Everything/Anything and…Chess…"Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess"–George Koltanowski: from the foreword to:"Women in chess, players of the Modern Age"
With this lockdown due to the coronavirus, I think we all wait for some good news!
A song during the time when South Africa went through a difficult time with the border war, which lasted more than 30 years.
If we accept the word forever Maybe we should live together And not be scared to watch The late night news You can’t use guns to build a nation A bullet never was creation
Give, give me the good news War’s the one game where we all lose Give me the good news
If I accept the word tomorrow Can I file away my sorrow And not be scared to watch The late night news You can’t use force to sell a promise Dictatorship was never honest
Give, give me the good news War’s the one game where we all lose Give me the good news
Give, please give me the good news War’s the one game where we all lose Give me the good news
If I accept the word forever Maybe we should live together And not be scared to watch The late night news You can’t use…
Spoken by great men:"Give me 20 divisions of American soldiers and I will breach Europe. Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen and I will advance to the borders of Berlin. Give me two divisions of those marvellous fighting Boers and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth." - Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allied Forces during WW2.
"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honour, glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight, the Russians have no choice. The Germans for their Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of Bitches fight for the hell of it." American General, George 'Guts and Glory' Patton.