Chessa-lee: April 2008

27 Apr 2008

Chess Masters play football!

Chess players in Baku...- where the Grand Prix of chess is taking place..- had a free day yesterday and on this video - from the Fide.com-site - you can see how they spent their free time...enjoy! On THIS LINK you can read more about round 6 that was played today.

23 Apr 2008

Baku Chess

The Grand Prix Chess Tournament is currently taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. On this video you can follow events of round 2. On my Wordpress-blog you will find a link on the side bar to follow the games LIVE.
Please click on THIS LINK to read more about the results of round 3 and pairings for round 4 and 5.

22 Apr 2008

Chess Grand Prix 2008

Follow THIS LINK for results and pairings in this grand prix tournament in Baku. Read HERE more about Baku in Azerbaijani.

18 Apr 2008

Chessqueen

16 Apr 2008

Chess puzzle

Can you solve this puzzle? Checkmate in about 4 moves. White to move first.

Please click HERE for the solution.

11 Apr 2008

Boys/Girls...and Chess

What do you think about female/male chess players...who's the best...or do you think chess is only a game for boys...read an interesting research/study that was conducted...
Click HERE to read on my Wordpress-blog the article. You can also on this link see who the artist is of this beautiful piece of art! There is also a game I played on a chess site to play through. Enjoy!

9 Apr 2008

South Africa...movie to enjoy!

8 Apr 2008

Chess game 22

Follow THIS LINK to see more games I played recently....on two chess sites. The moves are also available.

Boesmanland/Karoo

Click HERE to visit beautiful places in South Africa...the North Western part of the country which is a bit barren...close to the border of Namibia...but with beautiful spots...like the Augrabies-Waterfall...places like Springbok, Pofadder...etc...and also Namaqualand...very famous for the Namaqualand Daisy...tourists love to visit this area during Spring...follow the link to see and read more!

Snow

See more snow pics.. HERE and HERE ....

Geniet wat jy hier vind....Enjoy what you found here...

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade--C J Langenhoven...Seek in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future...Paul Kruger... Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek --Langenhoven... Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected --Langenhoven... Goeie boeke en musiek verryk jou siel -- Good books and music enrich your soul --Langenhoven... Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved now love the more. --Thomas Parnell

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in--Knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak--Heraclitus, Fragments. Vuil wasgoed is om te was!-- Langenhoven 'I think one move ahead - but it is always the best move'-Reti Some part of a mistake is always correct. - Savielly Tartakover

There is no failure except in no longer trying--Elbert Hubbard. The secret of success is the ability to survive failure --Noel Coward.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language, it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.~Robert G. Ingersoll

Avoid the crowd, think independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece! - Rumi.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy. Chess is the touchstone of the human intellect.-John Wolfgang von Goethe.

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. - Thomas Huxley.

Jou persepsie hang alles af van hoe wyd jou opvatting van die digkuns is. - Joan Hambidge.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. - Proverb.

I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. Spanish proverb.

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates.

Val eerder in my sop as in my rede. - Langenhoven.

See in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future..Paul Kruger - President of the ZAR. Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek. - Langenhoven. Friends should be like books, few, but handselected...Langenhoven.

Good books and music enrich the sould - Langenhoven. The secrete of success is the ability to survive failure. - Noel Coward.

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in..knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak. --Heraclitus, Fragments.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. - Stanley Kubrick.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor

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