qoute for the day

… today many players, especially young ones, think that the older openings are so thoroughly analysed that nothing more can be tried. This is a serious mistake. The methods of positional play become deeper and finer each year. Being well acquainted with them it is possible even in openings which seem to be fully explored to find ways to create a real fight.

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

Qoute for the day

If a ruler does not understand Chess, how can he rule over a kingdom? - King Khusros II AD 580 - 628

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