the great "big-chicken"

this one is dedicated to the big chicken whom i cannot beat or has not been beating at chess.

i usually play go, but i enter at chess to relaxe and take it easy while i work and drain myself at GO.

and what happened?

i met the "big chicken"

no one can beat him (i check it out)

can someone tell me how to confront him (without using "fritz" to assit me)

viva, la gran gallina!!!!

In the long run, however, it is better to learn how to avoid getting stressed out in the first place. So how do you do that? Well, the clue is in the chess visualization method. Thinking peaceful thoughts makes you feel relaxed. In imagining a peaceful place, you have also distracted yourself from whatever thoughts you were having before. They don't call them 'chicken' for nothing. By nature, most chickens (and waterfowl), are cowards. They're afraid of their own shadow. Poultry are prey and their genetic code predisposes them to the flight instinct, even when they're hand-reared and tame. This points out the basic premise of cognitive/behavioral psychology, that our feelings and behaviors are largely caused by our own thoughts. This is oversimplified, because there are many feedback loops that make the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviors sort of like a chicken and egg problem. But the simple version of the cognitive theory is that peaceful thoughts cause relaxation and stressful thoughts cause stress. Fear creates stress and there's a sound medical reason why stress allows disease to take hold in an otherwise healthy bird. Without giving you a poultry veterinary science lesson, let's just say that stress causes changes to occur in the gut that lowers the pH. When the pH is low, 'Gram negative' bacteria become comfortable in the environment and begin to take hold and replicate. The rest you can imagine...CHECK!! I hope I haven't scared you off with all of these examples of stress. Sometimes stress can be a positive thing. Why do think little 'Rocky' struts his stuff at the show for the judge, but looks like a roost potato at home? Just remember the stresses our birds endure everyday for our fun and recreation, and eliminate the stress that you can. You'll have healthier birds as a result.

And apparently something worthwhile to eat while he beats you.

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