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The Game in Balance
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It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.
Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do ‐ it's a matter of being different at what you do.
Michael Porter

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Someone had said that when computers really learned to play chess and played against one another, White would always win because of the first move. Like tick‐tack‐toe.
Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

Maybe This Time, Michael e, Ashley Slater, Diego Porchile

Telling Me Lies, Foxes and Fossils

Nothing Else Matters, Apocalyptica

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::corngrowth
11/07/21 12:54 AM GMT
John, I would be the looser of this chess game.
The reason is simple: with all the splendor there, it's impossible to concentrate me.
Perfect post (render, quotes, and music links) again!
S+F! Thanks for sharing, 👍 !

PS: the song 'Telling me lies' from the Emmylou Harris/Dolly Parton/Linda Ronstadt Album 'Trio' (#6), performed now by the Foxes and Fossils, is a wonderful version!
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.LynEve
11/11/21 11:50 AM GMT
Fabulous and captures the essence of The Queens Gambit. Beth would approve :)
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::Nikoneer
11/15/21 8:03 PM GMT
The one on the left looks like the Queen with the King on the right, which would have to be the case since they are both sitting on black. Very cool, Bruce. I have often considered making a chess set in the ceramic lab I am building in my backyard, but have yet to settle on a style. Perhaps this is it?

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