My Chess Blog

" In Chess, human intelligence achieves a creativity which cannot be explained away in terms of conditioned reflexes or the formation of habits. Mental habits and memory are elements in the Chess mind as a knowledge of his language is part of the equipment of an orator, or as a technique is essential to the musician. Beyond that equipment training ends, and the mind creates from its own resources and material. What a good chess player does is comparable, as a mental act, to what the inventor does, be he a scientist or a poet; an act of free imagination, which changes its own surroundings by the revelation of latent possibilities ." - Gerald Abrahams The language used for the title in itself is quite controversial.....the usage of "leveraging"....using the term Lever as a verb! Yet.....everything else in this world, the language should also be 'malleable' .....accommodative.....after all a language is a mere tool to communicate .....and it i

"The night advances toward dawn, Dew drips from the bamboo onto my brushwood gate. My neighbour to the west has stopped pounding his mortar; My little hermit's garden grows moist. Frogs croak near and far, Fireflies flit high and low. Wide awake, it's not possible to sleep tonight. I smooth my pillow and let my thoughts drift." - Ryokan (18th Century Zen poet and recluse) .....and so did I.....! after having witnessed that great game...... .....and not without reasons, Tarrasch said...." Chess like music and love has the power to make men happy " Some of the many positions.....will stay ever on top of our minds........and keep constantly inspiring and giving us......great hope....!                            Bernstein - Capablanca, 1914           Capablanca - Janowsky, 1918                             Paulsen - Morphy, 1857                   Pillsbury - Lasker, 1896                             Reti - Alekhine, 1925