I’ve been playing more chess recently. It’s kind of fun to be absolutely terrible at something and enjoy it anyway.


In 1920, 8 year old Samuel Reshevsky played chess with several chess masters at once.  He lost every single game.

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Mrs. Wiggins knows the score

“And I guess I’d better work a little harder at correcting my faults. What would you say was my worst one?” The cow shook her head. “Let’s stay friends, and you figure that out for yourself.” ― Walter R. Brooks, Freddy Plays Football

Well, that explains it

“I consider myself the single honest man in a world of rogues and blackguards, present company excepted. In these conditions it is hard to accumulate wealth.” ― Jack Vance, Cugel’s Saga