When I Snooze I Lose & Love to Love This Chess Set Make Mine Solid Gold of Pure Gold

Yes the famous saying or rather the infamous saying. I'm afraid to say when I'm tired I just doze. One player the other day won his first game but the second he was making obvious mistakes confessing he was so tired. The skill level goes way down the skill isn't there. I'm so sorry. Anyone have any comments as to what is necessary to be more energized never to snooze again during a game? I shall ask the energy search the secret of never having to snooze again during a chess game. The answer should be Do Not Snooze! What a revolutionary ideal! Come on everybody give to me a page review with a number that will go through the roof and don't you just love this fancy pants chess set?

Well a butterfly like this is always a welcomed sight especially after a tough game of chess and a bitter lost at least I have risen from the depths of defeat to smell the roses and see some peace and tranquility yes indeed a picture is worth a thousand words it can cure the wounds of depression.

Learning To Draw Requires Calculations

From chess without a doubt there are calculations. And when I would draw a subject of which I were not skilled or practiced I'd have to take the rudimentary approach and calculate the basic high school kind of thing they tried to teach me but too often I'd would dose off. I wasn't the perfect student to be sure. Even tracing from a picture requires some thought and concentration although a game of chess requires a tremendous attention at concentration. I paid special attention to her dark eyes the very attractive women are make up artists when they apply the make up and what not. I gave this subject what the photograph demanded and that is the dark eyes aided by eye shadow. You would be so surprised the things a chap like myself has to learn while drawing pictures of women and make up it isn't as easy as it is all cracked up to be. By the way my wife knows this woman celebrity but it doesn't look like her although the picture I drew from did very much what counts is that both the photograph and the drawing in my opinion look good. Give up? I'll tell you and my wife who this woman is in a moment. I must tell you and you are dying to know....right?

Brutality

It isn't my nature to be brutal not even in my blogs do I advocate brutality. In Hitler's journal he did my sorrow for all the wars I more so admire Picasso for his most famous painting which describes his views on war and peace. In my last rated game I felt not good it was as though I had a pit bull like this one here illustrated on a lease and my dog came upon a cat....a pussy cat of which I am a cat lover of these types. To see a pit bull rip apart a loving cat is barbaric. I could not play this opponent of mine a second game I did not know I would play in that way and rip into him like a mad dog I am not that way. Much in the same way I see China as a country bent on maintaining a civilization for the benefit of all countries not just for itself China does not need to prove itself or rectify itself for the past injustices it has so suffered by other countries and yes China was humiliated in its past history. In the journal of Jesus Christ or his journal he speaks of his being crucified but he asks for those to forgive us our trespasses as we would forgive those who trespass against us. China can and will learn from the Christians it can be a good nation. In my chess games I've been crucified often enough more than I care to remember. It is torture and my opponents come right out and say what they are going to do to me. This is the nature of the game of chess I am sorry to say but I do not have to be this way.

Cry For Victory

The beast in me reminds me of King Kong the gorilla who would beat his chest knowing he had knocked down attacking airplanes bent on taking him out. I should just show a photo rather than a drawing of a gorilla beating his chest and showing his teeth in victory over his conquest. I did most of my written explanation for the reasons why I play this online game of chess by e-mail but I figured I could let this audience know rather than reading so many endless stories of my whining you would think that I never could win a game in chess. Well I was in the zone where I could do no wrong I had dueled with an eight and 0(no losses) player whose only lost was to one player and that was me just this afternoon.

An Expensive Picture

After looking at a chess board and losing two straight games this picture looks better than a chess board. The original painting of this picture goes for in excess of 106 million dollars topping Picasso's Dora Maar Au Chat by some six million dollars. Give me some time and I will recoup fast from my loses. I never did think I was going into the games with any confidence but one can never really know when he is prepared for the zone to come about I can for one not figure it out.

Under Fire

I told you it never takes a Genius in my other blog and I'm doing precisely that by falling way below the ranks of what a genius ought to be. At this point my life story isn't going well. But my loses whether it be an exaggerated one thousand games doesn't even have a comparison to what is going on in the news in Japan the earthquake the Tsunami the death and destruction clearly a tragedy a disaster where the pain exceeds the human ability to coup bad things do happen but I don't think this current event has ever come to my life like this one. Send away the comics bring in the holy men for their services appear to deem as more proper one well known comic failed you would think a person in time of this crisis in Japan could use some relief in the horrible stress and grief one is suffering a good laugh perhaps but no it doesn't come it cannot come for this is the nature of the beast when calamity strikes such as this one. I always rebound to gain back my form in chess not to brag that I'm anything close to a respectable chess ratings but I do have an ideal as to where my playing skills lie today isn't one one of those days. I do have hope as I always do that I can come back from playing below par in the old chess games but this living hell in Japan? How does an older person come back from behind after their home is totaled and their family.....and it goes on and on the news is nothing about good news but mainly about the bad bad news sells commercials people like to tune in to the news and then say oh golly that is horrible it is a good thing that I wasn't there at the time of the carnage. With me I have many more shots at coming back to reclaim where I had been before

The High Wire Act

I will call this picture The High Wire Act and it speaks for itself. This is a self made portrait. As you can see my face is clearly the center figure of this picture and I'm not sitting around getting fat like some other very important and famous people are doing. What am I afraid to name names and get sued for libel? She's too big to sue me I'm not afraid. Okay her name is Mona Lisa. Now that I feel my words have accurately and appropriately described this picture I'd like to go on. I drew my face from photo I took of myself and blended it with an Internet photo of someone who appears to be a trapeze artist or an apprentice to the sport. A circle of friends/acquaintances were sharing an Internet video of a very professional and impressive show staring high wire acts or trapeze artist which in the beginning I was in no mood to watch anything I'm a very busy man but I stopped to watch it and immediately I became impressed. I wanted to draw from that. The young lady I was viewing was a highly skilled trapeze artist fame in China and now worldwide celebrities just aching to make their skills and worldwide act of fame and it did catch me lying down sleeping to a fully waken spectator in total awe. I drew from this act and now you have it and no I never really swung from any rope or I never walked among those who participate in the high wire acts. I never did only in my portrayal of such an act in this picture. I draw pictures remember?

Concentration

No one ethnicity has the ownership when it comes to brains and genius. I think Bill Wattenburg the brains, physics professor formally of UC Berkeley said it. Anyhow it was mentioned that the Chinese may be the growing nation to dominate in chess in the future. I have no ideal. If it does more power to them if they never do then so be it. To my Russian audience I say they have been the dominant nation in chess despite Bobby Fischer and I figured if they could play chess they could turn back the advancing German army into the heartland of Russia stall them from further victory all in the name of their leader who was stalling. Joseph Stalin....well how do you suppose he got his name from Russian it? No he didn't rush it he stalled the Germans! Wait a minute wait a minute I'm just teasing you a little joke mind you don't go out and say I intended to belittle the Russians I'm only making a little joke and if you are offended then I say a thousand apologies. I have defeated a higher rate chess player by stealing his queen he resigned and I ran with the victory I had no ideal about claiming a cinch before we began. Let me have a little time to savor my win I don't do it all the time to be sure.

Painting A Sunset

When I draw I don't get the extreme highs and lows of a chess game the emotional roller coaster is more on an even level field if you get my drift. A few days ago I was proud in writing about scoring an upset but yes it puts me in a position where other guns come to cut my lead down to size unless a miraculous improvement makes it's way but even then how long I can sustain and upward surge is often all too few and far between. Isn't it said about a fine line between genius and madness? I've enough on my mind without having to contend with that. The master mind mine behind this blog I think tells me to back off from this blog on chess it is not very pleasant to be certain I suppose this read can become as depressing as Hitler's Third Reich it didn't last very long and he wasn't so successful as being the prominent Nazi that they prided themselves as being. In my mind the Nazi movement failed didn't it? This entry isn't roses and pure happiness the emotional roller coaster has dipped. I'm afraid my dog will have to be put down and Eva my newly wedded......oh sorry I got carried away just a little joke. Don't confuse me with that movie star who has been said to have lost it. Charlie Sheen yes that's his name now all over the news. As rich and famous as he is he does have his problems. Meet me at the next surge in my recovery to an ascent once again as I always do when I'm on a roll or winning streak. It always comes. Meanwhile my son is playing his favorite game a video came called Call of Duty or Call To Duty some name like that a popular video game he tells me. He's shooting Nazi zombies I guess it is okay to do that we Americans take great pride in our kill ratio of German Nazi soldiers we put down just before I was born. Playing chess is the same sort of game except that it requires much more concentration and emotion. Nerves of steel would be preferred.

When I Score An Upset

I have done it too but it seems like it's usually the other way around. Picking up 25 point from 212 to 247 beats losing 25 points the point is that I made an upset against an opponent rated in the 1400's and I will take it I might have caught him half asleep although my going into the game with a feel for a win wasn't overwhelming in fact I've been stalling for days waiting for the right feel to play with enough zest rather than merely going through the motions. True it takes practice but like I said earlier in this blog I like Magnus Carlsen's approach to chess and that is play chess when you are in the mood and not with some sort of discipline and ordered life whether you want to play chess or not. You should want to play chess rather than forcing yourself to do so. A power nap might suit me well at this time.