FIVE brave 'victims' have volunteered - so the team bus will be departing shortly (tomorrow, in fact). "All aboard, that's getting aboard!"
If we're ever to achieve parity (in terms of ratings) with another team, there's only 3 ways of achieving it, as far as I can see:
Any other strategies?
To achieve this, we either:
Well, this it - the moment approaches. Valiant Chess Athenians, do your best! As you read the stirring words below, I know that you will be able to mentally adjust the term 'England*' to Greece, Mexico & the U.S.A.!
St. Crispen's Day Speech William Shakespeare, 1599
WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England*
That do no work to-day!
KING. What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
And the rest of it ... http://www.chronique.com/Library/Knights/crispen.htm
Well, I hate to side with Westmorland on this, but perhaps we band of brothers might fair better against these larger groups with just a few strong players now-a-bed. We should send out some invitations, perhaps with a bribe.
Until then, once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; or close up the walls with our English dead. (Easy for a Yank to say.)
I always try to look on the bright side: I usually have to pay my dominatrix $200 an hour to get a beating like this.
I always try to look on the bright side: I usually have to pay my dominatrix $200 an hour to get a beating like this.
Well at least she CAN play chess.
Well, I hate to side with Westmorland on this, but perhaps we band of brothers might fair better against these larger groups with just a few strong players now-a-bed. We should send out some invitations, perhaps with a bribe.
How much is in the kitty?
Do you think this kind of appeal will bring in the punters?
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival." http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/churchill.htm
rhoskins wrote:
Until then, once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; or close up the walls with our English dead. (Easy for a Yank to say.)
Cue stirring music: Land of hope and glory ...
[after being asked where he's from]
Rocky: Oh, just a little place I call the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Mac: Scotland!
Rocky: No! America. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120630/quotes
The observant among you will have noticed that a 2nd Team Match is looming: "Serious but not THAT serious". However, the gauntlet has been picked up by "Chess Unlimited" - who look, on the surface, to be quite serious competition.
We will have to rely on our wits, and on our 'only sometimes say "die"' philosophy to see us through.
Remember our motto! (If anyone does remember our motto, be sure to let the rest of us know).