The Shadows Of My Frown

Being that the number one ranked chess player has a winning record by logic he should be smiling more. But yes Magnus Carlsen is an influence upon me adopting his style of play puts me in the driver's seat and I'm not tortured by the discipline and endless hours of play or practice. Like Magnus Carlsen I play chess when I feel good and the grind to play and practice and practice is not my cup of tea it doesn't pay off too little reward is not gain for the effort put into the game. True Michael Jackson put in endless time honing his craft with little time for his own pleasures but he was driven to excel and sold his soul. My soul is not for sale thank you. My critics are welcomed to make a comment or oppose my point of view. Come on don't be shy. After all we are living in a land of democracy and we have the right to freedom of expression within reason mind you. Make your thoughts known to me. I'm not a preacher nor do I give lectures.

A Cat Can Ward Off Depression

Didn't I say this once before? Yes I did. And being that I did win the next chess game right after I signed out from my first entry of today after being on a caffeine high well it just plain wore off and the next two games I lost. This equals depression. So in comes the cat. Is my depression fading away and am I coming closer toward smiling? Magic cat magic cat chase away all my woes so that next time I will and can beat all my foes be it Joe or even Moe so I can be the victor and shake away all my woes.

True Art Will Checkmate Your Opposition

I have seen the amateur contestants on the very popular television show "American Idol" seen in the beginning of the year. If it were not for the amateurs the success of the television series would be in dire straits. In this presentation of this blog you are seeing an amateur oil painting entitled "Mother Without A Face" an unfinished oil painting by Robert H my pen name. I fear no evil for I painted this picture myself and took the picture with my own digital camera although I am not certain whether I can post a picture of the Mona Lisa without copyright infringements. To be anything more than an amateur would be a surprise to me but we all know what the picture of The Mona Lisa looks like the most popular picture ever on the face of this earth. Leonardo Di Vince composed the picture so by all rights and logic as logic goes he made all the right moves in painting that most famous world renown picture "The Mona Lisa". Do you detect jealousy upon my part? I hope not. My painting I like even better than The Mona Lisa. I'm not at all saying I'm a better artist than Leonardo Di Vince not at all. Many of my pictures are traced from digital pictures my drawings are based on the accuracies of the computer graphics rather than pure artistic skills. If I can capture the hearts and minds of an audience through drawing pictures by tracing from digital photos that I took myself with my own camera then please please let me be what I am. Yes by hobby I am a writer and I love to describe concepts or ideals in words and from these word description this computer puts these words into images. I've said these things many times before it is nothing new. So what is my point as they say so often on the news talk radio shows whenever callers call in to the radio show to make a comment on a particular news topic of discussion. My point is that these pictures I have drawn in this blog are a product of my words which describe a concept or an ideal. If these pictures and words of mine are worth anything I say may they be around as long as the most famous paintings have and will be around. Will they? I often wonder. How could a most insignificant person like me compare myself to such a famous legendary artist, sculptor and inventor such as Leonardo? Or the extremely successful artist Pablo Picasso? That is a very good question. I'll have to take my time and think about it. I think this caffeine is kicking in. You too can do this at home caffeine never killed anyone has it? And now back to a chess game or two.

No Don' t Dose!

For if you dose you lose. It was late night or in the wee hours of the morning when I usually don't do well but I was alert but not losing just tied a few games. My medicine was kicking in so I said why not let me give it a whirl and so I played a few maybe three games total yesterday. I'm playing the Magnus Carlsen way and by that I mean I am playing chess when I feel good and the discipline...well the discipline would make me go mad as Magnus says it would for himself for those who have to grind it out and torture themselves to stay with the game is not his way and it isn't my way anymore either. The nerves won't go away that's a given but I am use to playing online with the live game and not to fret or panic. I will learn to love the game of chess for I will do well and not hate it or appear so negative as one commenter made; Chess Tiger was his name I believe.