Game - 9: ".........."

"The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them. In the dark, the errand boy dozes away the day as he leans against the lamp post in the intervals between chores, immersed in thoughts about something or other. I know what he's daydreaming about: the same dreams I plunge into between entries in the summer tedium of the utterly still, silent office."

                                                                                           - Fernando Pessoa


........














                                                                                                                     ..........!

Well, after that erudite analysis of game- 9, which incidentally was a Berlin Defence, it is time for a nice story!!

Once a traveller went to a hotel asking for a room. The manager said, "Sorry sir, we do not have any room vacant."  The man looked at the room register and found a room lying vacant and requested for that room.  The manager replied, "We will not be able to give you that room as a very fussy person is staying underneath that room.  He creates such a fuss at the slightest noise or anything he hears down below in his room. Because of him, we have left the upper room vacant and we will not be able to persuade him as he is one of our regular customer and he prefers the same room."

"You don't have to worry," said the traveller. "I will be out all day, busy in the market, and won't be back until eleven or twelve at night. When I return I will go straight to bed because I have to catch a train at three in the morning. I will hardly be in the room for three hours. There is no chance of my being a disturbance to your guest. Moreover, it is good that you have told me so I will be extra careful."

The traveller got the room, freshened up and left for work. He returned back at midnight, exhausted from the day's work. He sat down on the bed, removed a shoe and threw it carelessly on the floor. As it hit the floor, he suddenly remembered that the person sleeping in the room below might be disturbed. So he quietly placed the other shoe on the floor and went to sleep.

After about an hour there was a knock on the door. He opened the door and saw a man standing there, trembling with rage.

The traveller was afraid....in the middle of night, darkness all around, and this man is standing full of rage. "Have I done something wrong, Sir?", the traveller asked.

The man said, "Wrong? What about the other shoe? The first one fell, so I thought you have returned. But then what happened to the other shoe? I can't fall asleep. The other shoe is hanging over my head. I waited for an hour and since there was no sign of it, I thought of better asking you to get rid of it, so that I can go to sleep."

Osho narrated this story and added, "Everyone has the other shoe waiting to drop, the shoe of negation: that has to be dropped."

This match is slipping away too fast and is progressively getting insipid. We are not concerned about results, but holding on to oneself and not letting go is a concern.  This clinging....this holding on to whatever...., is playing a spoil sport. The shoe has to be dropped!

 We haven't seen the best of both yet....

.....and we remain, waiting for....

















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Quantum Chess!

Image
" 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
Read more

Falling into opponent's plan! Anand vs MVL and more....

Image
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
Read more

Patterns in the art of Chess

Image
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
Read more