Showing posts with label winning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winning. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Tips On Winning The Lottery

Honestly, there are no surefire tips in winning the lottery. People who sell you books promising to make you a sure winner are only making money out of gullible, foolish people. Understanding and accepting that your odd of winning is one in a million may be one of the most important steps to prevent you from being addicted in the lottery and perhaps save you a lot of money, too. One important tip I can give you is - do not pay just to have tips in winning the lottery.
Be Realistic
If you are really engrossed about winning the lottery, then you should first make sure that you will do so with intelligent reasoning. Do not let your judgment be clouded by being obsessed about winning. You have to understand that you don’t increase your chances even a bit just by obsessing and being so excited about it. You may end up spending all your savings just for tickets that never won and never will. All you will be is disappointed and broke.
Dos and Don’ts
When playing the lottery, especially for “serious” players, you tend to be sentimental about the numbers you choose. You pick up numbers with some kind of meaning to you such as birthday dates, anniversaries and other special occasions. This may not be a good decision since I’ve never seen a calendar with 45th or 46th day in it. You may not be giving yourself justice by picking up four numbers between 15 and 25. Also, it is a good idea not to pick up numbers that have previously won. Lottery is really random, and same numbers may but not usually come up three days in a row. Also, don’t believe those lottery tips where they give you numbers you should pick or those that give you mathematical formulas to be computed when picking your numbers. All those kinds of tips are trash. No mathematical formula can make you pick the right numbers. For the nth time, the lottery is a random game. Even the balls do not know which of them is going to be picked.
Pick Numbers the Fun Way
While picking significant and sentimental numbers are usually done, there is really nothing bad about it. Just know how to limit yourself. You know you’re not really increasing your chances by picking up numbers that are too close together. A good and fun idea in picking numbers is to “draw” them randomly yourself. You can make a chart with all the numbers in the lottery randomly placed on boxes then point at them with your eyes closed. You can also randomly open book pages with the page numbers included in the lottery. You can also put number on marbles and pick up or make people pick up marbles for you. If you’ve already picked up some numbers, then you just have to fill out the remaining empty slots with the numbers you’ll be getting from these fun suggestions. This way, you are definitely enjoying your own version of a lottery draw. Who knows, with that fun attitude and positive thinking, you might just win the big jackpot!

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

A few basic tips to improve your chess game

If you are like me you enjoy playing chess but hate losing more often than you win. For me at least, winning often seemed more of an accident than skill. Well, having many hours of trial and error, studying moves my opponents made, looking at what I was doing, etc. I came up with a few basic ideas on how to improve my playing skills.
In the beginning, there was the middle
The first moves of the game are essential to your strategy. They can also be the hardest to decide. From my experience, I have found that controlling the middle of the board is a good way to start. Whether the game takes place on the left side of the board or the right, taking control of the middle will allow you to be ready and in control of how the game pans out. Put your pieces in the middle, protect them as best you can, and gain a better feeling of control.
Pushing past the defenses
Once the game is a few moves in, it is time to start the push to kill the king. Chasing the king around with a single piece only to put it into a place where it is little use is not a good idea. However, a single piece can be extremely powerful in the right place. Look at the chess board. Divide it in half so your pieces are on one side and your opponent's are on the other. Try to get one of your pieces past that middle line in a place where it is well protected. By getting your piece firmly in your opponent's territory you are hindering how and where they can move, making it easier
The King can be more than a weakness
The King, as you know, is what decides a win or loss in chess. Generally it is a good idea to keep him protected. Placing a few pawns in front of him is a good defense and will buy you more time to take your opponent's King. However, when there are fewer pieces on the board, the king can be used to influence and threaten pieces. Send it past your pawns and and you can influence how your opponent moves his pieces. It is a bit more risky, but can win games.
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