I'm adding this to my list of favorite chess quotes.

manuel fernando ramirez

me apasiona jugar y me entretiene me gustaria avanzar y que me consideraran maestro mi apertura favorita es ruy lopez y capablanca me gusta como jugaba

Bogota Colombia

Member since April 21, 2020

Translation:

I am passionate about playing and it entertains me. I would like to advance and be considered a teacher. 

My favorite opening is Ruy Lopez. Capablanca, I like how he played.

https://lichess.org/@/mafer2605

I'm adding this to my list of favorite quotes, translated from Spanish. Alberto Fernández Bringas. Lima, Perú.

Chess constitutes an intellectual challenge and a practice for logical thinking.

https://lichess.org/@/BetoFer

I'm adding this to my list of favorite chess quotes.

Jung Bahadur Singh Chauhan

I am a teacher and I love to play Chess.

Unnao Uttar Pradesh India

Member since April 28, 2020

https://lichess.org/@/JUNG198184

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Steve Gildemeister

We don't lose! We learn from it!

Berlin Germany

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Our chess game. I had the Black pieces.

https://lichess.org/YLlgEKuX/black#0

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My name is Thabang. I love to play chess.

Pretoria, South Africa

Member since June 29, 2018

https://lichess.org/@/DzzD

President of the United States is a Catholic fucktard.

Someone else wrote this comment at the Washington Post:

"Religion is a crutch for most humans’ fear of the unknown. It is good for nothing and the source of much suffering. Accept reality."

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I wrote this comment:

Priests like to have their way with little boys. Biden should throw out his disgusting Catholic cult.

I prefer reality, aka atheism.

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I found this India stuff at lichess.org. I'm adding it to my list of favorite chess quotes.

ChessFit India is an Online Chess Academy whose prime purpose is to spread Chess's mindful game to as many people as possible. As for how we exercise our physical self to stay active, do we exercise our brains to stay sharp and understand the different perspectives of life? To cope with the competitive nature of this current generation, we live?

We are here to help people stay sharp and work their brains daily to remain mentally active and emotionally fit. We use Chess as a tool to help people stay alert, a notch above to succeed in their careers.

Location: No.197 Balaji Nagar, Thotikkalai Village, Tiruvallur - 602024

I'm adding this to my list of favorite chess quotes: "I love harassing opponents with Queen and Bishop combinations."

Eng.Alusa19 Kalulu

Engineer. Musician and love movies and traveling. I love harassing opponents with Queen and Bishop combinations.

FIDE rating: 1300

Kisumu Kenya

Member since Mar 4, 2019

Game completion rate: 100% 

https://lichess.org/@/Alusa19

Kisumu

City in Kenya

Description

Description

Kisumu is a Kenyan port city on Lake Victoria. It’s known for lakeside viewpoints at Dunga Hill Camp and Hippo Point. The Kisumu Impala Sanctuary shelters herds of impalas and zebras. Its animal orphanage is home to wildlife like cheetahs and baboons. The city’s Kisumu Museum displays artifacts related to the people of the Nyanza Province. Southwest, Ruma National Park has tall cliffs, roan antelope and birdlife. ― Google

Elevation: 3,711′

Population: 610,082 (2019)

I'm adding this to my list of favorite chess quotes. "The move is there, but you must see it."

Leopold

The move is there, but you must see it

 Uganda

Member since April 25, 2020

Leopold's lichess.org profile

I'm adding this to my list of favorite chess quotes.

Never Say Die

Egypt

Member since June 25, 2019

https://lichess.org/@/Abdelhamid888

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Zeeshan Kashif

When u see a good move, look for a better one

Lahore Pakistan

Member since April 26, 2018

https://lichess.org/@/Zeeshan_Kashif

I like the Washington Post but the people who write comments there are just plain fucking stupid. Corporations make them cry. This comment someone wrote was unusual because it was well done.

"Corporations paying more taxes will just raise the cost to the consumers, or they will go overseas to Ireland or elsewhere. The money eventually gets taxed anyway, via employee salaries and sales tax, etc."

This is one my favorite Charles Darwin quotes. It's about natural selection.

When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, in the same way as any great mechanical invention is the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting - I speak from experience - does the study of natural history become!

— Charles Darwin

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Somebody else wrote this about Charles Darwin.

Using science and evidence Charles Darwin absolutely tore the god myth to shreds.

-- Anonymous

If you're interested in Christian stupidity, I suggest click the link.

Someone wrote this comment on a UK website. It's about a bible-thumping retard.

"The deluded Meyer again. A 'bible expert' is about as worthwhile as being a Harry Potter expert. This fool knows nothing of the sciences."

40% of Americans want to throw out evolution and replace this science with god-did-it. They call it magical creationism. They also call it magical Intelligent Design creationism or "ID". Whatever these assholes call it, it still god-did-it. Someone else wrote about their stupidity and dishonesty. Here it is.

ID creationism is misrepresented by its adherents, not its critics.

The various statements of what ID creationism is are simply obfuscations of the following argument:

I don't understand the reason for X phenomenon. Therefore X phenomenon originated by magic.

For example, take the contention that the bacterial flagellum could not have originated through a step by step process. That's an obfuscation of the true argument, which is "I don't understand how the bacterial flagellum could have originated through a step by step process."

The response, of course, is: Well, maybe you not understanding something doesn't mean it can't be understood. There are other reasons why you might not understand something. Maybe you're just stupid.

Dembski gave some talk in Oklahoma, and he got totally pwned. He talked about the bacterial flagellum, and some guy in the audience, during the question and answer session, said, I can explain how the bacterial flagellum could have originated through a step by step process, and did it. Of course, then Dembski wanted more steps. No matter how many steps you present, the ID creationist wants more. This is a slight variation of the ID creationist argument, and reads as follows:

I won't admit that X phenomenon could have originated through natural means. Therefore, X phenomenon must have originated by magic.

And the answer, of course, is: Well, maybe you're just a liar.

The idea that proponents of ID creationism have been discriminated against is based on a misconception - namely, that every idea is of equal merit. ID creationists aren't able to gain acceptance for their ideas not because of philosophical resistance, discrimination, or conspiracy, but because their ideas are stupid. I mean, when a real scientist explains phenomena that an ID creationist says is unexplainable, is the ID creationist still entitled to a respectful hearing for his claim?

ID creationism adherents believe in ID creationism because they haven't considered, or don't want to consider, the possibility that they're just retarded. Well, it's time for them to consider it.

-- Mike Toreno

Some quotes about chess

The fascinating magic of the 64 squares.
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It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it, I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.
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Author Allan Rufus said “Life is like a game of chess. To win you have 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.”
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“Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

When Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote this, it seems he was speaking to the idea of being aggressive and taking chances. Seldom, does one win by staying in place or retreating. You have to be daring to win the game.
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“The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.”

Savielly Tartakower, of Russian descent, was an International Grandmaster and also a chess journalist during the 1920s and 1930s. He realized that in chess, mistakes lead to victory. His famous quotes on the topic include, “The mistakes are there, waiting to be made,” and, “Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.” And, one more, “Chess is a struggle against one’s own errors.”
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“To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game.”

This is another Tartakower quote in which he cautions players to look at the big picture. Tartakower had a way with words as evidenced by this famous chess quote, “An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.” Here’s another good one, “The move is there, but you must see it.”
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“Not all artists are chess players, but all chess players are artists.”

Chess players see the board in a variety of different ways much like an artist paints a subject. While chess has a competitive sport aspect to it and a pure science component, it is also artistry. Just like a good book or movie can bring back memories, a well-played chess move can prompt one to recall one’s own experiences or memories playing. So, the originator of this quote, Marcel Duchamp, got it right. Duchamp was a French-American painter, chess player, and writer.
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“Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.”
-- Rudolf Spielmann
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There are more possible ways for a chess game to play out than there are atoms in the observable universe.
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“When you see a good move, look for a better one.”

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player who held the World Chess Champion title for 27 years. Lasker played contract bridge, Go, and his own game “Lasca,” a variation of checkers.
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“The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.”

A big advantage can be gained with one move, and as such, the player with the next move is frequently in a position to advance.

David Bronstein was a Soviet chess player who passed away in 2006. His book on chess, Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953, is one of the best chess books.
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“An hour’s history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.”

A chess prodigy, Jose Raul Capablanca, was the world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. Born in Havana, Cuba, he beat the Cuban champion two days before he became a teenager. As you might describe chess as the ultimate thinking game, one’s mind is definitely on display in a game.
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“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.

Bobby Fischer is regarded by many to be the best chess player of all time (although Magnus Carlsen fans may disagree). Born in Chicago in 1943, he passed away in 2008 in Iceland. Of Fischer, Miguel Najdorf said, “Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares.” Fischer thrived on the competition once saying, “I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.”
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“Every chess master was once a beginner.”

Irving Chernev said this about chess but it fits in just about any other area of interest. Everyone was a beginner at one time. You have to make mistakes, learn from mistakes, and practice to advance. Chernev was a national master-strength player and wrote 20 books on chess.
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“One bad move nullifies forty good ones.”
-- Israel Albert Horowitz
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“Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains.”
-- Rick Kennedy
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“Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing.”
-- Robert Hubner
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“In chess, as it is played by the masters, chance is practically eliminated.”
-- Emanuel Lasker
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“I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess.”
-- Siegbert Tarrasch
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“When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box.”
-- Irish Saying

Jerry Coyne wrote this 9 years ago in 2012. It's about Idiot America.

Theistic evolutionists are creationists, pure and simple; they differ from straight fundamentalist creationists only in how much of life God was involved in creating, ranging from those who think God set the whole plan in motion, knowing it would culminate in that most awesome of species, US, to those who think that God tinkered with mutations to create the right species (see the philosophical work of Elliott Sober), to those who think that humans are set apart from other species because God inserted a soul in our lineage (that’s the official view of the Vatican). That is being anti-evolution as scientists understand it, since we see evolution as a naturalistic process that has nothing to do with deities. Sadly, far more Americans are theistic evolutionists than naturalistic evolutionists: the proportions among all Americans are 38% to 16% respectively (40% are straight creationists, 6% are unsure). We have a long way to go.

-- Jerry Coyne

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Muslim scum are afraid of women.

Someone else wrote this comment at the New York Times:

"What I care about are the Afghani women and girls. They are already seeing the few fundamental rights they gained while the U.S. propped up the country's government quickly disappear again. Once the last U.S. troops are out, all Afghani women will once again be treated worse than farm animals, with no access to education, health care, or even a meaningful ability to walk outside their homes without being threatened by the religious police if an inch of their skin happens to show outside their burqas."

I wrote this for the god-soaked morons at the Wall Street Journal.

"If you look at the universe and study the universe, what you find is that there is no evidence that we need anything other than the laws of physics and the other laws of science to explain everything we see. There's absolutely no evidence that we need any supernatural hand of God."

-- Lawrence Krauss