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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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Jonathan Sacks
“In a world without forgiveness, evil begets evil, harm generates harm, and there is no way short of exhaustion or forgetfulness of breaking the sequence. Forgiveness breaks the chain. It introduces into the logic of interpersonal encounter the unpredictability of grace. It represents a decision not to do what instinct and passion urge us to do. It answers hate with a refusal to hate, animosity with generosity. Few more daring ideas have ever entered the human situation. Forgiveness means that we are not destined endlessly to replay the grievances of yesterday. It is the ability to live with the past without being held captive by the past. It would not be an exaggeration to say that forgiveness is the most compelling testimony to human freedom.”
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
“Похоже, у литературы есть лишь одно оправдание - она спасает того, кто ею занимается, от отвращения к жизни.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

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

Joris-Karl Huysmans
“This landscape of abomination is in a state of flux. Gilles now sees that the trunks are covered in frightful tumours and goitres. He observes exostosis and ulcers, pustulent sores the size of rocks, tubercular chancres, atrocious caries. It is a vegetal leper house, an aboreal venereal clinic in which, at a turn in the path, there stands a copper beech.

And as he stands beneath those crimson leaves, he feels that he is being drenched in a shower of blood; and imagining that a wood nymph lives under the bark, he becomes enraged; he wants to fumble in the flesh of a goddess, massacre the Dryad, violate her in a place unknown to the follies of men.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

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