When I said that chess is nothing, many minds felt wounded. I did not say that chess is not worth playing or is not worth as a sport or an art. I was trying to show that the difference between many pieces on the board and a human. In that way che...
There are some players who are very high on the rating lists on this site. There are players who are all somewhere in the middle, who play on the average level. In the chess clubs here there are not players who are as good as on this site. So, ...
Are you the chess addict? Life is not such a secret. Everybody knows from the experience what the life is. Secret is something we know, but do not want the others to know. Analogy leads us to the next conclusion: if we do not know what other know...
Of course, I did not reveal the secret of chess yet and there is only One God, so obviously chess cannot be as mighty and chess players did not reveal the very big secret of life. I know, everybody will say that playing chess reveals all kind of s...
I make mistakes. I click by accident. I push too much. I am afraid for nothing. I have so much to learn and I am the endless pupil. You may say that I am a master in a way. I am an incredible error maker. I know how to play, but when I make a mis...
When I lose, it is kind of nice. I like to say, "Oops," and I do not appreciate that lousy waiting for somebody to beat me finally. Who does? Anyway, I think I know how to surrender and how to give up and I know how to lose. I learned lately ...
It is true that we learn on our mistakes, but we can lost our self confidence if we never win the battle. Funny how I lost a game when I was younger. My opponent was the old man and I did my best, but he forgot where he is because he was conc...
So I love you, my friend, It is time to say the verdict. Better time has come for us Our journey's at the end. Like the real drug addict, I will set you in a heart truss So I hear you, dear love, winds are murmuring in the chest like a n...
I wont speak about playing with Mr. Computer and against that machine. I want to tell you and to ask if people who are playing with the help of computer engine can recognize and realize that they are becomming machcines themselves? How tha...
Sometimes I take more time to pray, sometimes less. Oh, yes, I pray for players and I pray when making moves and decisions. There is a pattern I use in the mornings and sometimes through the day and night: Dear Lord, every our pray and acti...
Tonight I'm gone. I am going to the Mass to celebrate my God and his people, all of us. Tonight I would like to tell you what we all probably know but forget: this is the day when Catholic Church get her soul. Today Jesus established the Eucharis...
What if I can win the game? It's terrible, what will I do if my rating begin to jump up? The tremors started. Never mind, rating will jump down again and will jump up again etc, etc. The tremor is still here, a little stronger. I can not play...
Learning foreign language I've learned that my passive knowledge is many, many times bigger than my active ability to use it in life. I often ask myself what benefits has anybody of my passive knowledge. If I can read, for example, who cares? The...
Beginner can hear many names of tactics, many variations of the main theme. It does not help much. It is nice to hear some theory from time to time, but you want to play now and you want to win immediately. Things does not go like that. After so...
My first tournament for real was the real chess playing. I was all in the game I watched. Did not see faces, only the board. People around me were just a little social, only what's necessary and very close connected with chess. A lot of ambition...
Every game has to be a sort of conflict in a positive way. Maybe if you do not have some kind of conflict with your partner, you'll never know what he think or what he will do. A game can become a quarrel and it is very good for the rivals if th...
I like to have enough time to look at what have I done and which move I made. Rarely look at the rival's tactics and attentions. I am so occupied with myself probably because I am a beginner, I am so delightful with my own moves and knowing that I...
Men talk in the office, or at home, or in the car when waiting in the rush hour. They exchange ciphers, one says „d4“ and the other answers „Qxd4“. Suddenly they smile or shout, or become silent. Women beside do not understand what is that all ab...
How to learn and play or how to play and learn, that is the question for me. You have to have alive person that is coaching you because everything is important, even the breath or your pulse. Because the beauty of chess and a human never can lear...
Sometimes I like to think when I play, but there is somebody inside me who is laughing if I try very hard. May I say that the game is in my blood or it is not, once you start to play, the blood start to move through the spirit? And when I think, ...
What is the point in chess? It is for warriors. They have only one woman – she is their queen. They must not have any other. Be cause they would loose any other woman, or a child, or a family. Yes, warriors can loose everything or they can win the...
Okay, I never meant that I could be so powerful. When you analyzing someone's game and have a master who won the same game near by, that is a very good start. You must admit that I am the one of the privileged beginners. It is because I am not ver...
