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Patterns in the art of Chess

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Nature uses only longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organisation of the entire tapestry - Richard Feynman This article springs from the passion exuded by a young kid - Sai Akhil Anand - and his quest for discovering patterns (and express them as wonderful paintings) in almost everything that he sees and comes across even in his tender age! His world revolves around Hemchand sequence (otherwise known as Fibonacci sequence ), Sierpenski triangle, Golden ratio, Fractals .... so on and so forth and his canvas encompasses a vast arena ......from the trail of snail on the floor to the trail a rocket leaves on the stratosphere! Patterns are wonderful and enhances creativity, as long as it is used like we use salt in our food - nothing more nothing less! Patterns act as catalyst in the process of understanding the art and showcasing it by enhancing the creativity of the artist in his or her own unique way!  " Our humanity rests upo
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Quantum Chess!

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" And it's then, with immense clarity of vision, that I see how easy it would be to remove myself from this tedium (of life) if I just had the strength truly to want to do so " - Fernando Pessoa  The great Portugal thinker further added.... " Those of us - be we geniuses or beggars - who do not know how to want in our shard impotence.... " " Shared impotence "...... impotence ..., which is wrongly assumed as ' importance ' a phonetic error perhaps, which lead humanity to struggle under delusion! Every one in this world, assume an identity - a condition which imposes further conditions - based on which humans act at every moment and do whatever they do, assuming a false certainty in a world which is full of chaos and where chaos rules order and..... perhaps, an order lies underneath the chaos! Frank Wilczek - a nobel laureate quantum physicist - began is wonderful book with these words: " The Universe is not what it used to be, nor what it
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Falling into opponent's plan! Anand vs MVL and more....

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Times Correspondent: " Why do good players lose ?" Answer (Tartakover): " The board is full of mistakes, waiting to be made "  As the saying goes, good positions do not lead to a win, rather good moves lead to a win ! To play good moves consistently is the supreme talent which only great players possess - you have only handful in the history of Chess! They too are not immune to mistakes....but commit them on very few occasions compared to others. It is something similar to this assumption: if in Tennis or Shuttle Badminton or in Table Tennis, if a player is capable of putting the ball (or shuttle cock) into the other side of the net, successfully returning it, then he would never lose. It never happens! So..... in Chess! Playing good moves consistently is almost imposible even for the greatest! Then comes the most intriguing question, What is a good move? It is hard to define a good move as it is highly subjective. Suffice to say, a move is good if it sufficiently c
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Nepomniatchi - Ding: Game 5: "Colour complex - a perspective"

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 "The basis for a game of Chess is a purposeful plan which, beginning in the opening, is consistently developed in the middlegame. The link between opening and middlegame is of topical significance. Together, we shall consider the problem of assessing a position and analysing - undoubtedly the paramount question of Chess theory. It should be borne in mind that any of these problems can only be studied succssfully given a critical, imaginative approach to them" - Isaac Lipnitsky The great authority of opening theory, during the pre-computer era; Lajos Portisch , observed, " Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame " Very true! But what is a playable middlegame!? There lies the beauty and depth of chess as it means very different at different levels of mastery and even amongst the greatest masters of Chess, it is defined by factors which are beyond comprehension!  Playable Middlegame is a very broad term! Bronstein wrote in the preface to &quo
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Weakness - A perspective

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" The experienced player will learn to distinguish which weaknesses to avoid and which to endure " - William Lombardy ......yet, we find even top players get into committing some serious weakness, time and again! When Tenjiku was asked about the incident of Tanka burning the statue, he replied, " When it is cold we gather around the hearth by the fire" " Was he wrong or not ?" persisted the monk. " When it is hot we sit in a bamboo forest in the valley ," said Tenjiku Chess ideally should be played like this, your opponent should not understand what you play! And for this to happen, you should also have no or less clarity on what is happening! The act of creation should be consigned to tacit integration. Mikhael Polanyi wrote, "Since particulars are more tangible, their knowledge offers a true conception of things is fundamentally mistaken".  In chess, moves or more precisely sequence of moves calculated in advance gives an illusion o
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