forrie
johan fourie
Vanderbijlpark, South Africa 
Member Since:
Jan 14, 2009
Last Login:
Feb 9, 2012
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Birthday: Jul 27, 1979
Occupation: Consulting Geologist/Geohydrologist
About Me:
Otb Chessa Rating 1550. I am Petrus (PJ) Fourie on chessa database.
We have started a chess club in the Vaal Triangle (Sedibeng) area. If you are from the area and interested to join please let me know.
I learned the chess moves when about 5 yrs old but used the chess pieces then mostly to battle against my LEGO knights in over-the-carpet-fights. Start playing at school when I was 14 until 18 (played for Free State A then). Took up chess again now at 30. Rusty, very rusty, but slowly progressing....
"Lies and hypocrisy do not survive for long on the chessboard. The creative combination lies bare the presumption of a lie, while the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite." Em Lasker
"Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judgement. Chess must not be memorized, simply because it is not important enough. ... Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles." Em Lasker
Translation of the above song:
My heart yearns for the quiet of the wide and swaying veld
Far from the city's noises and the clanking sound of money
I am tired of the restless life, of people continuously coming and going
I want to go back to the free open spaces where a soul (within) lives that understands
I see once again the sun on the veld (fields)
And the eternal blue above
And my heart aches with a yearning
And the tears roll from my eyes
And my heart becomes a yearning
And my dreams swim in my eyes
I again see the grey blue mountains towering the western horison
And I wonder no more why such sadness is heard in my songs
(My sadness) ascends to the overcast skies above where the sun falters in the mists
O how I long for the fields -- for the eternal flaming sun above.
