Yin and Yang in chess

I don't even like spring-rolls or dim sum but I'm loving their Yin and Yang concept.  It's like pre-Newtonian "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" but with a bit of inscrutable oriental mysticism thrown in. 

It is a philosophy of perfect balance - yin and yang arise together from an initial quiescence or emptiness and continue moving in tandem until quiescence is reached again.  I have been applying it recently to my chess tournaments.

In the current 6 Nations tournament in London that precedes the Rugby tournament of the same name I played Pierre Lievrement in round 1 and took a right beasting in a tricky bishop versus knight end game. 

Balance was restored only after I pushed a Renault Espace into the Thames.

Now I am playing Nigel Farquharson in round 2.  Since the English don't make any cars any more in the unlikely event of another loss what can I push into the river? 

Is there any other way that I could restore my Yang?

Why not just push some more French automobilia into it? Pollute that river even more!

yay...I'll be back to read in a minute.  Just so happy finally another installment is here...brb

well, why not a throw a Jaguar or a Rolls Royce in?  How about an Aston Martin?

I also thought that the original post was quite insightful and really did give a good summary of chinese history. 

Jaguar owned by Tata Motors (India)

Rolls Royce owned by BMW (Germany)

Aston Martin owned by Ford (USA)

Push a truck full of scones into the river. That seems like it should do the trick.

"The Chinese have not really contributed to the history of mankind in any profound way (apart from with lots and lots of people 7 Billion at the last consensus)...."

Your opening remark is totally misinformed...The Chinese four major inventions included- paper, the compass, gunpowder and printing...clearly these have affected mankind profoundly....

The last consensus...haha.  Anyway...I think you need to keep us more updated...what about the chess charity work and all of that?  Weren't you a chess ambassador or something?

I'm still the Welsh chess ambassador for most of the far east including China that's how I know such about the Chinese history and stuff.  I don't like to talk about my chess charity work or rather I can't until the injunction has been lifted, needless to say the money was just "resting" in my account.

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Not that kind of compass, lol.

U mean Anand, Kramnik, Magnus believes in all this stuff.

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 try tai chi or qi gong

didn't the egyptians invent paper?

and anyway it was meant to be a joke, 7 billion people do not live in china.

<I can't believe some people...>

 I know thanks to the Chinese I can now draw a circle and then blow it up.

Cheers.

I have always thought that chess embodied yin/yang in a beautiful way as the two sides continually adapt in the attempt to maintain balance and tension and continually give up something in order to gain something. The beautiful dance of yin/yang in this game is something I seek more than victory.

As for Chinese invention and technology: they were ahead of the West until the 18th century. Their contributions and "firsts" are too numerous to mention, and include such surprises as oil wells, hormone treatments, and paper money, as well as the obvious things like porcelain, the one substance that will outlast our civilization. I refer you to the monumental 4-volume "Science and Technology in Ancient China."

i really couldn't agree more

You could always slap a bumper sticker on an Englishman's forehead and heave him in.  Or, stealing from Tolstoy, you could tie a limey cop to a bear and toss 'em both in.

Anyway you look at, it should be good, clean fun.

You could push the Englishman's air of superiority into his own river.  That'll learn him good and proper!