Originally posted by dfm65Am I recalling this correctly? Didn't he say that he read War and Peace just after he had completed a speed reading course and it was about 'some Russians'...? Brilliant...
I have a night job (actually I recently resigned - 6 nights to go...) summarising media stories, so Woody Allen's ultimate summarisiation of Tolstoy's War and Peace appeals to me: 'It was about some Russians'...
How 'bout this:
Moments when you should sense DANGER in chess:
-There has been a change in the pawn structure. Your opponent has 8 and you don't have any.
-Your opponent begins to throw pawns at your eyes.
-You have a postion won but your opponent has a gun.
-The Director tells you not to bother turning in your scoresheet after the game.
-Before game begins you notice your opponents 1st initials are 'GM'.
-After completing your development you sense your opponent playing the endgame.
-Just as you make your opening move your opponent announces mate in 11.
-You don't control any squares at all.
-Your draw offer sends all the people watching your game into uncontrollable laughter.
-Your opponent has 3 bishops.
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Originally posted by CaptainDangerousthese are hilarious!
Moments when you should sense DANGER in chess:
-There has been a change in the pawn structure. Your opponent has 8 and you don't have any.
-Your opponent begins to throw pawns at your eyes.
-You have a postion won but your op ...[text shortened]... ame into uncontrollable laughter.
-Your opponent has 3 bishops.
they should be put in the jokes thread as well!
in friendship,
prad
ps oh ya a quote ... hmmm ....
"Great, I'd say to myself each time I came across this gem of insight. A Frenchman who's been dead for two hundred years is telling me I shouldn't be worried about losing my queen or allowing my king to be mated. I should be worried about pawns."
Andrew Soltis Pawn Structure in Chess
Originally posted by ivanhoePythagorus all the way!!!!!! He brought mathematics onto a new level, not to mention music, philosophy, geometry, astronomy, etc,etc.....
Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.
Discours Preliminaire de L'Encyclopedie, Tome 1, 1967. pp 47 - 48.
I like this quote, especially in conjunction with the quote of my previous post.
The first to truly reason! Even if he did make it up half the time 🙂¬~
Originally posted by marinakatombHe was also leader of a cult that banned the eating of beans and, so the story goes, he threw one of his students tied down with rocks into a lake because the student dared to wonder if the square root of 2 was in fact not a rational number.
Pythagorus all the way!!!!!! He brought mathematics onto a new level, not to mention music, philosophy, geometry, astronomy, etc,etc.....
The first to truly reason! Even if he did make it up half the time 🙂¬~
Interesting bloke all in all.
T
Originally posted by T1000I like the story of how he discovered the musical scale. One day he is walking past a blacksmith and notices that a different sound s are made by different hammers. Well, being the inquisitive little monkey he was, decided to investigate.
He was also leader of a cult that banned the eating of beans and, so the story goes, he threw one of his students tied down with rocks into a lake because the student dared to wonder if the square root of 2 was in fact not a rational number.
Interesting bloke all in all.
T
He discovered the musical scale this way, using HAMMERS! Smashing idea all in all 😉¬~