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Love Is All You Need
Which does not belong?
LOVE
ZILCH
GOOSE EGG
EPISODE
NIL
DUCK
White to Play
If you have studied each of the prior isolated queen pawn positions, you should have a shot at knowing what to do here. The game is a famous one, fully annotated in my Openings for Amateurs—Next Steps book. It starts out Botvinnik,M. - Vidmar,M. Nottingham, 1936 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.d4 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Nc3 0–0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Bd3 c5 8.0–0 cxd4 9....
View solutionWeird Numbering
What comes next?
0, 15, 30, 40, __
View full teaser and answerWhat's the Good Word?
Which of these words does not belong?
EMBARASS
WIERD
PRONUNCIATION
OCCURANCE
DEFINATE
View full teaser and answerFootnotes
A, who knows only French, publishes an article in an English magazine. At the end of the article are the following 3 footnotes:
1. I thank my friend B for translating the above article into English so that it could be published in this magazine.
2. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.
3. I thank my friend B for translating the above footnote.
Why are there only 3 footnotes when logically, A will have to go on forever to be able to thank B properly???
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White to Play
Black tries his best to defend a key square only to get mated.
View solutionFun with Geometry
What drink does this represent?
180 degree arc
360 degree arc
180 degree arc
A
180 degree arc
360 degree arc
90 degrees lines
A
HEA wooden stick VEN
What phrase is represented below?
HEA wooden stick + sulphur head + phosphorus tip VEN
View full teaser and answerBody Language
Answer the following with parts of the body. The first one is free!
1. A strong box (chest)
2. Heard in congress while voting
3. Baby cows
4. A shellfish
5. A unit used to measure distance
6. Scholars
7. Part of a shoe
8. What every builder must have
9. Something made by whips
10. What soldiers carry
STRU musical MENTS
Can you decipher the musical instruments represented below?
1. P O
2. BA BA
3. ECLART
4. @ # $ %
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White to Play
A very unusual position. Here’s what you need to know. It is a won position. The way taken by White is amazing. In the final mating position, White has only his queen, bishop and some pawns while Black has his two rooks, queen, two knights, and two bishops and a bunch of pawns!
View solutionKids
Using real names to make common words, name the offspring: (the first one is free!)
1. Mr and Mrs Voyant - Clare (as in Clairvoyant)
2. Mr and Mrs Tress
3. Mr and Mrs Nasium
4. Mr and Mrs Tate
5. Mr and Mrs Anthemum
6. Mr and Mrs Mander
7. Mr and Mrs Mite
8. Mr and Mrs Time
White to Play
You also have to be tactically alert in IQP middle game positions. Here only one first move wins.
View solutionSpoonerism
A spoonerism is a pair of words that can have the initial sounds switched to form new words. For example, "loose morals" is a spoonerism for "moose laurels"(note that the pairs do not have to be spelled the same - only sound the same) From the definitions below can you figure out the following spoonerisms?
A quiz about a celebration....an irritating person that is never punctual
An irritated facial expression....The top of Mr. Avalon's head
A prideful diminutive insect....An ill-behaved sombrero
Hollandaise is one....Going from one side of the street to the other in a bad part of town
View full teaser and answerTake a Closer Look!
What phrase is represented here?
queue
tall perennial grass
row
OR
pedigree
necessity for clarinetist
ancestry
Risen
I'm seven times seventy,
Plus a decade more.
This has all happened before.
Red and gold, I am no liar.
My nursery will be made
From my funeral pyre.
Who am I?
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White to Play
Hope you had a nice three day weekend. This is a position option taken from a game Euwe won in 1934.
View solutionHalt!
Can you identify what phrase is represented here?
nasmetofolopve
View full teaser and answerCompound Directions
Can you find the one word for each list that can be added to the end of each word in it's list to create a new word, compound word, or phrase?
round
show
throw
grow
out
be
in
sub
put
shake
get
hoe
Young Love
Read this rebus backward to reveal a famous song.
2 T T T T
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