thnik again!

This blog will take a rest till Monday 7 November.

White to play and win.

I learn something every time I go into the mountains. – Michael Kennedy

White to play and mate in two moves. Problem created by Paul Morphy.

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy. He was called “The Pride and Sorrow of Chess” because he had a brief and brilliant chess career, but then retired from the game while still young. – Wikipedia

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. – Robert Brault

White to play. Whatever Black responds, White will mate him in the next move.

In other words: White mates in two.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. - Hyman Bass

“There is an unbiased cubical dice with its faces labeled as A, B, C, D, E and F. If the die is thrown n times, what is the probability that no two consecutive throws show up consonants?”

Problem source: http://math.stackexchange.com.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  - Charles C Noble