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She Was Real, Raging Rio, Chess Rocker, Razor Sharp Curveture's, With Nill Overture's The Main Source To a Full Course Show Stopper, She Had So Many,Good and Plenty,Sweets to Her Treats, She Should Have Been Named Betty Crocker, With a Stark Pose Like a Long Black Rose, The Essence of Her Presence Would Make A Man Pay Penance, For the Keys to Her Locker, She Approached The Chess Set, Like An Encroaching Vet, Two Smooth Moves Later, our Centers Met, I Was Let, To Muse A Threat,But Like a Bad Bet, For She Arose Ever Yet, Like A Bomber Jet, And I began To Sweat, She Had a Closed Variation To Her Openness, I Hoped None The Less, At Best To Vest A Draw, When I Saw How Blessed, She Was Filling Out That Dress, But Then Again, She Probably Had Men, Primed and Lined, From Out West To Budapest, Her Chess Style, Led Me to Take But a Short While, To Visualise With My Own Eyes, That Her Fienchetto's Sported Stilletto's, She Made My Queen Feel Raised in A Ghetto, And Like A True Chess Crime, I Declined To Resign, So I Would Ever Fret So, I Was Drained and Refrained, From My Main Chess Vain, So With My Chess Rating Stained, I Let That Chess Set Go,

She Was Real, Raging Rio, Chess Rocker, Razor Sharp Curveture's, With Nill Overture's The Main Source To a Full Course Show Stopper, She Had So Many,Good and Plenty,Sweets to Her Treats, She Should Have Been Named Betty Crocker, With a Stark Pose Like a Long Black Rose, The Essance of Her Presance Would Make A Man Pay Pennance, To the Keys to Her Locker, She Approached The Chess Set, Like An Encroaching Vet, Two Smooth Moves Later, our Centers Met, I Was Let, To Muse A Threat, She Arose Ever Yet, Like a Bomber Jet, And I began To Sweat,

The Rules of the Opening The opening of the game is the beginning phase. It is when you are trying to control the centre of the board and get your chess pieces out from their starting positions to more aggressive posts. In his excellent book, The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, Ruben Fine gives ten rules to bear in mind when starting a game of chess: Open with either the e or d pawn - it is these pawns which stake a claim in the centre. If possible try to develop your pieces so that they threaten something or make it difficult for your opponent to develop. It is generally a good idea to develop knights before bishops. This is because it is generally easier to see where your knights should go as they have less choice of good squares than bishops. When you develop your pieces do not move them to a square which can easily be attacked by your opponent and consequently drive your chessman to another square. Try to move each piece only once in the opening. In the opening make only one or two pawn moves, no more. Do not bring your Queen out too early as it can be chased around the board by enemy pieces and you will lose valuable time and fall behind in development. Bring your King to safety by castling as soon as possible and preferably on the king's side. Play to get control of the centre of the chessboard. The centre consists of the squares d4, d5, e4 and e5. Always try to keep at least one pawn in the centre of the chessboard. Do not sacrifice (give away your pieces) without a good reason. For example, a good reason to sacrifice a pawn might be to get ahead on development, to prevent your opponent from castling, to build up a strong attack or to deflect your opponent's Queen. While it is normally a good idea to follow the above rules remember that there are always exceptions. However, there is always a good reason why a rule has been broken. Look at the following diagram: Here White has not moved to d4 or e4 (see rule 1). However, the pawn on c4 is attacking the centre square d5 (see rule 8). This pawn move is good. Compare this to the following diagram: Here the pawn is having no effect at all on the centre. This move is not good! To summarise: In the opening: Control the centreDevelop your piecesCastle as soon as possible It is better for beginners to open a game with 1.e4 and to reply with 1...e5. This is because games of this nature lead to the more open games in which the pieces are developed quickly and play is more tactical. Consequently, the ideas are more easy to understand.

A new punk rocker A song written by my own, Saved in inbox of my cell phone, A new hairstyle, Wearing torn clothes for a while, A tattoo with a rock sign, Only bear no wine, This is how punk rock defines. An old guitar on my back, Wearing a shabby jacket which is black, Two freaky guys riding on the bike, Going with the road no destination derived. Vocalist, guitarist and drummer, We all three said to be new punk rocker, Our attitude is the soul of music, Messing with us is all about getting ass kick. Drummer sticks, picks and mic, Those are the things I like, Using best of them with the passion we hold, Let us rock our blood is so cold.

Deep Space Bullet 3 years ago · Quote · #1 kiesh2 Hi guys! Bullettheabilly has asked me to post a topic for him! He had posted this here however G-money7 blocked him due to being a laker fan? Lol. Well here it is! Well as you know G's , Bullet is on a Space Exploration Mission to the planet Neptune. That has been put on hold for a while beacuase Bullet is locked up in a Space Jail and I'm in a World of Hurt. Let me fill you in G's : as you know bullet left Earth headed to Neptune and stopped off at Venus for a female counter part to Roll With on my mission. Then we found life on a moon on the Backside of Uranus, which I taught the Game of Chess. Not only am I considered a Hero in Uranus but I am an Official Uranian Ambassador to the Universe. All that for teaching them the game of Chess. Well after a lengthy stay, me and the lady load up in the Bulletship (spacecraft), and head for Neptune, and thats when the problems Started. You see G's Bullet was way Behind on my Manifest to Neptune so I placed the Bulletship in Hyperspace speed (which is the speed of light minus the speed of Sound), and were Stepping out there pretty damn lickety split. Then, I noticed Flashing Lights , blue,white,red,and yellow, like on a cop car, as it closes in on me I noticed that this Spacecraft was no larger than a Tonka Toy. Well Bullet had no Intention of stopping for no Tonka Toy Space Cop. Well, all the Senser Alarms start sounding and the bulletship Loses power and within thirty seconds we were at a dead stop. I had no control over my spaceship. The spacedoor opens and in comes this little mini spacecraft. My spacedoor closes and its spacedoor opens, and low and behold out steps this Alien Space Cop that looks like a cross between a mouse, a mole,and a treefrog. I come to find out later that these space cops are bred to be small so that the spacecraft, food and provisions in space are also small. These Little Mini Aliens are also bred to be the deadliest shot in the Galaxy with a Laser Gun and have won Competitions throughout the Universe. There is nothing quite like the feeling of being out done by some one a fraction of your size. Well to make a long story short heres what happened: I was Going 4 times the speed alowed in Neptinian Airspace, and as the space cop looks around his Scensorscan sounds and he finds a Uranian Stowaway that hid onboard. Then his Sensorscan noticed that My female counterpart from Venus (who I nickname Firby) has only three toes on each foot and four fingers on each hand which are not allowed in neptinian airspace. Well, I was Arrested for going 4 times the allowed neptinian airspeed, Alien Smuggling for the Stowaway, Illegal Alien Transport for the Female from Venus, And becauase all three of us are considered different types of Aliens and were going four times the speed limit, they Tacked on; Alien Invasion. Man do I feel ALIENATED. I will try and keep you Posted G"S . This is kiesh2 reporting for Bullettheabilly KIESH2

Easter Poems Easter Bunny Hugs And Kisses That cute little bunny has hopped all day, delivering baskets for the holiday. His paws are so tired and his nose how it itches, He left you something special to fulfill all your wishes- Lots of cute little Easter bunny hugs and kisses. Easter Eggs Easter eggs, Easter eggs Hidden all around. Come my children look about And see where they are found. Easter eggs, Easter eggs They're a sight to see. One for her and one for him And a special one for me! The Easter Egg I take an egg All shiny white And then I dip It out of sight. I leave it there Within the cup Then after a minute I pick it up. And oh! It's a lovely Shade of green! The prettiest Easter egg I've ever seen. The Easter Feeling The Easter feeling does not end. It signals a new beginning, Of nature, spring, and brand new life, And friendship, peace, and giving. The spirit of Easter is all about Hope, love, and joyful living. E.A.S.T.E.R. E is for Easter, coming soon A is for angels near the tomb S is for stone which was rolled away T is for tomb found empty that day E is for early morning, the children are glad R is for the Risen Lord, no need to be sad

A wrestling term for tripping up the heels. It is derived from the Italian gamba (leg) and gambitare (set traps). Ruy Lopez was the first to use it as a chess term for traps in his book in 1561 to describe the Damiano Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6 3.Nxe5. Ruy Lopez learned the term from a visit to Rome, who used it as a slang term. Greco introduced the term into England and France in 1623 (Joachimo’s Gambettos). A gambit is a chess opening in which a piece (usually a pawn) is sacrificed in order to achieve an advantage. There are three general methods in which a gambit can help a player's position. For a gambit to be sound it will typically have some degree of at least two of the following: Gain of Time: the player accepting the gambit must take time to procure the sacrificed material and possibly must use more time to reorganize his pieces after the material is taken. Generation of differential activity: Often a player accepting a gambit will decentralize his pieces or pawns and his poorly placed pieces will allow the gambiteer to place his own pieces and pawns on squares that may otherwise have been inaccessible. In addition, bishops and rooks can become more active simply because the loss of pawns often gives rise to open files and diagonals. Former world champion Mikhail Tal, one of the most extraordinary attacking players of the 20th century, once said that he had sacrificed a pawn just because "it was in his way." Generation of positional weaknesses: Finally, accepting a gambit may lead to a compromised pawn structure, holes or other positional deficiencies.

The Origin of Chess Western Chess Chronicle Vol. 1 July, 1936 No. 9 Chess, as the world knows it today, has an ancestry clearly definable and easily established. The student of the game's history, indeed, can find a wealth of corroborative evidence to further his efforts in tracing its ancestry, in philology. "A Number of the mediaeval European chess terms," writes H.J.R. Murray in his voluminous work, A History of Chess, "can be traced back by way of Arabic to Middle Persian." For his authority Mr. Murray has utilized an elaborate compilation of data from chess literature both in printed and manuscript forms dating as far back as the Egyptian Dynasties. He continues: "The name of the game in most of the European languages (e.g. English, 'chess'; French, 'echecs'; Italian, 'scacchi') can be traced back, through the Latin plural 'scaci' ('scachi', scacci', meaning 'chessmen'), to the Arabic and Persian name of the chess King, 'shah'." We may find confirmation of this evidence in the fact that the name, "chess", in modern Spanish or Castilian is "ajedrez", and in Portuguese it is "xadrez". Further, we find these two forms in more ancient Castilian as "acedrix", which is nothing more than the Arabic "ash-shatranj", or the "shatranj" in European costume. To proceed one step further back we find "shatranj" to be an "Arabicized form of the Middle Persian 'shatrang'," which in turn is an adaptation of the Sanskrit "chaturanga". "All these terms are in their respective languages the ordinary names for the game of chess." To substantiate this process of derivations Mr. Murray makes a most interesting assertion: "This philological evidence derives some support from the documentary evidence. The earliest works which make mention of chess date from about the beginning of the 7th century A. D., and are associated with the northwest India, Persia, and Islam. It is difficult to assign exact dates, but the oldest of a number of nearly contemporary references is generally assumed to be a mention of chess in a Middle Persian romance --the 'Karnamak'-- which is ascribed with some hesitation to the reign of Khusraw II Parwiz, the Sasanian king of Persia, 590-628 A. D. The others belong to northwest India." Our game today, as the western world plays it, is one of the two main branches in which it may historically be divided. Our game is known as European chess, or Occidental chess. The second branch is known as Asiatic chess and includes those forms familiar to China and Japan. "Shon-gi" is the Japanese form of chess; "I-go, Wei-Ki" is the ancient Chinese game of chess. In 1904 a Japanese philosopher, Cho-Yo, wrote regarding these games: "The Chinese have been for many centuries acquainted with chess under a form not very unlike the Occidental branch of the Chessological game. Yet the rules for playing are very different from those of the Hindostanese and its descendants' modified offsprings, so that it gives us a strong suggestion to let it be a quite, though only apparently, independent origin on account of the peculiar feature of a central space or strip called 'The Sacred Barrier or River'. "The origin of the Chinese Chessological game is also of very great antiquity, and the reputation of the inventor of the game for the sake of getting clear riddance of brutal, bloodthirsty struggle….is generally yet fabulously attributed to the great sage Wei Wang, in 1120 B.C. "Japanese chess, or 'Shon-gi', is of a very great antiquity, and is a descendant of that which originated at least 5000 years ago." Referring again to Mr. Murray's writings, we read: "It is interesting to note that early Persian and Arabic tradition is unanimous in ascribing the game of chess to India. The details naturally vary in different works and the names in the tradition are manifestly apocryphal. "Chess is usually associated with the decimal numerals as an Indian invention, and its introduction into Persia is persistently connected with the introduction of the book 'Kalila wa Dimna' (the Fables of Pilpay), in the reign of the Sasanian monarch, Khusraw I Nushirwan, 531 A.D., and European scholars of Sanskrit and Persian generally accept the traditional date of the introduction of this book as established. The so-called Arabic numerals are well-known to be really Indian. "Finally, a comparison of the arrangement and method of the European game of the 11th and 13th centuries A.D. with the Indian game as existing today and as described in the earlier records supports the same conclusion…. "We must accordingly conclude that our European chess is a direct descendant of an Indian game played in the 7th century with substantially the same arrangement and method as in Europe five centuries later, the game having been adopted first by the Persians, then handed on by the Persians to the Muslim world, and finally borrowed from Islam by Christian Europe." To substantiate the assertions as to the origin of the Asiatic branch of chess, as quoted above from Cho-Yo, Mr. Murray has this to say: "Games of a similar nature exist today in other parts of Asia than India, The Burmese 'sittuyin', the Siamese 'makruk', the Annamese 'chhoen trang', the Malay 'chator', the Tibetan 'chandaraki', the Mongol 'shatara', the Chinese 'siang k'i', the Corean 'tjyang keui', and the Japanese 'sho-gi', are all war games exhibiting the same great diversity of pieces which is the most distinctive feature of chess. "There is naturally far less direct evidence respecting the ancestry of these games than in the case of European chess, but there can be no doubt that all these games are descended from the sam original Indian game. The names 'sittuyin'' (Burmese), 'chhoen trang' (Annamese), and 'chandaraki' (Tibetan) certainly, and the names 'chator' (Malay) and 'shatara' (Mongol) probably, reproduce the Sanskrit 'chaturanga'…." In respect to the arrangement of pieces and board in the Malay, Tibetan and Mongol games Mr. Murray points out that they are identified very closely with the Indian game, but he further comments that the relation of the Chinese, Corean, and Japanese games are "not so obvious." He leaves no doubt, however, that both the Corean and Japanese games are derivatives of the older form of the Chinese game. Mention is made of Chinese writings which refer to the introduction of modifications in their game about 1279 B.C. Such coincidental features as the Chariot with the move of the Rook occupying the corner squares, and the Horse with the characteristic move of the Knight occupying adjoining squares indicate, and not accidentally, that the Chinese games are of Indian origin. In summarizing, we find this salient and self-evident fact. To again use Mr. Murray's words: "The broad lines of the diffusion of chess from India are fairly clear. Its earliest advance was probably westwards to Persia; the eastward advance appears to have been rather later, and at least three lines of advance may be traced." The first group, we are able to clearly trace, carried the game by Kashmir to the far east via China, Korea, and Japan. The second line, and most probably the same by which Buddhism traveled, carried the game to Further India (where it took on dissimilar features to that of Indian chess). Somewhat later the game spread from the southeast coast of India to the Malay Peninsula. How the game may have reached Tibet and the northern tribes of Asia is yet in doubt. Very ancient Persian manuscripts have revealed that the Zoroastrians had meanwhile passed on chess to the Eastern Roman Empire, and, further documents also disclose that, resulting from the Mohammedan conquest of Persia, Islam acquainted herself with the game. Following this period the Muslims became the most prolific pioneers of chess, thus bringing into being the first concepts of the Occidental branch, and carrying their game as far west as Spain and as far east as India where they ascribed the Arabic nomenclature on the Northern and Central provinces of the peninsula. There is in existence pronounced evidence of the fact that Christian Europe took up the study of chess from the Moors as early as 1000 A.D. Upon gaining a foothold on the Mediterranean shores, it gradually spread northward over France and Germany to Great Britain, to Scandinavia, and to Iceland. Archeological discoveries have brought to light chess pieces and boards found in tombs as old as the pre-dynastic period which dates back to about 4000 B.C. At King's College, London, in July, 1909, there was on display at the annual exhibition of the Egypt Exploration Fund a clay gaming board, measuring 7 inches by 2 1/2 inches, with three rows of six squares and eleven conical pieces varying in height from one-half inch to one inch, taken from a pre-dynastic tomb at El-Mahasna, which lies eight miles north of Abydos. The tomb is presumed to have been the burial-place of a medicine man or magician. There have also been found in tombs of the Fifth Dynasty, about 3600-3400 B.C., paintings on which were depicted early inhabitants of Egypt playing at chess. Chess games are mentioned in the earliest Buddhist literature of India, which manuscripts date back to about 500 B.C. A wealth of archeological discoveries, and a vast collection of Sanskrit, Indian, and especially Persian literature conclusively prove that the origin of chess dates back to the beginning of civilization itself. -oOOOo-

VOTE CHESS GUIDELINES 1. ALL MEMBERS TO TURN ON TRACKING IN THE COMMENTS SECTION. 2. MAKE SURE YOU ONLY COMMENT WHEN THE TEAM COMMENTS ARE LIGHTENED UP NOT IN THE PUBLIC COMMENTS! 3. NO VOTE SHOULD BE MADE THAT WAS NOT DISCUSSED IN THE COMMENTS FIRST. 4. IF SOMEONE LIKES A MOVE POST IT AND EXPLAIN WHY. 5. WAIT UNTIL THE GROUP HAS DECIDED WHAT MOVE IS BEST. 6. AFTER VOTING EVERY MEMBER SHOULD POST THE VOTE COUNT SO OTHERS CAN SEE. 7. AND LAST HAVE FUN! THESE ARE BASIC RULES TO HELP US BE THE BEST VOTE CHESS TEAM.