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 " Part of normal human development is learning to notice less than we are able to. The world is awash in details of colour, form, sound - but to function, we have to ignore some of it "                                                                                                                            - Alexandra Horowitz "...... some of it " is an understatement! We need to ignore most of it......if possible, everything ! We have been taught to look for patterns in chess and in life. Neither life nor chess falls into a pattern and things keeps changing - and change is the only permanent thing, else chess and life will become lifeless! So, one has to learn the techniques...

தெளிவுறவே அறிந்திடுதல்; தெளிவு தர மொழிந்திடுதல்  சிந்திப் பார்க்கே ஆனந்தக் கனவு பல காட்டல்  - பாரதியார்     The great Tamil poet Bharathiyar says....." learn and understand with great clarity; then convey what you understood in clear manner; only to those who think deeply and uniquely would realise great dreams "! An artist, whomsoever he or she may be, needs the above...whatever be is the field of art. One has to understand the art deeply in their own unique way, and only then they would be able to let their unique art manifest through their action. Chess is an art ......and the art is to express yourself in the most simple manner! In Faust, Wolfgang von Goethe exclaims....thus " Ah! Now I've done Philosophy I've finished Law and Medicine, And sadly even Theology; Taken fierce pains, from end to end, Now here I am, a fool for sure! No wiser than I was before .... " Faust is an expression of Goethe's impression about humanity, its grandeur and foibles...

"To be content with little is not true culture, but to be free from little or from much is" - J.Krishnamurti " FEBRUARY SEVENTEENTH WAS A FATEFUL DAY FOR SAM FLEMMING.  Sam considered himself an extremely lucky person. As a broker for one of the major Wall Street firms, he'd become wealthy by the age of forty-six. Then, like a gambler who knew when to quit, Sam had taken his earnings and fled north from the concrete canyons of New York to idyllic Bartlet, Vermont. There he'd begun to do what he'd always wanted to do: paint. Part of Sam's good fortune had always been his health, yet at half past four on February Seventeenth, something strange began to happen. Numerous water molecules within many of his cells began to split apart into two fragments: a relatively inoffensive hydrogen atom and a highly reactive, viciously destructive hydroxyl free radical. The hydroxyl free radicals began to nibble away at the core of Sam Flemming's b...

"You must ask each piece what it can usefully achieve on its own, what help it requires from the other pieces, and in what way it itself is prepared to help them." - David Bronstein ...... Space ..... Time ...... Space-time......       Ray - Photo by Nemai Ghosh                    Karpov - Kasparov, Linares, 1993 The great still photographer Nemai Ghosh , wrote, in his memories of Satyajit Ray , " I don't know what possessed me then. As if in a trance I felt my finger pressing the shutter on the camera.... and I finished both rolls of film " The shutter, choosing the time to urge the fingers press it, to compose a shot, is dictated by the needs of a situation - and not the desire of the one who clicks it! It corresponds to time and time corresponds to space - which is defined by two coordinates: a start and an end. So, everything is defined and ruled by space..... the cosmos, the earth, human relationships, ev...