{"id":12,"date":"2007-10-17T08:27:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2010-02-22T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:41:33","slug":"chess-wit-and-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Chess Wit and Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/email-address.gif\"><\/a>Previous &#8220;Chess Wit and Wisdom&#8221; Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. &#8212; Yoda to Luke (Thanks to Ernie Hong for the correction.)<\/li>\n<li>Bad players like to play with their &#8220;pretty&#8221; pieces. It is the mark of good players that they won&#8217;t go on an adventure before they solve the problem of their bad pieces. &#8212; Jesse Kraai (ChessLecture, 12\/10\/2008)<\/li>\n<li>Chess is an example of something that is just beyond human mental abilities, but not so far beyond them that we cannot make a decent stab at it. We&#8217;re very good at language, no better than rats at mazes, and somewhere in between at chess. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Noam Chomsky<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chessboard in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered. &#8211; Robert Benchley<\/li>\n<li>A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second, when you believe you have an advantage, and the third, when you know you&#8217;re going to lose! &#8212; Savielly Tartakower<\/li>\n<li>That graceful creature, the Knight, showman of the chessboard&#8230; &#8212; Irving Chernev<\/li>\n<li>Pawns are just\u00c2\u00a0like a box of chocolates. You always have to check whether they&#8217;re poisoned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submit Your Own &#8220;Chess Wit and Wisdom&#8221;!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ground Rules:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Humor must be G- or PG-rated.<\/li>\n<li>No racist, sexist, defamatory, or offensive remarks.<\/li>\n<li>I will be the sole judge of whether your submission meets the above criteria.<\/li>\n<li>I will be the sole judge of whether your submission is witty or wise enough to post, and I do not have to explain my reasons. Please do not bug or hassle me about this. It&#8217;s my site, and my decision is final.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you have a saying to contribute, and you are willing to abide by the above ground rules, please e-mail your contribution to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/email-address.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/email-address.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/email-address.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please state your <em>real <\/em>name in the e-mail. If your &#8220;Wit and Wisdom&#8221; comes from some other person, please identify who said it. If you made it up yourself (which is better), then I will identify you as the source.<\/p>\n<p>Your &#8220;Wit and Wisdom&#8221; submission will have the best chance of being selected if it is short and pithy &#8212; just one or two sentences is the ideal length.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, and I look forward to being tickled and amazed by your words!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8220;Chess Wit and Wisdom&#8221; Entries No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. &#8212; Yoda to Luke (Thanks to Ernie Hong for the correction.) Bad players like to play with their &#8220;pretty&#8221; pieces. 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