Alculympics - Training with City College Chess Team

Just finished simul training with 7 members of City College Chess Team (5 men and 2 women) where I scored 7/7. This is the first time I did a simul and never been so proud.

Qoute for the day

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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