Chess

Anticipate The Future, Extrapolate From The Past.

February 8, 2012
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"Find the Cost Of Freedom Buried in the Ground" First it was NYC, what happens once Iran has a nuclear weapon?

Anticipate The Future, Extrapolate From The Past- One could never really be a winner in the game of chess, simply by always having a brilliant defense.-  By Stephen C. Sanders-first edit 1225 words, 8pm, updated (2nd edit 10:30pm)     In my experience I have found that people form judgements easily utilizing only the sketchiest of details. My writing is one of the ways that I try to make sense of the world around me. Which gets me to my point, even faster than I thought I would. I was raised by someone who survived the Holocaust. My mom survived by “pretending” she was not Jewish as a child when between the ages of like 4-8 I am thinking. If someone were to ask me what is an very important principle to me I probably would say fairness. I look at most things in a very deep, philosophical and analytic way.  I truly hate injustice, which of course does not mean that I never did anything wrong. What really gets is me  is when people walk around thinking they are perfect where as they really do have many flaws and have hurt quite a few people either intentionally or accidentally. The term

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Intelligent Design-Holy Torah.

September 13, 2011
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Woodstock Just In Love

This probably will be one of the shortest posts I will be writing on this website. The truth is when I there is a certain amount of pressure to conform to deadlines, start dates, and appointments, things get done. On one of my BlogSpot blogs I recently posted a comment that at one time I had actually taught a full program at a public high and then afterwards taught no less than four additional preps (4 different classes in different subjects) at a Yeshiva which required a significant commute. Ebbs and flows are natural cycles that are build into every aspect of the world in which we live. While I have been significantly involved in developing dozens of new websites (mostly for my own purposes) I also am faced with the results of imperfect planning. Sometimes we can become significantly sidetracked even by our own work. The amazing thing is how the offers for work fly in, when I am required to do my most effective thinking and planning on my own part. Getting caught up in the thinking and planning stages of any given project, is an extremely significant important thing to understand with all of its subtle implications.

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Learn Their Mistakes, Or Be Doomed To Repeat Them!

August 9, 2011
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Gary Kasparov: Making Mistakes in Chess- Aharon Moshe Sanders, Making Mistakes in Life-AhMbDvd August 9, 6:17pm Gary Kasparov: Making Mistakes in Chess   A master chess player Gary Kasparov fully explains the value of mistakes in something as simple as “a game”. However a game, has so many valuable examples that can be applied to real life, that I felt it very fitting to have the man himself explain exactly what mistakes are all about, and how they contain essential elements to allowing experienced palyers to grow.   Today we live in a world where the greatest thinkers, politicians, leaders and experts in their fields are every bit as prone to make mistakes as ever/ The difference is the unfortunate tendency on either the part of the media or even on the individual level to simply ignore, deny, or create convoluted explanations justifying these errors. Far better is to assume as our chess master friend Gary Kasparov is telling us here, that mistakes will occur, and we need to go back and analyze what went went wrong, so as to to become stronger when faced with similar issues in the future.   Accepting the inevitability and responsibility for strategic errors in

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Getting Ready To Mourn-

July 31, 2011
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Getting Ready To Mourn-

Stop putting life on hold, take your one shot now, life is not a dress rehearsal.-AhMbDvd Rosh Chodesh (Aleph) Av 5771-Stephen C. Sanders, August 1, 2011 4:10pm EST (complete) Novel approach to the old rules. – Or Everything I have always wanted to say about the period known as the “nine days” but was too worried about what everyone might think about me as Torah Observant Jew, to say them on a public website. When I decided to take on the orthodox or Torah Observant lifestyle I new from the beginning that there was going to be a fair amount of things “expected of me” which I would not always be so terribly enthusiastic about doing.   Now I could go on to tell you a whole bunch of humorous stories like when I was at my cousins in Israel on a thursday night and had no plans or even an idea where or with whom my daughter and I would spend Shabbos with, or I could just launch into what I really came here to say…… Okay, so I didn’t have something planned so I called someone who according to this Rabbi I knew in Passaic lived either in or close to

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Getting Caught in the Theoretical and Breaking Free.

October 8, 2009
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Getting Caught in the Theoretical and Breaking Free.

Okay, lets now take to the final level. The thought that proceeded much of this writing had to do with a particular cassette tape by Napoleon Hill that my Uncle Harvey Sanders (He should rest in peace) had lent to me sometime in the early 80′s. The tape talked about several ideas which I am now going to elucidate: Getting baked in the Squat: Napoleon Hill, a fairly well know author writing on such topics like: “Think and Grow Rich”. had used to an extended analogy to discuss his central idea. Free Download Think and Grow Rich The above link is somehow a free download so that you can download his book for free. (there must be a catch, and does his publisher know about this site?) The central idea was about not being decisive or being a glittering generality. He had used this analogy about how he was offered these muffins that were baked by a a neighbor or friend of his. They tasted okay but he wondered why they were so short and squat. Why they were not tall and fluffy like a muffin or biscuit is supposed to be. (I think it was biscuits). Any way the

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