if you know

To 'Strategically position' is to position your pieces strategically.   Lol.  According to your strategy, whatever that may be.  It's not going to work if your strategy is poor. 

thank you borgqueen.

A whole wheelbarrow full of books on strategy? This thread will never end!

hi borgqueen,i have 3 questions to you.my 1st question is ''if we play chess and i got the white  pieces so i got the 1st move so my question is what you gonna think 1st? i mean are you gonna do defense 1st or you gonna do offense already?.the reason i asking you this is because i want to know the pattern of thinking when i playing chess.my 2nd question is ''my brother in law are so very good in chess,no body can beat him in their barangay or neiborhood in the philipines,my but he never read a book of chess,so my question is can i follow him not to read a chess book or i still have to read a chess book?.my 3rd question is when i watch a grand master game i notice that who ever got the white pieces he or she will win the game,so my question is why?.i wait again to your response borgqueen.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=barangay

ahh, so this is the infamous "if you know" thread.

touche

Man!  That's like saying Dos Passos was good, but Grisham...classic. 

I didn't think anybody still liked the doors after they had grown up.

I missed the music discussion, but I feel compelled to point out that "New York Groove" was an Ace Frehly solo effort.  (And, as I just learned this very moment, was originally written by Russ Ballard of Argent and recorded by the band Hello)

 Yep and what do you think of it so far ? did you managed to read all this ?

Wow, there is so much wrong with that comment. First of all, who wants to grow up?

Second of all, CCR relies on one really interesting voice. The Doors actually write some pretty good music for guitar and keyboard. And they also have good vocals, for a different genre.

As for Dos Passos, I haven't read his stuff, but I've heard it compared to Hemingway, so if that's a fair comparison, I guess I'm pretty impressed.

And hey, I like Grisham. I mean, I wouldn't choose to read his books over something really good. But they're still fun to read.

thank you borgqueen,i forgot to ask you what age you started playing chess?.my 2nd question again is ''i notice that everytime i play chess its hard to me to play an offense rather than playing defense is this normal to beginner like me?''.my 3rd question again is ''some guys told me that black pieces is a defense pieces,i mean if i play black pieces i have to play defense first or else im gonna lost the game is this true?''.my 4th question is '' if my opponent's pawns captured my teritory or my opponent's pawns pass the middle of the chess board and he or she is in my terretory already, is my opponent have a great advantage to win the game or not?.i wait again to your response borgqueen.

Now that is dedication.

Well, there's the sincere "Unless I am mistaken" and then there's the patronizing "Unless I am mistaken"....

Since we're sorta back on music...

I learned something disturbing about myself last night. I wanted to listen to something different while I worked on my computer so I pseudo-randomly pulled up AOL Radio and selected Goth. I was surprised and amazed when I realized I liked it. Most of it anyway.

Don't worry -- no one else does.  That's why listening to it is a good means of reasserting your individuality.

CCR has great songs, sure, but when you really look at them, you'll find that they're mostly fairly simple but good melodies with interesting lyrics and good vocals. Don't get me wrong, that's a recipe for a great band. I don't want to come off as not liking CCR. Actually, the same could be said of many classics (just think of the Beach Boys). But The Doors have a lot more than that. They have original and awesome riffs and harmony with the keyboard and a wider variety of songs. And I find them thematically more interesting, too.

Obviously it is difficult to argue that one band is better than another, because it's a matter of taste. I just disagree with your taste.

As for Grisham, no, I wouldn't equate "fun to read" with "really good." The Da Vinci Code was fun to read, but I don't think it was really good by any stretch of the imagination. Books can be a lot more than just fun. They can be intellectually stimulating, metaphorically meaningful, emotionally powerful, memorable, or any of a number of other qualities that go beyond imediate enjoyment. Harry Potter might be a "really good" book to take to the beach. But I think if that were the culmination of a comp. lit. class, you would be pretty disappointed.

All that said, I don't think I can really support books I don't enjoy reading at all. I won't recommend 1984 to anybody. But books can be both at the same time. I really liked reading Heart of Darkness, but it is also something that is fascinating to consider and remember for a long time, something I can really call great literature. I don't mean that from some pretentious, holier-than-thou, "I'm art and you're not" viewpoint, I mean it from the standpoint that in the end, you will get a lot more out of great literature than a fun book.

Shh, you're ruining the fun.

I like bolgna. I like Manwich.  Some kinds of SPAM don't go on a sandwhich.

@ BorgQueen

According to  kurogkug  "....  barangay or neiborhood..."

Neighorhood community where people live and play together. 

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