April 2009 -- Forgiveness/Gratitude List

April 2, 2009 -- 8:50 AM


March 27, 2009
10:00 PM
Just woke up and DAMN. I'm angry. I'm FURIOUS. This is something I'm certain about. HEre's the list of things that have made me furious..

1. kyle for cutting me off on phone call
2. Eric for making me panic about going up and then trivializing it by inviting everyone up on stage (even the audience non comedians)
3. Jack for being so confusing
4. Mary for not marrying me
5. The starcbucks northridge students for being so decieving, petty, naive, puerile and inconsiderate when they took my table and then the fuckers tried to make me think that I wasn't sitting there before them?? preoposterous!!
6. I'm angry at how drawn otu jonathon is making the dog adoption thing like literally 5-6 calls per week MORE and voicemails i want to adopt henry A LOT about damn man it isn't like a corporate merger.
7. i'm angry at ALL la women because maybe they're just impossible to hook up wiht, maybe no one has sex with them, and I certainly feel like I am not capable nor deserve to
8. I'm FURIOUS FURIOUS at that jamba for making fill out another resume
9. I'm fucious at jamba, chateau marmont
10. I'm FUIOUS at that Miyagi's dj for purposefully skipping my song WTF!
11. I'm angry and enraged at that sahara chick for purposefully distracting me with flirting and then eating half of MY damn sushi!
12. I'm fucious that I'm so broke and can't make money.
13. I'm angry that I feel my life is going no where (no job, no money, just TONS of work and tons of projects like I've been in prison).
14. I'm angry I cant' even geta job bagging groceries.
15. i'm angry at how I have to go to calabasas to sleep (which is kinda okay) but then I stay here for too long because going out means spending money that I dont' have.
16. I'm angry at the lawyer people from mca in the resident lounge.
17. I'm angry that I don't feel I deserve to USE the damn computer lab and gym that I"M paying for!!
18. I'm angry at how many websites I've made and how I haven't profitted of ANY of them.
19. I'm angry at how much junk food crap I've eaten.
20. I'm enraged at all the legal shit that is omnipresnet in America (restrictions of open mics at cofee bean tea leaf); the legal stuff about posting my work etc
21. I'm angry that I dont' feel capable of making money off my work Xmas carol recordings, vyl recoridngs, vyl books, websites, ALL that IMMENSE amount of work!!!!!!!!!!
22. i'm angry taht damn myth the fallen lords needs classic to run b/c I liked that game.
23. I'm angry that I don't know if I should be focusing and pursuing math teaching, some kind of teaching, acting? (nah), COMEDY, working in cheapo restaurant place.
24. I'm Angry but more Panicked and nervous about not knowing what to do for rent!


I'm grateful for/happy about

1. getting to go up and do my bringer comedy set AND get a recording of it.
2. that I have access to trails and ocean if I get over my anger and go
3. that I ahve acces to food (even though I cant' afford it)
4. eric and jack and rico are kind of cool.
5. that I did Do alllll of that outside work stuff (stripper club chateau, open mics, north hollywood explore etc).
6. I have a car, abike, a surfboard.
7. That I might adopt Henry!! :D
8. that I'm in cali
9. That I know i like the looks of australians
10. That atleast I'm getting in SOME miniscule form of auditons (explore talent ones and open mics)


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April 19, 2009 -- 1:59 AM

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April 18, 2009 -- 10:46 PM


DAYAMN!! Feel REALLY peaceful and GOOD today!! why? not sure but might have something to do with:
-- ebay $159 item selling!!
-- having henry AWESOME dog that I love!
-- maybe that interestin REAL gentleman ompliment from the woman!
--Math problems (YES!!!)
--reading curious incident of dog (YES!!)
--maybe my heartfelt fanmail laudatory letters arrived so that good energy got released or something haha coolaate


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April 18, 2009 -- 8:58 AM

I love how Henry
poops
pees
eats food
yawns
growls
protects himself
moves so fast
is so big and good

is simple and clear.
is big and beautiful!

Grateful for MATH!! and reading great (nonsticky preferably math-based novels) Did GREAT MAth problems tongiht felt SOOO RELAXING And fun and GOOD and aligning and MASSIVELY clarifying.

I showered, had the math problems all laid out, cooked GREAT rice ad roni rice during it, so felt clear nadn focused after shower and felt SOO clear and good to do math. MATH something SAFE you can apply your mind to!! (conservation, books, movies, all of that junk just creates more things to write. do math. have math probelsm then DONE!! SWEET! Brilliant yippee!!).


ALSO one guy said "incredulity" in the belief LOL. so I guess source of delight is cool fun math students too!
Man the day feels LIGHT COlorful GEntle. and DeLIGHTFUL and happy!! andneat!! I LOVE The math1!!

Also grateful for:
sending the gibson and pitt letters
that I took the time to learn and completed on time the taxes
that I'm in this cool place with great weather AMAZING trails, a dog, and I "COMPLETED "the move and th world IS a much mroe colorful place!!
that i've foudn peace with math1! YEAYAHA :D
That I have this awesome dog that's SOO frickin cool! perfect! the best! love!!!! YIPPEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RUNNING EXERCISE TRAIZLS outside fun stuff with henry carcharias huckleberry. !! HAHAH!
SOOO grateful that my ebay item SOLD!!!!!!! YEAYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
moderately grateful that that christina hidalgo chick called me REAL gentleman. ( COOL! :0)
SO grateful for completely severed off tv/film and have rediscovered the relaxaing and FUn soomthin

I forgive:
jerks who didn't hire me (but maybe I'm grateful fro that LOL)
myself or jerks and not making moneye


April 19, 2009 -- 10:04 PM

Am REALLY freaking out. Because
Found fully engorged tick on henry TOTALLY disgusted, scared, concerned, and angry at DAMN ticks. And then angry about barely having enough money to afford Frontline, and did tons of yahoo answers and resarch on it

and I need cleanliness and order and structure and I have that but I can't have ticks hanging off my dog infesting lime disease into the house and freaking out. I feel really scared, really concerned, and OSBSCENELY DISGUSTED.


feeling really pissed and upset and Depressed, i was at the end of my rope. Now i've fallen off the rope. I hate this palce but feel too depressed to be angry.
Things Im furious about and (will aim to forgive if possible):
ticks and engorging on henry
tocks ifnesting my house
ticks making things dirty
the world for not paying me
having to live with outrageous fucked up rent (MCA) and no income
being unable to afford most things in life
strugglign with finances CONSTANTLY
having fiannces ALwASY be a fucking problem
How this fucked up california place makes you feel angry or scared the whoe time and angry for being around all this crap.
being depressed
no friends
missing the anne, geometry, CHEM BIO!!! track, swimming, that whole huge structure of my life. missing the high productivity, comfort, and succes s that brought!!
hating the "colorful" brighty shineyeye crap, wanting crisp, clear career
HATING WASTING my time with so many thigns
HATING how long it takes to get things done (like damn
HATING people who ALWAYS bring in massive doubt)
NOt feeling successful so having
FEELING Freaked nd istrbuted but alls o oddly awakened that My brother, mother, dad, are not friends.

I HATE my sexual energy. It's the one thing there's no outlet for.
If I have to poo, pee, get hungry, get tired....there's a toilet, a kitchen, and a bed for all those NEEDs. But for sex??? Well, There is no such always-there-constant outlet and that's painful to me. Incredibly painful. It's like having to go pee but having to hold it for a year. Sexual drive creates MASSIVE pain. I get drained and depressed from not having sex, or frustrated and hostile angry at women for not having sex.

Then my schedule gets ALL royally fucked up. I feel I have to do "tons of things during the day" and then instead of relaxing, then I have to go out at night and destroy my body with drinking even though I'm exhausted, and then get hungover and feel like shit and feel dirty and feel pissed and likely have to fight off the urge of whacking off in anger of having wasted so much time and energy in a foul emotional sewer bar with emotional sewer disgusting people and not getting laid..ALL OF THAT because of my DAMN sexual drive.
Let me just recap of what my sexual energy the IMMENSE PAIN my sexual energy creates in my life:
depression, rage, anger, exhaustion, alcoholic intoxication, anger, masturbation, desperation, rejection, feeling like lost, guilt (after masturbating), sense of lost soul (after masturbating). I

t's like ALL stages of it bring pain.

What I NEED is a sex toilet! A place to go when I'm horny that's free and clean (and not a whore house) I need that and deserve that and it's not here in CA. Nothing is. I hate this palce. When I want to exercise I have trails and a pool and all these resources, when Iwant to read, I have the library! When I want to eat, I have a kitchen, when I want to pee and poop, I have a toilet, when I want to clean myself, I have ashower. Do you see what I'm getting at????????????????? There's a biological PLACE for all those biological needs to occur, but NOT for sex, Sex is SOO FUCKED UP for me in life, like SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY WRONG IN MY LIFE, because sex is a biological NEED, but there's no goddamn outlet for it, and it should be recreational as well as reproductive.

And I've TRIED FUCKING EVERYTHING:
dating books
thousands of bars, with friends, without friends, different friends
trying to meet women in nature places, in weird random places (like book stores or the swimming pool)
I've had sex maybe 8 to 20 times with over half a dozen different partners but it was literally only like 8 to 15 days of my life that I've had sex. I NEED a sexual relationship. NEEDING a sexual relationship is not sex addiction. it's not dirty or slutty or "blasphemous" LMao! I need a sexual relationship where I'm with a woman and we fuck when we're horny and that could be 2-3 times per day, or week or month, but I NEED it to be reliable and not having a sexual outlet is destroying almost all other aspects of my life. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm 25 years old so hundreds of times per day my BODY is telling me to have intercourse, but I need to tell it to shutup because I don't have a place/girlfriend/etc to have intercourse with.. This is SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP. It's like Every day I have to tell my body 100s of times "shutup, we dont' have a place to pee, we can't pee." That's what I feel like I ahve to do with sex as sex is abiological need (like eating etc) but there's not outlet for it. I hate this. I fucking hate this.

I hate my sexual drive. I want to be having sex on a regular frequent basis or NEVER experiencing sexual drive.

My sexual drive TORTURES TORTURES TORTURES me. That's the essence of this.

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April 27
GRATITUDE

1. That henry's alive
2. That I took the time to bleach and massively clean
3. that I have a tent
4. That I'm alive
5. That I'm moving ahead with work.
   

April 28, 2009 -- 5:07 AM
Gratitude

1. That henry's so frickin lively and happy
2. Classical musical composers like holst, beethoven, and mozart. They're so amazingly cool and I'd feel wretchedly miserable without them.
3. That I put on a shirt and tie and did a recording of Compassionate Reservoirs.
4. that I actually have a shirt and tie to wear in the first place.
   
5. The fact that I wrote that awesome book.
6. That I have a computer
   
7. That I discovered NLP and have emplohyed it to make constructive canges in my life
8. That I've accepted the fact that I am a success with health and authoring and education and intelligence, but am a TOTAL failure with finances, as that provides personal veracity and reality-checkness.
9. Getting up early (midnight and writing and recording and working for the past 5 hours)

April 29, 2009 -- 10:13 PM

1. That I honored the experiences learned from maya and that it ultimately was overly-philosophical, BURDENING massively, and highly destructive. those lesson s were
   

r me to thoroughly digest maya, and extract her contamination from my life, I must honor the few good things that occurred from my interaction with maya. they were: exerpeince with hte unfamiliar, what it feels like to waste time, experience with the type of woman who is a poor match for me. expanisve life (by not focusing on math and sciences and doing lame surrender stuff temporarily so when refocus on math and sciences can have that cool focus towards the math and sciences and schem!)

1. How henry sniffs everything
2. That took henry to the doc and he's okay and healthy!
3. How awesome henry is and polite nad strong and good! and happy
   
4. For hottubs
5. That I got exercise in yesterday
6. That I got out of the way taht annoying-ass trip to glendale and knew/confirmed that that woman wsan't a good match
7. I'm grateful that I can recognize incompatibilities INSTANTLY in emails!! And I KNEW the trip to glendale wouldn't be a good match. Cool as!! :D Just gotta learn to trust that instinct to save time!! Trusting your instisncsts and saying that will/won't work based on estimation svaes you time!
8. food -- that I have some and can eat
9. credit card for ERs (but not that I have a damn balance on it!)
10. my imac.
11. That I signed up for lifecoaching training classes! YEAH!! :D
12. that I have the freedom of space and time to exercise (if only I could get aorund the crap of feeling as-if have to meet up with people crap etc how HIGHLY exclusve ca ppl are. omg jeez!)
13. 
    

1. Experience with the unfamiliar. This results in greater awareness and appreciation of what you do enjoy and are familiar with and good.

2. What it feels like to waste time. I wasted a lot of my life and time "waiting" for something to happen with maya. This was an important lesson because it gave me insight into what it feels like to waste time. (i get angry). awareness of wasting time with things and topics (chakras, astrology, etc) allows me to understand what that feels like which ensures that I can focus on the oppoiste types of things (math, science, clarity, productivity (non-waiting")

3. Experience with hte type of woman who is poor match for me. Maya was slow, naive, and unhealthy (she ate bowls of icecrea, she didn't eat healthily), very unhealthy with sex and unintelligent (She got pregnanat and had an abortion before or around 20, she's a young 20s year old mother). She's a very unintelligent person. Fine. I am not compatible with "little girls who want to have babies" as their only ambition in life. That was a great experience to feel because it made me realize that I my life partner will be a woman who has a strong career, and image, and personality and is meaningful outside of the objective of reproduction.

4. Expansive life. This truly was the one genuinely postive reward. I connected myself with something that's NOT me (energies, astrologies, ) that other people believe. untruths. Seeing that dimension added more color and meaning to my current truths of math and exercise and nature. So that part was rewarding. Expanding my life in that way is something I never want to do again. And all the "surrender stuff" was absolute complete and utter bs. random changes

April 30, 2009 -- 6:05 PM

1. Grateful for getting in touch with LPHS friends (Dan pinzske and sorta kokatays and OLD connections on facebook)
2. That I took that BOLD-ass step to go to lphs, it was intense but in the end will be good.
3. That I got up early and ran!
4. Fish. I love eating fish. Grateful that I cooked fish.
5. Grateful that I'm doing this lifecoaching training and that it can be structured at my own place
6. My scammer-immunity (after getting scammed so many times).
7. The precision of science (like immunology).
8. That I feel like my adventure is done!! all my MASSIVE anguish and toil (beat up, black eyes, travels, kicked out of places, ETC ETC) I am gratefu all that happened b/c makes for wild frightening scary disturbing poignant memories, but I'm glad for the feeling that it feels like it's over!
9. That I do the limiting belief dissolution
10. for NLP techniques.

Chess Notes and Openings

General Chess Strategy Guidelines

Useful Jargon
~"Bishop pair"= You possess two bishops and your opponent does not.
Cliffs Notes
Detailed Guidelines
Anywhere
1. Calculate the value of each piece for you and your style of play. If you use a lot of back-rank mating combinations frequently, for example, a rook might be worth 5.75 or 6 to you. If you thrive with end game and passed pawns, then a pawn could be worth as much as 2 points for you in endgame. Q=9.25
R=5.25
B= 3
N=3.25
P=1
Bishop Pair = 0.5
Grandmasters have given slightly different values to their pieces. While the rook and knight have remained constant, value fluctuations have occurred with the queen, bishop, and pawns. Modern evaluations of pawns can be as high as 1.5 in the end-game as well. Some notable alternatives:
Howard Staunton
Q=9.94
R=5.48
N=3.05
B=3.5
P=1
Bishop Pair = 0.5
or
Q=9.5
R=5.25
B= 3.25
N=3.25
P=1.25
Bishop Pair = 0.75
2. Visualize and ask Questions about your moves. Take time to visualize the board and pick the best possible move. Before performing a check or move always scrutinize the move from all angles. Ask questions such as

"What lines will open up after this move?"
"How is my development? How can I enhance it? What are my weaknesses?" Example answer: "My pawn structure is strong but I need to bring my knight to control the center."

"Will there be any discovered attacks?" "How does this move support my development, attack my opponent, and/or defend my pieces?" Example Answer: This move will support my knight's advancement to the g-file, protect my rook, and it set's up a mating skewer".


Scrutinize your opponents' moves first and play defensively, so you avoid haphazardly jumping into a messy situation.
3. Visualize and ask questions about your opponent's moves.
Good questions to ask about your opponent's moves:
"Why did he just move there?" Example answer: "He now attacks my bishop with his pawn and he bolstered his pawn structure."

"How can I setup a fork? What if my opponent's piece(s) were located there at xyz? Could I set up a fork or skewer or pin then? What's a way I could throw out some bait to get my opponent's piece(s) to fall into a trap where I exploit a tactic?

Example Answer: My opponents king is positioned such that if his rook moves to e8, I could move in with my Knight and knight-fork the king and the rook (winning the rook) so if I attack his rook with mine, he might retreat his rook to the "bait" square enabling me to pounce on the knight-fork opportunity.

"What can he do to my pieces and my development with that move?" "Was his last move great (!), typical, or a blunder (?)? Example answer: "His queen has greater mobility now. Watch out for it." or "His knight is trapped in the corner, try to capture it."

"Does he have any mate threats?" Example answer: "Yes, he's threatening a mate in two, I'll need to defend that."

"What are the weaknesses in his development and how can I exploit them?" Example answer "I have the bishop pair so I should utilize my bishops."

"Did my opponent just make a weak move?" "How can I exploit that?"

Often times with two equally matched players and no blunders, the player who can most effectively spot, understand, and exploit the opponent's "weak" or "doubtful" moves will decidedly win the game in the long run. The skill of understanding the poor or good judgment of your own possible moves and your opponents moves is a skill that's worth tremendous value. Practice these questioning and critique skills to vastly improve your game!

4. Understand and apply tactics. Know how to spot, set-up, and utilize the following:
~01 Skewers
~02 Pins
~03 Discovered Attacks
~04 Forks (especially the Knight Fork)
~05 Entrapment (the most effective is "Smothered mate")
~06 Triangulation (for endgame having the "opposition")
~07 Zchwissenzhug (the "intermediate move")
~08 Back-rank Mates
~09 Defence Destruction
5. Do not attack prematurely or without sufficient support from your pieces. Wait until you've arranged a strong attack to execute it, instead of attacking with only 1 or 2 of your pieces, have as many of your pieces as possible engaged in an attack. The center's value comes into play here because it's easy to synchronize an attack when you hold the center and have well-balanced development.




Opening
*1. Move each piece once with the goal of mobilizing all your pieces. (Ensures comprehensive development, high utilization, and tempo-loss-avoidance of pieces).
This ensures
1)comprehensive development (wholistic development of your entire piece set)
2)tempo-loss avoidance (you don't lose a tempo).
3)high utility of piece set (each piece has something to do).]
In the event that one of your pieces gets attacked in the first 6-8 moves, your opponent most likely deviated from this core guideline by moving a piece more than once and will likely have lost tempo, or have an undeveloped opening. Exploit that as much as possible. The opening should be devoted to assembling your arsenal of pieces not just one small area of the chess board. Dynamically mobilize your entire "chess troop" instead of just one or two pieces. Moving one or two pieces works best for middle game when you have the freedom of movement, flexbility, and support of all your other pieces after a solid opening game. Not developing your pieces in the opening can wreck your middle game. For any utilization of core tactics, you'll have to develop.
2. Control the center. The center four squares (d4,d5,e4,e5) and the extended center (d4,d5,e4,e5,c6,d6,e6,f6,f5,f4,f3,e3,d3,c3,c4, and c5) to maximize cramped opponent play and open flexible and versatile play and options for you.
3. After castling, don't allow your opponent to open a file in front of your king. Before castling you can just castle to the protected side if a file opens up on the a,b,or xor f,g,h files. But after castling you must use those as a protective barrier for the king.
4. Develop your pieces on each half of the board equally.
*5. Don't cross the center line in the opening. Usually if you cross the center line, you've had to violate the first rule of openings (Move each piece once). With a few exceptions, like the Ruy Lopez which crosses the center line on the third move to attack a key opponent piece, pieces should generally develop on your half of the board in the opening to develop a strong foundation.
6. Avoid captures that will develop your opponent's pieces. In other words, if you have the option to take your opponent's f-file pawn or their e-file pawn and the f-file take will destroy your opponent's king protection, while taking the e-file pawn will enable your opponent to develop his pieces and control the center, definitely take the f-file pawn! Instead of making captures that result in bolstering your opponent's development, make captures that cramp and stifle the development of your opponents pieces and enhance your own development. Notable examples of this are a queen exchange where your opponent must recapture with the King, costing the option of castling.
7. Avoid exchanging bishops for knights. Bishops and Knights fluctuate in value throughout the course of the game. In the opening bishops hold more value than knights because their long-ranged attacks. In the endgame knights can prove to have a greater value for their decisive ability to fork your opponent's pieces. Additionally, for some players having two bishops can positively effect your play more than having two knights, depending on your style of playing. Then the "bishop pair" can have greater value than a knight and a bishop, especially for certain styles of play. Conclusively, bishops and knights have variant values depending on the player and the stage of the game, but in the opening some players prefer to hold onto bishops. That mainly revolves around your personal preference choice, however.
8. Protect the king. Generally, you accomplish this by castling.
9. Create opportunities to capture pawns and pieces. Start looking for those essential captures, setting up discovered attacks, maybe forks, trying to plan ahead to exploit a weakness in your opponent's pawn structure of piece development. As always throughout the game, the questions LINK you ask in order to evaluate your opponents pieces and your own are just as important in the opening than any other part of the game.
10. Know your opening books 5-7 moves deep and exploit aberrations to main lines. If your opponent does something irregular in the first 5-7 moves of a common opening of which you've studied all the main lines, it's likely a blunder. Exploit that poor move of your opponent. It could be as big as leading to an early mate, or cramping his development in the long run. It's easy to lose a game in the opening, so avoid playing too many non-book moves yourself.
Endgame
1. Utilize the king's attacking capacity.
2. Push passed pawns.
3. Support passed pawns with rooks.

Chess Openings

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The White's Openings and Black's Opening Defenses
Opening Quick Reference

• e4 King's Pawn Openings
• e4 e5
• e5. Nf3 Nc6. 3.Bb5... Ruy Lopez
• e5. Nf3 Nc6. 3.Bc4 Bc5. (4.b4(?!)) Guico Piano (Evan's Gambit)
• e5. f4 ... King's Gambit

• e4 ???
• c6. 2.d4 d5 Caro-Khan
• e6. 2.d4 d5 French Defence
• c5. (Nf3 d6. 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6) Sicilian Defence (Dragon)
• d5 Center-Counter/Scandanavian
• g6. 2.d4 Bb7 Pirc/Modern

• d4 ???
• d5. 2.c4 (dxc4)||Ncp||e6 Queen's Gambit (accepted)(declined)(tchigorn)(tarasch defense)(orthodox defense)

• Nf6. Indian Systems
• 2.c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 King's Indian Defense
• 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 Nimzo-Indian
• 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ Bogo Indian
• 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 Queen's Indian
• Dutch Defense

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English Opening

Ruy lopez (e4 e5 NF3 NC6 Bb5)

3. ...a6 -- Morphy Defence
4. Bxc6 -- Exchanged
4. Ba4 -- "Segue to 10 Defences"
4. ...d6 -- Neo-Steinitz


"Segue to 10 Defences" -- The downside to this is the Noah's Arc trap with (...c5 and the white bishop trapped on b3).


Ruy Lopez
Stienitz Defence (for black)
Avoid
⁃ 5. ...exd4 pawn exchange as then white gets to cover the center space grandly.
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e4 King's Pawn Opening

e4 e5
Although modern grandmasters favor less traditional moves out of novelty, the e4 move is the most popular and certainly the most traditional play in history over the long run as an opening move for white. The logic behind this is simple. 1. e4 accomplished three essential things: attacks and occupies 2 center squares; opens the queen's mobility; and open's the bishop's mobility. It makes sense, therefore, why black often replicates this move with 1.e4 e5, which leads into this sequence of openings.

Nf6 Nc3. 3.Bb5 Ruy Lopez (Spanish) -- After black's best response of a6, white has two equally balanced alternatives the "Retreat" Ba4 or the "Exchange" Bxc6, each resulting in a different variation of play. One thing to watch out for when playing the Retreat alternative is the advancement of black's pawn structure to a6, b5, and c4 resulting in the ancient Noah's Ark trap, and the entrapment loss of the white bishop.
Guico Piano ("Quiet Opening"; Italian) -- After this opening sequence, white has two very polarized, but equally as effective lines: the first, extremely passive and the latter, extremely aggressive. 4.d3, the passive alternative, results in the Guico Pianisimo ("Quietest Game"), while the Evans Gambit, 4.b4?!, sacrifices a pawn enabling white to develop his queen-side bishop and have strong center control.
King's Gambit -- GMs today claim that after capturing the sacrificed pawn black can still reacquire position, rendering the gambit somewhat useless. Nevertheless, to have a complete opening repertoire, one should know what to do if up against the King's Gambit.
Evan's Gambit
e4 ???
I tried to organize this in order from most subtle (or least aggressive) to most aggressive of the non-e5 openings.
e6. d4 d5. French Defense --
c6. d4 d5. Caro-Khan -- Notice the similarity between the French and Karo-Cahn defence. The second move are identical and black's first move (the defence) both have subtlety.
c5 (Nf3 d6. 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6) Sicilian (Dragon) -- Like the Caro-Kahn, the Sicilian defense starts with black mobilizing the c-file, but unlike the subtlety of the Caro-Khan, black moves to the 5th rank immediately, directly challenging the center. Popular at the master level, the Sicilian releases an interesting and unique array of opening lines. The most popular variation of the Sicilian is the Dragon variation detailed above, named (from a silly constellation-like origin) because black's pawn structure supposedly resemble a dragon after this sequence.

d4 ???
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 King's Indian Defense -- A favorite of greats like Kasparov and Fischer, this hypermodern opening, undoubtedly has tremendous popularity with advanced players.

Indian Defences.

Obviously, there exists a tremendous possibility of transposition between all of these indian defenses because of their similarities in the first 2 moves.

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Non-e4/non-d4 openings by white are considered "flank" openings because white aims to control the center via flanking manuevers.
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c4. English Opening -- A flanking manuever, white attacks the center indirectly with flanking support from the left-side of the board.



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*=An ideal guideline that, if necessary, can be violated.


Bibliography
http://www.chesscircle.net/chess-strategies/ten-tips-for-playing-chess.html
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