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Linares 2008 round 14 2008-03-07 12:27:57 The Final round
! and…read about Anand…the winner at the bottom of this post…
End position of Shirov (white) against Ivanchuk round 14.
Please click HERE to play through the game of Shirov (white) against Ivanchuk. This game was a draw.
End position of Carlsen (white) against Radjabov round 14.
Please click HERE to play through the game of Carlsen [...]
Good Morning! 2008-03-06 18:27:09 Visit Table Mountain here
Click HERE to plan your Table Mountain-hikes… Read more:Morning
, Good Morning
Linares round 13 2008-03-06 13:18:10 Please click HERE to play through games from Linares round
13 as well as other rounds…
Linares 2008 round 12 2008-03-04 14:38:45 Image: Chessvibes
Click here to see the game of Carlsen and Topalov on Susan Polgar’s site.
If you click on THIS LINK you can play through the games of the players of round
s played so far. Click on the name on the top-menu to see the rounds of a particular player.
Click HERE to read about Shirov/Aronian’s game.
Please [...]
Linares round 9, round 10 and round 11 2008-03-01 12:07:37 Images from Chessvibes.com…visit their site for more..
Linares is the Wimbledon of chess!
Morelia/Linares is an eight-player, double round
-robin and is held from February 14 till March 8. Participants are Anand, Aronian, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Leko, Radjabov, Shirov and Topalov.
The first part takes place 14-23 February in the Mexican city of Morelia, after which the players fly to [...]
Afrikaans 2008-03-01 05:17:42 The Afrikaans Language Monument and Museum, Paarl, Cape Town
I love you….in Afrikaans…”Ek is lief vir jou”..
Read on Wikipedia about this monument and on THIS link there’s more info about it. Why Afrikaans is not an African language… and I agree 100% with the writer of this article.
Read on Wikipedia more about Afrikaans.
Afrikaans
Die taal wat ek [...]
Celebrities play chess 2008-03-13 18:26:31
Many celebrities played and enjoyed chess
. Some of them were actually very good chess players. An interesting fact is that most of the Nobel Prize winners who played chess were in the fields of physics, literature and economics. A number of the high technology company founders play chess. Research on chess in schools demonstrates that [...] Read more:Celebrities
Technology 2008-03-13 16:07:22 I was tagged by JASPER to write about the PC and software I’m using… or the software which I like to use. Well, by just looking at these images, you can see all the details of my PC….
On the second image, you can see how to use Jing to capture images. You can even make [...] Read more:Technology
Boris Spassky pessimistic 2008-03-12 17:07:37
Image: chessbase
Chess legend Boris
Spassky visits rival Bobby Fischer’s grave
Tue Mar 11, 5:13 PM ET
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess champ who famously squared off against Bobby Fischer in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, visited his former rival’s grave on Tuesday at a small cemetery near the capital.
Fischer, who died [...]
Father’s Love Letter 2008-03-15 19:09:00
You can also read the “love letter” HERE …And…on THIS LINK you can watch it online…wait a few minutes for it to load though! Read more:Father
, Letter
, Love Letter
Chess and healthy mind 2008-03-15 10:49:16 Active mind fights dementia
Doing plenty of mentally-stimulating activities - such as playing chess, reading a newspaper, or attending a play - in old age helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study of more than 700 elderly people.
The Chicago residents, who averaged 80 years of age at the start of the study, [...] Read more:healthy
Love / Liefde 2008-03-15 09:44:40 Read on THIS LINK the poem by Elizabeth Barret Browning…”How do I love thee”…enjoy!
Today I’m in a mood to blog about love… What is love? What is your view, we discussed this at work….and we all agreed to the following conclusions…..Is it a sensation..a shared feeling between two people… ..based on physical and emotional attraction.. [...]
Judith Polgar and Peter Svidler 2008-03-18 15:58:56 Judith
Polgar was born in Hungary on 23 July 1976. Her childhood consisted of an extensive chess education from her father and her sisters, and she began to compete internationally as early as 1984. In 1991 she became an International Grandmaster by winning the “men’s” Hungarian championship. At fifteen years and five months of age, she was [...] Read more:Peter
St Patrick’s day 2008-03-17 13:26:56
To all Irish people…enjoy St Patrick
’s day today!
Read HERE about St Patrick’s day…
When I was at Primary School, we used to sing folk songs from different countries. This song of Molly Malone, was one of them. We used to enjoy all these songs, but what came to my memory - immediately - was the chorus…the [...]
Chess saves Mother Earth 2008-03-16 19:11:16 I think this is great! Chess is a game not seen as a “sport” in some countries…sad hey? but hey…what’s Chess doing for Mother Earth
? more than most other sports that I know of! Let’s all do our bit!
What’s one unique, creative way to draw attention to global warming and the issues surrounding it? Well, [...] Read more:Mother Earth
Weekend 2008-03-20 17:32:11 What are you up to this weekend?
It’s not a case of “Spring is in the air”..but “snow is in the air”…. it’s getting colder here…! brrrr….
It’s going to be 2 degrees Celcius on Saturday!! Read more:Weekend
New in Chess 2008-03-19 16:20:09 Author of this book: Jeroen Bosch
This books seems to be a good book to have on your shelf, well, I think I’m going to try to get hold of it! Maybe if you read here and look at the examples in PDF-format, you may want to agree with me…. that’s definitely me they refer to [...]
Afrikaans in Kiwi school 2008-03-18 19:03:25
Your mothertongue is part of your culture. Wherever you go, it will be part of you. You can’t just “drop” it and say….it’s not part of me anymore…Like a switch which you turn off…..and one…. culture is you…it’s not the type that you grow in a petri dish…but I think some people need to “grow” their culture…or [...]
The Dance 2008-03-22 19:06:34 When I was at Primary School, we did this poem of Eugene Marais, one of our greatest poets/writers in South Africa. My teacher explained this poem to us and said that this poem actually portrayed the peace after Boer/British-war. I hope I haven’t lost my mind if I say this… as I see it, this poem is [...] Read more:Dance
Just another train… 2008-03-22 13:35:04 On this short video…you can see London Underground…the station is Green Park..you can hear the announcement… “This is Green Park, change here for the Piccadilly and Victoria lines” … Green Park is where I change every day from the Piccadilly line….to go on the Jubilee line…this train on the video is a Jubilee-line train. There are certain “rules” [...]
Dans van die reen/Dance of the rain 2008-03-22 10:09:00 Image…Wikipedia
“EUGÈNE Marais was a South African poet, a story-teller, a journalist, a lawyer, a psychologist, a natural scientist, a drug-addict, and a great genius — an abused and forgotten genius, and the world is the worse off for that.”
Read “Soul of the Ant” HERE online.
Eugene Marais was one of South Africa’s more talented writers/poets. I [...] Read more:Dance
Ancestors 2008-03-21 16:38:49
The Huguenot monument in Franschhoek (the Huguenots fled religious persecution in France, and many settled in the Cape). Today, many Afrikaner names show their French origins…and I’m one of those “many” South Africans! I’m busy with a family-history-study of my ancestors….and this is what I’ve found so far… this post will get updated as I find [...]
World Poetry Day 2008-03-21 12:03:34
Today is WorldPoetry
Day! I do love poems, I love to read poems and I like to write my own too. Somewhere on my blog you will find two Afrikaans poems…think it’s 2! and 1 English poem… and I translated two Afrikaans poems too….
You can read one translated poem HERE written by Totius… one [...]
Mafeking Road 2008-03-24 17:43:07
ISBN:0798139021
Herman Charles Bosman
Publisher:Human & Rousseau
We read this book during secondary school and I loved these stories of “Oom Schalk Lourens”…”oom” means “uncle”… I think I should get myself this book again! I know I have one…packed away…very old copy…my dad used to go around at bookshops…when he was young…think I take after him in that [...]
Paris in Pretoria 2008-03-24 11:07:37 Ok, I know I’ve said in my previous post…Pretoria is Pretoria…and I know Pretoria is the capital of SA and that Paris
is the capital of France…but this is now a different “story”… Paris is currently visiting SA..- ..actually Pretoria..-..gallery of pics on THIS LINK …to enjoy…Some advice Paris…black is the colour of the ”national uniform” [...]
Pretoria is Pretoria 2008-03-24 08:26:13 On THIS LINK you can see pics of Pretoria and pics about the roads…and on THIS LINK you can see why it’s also called the Jacaranda City…and Pretoria is one of 3 capitals of SA…in case you didn’t know…it… Cape Town and Bloemfontein are the other capitals…on one of my links you can read why [...]
String figures 2008-03-23 19:35:06 String figures have been found in almost all of the cultures of the world! Can you remember them? I remember as kids we used to play with string and created all sorts of patterns during break times at school, specially in primary school! Go to this website…to see/read more…
stringfigure.com
[...] Read more:String
Snow….. 2008-03-23 07:40:06 These pictures were taken about 9:30-ish this morning… it didn’t snow that much…as you can tell from the pictures……this is our front garden…
This is our back garden…with the “garage”… not a garage to our “standards”, I would rather call it a storage room…we have two guinea-pigs in there too! They are somewhere on my blog!
This [...]
Oranje Blanje Blou 2008-03-25 18:24:12
Flag of 1928-1994
Following the Union of South Africa , that is the joining if the former colonies of Natal, Cape, Transvaal and Orange River on 31 May 1910, South Africa used defaced red and blue ensigns. Having suffered defeat in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), many South Africans particularly of Boer extraction found these flags unacceptable. [...]
Worth visiting 2008-03-29 18:15:18
I was tagged by Skoor to pick three posts I like from blogs I read and…here they are… there are too many and I tried to pick posts…with photos which I knew English readers will find interesting too…. they are all written in Afrikaans, but do take a visit to the first two if you are [...] Read more:Worth
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