Qoute for the day

The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind. - Arpad Elo

Qoute for the day

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992

Qoute for the day

We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear. - Eugene Znosko-Borowski

Qoute for the day

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Qoute for the day

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, in Putin’s Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed. - Garry Kasparov

Quote for the day

«I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.» — Colette

Chess Quatation for the day

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. - (in a letter to his wife) - Alexander Pushkin