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La Débâcle
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P.E. P.E. said: " Summary - in progress:

I. The Evolutions of Classical Theory:

1. OVERVIEW

2. CENTER AND DEVELOPMENT

Center and Tempi
Pawn Hunt in the Opening
The - Very - Large Center
Mobile Pawn Centers
Giving Up the Center

3. MINORITIES, MAJORITIES AND PASSED PAWNS
Minority
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"Pomar – Petrosian, Siegen 1970

An illustration of the ideas behind prophylaxis:
14...Tb8, 15...Tb7, 19...Fe8, 20...e6, 21...Txg7. Starting from an odd-looking opening and a rook placed on b7, Petrosian anticipates piece trades, allowing the black pieces to seize control over the f file.


https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess..."
Aug 23, 2026 03:01AM

 
La méthode du pivert
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"Puzzles from games played by Mikhail Tal – aka « The Magician from Riga » – are a joy to try and solve! Tactical fireworks are expected, and rightly so!

Reaching this section, I have fond memories of the autobiographical "The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal"!..."
Sep 02, 2026 04:06PM

 
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George Carlin
“There's a reason that education sucks.
And it's the same reason
that it will never ever, ever be fixed.

It's never going to get any better,
don't look for it,
be happy with what you got.

Because the owners of this country don't want that.

I'm talking about the real owners now.
The real owners.
The big, wealthy business interests that control things
and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians.
The politicians are put there
to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.

You don't.

You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.

They own all the important land.
They own and control the corporations.
They've long since bought and paid for the Senate,
the Congress, the state houses, and city halls.
They got the judges in their back pocket.
And they own all the big media companies
so they control just about
all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying,
lobbying to get what they want.
Well, we know what they want.
They want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

But I'll tell you what they don't want.
They don't want a population
of citizens capable of critical thinking.
They don't want well-informed, well-educated people,
capable of critical thinking.

They're not interested in that.
That doesn't help them.
That's against their interest.
That's right.

They don't want people who are smart enough
to figure out how badly they're getting fucked
by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don't want that.

You know what they want?
They want obedient workers.
Obedient workers.
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork
and just dumb enough, to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs,
with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits,
the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension
that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now, they're coming for your Social Security money.
They want your fucking retirement money.
They want it back,
so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

And you know something, they'll get it.
They'll get it all from you, sooner or later,
because they own this fucking place.

It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
You and I are not in the big club.”
George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing

Marcus Aurelius
“Give yourself a gift: the present moment. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say -x- about you, or think -y-?”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Dale Carnegie
“Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.”
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

Jorge Luis Borges
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

Joris-Karl Huysmans
“Любить друг друга издали, безнадёжно, безответно, не рассчитывая на взаимность, никогда не принадлежать друг другу, целомудренно мечтать о недоступных прелестях, о невозможных поцелуях, о ласках, угасших на изгладившемся из памяти мёртвом челе, - ах. какое это, должно быть, чудное, ничем не омрачённое счастье! Всё остальное мерзость и тлен.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

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