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ROOK.....Rook.....rook.....! Karpov - Hou Yifan, Harbin 2018

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"Strictly speaking, the life of Chess armies consists in the art of switching from one position to another" - David Bronstein Mulla Nasrudin went to see a psychiatrist. He said: " My trouble is that I can't remember anything, Doctor " " When did this start ?" asked the Doctor " When did what start ?" said Nasrudin When did what start!  Though this is part of the joke.....it hides great depths.....! Learning is such!   The truth is we don't learn anything.....anything new at all!! We learn to unlearn......forget......relearn.....forget..... ......do we learn anything at all....!? ....'knowledge' is a form of delusion..... When The Buddha attained enlightenment, people came to him and asked, " What did you attain ?" The Buddha said, " The question is meaningless, I attained nothing ." " Does that mean your labour, all these years, was in vain? Your years of penance, years of seeking, ...