You’ll find that most paintings of players playing chess have a cat somewhere in the scene. This one has a wooden lion and a spider.
07-Pawn
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07-Move
Use chess tactics to thrive in the face of incalculable complexities and unexpected change. The basic principles of good play – get a big idea, use it to build an advantage, improve it, swap it out for a new one, move quickly, see what happens, make a new plan, and move again – works on a professional level just as they do in corporate warfare.
Three Moves Ahead – Bob Rice
Work Sequence
- Big Idea
- Build Advantage
- Improve It
- Swap For New
- Move Quickly
- What Happens?
- New Plan
- Move Again
Chess Strategies
- Strong Square
- Exchange Sacrifice
- Stay Ahead On the Clock
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09-Taga
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Chess skills are most helpful when you are playing chess. However, when you climb & jump on rocks, your entire brain & body are put to work.
The board & pieces are all the material, but the METAGAME dynamic is certainly a factor in competition. The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig is about losing the battle to a weaker player who uses a novel psychology.
That’s me at the board, on the right, maybe 20 years ago.
05-Lotr
Heaven hovers over. It has lofty qualities, a divine atmosphere. It’s a spiritual shelter of continual security, a state above humanity’s most exalted hopes & desires. But the celestial firmament is not a place of rest. Even the angels work. They have their God given assignments.
THE WORD (1958) by Edna Sarah Beardsley (re: heaven)