Chess is Anti-Kindness

"You cannot play chess if you are kind-hearted."

-A French proverb

Clear Your Plate

The choice is always simple enough: Clear your plate if you want dessert.

Author Unknown

Life is like Chess

"Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events."

- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790

Why God Allows PAIN?

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering ...

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things." The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber! finishe d his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!" "No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me." "Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

So, if you want to argue with your barber, let him finish his cutting first, okay?

Bobby Fischer's Words on Chess

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game."

"I like to make them squirm."

"If I win, I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not."

- Bobby Fischer
1943- Present

Don't Lose Faith?

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs
CEO
Apple Inc.

Chess and Pickpocketing

"A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket."

- Richard Fenton
1837-1916