Division of Cowper

http://www.wga.hu/art/l/lautensa/viewtown.jpg

http://www.chess-international.de/wp-content/uploads/wei_yi.jpg

Was reading about him recently, chess is a fertile breeding ground for high-functioning weirdos so hopefully he will turn out to be another

there's something tragic about how much of an absolute g he looks there compared to how bad he looks now in puberty
living adolescence in public something that should not be foisted on high-functioning weirdos
magnus carlsen went from normcore kid to looking like something those girls who do toni kroos tumblrs might have a side-interest in, bit of acromegalic rough
the intervening years he looked sort of barely human

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Magnus_Carlsen_simultan-dscn0443-2.jpeg
https://static1.ichess.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Magnus-Carlsen.jpg
http://gfx.dagbladet.no/labrador/285/285763/28576386/jpg/active/729x.jpg

the stylists should reach them sooner, really

no amount of couturiers and cosmeticians can turn a pupa into an imago before its time

stop stop you're giving me flashbacks

This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a jet strikes out from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The jet irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This jet is what we call progress.

have become rly obsessed with mato jelic's youtube channel recently btw, something about that barely-australicised croatian accent

whoa that's walter benjamin right

here is a beautiful example of mato's style that i just watched, along with a really excellent game from two proper soviet legends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKmuv3qow_A

just discovered this excellent quote regarding nedzhmetdinov, though

"Nezhmetdinov, ... if he had the attack, could kill anybody, including Tal. But my score against him was something like 8½–½ because I did not give him any possibility for an active game. In such cases he would immediately start to spoil his position because he was looking for complications."

probably need to watch some classic yuri averbakh catenaccio

Polugaevsky is quoted as saying, "I must have beaten Rashid a dozen times. But that one loss was so good I would have traded them all to be on the other side of the board."

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/3/19/1426780198057/1c5d274f-17fb-4628-a1a1-5baf9d65eecd-1564x2040.jpeg?w=1920&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=02ef628520e329ff0fc9412fdd52467e

is that barenboim?

:)

http://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/nabs-former-star-graeme-cowpers-demise-now-complete-20161206-gt4va5.html