303; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.125-132 ] <Kislovodsk International 1966> Game Collection: Tal at Kislovodsk 1966 (22 July - 8 Aug) 6th, behind Geller, Stein, Kholmov, Lutikov and Fuchs, with +4 -4 =3. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.262; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1966/... Winter, p.154; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.133-139 ] <Tal-Bronstein Training Match 1966> In Moscow Game Collection: Tal-Bronstein Training Match 1966 (19-20 Sept) 1st, with +1 -0 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.322; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.140-141 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1966> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1966 In Moscow (24 Sept - 5 Oct) 3rd board for Daugava. Shared bronze medal with Petrosian (Spartak), with +2 -0 =8. Daugava finished 6th in the final, behind Soviet Army, Trud, Spartak, Burevestnik and Avangard.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.333; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1966sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966sc/196... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-1966," pp.142-144; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.142-146 ] <Havana Olympiad 1966> Game Collection: Tal at the Havana Olympiad 1966 (25 Oct - 20 Nov) Gold medal on 3d board, with +11 -0 =2. The USSR 1st over USA, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany and Denmark.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.324-332; Földeák, pp.358-372; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1966/1966i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966/1966f... http://www.olimpbase.org/1966/1966u... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.147-153 ] Palma de Mallorca (1966) (27 Nov - 18 Dec) 1st over Pomar, Portisch, Ivkov, Matanovic, Pfleger, Shamkovich and O'Kelly de Galway, with +9 -0 =6. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.289-290; Winter, p.154 ] Moscow (1967) <50th Jubilee International> (21 May - 16 June) Shared 2d with Gipslis, Bobotsov and Smyslov, behind Stein, ahead of Portisch, Bronstein, Spassky, Geller, Keres, Petrosian, Najforf, Gehorghiu and Gligoric, with +5 -2 =10. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.398; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1967/... Winter, p.154 ] <Yugoslavia-USSR Match 1967> In Budva (21 June - 5 July) This was an 11 round all-play-all format. Shared 2d with Gligoric, behind Korcnhoi, ahead of Gipslis, Bukic, Geller, Ciric, Ivkov, Taimanov, Bogdanovic, Minic and Suetin, with +3 -1 =7. The USSR won 43.5 - 28.5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.469 ]
<USSR Republics Team Championship 1967> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1967 In Moscow (23 July - 3 Aug) 1st board for Latvia, with +1 -0 =4 in Semifinal Group 2 and +3 -0 =2 in Final Group 2. Latvia finished 3d in Semfinal Group 2, and did not qualify for Final Group 1. Latvia finished 1st in Final Group 2, over Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Estonia and Armenia.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," pp.453-462; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1967st/196... Hilary Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973" (Batsford 1979), pp.7-9; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.180-184 ] <Latvia-Romania Match 1967> In Riga (October) 1st board vs Ciocaltea, with +1 -0 =1. Romania won 11 - 9. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1964-1967," p.474; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... ] USSR Championship (1967) <35th USSR Championship (Swiss System)> In Kharkov (7-27 Dec) Shared 1st with Polugaevsky, over Vasyukov, Taimanov, Platonov, Sakharov and Antoshin, with +7 -0 =6. [Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.137-140; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.154 ] <Wijk aan Zee 1968> Game Collection: Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1968 Game Collection: Tal at Wijk aan Zee 1968 (10-28 Jan) Shared 2nd with Hort and Portisch, behind Korchnoi, ahead of Gheorghiu, Ciric, Matanovic, Ivkov, Ree and Bobotsov, with +5 -2 =8. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970" (McFarland 2013), pp.92-93; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.193-200] Tal - Gligoric Candidates Quarterfinal (1968) In Belgrade (22 April - 14 May) 1st, with +3 -1 =5. Tal advanced to the semifinals.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.95: Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.203-209 ] <Tal-Korchnoi Candidates Semifinal Match 1968> Game Collection: Korchnoi - Tal Candidates Semifinal 1968 In Moscow (26 June - 15 July) 2d, with +1 -2 =7. Tal was eliminated by Korchnoi. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.95; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.210-216 ] <Karseladze Memorial 1968> Game Collection: Tal at the Karseladze Memorial 1968 In Gori (13-30 Nov) 1st, over Geller, Gurgenidze, Gaprindashvili, Gufeld, Dzhindzhikhashvili, Grigorian and Chikovani, with +6 -1 =3. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.35; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.217-221] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1968> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1968 In Riga (11-24 Dec). 1st board for Daugava. Tal finished 6th, behind Polugaevsky, Geller, Kholmov, Keres and Stein, ahead of Bronstein, Mikenas, Shamkovich, I. Zaitsev, Mozionzhik and Hermlin, with +3 -2 =6. Daugava finished 7th, behind Burevestnik, Soviet Army, Spartak, Trud, Avangard and Lokomotiv, ahead of Kalev, Moldova, Dinamo, Žalgiris and Jõud.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... "Complete Games of Tal 1967- 1973, p.10; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1968sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1968sc/196... http://www.olimpbase.org/1968sc/196... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.222-227 ] USSR Championship (1968/69) <36th USSR Championship 1968-1969> In Alma-Ata (30 Dec 1968 - 1 Feb 1969) Shared 6th with Vasiukov, Klovans, Podgaets and Kholmov, behind A. Zaitsev, Polugaevsky, Lutikov, Liberzon and Tseshkovsky, with +6 -4 =9.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.141-143; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Winter, p.153 ] <Alma-Ata Blitz Tournament 1968-1969> 1st over Vasiukov, Polugaevsky, Bagirov, Zaitsev, Lein, Gurgenidze, Tsheshkovsky, Podgaets, Lutikov and Siniavsky, with +14 -2 =1. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.128 ] <Tal-Larsen Candidates 3d Place Playoff Match 1969> Game Collection: Larsen - Tal 3rd place Candidates Playoff 1969 In Eersel (10-23 March) Tal lost, with +1 -4 =3.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.227; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.239-243 ] USSR Championship (1969) <37th USSR Championship and FIDE Zonal> In Moscow (5 Sept - 12 Oct) Shared 14th with Liberzon, behind Petrosian, Polugaevsky, Geller, Smyslov, Taimanov, Stein, Balashov, Platonov, Kholmov, Gipslis, Savon, Averkin and Zhukovitsky, with +6 -7 =9.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.144-149; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Goglidze Memorial International 1969-1970> Game Collection: Tal at the Goglidze Memorial 1969-1970 In Tbilisi (18 Dec 1969 - 5 Jan 1970) Shared 1st with Gurgenidze, over Hort, Gufeld, Suetin, Ciocaltea, Dzhindzhikhashvili, Spiridonov, Shamkovich, Bronstein, Kholmov, Fuchs, Haag and Kostro, Masic and Lein, with +7 -1 =7. [Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," pp.254-255; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1969/... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.255-260 ] <Moscow Blitz Tournament 1970> 2d to Vasiukov, ahead of Lein, A. Zaitsev, Chepukaitis, Gusev, Aberbakh, Tataev, Tsarev, Bolovich, Bronstein, and 13 others.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.312 ]
<Georgian Championship 1970> In Poti. Tal competed hors concours, and finished 1st over Gurgenidze, Dzhindzhikhashvili, Ubilava, Chechelian and Buslaev, with +9 -1 =4. Gurgenidze became the Georgian champion.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_repub... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.324; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.394 ] USSR vs. Rest of the World (1970) In Belgrade (29 March - 5 April) 9th board vs Najdorf, with +1 -1 =2. The USSR won 20.5 - 19.5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.374; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1970g/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970g/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970g/1970... ] <Herceg Novi Blitz Tournament 1970> (8-9 April) 2d to Fischer, ahead of Korchnoi, Petrosian, Bronstein, Hort, Matulovic, Smyslov, Reshevsky, Uhlmann, Ivkov and Ostojic, with +12 -5 =5.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.295; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.66-69 ] <4th European Team Championship Final 1970> Game Collection: Tal at the 4th European Team Championship 1970 In Kapfenberg (9-18 May) Gold medal on 7th board, with +4 -0 =2. The USSR 1st over Hungary, East Germany, Yugslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Spain and Denmark.
[Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," pp.360-362; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1970e/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970e/1970... http://www.olimpbase.org/1970e/1970... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.271-273 ] <USSR Cup Preliminary 1970> In Dnepropetrovsk (8-21 Aug) A match knockout format. Tal beat Bagirov +2 -0 =2; beat Gufeld +1 -0 =3; and lost to Savon +0 -1 =3. He was knocked out and thus did not advance to the final in Moscow.
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.72-75; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," pp.283-286; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.274-279 ] <Masters vs Grandmasters Match 1970> In Sochi (13 Oct-2 Nov) 1st over Kuzmin, Tukmakov, Stein, Suetin, Kupreichik, Shamkovich, Liberzon, Podgaets and Korchnoi, with +9 -2 =3.
[Victor Korchnoi, "Korchnoi's 400 Best Games" (Arco 1978), p.178; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1968-1970," p.378; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.280-287 ] <Baltic Clubs Cup 1971> In Riga. Contested between the cities of Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. Tal 1st board for Riga, scoring +0 -0 =1 vs. Mikenas (Vilnius), and +1 -0 =0 vs Vooremaa (Tallinn). Riga 1st with 12.5, over Tallinn with 11 and Vilnius with 6.5.
[Khalifman et al, "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.97 ] <Tallinn International 1971> Game Collection: Tal at Tallinn 1971 (21 Feb - 14 March) Shared 1st with Keres, over Bronstein, Stein, A. Zaitsev, Smekjal, Barcza, Furman, Vooremaa, Westerinen, Daskalov, Wade, Bisguier and Myagmarsuren, with +9 -1 =5. ["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1971/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.72; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.290-298 ] <National Blitz Tournament 1971> In Moscow (31 March) Shared 4th with Karpov, Kholmov and Vasiukiov, behind Petrosian, Korchnoi and Balashov, with +8 -4 =3. ["Byulleten Tsentralnago Shakhmatnogo Kluba SSSR 1971," no.4, p.8. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" (McFarland 2014), p.44 ] <Moscow Blitz Tournament 1971> 1st over Grigorian, Gufeld, Zlotnik, Vasiukov, Dzhindzhikhashvili and others, with +17 -0 =0. ["Byulleten Tsentralnago Shakhmatnogo Kluba SSSR 1971," no.6, p.16. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.46 ] <Fizkultura Blitz Tournament 1971> In Riga. 3rd, behind Gipslis and Smits, ahead of Kirpicikovs, Vitolins and others, with +11 -3 =1. ["Shakhmaty Riga" 1971, no.20, p.12. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.65 ] <Pärnu 1971> (June) Shared 2d with Keres, behind Stein, ahead of Bronstein, Karner, Etruk, Nei, Lutikov and others, with +7 -1 =5.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.58 ] <USSR Clubs Team Championship 1971> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Clubs Team Championship 1971 In Rostov-on-Don (Semifinal 1-3 Aug; Final 5-10 Aug) Gold medal on 1st board for Daugava, with +1 -0 =2 in the preliminary and +2 -0 =1 in the final. In the preliminary Daugava finished 3d to Burevestnik and Avangard, only advancing to the Final B round, where they finished 2d to Moldova, ahead of Zenit, Dinamo and Vodnik.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.9; http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1971sc/197... http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.97-100; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.306-308; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973" pp.91-92] USSR Championship (1971) <39th USSR Championship> In Leningrad (14 Sept - 18 Oct). Shared 2nd with Smyslov, behind Savon, ahead of Karpov, Stein, Balashov, Bronstein, Polugaevsky, Taimanov, Kapengut, Krogius, Platonov, Lein, Geller and others, with +9 -3 =9.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.154-156; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] Moscow (1971) <Alekhine Memorial> (24 Nov - 18 Dec) Shared 6th with Spassky, behind Karpov, Stein, Smyslov, Tukmakov and Petrosian, ahead of R. Byrne, Hort, Bronstein, Korchnoi, Olafsson, Gheorghiu, Savon, Uhlmann, Balashov, Parma and Lengyel, with +4 -2 =11. ["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1971/... Bernard Cafferty, "Tal's 100 Best Games 1961-1973" (Batsford 1975), p.165; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.45 ] <Leningrad-Latvia Match 1972> In Leningrad (11-13 Feb) 1st board for Latvia vs Korchnoi, with +0 -0 =2. Leningrad won 15 - 9. This was a training tournament for the upcoming USSR teams championship.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," p.106; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.197-198 ] <Baltic Capitals Championship 1972> In Vilnius. Tal scored +0 -1 =2. This was a training tournament for the upcoming USSR teams championship.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.107-108; "Shakhmaty Riga" 1972, no.8, p.6. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.195 ] <USSR Republics Team Championship 1972> Game Collection: Tal at the USSR Republics Team Championship 1972 In Moscow (1-13 March). Also labeled the "First USSR Olympiad." 1st board for Latvia, with +3 -1 =0 in the preliminary and +1 -0 =3 in the final, for a total of +4 -1 =3. In Preliminary Group 2, Latvia finished 2d to Moscow, ahead of Belarus, Kazakhistan and Tajikistan. Latvia qualified for Final Group A, finishing last, behind Moscow, RSFRS, Ukraine, Leningrad and Georgia.
[Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972st/197... "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; http://al20102007.narod.ru/team_ch/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.183-185; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp. 333-337 ] <National Blitz Tournament 1972> In Moscow (11-12 May) 7th, behind Karpov, Tukmakov, Korchnoi, Kholmov, Vasiukov and Gufeld, ahead of Stein, Bronstein, Polugaevsky, Taimanov and others, with +14 -11 =7. ["Byulleten Tsentralnago Shakhmatnogo Kluba SSSR 1971," no.6, pp.8-9. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.144 ] <Fizkultura Blitz Tournament 1972> In Riga. 2nd, behind Luckans, ahead of Smits, Petkevics and others, with +17 -1 =1.
["Shakhmaty Riga" 1971, no.18, p.18. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.159-160 ] <Latvian Blitz Championship 1972> In Riga. Shared 1st with Smits, over Luckans, Vitolins, Klovans, Zilber and others, with
=18 -0 =1. ["Shakhmaty Riga" 1971, no.8, recto Back-cover. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.160 ] <Ilmar Raud Memorial 1972> Game Collection: Tal at the Ilmar Raud Memorial 1972 In Viljandi (5-18 July) 2nd to Dvoretsky, ahead of Donchenko, Shamkovich, Suetin, Yim, Etruk and others, with +9 -1 =3.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... Thomas, "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.112-115; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.172-173; Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.338-342 ] Sukhumi (1972) (16 Aug - 4 Sept) 1st over Savon, Taimanov, M. Mukhin, Beliavsky, Liberzon, Kholmov, Murey, Espig, Huebner, Honfi, Gufeld, Suttles, Ree, Kirov and Jansa, with +7 -0 =8.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," pp.11, 403-404; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1972/... Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.116-120 ] <Skopje Olympiad 1972> Game Collection: Tal at the Skopje Olympiad 1972 (19 Oct - 13 Nov) Gold medal on 4th board, with +12 -0 =4. The USSR 1st over Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Netherlands, East Germany, USA and Spain.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal," p.11; Olimpbase http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972i... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972e... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972f... http://www.olimpbase.org/1972/1972u... Khalifman, ed. "Mikhail Tal Games II 1963-1972" pp.351-360 ] USSR Championship (1972) <40th USSR Championship> In Baku (16 Nov - 25 Dec) This was also a FIDE Zonal Tournament. 1st over Tukmakov, Kuzmin, Savon, M. Mukhin, Vasiukov, Balashov, Bagirov, Furman, Kholmov, Lein and others, with +9 -0 =12.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.157-159; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.117 ] <Wijk aan Zee 1973> (13 Jan - 3 Feb) 1st over Balashov, Vasukiov, Hort, Planinc, Andersson, Enklaar, Ribli, Ljubojevic, Najdorf and Szabo, with +6 -0 =9.
[Winter, p.154; "Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.10; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.273-274 ] Tallinn (1973) (20 Feb - 13 March) 1st over Polugaevsky, Balashov, Bronstein, Spassky, Keres, Andersson, Nei, Timman and others, with +9 -0 =6.
[http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1973/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.264 ] <Moscow Pioneer's Tournament 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Moscow Pioneer's Tournament 1973 Six city teams competed, each team consisting of one grandmaster paired with 6 pioneers from their respective cities. Each grandmaster played a clock simul against the pioneers from each of the opposing 5 teams. Tal's Riga team finished 3d, behind Moscow (Smyslov), Leningrad (Spassky), ahead of Kiev (Bronstein), Cheliabinsk (Karpov) and Tbilisi (Petrosian).
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.148-149 ] <Moscow Match Tournament 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Moscow Match -Tournament 1973 (25-29 April) 3rd board for team USSR One, with +1 -0 =1 vs Bronstein (team USSR Two); +0 -2 =0 vs Balashov (team USSR Youth). USSR One finished 1st over USSR Youth and USSR Two.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/match_tm... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.150-151; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.279-280; "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.150-151 ] Leningrad Interzonal (1973) (2-27 June) Shared 8th with Gligoric and Taimanov, behind Korchnoi, Karpov, Byrne, Smejkal, Huebner, Larsen and Kuzmin, with +6 -6 =5.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.233 ] <5th European Team Championship Final 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the 5th European Team Championship 1973 In Bath (6-13 July) 5th board, with +2 -0 =4. The USSR 1st over Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, West Germany, England, Romania and Switzerland.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://www.olimpbase.org/1973e/1973... http://www.olimpbase.org/1973e/1973... http://www.olimpbase.org/1973e/1973... ] <Chigorin Memorial 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Chigorin Memorial 1973 In Sochi (1-22 September) 1st over Spassky, Krogius, Smejkal, Andersson, Timman, Kholmov, Suetin, Balashov and Filip, with +7 -0 =8.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1973/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.261 ] USSR Championship (1973) <41st USSR Championship> In Moscow (2-26 Oct) Shared 9th with Keres, Taimanov and Savon, behind Spassky, Karpov, Petrosian, Polugaevsky, Korchnoi, Kuzmin, Geller and Grigorian, with +3 -4 =10.
[Cafferty and Taimanov, pp.160-163; http://al20102007.narod.ru/ch_urs/1... ] <Latvia-RSFSR Match 1973> Game Collection: Tal at the Latvia-RSFSR Match 1973 In Riga (21-27 Nov) 1st board for Latvia, with +2 -0 =4. RSFSR won 28 - 26.
["Mikhail Tal - 8th World Champion" (PC-CD) Event Index, p.11; http://al20102007.narod.ru/matches/... "Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp.176-177; "Shakhmaty Riga" 1974, no.6, p.13. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.286 ] <Third Latvian Blitz Championship 1973> In Riga (December) 1st, over Smits, Vitolins, Zlotnik, Luckans, Petkevics, Zilber and others, with +17 -1 =1. ["Shakhmaty Riga" 1974, no.5, p.18. In Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.254 ] <Dubna International 1973> (5-26 Dec) Shared 1st with Kholmov, over Vaganian, Lutikov, Vasukiov and Espig, with +7 -0 =8.
[Winter, p.154; http://al20102007.narod.ru/it/1973/... Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" pp.222-223 ] Hastings (1973/74) (27 Dec 1973 - 13 Jan 1974) Shared 1st with Kuzmin, Szabo and Timman, ahead of Gligoric, Keene, Adorjan, Benko, Hartston, Basman, Suttles, Pytel, Miles, Garcia, Stean and Rellstab, with +5 -0 =10.
["Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-1973," pp. 181-182; Di Felice, "Chess Results 1971-1974" p.289 ] [Sources:
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“If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.” ― Mikhail Tal “I have seen two geniuses in my time. One was Tal. The other was Fischer.” ―
Russian GM Yuri Averbakh
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145 games, 1949-1974 - 1 Starting out : the queen's gambit
32 games, 1978-2002 - 1 Stunners
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A set of beauties that will knock you down for days.. Thanks for visiting and enjoy...
Continuing To Live
by Philip Larkin
Continuing to live -- that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries --
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise --
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it's chess.
And once you have walked the length of your mind, what
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
And what's the profit? Only that, in time,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
On that green evening when our death begins,
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
“I have seen two geniuses in my time. One was Tal. The other was Fischer.” ―
Russian GM Yuri Averbakh
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111 games, 1819-2007 - 1 The Big Book of Chess by Schiller
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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:
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www.net-chess.com
http://www.betterthanchess.com/
https://boldchess.com/play/
https://chess.org/
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https://www.chessfriends.com/
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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 16 z2vcr: move 24. zoottr Frat z dumbo drops Qa2? trollie pokd hiz cmputr Kieseritzsky by Nabisco toll rode two da house ov haunts buzz hiz uncle chad 4all Reti left fo Chic ago. “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. . 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.
Meet Tuesday Weld: https://biographytribune.com/what-i... 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.
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23 games, 1851-2000 - 10 Take Ten Steps Gentlemen, Turn and Fire!
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Key contributors: Big Black Bug, p2c, S A G A R, MorphyMatt, Fredthebear, and Kasputin. "Chess is all about stored pattern recognition. You are asking your brain to spot a face in the crowd that it has not seen." — Sally Simpson “If you see a good move, look for a better one.” — Emanuel Lasker “Too many times, people do not try their best. They do not have the keen spirit, the winning spirit. And once you make it you have got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That is why I don’t clown around. I do not believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.” — Bobby Fischer * Tactical Motifs, Checkmate Patterns: https://chesstempo.com/tactical-mot... * C21-C22 miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Here's a link to Morphy Miniatures:
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“Tactics is knowing what to do when there’s something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there’s nothing what to do.” — Savielly Tartakower “The highest part of the chess player lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.” — Garry Kasparov The 20-40-40 rule in chess is a rule for players rated below 2000 that states 20% of your study should be dedicated to openings, 40% to the middlegame, and 40% to the endgame. Drive sober or get pulled over.
“Prepare for the worst but hope for the best.” — The Wondrous Tale of Alroy by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1833 Virgil’s Aeneid: “Fortune favors the bold.” 'No man is an island' was coined by the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631). “[It is] the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.” The phrase appeared in Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, in 1615. Isaiah 57:20-21 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. "One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life." — Chinese Proverb "To lose patience is to lose the battle." — Mahatma Gandhi "Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." — Napoleon Hill Actions speak louder than words
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato The Fortune-Tellers
It's often from chance opinion takes its rise,
And into reputation multiplies.
This prologue finds pat applications
In men of all this world's vocations;
For fashion, prejudice, and party strife,
Conspire to crowd poor justice out of life.
What can you do to counteract
This reckless, rushing cataract?
"Twill have its course for good or bad,
As it, indeed, has always had.
A dame in Paris played the Pythoness
With much of custom, and, of course, success.
Was any trifle lost, or did
Some maid a husband wish,
Or wife of husband to be rid,
Or either sex for fortune fish,
Resort was had to her with gold,
To get the hidden future told.
Her art was made of various tricks,
Wherein the dame contrived to mix,
With much assurance, learned terms.
Now, chance, of course, sometimes confirms;
And just as often as it did,
The news was anything but hid.
In short, though, as to ninety-nine per cent.,
The lady knew not what her answers meant,
Borne up by ever-babbling Fame,
An oracle she soon became.
A garret was this woman's home,
Till she had gained of gold a sum
That raised the station of her spouse –
Bought him an office and a house.
As she could then no longer bear it,
Another tenanted the garret.
To her came up the city crowd, –
Wives, maidens, servants, gentry proud, –
To ask their fortunes, as before;
A Sibyl's cave was on her garret floor:
Such custom had its former mistress drawn
It lasted even when herself was gone.
It sorely taxed the present mistress' wits
To satisfy the throngs of teasing cits.
"I tell your fortunes! joke, indeed!
Why, gentlemen, I cannot read!
What can you, ladies, learn from me,
Who never learned my A, B, C?"
Avaunt with reasons! tell she must, –
Predict as if she understood,
And lay aside more precious dust
Than two the ablest lawyers could.
The stuff that garnished out her room –
Four crippled chairs, a broken broom –
Helped mightily to raise her merits, –
Full proof of intercourse with spirits!
Had she predicted ever so truly,
On floor with carpet covered duly,
Her word had been a mockery made.
The fashion set on the garret.
Doubt that? – none bold enough to dare it!
The other woman lost her trade.
All shopmen know the force of signs,
And so, indeed, do some divines.
In palaces, a robe awry
Has sometimes set the wearer high;
And crowds his teaching will pursue
Who draws the greatest listening crew.
Ask, if you please, the reason why.
<Tips to calm down
Here are some helpful, actionable tips you can try the next time you need to calm down.1. Breathe
“Breathing is the number one and most effective technique for reducing anger and anxiety quickly,” says Scott Dehorty, LCSW-C, of Delphi Behavioral Health. When you’re anxious or angry, you tend to take quick, shallow breaths. Dehorty says this sends a message to your brain, causing a positive feedback loop reinforcing your fight-or-flight response. That’s why taking long, deep calming breaths disrupts that loop and helps you calm down. There are various breathing techniques to help you calm down. One is three-part breathing. Three-part breathing requires you to take one deep breath in and then exhale fully while paying attention to your body. Once you get comfortable with deep breathing, you can change the ratio of inhalation and exhalation to 1:2 (you slow down your exhalation so that it’s twice as long as your inhalation). Practice these techniques while calm so you know how to do them when you’re anxious. 2. Admit that you’re anxious or angry
Allow yourself to say that you’re anxious or angry. When you label how you’re feeling and allow yourself to express it, the anxiety and anger you’re experiencing may decrease. 3. Challenge your thoughts
Part of being anxious or angry is having irrational thoughts that don’t necessarily make sense. These thoughts are often the “worse-case scenario.” You might find yourself caught in the “what if” cycle, which can cause you to sabotage a lot of things in your life. When you experience one of these thoughts, stop and ask yourself the following questions: Is this likely to happen?
Is this a rational thought?
Has this ever happened to me before?
What’s the worst that can happen? Can I handle
that?
After you go through the questions, it’s time to reframe your thinking. Instead of “I can’t walk across that bridge. What if there’s an earthquake, and it falls into the water?” tell yourself: “There are people that walk across that bridge every day, and it has never fallen into the water.” 4. Release the anxiety or anger
Dehorty recommends getting the emotional energy out with exercise. “Go for a walk or run. [Engaging] in some physical activity [releases] serotonin to help you calm down and feel better.” However, you should avoid physical activity that includes the expression of anger, such as punching walls or screaming. “This has been shown to increase feelings of anger, as it reinforces the emotions because you end up feeling good as the result of being angry,” Dehorty explains. 5. Visualize yourself calm
This tip requires you to practice the breathing techniques you’ve learned. After taking a few deep breaths, close your eyes and picture yourself calm. See your body relaxed, and imagine yourself working through a stressful or anxiety-causing situation by staying calm and focused. By creating a mental picture of what it looks like to stay calm, you can refer back to that image when you’re anxious. 6. Think it through
Have a mantra to use in critical situations. Just make sure it’s one that you find helpful. Dehorty says it can be, “Will this matter to me this time next week?” or “How important is this?” or “Am I going to allow this person/situation to steal my peace?” This allows the thinking to shift focus, and you can “reality test” the situation. “When we’re anxious or angry, we become hyper-focused on the cause, and rational thoughts leave our mind. These mantras give us an opportunity to allow rational thought to come back and lead to a better outcome,” Dehorty explains. 7. Change your focus
Leave the situation, look in another direction, walk out of the room, or go outside. Dehorty recommends this exercise so you have time for better decision making. “We don’t do our best thinking when anxious or angry; we engage in survival thinking. This is fine if our life is really in danger, but if it isn’t life threatening, we want our best thinking, not survival instincts,” he adds. 8. Have a centering object
When you’re anxious or angry, so much of your energy is being spent on irrational thoughts. When you’re calm, find a “centering object” such as a small stuffed animal, a polished rock you keep in your pocket, or a locket you wear around your neck. Tell yourself that you’re going to touch this object when you’re experiencing anxiety or frustration. This centers you and helps calm your thoughts. For example, if you’re at work and your boss is making you anxious, gently rub the locket around your neck. 9. Relax your body
When you’re anxious or angry, it can feel like every muscle in your body is tense (and they probably are). Practicing progressive muscle relaxation can help you calm down and center yourself. To do this, lie down on the floor with your arms out by your side. Make sure your feet aren’t crossed and your hands aren’t in fists. Start at your toes and tell yourself to release them. Slowly move up your body, telling yourself to release each part of your body until you get to your head. 10. Drop your shoulders
If your body is tense, there’s a good chance your posture will suffer. Sit up tall, take a deep breath, and drop your shoulders. To do this, you can focus on bringing your shoulder blades together and then down. This pulls your shoulders down. Take a few deep breaths. You can do this several times a day.
11. Identify pressure points to calm anger and anxiety
Going for a massage or getting acupuncture is a wonderful way to manage anxiety and anger. But it’s not always easy to find time in your day to make it happen. The good news is, you can do acupressure on yourself for instant anxiety relief. This method involves putting pressure with your fingers or your hand at certain points of the body. The pressure releases the tension and relaxes your body. One area to start with is the point where the inside of your wrist forms a crease with your hand. Press your thumb on this area for two minutes. This can help relieve tension. 12. Get some fresh air
The temperature and air circulation in a room can increase your anxiety or anger. If you’re feeling tense and the space you’re in is hot and stuffy, this could trigger a panic attack. Remove yourself from that environment as soon as possible and go outside — even if it’s just for a few minutes. Not only will the fresh air help calm you down, but also the change of scenery can sometimes interrupt your anxious or angry thought process. 13. Fuel your body
Being hangry never helps. If you’re hungry or not properly hydrated, many relaxation techniques won’t work. That’s why it’s important to slow down and get something to eat — even if it’s just a small snack. Try nibbling on some dark chocolate. ResearchTrusted Source shows it can help boost brain health and reduce stress. Wash it down with a cup of green tea and honey. Studies show green tea can help reduce the body’s stress response. Research has found that honey can help relieve anxiety. 14. Chew gum
Chewing on a piece of gum can help reduce anxiety (and even boost mood and productivity). In fact, research shows people who chew gum regularly are typically less stressed than non-gum chewers. 15. Listen to music
The next time you feel your anxiety level cranking up, grab some headphones and tune in to your favorite music. Listening to music can have a very calming effect on your body and mind. 16. Dance it out
Get moving to your favorite tunes. Dancing has traditionally been used as a healing art. ResearchTrusted Source shows it’s a great way to combat depression and anxiety and increase quality of life. 17. Watch funny videos
Sometimes laughter really is the best medicine. Research has found that laughing provides therapeutic benefits and can help relieve stress and improve mood and quality of life. Do a quick internet search to find funny videos for an instant mood boost. 18. Write it down
If you’re too angry or anxious to talk about it, grab a journal and write out your thoughts. Don’t worry about complete sentences or punctuation — just write. Writing helps you get negative thoughts out of your head. 19. Squeeze a stress ball
When you’re feeling stress come on, try interacting with a stress-relief toy. Options include: stress ball
magnetic balls
sculpting clay
puzzles
Rubik’s cube
fidget spinner
20. Try aromatherapy
Aromatherapy, or the use of essential oils, may help alleviate stress and anxiety and boost mood. Those commonly used in aromatherapy include: bergamot
cedarwood
chamomile
geranium
ginger
lavender
lemon
tea tree
Add a few drops of essential oil to a diffuser, or mix it with a carrier oil (like coconut oil) and apply to your skin for quick relief. 21. Seek social support
Venting to a trusted friend, family member, or coworker can do wonders. Even if you don’t have time for a full play-by-play phone call, a quick text exchange can help you let it all out and help you feel heard. Bonus points if you engage with a funny friend who can help you laugh for added stress relief. 22. Spend time with a pet
Interacting with your favorite furry friend can decrease levels of the stress hormone cortisol and lower blood pressure. Quality time with a pet can also help you feel less alone and boost your overall mood.> “....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally.” — Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe The first appearance of the (John) Cochrane gambit against Petrov's defense C42 was in the year 1848 against an Indian master Mohishunder Bannerjee. “Sorry don't get it done, Dude!” — John Wayne, Rio Bravo “Gossip is the devil’s telephone. Best to just hang up.” — Moira Rose pages 24-25 of The Year Book of the United States Chess Federation 1944 (Chicago, 1945), which published ‘Brave Heart’, Anthony Santasiere’s tribute to Frank J. Marshall. Written in August 1942 for Marshall’s 65th birthday, it began: Brave Heart –
We salute you!
Knowing neither gain nor loss,
Nor fear, nor hate –;
But only this –
To fight – to fight –
And to love.
Santasiere then gushes on in a similar vein for another 40 lines or so, and we pick up the encomium for its final verse: For this – dear Frank –
We thank you.
For this – dear Frank –
We love you!
Brave heart –
Brave heart –
We love you!
The Wolf Accusing The Fox Before The Monkey
A wolf, affirming his belief
That he had suffered by a thief,
Brought up his neighbour fox –
Of whom it was by all confessed,
His character was not the best –
To fill the prisoner's box.
As judge between these vermin,
A monkey graced the ermine;
And truly other gifts of Themis
Did scarcely seem his;
For while each party plead his cause,
Appealing boldly to the laws,
And much the question vexed,
Our monkey sat perplexed.
Their words and wrath expended,
Their strife at length was ended;
When, by their malice taught,
The judge this judgment brought:
"Your characters, my friends, I long have known,
As on this trial clearly shown;
And hence I fine you both – the grounds at large
To state would little profit –
You wolf, in short, as bringing groundless charge,
You fox, as guilty of it."
Come at it right or wrong, the judge opined
No other than a villain could be fined.
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. “Just because you know stuff doesn't mean you are smart... You have to know how to use that information.” ― Josh Keller The Three Kings By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they travelled by night and they slept by day,
For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star. The star was so beautiful, large and clear,
That all the other stars of the sky
Became a white mist in the atmosphere,
And by this they knew that the coming was near
Of the Prince foretold in the prophecy.
Three caskets they bore on their saddle-bows,
Three caskets of gold with golden keys;
Their robes were of crimson silk with rows
Of bells and pomegranates and furbelows,
Their turbans like blossoming almond-trees.
And so the Three Kings rode into the West,
Through the dusk of the night, over hill and dell,
And sometimes they nodded with beard on breast,
And sometimes talked, as they paused to rest,
With the people they met at some wayside well. “Of the child that is born,” said Baltasar,
“Good people, I pray you, tell us the news;
For we in the East have seen his star,
And have ridden fast, and have ridden far,
To find and worship the King of the Jews.”
And the people answered, “You ask in vain;
We know of no King but Herod the Great!”
They thought the Wise Men were men insane,
As they spurred their horses across the plain,
Like riders in haste, who cannot wait.
And when they came to Jerusalem,
Herod the Great, who had heard this thing,
Sent for the Wise Men and questioned them;
And said, “Go down unto Bethlehem,
And bring me tidings of this new king.”
So they rode away; and the star stood still,
The only one in the grey of morn;
Yes, it stopped—it stood still of its own free will,
Right over Bethlehem on the hill,
The city of David, where Christ was born.
And the Three Kings rode through the gate and the guard,
Through the silent street, till their horses turned
And neighed as they entered the great inn-yard;
But the windows were closed, and the doors were barred,
And only a light in the stable burned.
And cradled there in the scented hay,
In the air made sweet by the breath of kine,
The little child in the manger lay,
The child, that would be king one day
Of a kingdom not human, but divine.
His mother Mary of Nazareth
Sat watching beside his place of rest,
Watching the even flow of his breath,
For the joy of life and the terror of death
Were mingled together in her breast.
They laid their offerings at his feet:
The gold was their tribute to a King,
The frankincense, with its odor sweet,
Was for the Priest, the Paraclete,
The myrrh for the body’s burying.
And the mother wondered and bowed her head,
And sat as still as a statue of stone,
Her heart was troubled yet comforted,
Remembering what the Angel had said
Of an endless reign and of David’s throne.
Then the Kings rode out of the city gate,
With a clatter of hoofs in proud array;
But they went not back to Herod the Great,
For they knew his malice and feared his hate,
And returned to their homes by another way.
The first chess legend, called the wheat and chessboard problem, illustrates the power of exponential growth. The first chess movie, called Chess Fever, was a silent comedy released in 1925 in the Soviet Union. The word checkmate comes from the Persian phrase shah mat, meaning "the king is helpless". The Lion Beaten By The Man
A picture once was shown,
In which one man, alone,
On the ground had thrown
A lion fully grown.
Much gloried at the sight the rabble.
A lion thus rebuked their babble:
"That you have got the victory there,
There is no contradiction.
But, gentles, possibly you are
The dupes of easy fiction:
Had we the art of making pictures,
Perhaps our champion had beat yours!"
Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight. ~ Scottish Proverb “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ― Denis Waitley Ah, St. Marher, 1225:
"And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet." "As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight." — The Revenant “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.” — Dave Ramsey A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events. During the Middle Ages, jesters are often thought to have worn brightly colored clothes and eccentric hats in a motley pattern. Their modern counterparts usually mimic this costume. Jesters entertained with a wide variety of skills: principal among them were song, music, and storytelling, but many also employed acrobatics, juggling, telling jokes (such as puns, stereotypes, and imitation), and performing magic tricks. Much of the entertainment was performed in a comic style. Many jesters made contemporary jokes in word or song about people or events well known to their audiences. Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge. ― Joker When you believe in something, you’ll always find a way. ― Joker <Principles of Chess
billwall
01. Develop your pieces quickly.
02. Control the center.
03. Try to put your pieces on squares that give them maximum space.
04. Try to develop your knights towards the center.
05. A knight on the rim is dim.
06. Don't take unnecessary chances.
07. Play aggressive.
08. Calculate forced moves first.
09. Always ask yourself, "Can he put me in check or win a piece?"
10. Have a plan. Every move should have a purpose.
11. Assume your opponent's move is his best move.
12. Ask yourself, "why did he move there?" after each opponent move.
13. Play for the initiative and contolling the board.
14. If you must lose a piece, get something for it if you can.
15. When behind, exchange pawns. When ahead, exchange pieces.
16. If you are losing, don't give up fighting. Look for counterplay.
17. Don't play unsound moves unless you are losing badly.
18. Don't sacrifice a piece without good reason.
19. If you are in doubt of an opponent's sacrifice, accept it.
20. Attack with more that just one or two pieces.
21. Do not make careless pawn moves. They cannot move back.
22. Do not block in your bishops.
23. Bishops of opposite colors have the greatest chance of drawing.
24. Try not to move the same piece twice or more times in a row.
25. Exchange pieces if it helps your development.
26. Don't bring your queen out early.
27. Castle soon to protect your king and develop your rook.
28. Develop rooks to open files.
29. Put rooks behind passed pawns.
30. Study rook endgames. They are the most common and most complicated.
31. Don't let your king get caught in the center.
32. Don't castle if it brings your king into greater danger from attack.
33. After castling, keep a good pawn formation around your king.
34. If you only have one bishop, put your pawns on its opposite color.
35. Trade pawns pieces when ahead in material or when under attack.
36. If cramped, free your game by exchanging material.
37. If your opponent is cramped, don't let him get any freeing exchanges.
38. Study openings you are comfortable with.
39. Play over entire games, not just the opening.
40. Blitz chess is helpful in recognizing chess patterns. Play often.
41. Study annotated games and try to guess each move.
42. Stick with just a few openings with White, and a few openings with Black.
43. Record your games and go over them, especially the games you lost.
44. Show your games to higher rated opponents and get feedback from them.
45. Use chess computers and databases to help you study and play more.
46. Everyone blunders. The champions just blunder less often.
47. When it is not your move, look for tactics and combinations.
48. Try to double rooks or double rook and queen on open files.
49. Always ask yourself, "Does my next move overlook something simple?"
50. Don't make your own plans without the exclusion of the opponent's threats.
51. Watch out for captures by retreat of an opponent's piece.
52. Do not focus on one sector of the board. View thw whole board.
53. Write down your move first before making that move if it helps.
54. Try to solve chess puzzles with diagrams from books and magazines.
55. It is less likely that an opponent is prepared for off-beat openings.
56. Recognize transposition of moves from main-line play.
57. Watch your time and avoid time trouble.
58. Bishops are worth more than knights except when they are pinned in.
59. A knight works better with a bishop than another knight.
60. It is usually a good idea to trade down into a pawn up endgame.
61. Have confidence in your game.
62. Play in as many rated events as you can.
63. Try not to look at your opponent's rating until after the game.
64. Always play for a win.
(If a win is no longer possible, play for a draw.)> See Ken Whyld's collection.
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490 games, 1560-2022 - 11 Best Franks
by Robert Samuels
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* First of each ECO: Game Collection: First of Each ECO “Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army “All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army “Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.”
― Indian Proverb
“In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game which can unite people and generations! It's a language which you'll find people "speak" in every country. If you reach a certain level you find a very rich world! Art, sport, logic, psychology, a battlefield, imagination, creativity not only in practical games but don't forget either how amazing a feeling it is to compose a study, for example (unfortunately that's not appreciated these days but it's a fantastic part of chess!).”
― Judit Polgar
“Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.”
― Miguel Najdorf
“Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.” ― Samuel Reshevsky “When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This game is now the most important to me. But of course I am not a computer and you cannot simply press a button, delete, and everything you want to forget disappears automatically. But if you want to play well, it's important to concentrate on the now.” ― Vassily Ivanchuk “The pawns are the soul of chess.” ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor “A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.” ― Francois-Andre Danican Philidor “It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.” ― Efim Geller “If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.” ― Garry Kasparov “He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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?" “I was surprised by his ability to figure out complex variations. Then the way he sets out the game; he was not interested in the objectivity of the position, whether it's better or worse, he only needed room for his pieces. All you do then is figure out variations which are extremely difficult. He was tactically outplaying me and I made mistakes.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik (on Tal) “Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard.” — Reuben Fine “If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead, you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw.”
― IM Jeremy Silman
“One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“I think Capablanca was one of the most important world champions for me. I studied his games, and a good book about Capablanca's games was written by International Master Vasily Panov, a Russian master. There was quite a strong influence of Capablanca's style.” ― Anatoly Karpov “I think that an opponent who relies only on the choice of a computer and does not start from his own 'natural' resources, will very quickly reach his chess-heights with no room for improvement.” ― Jan Timmerman “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 Daniel 12:2 "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." Logical Chess: Game Collection: Logical Chess: Move By Move (Chernev) - COMPLETE Logical Thinking: Game Collection: Logical Thinking (McDonald) Art of Planning: Game Collection: The Art of Planning in Chess: Move by Move Cheating: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... POTD: Game Collection: POTD French 2 US CC: https://www.uschess.org/index.php/P... World CC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... Best Tactics: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... The Most Important Idea: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Go Forward: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Pawn Basics: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Know King & Pawn endings: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... Two Ps vs None Endgames: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?... General chess advice from Joe Brooks: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comm... "On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite." — Emanuel Lasker * Good Historical Links: https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/in... * NY 1880: Game Collection: New York 1880 * Informant Golden Games: Game Collection: Chess Informant Golden Games * Best of 2019: Game Collection: Best Games of 2019 * 101 Greatest Moves: Game Collection: 101 greatest moves ever played(by krabbe) * Petrov's Defense: Game Collection: The Cutthroat Petrov * John Hall's Opening System: Game Collection: Opening Systems For Competive Chess Players * Play the C-K: Game Collection: Play The Caro-Kann : Varnusz * GM Lars Schandorff C-K Repertoire: Game Collection: Grandmaster Repertoire: The Caro-Kann * GK vs Deep Blue: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... * Miscellaneous: Game Collection: ! Miscellaneous games * Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “I won't be lectured on gun control by an administration that armed the Taliban.” ― voter “Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
― General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur
Why is England the wettest country? Because the queen reigned there for decades. All The World’s A Stage
William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. “Compassion: that’s the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it’s the one thing that keeps men ahead of them.” — Dr. McCoy <This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!
― Fort Minor>
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
<Lasker's Secret Principle:"He (Emanuel Lasker) told me that this principle of controlling as many squares as possible was his guide at every stage of the game. He said "In the majority of cases it is probably best to have Knight and Bishop on squares of the same color, because then they control squares of opposite colors." ― Edward Lasker, Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters> 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
“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 Lichess has all the same basic offerings as Chess.com: a large community, many game types, tutorials, puzzles, and livestreams. The site has a simple appearance, and it seems built to get you where you want to go in as few clicks as possible. You can create an account, but if you’re not concerned with tracking your games and finding other players at your level, there’s no need to log in. Just fire up a new game, try some puzzles, or watch a chess streamer play three-minute games while listening to techno and chatting with the comments section. “In general, there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess – Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer – were born in America.” ― Garry Kasparov You know there's no official training for trash collectors? They just pick things up as they go along. 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 Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“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 <Luke 8:16-18 New King James Version
The Parable of the Revealed Light
Jesus said:
16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”> 807 zem: move 21. zooter Frit z drip drip drip Kh4? partly sunny is mostly cloudy or Steinitz foot. When you die, what part of the body dies last? The pupils… they dilate. “Some endgames are more equal than others.” — Antonio Radić a.k.a. agadmator
Antonio Radić (born 16 June 1987), better known as agadmator ( Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [agad'mator̩] [2] ), is a Croatian YouTuber and chess player. He has one of the most popular chess channels on YouTube, and he previously had the most subscribers of any YouTube chess channel from 2018 until late 2021 when he was surpassed by GothamChess.
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93 games, 1882-2022 - 11 Diagonals Attack: Bs Highway, Battery, Crossf
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This is a collection of games where heat came down along or across the diagonal(s). It does include some double bishop sacrifices scattered throughout. Goodness gracious, GREAT BALLS O' F_I_R_E_!-!-! If the Chess Variants at the top of the list don't knock your socks off, then chess just aint your cup o' tea. Chernev says there's a world record within this top twenty list. It’s no time to play chess when the house is on fire. ~ Italian Proverbs If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. ~ Chinese Proverb The one who wins plays best. ~ German Proverbs
Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” “Above the clouds I lift my wing
To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
To Earth I bring;
Then let me soar and sing!” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney “Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army “Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.”
― Indian Proverb
“For beginning chess players, studying a Carlsen game is like wanting to be an electrical engineer and beginning with studying an iPhone.” ― Garry Kasparov “All warfare is based on deception.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War Adapt on the fly. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” — General George S. Patton "You must play boldly to win." ― Arnold Palmer "Champions keep playing until they get it right." ― Billie Jean King Fred Wellmuth was a strong amateur from California Proverbs 29:25
Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. Кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского
Pronunciation: KTOH ni risKUyet, tot ni pyot shamPANSkava)
Translation: He who doesn’t take risks doesn’t drink champagne
Meaning: Fortune favours the brave
"Tal has a terrifying style. Soon even grandmasters will know of this."
- Vladimir Saigin (after losing to 17-year-old Tal in a qualifying match for the master title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5S...
“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”
— Mikhail Tal
“I have seen two geniuses in my time. One was Tal. The other was Fischer.” ―
Russian GM Yuri Averbakh
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* Caissabase: http://caissabase.co.uk/
* Checkmate Minis: Game Collection: Checkmate miniatures * Chess Minis I: Game Collection: Chess Miniatures, Collection I * Classics: Game Collection: 19 th century classics * Common Checkmate Patterns:
http://gambiter.com/chess/Checkmate... * Defensive Combos: Game Collection: Defensive Combinations * Double Bishop Sacrifices: Game Collection: Double Bishop Sacrifices (dedicated to Anatoly K * Fabulous chess brilliancies:
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* Glass-like Gambit for Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAI... * Glossary: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * GoY's 40 Favs: Game Collection: GoY's favorite games * h-file attacks: Game Collection: h-file Attacks, some Greek Gifts by Fredthebear * How to Play Chess! http://www.serverchess.com/play.htm... * Imagination: Game Collection: Imagination in Chess * Immortal Games: Game Collection: Immortal games * King's Pawn Theory and Practice: Game Collection: Chess Openings: Theory and Practice, Section 1 * Surprise Knockouts: Game Collection: quick knockouts of greats * Lasker's Manual: Game Collection: Manual of Chess (Lasker) * 100+ Scandinavian Miniatures: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Collection assembled by Fredthebear.
* Miniatures: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (III) * Monday Puzzles: Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2017 * Oldest Chess Sets: https://www.oldest.org/entertainmen... * Open Game Minis: Game Collection: 200 Miniature Games of Chess - Du Mont (I) * Overloaded! Game Collection: OVERLOADED! * Famous Chess Photos: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/585256... * Power Play: Game Collection: The Giants of Power Play by Neil McDonald * Starting Out: French Defense: Game Collection: Starting out : The French * Gambits against the French Defense:
Game Collection: alapin gambit -alapin diemer gambit + reti gam * Named Mates: Game Collection: Named Mates * Queen's Indian Defense: Game Collection: Understanding the Queen's Indian Defense * Quick Deadly Traps: Game Collection: super quick deadly traps and such * Quick Knockouts: Game Collection: quick knockouts by traps * Reti's Masterful Book: Game Collection: Masters of the Chessboard (Reti) * Sammy Reshevsky:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... * Scotties: Game Collection: tpstar SG * Storming the Barricades: Game Collection: Storming The Barricades * Trap Collection: Game Collection: Trap Collection #2 * Vladimir's book: Game Collection: Art of Attack in Chess Vladamir Vukovic & Chess * Volume 24: Game Collection: 0ZeR0's collected games volume 24 * Kevin Wicker's Book: Game Collection: 0 * Women: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/wom... * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ The thought crossed my gentle mind that CGs needs some additional avatar variance of figures like Emory and Andrew Tate, Tani Adewumi, James Black Jr., Ambakisye Osayaba, Tom "Murph" Murphy, and Pontus Carlsson, Taahir Levi, Praggy and Pentala Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, Adhiban Baskaran, Manuel Aaron, and Juan Carlos González Zamora, María Teresa Mora Iturralde, Daniela De la Parra, Alejandra Guerrero Rodríguez, Azarya Jodi Setyaki, Medina Warda Aulia, Errol Tiwari, Elshan Moradiabadi, Joey Razo, Collette McGruder, Diamond Shakoor, Phiona Mutesi, Jessica Hyatt, Jean-Pierre and Koneru Humpy, Tania Sachdev, Rout Padmini and Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue, Medhat Moheb, Yao Ming and Awonder Liang, Jeffery Xiong and Liem Le, Li Chao and the like. Our avatars are rather lily silly; not everybody looks like Smith, Jones, Thomas, or Mikhail. On the other hand, we definitely need some redheads too (Anna Rudolf, Isla Fisher, Jude Acers, Prince Harry, Ed Sheeran)!! I'd say at least a dozen redheads, some with and without beards. Some Canadians too! Question: What’s the brightest star in the sky?
Answer: Sirius – also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, Sirius is the brightest star in Earth’s night sky. The star is outshone only by several planets and the International Space Station. Question: What’s the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard?
Answer: Graveyards are attached to churches while cemeteries are stand-alone. Patty Loveless "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" https://www.bing.com/videos/rivervi... * Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin... Paul Revere’s Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,
— One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”
Then he said “Good night!” and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war:
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon, like a prison-bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
Meanwhile, his friend, through alley and street
Wanders and watches with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Then he climbed to the tower of the church,
Up the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry-chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,—
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town,
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night-encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,—
A line of black, that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride,
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse’s side,
Now gazed on the landscape far and near,
Then impetuous stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle-girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry-tower of the old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height,
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns!
A hurry of hoofs in a village-street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed that flies fearless and fleet: That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders, that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
It was twelve by the village clock
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer’s dog,
And felt the damp of the river-fog,
That rises when the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.
It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadows brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket-ball.
You know the rest. In the books you have read,
How the British Regulars fired and fled,—
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard-wall,
Chasing the red-coats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,—
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
<Sep-12-21 offramp:
"Yeah I'm sorry,
I can't afford a Ferrari,
But that don't mean
I can't get you there
I guess he's an X-box,
and I'm more Aryan Tari
But the way you play
your game ain't fair.">
CG Biography: Aryan Tari <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 “....his countrymen, Kolisch and Steinitz, are greatly indebted for their later success to their having enjoyed early opportunities of practicing with the departed amateur whose death is also greatly deplored amongst all who knew him personally” ― Wilhelm Steinitz, regarding Karl Hamppe <The 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 <“Sestrilla, hafelina
Jue amourasestrilla
Awou jue selaviena
En patre jue
Translation:
Beloved one, little cat
I love you for all time
In this time
And all others”
― Christine Feehan>
<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’.> In
Inside
In between
Out
Outside
<Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven’t we metaphor?"
Thank you Qindarka!
Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline?
A: A milkshake.>
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.
Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
Psalm 16:9-11 "Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." <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 Player
by Howard Altmann
They’ve left. They’ve all left.
The pigeon feeders have left.
The old men on the benches have left.
The white-gloved ladies with the Great Danes have left.
The lovers who thought about coming have left.
The man in the three-piece suit has left.
The man who was a three-piece band has left.
The man on the milkcrate with the bible has left.
Even the birds have left.
Now the trees are thinking about leaving too.
And the grass is trying to turn itself in.
Of course the buses no longer pass.
And the children no longer ask.
The air wants to go and is in discussions.
The clouds are trying to steer clear.
The sky is reaching for its hands.
Even the moon sees what’s going on.
But the stars remain in the dark.
As does the chess player.
Who sits with all his pieces
In position.>
Capitonyms are words which change their meaning if the first letter is capitalized. For example: Turkey (the country) and turkey (the bird).
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“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.” ― Aeschylus, Agamemnon “Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” ― Garry Kasparov “After we have paid our dutiful respects to such frigid virtues as calculation, foresight, self-control and the like, we always come back to the thought that speculative attack is the lifeblood of chess.” — Fred Reinfeld “Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.” ― Evan Esar “There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.” ― Sir Edward Coke “Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing.”
― Robin Sharma
“I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest.” ― Andrew Carnegie “Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have.” ― Richard Carlson “Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend; Let him think both bishops are holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him love his queen.”
― Mark Lawrence (Prince of Thorn)
“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.” ― George S. Patton Jr. “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 "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 “The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.” ― Buddha “If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don’t rush the position. Instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw.”
― Jeremy Silman
“If you’re going to make your mark among masters, you’ve to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik An Irish Blessing:
May we all feel…
happy and contented,
healthy and strong,
safe and protected
and living with ease…
~ Oct-09-11 FSR: After 1.e4 e5, 2.Ba6?? is the worst move by a country mile. After that, probably 2.b4 and 2.Ke2 are the worst. 2.Qg4 and 2.g4 are also pretty bad. White still has equality after 2.Qh5, so it's actually not a <terrible> move. * 21st Century: Game Collection: 21st Century Masterpieces - First decade (2000) * 41 Chess Movies (List): https://www.chessonly.com/chess-mov... * Alapins: Game Collection: Alapin * Brutal Attacking Chess: Game Collection: Brutal Attacking Chess * Bishop's Opening Miniatures: https://www.chessonly.com/bishop-op... * Simple tactics course using miniatures:
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Game Collection: 0 * GK: Game Collection: Kasparov - The Sicilian Sheveningen * Glossary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss... Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, approximately 3000 miles (4850 km) in diameter, hardly larger than the moon. Despite being the smallest, it’s extremely dense. In fact, it’s the second densest planet after Earth. It’s also the closest planet to the sun, making it dangerous to explore. Mercury is 48 million miles from the earth. * 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 * Online safety: https://www.entrepreneur.com/scienc... * Oskar plays 1e4: Oskar Oglaza * Ponziani Games: Game Collection: PONZIANI OPENING * Volo plays the KP faithfully: Volodymyr Onyshchuk * 20 Various Italian Games: Game Collection: Italian Game * C53s: Game Collection: rajat21's italian game * The Italian Game, Classical: Game Collection: Giuco Piano * Annotated Evans Gambits: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * RL Minis: Game Collection: Ruy Lopez Miniatures * Russian Ruys: Game Collection: Chess in the USSR 1945 - 72, Part 2 (Leach) * Tactical Motifs, Checkmate Patterns: https://chesstempo.com/tactical-mot... * Bill Wall games: Bill Wall * Short and Quick by Jungol (101 games of various lengths):
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* Sacs on f7/f2: Game Collection: Demolition of Pawn Structure: Sac on f7 (f2) * Sicilian Face Plants:
Game Collection: sicilian defense(opening traps) * Chess Records: https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/record... * Top Chessgames by ECO Code: http://schachsinn.de/gamelist.htm * Mr. Harvey's Puzzle Challenge: https://wtharvey.com/ “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 "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 Chris Chaffin wrote:
master/piece
She moves him ‘round the chess board,
dodging bishops, pawns and rooks.
She coaxes him from square to square
without a second look.
The white knight cannot catch him.
Piece by piece, the foe now yields.
Her king is safe; the game is done.
The queen controls the field.
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 Heron
One day, – no matter when or where, –
A long-legged heron chanced to fare
By a certain river's brink,
With his long, sharp beak
Helved on his slender neck;
It was a fish-spear, you might think.
The water was clear and still,
The carp and the pike there at will
Pursued their silent fun,
Turning up, ever and anon,
A golden side to the sun.
With ease might the heron have made
Great profits in his fishing trade.
So near came the scaly fry,
They might be caught by the passer-by.
But he thought he better might
Wait for a better appetite –
For he lived by rule, and could not eat,
Except at his hours, the best of meat.
Anon his appetite returned once more;
So, approaching again the shore,
He saw some tench taking their leaps,
Now and then, from their lowest deeps.
With as dainty a taste as Horace's rat,
He turned away from such food as that.
"What, tench for a heron! poh!
I scorn the thought, and let them go."
The tench refused, there came a gudgeon;
"For all that," said the bird, "I budge on.
I'll never open my beak, if the gods please,
For such mean little fishes as these."
He did it for less;
For it came to pass,
That not another fish could he see;
And, at last, so hungry was he,
That he thought it of some avail
To find on the bank a single snail.
Such is the sure result
Of being too difficult.
Would you be strong and great,
Learn to accommodate.
Get what you can, and trust for the rest;
The whole is often lost by seeking the best.
Above all things beware of disdain;
Where, at most, you have little to gain.
The people are many that make
Every day this sad mistake.
It's not for the herons I put this case,
You featherless people, of human race.
– List to another tale as true,
And you'll hear the lesson brought home to you.
Switch your pawn insurance to Promotion and you could save hundreds. “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous & varied ways.” – Vladimir Kramnik “I’ve come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” – Marcel Duchamp 'April showers bring forth May flowers
'An army marches on its stomach
'As thick as thieves
'As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it
'As you sow so shall you reap
'Ashes to ashes dust to dust
'Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer 'Ask no questions and hear no lies
'Attack is the best form of defence
<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’.> “Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.”
― Chris Burkmenn
Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. ~ Scottish Proverb Q. What's the difference between Bill Clinton and a dog?
A. A dog chases his own tail.
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.
“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
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. “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus “I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” ― Anna Kendrick Never judge a book by its cover.
* Dover publishers: https://store.doverpublications.com... The Boy and the Schoolmaster
Wise counsel is not always wise,
As this my tale exemplifies.
A boy, that frolicked on the banks of Seine,
Fell in, and would have found a watery grave,
Had not that hand that plants never in vain
A willow planted there, his life to save.
While hanging by its branches as he might,
A certain sage preceptor came in sight;
To whom the urchin cried, "Save, or I'm drowned!"
The master, turning gravely at the sound,
Thought proper for a while to stand aloof,
And give the boy some seasonable reproof.
"You little wretch! this comes of foolish playing,
Commands and precepts disobeying.
A naughty rogue, no doubt, you are,
Who thus requite your parents" care.
Alas! their lot I pity much,
Whom fate condemns to watch over such."
This having coolly said, and more,
He pulled the drowning lad ashore.
This story hits more marks than you suppose.
All critics, pedants, men of endless prose, –
Three sorts, so richly blessed with progeny,
The house is blessed that does not lodge any, –
May in it see themselves from head to toes.
No matter what the task,
Their precious tongues must teach;
Their help in need you ask,
You first must hear them preach.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “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 "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 1st Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. “Thirty Days Hath September” Lyrics
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone.
Which only has but twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.
Zee Chess Network workz lika chrmd sn ache rvr ride it out toth finish line of demarcation in Lost Wages. “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. MARY MARY QUITE CONTRARY
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row
16 yellow #2 pencilz
Q: What's the new press name for the latest Presidential scandal?
A: Fornigate.
Q: When did Bill Clinton lose Paula Jones
A: During the De-briefing
Q: What is Bill Clinton favorite instrument?
A: A sexaphone!
Q: What do Monica Lewinski and a soda machine have in common?
A: They both say insert bill here!
Q: Why is Bill Clinton so reluctant to deal with the fate of Elian Gonzalez?
A: Because the last time he made a decision about where to put a Cuban he was impeached Q: Why did Clinton bomb Iraq?
A: After Monica, he figured he was getting good at bringing people to their knees Q: What does Clinton say to interns as they leave his office?
A: "Don't hit your head on the desk."
Q: What do Bill and Ross Perot have in common?
A: They both heard a giant sucking sound
Q: How is Bill Clinton like a computer?
A: He has good hard drive and ram but a problem with memory Q: What is Bill's definition of safe sex?
A: When Hillary is out of town.
Q: What is the difference between Clinton and the Titanic?
A: Only 300 women went down on the Titanic.
Q. What does Bill say to Hillary after a romantic interlude?
A: "Honey, I'll be home in 20 minutes."
Q: Why does Bill Clinton cheat on Hillary?
A: He wants to be on top.
Q: How did Bill Clinton paralyze Hillary from the waist down?
A: He married her.
Q: When did Clinton realize Paula Jones wasn't a Democrat?
A: When she didn't swallow everything he presented. Q: What's the difference between Bill Clinton and a gigolo?
A: A gigolo can only screw one person at a time. Q: What's the definition of an Arkansas Virgin?
A: A girl that can run faster than the Governor. Q: What game did Bill Clinton want Paula Jones to play?
A: Swallow the leader
Q. What's the difference between the Secret Service and Janet Reno?
A. There are some things the Secret Service won't do to protect the President. Q. Did you hear Clinton is declaring a new National Bird?
A. The Spread Eagle
Q. How many White House Interns does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. None, they are too busy screwing the President. Q. Why did Clinton cross the road?
A. To get to the intern on the other side, of course Q. Why did the intern cross the road?
A. To get to the BOOK CONTRACT she needed to sign on the other side Q. What is Clinton's favorite toy?
A. An Erector Set
Q. What is Clinton's favorite card game?
A. Poker
Q. What is Clinton's favorite food?
A. The Cumquat
Q. What is Clinton's favorite T.V. Show?
A. Leave it to Beaver
Q. What's Clinton's favorite song?
A. Grooving
Q. What's Bill Clinton's favorite brand of potato chips?
A. Lays
Q. What is the unwritten Executive Privilege?
A. Having first pick of the new White House Interns. Q. Why would Clinton make a great rowing instructor?
A. Because he is so good at say, "Stroke, Stroke, Stroke." Q. Why is Clinton such a lousy golfer?
A. He likes to take a lot of stokes.
Q. Why does Clinton swim naked in the white house pool?
A. He is trolling for interns.
Q. What is Clinton's worst nightmare?
A. An intern with braces. (I feel your pain)
Q. What's Clinton's Economic forecast?
A. A "Bare" Market
Q. What is Clinton's number one training exercise for interns?
A. Tongue Twisters...
Q. What's Bill Clinton's favorite sandwich?
A. Tongue Sandwich
Q. Why did Clinton recommend Lewinsky for a job at Revlon?
A. He knew she would be good at making things up. Q. Why did Richardson offer her a job in the Foreign service?
A. He thought she would be good at speaking in tongues. Q. What is Clinton's Favorite outfit?
A. The Sear Sucker Suit
Q. What does Clinton do fist thing in the morning?
A. Read the HEADlines...
Q. How many White House interns does it take to satisfy Clinton?
A. Nobody knows, he has never been satisfied.
Q. What do Isikoff and Ice Cream have in common?
A. Both get scooped regularly.
Q. How does Clinton order his coffee in the morning?
A. Hot with Whipped Cream
Q. What's Clinton favorite place in the White House?
A. The Oval Orifice
Q. What magazine does Clinton hate?
A. WIRED
Q. What is the latest warning to be posted in the White House?
A. Don't Tripp!
Q. What does Nixon have in common with Clinton?
A. Tricky Dick
Q. What's the difference between Bill Clintons willy and a Quebec Hydro tower?
A. A Quebec Hydro tower comes down occasionally Q. What do OJ and Clinton have in common?
A. Both are lying, bad golfers, who leave a trail of DNA behind. Q. What do Clinton and Starr have in common?
A. They are both inclined to extend their probes. Q. What was Arafat's Advice to Clinton?
A. Goats don't talk!
Q. What did Gore say after the Lewinsky story broke?
A. 'Why do they call me the stiff man in the White House?' Q. What did Monica say when the FBI asked for the "Dress?"
A. Come and get it.
Q. How can you tell you've just had sex with Bill Clinton?
A. You've got french fries in your hair, and Vernon Jordan is handing you a job application. Q. Why does Clinton wear boxers?
A. To keep his ankles warm.
Q. Why did Clinton quit the saxophone?
A. So he could play that Hoarmonica
Q. Did you hear about the 11th Commandment Clinton introduced?
A. Thou shall not expose thy rod to thy staff
Q. What do you get when you cross a crooked politician with a crooked lawyer? A. CHELSEA Q. What will Bill Clinton be known as when he leaves the White House?
A. The President after Bush
Q. How can you tell when Bill Clinton is lying?
A. His lips are moving
Q. What's the difference between Bill Clinton and a dog?
A. A dog chases his own tail.
When you die, what part of the body dies last? The pupils… they dilate. “Some endgames are more equal than others.” — Antonio Radić a.k.a. agadmator
Antonio Radić (born 16 June 1987), better known as agadmator ( Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [agad'mator̩] [2] ), is a Croatian YouTuber and chess player. He has one of the most popular chess channels on YouTube, and he previously had the most subscribers of any YouTube chess channel from 2018 until late 2021 when he was surpassed by GothamChess.
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“Chess is a beautiful mistress.” — Bent Larsen “Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.” — Bent Larsen “For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that. There is something hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.” — Bent Larsen BL Best Games: https://www.newinchess.com/bent-lar... BL Move by Move: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo... BL Moves Guide: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... Learn from BL: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/learn... Bookie Challenge
“The best book on chess? The question blossoms afresh with every new student of the game, and the answer, if candid, is ever the same: “Gather all you can from every good source, and let experience prove the worth or worthlessness of your harvest.” As in other things, mere bookishness is not knowledge, nor on the other hand is a fine disregard of chess literature a key to proficiency; and the beginner drinking in the plausible hallucinations of a Gossip or a Staunton is quite as misguided as he who heeds the warning of a Lasker to give the chess book a wide berth.” — W.E. Napier Two Old Books (and one new)
Koltanowski, George, and Milton Finkelstein. Checkmate! The Patterns of the Winning Mating Attacks and How to Achieve Them. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1978.
Tal, Mikhail, and Victor Khenkin. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations: The Secrets of Winning Chess Combinations Described and Explained by the Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Tal, trans. Hanon W. Russell. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Checkmate! (1978) and Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations (1979) are remarkably similar in approach. Each takes an individual piece and offers game conclusions where that piece delivers the check that is mate. Then, individual chapters concern certain groups of pieces: both texts have chapters on two rooks, rook and bishop, rook and knight, two bishops, two knights, and queen and knight. Tal and Khenkin* continue this scheme with queen and bishop, queen and knight, and three pieces. In contrast, Koltanowski and Finkelstein offer chapters on certain patterns—Boden’s Mate, Epaulettes Mate, Long Diagonal Mates, Greco and Damiano Mates, and a chapter on double check. These pattern-oriented chapters are followed by chapters arranged by the piece that is sacrificed to set-up checkmate. There are additional chapters on pawn promotion, drawing resources, and how masters use checkmate threats. There is a difference in the expectation of the target audience evident in advice about how to read the books. Koltanowski and Finkelstein repeatedly suggest that a reader should set up the position on a board and play through the moves in order to plant the patterns into memory. Tal and Khenkin, in contrast, suggest that readers study the book without a chess board to improve visualization skills, using a chess board "when you're really stymied" (14). Legall’s Mate appears in both books. Tal and Khenkin have it in the chapter on three pieces, while Koltanowski and Finkelstein place it under queen sacrifices. These books differ on the game score of Legall — St. Brie, as well as the date. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations has the game played in 1787 when Legall was 85 years old (351). Checkmate! states that the opening trap was first recorded about 1750, but does not explicitly state the game was played then (197-198). Koltanowski’s penchant for dubious stories makes its appearance here in the claim, “Légal was one of the first players to record his games” (197). If he recorded his games, what happened to them? Today, we cannot even be certain of the moves in the sole surviving example of Legall's play. Checkmate!
Checkmate! was brought to my attention in response to my assertion in the Facebook group Chess Book Collectors that the best books for teaching checkmate patterns are George Renaud and Victor Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate; and Victor Henkin, 1000 Checkmate Combinations (see below). My claim provoked some interesting discussion. One commenter identified Checkmate! as a book that helped him learn these skills. Bruce Pandolfini also commented that Milton Finkelstein "was a wonderful chess teacher". On the strength of such recommendations, I found a copy and bought it. The chapters in Checkmate! typically begin with some elementary illustrations and an impressive combination from master play. The authors describe conditions and rules for executing the checkmate in question, often producing numbered lists. For instance, the "four conditions necessary for mate with a rook":
1. The enemy king lacks escape squares.
2. A rook can attack it on a rank or a file.
3. The rook is immune from capture.
4. The rook check cannot be blocked by the interposing of a protected piece or pawn. (41)
The bulk of each chapter consists of exercises with a number of blanks on which a student can write the moves--workbook style. The introduction of each exercise typically offers clues, and in some cases the final position is shown. The book contains a bit over 550 exercises in total. Answers are in the back of the book. Here is an example from the chapter, "Boden's Mate", that is simple when you know the pattern, but has vexed many of my students over the years (151). White to move
Often there are historical anecdotes about a player whose combination is featured. These anecdotes in Checkmate! are entertaining, but unreliable. We learn, for instance, that Akiba Rubinstein was confined to Berlin during World War I, "went bankrupt and then developed a persecution mania that broke his powers of concentration" (47). A more credible work, Akiba Rubinstein: Uncrowned King (1994) by John Donaldson and Nikolay Minev, places Rubinstein in Warsaw, limited to a playing local opponents in that city and in Lodz. Donaldson and Minev offer crosstables and games from the war period. They also note that Rubinstein married in 1917 and had a son born in 1918, both events taking place in German occupied Warsaw (254). There should be no question that Rubinstein's postwar play was inconsistent, as suggested by Koltanowski and Finkelstein, but they leave the impression that he did not play at all after the war. In fact, he won several strong tournaments in the 1920s. His performance in St. Petersburg in 1914 suggests that inconsistency cannot be wholly pinned on difficulties during the war years. Historical errors are distracting, but do not destroy the book's pedagogical value for learning checkmate patterns. Nor do the errors in Checkmate! make the book unique. The list of errors that could be produced from thorough fact checking of Renaud and Kahn also would be lengthy (see "Pillsbury's Mate"). One of the simple illustrations of a final check by a rook in Checkmate! is identical in concept to one that I use often with my beginning students, and with which I became acquainted through Bruce Pandolfini, Pandolfini's Endgame Course (1988). White to move
Classifying and organizing checkmate patterns is not a simple matter. In my own efforts, guided by half a dozen books and a few websites, I separated the dovetail and swallowtail checkmates from epaulette, listing all three as checkmates with the queen. Renaud and Kahn use the term Guéridon for the two bird mates and include this pattern with epaulette. Koltanowski and Kinkelstein lump them together under epaulette mate, but do not limit the pattern to a final check with the queen. This position credited to a Russian player surnamed Usachev illustrates (67-68). Black to move
1...Bc3 2.Ke2
Black could avoid checkmate at the cost of a rook, the authors note. Stockfish shows that both rooks will disappear if Black plays the superior move 2.Kc1. After 2.Ke2, Black has a mate in two that starts with a queen sacrifice and ends with a knight check. Four White pieces occupy the king's escape squares, serving as ornament rather than protection. Checkmate! includes a substantial number of checkmate examples. Had I acquired it when it was first published during my teen years and devoted myself to working through the book, I may have become a much stronger player. Unfortunately, whatever the merits of the book, the authors were ill-served by their publisher. The very first diagram in the text is wrong (2). It appears that the image negative was flipped before printing--there is a dark square in the lower-right corner. Black's 4...K-K4 is an illegal move as there is a pawn on that square. The mismatch between the original position and the final position showing checkmate with a pawn alerts the attentive reader to the problem, so the error can be overcome. The publisher also exercised poor quality control over the printing process. Too much ink was allowed to flow, creating many pages where the dark squares are so dark that the Black pieces on them nearly disappear. Many pages have crystal clear diagrams, but a large percentage are dark and even blurred from inattention by the printer. These problems will be even worse in the Ishi Press reprints, which are notorious for poor print quality. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations
My Facebook assertion in favor of the value of Henkin, 1000 Checkmate Combinations was grounded in study of Tal and Khenkin, Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, which I have found quite good. My view also stems from superficial examination of the newer translation in Kindle format. Others have assured me that the newer edition is a better translation of The Last Check (more on that below). Tal's Winning Chess Combinations is more challenging than Checkmate! This position from Adams -- Torre, New Orleans 1920 (given as 1921 in the text) and the winning idea is richer than most of the combinations in Koltanowski and Finkelstein (19).** White to move
White offered his queen for six consecutive moves in the effort to divert Black's queen from the defense of e8. The idea reappears as exercise 8 (37) from Guldin -- Bagdatev (1963), a position I remember from Lev Alburt, Chess Training Pocket Book, 2nd ed. (2000). The initial example in each chapter of Checkmate! is usually comparable, but the rest of each chapter is less demanding. It did not take me more than ten minutes to blaze through the 13 exercises in the rook chapter, and every example was a forced checkmate. In many of the examples in Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, mate threats can be parried with significant sacrifice, still leading to a lost game. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations also has a clearer demarcation between the instructive section and the exercises. Each chapter begins with diagrams showing the elementary pattern, and then proceeds through instructive and entertaining examples. Most chapters repeat this sequence with more checkmate patterns and game fragments. The object is showing a range of possibilities with the piece or pieces in question. As in Checkmate!, Tal's Winning Chess Combinations presents game endings where a queen did not deliver the final check in an epaulette mate. This one is presented as Korchnoy -- Petrosyan 1965 (281). White to move
White has a forced checkmate in four moves with a queen sacrifice on the second. The bulk of the book is devoted to instructive examples. An idea is presented, then a few position, then a variations on the idea and more illustrations. The Adams -- Torre position above is the ninth instance of a combination exploiting a weak back rank in the chapter on the rook. This chapter begins with a simple illustration of a back rank checkmate. The instructive portion offers fifteen combinations to divert defenders from protecting the vulnerability. Diversion is combined with a second threat in some combinations. Further examples offer other tactical ideas, such as "line interference" in Reti -- Bogoljubow 1924 (22). White to move
After 24.Bf7+ Kh8 25.Be8, Black resigned.
Tal's Winning Chess Combinations is notable for how it builds understanding of many possibilities related to a simple pattern. Applying what we know from backrank checkmates, the author notes that kings can be hemmed in by their own pieces on a file as well as rank. Even a file away from the edge of the board can become a deadly corridor. Goldenov -- Zakharian 1960 is a memorable example (34). Black to move
1...g4 2.Kf4 Ra5 3.e5 Ra4+ 4.e4 Ra3 and White resigned. Tal and Khenkin's chapter on the rook offers 45 instructive positions and then 17 exercises at the end of the chapter for the reader to solve. This abundance contrasts with a total of 13 exercises following four instructive examples in Koltanowski and Finkelstein. Checkmate!, however, offers 25 chapters to the 14 in the other text. The total of 271 exercises in Tal's Winning Chess Combinations are far fewer than more than 550 found in Checkmate!, but many offer greater challenge. On balance, I prefer Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, but expect to lift some examples from Checkmate! while creating worksheets for my students. The New Book
Henkin, Victor. 1000 Checkmate Combinations, trans. Jimmy Adams and Sarah Hurst. London: Batsford Chess, [2011] 2022. 1000 Checkmate Combinations is a newer translation of the same Russian book as Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations. As such, the two books have considerable overlap. However, the differences are extensive. Both books have the same fourteen chapters, although the sequence differs. Each chapter offers a series of instructive game fragments and studies and then conclude with exercises at the end of the chapter. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations has a total of 271 exercises, but the newer translation expands these to 456. 1000 Checkmate Combinations was published just over ten years ago, but has been out of print most of that time, although a Kindle edition was available. It was brought back into print in February 2022. I cannot assess the quality of the translation. I lack both the resources (a copy of the Russian edition of The Last Check) and the competence (knowledge of Russian). However, I prefer the recent Batsford edition for several reasons. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations blurs the lines between Khenkin's work and Tal's contribution. 1000 Checkmate Combinations explicitly states that the book is Henkin's work. The title page reveals that Victor Henkin owns the text copyright. Batsford also asserts copyright ownership. The publisher owns all rights in the 1979 translation by Hanon Russell; there is no mention of the authors on the copyright page. Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations begins with an Introduction: “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel”, co-authored by Tal and Khenkin (9-14). 1000 Checkmate Combinations has “Don’t Reinvent the Bicycle” by Tal (5-6) followed by “Before You Open the Book” by Henkin (7-9). The joint introduction in the earlier translation contains most of the content presented in the two introductions in the later text. In addition to clarifying authorship, the most notable differences are that Tal ended his introduction in the Batsford edition with a quote from Richard Réti, Masters of the Chessboard. This quote is absent from Russell’s translation. Russell also inserts Legall’s game into the introduction, while Adams and Hurst do not. In Tal's introduction to the Batsford edition, we find:
There hasn't been a book like this before in our chess literature. The author has done an enormous amount of work selecting and systematizing the material. An experienced master, who in the recent past himself participated in competitions and had a reputation as a staunch tactician, he has retained a particular taste for the last check. (6)
This text is absent from Tal's Winning Chess Combinations. 1000 Checkmate Combinations is clearly the work of Henkin, lauded by Tal. Henkin's authorship is attested in Vladimir Barsky, A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns (2020), which is dedicated to Viktor Khenkin, whose pioneering organization in The Last Check is the model for Barsky's text. Tal's Winning Chess Combinations presents a decisive mating combination played by Vera Menchik against George Thomas in 1932, and then imitated by David Bronstein against Paul Keres 18 years later (32-33). In both books this combination follows Capablanca -- Raubitschek 1906, to which it is comparable. 1000 Checkmate Combinations adds Tal -- Andersson 1976, where Tal's threats to bring about Menchik's combination provoked a series of exchanges that simplified into an ending with queen against knight and rook (25). White to move
After the immediate 25.Qh6, the combination falters because Black's resources with 25...Rg8 and 26...Nf8 hold the position together. Tal first set out to remove the knight. 25.Bb6 Rc8 26.Qh6 Rg8 27.Rd4!
Henkin writes, "So Ulf Andersson gives up his queen for rook and bishop, which, however, doesn't save the game" (25). 27...Nxb6 28.Rxd5 Nxd5 29.Rf3
With Tal renewing the mating threat, Anderrson is forced to exchange rooks. 29...Rc3 30.Rxc3 Nxc3 31.Qe3 b4 32.Qa7 Rf8 33.Qc5 Rb8 34.Qd6 1-0 This long combination with checkmate threats parried, but still leading to a decisive advantage is a characteristic of Henkin's work. Both translations of his work bring this out, but the more recent text does so in greater abundance. Detailed comparison of the first chapter of both books shows that the 45 positions in Tal and Khenkin expands to 62 in 1000 Checkmate Combinations. I count five in the older translation that are missing from the newer edition. My count of 15 in the Batsford edition that are absent from Tal's Winning Chess Combinations reveals there is something askew with my counting (15+5 > 17). But there is no doubt that the newer edition has more material. The 1979 text has three sets of basic patterns followed by examples from games and studies. The Batsford edition has four. Above, I credit Tal's Winning Chess Combinations with showing corridor mates on files as well as ranks. The idea is there, but is is made more explicit in the section found only in the newer book.
Mating situations in which the rook delivers a linear blow can also arise on the files. In these cases it is as if the board does a 90-degree turn. (20).
At the end of the chapter on rooks, the exercises have expanded from 17 to 43 in 1000 Checkmate Combinations. Although many passages in the two books make it abundantly clear that they are derived from the same Russian text, the language employed differs. The familiar term luft is found in Russell's translation, but becomes "the little window" in the work of Adams and Hurst. Diversion becomes deflection. Line interruption becomes interference. Some readers will object to the small size of the diagrams in 1000 Checkmate Combinations. They are indeed small at 35 mm. Only a few books have smaller diagrams, such as the training positions in Antonio Gude, Fundamental Checkmates (2016), measuring 34 mm. Other chess books typically have diagrams from 40-50 mm, and the main part of Gude's book comes in at 45 mm. Diagrams in Tal's Winning Chess Combinations are 41 mm. They are 43 mm in Checkmate! In the Kindle edition of Henkin, the figurines in the notation are a larger font than the text. I have found this ebook difficult to read, but the print text is a delight, even with the small diagrams. At least the diagrams are very clear with appropriate shading of the dark squares and clear pieces. Notes
*Both Khenkin and Henkin appear as the spelling of this writer's name in different places. I favor the spelling used by the book under discussion. Vladimir Barsky dedicates A Modern Guide to Checkmating Patterns (2020) to Viktor Lvovich Khenkin and offers The Last Check as the English title of the Russian work upon which both Tal's Winning Chess Combinations and 1000 Checkmate Combinations are based. Barsky's book follows the general outline of these two, but with far less instructive material. Rather the instruction is provided as exercises. While Khenkin is the spelling on the cover and title page of Tal's Winning Chess Combinations, games played by the author are presented in the text with the spelling Henkin. **In all likelihood, this game was analysis, possibly by the alleged victim of the combination as instruction for the alleged victor. See Edward Winter, "Adams v Torre -- A Sham?" Chess Notes (updated 14 December 2022).
Posted by James Stripes at 6:44 AM No comments: “The boy (referring to a 12-year-old boy named Anatoly Karpov) doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.”
— Mikhail Botvinnik
“I like 1.e4 very much but my results with 1.d4 are better.” — Anatoly Karpov “Style? I have no style.” — Anatoly Karpov “Let us say that a game may be continued in two ways: one of them is a beautiful tactical blow that gives rise to variations that don't yield to precise calculations; the other is clear positional pressure that leads to an endgame with microscopic chances of victory. I would choose the latter without thinking twice. If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.” — Anatoly Karpov “Chess is everything: art, science and sport.” — Anatoly Karpov “I simply developed that universal style which dominated with the arrival of Spassky and then Fischer. But all the same we were different chess players, of course. Both Spassky and Fischer were brilliant at developing and sensing the initiative. In that regard I was, perhaps, a little inferior, but on the other hand I stood out by having excellent technique for converting an advantage, positional sense and an ability to maneuver positionally – in that area I was clearly superior to Spassky, and Fischer, and perhaps everyone, except Petrosian.”
— Anatoly Karpov
“At first, I found some of his moves not altogether understandable, and only after careful analysis did I discover their hidden strength.”
— Ljubomir Ljubojevic (on Karpov)
“When observing Karpov's play or playing against him, one cannot help thinking that all his pieces are linked by invisible threads. This net moves forward unhurriedly, gradually covering the enemy squares, but, amazingly, not relinquishing its own.” — Alexander Roshal “When having an edge, Karpov often marked time and still gained the advantage! I don't know anyone else who could do that, it's incredible. I was always impressed and delighted by this skill. When it looked like it was high time to start a decisive attack, Karpov played a3, h3, and his opponent's position collapsed.” — Vladimir Kramnik “There are very few madmen who risk employing Pirc or King's Indian against Karpov.” — Alexsander Shashin “Many of Karpov's intentions become understandable to his opponents only when salvation is no longer possible.” — Mikhail Tal “Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.” — Bruce Pandolfini “Karpov defeated me in Linares-94 where he scored 11 out of 13. I got into an inferior endgame. However, it did not seem awful. Then I made some appropriate moves and could not understand how I had managed to get into a losing position. Although I was already in the world top ten, I failed to understand it even after the game. This was one of the few games after which I felt like a complete idiot with a total lack of chess understanding! Such things happen very rarely to top level players. Usually you realise why you have lost. This moment defies description - there is something almost imperceptible about it and so characteristic of Karpov.” — Vladimir Kramnik “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 * Wikipedia on Computer Chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compu... * A piece of cake: https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/che... William Ewart Napier
Although W.E. Napier (1881-1952) was a highly quotable writer, he produced only one chess work, Napier’s Amenities and Background of Chess-Play (published in three ‘units’, the first two in 1934 and the third the following year). After his death they were adapted into a single volume entitled Paul Morphy and The Golden Age of Chess (New York, 1957 and 1971). In the quotations below (some of which have entered chess lore) the figures refer to the item numbers in the Amenities work, the pages of which were unnumbered: 3. ‘In the laboratory, the gambits all test unfavourably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.’
18. ‘Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’
22. ‘John McCutcheon, of Pittsburgh and undying fame for his research in the French Defense, often said about opening moves, “Not new, but old enough to be new.”’
28. [On Bird] ‘He earned the rebuke of playing impulsively in tournaments. It was disrespect and scandalous, some thought; but if there is genius in chess, Bird of all players had it, I think, in greatest abundance.’
32. [On Mason] ‘As player, he had the unique quality of competently simmering thru six aching hours and scintillating in the seventh. Others resembled him but forgot to scintillate.’
52. ‘Once in chatting with Janowsky at Lake Hopatcong, he referred to Maróczy as the gentle iron-man of Hungary, which was accurate as to both specifications.’
67. ‘Some of Marshall’s most sparkling moves look at first like typographical errors.’
72. ‘I knew Dr Tarrasch pleasantly at Monte Carlo, 1902. One day the fates had gone against me, malevolently, I felt, in a game against a man I had counted on beating. I got, by way of spur, this vitamin from the Doctor: “In these tournaments it is never enough to be a connoisseur of chess; one must also play well.”’
75. ‘The super-men of chess come by that distinction through two rare capacities, an inscrutable vision in end play and a bland sense of well-being in what, to lesser men, look like predicaments.’
78. ‘No chess book, I think, can be complete without a page of homage to Master Bird. If I had only one page to rejoice in, it should own up to a kindly veneration for all his adventures and misadventures, his farce and comedy and drama of the chess board. The roots of his chess were deep sunk in the tradition of Labourdonnais and McDonnell; he played Morphy; and half a lifetime afterwards we see him at Hastings, playing a thorough-bred game which Pillsbury declared was too beautiful to annotate. A long stretch, that – and brim-full of enthusiasm. He adored chess, – the play itself, I mean, which is not common among masters.
I saw him once at Simpson’s Divan but not to speak to. I brought away an impression of fulminating chess, of hearty laughter and liberty and beefsteak. He romped. Once I asked Teichmann what he thought of Bird’s chess; “Same as his health”, he replied, – “always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well.” England will not know his like again.’
85. [On the game Sim v Morrison, Toronto, 1918.] ‘This is a Canadian game of exceptional worth in my collection, as resembling, as few games do, a sustained, Charousek attack. That slow-burning type of invasion, not essentially dependent on preserving the queen, implies a grasp of endings and a willingness to play them. As Pillsbury once said, “So set up your attacks that when the fire is out, it isn’t out”.’
93. ‘Pillsbury was present [at Thousand Islands, 1897] on other business, and I remember his taking me for a row on the river, in the morning, before play started. He lectured a bit on Steinitz’ opening vagaries; when we separated, he said – revealing perhaps a glimpse of his ruling philosophy, “Be steady, but not to the point of morbid restraint.”’
96. ‘Louis Paulsen. It was surely a frolic of fate that translated an enviable potato planter of sedate Dubuque, Iowa, to that evergreen, mellow fame he achieved in chess. Paulsen was the landscape of that pioneer period from Morphy to the early nineties, not given to gay, aggressive outbursts, but a quiet pastoral ideal of sufficiency.’
115. [On the game Důras v Teichmann, Ostend, 1906]: ‘Důras needs no better monument to his genius than this lofty and exciting struggle with an eminent opponent. In my catalogue of genuinely great contests it rises up close to the top. It is chess all the way, but from move 43 it goes in a dignity unsurpassed.’
128. ‘A genial disposition shines in all Tartakower’s chess. It is infectious fun. And when he loses a game, he writes sincere eulogies, fit for an epitaph, of the victor.
He is very unusual.’
166. ‘It has been my observation all through the years that the master player nearly always makes lively games at correspondence, even tho his play vis-à-vis is governed by more conservative models.
The paradox is baffling.
The only theory I have adduced is that the social nature of mail exchanges quite subordinates mere winning to joyful, yawing chess. In match games over the board, the killing instinct necessary to success is the same that men take into Bengal jungles, – for a day. A killing instinct which survives the day and endures month in and month out, is stark pantomime; and mail chess is the gainer by it.’ 180. ‘Among tournament masters, Marshall has had few superiors, and, as to style, has clearly been in a class of his own, without forerunner or disciple. He is a whole school.’
191. ‘I have met no critic who could not detect, in Torre, a potential world’s champion.’
196. [On Nimzowitsch’s win over Yates at Carlsbad, 1923]: ‘It is witch chess, heathen and beautiful.’
225. ‘Once while walking over Waterloo Bridge, in London, with stout-hearted Teichmann, we conversed of the ingredients that associate to make a chessplayer. I ventured a remark that, if he would name one indispensable ingredient, I would name an able player wholly destitute of it. And Richard very tolerantly said, “Have you given any thought to ‘vanity’?”’
230. [Of Lasker’s play beginning 17…Rxc3 against Pillsbury at St Petersburg, 1895-96]: ‘Pillsbury told me that the exquisite combination here initiated was the only startling and utterly diabolical surprise he suffered in all his career abroad.’
237. ‘Spielmann plays always like an educated cave-man, who fell asleep several thousand years ago, – and woke up quite lately in the Black Forest.’
243. ‘The greatest difficulty of the game is to play it as well as one knows how.’
253. ‘F.M. Teed, of Brooklyn, was one of America’s most powerful master players. Business kept him out of match play; and he describes well as a master “without portfolio”.’
253. [On Winawer v Englisch, London, 1883. Napier had given the game as item six of unit one, where he stated that ‘it was a revelation when first I studied its deliberate beauty while a boy enthusiast; and it never seems to stale.’]: ‘The most important single game ever played, I think.’
262. ‘It is astonishing how much hot water a master can wade into within the first dozen moves, despite a century of opening exploration.’
264. ‘I never see a King’s Bishop Opening without thinking of the first of several lessons I took, when a youngster, from Steinitz. He said, “No doubt you move your knight out on each side before the bishop? And do you know why?” I was stuck for an intelligent answer. He went on to say, “One good reason is that you know where the knight belongs before you know that much of your bishop; certainty is a far better friend than doubt.”’
268. ‘It has always been my doctrine that chess is easier to play with many pieces than few; that ending play more strains the mind than a middle-game involvement. Of many options, one may be fit. Resource is likely to be present in a tangled, critical situation.’
297. ‘Zugzwang is a very useful term. I sometimes think it is best defined by the story of the negro who drew a razor across the enemy throat:
Said the enemy, “I’m not cut.”
And the knight of the razor replied, “Just wait till you turn yo’ head, before guessing at it.”’ ‘What he was in the ’80s and ’90s he [Tarrasch] is now and seemingly ever will be, one of the best. Only this and nothing more. He is a vastly learned chess master, which quality, coupled with stamina worthy of a Marathon runner, renders him superior to everything but the pelting of downright genius.’ % % % % % % % %
DoJo's Partial Discussion: Favorites w/an instructional value How to Play Chess for Kids: Simple Strategies to Win by Jessica E Martin
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer , Stuart Margulies, et al.
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess by Murray Chandler
Life Skills for Kids: How to Cook, Clean, Make Friends, Handle Emergencies, Set Goals, Make Good Decisions, and Everything in Between by Karen Harris
Learn Chess the Right Way: Book 1 (of 5): Must-know Checkmates by Susan Polgar
A First Book of Morphy by Frisco Del Rosario
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too by Franco Masetti and Roberto Messa
Everyone's Second Chess Book by Dan Heisman
Chess The Easy Way by Reuben Fine
The Art of the Checkmate by Renaud & Kahn
Best Lessons of a Chess Coach by Sunil Weeramantry
Improve Your Chess in Seven Days by Gary Lane
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by László Polgár
New York 1924 by Alexander Alekhine
Masters of the Chessboard by Richard Reti
Carlsbad 1929 by Nimzovich
Simple Chess by Michael Stean
Chess Fundamentals by Jose R. Capablanca (this book requires much prior game experience to appreciate the subtleties of defeat shown)
The Art of Attack by Vladimir Vukovic
My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alexander Alekhine
Modern Ideas in Chess by Richard Reti
Chess Praxis by Nimzovich
Mastering Chess Strategy by John Hellsten
My System by Nimzovich
Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings by Paul Van der Sterren
500 Master Games of Chess by Tartakower and du Mont
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings by Irving Chernev
Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 by David Bronstein
Pump Up Your Rating by Axel Smith
Tal-Botvinnik 1960 by Mikhail Tal
Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn
My Life and Games by Mikhail Tal
Endgame Strategy by Mikhail Sherevshesky
My Sixty Memorable Games by Robert J. Fischer
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins by Jonathan Rowson
How I Beat Fischer's Record by Polgar
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player by Jesus de la Villa
Think Like a Super-GM by Michael Adams
The Test of Time by Garry Kasparov
The Mammoth Book of The World's Greatest Chess Games by Graham Burgess, John Nunn, and John Emms.
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparov
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual by Mark Dvoretsky
“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea
<“I thought you wanted me to teach you how to play. (Chess)Each possible move represents a different game - a different universe in which you make a better move. By the second move there are 72,084 possible games. By the 3rd - 9 million. By the 4th….
There are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the universe. No one could possibly predict them all, even you. Which means that first move can be terrifying. It’s the furthest point from the end of the game. There’s a virtually infinite sea of possibilities between you and the other side but it also means that if you make a mistake, there’s a nearly infinite amount of ways to fix it so you should simply relax and play.”
― Person of Interest s04e11>
“You’re just a pawn on the chessboard, Leo Valdez. I was referring to the player who set this ridiculous quest in motion, bringing the Greeks and Romans together.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
“At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. [...] In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living. (p.195)”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
“Life is like a game where pawns can become queens, but not everyone knows how to play. Some people stay pawn their whole lives because they never learned to make the right moves.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors
“...you could never be completely sure of the other person, so never make a move until you were sure of yourself.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World
“Coaching is more like chess; it’s about out-thinking and outsmarting the other team.”
― C. Vivian Stringer, Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph “Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King
“There is no moral outcome of a chess match or a poker game as long as skill and stealth rather than cheating have been used.”
― Francis P. Karam, The Truth Engine: Cross-Examination Outside the Box “Chess does not only teach us to analyse the present situation, but it also enables us to think about the possibilities and consequences. This is the art of forward-thinking.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
“Behind every move I make on the chess board lies a story of calculation, intuition, and passion. With every game, I discover more about myself and the endless possibilities of the game.” ― medicosaurabh “That is the trick of it. You see, Time works differently in Chess.” He pulled out his pocket watch and let it dangle like a pendulum over
his desk. “Sometimes he moves forward and sometimes he moves backward,
sometimes he goes fast or slow and sometimes he pauses altogether. But as long
as I keep moving, as long as I am always moving in the opposite direction from
Time, he can never find me, and I can never meet my fate.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
“There is profound meaning in the game of chess. The board itself is life and death, painted as such in black and white. The pieces are those that make a life fundamentally healthy. The pawns are attributes we gather with nourishment and significance. The knight is our ability to be mobile and travel in whatever form it takes. The rook or castle is a place we can call home and protect ourselves from the elements. The bishop is that of our community and our belonging. The king is our mortal body; without it, we can no longer play the game. The queen is the spirit of the body - what drives our imagination, urges, a life force. A captured queen removes energy from the game, and the player may become complacent. A crowning reminder of the game is that the spirit can be possessed again through our attributes.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards
“Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It’s about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn’t won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that’s when you’ve lost.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
“It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel
“Playing chess with my father is torture. I have to sit very upright on the edge of my chair and respect the rules of impassivity while I consider my next move. I can feel myself dissolving under his stare. When I move a pawn he asks sarcastically, 'Have you really thought about what you're doing?' I panic and want to move the pawn back. He doesn't allow it: 'You've touched the piece, now you have to follow through. Think before you act. Think.”
― Maude Julien, The Only Girl in the World
“A deep laugh stirred in his chest, and his thumb brushed over the backs of her fingers before he withdrew his hand. She felt the rasp of a callus on his thumb, the sensation not unlike the tingling scrape of a cat’s tongue. Bemused by her own response to him, Annabelle looked down at the chess piece in her hand.
“That is the queen—the most powerful piece on the board. She can move in any direction, and go as far as she wishes.” There was nothing overtly suggestive in his manner of speaking …but when he spoke softly, as he was doing at that moment, there was a husky depth in his voice that made her toes curl inside her slippers.
“More powerful than the king?” she asked.
“Yes. The king can only move one square at a time. But the king is the most important piece.”
“Why is he more important than the queen if he’s not the most powerful?”
“Because once he is captured, the game is over.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Secrets of a Summer Night
“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,' she said." It's a game of strategy, mostly. The strong pieces are in the back row, while the weak pieces - the pawns - are all in the front, ready to take the brunt of the attack. Because of their limited movement and vulnerability, most people underestimate them and only use them to protect the more powerful pieces. But when I play I protect my pawns.'... 'They may be weak when the game begins, but their potential is remarkable. Most of the time, they'll be taken by the other side and held captive until the end of the game. But if you're careful - if you keep your eyes open and pay attention to what your oppenent is doing, if you protect your pawns and they reach the other side of the board, do you know what happens then?' I shook my head, and she smiled.
"Your pawn becomes a queen."... 'Because they kept moving forward and triumphed against impossible odds, they become the most powerful piece in the game.”
― Aimee Carter, Pawn
“Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.”
― Austin Grossman, You
“Tablebases [logs of complete chess games played backwards from the end-state of checkmate] are the clearest case of human chess vs. alien chess. A decade of trying to teach computers how to play endgames was rendered obsolete in an instant thanks to a new tool. This is a pattern we see over and over again in everything related to intelligent machines. It's wonderful if we can teach machines to think like we do, but why settle for thinking like a human if you can be a god? (jm3: Frustratingly for the humans, it was not disclosed whether IBM's Deep Blue stored and consulted endgame tablebases during competition).”
― Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins “I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
“The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.”
― H.G. Wells
Proverbs of Solomon 4
A Father’s Instruction
1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction;
pay attention and gain understanding.
2For I give you sound teaching;
do not abandon my directive.
3When I was a son to my father,
tender and the only child of my mother,
4he taught me and said,
“Let your heart lay hold of my words;
keep my commands and you will live.
5Get wisdom, get understanding;
do not forget my words or turn from them.
6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
7Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom.
And whatever you may acquire, a gain understanding. 8Prize her, and she will exalt you;
if you embrace her, she will honor you.
9She will set a garland of grace on your head;
she will present you with a crown of beauty.”
10Listen, my son, and receive my words,
and the years of your life will be many.
11I will guide you in the way of wisdom;
I will lead you on straight paths.
12When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.
13Hold on to instruction; do not let go.
Guard it, for it is your life.
14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
or walk in the way of evildoers.
15Avoid it; do not travel on it.
Turn from it and pass on by.
16For they cannot sleep
unless they do evil;
they are deprived of slumber
until they make someone fall.
17For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
20My son, pay attention to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
21Do not lose sight of them;
keep them within your heart.
22For they are life to those who find them,
and health to the whole body.
23Guard your heart with all diligence,
for from it flow springs of life.
24Put away deception from your mouth;
keep your lips from perverse speech.
25Let your eyes look forward;
fix your gaze straight ahead.
26Make a level path for your feet,
and all your ways will be sure.
27Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
turn your feet away from evil.
<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
<Q: How do poets say hello?
A: "Hey, haven’t we metaphor?"
Thank you Qindarka!
Q: What do you call a cow jumping on a trampoline?
A: A milkshake.>
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.
“Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.”
― Chris Burkmenn
Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. ~ Scottish Proverb Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
<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 Bear and the Amateur Gardener
A certain mountain bear, unlicked and rude,
By fate confined within a lonely wood,
A new Bellerophon, whose life,
Knew neither comrade, friend, nor wife, –
Became insane; for reason, as we term it,
Dwells never long with any hermit.
It's good to mix in good society,
Obeying rules of due propriety;
And better yet to be alone;
But both are ills when overdone.
No animal had business where
All grimly dwelt our hermit bear;
Hence, bearish as he was, he grew
Heart-sick, and longed for something new.
While he to sadness was addicted,
An aged man, not far from there,
Was by the same disease afflicted.
A garden was his favourite care, –
Sweet Flora's priesthood, light and fair,
And eke Pomona's – ripe and red
The presents that her fingers shed.
These two employments, true, are sweet
When made so by some friend discreet.
The gardens, gaily as they look,
Talk not, (except in this my book;)
So, tiring of the deaf and dumb,
Our man one morning left his home
Some company to seek,
That had the power to speak. –
The bear, with thoughts the same,
Down from his mountain came;
And in a solitary place,
They met each other, face to face.
It would have made the boldest tremble;
What did our man? To play the Gascon
The safest seemed. He put the mask on,
His fear contriving to dissemble.
The bear, unused to compliment,
Growled bluntly, but with good intent,
"Come home with me." The man replied:
"Sir Bear, my lodgings, nearer by,
In yonder garden you may spy,
Where, if you'll honour me the while,
We'll break our fast in rural style.
I have fruits and milk, – unworthy fare,
It may be, for a wealthy bear;
But then I offer what I have."
The bear accepts, with visage grave,
But not unpleased; and on their way,
They grow familiar, friendly, gay.
Arrived, you see them, side by side,
As if their friendship had been tried.
To a companion so absurd,
Blank solitude were well preferred,
Yet, as the bear scarce spoke a word,
The man was left quite at his leisure
To trim his garden at his pleasure.
Sir Bruin hunted – always brought
His friend whatever game he caught;
But chiefly aimed at driving flies –
Those hold and shameless parasites,
That vex us with their ceaseless bites –
From off our gardener's face and eyes.
One day, while, stretched on the ground
The old man lay, in sleep profound,
A fly that buzz'd around his nose, –
And bit it sometimes, I suppose, –
Put Bruin sadly to his trumps.
At last, determined, up he jumps;
"I'll stop your noisy buzzing now,"
Says he; "I know precisely how."
No sooner said than done.
He seized a paving-stone;
And by his modus operandi
Did both the fly and man die.
A foolish friend may cause more woe
Than could, indeed, the wisest foe.
Question: What do you call a woman that knows where her husband is, at all times?
Answer: A widow
Question: What is the only number spelled out in English that has the same number of letters as its value?
Answer: Four
“It's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish.” “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 Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. If the game is well-played, the rook's first move is usually sideways. 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 A01
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The Nimzo-Indian Defence NEW EDITION by Svetozar Gligoric,
Cadogan Pergamon 1993
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“The words of truth are simple.” ― Aeschylus “It is only after our basic needs for food and shelter have been met that we can hope to enjoy the luxury of theoretical speculations.” ― Aristotle. John 14:6
“<I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.>” ― Jesus Christ “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” ― Buddha “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” ― William Shakespeare “Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.” ― William Napier / Irving Chernev “Winning needs no explanation, losing has no alibi.” ― Greg Baum. “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” ― Robert Hughes “Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” ― Savielly Tartakower “Pawns are the soul of the game.” ― François-André Danican Philidor “The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.” ― Wilhelm Steinitz “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 “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.” Capa's games looked as though they were turned out by a lathe, while Alekhine's resembled something produced with a mallet and chisel. – Charles Yaffe Whereas Anderssen and Chigorin looked for accidental positions, Capablanca is guided by the logicality of strong positions. He values only that which is well-founded: solidity of position, pressure on a weak point, he does not trust the accidental, even if it be a problem-like mate, at the required moment he discovers and carries out subtle and far-sighted combinations... - Emanuel Lasker Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with its logic. - Garry Kasparov “Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.” ― Vladimir Kramnik “It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.” ― Queen Elizabeth II “The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.” ― Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men “Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.” ― Douglas MacArthur “Old habits die hard, especially for soldiers.” ― Jocelyn Murray, The Roman General: A Novel “In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.” — Vasily Smyslov Ye Jiangchuan has won the Chinese Chess Championship seven times. Matthew 17:20
Our faith can move mountains.
Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool. ~ Nigerian Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author. ~ Twi Proverb The laughter of a child lights up the house. ~ Swahili proverb “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 All that glitters is not gold – this line can be found in a text from c.1220: ‘ Nis hit nower neh gold al that ter schineth.’ A friend in need is a friend indeed – a proverb from c.1035 say this: ‘Friend shall be known in time of need.’ All’s well that ends well – a line from the mid-13th century is similar: ‘Wel is him te wel ende mai.’ Meanwhile, Henry Knighton’s Chronicle from the late 14th-century one can read: ‘ If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ Hay dos maneras de hermosura: una del alma y otra del cuerpo; la del alma campea y se muestra en el entendimiento, en la honestidad, en el buen proceder, en la liberalidad y en la buena crianza, y todas estas partes caben y pueden estar en un hombre feo; y cuando se pone la mira en esta hermosura, y no en la del cuerpo, suele nacer el amor con ímpetu y con ventajas. (There are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body; that of the soul shows and demonstrates itself in understanding, in honesty, in good behavior, in generosity and in good breeding, and all these things can find room and exist in an ugly man; and when one looks at this type of beauty, and not bodily beauty, love is inclined to spring up forcefully and overpoweringly.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Cuando una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. (When one door is closed, another is opened.) ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Dijo la sartén a la caldera, quítate allá ojinegra. (The frying pan said to the cauldron, "Get out of here, black-eyed one." This is believed to be the source of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black.") ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra * One of Pandolfini's Best: Game Collection: Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini * Two Great Attackers: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... * CFN: https://www.youtube.com/@CFNChannel
* Chessmaster 2000 Classic Games:
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Windsor was Connecticut's first English settlement, with a perfect location on the water. Today, the city uses its "first town" status to create a historical atmosphere ideal for tourism. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... 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
The Frog and the Rat
They to bamboozle are inclined,
Says Merlin, who bamboozled are.
The word, though rather unrefined,
Has yet an energy we ill can spare;
So by its aid I introduce my tale.
A well-fed rat, rotund and hale,
Not knowing either Fast or Lent,
Disporting round a frog-pond went.
A frog approached, and, with a friendly greeting, Invited him to see her at her home,
And pledged a dinner worth his eating, –
To which the rat was nothing loath to come.
Of words persuasive there was little need:
She spoke, however, of a grateful bath;
Of sports and curious wonders on their path;
Of rarities of flower, and rush, and reed:
One day he would recount with glee
To his assembled progeny
The various beauties of these places,
The customs of the various races,
And laws that sway the realms aquatic,
(She did not mean the hydrostatic!)
One thing alone the rat perplexed, –
He was but moderate as a swimmer.
The frog this matter nicely fixed
By kindly lending him her
Long paw, which with a rush she tied
To his; and off they started, side by side.
Arrived on the lakelet's brink,
There was but little time to think.
The frog leaped in, and almost brought her
Bound guest to land beneath the water.
Perfidious breach of law and right!
She meant to have a supper warm
Out of his sleek and dainty form.
Already did her appetite
Dwell on the morsel with delight.
The gods, in anguish, he invokes;
His faithless hostess rudely mocks;
He struggles up, she struggles down.
A kite, that hovers in the air,
Inspecting everything with care,
Now spies the rat belike to drown,
And, with a rapid wing,
Upbears the wretched thing,
The frog, too, dangling by the string!
The joy of such a double haul
Was to the hungry kite not small.
It gave him all that he could wish –
A double meal of flesh and fish.
The best contrived deceit
Can hurt its own contriver,
And perfidy does often cheat
Its author's purse of every stiver.
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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.
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Create protected outposts for your knights.
<There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, “A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances.” This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square.Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, “[Bishops and rooks] complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen.” Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, “The queen and knight are [able] to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop.” When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, “I think it’s true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops.” He continues, “Of course, I’m not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.”> The Triumph of Life
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task
Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth
Rejoicing in his splendour, & the mask
Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth.
The smokeless altars of the mountain snows
Flamed above crimson clouds, & at the birth
Of light, the Ocean’s orison arose
To which the birds tempered their matin lay,
All flowers in field or forest which unclose
Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,
Swinging their censers in the element,
With orient incense lit by the new ray
Burned slow & inconsumably, & sent
Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air,
And in succession due, did Continent,
Isle, Ocean, & all things that in them wear
The form & character of mortal mould
Rise as the Sun their father rose, to bear
Their portion of the toil which he of old
Took as his own & then imposed on them;
But I, whom thoughts which must remain untold
Had kept as wakeful as the stars that gem
The cone of night, now they were laid asleep,
Stretched my faint limbs beneath the hoary stem
Which an old chestnut flung athwart the steep
Of a green Apennine: before me fled
The night; behind me rose the day; the Deep
Was at my feet, & Heaven above my head
When a strange trance over my fancy grew
Which was not slumber, for the shade it spread
Was so transparent that the scene came through
As clear as when a veil of light is drawn
O’er evening hills they glimmer; and I knew
That I had felt the freshness of that dawn,
Bathed in the same cold dew my brow & hair
And sate as thus upon that slope of lawn
Under the self same bough, & heard as there
The birds, the fountains & the Ocean hold
Sweet talk in music through the enamoured air.
And then a Vision on my brain was rolled.
As in that trance of wondrous thought I lay
This was the tenour of my waking dream.
Methought I sate beside a public way
Thick strewn with summer dust, & a great stream
Of people there was hurrying to & fro
Numerous as gnats upon the evening gleam,
All hastening onward, yet none seemed to know
Whither he went, or whence he came, or why
He made one of the multitude, yet so
Was borne amid the crowd as through the sky
One of the million leaves of summer’s bier.—
Old age & youth, manhood & infancy,
Mixed in one mighty torrent did appear,
Some flying from the thing they feared & some
Seeking the object of another’s fear,
And others as with steps towards the tomb
Pored on the trodden worms that crawled beneath,
And others mournfully within the gloom
Of their own shadow walked, and called it death …
And some fled from it as it were a ghost,
Half fainting in the affliction of vain breath.
But more with motions which each other crost
Pursued or shunned the shadows the clouds threw
Or birds within the noonday ether lost,
Upon that path where flowers never grew;
And weary with vain toil & faint for thirst
Heard not the fountains whose melodious dew
Out of their mossy cells forever burst
Nor felt the breeze which from the forest told
Of grassy paths, & wood lawns interspersed
With overarching elms & caverns cold,
And violet banks where sweet dreams brood, but they
Pursued their serious folly as of old ….
And as I gazed methought that in the way
The throng grew wilder, as the woods of June
When the South wind shakes the extinguished day.—
And a cold glare, intenser than the noon
But icy cold, obscured with [[blank]] light
The Sun as he the stars. Like the young moon
When on the sunlit limits of the night
Her white shell trembles amid crimson air
And whilst the sleeping tempest gathers might
Doth, as a herald of its coming, bear
The ghost of her dead Mother, whose dim form
Bends in dark ether from her infant’s chair,
So came a chariot on the silent storm
Of its own rushing splendour, and a Shape
So sate within as one whom years deform
Beneath a dusky hood & double cape
Crouching within the shadow of a tomb,
And o’er what seemed the head, a cloud like crape,
Was bent a dun & faint etherial gloom
Tempering the light; upon the chariot’s beam
A Janus-visaged Shadow did assume
The guidance of that wonder-winged team.
The Shapes which drew it in thick lightnings
Were lost: I heard alone on the air’s soft stream
The music of their ever moving wings.
All the four faces of that charioteer
Had their eyes banded . . . little profit brings
Speed in the van & blindness in the rear,
Nor then avail the beams that quench the Sun
Or that his banded eyes could pierce the sphere
Of all that is, has been, or will be done.—
So ill was the car guided, but it past
With solemn speed majestically on . . .
The crowd gave way, & I arose aghast,
Or seemed to rise, so mighty was the trance,
And saw like clouds upon the thunder blast
The million with fierce song and maniac dance
Raging around; such seemed the jubilee
As when to greet some conqueror’s advance
Imperial Rome poured forth her living sea
From senatehouse & prison & theatre
When Freedom left those who upon the free
Had bound a yoke which soon they stooped to bear.
Nor wanted here the true similitude
Of a triumphal pageant, for where’er
The chariot rolled a captive multitude
Was driven; althose who had grown old in power
Or misery,—all who have their age subdued,
By action or by suffering, and whose hour
Was drained to its last sand in weal or woe,
So that the trunk survived both fruit & flower;
All those whose fame or infamy must grow
Till the great winter lay the form & name
Of their own earth with them forever low,
All but the sacred few who could not tame
Their spirits to the Conqueror, but as soon
As they had touched the world with living flame
Fled back like eagles to their native noon,
Of those who put aside the diadem
Of earthly thrones or gems, till the last one
Were there;—for they of Athens & Jerusalem
Were neither mid the mighty captives seen
Nor mid the ribald crowd that followed them
Or fled before . . Now swift, fierce & obscene
The wild dance maddens in the van, & those
Who lead it, fleet as shadows on the green,
Outspeed the chariot & without repose
Mix with each other in tempestuous measure
To savage music …. Wilder as it grows,
They, tortured by the agonizing pleasure,
Convulsed & on the rapid whirlwinds spun
Of that fierce spirit, whose unholy leisure
Was soothed by mischief since the world begun,
Throw back their heads & loose their streaming hair,
And in their dance round her who dims the Sun
Maidens & youths fling their wild arms in air
As their feet twinkle; they recede, and now
Bending within each other’s atmosphere
Kindle invisibly; and as they glow
Like moths by light attracted & repelled,
Oft to new bright destruction come & go.
Till like two clouds into one vale impelled
That shake the mountains when their lightnings mingle
And die in rain,—the fiery band which held
Their natures, snaps . . . ere the shock cease to tingle
One falls and then another in the path
Senseless, nor is the desolation single,
Yet ere I can say where the chariot hath
Past over them; nor other trace I find
But as of foam after the Ocean’s wrath
Is spent upon the desert shore.—Behind,
Old men, and women foully disarrayed
Shake their grey hair in the insulting wind,
Limp in the dance & strain, with limbs decayed,
Seeking to reach the light which leaves them still
Farther behind & deeper in the shade.
But not the less with impotence of will
They wheel, though ghastly shadows interpose
Round them & round each other, and fulfill
Their work and to the dust whence they arose
Sink & corruption veils them as they lie
And frost in these performs what fire in those.
Struck to the heart by this sad pageantry,
Half to myself I said, “And what is this?
Whose shape is that within the car? & why”-
I would have added—”is all here amiss?”
But a voice answered . . “Life” . . . I turned & knew
(O Heaven have mercy on such wretchedness!)
That what I thought was an old root which grew
To strange distortion out of the hill side
Was indeed one of that deluded crew,
And that the grass which methought hung so wide
And white, was but his thin discoloured hair,
And that the holes it vainly sought to hide
Were or had been eyes.—”lf thou canst forbear
To join the dance, which I had well forborne,”
Said the grim Feature, of my thought aware,
“I will now tell that which to this deep scorn
Led me & my companions, and relate
The progress of the pageant since the morn;
“If thirst of knowledge doth not thus abate,
Follow it even to the night, but I
Am weary” . . . Then like one who with the weight
Of his own words is staggered, wearily
He paused, and ere he could resume, I cried,
“First who art thou?” . . . “Before thy memory
“I feared, loved, hated, suffered, did, & died,
And if the spark with which Heaven lit my spirit
Earth had with purer nutriment supplied
“Corruption would not now thus much inherit
Of what was once Rousseau—nor this disguise
Stained that within which still disdains to wear it.—
“If I have been extinguished, yet there rise
A thousand beacons from the spark I bore.”—
“And who are those chained to the car?” “The Wise,
“The great, the unforgotten: they who wore
Mitres & helms & crowns, or wreathes of light,
Signs of thought’s empire over thought; their lore
“Taught them not this—to know themselves; their might
Could not repress the mutiny within,
And for the morn of truth they feigned, deep night
“Caught them ere evening.” “Who is he with chin
Upon his breast and hands crost on his chain?”
“The Child of a fierce hour; he sought to win
“The world, and lost all it did contain
Of greatness, in its hope destroyed; & more
Of fame & peace than Virtue’s self can gain
“Without the opportunity which bore
Him on its eagle’s pinion to the peak
From which a thousand climbers have before
“Fall’n as Napoleon fell.”—I felt my cheek
Alter to see the great form pass away
Whose grasp had left the giant world so weak
That every pigmy kicked it as it lay—
And much I grieved to think how power & will
In opposition rule our mortal day—
And why God made irreconcilable
Good & the means of good; and for despair
I half disdained mine eye’s desire to fill
With the spent vision of the times that were
And scarce have ceased to be . . . “Dost thou behold,”
Said then my guide, “those spoilers spoiled, Voltaire,
“Frederic, & Kant, Catherine, & Leopold,
Chained hoary anarch, demagogue & sage
Whose name the fresh world thinks already old—
“For in the battle Life & they did wage
She remained conqueror—I was overcome
By my own heart alone, which neither age
“Nor tears nor infamy nor now the tomb
Could temper to its object.”—”Let them pass”—
I cried—”the world & its mysterious doom
“Is not so much more glorious than it was
That I desire to worship those who drew
New figures on its false & fragile glass
“As the old faded.”—”Figures ever new
Rise on the bubble, paint them how you may;
We have but thrown, as those before us threw,
“Our shadows on it as it past away.
But mark, how chained to the triumphal chair
The mighty phantoms of an elder day—
“All that is mortal of great Plato there
Expiates the joy & woe his master knew not;
That star that ruled his doom was far too fair—
“And Life, where long that flower of Heaven grew not,
Conquered the heart by love which gold or pain
Or age or sloth or slavery could subdue not—
“And near [[blank]] walk the [[blank]] twain,
The tutor & his pupil, whom Dominion
Followed as tame as vulture in a chain.—
“The world was darkened beneath either pinion
Of him whom from the flock of conquerors
Fame singled as her thunderbearing minion;
“The other long outlived both woes & wars,
Throned in new thoughts of men, and still had kept
The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors
“If Bacon’s spirit [[blank]] had not leapt
Like lightning out of darkness; he compelled
The Proteus shape of Nature’s as it slept
“To wake & to unbar the caves that held
The treasure of the secrets of its reign—
See the great bards of old who inly quelled
“The passions which they sung, as by their strain
May well be known: their living melody
Tempers its own contagion to the vein
“Of those who are infected with it—I
Have suffered what I wrote, or viler pain!—
“And so my words were seeds of misery—
Even as the deeds of others.”—”Not as theirs,”
I said—he pointed to a company
In which I recognized amid the heirs
Of Caesar’s crime from him to Constantine,
The Anarchs old whose force & murderous snares
Had founded many a sceptre bearing line
And spread the plague of blood & gold abroad,
And Gregory & John and men divine
Who rose like shadows between Man & god
Till that eclipse, still hanging under Heaven,
Was worshipped by the world o’er which they strode
For the true Sun it quenched.—”Their power was given
But to destroy,” replied the leader—”I
Am one of those who have created, even
“If it be but a world of agony.”—
“Whence camest thou & whither goest thou?
How did thy course begin,” I said, “& why?
“Mine eyes are sick of this perpetual flow
Of people, & my heart of one sad thought.—
Speak.”—”Whence I came, partly I seem to know,
“And how & by what paths I have been brought
To this dread pass, methinks even thou mayst guess;
Why this should be my mind can compass not;
“Whither the conqueror hurries me still less.
But follow thou, & from spectator turn
Actor or victim in this wretchedness,
“And what thou wouldst be taught I then may learn
From thee.—Now listen . . . In the April prime
When all the forest tops began to burn
“With kindling green, touched by the azure clime
Of the young year, I found myself asleep
Under a mountain which from unknown time
“Had yawned into a cavern high & deep,
And from it came a gentle rivulet
Whose water like clear air in its calm sweep
“Bent the soft grass & kept for ever wet
The stems of the sweet flowers, and filled the grove
With sound which all who hear must needs forget
“All pleasure & all pain, all hate & love,
Which they had known before that hour of rest:
A sleeping mother then would dream not of
“The only child who died upon her breast
At eventide, a king would mourn no more
The crown of which his brow was dispossest
“When the sun lingered o’er the Ocean floor
To gild his rival’s new prosperity.—
Thou wouldst forget thus vainly to deplore
“Ills, which if ills, can find no cure from thee,
The thought of which no other sleep will quell
Nor other music blot from memory—
“So sweet & deep is the oblivious spell.—
Whether my life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell
“Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
I know not. I arose & for a space
The scene of woods & waters seemed to keep,
“Though it was now broad day, a gentle trace
Of light diviner than the common Sun
Sheds on the common Earth, but all the place
“Was filled with many sounds woven into one
Oblivious melody, confusing sense
Amid the gliding waves & shadows dun;
“And as I looked the bright omnipresence
Of morning through the orient cavern flowed,
And the Sun’s image radiantly intense
“Burned on the waters of the well that glowed
Like gold, and threaded all the forest maze
With winding paths of emerald fire—there stood
“Amid the sun, as he amid the blaze
Of his own glory, on the vibrating
Floor of the fountain, paved with flashing rays,
“A shape all light, which with one hand did fling
Dew on the earth, as if she were the Dawn
Whose invisible rain forever seemed to sing
“A silver music on the mossy lawn,
And still before her on the dusky grass
Iris her many coloured scarf had drawn.—
“In her right hand she bore a crystal glass
Mantling with bright Nepenthe;—the fierce splendour
Fell from her as she moved under the mass
“Of the deep cavern, & with palms so tender
Their tread broke not the mirror of its billow,
Glided along the river, and did bend her
“Head under the dark boughs, till like a willow
Her fair hair swept the bosom of the stream
That whispered with delight to be their pillow.—
“As one enamoured is upborne in dream
O’er lily-paven lakes mid silver mist
To wondrous music, so this shape might seem
“Partly to tread the waves with feet which kist
The dancing foam, partly to glide along
The airs that roughened the moist amethyst,
“Or the slant morning beams that fell among
The trees, or the soft shadows of the trees;
And her feet ever to the ceaseless song
“Of leaves & winds & waves & birds & bees
And falling drops moved in a measure new
Yet sweet, as on the summer evening breeze
“Up from the lake a shape of golden dew
Between two rocks, athwart the rising moon,
Moves up the east, where eagle never flew.—
“And still her feet, no less than the sweet tune
To which they moved, seemed as they moved, to blot
The thoughts of him who gazed on them, & soon
“All that was seemed as if it had been not,
As if the gazer’s mind was strewn beneath
Her feet like embers, & she, thought by thought,
“Trampled its fires into the dust of death,
As Day upon the threshold of the east
Treads out the lamps of night, until the breath
“Of darkness reillumines even the least
Of heaven’s living eyes—like day she came,
Making the night a dream; and ere she ceased
“To move, as one between desire and shame
Suspended, I said—’If, as it doth seem,
Thou comest from the realm without a name,
” ‘Into this valley of perpetual dream,
Shew whence I came, and where I am, and why—
Pass not away upon the passing stream.’
” ‘Arise and quench thy thirst,’ was her reply,
And as a shut lily, stricken by the wand
Of dewy morning’s vital alchemy,
“I rose; and, bending at her sweet command,
Touched with faint lips the cup she raised,
And suddenly my brain became as sand
“Where the first wave had more than half erased
The track of deer on desert Labrador,
Whilst the fierce wolf from which they fled amazed
“Leaves his stamp visibly upon the shore
Until the second bursts—so on my sight
Burst a new Vision never seen before.—
“And the fair shape waned in the coming light
As veil by veil the silent splendour drops
From Lucifer, amid the chrysolite
“Of sunrise ere it strike the mountain tops—
And as the presence of that fairest planet
Although unseen is felt by one who hopes
“That his day’s path may end as he began it
In that star’s smile, whose light is like the scent
Of a jonquil when evening breezes fan it,
“Or the soft note in which his dear lament
The Brescian shepherd breathes, or the caress
That turned his weary slumber to content.—
“So knew I in that light’s severe excess
The presence of that shape which on the stream
Moved, as I moved along the wilderness,
“More dimly than a day appearing dream,
The ghost of a forgotten form of sleep
A light from Heaven whose half extinguished beam
“Through the sick day in which we wake to weep
Glimmers, forever sought, forever lost.—
So did that shape its obscure tenour keep
“Beside my path, as silent as a ghost;
But the new Vision, and its cold bright car,
With savage music, stunning music, crost
“The forest, and as if from some dread war
Triumphantly returning, the loud million
Fiercely extolled the fortune of her star.—
“A moving arch of victory the vermilion
And green & azure plumes of Iris had
Built high over her wind-winged pavilion,
“And underneath aetherial glory clad
The wilderness, and far before her flew
The tempest of the splendour which forbade
Shadow to fall from leaf or stone;—the crew
Seemed in that light like atomies that dance
Within a sunbeam.—Some upon the new
“Embroidery of flowers that did enhance
The grassy vesture of the desart, played,
Forgetful of the chariot’s swift advance;
“Others stood gazing till within the shade
Of the great mountain its light left them dim.—
Others outspeeded it, and others made
“Circles around it like the clouds that swim
Round the high moon in a bright sea of air,
And more did follow, with exulting hymn,
“The chariot & the captives fettered there,
But all like bubbles on an eddying flood
Fell into the same track at last & were
“Borne onward.—I among the multitude
Was swept; me sweetest flowers delayed not long,
Me not the shadow nor the solitude,
“Me not the falling stream’s Lethean song,
Me, not the phantom of that early form
Which moved upon its motion,—but among
“The thickest billows of the living storm
I plunged, and bared my bosom to the clime
Of that cold light, whose airs too soon deform.—
“Before the chariot had begun to climb
The opposing steep of that mysterious dell,
Behold a wonder worthy of the rhyme
“Of him whom from the lowest depths of Hell
Through every Paradise & through all glory
Love led serene, & who returned to tell
“In words of hate & awe the wondrous story
How all things are transfigured, except Love;
For deaf as is a sea which wrath makes hoary
“The world can hear not the sweet notes that move
The sphere whose light is melody to lovers—-
A wonder worthy of his rhyme—the grove
“Grew dense with shadows to its inmost covers,
The earth was grey with phantoms, & the air
Was peopled with dim forms, as when there hovers
“A flock of vampire-bats before the glare
Of the tropic sun, bring ere evening
Strange night upon some Indian isle,—thus were
“Phantoms diffused around, & some did fling
Shadows of shadows, yet unlike themselves,
Behind them, some like eaglets on the wing
“Were lost in the white blaze, others like elves
Danced in a thousand unimagined shapes
Upon the sunny streams & grassy shelves;
“And others sate chattering like restless apes
On vulgar paws and voluble like fire.
Some made a cradle of the ermined capes
“Of kingly mantles, some upon the tiar
Of pontiffs sate like vultures, others played
Within the crown which girt with empire
“A baby’s or an idiot’s brow, & made
Their nests in it; the old anatomies
Sate hatching their bare brood under the shade
“Of demon wings, and laughed from their dead eyes
To reassume the delegated power
Arrayed in which these worms did monarchize
“Who make this earth their charnel.—Others more
Humble, like falcons sate upon the fist
Of common men, and round their heads did soar,
“Or like small gnats & flies, as thick as mist
On evening marshes, thronged about the brow
Of lawyer, statesman, priest & theorist,
“And others like discoloured flakes of snow
On fairest bosoms & the sunniest hair
Fell, and were melted by the youthful glow
“Which they extinguished; for like tears, they were
A veil to those from whose faint lids they rained
In drops of sorrow.—I became aware
“Of whence those forms proceeded which thus stained
The track in which we moved; after brief space
From every form the beauty slowly waned,
“From every firmest limb & fairest face
The strength & freshness fell like dust, & left
The action & the shape without the grace
“Of life; the marble brow of youth was cleft
With care, and in the eyes where once hope shone
Desire like a lioness bereft
“Of its last cub, glared ere it died; each one
Of that great crowd sent forth incessantly
These shadows, numerous as the dead leaves blown
“In Autumn evening from a popular tree—
Each, like himself & like each other were,
At first, but soon distorted, seemed to be
“Obscure clouds moulded by the casual air;
And of this stuff the car’s creative ray
Wrought all the busy phantoms that were there
“As the sun shapes the clouds—thus, on the way
Mask after mask fell from the countenance
And form of all, and long before the day
“Was old, the joy which waked like Heaven’s glance
The sleepers in the oblivious valley, died,
And some grew weary of the ghastly dance
“And fell, as I have fallen by the way side,
Those soonest from whose forms most shadows past
And least of strength & beauty did abide.”—
“Then, what is Life?” I said . . . the cripple cast
His eye upon the car which now had rolled
Onward, as if that look must be the last,
And answered …. “Happy those for whom the fold
Of …
“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 “A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” — Dr. Boyce “He who imagines himself capable should attempt to perform. Neither originality counts, nor criticism of another’s work. It is not courage, nor self-confidence, nor a sense of superiority that tells. Performance alone is the test.”
— Emanuel Lasker
Machgielis "Max" Euwe
Fifth World Chess Champion from 1935 to 1937
Birthdate: May 20, 1901
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: November 26, 1981
Max Euwe scripted history when he became the first chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. A PhD in math, he also taught both math and computer programming, apart from publishing a mathematical analysis of chess. A chess world champion, he also served as the president of FIDE. greersome wrote:
There once was a woman from Mizes
Who had chess sets of two different sizes
One was quite small
Almost nothing at all
But the other was large and won prizes!
“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 <Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me). Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!> FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/ Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assiac Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“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 “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 pages 24-25 of The Year Book of the United States Chess Federation 1944 (Chicago, 1945), which published ‘Brave Heart’, Anthony Santasiere’s tribute to Frank J. Marshall. Written in August 1942 for Marshall’s 65th birthday, it began: Brave Heart –
We salute you!
Knowing neither gain nor loss,
Nor fear, nor hate –;
But only this –
To fight – to fight –
And to love.
Santasiere then gushes on in a similar vein for another 40 lines or so, and we pick up the encomium for its final verse: For this – dear Frank –
We thank you.
For this – dear Frank –
We love you!
Brave heart –
Brave heart –
We love you!
The Old Woman And Her Two Servants
A beldam kept two spinning maids,
Who plied so handily their trades,
Those spinning sisters down below
Were bunglers when compared with these.
No care did this old woman know
But giving tasks as she might please.
No sooner did the god of day
His glorious locks enkindle,
Than both the wheels began to play,
And from each whirling spindle
Forth danced the thread right merrily,
And back was coiled unceasingly.
Soon as the dawn, I say, its tresses showed,
A graceless cock most punctual crowed.
The beldam roused, more graceless yet,
In greasy petticoat bedight,
Struck up her farthing light,
And then forthwith the bed beset,
Where deeply, blessedly did snore
Those two maid-servants tired and poor.
One oped an eye, an arm one stretched,
And both their breath most sadly fetched,
This threat concealing in the sigh –
"That cursed cock shall surely die!"
And so he did: they cut his throat,
And put to sleep his rousing note.
And yet this murder mended not
The cruel hardship of their lot;
For now the twain were scarce in bed
Before they heard the summons dread.
The beldam, full of apprehension
Lest oversleep should cause detention,
Ran like a goblin through her mansion.
Thus often, when one thinks
To clear himself from ill,
His effort only sinks
Him in the deeper still.
The beldam, acting for the cock,
Was Scylla for Charybdis" rock.
Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. Riddle: If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there? Skip down for the answer... Dionysis1: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb! Riddle Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet. Q: Did you hear about the kidnapping at school? R: It’s okay. He woke up. PinkFaerie5 wrote:
Leopard King Coronation
bird of paradise flew in
briefing the leopard king
a candle was tossed
but isn’t he disguised? a pheasant asked
Yes, wearing a butterfly mask
and one of your feathers
the pheasant was pleased
which is why I left, said the bird
I thought he would be wearing my feather
feelings are always being hurt
at coronations of leopard kings
this was no exception
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “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 woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.” — Maya Angelou wordyfun:
032 rxp Felix Dzagnidze zombd Zelinsky fust NewJzy Zaza Bakgandzhiyo ztecho22 muzio out-of-print scratch, scratch, scratched th rash on hes... 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. Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun." LONDON BRIDGE
London Bridge is falling down
Falling down
Falling down
London Bridge is falling down
My Fair Lady.
MFL
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Assembled by iamlam, Fredthebear, and Rookington. * Amazing: Game Collection: Amazing Chess Moves (Emms) * First of each ECO: Game Collection: First of Each ECO * How to Analyze: https://thechessworld.com/articles/... * Recommendations: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/wiki... “Above the clouds I lift my wing
To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
To Earth I bring;
Then let me soar and sing!” ― Edmund Clarence Stedman “Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote. The gloomy soul aggravates misfortune, while a cheerful smile often dispels those mists that portend a storm.” ― Lydia Sigourney "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
“There are no more worlds to conquer!” ― Alexander the Great “Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die.”
— Captain Kirk
“Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, [chess] recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It’s eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game.” — Paul Morphy "Chess is all about stored pattern recognition. You are asking your brain to spot a face in the crowd that it has not seen." — Sally Simpson “If you see a good move, look for a better one.” — Emanuel Lasker Adapt on the fly. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” — General George S. Patton “It is more important to outthink your enemy, than to outfight him.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War “The expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.” — Spock “The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake.”
— Savielly Tartakower
Why is England the wettest country? Because the queen reigned there for decades. <Luke 8:16-18 New King James Version
The Parable of the Revealed Light
Jesus said:
16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”> * Alpha Glossary: https://www.chess-poster.com/englis... * Glossary: https://www.peoriachess.com/Glossar... * Good Historical Links: https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/in... * Internet tracking: https://www.studysmarter.us/magazin... * Fireside book: Game Collection: Fireside Book of Chess * Giuoco Pianissimo: Game Collection: GIUOCO PIANISSIMO * Two Knts Defense: Game Collection: Two Knights Defence by Beliavsky mikhalchisin Uncompromising Chess, by Belyavsky, Alexander (User: Resignation Trap) Game Collection: Uncompromising Chess by Alexander Beliavsky ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Uncompromisin... Understanding Chess Move by Move: A Top-Class Grandmaster Explains Step-by-Step How Chess Games Are Won, by Nunn, John (User: PhilipTheGeek) Game Collection: Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move ♖♖♖ http://www.amazon.com/Understanding... * Best Games of 2018: Game Collection: Best Games of 2018 * Opening Tree: https://www.shredderchess.com/onlin... * The Unthinkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9z... * World Chess Championship History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkO... Connecticut: Windsor
Established in: 1633
Windsor was Connecticut's first English settlement, with a perfect location on the water. Today, the city uses its "first town" status to create a historical atmosphere ideal for tourism. * Chess History: https://www.uschesstrust.org/chess-... 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
The Frog and the Rat
They to bamboozle are inclined,
Says Merlin, who bamboozled are.
The word, though rather unrefined,
Has yet an energy we ill can spare;
So by its aid I introduce my tale.
A well-fed rat, rotund and hale,
Not knowing either Fast or Lent,
Disporting round a frog-pond went.
A frog approached, and, with a friendly greeting, Invited him to see her at her home,
And pledged a dinner worth his eating, –
To which the rat was nothing loath to come.
Of words persuasive there was little need:
She spoke, however, of a grateful bath;
Of sports and curious wonders on their path;
Of rarities of flower, and rush, and reed:
One day he would recount with glee
To his assembled progeny
The various beauties of these places,
The customs of the various races,
And laws that sway the realms aquatic,
(She did not mean the hydrostatic!)
One thing alone the rat perplexed, –
He was but moderate as a swimmer.
The frog this matter nicely fixed
By kindly lending him her
Long paw, which with a rush she tied
To his; and off they started, side by side.
Arrived on the lakelet's brink,
There was but little time to think.
The frog leaped in, and almost brought her
Bound guest to land beneath the water.
Perfidious breach of law and right!
She meant to have a supper warm
Out of his sleek and dainty form.
Already did her appetite
Dwell on the morsel with delight.
The gods, in anguish, he invokes;
His faithless hostess rudely mocks;
He struggles up, she struggles down.
A kite, that hovers in the air,
Inspecting everything with care,
Now spies the rat belike to drown,
And, with a rapid wing,
Upbears the wretched thing,
The frog, too, dangling by the string!
The joy of such a double haul
Was to the hungry kite not small.
It gave him all that he could wish –
A double meal of flesh and fish.
The best contrived deceit
Can hurt its own contriver,
And perfidy does often cheat
Its author's purse of every stiver.
Chessgames.com will be unavailable October 13, 2023 from 11:30AM through 11:45AM(UTC/GMT) for maintenance. We apologize for this inconvenience. 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. “One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.” ― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ― Denis Waitley “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” —Aristotle Psalm 31:24
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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.
<There are distinct situations where a bishop is preferred (over a knight). For example, two bishops are better than two knights or one of each. Steven Mayer, the author of Bishop Versus Knight, contends, “A pair of bishops is usually considered to be worth six points, but common sense suggests that a pair of active bishops (that are very involved in the formation) must be accorded a value of almost nine under some circumstances.” This is especially true if the player can plant the bishops in the center of the board, as two bishops working in tandem can span up to 26 squares and have the capacity to touch every square.Bishops are also preferable to knights when queens have been exchanged because, Grandmaster Sergey Erenburg, who is ranked 11th in the U.S., explains, “[Bishops and rooks] complement each other, and when well-coordinated, act as a queen.” Conversely, a knight is the preferred minor piece when the queen survives until the late-middlegame or the endgame. Mayer explains, “The queen and knight are [able] to work together smoothly and create a greater number of threats than the queen and bishop.” When forced to say one is better than the other, most anoint the bishop. Mayer concludes, “I think it’s true that the bishops are better than the knights in a wider variety of positions than the knights are better than the bishops.” He continues, “Of course, I’m not sure this does us much good, as we only get to play one position at a time.”> Machgielis "Max" Euwe
Fifth World Chess Champion from 1935 to 1937
Birthdate: May 20, 1901
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: November 26, 1981
Max Euwe scripted history when he became the first chess Grandmaster from the Netherlands. A PhD in math, he also taught both math and computer programming, apart from publishing a mathematical analysis of chess. A chess world champion, he also served as the president of FIDE. greersome wrote:
There once was a woman from Mizes
Who had chess sets of two different sizes
One was quite small
Almost nothing at all
But the other was large and won prizes!
“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 <Oct-04-23 HeMateMe: I play 3/2 blitz occasionally on Lichess. I find it an excellent site, none of the delays/cancellations that ruined chess.com (for me). Oct-04-23 Cassandro: Yes, lichess is by far the best site for online chess. And you never know, apparently you may even get to play against a living legend like the highly esteemed Leonard Barden there!> FTB plays all about but has always been happy with FICS: https://www.freechess.org/ Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Drive sober or get pulled over.
“For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.” — Assia Once I asked Pillsbury whether he used any formula for castling. He said his rule was absolute and vital: castle because you will or because you must; but not because you can.’ — W.E. Napier (1881-1952) The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1807-1882
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“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
“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
pages 24-25 of The Year Book of the United States Chess Federation 1944 (Chicago, 1945), which published ‘Brave Heart’, Anthony Santasiere’s tribute to Frank J. Marshall. Written in August 1942 for Marshall’s 65th birthday, it began: Brave Heart –
We salute you!
Knowing neither gain nor loss,
Nor fear, nor hate –;
But only this –
To fight – to fight –
And to love.
Santasiere then gushes on in a similar vein for another 40 lines or so, and we pick up the encomium for its final verse: For this – dear Frank –
We thank you.
For this – dear Frank –
We love you!
Brave heart –
Brave heart –
We love you!
The Old Woman And Her Two Servants
A beldam kept two spinning maids,
Who plied so handily their trades,
Those spinning sisters down below
Were bunglers when compared with these.
No care did this old woman know
But giving tasks as she might please.
No sooner did the god of day
His glorious locks enkindle,
Than both the wheels began to play,
And from each whirling spindle
Forth danced the thread right merrily,
And back was coiled unceasingly.
Soon as the dawn, I say, its tresses showed,
A graceless cock most punctual crowed.
The beldam roused, more graceless yet,
In greasy petticoat bedight,
Struck up her farthing light,
And then forthwith the bed beset,
Where deeply, blessedly did snore
Those two maid-servants tired and poor.
One oped an eye, an arm one stretched,
And both their breath most sadly fetched,
This threat concealing in the sigh –
"That cursed cock shall surely die!"
And so he did: they cut his throat,
And put to sleep his rousing note.
And yet this murder mended not
The cruel hardship of their lot;
For now the twain were scarce in bed
Before they heard the summons dread.
The beldam, full of apprehension
Lest oversleep should cause detention,
Ran like a goblin through her mansion.
Thus often, when one thinks
To clear himself from ill,
His effort only sinks
Him in the deeper still.
The beldam, acting for the cock,
Was Scylla for Charybdis" rock.
Q: Did you hear about the kidnapping at school? R: It’s okay. He woke up. Old Russian Proverb: "Measure seven times, cut once. (Семь раз отмерь — один отрежь.)" Be careful before you do something that cannot be changed. Riddle Question: If there are four sheep, two dogs and one herds-men, how many feet are there? Dionysis1: I had basil on the pub's potage du jour yesterday. Soup herb! Riddle Answer: Two. Sheep have hooves; dogs have paws; only people have feet. <“Sestrilla, hafelina
Jue amourasestrilla
Awou jue selaviena
En patre jue
Translation:
Beloved one, little cat
I love you for all time
In this time
And all others”
― Christine Feehan>
“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 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.
Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER
What do you call a woman who sets fire to all her bills? Bernadette. “If you’re positive you can get through it OK. When you think negatively, you’re putting poison in your body. Just smile. They say laughter is the best medicine there is.” — Elsa Bailey, athlete, 100 years old You know there's no official training for trash collectors? They just pick things up as they go along. poem by B.H. Wood, entitled ‘The Drowser’:
Ah, reverie! Ten thousand heads I see
Bent over chess-boards, an infinity
Of minds engaged in battle, fiendishly,
Keenly, or calmly, as the case may be:
World-wide, the neophyte, the veteran,
The studious problemist, the fairy fan ...
“What’s that? – I’m nearly sending you to sleep?
Sorry! – but this position’s rather deep.” Source: Chess Amateur, September 1929, page 268. <First And Last Author
Riddle Question: What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?By 2024 India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country China currently has 1.4 billion inhabitants, closely followed by India with 1.3 billion. Together they make up 37% of the world’s population. Riddle Answer: Your name.>
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul." ― General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur The Sun and the Frogs
Rejoicing on their tyrant's wedding-day,
The people drowned their care in drink;
While from the general joy did Aesop shrink,
And showed its folly in this way.
"The sun," said he, "once took it in his head
To have a partner for his bed.
From swamps, and ponds, and marshy bogs,
Up rose the wailings of the frogs.
"What shall we do, should he have progeny?"
Said they to Destiny;
"One sun we scarcely can endure,
And half-a-dozen, we are sure,
Will dry the very sea.
Adieu to marsh and fen!
Our race will perish then,
Or be obliged to fix
Their dwelling in the Styx!"
For such an humble animal,
The frog, I take it, reasoned well."
Riddle: I make two people out of one. What am I? Thank you, Qindarka!
Riddle Answer: A mirror.
Luke 2:9, 10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 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
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ― Thomas A. Edison “Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, z where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.” ― Garry Kasparov The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“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 “A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.” — Dr. Boyce “Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Adair “He who imagines himself capable should attempt to perform. Neither originality counts, nor criticism of another’s work. It is not courage, nor self-confidence, nor a sense of superiority that tells. Performance alone is the test.”
— Emanuel Lasker
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell “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 <PinkFaerie5 wrote:
Leopard King Coronation
bird of paradise flew in
briefing the leopard king
a candle was tossed
but isn’t he disguised? a pheasant asked
Yes, wearing a butterfly mask
and one of your feathers
the pheasant was pleased
which is why I left, said the bird
I thought he would be wearing my feather
feelings are always being hurt
at coronations of leopard kings
this was no exception>
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. “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 woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.” — Maya Angelou wordyfun:
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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. Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun." LONDON BRIDGE
London Bridge is falling down
Falling down
Falling down
London Bridge is falling down
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“Every master was once a disaster.” ― T.S. Wood “It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.” ― Eddie Harris, Jr. “You already possess everything necessary to become great.” ~ Crow tribe saying What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common? Same middle name. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” ― Stephen Hawking Why is it sad that parallel lines have so much in common? Because they'll never meet. “You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.”
Cochise, Chiricahua
“Chess is the art of analysis.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Chess is imagination.” ― David Bronstein
“Chess is as much a mystery as women.” ― Cecil John Seddon Purdy “Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.” ― Randall Munroe “A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage...” ― from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess “Strength is not the only thing we must have in the world, and, in a man or a nation, it is of little use without wisdom.” ―
Chicopee and the Wooden Man, Yankton Sioux
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. <First And Last Author
Riddle: What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?By 2024 India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country China currently has 1.4 billion inhabitants, closely followed by India with 1.3 billion. Together they make up 37% of the world’s population. Riddle Answer: Your name.>
Is it ignorance or apathy that's destroying the world today? I don't know, and I don't care. One of Bobby Fischer’s famous utterances is that “Chess is life.” “Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.” ― Anatoly Karpov “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” ― Forrest Gump GM Vaishali Rameshbabu (born 21 June 2001) is GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa's (born 10 August 2005) older sister. They are the world's first sister-brother grandmaster duo. Vaishali received Arjuna Award from the President of India on 9 January 2024. “Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE.” ― Alan Rufus “All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.” ― Chief Si’ahl (Seattle), Suqwamish and Duwamish Searching for two of a color in line with each other finds basic tactics: fork, pin, skewer. The king, queen and the knight may fork targets that are not aligned. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” ― Robert Tew “Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.” ― Jason Wong “Those who have one foot in the canoe and one foot in the boat are going to fall in the river.” ~ Tuscarora proverb “Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.” ~
Northern Cheyenne proverb
Never criticize someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “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 "Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers." ― Chief Joseph (Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt), Nez Perce “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 “Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” ― Jean de la Bruyere What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind? A maybe. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein What did the swordfish say to the marlin? "You're looking sharp." “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ― Albert Einstein “I have seen two geniuses in my time. One was Tal. The other was Fischer.” ―
Russian GM Yuri Averbakh. Averbakh was born February 8 1922, in Kaluga, a city 180 km southwest of Moscow, making him the first-ever chess grandmaster to become a centenarian. Averbakh passed away on May 7 2022, at the age of 100.
Before Averbakh, the oldest living grandmaster was GM Andor Lilienthal, who died in 2010, three days after turning 99. pyrrolysine wrote:
“My very first chess book was "Journey to the chess kingdom" by Averbakh and Beilin. Great stuff.” “Failure is success in progress.” ― Albert Einstein “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” ― Mia Hamm How do celebrities stay cool? They have many fans. “The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.”
― Viswanathan Anand
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” ― Napoleon Hill “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ― Robert. H. Schuller “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” ― Charles Spurgeon “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” ― Unknown “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” ― Louis Pasteur "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army Which branch of the military accepts toddlers? The infantry. “Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader After winning a good game, I always ask myself: "Where did I go right?"
― Tom Wiswell (1910-1988) who made a quote regarding playing checkers worth using in chess circles. “Life is like chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
Why couldn't the bicycle stand on its own? It was two tired. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” — Billy Graham Why were the teacher's eyes crossed? She couldn't control her pupils. “Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.” — Professor X “If you’re positive (attitude) you can get through it OK. When you think negatively, you’re putting poison in your body. Just smile. They say laughter is the best medicine there is.” — Elsa Bailey, athlete, 100 years old “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.” — Claire Cook Exaggerations have become an epidemic. They went up by a million percent last year. “Life is like a game of chess. I cannot undo the moves but I can make the next step better.” — Edwin Tan “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell I told my physical therapist that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.” — Watty Piper “The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake.”
— Savielly Tartakower
“Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.” — Nancy Kerrigan “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
* 15 Life Lessons: https://herculeschess.com/life-less... % Kingside Fianchetto, Fool's Mate: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 f5? 3.exf5 gxf5?? 4.Qh5# 1-0. % Dutch Defense Gambit, Fool's Mate 1.d4 f5 2.g4 fxg4 3.h3 Nf6 4.hxg4 Nxg4 5.Qd3 Nf6 6.Rxh7 RxRh7 7.Qg6# 1-0. % Dutch Defense, Bishop trap fails to Fool's Mate: 1.d4 f5 2.Bg5 h6 3.Bh4 g5 4.Bg3 (4.e4 is also playable, hoping for either greedy capture followed by 5.Qh5#) 4...f4 5.e3 h5 6.Bd3 Rh6 7.Qxh5 RxQh5 8.Bg6# 0-1. % Bird's Opening, Queen Sacrifice for Fool's Mate by bishop: 1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.g3 (4.Nc3? Qh4+ 5.g3 Qxg3+ 6.hxQg3 Bxg3#) 4...Qg5 5.Nf3? Qxg3+ 6.hxQg3 Bxg3# 0-1. % Owen's Defense, Queen Sacrifice for Fool's Mate by bishop: 1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 f5? 4.exf5 Bxg2 5.Qh5+ g6 6.fxg6 Nf6?? 7.gxh7+ NxQh5 8.Bg6# 1-0. % Aggressive but unsound England Gambit mates in 8 Moves: 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Qe7 4.Bf4 (4.Bg5 and 4.Qd5 Nb4 5.Qb3 are also played) 4...Qb4+ triple fork 5.Bd2 (5.Qd2 Qxb2 6. Qc3 Bb4 pin 7.Bd2 BxQc3 8.BxBc3 useless x-ray defense of the Ra1 because 8...Qc1#) 5...Qxb2 6.Bc3? Bb4 7.Qd2 BxBc3 8. QxBc3? Qc1# 0-1. White should play 6.Nc3 Nb4 7.Nd4 c5 8.Rb1 Qa3 9.Nb5 Qa5 10.a3 Nc6 11.Nd5 threatening the fork Nc7+. Also, 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Rb1 Qa3 8.Nd5 Ba5 9.Rb5 BxBd2 10.QxBd2 Kd8 11.e4 a6 12.Rb1 Nge7 13.Be2 (what about 13.Bd3?) Re8 14.Qg5 with menial pressure. If Qa5+ c3 blocks, Qxa2 Rd1. This line needs further examination. % Alekhine's Defense, queenside mate: 1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.f4 exf4 4.Qe2 Bf5 5.Qb5 Be7 6.Qxb7 Bc6 8.Bb5 Qd7 9.BxBc6 QxBc6 10.Qc8# 1-0. % Bishop's Opening, Scholar's Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Qf3? Nd4?? 4.Qxf7# 1-0. % Bishop's Opening, Scholar's Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Qh5? Nf6?? 4.Qxf7# 1-0. % Scotch Game, Scholar's Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.c3 Qf6 6.NxNc6 Qxf2# 0-1. % Vienna Game, Smothered Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Ne7? 3.Nb5? c6? 4.Nd6# 1-0. Both knights violate opening principles. % Open Sicilian, Smothered Mate: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nf5 Nge7? 6.Nd6# 0-1. % Caro-Kann Defense Smothered Mate: 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nbd7 5.Qe2 Ngf6 6.Nd6# 1-0. % Italian Game, Blackburne Shilling Gambit, Smothered Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4? 4.Nxe5 Qg5 5.Nxf7? Qxg2 6.Rf1 (If 6.NxRh8 QxRh1+ 7.Bf1 Qxe4+ 8.Be2 Nxc2+ 9.Kf1 Qh1# or 9.QxNc2 QxQc2 etc.) 6...Qxe4+ 7.Be2 Nf3# 0-1. If 7...Qe2 8.NxQe2 BxNe2 9.Qxc2 etc. % Italian Game, Two Knights Defense, Fried Liver Attack, Fritz Variation, Smothered Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nd4 6.d6 Qxd6
7.Nxf7 Qc6 8.NxRh8 Qxg2 9.Rf1 Qe4+ 10.Be2 Nf3# 0-1. % Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense Variation, Smothered Mate:
Smit vs Gerard Welling
Helmond, 1978 – Helmond NED
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.Nxe5 Qg5 6.Nxf7 Qxg2 7.Rf1 Qxe4+ 8.Be2 Nf3# 0–1 % Bishop's Opening, Smothered Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nd5 Nxe4 5.Qg4 Nxf2 6.Qxg7 Rf8 7.Qxe5+ Be7 8.Nf6# 1-0. % Budapest Gambit, Smothered Mate: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bf4 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 Qe7 7.a3 Ngxe5 8.axBb4 Nd3# 0-1. % Ruy Lopez, Philidor's Legacy/Smothered Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ng4 5.♖e1 Bc5 6.d4 Nxd4 7.Nxd4 ♕h4 8.Nf3 ♕xf2+ 9.Kh1 Qg1+ 10.RxQg1 Nf2# 0-1. % Italian Game, Unpin allows a sitting Queen sacrifice, Legall's Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6 4.Nc3 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.Nxe5 BxQd1 7.Bxf7+ Ke7 8.Nd5# 1-0. % Petrov's Defense, Stafford Gambit, Legall's Mate: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nc6 4.NxNc6 dxNc6 5.d3 Bc5 6.Bg5 Nxe4 7.BxQd8?? Bxf2+ 8.Ke2 Bg4# 1-0. % Danish Gambit, sacrifice, castle with check, get the queen in close, mate with battery support on open d-file: 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2 d5 6.Bxd5 Nf6 7.Nc3 Nxd5 8.Nxd5 c6 9.Nf6+! Ke7 (if 9...gxNf6 10.QxQd8+ KxQd8 11.Bxf6+ K moves 12.BxRh8) 10.Ba3+ Ke6 11.Qg4+ KxNf6 12.e5+ Kxe5 13.Nf3+ Kf6 14.Qg5+ Ke6 15.Qe5+ Kd7 16.O-O-O+ Bd6 17.Qxd6+ Ke8 18.QxQd8# 1-0. % Scandinavian Defense, Epaulettes Mate: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 fingerfehler [from German, "finger mistake"] 3.Ke2? Qe4# 0-1. % Pirc Defense, Swallow's Tail Mate: 1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bc4 Bg7 4.d4 Nbd7??
5.Bxf7+ KxBf7 6.Ng5+ Kf6 7.Qf3# 1-0. If 6...Ke8 7.Ne6 traps the Black Queen. % Caro-Kann, Decoy Queen Sacrifice, Double Discovered Check, Reti's Mate: 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5. ♕d3 e5 6.dxe5 Qa5+ 7.Bd2 Qxe5 8.O-O-O Nxe4 9.Qd8+ KxQd8 10.Bg5++ Kc7 11.Bd8# 1-0. % French Frazzle: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nbd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Neg5? Be7?! (6...h3! 7.Nh3) 7.Nxf7? KxNf7 8.Ng5+ Kg8! (8...Kg6 9.Bd3+! etc., 8...Kf8 Nxe6+ etc., 8...Ke8?! 9.Nxe6 Bb4+ 10.c3 Qe7 11.Qe2 Bd6) 9.Nxe6? Qe8?(9...Bb4+ 10.c3 Qe7 11.Qe2 Nb6) 10.Bc4! (10.Nc7?? Bb4#) 10...Bb4+ 11.Kf1. % Sicilian, Smith-Morra Gambit, Siberian Trap -
1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qc7 6.Bc4 e6 7.0-0 Nf6 8.Qe2 Ng4
Black threatens checkmate on h2. For the moment, White has the knight on f3 defending the h2 square. Threatening a checkmate in one move is a powerful threat! The most natural way to drive the black knight from g4 is h3. How does black respond after 9.h3? Yes, with the winning move 9…Nd4! The black knight on d4 attacks the white queen on e2 and threatens to capture the only defender of the h2-square. Defending the knight with 10.Qd3 does not help. Black will play 10…Nxf3+ and deliver checkmate on the next move. Open Tactics:
% Philidor Defense, Unpin+ discovered attack on the loose Black bishop: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.Nc3 Bg4 5.0-0 Nge7? 6.Bxf7+ Kxf7 7.Ng5+ Ke8 8.QxBg4. Black needed a ...Nf6 to protect the Bg4. % Ruy Lopez, Double Attack from the center: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3 a5 6.a4 b4 7.d4 Bd6 8.dxe5 Nxe5 9.Nxe5 BxNe5 10.♕d5 threatens checkmate and the unprotected Ra8. % Ruy Lopez, Knights invade: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 b5 5.Bb3 Nf6 6.Nc3 a5 7.Ng5 b4 8.Nxf7 Qe7 9.Nb5 threatening check and fork on c7. % Ruy Lopez, trapped Bishop: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.O-O Be7 7.Re1 b5 8.Bb3 d6 9.Nxd4 NxNd4 10.♕xNd4 c5 threatening the queen for a gain of tempo followed by ...c4 trapping the Bb3. % Italian Game, Giuoco Piano, Exchange followed by Pawn fork: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 h6 7.BxNxf6 QxBf6 8.Nd5 Qd8 9.c3 Be6 10.d4 Bb6 11.NxBb6 axNb6 12.d5 and Black appears to drop a minor piece. If 12...a5 13.Bd3 Bd7 14.b4 traps the knight on the edge. % Italian Game, Two Knights Defense, Fried Liver Attack, Traxler Counterattack a.k.a. Wilkes-Barre Variation: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5 5.Nxf7 Bxf2+ 6.KxBf2 Nxe4+ 7.Ke1 (7.Ke3 and 7.Kg1 are playable) 7...Qh4+ 8.g3 Nxg3 9.hxNg3 QxRh1+ 10.Ke2 Nd4+ % Caro-Kann Defense, Sacrifice to Promote: 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Ng3 h5 6.Bg5 h4 7.BxNf6 hxNg3 8.Be5 Rxh2 9.RxRh2 ♕a5+ 10.c3 ♕xBe5+ 11. dxQe5 gxRh2 and promotion follows. % French Defense, Milner-Barry Gambit, Discovered Check wins the Black Queen: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Nxd4 8.Nxd4 Qxd4 9.Bb5+ with a discovered attack on the unprotected Black queen. % Scandinavian Defense, Discovered Attack on the Queen: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 c6 6.Ne5 Bf5 7.Nc4 Qd8 8.Bf4 e6 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Na6 11.a3 c5 12.O-O-O Qxd4 13.Nd6+ and the White queen can also check. % Scandinavian Defense, Discovered Attack on the Queen: 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.Bc4 c6 5.d3 Nf6 6.Bd2 Bf5 7.Qe2 Nbd7 8.Nb5 Q 9.Nd6+ Kd8 followed by NxBf5 or Nxf7+ to collect the Rh8. % Open Sicilian, Clearance: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Nbd7 8.Bc4 b5 9.Bxe6 fxBe6 10.Nxe6 Qb6 11.Nd5 Nxd5 12.QxNd5 Bb7 13.Nc7+ and the White queen threatens check and mate from the vacated e6-square. % Open Sicilian, Discovered Attack unmasks the d-file: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.f4 Bg7 7.e5 dxe5 8. fxe5 Ng4 9.Bb5+ Kf8 10.Ne6+ BxNe6 gets Black out of check, but 11.QxQd8 is a backrank mate, 0-1. % Open Sicilian, Gaining a tempo on the opposing Queen is a good way to seize the initiative: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f4 Nbd7 7.Be2 e5 8.fxe5 dxe5 9.Nf5 Qc7 10.Bf3 Nb6 11.Ne3 Bb4 12. Bd2 Nc4 13.Ncd5 Nxd5 14. Nxd5 Bxd2+ 15.Qxd2 Qc6 16.Qg5 Qc5 17.Qxg7 ♖f8 and a mating net is cast. % Barcza/Benko Opening, Target and Trap the Queen: 1.d3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c6 4.Nd2 e5 5.e4 Bd6 6.Ne2 O-O 7.O-O Na6 8.Kh1 Qb6 9.exd5 cxd5 10.Nb3 h6 11.Be3 d4 12.Bd2 Bd7 13.Ba5 Qb5 14.a4 and the Black queen has no safe square. % Budapest Gambit, Unpin w/Check:
Maxence Murara vs Ian Scott
Chess Olympiad, September 4, 2012 – Istanbul TUR
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 Bc5 4.Bg5 Bxf2+ 5.KxBf2 Ng4+ 6.Ke1 QxBg5 7.Nf3 Qe3 8.Nc3 Qf2+ 9.Kd2 Ne3 10.Qe1 Nxc4+ 11.Kc2 Qb6 12.Qc1 Ne3+ 13.Kb1 Qg6+ 0–1 % Queen's Gambit Accepted, trying to hold onto the pawn drops a piece on the long diagonal: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e3 b5 4.a4 c6 5.axb5 cxb5 6.Qf3 eyes the immobile Ra8. Black should interpose on the diagonal with a minor piece worth less than the rook. % Queen's Gambit Declined, Elephant Trap: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7, it looks like White can win a pawn because the knight on f6 is pinned.
However, if White falls for the trap, he loses a piece after 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Nxd5?Nxd5! 7.BxQd8 Bb4+ interposing 8.Qd2 is forced 8…BxQd2+ 9.KxBd2 KxBd8 is winning for Black. % Queen's Gambit Declined, Cambridge Springs variation, LPDO Knight: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.Nf3 c6 6.e3 ♕a5 7.♕c2 Ne4 8.Bd3 NxBg5 9.NxNg5 dxc4 is a discovered double attack on the White Bd3 and the Ng5. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Pablo Picasso “I stand corrected!” said the man in the orthopedic shoes. “Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.” — Thomas Jefferson You're not completely useless. You can always serve as a bad example. “Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.” — Satchel Paige “If you’re doing something just to make money, it’s easy to quit. Most people do. But if you’re doing something because it makes you come alive, then removing the restrictions life throws at you clears the path.” — Evan Carmichael “I believe where there is a will, there is a way. You just can’t give up, you have to keep going.” — Charmaney Bayton “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Stalemate with little material remaining on the board (such as blocked pawns) often occurs when the opposing queen is a knight's move away from the king, restricting the movement but not giving check to the king. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
― C.S. Lewis
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald “You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.” — Babe Ruth I was wondering why the ball was getting bigger, then it hit me. “Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey.” — Big Elk, Omaha <The Hungarian Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves:1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Be7
The Hungarian Defense is a line in the Italian Game typically chosen as a quiet response to the aggressive 3.Bc4. With the move 3...Be7, Black avoids the complexities of the Giuoco Piano (3...Bc5), Evans Gambit (3...Bc5 4.b4), and Two Knights Defense (3...Nf6). The opening is seldom seen in modern play. It has been played on occasion by some grandmasters with strong defensive-positional styles, including Reshevsky, Hort, and former world champions Petrosian and Smyslov. The variation takes its name from a correspondence game Paris CC vs Budapest, 1843 between Paris and Pest, Hungary, played from 1842 to 1845, but was first analyzed by Cozio in the 18th century.> Don't Quit
Poet: Edgar A. Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a fellow turns about when he
Might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than it seems
To a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up when he
Might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And when you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst,
You must not quit.
“Rest if you must but don’t you quit!” — Anonymous “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” — Mary Anne Radmacher “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” — Barack Obama I saw Usain Bolt sprinting around the track shouting, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" It was a running joke. $ $ $
“Elon Musk, the world's richest person, recently revealed his strategy for investing alongside record inflation. According to the WSJ, since February 2020, the Fed increased the nation’s money supply by a staggering 40%. To some experts, it explains why the U.S. is experiencing its highest inflation rate since 1981. The Tesla and SpaceX founder told investors, in his experience, it’s “better to own physical things than dollars when inflation is high.” That’s especially shocking from Musk, who has historically passionately supported cryptocurrencies and other digital goods. The “physical goods” he mentioned could include oil, metals, and grains, which have all soared in prices…” — Nigel Glenday, Chief Financial Officer “If you do what you need, you’re surviving. If you do what you want, you’re living.” — Unknown “Stick to the prepared plan, man. Don't let others down who expect you to do your part. Do no harm. Fools rush in. Be calm, composed, wise; obey boundaries. Control your impulses, urges, your emotions, your words and actions. Respectfully play by the rules, or willful recklessness will burn you soon enough. All God's ambular creatures must stay back off thin ice. Mother Nature and Father Time always have their say. Be safe and sound as you explore.” — Anonymous Bear “The more you know the more you will trust and the less you will fear.” —
Ojibwe saying
Luke 2:9, 10 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 8:16-18 New King James Version
The Parable of the Revealed Light
Jesus said:
16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”> “Hold fast to the words of your ancestors.” ~ Hopi proverb “You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “Be active. I do things my way, like skiing when I’m 100. Nobody else does that even if they have energy. And I try to eat pretty correctly and get exercise and fresh air and sunshine.” ― Elsa Bailey, first time skier at age 100 “Don't look at the calendar, just keep celebrating every day.”
― Ruth Coleman, carpe diem at age 101
1953 Zurich: move 29 Zukertort retort. zooter Frit z drip drip drip Kh7? lubes hiz own Szabo freechrgbl electrk shavr oodd bbee hiveior. Did Miguel Bronstein or David Najdorf say that? What sits at the bottom of the sea and twitches? A nervous wreck. 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
You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game Stephen Moss
Sat 14 Nov 2020 01.56 EST
The first thing to say about chess is that we are not all natural geniuses like Beth Harmon, the star of The Queen’s Gambit, who is taught the game by grumpy but lovable janitor Mr Shaibel at the age of nine and is very soon beating him. The daughter of a maths PhD, she sees the patterns and movement in chess immediately, can visualise effortlessly – being able to memorise moves and play without a board is the sign of chess mastery – and sees whole games on the ceiling of her orphanage dormitory. She is a prodigy, just like world champion Bobby Fischer, on whom Walter Tevis based the novel from which the TV series is drawn. We are mere mortals. So how do we get good? First, by loving chess. “You can only get good at chess if you love the game,” Fischer said. You need to be endlessly fascinated by it and see its infinite potential. Be willing to embrace the complexity; enjoy the adventure. Every game should be an education and teach us something. Losing doesn’t matter. Garry Kasparov, another former world champion, likes to say you learn far more from your defeats than your victories. Eventually you will start winning, but there will be a lot of losses on the way. Play people who are better than you, and be prepared to lose. Then you will learn.
If you are a beginner, don’t feel the need to set out all the pieces at once. Start with the pawns, and then add the pieces. Understand the potential of each piece – the way a pair of bishops can dominate the board, how the rooks can sweep up pawns in an endgame, why the queen and a knight can work together so harmoniously. Find a good teacher – your own Mr Shaibel, but without the communication issues.
Once you have established the basics, start using computers and online resources to play and to help you analyse games. lichess.org, chess.com and chess24.com are great sites for playing and learning. chessbomb.com is a brilliant resource for watching top tournaments. chessgames.com is a wonderful database of games. chesspuzzle.net is a great practice program. decodechess.com attempts to explain chess moves in layperson’s language. There are also plenty of sophisticated, all-purpose programs, usually called chess engines, such as Fritz and HIARCs that, for around £50, help you deconstruct your games and take you deeply into positions. But don’t let the computer do all the work. You need to engage your own brain on the analysis. And don’t endlessly play against the computer. Find human opponents, either online or, when the pandemic is over, in person.
Bobby Fischer was stripped of his world title in 1975 after he refused to defend the title due to a row over the format. Photograph: RFS/AP
Study the games of great masters of the past. Find a player you like and follow their careers. Fischer is a great starting point – his play is clear and comprehensible, and beautifully described in his famous book My 60 Memorable Games. Morphy (Harmon’s favourite), Alekhine, Capablanca, Tal, Korchnoi and Shirov are other legendary figures with whom the aspiring player might identify. They also have fascinating life stories, and chess is about hot human emotions as well as cold calculation. Modern grandmaster chess, which is based heavily on a deep knowledge of opening theory, is more abstruse and may be best avoided until you have acquired deep expertise. The current crop of leading grandmasters are also, if we are brutally honest, a bit lacking in personality compared with the giants of the past.
Children will often find their school has a chess club, and that club may even have links with Chess in Schools and Communities, which supplies expert tutors to schools. Provision tends to be much better at primary than secondary level, and after 11 children will probably be left to their own devices if they want to carry on playing.
If a player is really serious, she or he should join their local chess club. There is likely to be one meeting nearby, or there will be once the Covid crisis is over. At the moment, clubs are not meeting and there is very little over-the-board chess being played. Players are keeping their brains active online, where you can meet players from all over the world. That is fun, but be aware that some players are likely to be cheating – using chess engines to help them, making it hard for you to assess how good your play is. And you also get some abuse online from players who want to trash-talk. You are also likely to be playing at very fast time controls – so-called blitz chess – and that is no way to learn to really think about chess.
If you want to start playing over-the-board tournaments..., you will need to join the chess federation in your respective country. After you’ve played the requisite number of official games, you will get a rating – a bit like a handicap in golf – and can then start being paired with players of your own strength in matches. But until then, the key is to keep enjoying chess and searching for the elusive “truth” in a position. If you see a good move, look for a better one. You can always dig a little deeper in the pursuit of something remarkable and counterintuitive. Beauty and truth: the essence of chess.
Stephen Moss is the author of The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life), published by Bloomsbury * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ― Voltaire “When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” ― Tecumseh When does a joke become a ‘dad’ joke?
When it becomes apparent.
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army CAISSA
or
The Game at Chess; a Poem.
(written in the year 1763, by Sir William Jones) (pronounced ky-eé-sah)
Of armies on the chequer'd field array'd,
And guiltless war in pleasing form display'd;
When two bold kings contend with vain alarms,
In ivory this, and that in ebon arms;
Sing, sportive maids, that haunt the sacred hill Of Pindus, and the fam'd Pierian rill.
Thou, joy of all below, and all above,
Mild Venus, queen of laughter, queen of love;
Leave thy bright island, where on many a rose
And many a pink thy blooming train repose:
Assist me, goddess! since a lovely pair
Command my song, like thee devinely fair.
Near yon cool stream, whose living waters play,
And rise translucent in the solar ray;
Beneath the covert of a fragrant bower,
Where spring's nymphs reclin'd in calm retreat,
And envying blossoms crouded round their seat;
Here Delia was enthron'd, and by her side
The sweet Sirena, both in beauty's pride:
Thus shine two roses, fresh with early bloom,
That from their native stalk dispense perfume;
Their leaves unfolding to the dawning day
Gems of the glowing mead, and eyes of May.
A band of youths and damsels sat around,
Their flowing locks with braided myrtle bound;
Agatis, in the graceful dance admir'd,
And gentle Thyrsis, by the muse inspir'd;
With Sylvia, fairest of the mirthful train;
And Daphnis, doom'd to love, yet love in vain.
Now, whilst a purer blush o'erspreads her cheeks, With soothing accents thus Sirena speaks:
"The meads and lawns are ting'd with beamy light, And wakeful larks begin their vocal flight;
Whilst on each bank the dewdrops sweetly smile;
What sport, my Delia, shall the hours beguile?
Whall heavenly notes, prolong'd with various art, Charm the fond ear, and warm the rapturous heart? At distance shall we view the sylvan chace?
Or catch with silken lines the finny race?"
Then Delia thus: "Or rather, since we meet
By chance assembled in this cool retreat,
In artful contest let our warlike train
Move well-directed o'er the field preside:
No prize we need, our ardour to inflame;
We fight with pleasure, if we fight for fame."
The nymph consents: the maids and youths prepare To view the combat, and the sport to share:
But Daphnis most approv'd the bold design,
Whom Love instructed, and the tuneful Nine.
He rose, and on the cedar table plac'd
A polish'd board, with differing colours grac'd; Squares eight times eight in equal order lie;
These bright as snow, those dark with sable dye; Like the broad target by the tortoise born,
Or like the hide by spotted panthers worn.
Then from a chest, with harmless heroes stor'd,
O'er the smooth plain two well-wrought hosts he pour'd; The champions burn'd their rivals to assail,
Twice eight in black, twice eight in milkwhite mail; In shape and station different, as in name,
Their motions various, not their power the same. Say, muse! (for Jove has nought from thee conceal'd) Who form'd the legions on the level field?
High in the midst the reverend kings appear,
And o'er the rest their pearly scepters rear:
One solemn step, majestically slow,
They gravely move, and shun the dangerous foe;
If e'er they call, the watchful subjects spring, And die with rapture if they save their king;
On him the glory of the day depends,
He once imprison'd, all the conflict ends.
The queens exulting near their consorts stand;
Each bears a deadly falchion in her hand;
Now here, now there, they bound with furious pride, And thin the trmbling ranks from side to side;
Swift as Camilla flying o'er the main,
Or lightly skimming o'er the dewy plain:
Fierce as they seem, some bold Plebeian spear
May pierce their shield, or stop their full career. The valiant guards, their minds on havock bent,
Fill the next squares, and watch the royal tent; Tho' weak their spears, tho' dwarfish be their height, Compact they move, the bulwark of the fight,
To right and left the martial wings display
Their shining arms, and stand in close array.
Behold, four archers, eager to advance,
Send the light reed, and rush with sidelong glance; Through angles ever they assault the foes,
True to the colour, which at first they chose.
Then four bold knights for courage-fam'd and speed, Each knight exalted on a prancing steed:
Their arching course no vulgar limit knows,
Tranverse they leap, and aim insidious blows:
Nor friends, nor foes, their rapid force restrain, By on quick bound two changing squares they gain; From varing hues renew the fierce attack,
And rush from black to white, from white to black. Four solemn elephants the sides defend;
Benearth the load of ponderous towers they bend: In on unalter'd line they tempt the fight;
Now crush the left, and now o'erwhelm the right. Bright in the front the dauntless soldiers raise Their polish'd spears; their steely helmets blaze: Prepar'd they stand the daring foe to strike,
Direct their progress, but their wounds oblique. Now swell th' embattled troups with hostile rage, And clang their shields, impatient to engage;
When Daphnis thus: A varied plain behold,
Where fairy kings their mimick tents unfold,
As Oberon, and Mab, his wayward queen,
Lead forth their armies on the daisied green.
No mortal hand the wond'rous sport contriv'd,
By gods invents, and from gods deriv'd;
From them the British nymphs receiv'd the game,
And play ech morn beneath the crystal Thame;
Hear then the tale, which they to Colin sung,
As idling o'er the lucid wave he hung.
A lovely dryad rang'd the Thracian wild,
Her air enchanting, and her aspect mild:
To chase the bounding hart was all her joy,
Averse from Hymen, and the Cyprian boy;
O'er hills an valleys was her beauty fam'd,
And fair Caissa was the damsel nam'd.
Mars saw the maid; with deep surprize he gaz'd,
Admir'd her shape, and every gesture prais'd:
His golden bow the child of Venus bent,
And through his breast a piecing arrow sent.
The reed was hope; the feathers, keen desire;
The point, her eyes; the barbs, ethereal fire.
Soon to the nymph he pour'd his tender strain;
The haughtly dryad scorn'd his amorous pain:
He told his woes, where'er the maid he found,
And still he press'd, yet still Caissa frown'd;
But ev'n her frowns (ah, what might smiles have done!) Fir'd all his soul, and all his senses won.
He left his car, by raging tigers drawn,
And lonely wander'd o'er the dusky lawn;
Then lay desponding near a murmuring stream,
And fair Caissa was his plaintive theme.
A naiad heard him from her mossy bed,
And through the crystal rais'd her placid head;
Then mildly spake: "O thou, whom love inspires,
Thy tears will nourish, not allay thy fires.
The smiling blossoms drink the pearly dew;
And ripening fruit the feather'd race pursue;
The scaly shoals devour the silken weeds;
Love on our sighs, and on our sorrow feeds.
Then weep no more; but, ere thou canst obtain
Balm to thy wounds, and solace to thy pain,
With gentle art thy martial look beguile;
Be mild, and teach thy rugged brow to smile.
Canst thou no play, no soothing game devise;
To make thee lovely in the damsel's eyes?
So may thy prayers assuage the scornful dame,
And ev'n Caissa own a mutual frame."
Kind nymph, said Mars, thy counsel I approve;
Art, only art, her ruthless breast can move.
but when? or how? They dark discourse explain:
So may thy stream ne'er swell with gushing rain; So may thy waves in one pure current flow,
And flowers eternal on thy border blow!"
To whom the maid replied with smiling mien:
"Above the palace of the Paphian queen
Love's brother dwells, a boy of graceful port,
By gods nam'd Euphron, and by mortals Sport:
Seek him; to faithful ears unfold thy grief,
And hope, ere morn return, a sweet relief.
His temple hangs below the azure skies;
Seest thou yon argent cloud? 'Tis there it lies." This said, she sunk beneath the liquid plain,
And sought the mansion of her blue-hair'd train. Meantime the god, elate with heart-felt joy,
Had reach'd the temple of the sportful boy;
He told Caissa's charms, his kindled fire,
The naiad's counsel, and his warm desire.
"Be swift, he added, give my passion aid;
A god requests." - He spake, and Sport obey'd.
He fram'd a tablet of celestial mold,
Inlay'd with squares of silver and of gold;
Then of two metals form'd the warlike band,
That here compact in show of battle stand;
He taught the rules that guide the pensive game, And call'd it Cassa from the dryad's name:
(Whence Albion's sons, who most its praise confess, Approv'd the play, and nam'd it thoughtful Chess.) The god delighted thank'd indulgent Sport;
Then grasp'd the board, and left his airy court. With radiant feet he pierc'd the clouds; nor stay'd, Till in the woods he saw the beauteous maid:
Tir'd with the chase the damsel set reclin'd,
Her girdle loose, her bosom unconfin'd.
He took the figure of a wanton faun,
And stood before her on the flowery lawn;
Then show'd his tablet: pleas'd the nymph survey'd The lifeless troops in glittering ranks display'd; She ask'd the wily sylvan to explain
The various motions of the splendid train;
With eager heart she caught the winning lore,
And thought ev'n Mars less hateful than before;
"What spell," said she, "deceiv'd my careless mind? The god was fair, and I was most unkind."
She spoke, and saw the changing faun assume
A milder aspect, and a fairer bloom;
His wreathing horns, that from his temples grew, Flow'd down in curls of bright celestial hue;
The dappled hairs, that veil'd his loveless face, Blaz'd into beams, and show'd a heavenly grace;
The shaggy hide, that mantled o'er his breast,
Was soften'd to a smooth transparent vest,
That through its folds his vigorous bosom show'd, And nervous limbs, where youthful ardour glow'd: (Had Venus view'd him in those blooming charms,
Not Vulcan's net had forc'd her from his arms.)
With goatlike feet no more he mark'd the ground, But braided flowers his silken sandals bound.
The dryad blush'd; and, as he press'd her, smil'd, Whilst all his cares one tender glance beguil'd. He ends: To arms, the maids and striplings cry;
To arms, the groves and sounding vales reply.
Sirena led to war the swarthy crew,
And Delia those that bore the lily's hue.
Who first, O muse, began the bold attack;
The white refulgent, or the mournful black?
Fair Delia first, as favoring lots ordain,
Moves her pale legions tow'rd the sable train:
From thought to thought her lively fancy flies,
Whilst o'er the board she darts her sparkling eyes. At length the warrior moves with haughty strides; Who from the plain the snowy king divides:
With equal haste his swarthy rival bounds;
His quiver rattles, and his buckler sounds:
Ah! hapless youths, with fatal warmth you burn;
Laws, ever fix'd, forbid you to return.
then from the wing a short-liv'd spearman flies, Unsafely bold, and see! he dies, he dies:
The dark-brow'd hero, with one vengeful blow
Of life and place deprives his ivory foe.
Now rush both armies o'er the burnish'd field,
Hurl the swift dart, and rend the bursting shield. Here furious knights on fiery coursers prance,
but see! the white-rob'd Amazon beholds
Where the dark host its opening van unfolds:
Soon as her eye discerns the hostile maid,
By ebon shield, and ebon helm betray'd;
Seven squares she passed with majestic mien,
And stands triumphant o'er the falling queen.
Perplex'd, and sorrowing at his consort's fate,
The monarch burn'd with rage, despair, and hate: Swift from his zone th' avenging blade he drew,
And, mad with ire, the proud virago slew.
Meanwhile sweet smiling Delia's wary king
Retir'd from fight behind the circling wing.
Long time the war in equal balance hung;
Till, unforseen, an ivory courser sprung,
And, wildly prancing in an evil hour,
Attack'd at once the monarch and the tower:
Sirena blush'd; for, as the rules requir'd,
Her injur'd sovereign to his tent retir'd;
Whilst her lost castle leaves his threatening height, And adds new glory to th' exulting knight.
At this, pale fear oppress'd the drooping maid,
And on her cheek the rose began to fade:
A crystal tear, that stood prepar'd to fall,
She wip'd in silence, and conceal'd from all;
From all but Daphnis; He remark'd her pain,
And saw the weakness of her ebon train;
Then gently spoke: "Let me your loss supply,
And either nobly win, or nobly dir;
Me oft has fortune crown'd with fair success,
And led to triumph in the fields of Chess."
He said: the willing nymph her place resign'd,
And sat at distance on the bank reclin'd.
Thus when Minerva call'd her chief to arms,
And Troy's high turret shook with dire alarms,
The Cyprian goddess wounded left the plain,
And Mars engag'd a mightier force in vain.
Strait Daphnis leads his squadron to the field;
(To Delia's arms 'tis ev'n a joy to yield.)
Each guileful snare, and subtle art he tries,
But finds his heart less powerful than her eyes: Wisdom and strength superior charms obey;
And beauty, beauty, wins the long-fought day.
By this a hoary chief, on slaughter bent,
Approach'd the gloomy king's unguarded tent;
Where, late, his consort spread dismay around,
Now her dark corse lies bleeding on the ground.
Hail, happy youth! they glories not unsung
Shall live eternal on the poet's tongue;
For thou shalt soon receive a splendid change,
And o'er the plain with nobler fury range.
The swarthy leaders saw the storm impend,
And strove in vain their sovereign to defend:
Th' invader wav'd his silver lance in air,
And flew like lightning to the fatal square;
His limbs dilated in a moment grew
To stately height, and widen'd to the view;
More fierce his look, more lion-like his mien,
Sublime he mov'd, and seem'd a warrior queen.
As when the sage on some unfolding plant
Has caught a wandering fly, or frugal ant,
His hand the microscopic frame applies,
And lo! a bright hair'd monster meets his eyes;
He sees new plumes in slender cases roll'd;
Here stain'd with azure, there bedropp'd with gold; Thus, on the alter'd chief both armies gaze,
And both the kings are fix'd with deep amaze.
The sword, which arm'd the snow-white maid before, He noew assumes, and hurls the spear no more;
The springs indignant on the dark-rob'd band,
And knights and archers feel his deadly hand.
Now flies the monarch of the sable shield,
His legions vanquish'd, o'er the lonely field:
So when the morn, by rosy coursers drawn,
With pearls and rubies sows the verdant lawn,
Whilst each pale star from heaven's blue vault retires, Still Venus gleams, and last of all expires.
He hears, where'er he moves, the dreadful sound; Check the deep vales, and Check the woods rebound. No place remains: he sees the certain fate,
And yields his throne to ruin, and Checkmate.
A brighter blush o'erspreads the damsel's cheeks, And mildly thus the conquer'd stripling speaks:
"A double triumph, Delia, hast thou won,
By Mars protected, and by Venus' son;
The first with conquest crowns thy matchless art, The second points those eyes at Daphnis' heart." She smil'd; the nymphs and amorous youths arise, And own that beauty gain'd the nobler prize.
Low in their chest the mimic troops were lay'd,
And peaceful slept the sable hero's shade.
Agh, not Hector but Fredthebear.
Red means stop.
The truth hurts.
“If a disciple is old,
a master should be mature.
If a disciple is young,
a master should be accessible.
If a disciple is brave,
a master should be fearless.
If a disciple is shrewd,
a master should be wise.
If a disciple is strong,
a master should be powerful.
If a disciple is learned,
a master should be enlightened.
If a disciple is contented,
a master should be joyful.
If a disciple is faithful,
a master should be devoted.
If a disciple is tolerant,
a master should be peaceful.
If a disciple is intro inspective,
a master should be self-aware.
If a disciple is focused,
a master should be determined.
If a disciple is exceptional,
a master should be perfect.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
comment by C.J.S. Purdy on page 34 of the February 1960 Chess World: ‘Zugzwang just doesn’t happen in a middle-game. There is a win by Nimzowitsch against Sämisch in the middle-game which one annotator has called a “Zugzwang” finish. It is true that any move by Sämisch loses, but he would lose just as surely if his opponent had to move. It is not the compulsion to move that hurts him; his position is lost anyway. So it is no more Zugzwang than any other resignable position.’ /
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26 games, 1908-2023 - 16 A3 SOKOLSKY VS OUEEN INDIAN.
GAMES 1 TO 64 A3 SOKOLSKY VS QUEEN INDIAN.
Don't Quit
Poet: Edgar A. Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a fellow turns about when he
Might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than it seems
To a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up when he
Might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And when you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst,
You must not quit.
“Rest if you must but don’t you quit!” — Anonymous “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” — Mary Anne Radmacher “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” — Barack Obama I saw Usain Bolt sprinting around the track shouting, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" It was a running joke. My Sharona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr... Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz):
Game Collection: Golden Treasury of Chess (Wellmuth/Horowitz) Most dinosaurs are known from just a single tooth or bone.
Given that dinosaurs were alive 65 million years ago, complete fossils are extremely rare. Instead, archaeologists study traces such as loose teeth, bones, tracks, or dung in order to identify the dinosaurs we read about in books now. “My Kind of Girl
A letter of inspiration from a Loving Mother
My kind of girl
Understands who she is
And stands for what she believes in
She cannot be broken
No one can belittle her
When trials come her way
She remains unfazed
My kind of girl
Walks with confidence
She exudes excellence
An epitome of elegance
She does due diligence
Being mindful of her intelligence
Because she knows her importance
My kind of girl
Builds her own future
A certified trailblazer
Who utilizes the power within her
To be of good influence
Always on top of her game
Yes, she keeps soaring like an eagle
My kind of girl
Takes charge of her own life
Secures her name in historical archives
For she is no ordinary woman
An extraordinary being
She dares to dream
In the world, she makes a difference
That is my kind of girl”
My kind of girl
Understands who she is
And stands for what she believes in
She cannot be broken
No one can belittle her
When trials come her way
She remains unfazed
My kind of girl
Walks with confidence
She exudes excellence
An epitome of elegance
She does due diligence
Being mindful of her intelligence
Because she knows her importance
My kind of girl
Builds her own future
A certified trailblazer
Who utilizes the power within her
To be of good influence
Always on top of her game
Yes, she keeps soaring like an eagle
My kind of girl
Takes charge of her own life
Secures her name in historical archives
For she is no ordinary woman
An extraordinary being
She dares to dream
In the world, she makes a difference
That is my kind of girl”
― Gift Gugu Mona, From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman $ $ $
“Elon Musk, the world's richest person, recently revealed his strategy for investing alongside record inflation. According to the WSJ, since February 2020, the Fed increased the nation’s money supply by a staggering 40%. To some experts, it explains why the U.S. is experiencing its highest inflation rate since 1981. The Tesla and SpaceX founder told investors, in his experience, it’s “better to own physical things than dollars when inflation is high.” That’s especially shocking from Musk, who has historically passionately supported cryptocurrencies and other digital goods. The “physical goods” he mentioned could include oil, metals, and grains, which have all soared in prices…” — Nigel Glenday, Chief Financial Officer “If you do what you need, you’re surviving. If you do what you want, you’re living.” — Unknown "Stick to the prepared plan, man. Don't let others down who expect you to do your part. Do no harm. Fools rush in. Be calm, composed, wise; obey boundaries. Control your impulses, urges, your emotions, your words and actions. Respectfully play by the rules, or willful recklessness will burn you soon enough. All God's ambular creatures must stay back off thin ice. Mother Nature and Father Time always have their say. Be safe and sound as you explore." — Anonymous Bear <Luke 8:16-18 New King James Version
The Parable of the Revealed Light
Jesus said:
16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”> 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. “You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “Be active. I do things my way, like skiing when I’m 100. Nobody else does that even if they have energy. And I try to eat pretty correctly and get exercise and fresh air and sunshine.” ― Elsa Bailey, first time skier at age 100 “Don't look at the calendar, just keep celebrating every day.”
― Ruth Coleman, carpe diem at age 101
1953 Zurich: move 29 Zukertort retort. zooter Frit z drip drip drip Kh7? lubes hiz own Szabo freechrgbl electrk shavr oodd bbee hiveior. 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
You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game Stephen Moss
Sat 14 Nov 2020 01.56 EST
The first thing to say about chess is that we are not all natural geniuses like Beth Harmon, the star of The Queen’s Gambit, who is taught the game by grumpy but lovable janitor Mr Shaibel at the age of nine and is very soon beating him. The daughter of a maths PhD, she sees the patterns and movement in chess immediately, can visualise effortlessly – being able to memorise moves and play without a board is the sign of chess mastery – and sees whole games on the ceiling of her orphanage dormitory. She is a prodigy, just like world champion Bobby Fischer, on whom Walter Tevis based the novel from which the TV series is drawn. We are mere mortals. So how do we get good? First, by loving chess. “You can only get good at chess if you love the game,” Fischer said. You need to be endlessly fascinated by it and see its infinite potential. Be willing to embrace the complexity; enjoy the adventure. Every game should be an education and teach us something. Losing doesn’t matter. Garry Kasparov, another former world champion, likes to say you learn far more from your defeats than your victories. Eventually you will start winning, but there will be a lot of losses on the way. Play people who are better than you, and be prepared to lose. Then you will learn.
If you are a beginner, don’t feel the need to set out all the pieces at once. Start with the pawns, and then add the pieces. Understand the potential of each piece – the way a pair of bishops can dominate the board, how the rooks can sweep up pawns in an endgame, why the queen and a knight can work together so harmoniously. Find a good teacher – your own Mr Shaibel, but without the communication issues.
Once you have established the basics, start using computers and online resources to play and to help you analyse games. lichess.org, chess.com and chess24.com are great sites for playing and learning. chessbomb.com is a brilliant resource for watching top tournaments. chessgames.com is a wonderful database of games. chesspuzzle.net is a great practice program. decodechess.com attempts to explain chess moves in layperson’s language. There are also plenty of sophisticated, all-purpose programs, usually called chess engines, such as Fritz and HIARCs that, for around £50, help you deconstruct your games and take you deeply into positions. But don’t let the computer do all the work. You need to engage your own brain on the analysis. And don’t endlessly play against the computer. Find human opponents, either online or, when the pandemic is over, in person.
Bobby Fischer was stripped of his world title in 1975 after he refused to defend the title due to a row over the format. Photograph: RFS/AP
Study the games of great masters of the past. Find a player you like and follow their careers. Fischer is a great starting point – his play is clear and comprehensible, and beautifully described in his famous book My 60 Memorable Games. Morphy (Harmon’s favourite), Alekhine, Capablanca, Tal, Korchnoi and Shirov are other legendary figures with whom the aspiring player might identify. They also have fascinating life stories, and chess is about hot human emotions as well as cold calculation. Modern grandmaster chess, which is based heavily on a deep knowledge of opening theory, is more abstruse and may be best avoided until you have acquired deep expertise. The current crop of leading grandmasters are also, if we are brutally honest, a bit lacking in personality compared with the giants of the past.
Children will often find their school has a chess club, and that club may even have links with Chess in Schools and Communities, which supplies expert tutors to schools. Provision tends to be much better at primary than secondary level, and after 11 children will probably be left to their own devices if they want to carry on playing.
If a player is really serious, she or he should join their local chess club. There is likely to be one meeting nearby, or there will be once the Covid crisis is over. At the moment, clubs are not meeting and there is very little over-the-board chess being played. Players are keeping their brains active online, where you can meet players from all over the world. That is fun, but be aware that some players are likely to be cheating – using chess engines to help them, making it hard for you to assess how good your play is. And you also get some abuse online from players who want to trash-talk. You are also likely to be playing at very fast time controls – so-called blitz chess – and that is no way to learn to really think about chess.
If you want to start playing over-the-board tournaments (when they resume), you will need to join the chess federation in your respective country. After you’ve played the requisite number of official games, you will get a rating – a bit like a handicap in golf – and can then start being paired with players of your own strength in matches. But until then, the key is to keep enjoying chess and searching for the elusive “truth” in a position. If you see a good move, look for a better one. You can always dig a little deeper in the pursuit of something remarkable and counterintuitive. Beauty and truth: the essence of chess.
Stephen Moss is the author of The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life), published by Bloomsbury * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ― Voltaire Q: When does a joke become a ‘dad’ joke?
A: When it becomes apparent.
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army The Deserted Village
BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774)
Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheared the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o'er thy green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
How often have I paused on every charm,
The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm,
The never-failing brook, the busy mill,
The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill,
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made!
How often have I blest the coming day,
When toil remitting lent its turn to play,
And all the village train, from labour free,
Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree,
While many a pastime circled in the shade,
The young contending as the old surveyed;
And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground,
And slights of art and feats of strength went round;
And still as each repeated pleasure tired,
Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired;
The dancing pair that simply sought renown
By holding out to tire each other down;
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face,
While secret laughter tittered round the place;
The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,
The matron's glance that would those looks reprove!
These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these,
With sweet succession, taught even toil to please;
These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed,
These were thy charms—But all these charms are fled.
Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green:
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;
No more thy glassy brook reflects the day,
But, choaked with sedges, works its weedy way;
Along thy glades, a solitary guest,
The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest;
Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies,
And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Sunk are thy bowers, in shapeless ruin all,
And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall;
And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,
Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay:
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
A time there was, ere England's griefs began,
When every rood of ground maintained its man;
For him light labour spread her wholesome store,
Just gave what life required, but gave no more:
His best companions, innocence and health;
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train
Usurp the land and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose;
And every want to oppulence allied,
And every pang that folly pays to pride.
Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,
Those calm desires that asked but little room,
Those healthful sports that graced the peaceful scene,
Lived in each look, and brightened all the green;
These, far departing seek a kinder shore,
And rural mirth and manners are no more.
Sweet Auburn! parent of the blissful hour,
Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power.
Here as I take my solitary rounds,
Amidst thy tangling walks, and ruined grounds,
And, many a year elapsed, return to view
Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew,
Remembrance wakes with all her busy train,
Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
In all my wanderings round this world of care,
In all my griefs—and God has given my share—
I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down;
To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Amidst the swains to shew my book-learned skill,
Around my fire an evening groupe to draw,
And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;
And, as an hare whom hounds and horns pursue,
Pants to the place from whence at first she flew,
I still had hopes, my long vexations past,
Here to return—and die at home at last.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline,
Retreats from care that never must be mine,
How happy he who crowns, in shades like these
A youth of labour with an age of ease;
Who quits a world where strong temptations try,
And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly!
For him no wretches, born to work and weep,
Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep;
No surly porter stands in guilty state
To spurn imploring famine from the gate,
But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His Heaven commences ere the world be past!
Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close,
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
There, as I past with careless steps and slow,
The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung,
The sober herd that lowed to meet their young,
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school,
The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind,
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
But now the sounds of population fail,
No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale,
No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread,
For all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
All but yon widowed, solitary thing
That feebly bends beside the plashy spring;
She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread,
To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,
To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn,
To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn;
She only left of all the harmless train,
The sad historian of the pensive plain.
Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled,
And still where many a garden-flower grows wild;
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
A man he was, to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
Remote from towns he ran his godly race,
Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place;
Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power,
By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour;
Far other aims his heart had learned to prize,
More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
His house was known to all the vagrant train,
He chid their wanderings but relieved their pain;
The long-remembered beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast;
The ruined spendthrift, now no longer proud,
Claim'd kindred there, and had his claims allowed;
The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay,
Sate by his fire, and talked the night away;
Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done,
Shouldered his crutch, and shewed how fields were won.
Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow,
And quite forgot their vices in their woe;
Careless their merits, or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,
And even his failings leaned to Virtue's side;
But in his duty prompt at every call,
He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.
And, as a bird each fond endearment tries,
To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies;
He tried each art, reproved each dull delay,
Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Beside the bed where parting life was layed,
And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns, dismayed
The reverend champion stood. At his control
Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul;
Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise,
And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks adorned the venerable place;
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
The service past, around the pious man,
With steady zeal, each honest rustic ran;
Even children followed, with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.
His ready smile a parent's warmth exprest,
Their welfare pleased him, and their cares distrest:
To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given,
But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven.
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,
Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way,
With blossomed furze unprofitably gay,
There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,
The village master taught his little school;
A man severe he was, and stern to view,
I knew him well, and every truant knew;
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whisper circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned;
Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew;
'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too;
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage,
And ev'n the story ran that he could gauge.
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For even tho' vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
But past is all his fame. The very spot
Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot.
Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired,
Where grey-beard mirth and smiling toil retired,
Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.
Imagination fondly stoops to trace
The parlour splendours of that festive place;
The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day;
The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose;
The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day,
With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay;
While broken tea-cups, wisely kept for shew,
Ranged o'er the chimney, glistened in a row.
Vain transitory splendours! Could not all
Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall!
Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart
An hour's importance to the poor man's heart;
Thither no more the peasant shall repair
To sweet oblivion of his daily care;
No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale,
No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail;
No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear,
Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear;
The host himself no longer shall be found
Careful to see the mantling bliss go round;
Nor the coy maid, half willing to be prest,
Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.
Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain,
These simple blessings of the lowly train;
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art;
Spontaneous joys, where Nature has its play,
The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway;
Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind,
Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.
But the long pomp, the midnight masquerade,
With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed,
In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain,
The toiling pleasure sickens into pain;
And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.
Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey
The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay,
'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand
Between a splendid and a happy land.
Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,
And shouting Folly hails them from her shore;
Hoards even beyond the miser's wish abound,
And rich men flock from all the world around.
Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name
That leaves our useful products still the same.
Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride
Takes up a space that many poor supplied;
Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds,
Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds:
The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth,
Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth;
His seat, where solitary sports are seen,
Indignant spurns the cottage from the green:
Around the world each needful product flies,
For all the luxuries the world supplies.
While thus the land adorned for pleasure, all
In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.
As some fair female unadorned and plain,
Secure to please while youth confirms her reign,
Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies,
Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes.
But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,
When time advances, and when lovers fail,
She then shines forth, solicitous to bless,
In all the glaring impotence of dress.
Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed:
In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed;
But verging to decline, its splendours rise,
Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize;
While, scourged by famine from the smiling land,
The mournful peasant leads his humble band;
And while he sinks, without one arm to save,
The country blooms—a garden, and a grave.
Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside,
To scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
If to some common's fenceless limits strayed,
He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade,
Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,
And ev'n the bare-worn common is denied.
If to the city sped—What waits him there?
To see profusion that he must not share;
To see ten thousand baneful arts combined
To pamper luxury, and thin mankind;
To see those joys the sons of pleasure know,
Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Here while the courtier glitters in brocade,
There the pale artist plies the sickly trade;
Here while the proud their long-drawn pomps display,
There the black gibbet glooms beside the way.
The dome where Pleasure holds her midnight reign,
Here, richly deckt, admits the gorgeous train;
Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square,
The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare.
Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy!
Sure these denote one universal joy!
Are these thy serious thoughts?—Ah, turn thine eyes
Where the poor houseless shivering female lies.
She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest,
Has wept at tales of innocence distrest;
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn:
Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled,
Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,
And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower,
With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour
When idly first, ambitious of the town,
She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest train,
Do thy fair tribes participate her pain?
Even now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led,
At proud men's doors they ask a little bread!
Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene,
Where half the convex world intrudes between,
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Far different there from all that charm'd before,
The various terrors of that horrid shore;
Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray,
And fiercely shed intolerable day;
Those matted woods where birds forget to sing,
But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling;
Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crowned,
Where the dark scorpion gathers death around;
Where at each step the stranger fears to wake
The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake;
Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey,
And savage men, more murderous still than they;
While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies,
Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Far different these from every former scene,
The cooling brook, the grassy vested green,
The breezy covert of the warbling grove,
That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love.
Good Heaven! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day,
That called them from their native walks away;
When the poor exiles, every pleasure past,
Hung round their bowers, and fondly looked their last,
And took a long farewell, and wished in vain
For seats like these beyond the western main;
And shuddering still to face the distant deep,
Returned and wept, and still returned to weep.
The good old sire the first prepared to go
To new found worlds, and wept for others woe.
But for himself, in conscious virtue brave,
He only wished for worlds beyond the grave.
His lovely daughter, lovelier in her tears,
The fond companion of his helpless years,
Silent went next, neglectful of her charms,
And left a lover's for a father's arms.
With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes,
And blessed the cot where every pleasure rose;
And kist her thoughtless babes with many a tear,
And claspt them close, in sorrow doubly dear;
Whilst her fond husband strove to lend relief
In all the silent manliness of grief.
O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree,
How ill exchanged are things like these for thee!
How do thy potions, with insidious joy,
Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy!
Kingdoms, by thee, to sickly greatness grown,
Boast of a florid vigour not their own;
At every draught more large and large they grow,
A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe;
Till sapped their strength, and every part unsound,
Down, down they sink, and spread a ruin round.
Even now the devastation is begun,
And half the business of destruction done;
Even now, methinks, as pondering here I stand,
I see the rural virtues leave the land:
Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail,
That idly waiting flaps with every gale,
Downward they move, a melancholy band,
Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
Contented toil, and hospitable care,
And kind connubial tenderness, are there;
And piety with wishes placed above,
And steady loyalty, and faithful love.
And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,
Still first to fly where sensual joys invade;
Unfit in these degenerate times of shame,
To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame;
Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried,
My shame in crowds, my solitary pride;
Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so;
Thou guide by which the nobler arts excell,
Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Farewell, and O where'er thy voice be tried,
On Torno's cliffs, or Pambamarca's side,
Whether were equinoctial fervours glow,
Or winter wraps the polar world in snow,
Still let thy voice, prevailing over time,
Redress the rigours of the inclement clime;
Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain,
Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain;
Teach him, that states of native strength possest,
Tho' very poor, may still be very blest;
That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,
As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away;
While self-dependent power can time defy,
As rocks resist the billows and the sky.
Banana peels have almost no friction.
Banana peels have felled many cartoon characters, Mario Kart players, and average people alike. However, what makes it so slippery in the first place? To answer this, four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin, and the floor. Turns out, the friction coefficient was at an almost nonexistent 0.07 – walking with the banana peel was 6 times slippier than normal friction between a shoe and the floor. TIP is the acronym for “To Insure Promptness.”
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Thanks to A.J. Goldsby- http://www.lifemasteraj.com/, Bill Wall, Tim Harding, Tim Krabbe, Fredthebear, Andrew Soltis, John Nunn, Graham Burgess, John Emms for their influence and recommendations, Google them. Michael Adams and Hikaru Nakamura are overrepresented compared to Jose Capablanca, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian, Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Korchnoi, Vishy Anand, Magnus Carlsen, etc. “Every master was once a disaster.” ― T.S. Wood “It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.” ― Eddie Harris, Jr. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common? Same middle name. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” ― Stephen Hawking Why is it sad that parallel lines have so much in common? Because they'll never meet. “Chess is the art of analysis.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik "Chess is imagination." ― David Bronstein
“Chess is as much a mystery as women.” ― Cecil John Seddon Purdy “Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.” ― Randall Munroe <First And Last Author
Riddle: What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?By 2024 India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country China currently has 1.4 billion inhabitants, closely followed by India with 1.3 billion. Together they make up 37% of the world’s population. Riddle Answer: Your name.>
Is it ignorance or apathy that's destroying the world today? I don't know, and I don't care. One of Bobby Fischer’s famous utterances is that “Chess is life.” “Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.” ― Anatoly Karpov “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” ― Forrest Gump “Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE.” ― Alan Rufus “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” ― Robert Tew “Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.” ― Jason Wong Never criticize someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “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 “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 “Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” ― Jean de la Bruyere What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind? A maybe. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein What did the swordfish say to the marlin? "You're looking sharp." “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ― Albert Einstein “Failure is success in progress.” ― Albert Einstein “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” ― Mia Hamm How do celebrities stay cool? They have many fans. "The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward."
― Viswanathan Anand
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” ― Napoleon Hill “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ― Robert. H. Schuller “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” ― Charles Spurgeon “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” ― Unknown “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” ― Louis Pasteur "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army Which branch of the military accepts toddlers? The infantry. “Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader After winning a good game, I always ask myself: "Where did I go right?"
― Tom Wiswell (1910-1988) who made a quote regarding playing checkers worth using in chess circles. “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.” — Being Caballero Why couldn't the bicycle stand on its own? It was two tired. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” — Billy Graham Why were the teacher's eyes crossed? She couldn't control her pupils. “Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.” — Professor X “If you’re positive (attitude) you can get through it OK. When you think negatively, you’re putting poison in your body. Just smile. They say laughter is the best medicine there is.” — Elsa Bailey, athlete, 100 years old “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.” — Claire Cook Exaggerations have become an epidemic. They went up by a million percent last year. “Life is like a game of chess. I cannot undue the moves but I can make the next step better.” — Edwin Tan “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell I told my physical therapist that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.” – Watty Piper “The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake.” —Savielly Tartakower “Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.” — Nancy Kerrigan “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” — Martin Luther King Jr. * 15 Life Lessons: https://herculeschess.com/life-less... “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Pablo Picasso "I stand corrected!" said the man in the orthopedic shoes. “Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.” — Thomas Jefferson You're not completely useless. You can always serve as a bad example. “Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.” — Satchel Paige “If you’re doing something just to make money, it’s easy to quit. Most people do. But if you’re doing something because it makes you come alive, then removing the restrictions life throws at you clears the path.” — Evan Carmichael “I believe where there is a will, there is a way. You just can’t give up, you have to keep going.” — Charmaney Bayton “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ― C.S. Lewis “I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald “You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.” — Babe Ruth I was wondering why the ball was getting bigger, then it hit me. Don't Quit
Poet: Edgar A. Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a fellow turns about when he
Might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than it seems
To a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up when he
Might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And when you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst,
You must not quit.
“Rest if you must but don’t you quit!” — Anonymous “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” — Mary Anne Radmacher “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” — Barack Obama I saw Usain Bolt sprinting around the track shouting, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" It was a running joke. $ $ $
“Elon Musk, the world's richest person, recently revealed his strategy for investing alongside record inflation. According to the WSJ, since February 2020, the Fed increased the nation’s money supply by a staggering 40%. To some experts, it explains why the U.S. is experiencing its highest inflation rate since 1981. The Tesla and SpaceX founder told investors, in his experience, it’s “better to own physical things than dollars when inflation is high.” That’s especially shocking from Musk, who has historically passionately supported cryptocurrencies and other digital goods. The “physical goods” he mentioned could include oil, metals, and grains, which have all soared in prices…” — Nigel Glenday, Chief Financial Officer “If you do what you need, you’re surviving. If you do what you want, you’re living.” — Unknown "Stick to the prepared plan, man. Don't let others down who expect you to do your part. Do no harm. Fools rush in. Be calm, composed, wise; obey boundaries. Control your impulses, urges, your emotions, your words and actions. Respectfully play by the rules, or willful recklessness will burn you soon enough. All God's ambular creatures must stay back off thin ice. Mother Nature and Father Time always have their say. Be safe and sound as you explore." — Anonymous Bear <Luke 8:16-18 New King James Version
The Parable of the Revealed Light
Jesus said:
16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”> CAISSA
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The Game at Chess; a Poem.
(written in the year 1763, by Sir William Jones) (pronounced ky-eé-sah)
Of armies on the chequer'd field array'd,
And guiltless war in pleasing form display'd;
When two bold kings contend with vain alarms,
In ivory this, and that in ebon arms;
Sing, sportive maids, that haunt the sacred hill Of Pindus, and the fam'd Pierian rill.
Thou, joy of all below, and all above,
Mild Venus, queen of laughter, queen of love;
Leave thy bright island, where on many a rose
And many a pink thy blooming train repose:
Assist me, goddess! since a lovely pair
Command my song, like thee devinely fair.
Near yon cool stream, whose living waters play,
And rise translucent in the solar ray;
Beneath the covert of a fragrant bower,
Where spring's nymphs reclin'd in calm retreat,
And envying blossoms crouded round their seat;
Here Delia was enthron'd, and by her side
The sweet Sirena, both in beauty's pride:
Thus shine two roses, fresh with early bloom,
That from their native stalk dispense perfume;
Their leaves unfolding to the dawning day
Gems of the glowing mead, and eyes of May.
A band of youths and damsels sat around,
Their flowing locks with braided myrtle bound;
Agatis, in the graceful dance admir'd,
And gentle Thyrsis, by the muse inspir'd;
With Sylvia, fairest of the mirthful train;
And Daphnis, doom'd to love, yet love in vain.
Now, whilst a purer blush o'erspreads her cheeks, With soothing accents thus Sirena speaks:
"The meads and lawns are ting'd with beamy light, And wakeful larks begin their vocal flight;
Whilst on each bank the dewdrops sweetly smile;
What sport, my Delia, shall the hours beguile?
Whall heavenly notes, prolong'd with various art, Charm the fond ear, and warm the rapturous heart? At distance shall we view the sylvan chace?
Or catch with silken lines the finny race?"
Then Delia thus: "Or rather, since we meet
By chance assembled in this cool retreat,
In artful contest let our warlike train
Move well-directed o'er the field preside:
No prize we need, our ardour to inflame;
We fight with pleasure, if we fight for fame."
The nymph consents: the maids and youths prepare To view the combat, and the sport to share:
But Daphnis most approv'd the bold design,
Whom Love instructed, and the tuneful Nine.
He rose, and on the cedar table plac'd
A polish'd board, with differing colours grac'd; Squares eight times eight in equal order lie;
These bright as snow, those dark with sable dye; Like the broad target by the tortoise born,
Or like the hide by spotted panthers worn.
Then from a chest, with harmless heroes stor'd,
O'er the smooth plain two well-wrought hosts he pour'd; The champions burn'd their rivals to assail,
Twice eight in black, twice eight in milkwhite mail; In shape and station different, as in name,
Their motions various, not their power the same. Say, muse! (for Jove has nought from thee conceal'd) Who form'd the legions on the level field?
High in the midst the reverend kings appear,
And o'er the rest their pearly scepters rear:
One solemn step, majestically slow,
They gravely move, and shun the dangerous foe;
If e'er they call, the watchful subjects spring, And die with rapture if they save their king;
On him the glory of the day depends,
He once imprison'd, all the conflict ends.
The queens exulting near their consorts stand;
Each bears a deadly falchion in her hand;
Now here, now there, they bound with furious pride, And thin the trmbling ranks from side to side;
Swift as Camilla flying o'er the main,
Or lightly skimming o'er the dewy plain:
Fierce as they seem, some bold Plebeian spear
May pierce their shield, or stop their full career. The valiant guards, their minds on havock bent,
Fill the next squares, and watch the royal tent; Tho' weak their spears, tho' dwarfish be their height, Compact they move, the bulwark of the fight,
To right and left the martial wings display
Their shining arms, and stand in close array.
Behold, four archers, eager to advance,
Send the light reed, and rush with sidelong glance; Through angles ever they assault the foes,
True to the colour, which at first they chose.
Then four bold knights for courage-fam'd and speed, Each knight exalted on a prancing steed:
Their arching course no vulgar limit knows,
Tranverse they leap, and aim insidious blows:
Nor friends, nor foes, their rapid force restrain, By on quick bound two changing squares they gain; From varing hues renew the fierce attack,
And rush from black to white, from white to black. Four solemn elephants the sides defend;
Benearth the load of ponderous towers they bend: In on unalter'd line they tempt the fight;
Now crush the left, and now o'erwhelm the right. Bright in the front the dauntless soldiers raise Their polish'd spears; their steely helmets blaze: Prepar'd they stand the daring foe to strike,
Direct their progress, but their wounds oblique. Now swell th' embattled troups with hostile rage, And clang their shields, impatient to engage;
When Daphnis thus: A varied plain behold,
Where fairy kings their mimick tents unfold,
As Oberon, and Mab, his wayward queen,
Lead forth their armies on the daisied green.
No mortal hand the wond'rous sport contriv'd,
By gods invents, and from gods deriv'd;
From them the British nymphs receiv'd the game,
And play ech morn beneath the crystal Thame;
Hear then the tale, which they to Colin sung,
As idling o'er the lucid wave he hung.
A lovely dryad rang'd the Thracian wild,
Her air enchanting, and her aspect mild:
To chase the bounding hart was all her joy,
Averse from Hymen, and the Cyprian boy;
O'er hills an valleys was her beauty fam'd,
And fair Caissa was the damsel nam'd.
Mars saw the maid; with deep surprize he gaz'd,
Admir'd her shape, and every gesture prais'd:
His golden bow the child of Venus bent,
And through his breast a piecing arrow sent.
The reed was hope; the feathers, keen desire;
The point, her eyes; the barbs, ethereal fire.
Soon to the nymph he pour'd his tender strain;
The haughtly dryad scorn'd his amorous pain:
He told his woes, where'er the maid he found,
And still he press'd, yet still Caissa frown'd;
But ev'n her frowns (ah, what might smiles have done!) Fir'd all his soul, and all his senses won.
He left his car, by raging tigers drawn,
And lonely wander'd o'er the dusky lawn;
Then lay desponding near a murmuring stream,
And fair Caissa was his plaintive theme.
A naiad heard him from her mossy bed,
And through the crystal rais'd her placid head;
Then mildly spake: "O thou, whom love inspires,
Thy tears will nourish, not allay thy fires.
The smiling blossoms drink the pearly dew;
And ripening fruit the feather'd race pursue;
The scaly shoals devour the silken weeds;
Love on our sighs, and on our sorrow feeds.
Then weep no more; but, ere thou canst obtain
Balm to thy wounds, and solace to thy pain,
With gentle art thy martial look beguile;
Be mild, and teach thy rugged brow to smile.
Canst thou no play, no soothing game devise;
To make thee lovely in the damsel's eyes?
So may thy prayers assuage the scornful dame,
And ev'n Caissa own a mutual frame."
Kind nymph, said Mars, thy counsel I approve;
Art, only art, her ruthless breast can move.
but when? or how? They dark discourse explain:
So may thy stream ne'er swell with gushing rain; So may thy waves in one pure current flow,
And flowers eternal on thy border blow!"
To whom the maid replied with smiling mien:
"Above the palace of the Paphian queen
Love's brother dwells, a boy of graceful port,
By gods nam'd Euphron, and by mortals Sport:
Seek him; to faithful ears unfold thy grief,
And hope, ere morn return, a sweet relief.
His temple hangs below the azure skies;
Seest thou yon argent cloud? 'Tis there it lies." This said, she sunk beneath the liquid plain,
And sought the mansion of her blue-hair'd train. Meantime the god, elate with heart-felt joy,
Had reach'd the temple of the sportful boy;
He told Caissa's charms, his kindled fire,
The naiad's counsel, and his warm desire.
"Be swift, he added, give my passion aid;
A god requests." - He spake, and Sport obey'd.
He fram'd a tablet of celestial mold,
Inlay'd with squares of silver and of gold;
Then of two metals form'd the warlike band,
That here compact in show of battle stand;
He taught the rules that guide the pensive game, And call'd it Cassa from the dryad's name:
(Whence Albion's sons, who most its praise confess, Approv'd the play, and nam'd it thoughtful Chess.) The god delighted thank'd indulgent Sport;
Then grasp'd the board, and left his airy court. With radiant feet he pierc'd the clouds; nor stay'd, Till in the woods he saw the beauteous maid:
Tir'd with the chase the damsel set reclin'd,
Her girdle loose, her bosom unconfin'd.
He took the figure of a wanton faun,
And stood before her on the flowery lawn;
Then show'd his tablet: pleas'd the nymph survey'd The lifeless troops in glittering ranks display'd; She ask'd the wily sylvan to explain
The various motions of the splendid train;
With eager heart she caught the winning lore,
And thought ev'n Mars less hateful than before;
"What spell," said she, "deceiv'd my careless mind? The god was fair, and I was most unkind."
She spoke, and saw the changing faun assume
A milder aspect, and a fairer bloom;
His wreathing horns, that from his temples grew, Flow'd down in curls of bright celestial hue;
The dappled hairs, that veil'd his loveless face, Blaz'd into beams, and show'd a heavenly grace;
The shaggy hide, that mantled o'er his breast,
Was soften'd to a smooth transparent vest,
That through its folds his vigorous bosom show'd, And nervous limbs, where youthful ardour glow'd: (Had Venus view'd him in those blooming charms,
Not Vulcan's net had forc'd her from his arms.)
With goatlike feet no more he mark'd the ground, But braided flowers his silken sandals bound.
The dryad blush'd; and, as he press'd her, smil'd, Whilst all his cares one tender glance beguil'd. He ends: To arms, the maids and striplings cry;
To arms, the groves and sounding vales reply.
Sirena led to war the swarthy crew,
And Delia those that bore the lily's hue.
Who first, O muse, began the bold attack;
The white refulgent, or the mournful black?
Fair Delia first, as favoring lots ordain,
Moves her pale legions tow'rd the sable train:
From thought to thought her lively fancy flies,
Whilst o'er the board she darts her sparkling eyes. At length the warrior moves with haughty strides; Who from the plain the snowy king divides:
With equal haste his swarthy rival bounds;
His quiver rattles, and his buckler sounds:
Ah! hapless youths, with fatal warmth you burn;
Laws, ever fix'd, forbid you to return.
then from the wing a short-liv'd spearman flies, Unsafely bold, and see! he dies, he dies:
The dark-brow'd hero, with one vengeful blow
Of life and place deprives his ivory foe.
Now rush both armies o'er the burnish'd field,
Hurl the swift dart, and rend the bursting shield. Here furious knights on fiery coursers prance,
but see! the white-rob'd Amazon beholds
Where the dark host its opening van unfolds:
Soon as her eye discerns the hostile maid,
By ebon shield, and ebon helm betray'd;
Seven squares she passed with majestic mien,
And stands triumphant o'er the falling queen.
Perplex'd, and sorrowing at his consort's fate,
The monarch burn'd with rage, despair, and hate: Swift from his zone th' avenging blade he drew,
And, mad with ire, the proud virago slew.
Meanwhile sweet smiling Delia's wary king
Retir'd from fight behind the circling wing.
Long time the war in equal balance hung;
Till, unforseen, an ivory courser sprung,
And, wildly prancing in an evil hour,
Attack'd at once the monarch and the tower:
Sirena blush'd; for, as the rules requir'd,
Her injur'd sovereign to his tent retir'd;
Whilst her lost castle leaves his threatening height, And adds new glory to th' exulting knight.
At this, pale fear oppress'd the drooping maid,
And on her cheek the rose began to fade:
A crystal tear, that stood prepar'd to fall,
She wip'd in silence, and conceal'd from all;
From all but Daphnis; He remark'd her pain,
And saw the weakness of her ebon train;
Then gently spoke: "Let me your loss supply,
And either nobly win, or nobly dir;
Me oft has fortune crown'd with fair success,
And led to triumph in the fields of Chess."
He said: the willing nymph her place resign'd,
And sat at distance on the bank reclin'd.
Thus when Minerva call'd her chief to arms,
And Troy's high turret shook with dire alarms,
The Cyprian goddess wounded left the plain,
And Mars engag'd a mightier force in vain.
Strait Daphnis leads his squadron to the field;
(To Delia's arms 'tis ev'n a joy to yield.)
Each guileful snare, and subtle art he tries,
But finds his heart less powerful than her eyes: Wisdom and strength superior charms obey;
And beauty, beauty, wins the long-fought day.
By this a hoary chief, on slaughter bent,
Approach'd the gloomy king's unguarded tent;
Where, late, his consort spread dismay around,
Now her dark corse lies bleeding on the ground.
Hail, happy youth! they glories not unsung
Shall live eternal on the poet's tongue;
For thou shalt soon receive a splendid change,
And o'er the plain with nobler fury range.
The swarthy leaders saw the storm impend,
And strove in vain their sovereign to defend:
Th' invader wav'd his silver lance in air,
And flew like lightning to the fatal square;
His limbs dilated in a moment grew
To stately height, and widen'd to the view;
More fierce his look, more lion-like his mien,
Sublime he mov'd, and seem'd a warrior queen.
As when the sage on some unfolding plant
Has caught a wandering fly, or frugal ant,
His hand the microscopic frame applies,
And lo! a bright hair'd monster meets his eyes;
He sees new plumes in slender cases roll'd;
Here stain'd with azure, there bedropp'd with gold; Thus, on the alter'd chief both armies gaze,
And both the kings are fix'd with deep amaze.
The sword, which arm'd the snow-white maid before, He noew assumes, and hurls the spear no more;
The springs indignant on the dark-rob'd band,
And knights and archers feel his deadly hand.
Now flies the monarch of the sable shield,
His legions vanquish'd, o'er the lonely field:
So when the morn, by rosy coursers drawn,
With pearls and rubies sows the verdant lawn,
Whilst each pale star from heaven's blue vault retires, Still Venus gleams, and last of all expires.
He hears, where'er he moves, the dreadful sound; Check the deep vales, and Check the woods rebound. No place remains: he sees the certain fate,
And yields his throne to ruin, and Checkmate.
A brighter blush o'erspreads the damsel's cheeks, And mildly thus the conquer'd stripling speaks:
"A double triumph, Delia, hast thou won,
By Mars protected, and by Venus' son;
The first with conquest crowns thy matchless art, The second points those eyes at Daphnis' heart." She smil'd; the nymphs and amorous youths arise, And own that beauty gain'd the nobler prize.
Low in their chest the mimic troops were lay'd,
And peaceful slept the sable hero's shade.
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A list of games mentioned in 6 or more of the following 21 works: * Frank J. Marshall: <Chess Masterpieces> (1928) * Richard Réti: <Die Meister des Schachbretts>/<Masters of the Chess Board> (1930) * Reuben Fine: <The World's Great Chess Games> (1951) * Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach: <Knaurs Schachbuch> (1953) -- a really nice little German game collection, one of my personal favourites * Savielly Tartakower: <500 Master Games of Chess> (1952) * Fred Reinfeld: <Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters> (1961) * Irving Chernev: <The Most Instructive Games of Chess> (1965) * Al Horowitz: <The Golden Treasury of Chess> (1969 edition) * Larry Evans: <Modern Chess Brilliancies> (1971) * John Nunn, Graham Burgess, & John Emms: <The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games> (1998) * Graham Burgess: <Chess Highlights of the 20th Century> (2000) * Garry Kasparov: <On My Great Predecessors>, Parts 1-5 (2003-2006) * Garry Kasparov: <Modern Chess>, Parts 1-4 (2007-2010) * Chess Informant: <Golden Games>, Vol. 1-138 (1966-2018) * Chess Informant: <Best Games>, Vol. 1-115 (1966-2012) * Graeme Cree: <Underanthologized Games> http://graeme.50webs.com/chesschamp... * Irving Chernev: <Wonders and Curiosities of Chess> (1974) * Benzol: <Celebrities and Immortals> Game Collection: Celebrities & Immortals * Wikipedia: List_of_chess_games
* Wikipedia (German): Liste_berühmter_Schachpartien * Chessgames Greatest of All Times
I would have liked to include those on 4+ lists, but as I'm not a prime member, I'm limited to 101 games :( “Every master was once a disaster.” – T.S. Wood “It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.” ― Eddie Harris, Jr. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common? Same middle name. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” ― Stephen Hawking Why is it sad that parallel lines have so much in common? Because they'll never meet. “Chess is the art of analysis.” ― Mikhail Botvinnik “Chess is imagination.” ― David Bronstein
“Chess is as much a mystery as women.” ― Cecil John Seddon Purdy “Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.” ― Randall Munroe <First And Last Author
Riddle: What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?By 2024 India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country China currently has 1.4 billion inhabitants, closely followed by India with 1.3 billion. Together they make up 37% of the world’s population. Riddle Answer: Your name.>
Is it ignorance or apathy that's destroying the world today? I don't know, and I don't care. One of Bobby Fischer’s famous utterances is that “Chess is life.” “Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.” ― Anatoly Karpov “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” ― Forrest Gump “Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE.” ― Alan Rufus “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” ― Robert Tew “Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.” ― Jason Wong Never criticize someone until you have walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi “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 “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 “Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.” ― Renaud & Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” ― Jean de la Bruyere What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind? A maybe. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein What did the swordfish say to the marlin? "You're looking sharp." “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ― Albert Einstein “I have seen two geniuses in my time. One was Tal. The other was Fischer.” ―
Russian GM Yuri Averbakh
“Failure is success in progress.” ― Albert Einstein “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” ― Mia Hamm How do celebrities stay cool? They have many fans. "The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward."
― Viswanathan Anand
“A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.” ― Napoleon Hill “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ― Robert. H. Schuller “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” ― Charles Spurgeon “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” ― Unknown “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” ― Louis Pasteur "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” ― General George S. Patton, U.S. Army Which branch of the military accepts toddlers? The infantry. “Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader After winning a good game, I always ask myself: "Where did I go right?"
― Tom Wiswell (1910-1988) who made a quote regarding playing checkers worth using in chess circles. “Life is like a chess. If you lose your queen, you will probably lose the game.”
— Being Caballero
Why couldn't the bicycle stand on its own? It was two tired. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” — Billy Graham Why were the teacher's eyes crossed? She couldn't control her pupils. “Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.” — Professor X “If you’re positive (attitude) you can get through it OK. When you think negatively, you’re putting poison in your body. Just smile. They say laughter is the best medicine there is.” — Elsa Bailey, athlete, 100 years old “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.” — Claire Cook Exaggerations have become an epidemic. They went up by a million percent last year. “Life is like a game of chess. I cannot undue the moves but I can make the next step better.” — Edwin Tan “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell I told my physical therapist that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria Robinson “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.” – Watty Piper “The winner of the game is the player who makes the next to last mistake.”
— Savielly Tartakower
“Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose.” — Nancy Kerrigan “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
* 15 Life Lessons: https://herculeschess.com/life-less... “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Pablo Picasso “I stand corrected!” said the man in the orthopedic shoes. “Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.” — Thomas Jefferson You're not completely useless. You can always serve as a bad example. “Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.” — Satchel Paige “If you’re doing something just to make money, it’s easy to quit. Most people do. But if you’re doing something because it makes you come alive, then removing the restrictions life throws at you clears the path.” — Evan Carmichael “I believe where there is a will, there is a way. You just can’t give up, you have to keep going.” — Charmaney Bayton “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
― C.S. Lewis
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald “You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.” — Babe Ruth I was wondering why the ball was getting bigger, then it hit me. Don't Quit
Poet: Edgar A. Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a fellow turns about when he
Might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than it seems
To a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up when he
Might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And when you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst,
You must not quit.
“Rest if you must but don’t you quit!” — Anonymous “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” — Mary Anne Radmacher “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” — Barack Obama I saw Usain Bolt sprinting around the track shouting, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" It was a running joke. $ $ $
“Elon Musk, the world's richest person, recently revealed his strategy for investing alongside record inflation. According to the WSJ, since February 2020, the Fed increased the nation’s money supply by a staggering 40%. To some experts, it explains why the U.S. is experiencing its highest inflation rate since 1981. The Tesla and SpaceX founder told investors, in his experience, it’s “better to own physical things than dollars when inflation is high.” That’s especially shocking from Musk, who has historically passionately supported cryptocurrencies and other digital goods. The “physical goods” he mentioned could include oil, metals, and grains, which have all soared in prices…” — Nigel Glenday, Chief Financial Officer “If you do what you need, you’re surviving. If you do what you want, you’re living.” — Unknown "Stick to the prepared plan, man. Don't let others down who expect you to do your part. Do no harm. Fools rush in. Be calm, composed, wise; obey boundaries. Control your impulses, urges, your emotions, your words and actions. Respectfully play by the rules, or willful recklessness will burn you soon enough. All God's ambular creatures must stay back off thin ice. Mother Nature and Father Time always have their say. Be safe and sound as you explore." — Anonymous Bear <Luke 8:16-18 New King James Version
The Parable of the Revealed Light
Jesus said:
16 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light. 17 For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. 18 Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.”> 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. “You can only get good at chess if you love the game.” ― Bobby Fischer “Be active. I do things my way, like skiing when I’m 100. Nobody else does that even if they have energy. And I try to eat pretty correctly and get exercise and fresh air and sunshine.” ― Elsa Bailey, first time skier at age 100 “Don't look at the calendar, just keep celebrating every day.”
― Ruth Coleman, carpe diem at age 101
1953 Zurich: move 29 Zukertort retort. zooter Frit z drip drip drip Kh7? lubes hiz own Szabo freechrgbl electrk shavr oodd bbee hiveior. What sits at the bottom of the sea and twitches? A nervous wreck. <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>
You don’t have to be a polymath like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit to improve your game Stephen Moss
Sat 14 Nov 2020 01.56 EST
The first thing to say about chess is that we are not all natural geniuses like Beth Harmon, the star of The Queen’s Gambit, who is taught the game by grumpy but lovable janitor Mr Shaibel at the age of nine and is very soon beating him. The daughter of a maths PhD, she sees the patterns and movement in chess immediately, can visualise effortlessly – being able to memorise moves and play without a board is the sign of chess mastery – and sees whole games on the ceiling of her orphanage dormitory. She is a prodigy, just like world champion Bobby Fischer, on whom Walter Tevis based the novel from which the TV series is drawn. We are mere mortals. So how do we get good? First, by loving chess. “You can only get good at chess if you love the game,” Fischer said. You need to be endlessly fascinated by it and see its infinite potential. Be willing to embrace the complexity; enjoy the adventure. Every game should be an education and teach us something. Losing doesn’t matter. Garry Kasparov, another former world champion, likes to say you learn far more from your defeats than your victories. Eventually you will start winning, but there will be a lot of losses on the way. Play people who are better than you, and be prepared to lose. Then you will learn.
If you are a beginner, don’t feel the need to set out all the pieces at once. Start with the pawns, and then add the pieces. Understand the potential of each piece – the way a pair of bishops can dominate the board, how the rooks can sweep up pawns in an endgame, why the queen and a knight can work together so harmoniously. Find a good teacher – your own Mr Shaibel, but without the communication issues.
Once you have established the basics, start using computers and online resources to play and to help you analyse games. lichess.org, chess.com and chess24.com are great sites for playing and learning. chessbomb.com is a brilliant resource for watching top tournaments. chessgames.com is a wonderful database of games. chesspuzzle.net is a great practice program. decodechess.com attempts to explain chess moves in layperson’s language. There are also plenty of sophisticated, all-purpose programs, usually called chess engines, such as Fritz and HIARCs that, for around £50, help you deconstruct your games and take you deeply into positions. But don’t let the computer do all the work. You need to engage your own brain on the analysis. And don’t endlessly play against the computer. Find human opponents, either online or, when the pandemic is over, in person.
Bobby Fischer was stripped of his world title in 1975 after he refused to defend the title due to a row over the format. Photograph: RFS/AP
Study the games of great masters of the past. Find a player you like and follow their careers. Fischer is a great starting point – his play is clear and comprehensible, and beautifully described in his famous book My 60 Memorable Games. Morphy (Harmon’s favourite), Alekhine, Capablanca, Tal, Korchnoi and Shirov are other legendary figures with whom the aspiring player might identify. They also have fascinating life stories, and chess is about hot human emotions as well as cold calculation. Modern grandmaster chess, which is based heavily on a deep knowledge of opening theory, is more abstruse and may be best avoided until you have acquired deep expertise. The current crop of leading grandmasters are also, if we are brutally honest, a bit lacking in personality compared with the giants of the past.
Children will often find their school has a chess club, and that club may even have links with Chess in Schools and Communities, which supplies expert tutors to schools. Provision tends to be much better at primary than secondary level, and after 11 children will probably be left to their own devices if they want to carry on playing.
If a player is really serious, she or he should join their local chess club. There is likely to be one meeting nearby, or there will be once the Covid crisis is over. At the moment, clubs are not meeting and there is very little over-the-board chess being played. Players are keeping their brains active online, where you can meet players from all over the world. That is fun, but be aware that some players are likely to be cheating – using chess engines to help them, making it hard for you to assess how good your play is. And you also get some abuse online from players who want to trash-talk. You are also likely to be playing at very fast time controls – so-called blitz chess – and that is no way to learn to really think about chess.
If you want to start playing over-the-board tournaments (when they resume), you will need to join the chess federation in your respective country. After you’ve played the requisite number of official games, you will get a rating – a bit like a handicap in golf – and can then start being paired with players of your own strength in matches. But until then, the key is to keep enjoying chess and searching for the elusive “truth” in a position. If you see a good move, look for a better one. You can always dig a little deeper in the pursuit of something remarkable and counterintuitive. Beauty and truth: the essence of chess.
Stephen Moss is the author of The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life), published by Bloomsbury * YS Tactics: Game Collection: Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess Tactics “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” ― Voltaire When does a joke become a ‘dad’ joke?
When it becomes apparent.
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
― Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States, and former Colonel in the U.S. Army <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.> CAISSA
or
The Game at Chess; a Poem.
(written in the year 1763, by Sir William Jones) (pronounced ky-eé-sah)
Of armies on the chequer'd field array'd,
And guiltless war in pleasing form display'd;
When two bold kings contend with vain alarms,
In ivory this, and that in ebon arms;
Sing, sportive maids, that haunt the sacred hill Of Pindus, and the fam'd Pierian rill.
Thou, joy of all below, and all above,
Mild Venus, queen of laughter, queen of love;
Leave thy bright island, where on many a rose
And many a pink thy blooming train repose:
Assist me, goddess! since a lovely pair
Command my song, like thee devinely fair.
Near yon cool stream, whose living waters play,
And rise translucent in the solar ray;
Beneath the covert of a fragrant bower,
Where spring's nymphs reclin'd in calm retreat,
And envying blossoms crouded round their seat;
Here Delia was enthron'd, and by her side
The sweet Sirena, both in beauty's pride:
Thus shine two roses, fresh with early bloom,
That from their native stalk dispense perfume;
Their leaves unfolding to the dawning day
Gems of the glowing mead, and eyes of May.
A band of youths and damsels sat around,
Their flowing locks with braided myrtle bound;
Agatis, in the graceful dance admir'd,
And gentle Thyrsis, by the muse inspir'd;
With Sylvia, fairest of the mirthful train;
And Daphnis, doom'd to love, yet love in vain.
Now, whilst a purer blush o'erspreads her cheeks, With soothing accents thus Sirena speaks:
"The meads and lawns are ting'd with beamy light, And wakeful larks begin their vocal flight;
Whilst on each bank the dewdrops sweetly smile;
What sport, my Delia, shall the hours beguile?
Whall heavenly notes, prolong'd with various art, Charm the fond ear, and warm the rapturous heart? At distance shall we view the sylvan chace?
Or catch with silken lines the finny race?"
Then Delia thus: "Or rather, since we meet
By chance assembled in this cool retreat,
In artful contest let our warlike train
Move well-directed o'er the field preside:
No prize we need, our ardour to inflame;
We fight with pleasure, if we fight for fame."
The nymph consents: the maids and youths prepare To view the combat, and the sport to share:
But Daphnis most approv'd the bold design,
Whom Love instructed, and the tuneful Nine.
He rose, and on the cedar table plac'd
A polish'd board, with differing colours grac'd; Squares eight times eight in equal order lie;
These bright as snow, those dark with sable dye; Like the broad target by the tortoise born,
Or like the hide by spotted panthers worn.
Then from a chest, with harmless heroes stor'd,
O'er the smooth plain two well-wrought hosts he pour'd; The champions burn'd their rivals to assail,
Twice eight in black, twice eight in milkwhite mail; In shape and station different, as in name,
Their motions various, not their power the same. Say, muse! (for Jove has nought from thee conceal'd) Who form'd the legions on the level field?
High in the midst the reverend kings appear,
And o'er the rest their pearly scepters rear:
One solemn step, majestically slow,
They gravely move, and shun the dangerous foe;
If e'er they call, the watchful subjects spring, And die with rapture if they save their king;
On him the glory of the day depends,
He once imprison'd, all the conflict ends.
The queens exulting near their consorts stand;
Each bears a deadly falchion in her hand;
Now here, now there, they bound with furious pride, And thin the trmbling ranks from side to side;
Swift as Camilla flying o'er the main,
Or lightly skimming o'er the dewy plain:
Fierce as they seem, some bold Plebeian spear
May pierce their shield, or stop their full career. The valiant guards, their minds on havock bent,
Fill the next squares, and watch the royal tent; Tho' weak their spears, tho' dwarfish be their height, Compact they move, the bulwark of the fight,
To right and left the martial wings display
Their shining arms, and stand in close array.
Behold, four archers, eager to advance,
Send the light reed, and rush with sidelong glance; Through angles ever they assault the foes,
True to the colour, which at first they chose.
Then four bold knights for courage-fam'd and speed, Each knight exalted on a prancing steed:
Their arching course no vulgar limit knows,
Tranverse they leap, and aim insidious blows:
Nor friends, nor foes, their rapid force restrain, By on quick bound two changing squares they gain; From varing hues renew the fierce attack,
And rush from black to white, from white to black. Four solemn elephants the sides defend;
Benearth the load of ponderous towers they bend: In on unalter'd line they tempt the fight;
Now crush the left, and now o'erwhelm the right. Bright in the front the dauntless soldiers raise Their polish'd spears; their steely helmets blaze: Prepar'd they stand the daring foe to strike,
Direct their progress, but their wounds oblique. Now swell th' embattled troups with hostile rage, And clang their shields, impatient to engage;
When Daphnis thus: A varied plain behold,
Where fairy kings their mimick tents unfold,
As Oberon, and Mab, his wayward queen,
Lead forth their armies on the daisied green.
No mortal hand the wond'rous sport contriv'd,
By gods invents, and from gods deriv'd;
From them the British nymphs receiv'd the game,
And play ech morn beneath the crystal Thame;
Hear then the tale, which they to Colin sung,
As idling o'er the lucid wave he hung.
A lovely dryad rang'd the Thracian wild,
Her air enchanting, and her aspect mild:
To chase the bounding hart was all her joy,
Averse from Hymen, and the Cyprian boy;
O'er hills an valleys was her beauty fam'd,
And fair Caissa was the damsel nam'd.
Mars saw the maid; with deep surprize he gaz'd,
Admir'd her shape, and every gesture prais'd:
His golden bow the child of Venus bent,
And through his breast a piecing arrow sent.
The reed was hope; the feathers, keen desire;
The point, her eyes; the barbs, ethereal fire.
Soon to the nymph he pour'd his tender strain;
The haughtly dryad scorn'd his amorous pain:
He told his woes, where'er the maid he found,
And still he press'd, yet still Caissa frown'd;
But ev'n her frowns (ah, what might smiles have done!) Fir'd all his soul, and all his senses won.
He left his car, by raging tigers drawn,
And lonely wander'd o'er the dusky lawn;
Then lay desponding near a murmuring stream,
And fair Caissa was his plaintive theme.
A naiad heard him from her mossy bed,
And through the crystal rais'd her placid head;
Then mildly spake: "O thou, whom love inspires,
Thy tears will nourish, not allay thy fires.
The smiling blossoms drink the pearly dew;
And ripening fruit the feather'd race pursue;
The scaly shoals devour the silken weeds;
Love on our sighs, and on our sorrow feeds.
Then weep no more; but, ere thou canst obtain
Balm to thy wounds, and solace to thy pain,
With gentle art thy martial look beguile;
Be mild, and teach thy rugged brow to smile.
Canst thou no play, no soothing game devise;
To make thee lovely in the damsel's eyes?
So may thy prayers assuage the scornful dame,
And ev'n Caissa own a mutual frame."
Kind nymph, said Mars, thy counsel I approve;
Art, only art, her ruthless breast can move.
but when? or how? They dark discourse explain:
So may thy stream ne'er swell with gushing rain; So may thy waves in one pure current flow,
And flowers eternal on thy border blow!"
To whom the maid replied with smiling mien:
"Above the palace of the Paphian queen
Love's brother dwells, a boy of graceful port,
By gods nam'd Euphron, and by mortals Sport:
Seek him; to faithful ears unfold thy grief,
And hope, ere morn return, a sweet relief.
His temple hangs below the azure skies;
Seest thou yon argent cloud? 'Tis there it lies." This said, she sunk beneath the liquid plain,
And sought the mansion of her blue-hair'd train. Meantime the god, elate with heart-felt joy,
Had reach'd the temple of the sportful boy;
He told Caissa's charms, his kindled fire,
The naiad's counsel, and his warm desire.
"Be swift, he added, give my passion aid;
A god requests." - He spake, and Sport obey'd.
He fram'd a tablet of celestial mold,
Inlay'd with squares of silver and of gold;
Then of two metals form'd the warlike band,
That here compact in show of battle stand;
He taught the rules that guide the pensive game, And call'd it Cassa from the dryad's name:
(Whence Albion's sons, who most its praise confess, Approv'd the play, and nam'd it thoughtful Chess.) The god delighted thank'd indulgent Sport;
Then grasp'd the board, and left his airy court. With radiant feet he pierc'd the clouds; nor stay'd, Till in the woods he saw the beauteous maid:
Tir'd with the chase the damsel set reclin'd,
Her girdle loose, her bosom unconfin'd.
He took the figure of a wanton faun,
And stood before her on the flowery lawn;
Then show'd his tablet: pleas'd the nymph survey'd The lifeless troops in glittering ranks display'd; She ask'd the wily sylvan to explain
The various motions of the splendid train;
With eager heart she caught the winning lore,
And thought ev'n Mars less hateful than before;
"What spell," said she, "deceiv'd my careless mind? The god was fair, and I was most unkind."
She spoke, and saw the changing faun assume
A milder aspect, and a fairer bloom;
His wreathing horns, that from his temples grew, Flow'd down in curls of bright celestial hue;
The dappled hairs, that veil'd his loveless face, Blaz'd into beams, and show'd a heavenly grace;
The shaggy hide, that mantled o'er his breast,
Was soften'd to a smooth transparent vest,
That through its folds his vigorous bosom show'd, And nervous limbs, where youthful ardour glow'd: (Had Venus view'd him in those blooming charms,
Not Vulcan's net had forc'd her from his arms.)
With goatlike feet no more he mark'd the ground, But braided flowers his silken sandals bound.
The dryad blush'd; and, as he press'd her, smil'd, Whilst all his cares one tender glance beguil'd. He ends: To arms, the maids and striplings cry;
To arms, the groves and sounding vales reply.
Sirena led to war the swarthy crew,
And Delia those that bore the lily's hue.
Who first, O muse, began the bold attack;
The white refulgent, or the mournful black?
Fair Delia first, as favoring lots ordain,
Moves her pale legions tow'rd the sable train:
From thought to thought her lively fancy flies,
Whilst o'er the board she darts her sparkling eyes. At length the warrior moves with haughty strides; Who from the plain the snowy king divides:
With equal haste his swarthy rival bounds;
His quiver rattles, and his buckler sounds:
Ah! hapless youths, with fatal warmth you burn;
Laws, ever fix'd, forbid you to return.
then from the wing a short-liv'd spearman flies, Unsafely bold, and see! he dies, he dies:
The dark-brow'd hero, with one vengeful blow
Of life and place deprives his ivory foe.
Now rush both armies o'er the burnish'd field,
Hurl the swift dart, and rend the bursting shield. Here furious knights on fiery coursers prance,
but see! the white-rob'd Amazon beholds
Where the dark host its opening van unfolds:
Soon as her eye discerns the hostile maid,
By ebon shield, and ebon helm betray'd;
Seven squares she passed with majestic mien,
And stands triumphant o'er the falling queen.
Perplex'd, and sorrowing at his consort's fate,
The monarch burn'd with rage, despair, and hate: Swift from his zone th' avenging blade he drew,
And, mad with ire, the proud virago slew.
Meanwhile sweet smiling Delia's wary king
Retir'd from fight behind the circling wing.
Long time the war in equal balance hung;
Till, unforseen, an ivory courser sprung,
And, wildly prancing in an evil hour,
Attack'd at once the monarch and the tower:
Sirena blush'd; for, as the rules requir'd,
Her injur'd sovereign to his tent retir'd;
Whilst her lost castle leaves his threatening height, And adds new glory to th' exulting knight.
At this, pale fear oppress'd the drooping maid,
And on her cheek the rose began to fade:
A crystal tear, that stood prepar'd to fall,
She wip'd in silence, and conceal'd from all;
From all but Daphnis; He remark'd her pain,
And saw the weakness of her ebon train;
Then gently spoke: "Let me your loss supply,
And either nobly win, or nobly dir;
Me oft has fortune crown'd with fair success,
And led to triumph in the fields of Chess."
He said: the willing nymph her place resign'd,
And sat at distance on the bank reclin'd.
Thus when Minerva call'd her chief to arms,
And Troy's high turret shook with dire alarms,
The Cyprian goddess wounded left the plain,
And Mars engag'd a mightier force in vain.
Strait Daphnis leads his squadron to the field;
(To Delia's arms 'tis ev'n a joy to yield.)
Each guileful snare, and subtle art he tries,
But finds his heart less powerful than her eyes: Wisdom and strength superior charms obey;
And beauty, beauty, wins the long-fought day.
By this a hoary chief, on slaughter bent,
Approach'd the gloomy king's unguarded tent;
Where, late, his consort spread dismay around,
Now her dark corse lies bleeding on the ground.
Hail, happy youth! they glories not unsung
Shall live eternal on the poet's tongue;
For thou shalt soon receive a splendid change,
And o'er the plain with nobler fury range.
The swarthy leaders saw the storm impend,
And strove in vain their sovereign to defend:
Th' invader wav'd his silver lance in air,
And flew like lightning to the fatal square;
His limbs dilated in a moment grew
To stately height, and widen'd to the view;
More fierce his look, more lion-like his mien,
Sublime he mov'd, and seem'd a warrior queen.
As when the sage on some unfolding plant
Has caught a wandering fly, or frugal ant,
His hand the microscopic frame applies,
And lo! a bright hair'd monster meets his eyes;
He sees new plumes in slender cases roll'd;
Here stain'd with azure, there bedropp'd with gold; Thus, on the alter'd chief both armies gaze,
And both the kings are fix'd with deep amaze.
The sword, which arm'd the snow-white maid before, He noew assumes, and hurls the spear no more;
The springs indignant on the dark-rob'd band,
And knights and archers feel his deadly hand.
Now flies the monarch of the sable shield,
His legions vanquish'd, o'er the lonely field:
So when the morn, by rosy coursers drawn,
With pearls and rubies sows the verdant lawn,
Whilst each pale star from heaven's blue vault retires, Still Venus gleams, and last of all expires.
He hears, where'er he moves, the dreadful sound; Check the deep vales, and Check the woods rebound. No place remains: he sees the certain fate,
And yields his throne to ruin, and Checkmate.
A brighter blush o'erspreads the damsel's cheeks, And mildly thus the conquer'd stripling speaks:
"A double triumph, Delia, hast thou won,
By Mars protected, and by Venus' son;
The first with conquest crowns thy matchless art, The second points those eyes at Daphnis' heart." She smil'd; the nymphs and amorous youths arise, And own that beauty gain'd the nobler prize.
Low in their chest the mimic troops were lay'd,
And peaceful slept the sable hero's shade.
Red means stop.
The truth hurts.
“If a disciple is old,
a master should be mature.
If a disciple is young,
a master should be accessible.
If a disciple is brave,
a master should be fearless.
If a disciple is shrewd,
a master should be wise.
If a disciple is strong,
a master should be powerful.
If a disciple is learned,
a master should be enlightened.
If a disciple is contented,
a master should be joyful.
If a disciple is faithful,
a master should be devoted.
If a disciple is tolerant,
a master should be peaceful.
If a disciple is intro inspective,
a master should be self-aware.
If a disciple is focused,
a master should be determined.
If a disciple is exceptional,
a master should be perfect.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
comment by C.J.S. Purdy on page 34 of the February 1960 Chess World: ‘Zugzwang just doesn’t happen in a middle-game. There is a win by Nimzowitsch against Sämisch in the middle-game which one annotator has called a “Zugzwang” finish. It is true that any move by Sämisch loses, but he would lose just as surely if his opponent had to move. It is not the compulsion to move that hurts him; his position is lost anyway. So it is no more Zugzwang than any other resignable position.’ /
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