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World Cup Chess 2007 round 6 2007-12-10 18:07:43 Press release: 10th Dec…The World
Cup approaches its climax. The first finalist was determined today: 33-year-old American Gata Kamsky, playing White, defeated Magnus Carlsen in a great style. Slowly increasing his advantage, he forced the 17-year-old opponent to resign on the 43 rd move. Magnus looked disappointed, but not depressed, although it is clear that the 2-week marathon and especially matches against Adams and Cheparinov required a lot of energy.
The second semifinal, Shirov-Karjakin, looks like a survival race so far. Yesterday’s plot repeated today with reversed roles: this time the young Ukrainian had a big positional advantage, but the Spaniard managed to neutralize it with series of accurate moves. This draw sent both players to the tie-break. Kamsky, who won the match in two games, receives a long-awaited chance to relax: December 12 is a scheduled day off.
Follow the Press release here ….
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Dik-dik 2007-12-10 01:37:43 The Dik-dik is one of South Africa’s smallest antelope. The Suni is the smallest. I haven’t seen both in their natural environment, I think they are too small! On the links you can read more about these two small animals!
Dik-diks, pronounced “dĭk’ dĭk” or “dick dick”, and named for the sound they make when alarmed, are small antelopes of the Genus Madoqua that live in the bush of southern and eastern Africa. Dik-diks stand 30–40 cm at the shoulder and weigh 3–6 kg, making them the smallest of the ruminant species. They have an elongated snout and a soft coat that is grey or brownish above and white below. The hair on the crown forms an upright tuft that sometimes partially conceals the short, ringed horns of the male.
Read HERE more about the Dik-dik.
On the last picture you can see the Suni, the other two are the Dik-dik.
Chess game 12 2007-12-08 07:46:06
This is a game I’m currently playing in a Semi-final tournament and I’ve thought to blog some of my games for a change! I will try and update this link as the game goes… shocking! - hehe - he has just “sacrificed” his Rook on B8 by capturing my Pawn on B5! Wonder what he is up to….is it my other Rook he’s after….!!? In the third image you can see his King pinned! He cannot move his Queen, because that will put his King in check! Read HERE about a PIN. And…he’s finally captured my Queen!…but that doesn’t matter as I have enough pawns left to promote! He has now moved his Rook to G7 and I’ve captured his Knight….and now….for the Pawn promotion! ReadHERE about the promotion of a Pawn! He’s “sacrificed” (or actually …he’s given away his Rooks!) his other Rook too! and has finally resigned…At the bottom of this post you will find a link to play thro
Weekend! 2007-12-07 07:40:52 ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!
RED is a favourite colour of mine, my other favourite colour is purple-pink! More purple than pink…. And I do like Dorothy Parker’s poems too!
The Red Dress
I always saw, I always said
If I were grown and free,
I’d have a gown of reddest red
As fine as you could see,
To wear out walking, sleek and slow,
Upon a Summer day,
And there’d be one to see me so
And flip the world away.
And he would be a gallant one,
With stars behind his eyes,
And hair like metal in the sun,
And lips too warm for lies.
I always saw us, gay and good,
High honored in the town.
Now I am grown to womanhood….
I have the silly gown.
Dorothy Parker
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Mugabe arrives in Lisbon for EU-Africa summit 2007-12-07 02:39:46
Click here toread the news report “LISBON (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
arrived in Lisbon
late on Thursday for an EU-Africa
summit, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown is boycotting because he would not “sit down at the same table” as him.” hmmm…..And now my question to the Prime Minister…. Why not? Britain gave Zimbabwe in 1980 to Mugabe! So why the “sudden” change? Of course we all know the answer….!!! 27 years later and Zimbabwe is a mess! What about….South Africa…what shall we say 27 years later….or shall we adjust the time frame, because of the high spirits of many South Africans…..shall we say……27-37 years on…..or am I now a bit negative? My appreciation today goes to all my fellow South Africans staying strong and having high spirits in South Africa, you all deserve an award!!
I will try and find the English version for this newspaper article&hell
Love-light 2007-12-06 19:09:53 7 December-poem
This poem comes from a “poetic calendar”. There’s a poem for every day and it’s actually a book used by Teachers and I want to share a poem for today from this book! Fridays always feel to me like a special day for poetry! A day to relax! So…relax and enjoy! As student, Ingrid Jonker’s poems really appealed to me…and “Bitterbessie Dagbreek” was always somewhere on a door/wall in my room. At the bottom of this post, you will find a link to read more about her….her poems were translated in many languages!
Follow this link HERE to listen to her poem in Afrikaans, and at the same time, you can read it in English! Please Click on the play button!
Love-light
A taper lit in sunlight,
Pale yellow leaf of flame,
An upturned heart that trembled
As soft winds breathed your name,
Its brightness was diluted;
But, when the darkness came,
It shone with such pure brilliance
As put the stars to shame.
Vernon Scannell
Fro
World Cup Chess round 5 2007-12-06 09:27:03
Click HERE to play through games.
Read the Press release of today’s games here.
More results HERE . Round 5 finished today….Click HERE to see the photo gallery.
Round 5, after Rapid 2
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DUH! 2007-12-06 06:38:49
Woman found canoeist photo via Google
World dumbest award to these people!
And more…DUH here….! How dumb! haha….read news article!
Lady in Red 2007-12-18 14:22:45
 One of my favourite colours is RED and I was sent this link about Chris de Burg’s song… “Lady in Red” by Dan, one of the friendly chess friends, see the link about chess friends which I posted about 3 days ago….you can spot his picture there too. He knows I love red and therefore has sent me this song! And… I love that dress!!
I love the Hibiscus plant… you get it in different colours and I love Poppies and art…and think this Poppy-art picture is done perfectly! On the link here you can read a poem about a red dress! Enjoy the video!
Read HERE the poem about the RED DRESS…
Merry Christmas 2007-12-17 13:17:33 Â
Harvey, one of the friendly chess players on the chess site, has sent me the link of this beautiful song, sang by the Celtic Woman, to wish me a MerryChristmas
and I want to share it with everyone visiting my blog with the message: Merry Christmas
to you all! May the Love of Jesus surround you during this special time of year and I hope you all will be having a fantastic time wherever you will be and whatever the weather! If you have to travel, travel safely!!
Click HERE to see a short movie too.
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Please click HERE to visit Daily Bible to read one verse per day!
ENJOY this one too!
Chess game 15 2007-12-16 13:18:25  This game is part of a 10play all-tournament and I’ve got one game left to finish in this tournament and although I’ve won just more than half of the games, I’m really not doing well in this tournament! I don’t like to play the all-play-all-tournaments, because I’m not really very focused when playing so many games suddenly, therefore, I prefer to join knockouts only as it adds only one new game to the existing games. In this game, ( I played black) game 15, my King got chased around a lot and I also swapped my Queen quite early in the game. Although I had the upper hand in this game at one stage, I wasn’t sure if it was going to be a win for me. I haven’t played the player before and wasn’t sure if I could trust myself to beat him!  I was lucky to get his pawn before he could get it promoted! But then,   I was lucky to get my pawn promoted, so that sped up the game quickly. What I like about the end, is the position of my Roo
Battle of Blood River — ANC “song” 2007-12-16 09:44:36 Will South Africans have to steel themselves for the future? Read the article at the bottom of this post and try answering this question!
This Battle
took place on 16th December 1838. For some South Africans, like myself, the 16th December will always be a day to &ldquo
;remember&rdquo
;…a day to commemorate….on this day, the Battle of BloodRiver
took place between the Zulu impis of Dingane and the Voortrekkkers. On this picture you can see the Voortrekker laager in a D-shape. That was because of the two rivers that meet there, the Donga - and the Ncome rivers. Sarel Cilliers, a Voortrekker leader and a preacher, had promised God that they will build a church and commemorate this day as a Sabbath day to thank God for helping them. God intervened in this Battle and till 1993, this day was always a public holiday in South Africa to commemorate the events of that day. Today, after 1994, it is now called a day of “Reconciliation”. Read HERE about it. On the f Read more:mdash
Chess Pieces…. 2007-12-15 09:29:41
If you don’t know about Deep Blue and Kasparov&hellip
; and IBM’s involvement, then you have a bit of chess catch-up to do!
Chess Pieces info on this link!
This is interesting bits/pieces about Chess…
I wonder if I can add no 68?….Chess … the sport with the most books written !!Â
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Chess Pieces
no. 1
Oxford was the first university to have a chess club, in 1845.
no. 2
As strange as it may seem, Brooke Shields (yes, that Brooke Shields) was a member of the 1990 Chess World Championship organizing committee.
no. 3
The first newspaper chess column appeared in the Liverpool Mercury in 1813.
no. 4
George Koltanowski played 56 consecutive games blindfolded in 1960. He won 50 and drew the other 6.
no. 5
Al Jolson, the first movie actor of the talkies, formed a chess club consisting of radio stars called Knight Riders of the Air.
no. 6
In 1922, Jose Capablanca played 103 opponents at once in Cleveland, drawing 1 game and winning all the rest!
no. 7
The fir
Emanuel Lasker/Lasca - and chess puzzle to solve… 2007-12-15 06:29:24
Read here more where I found this picture.
2nd World Champion, 1894 - 1921
Emanuel Lasker was born in Berlinchen, Germany on 24th December, 1868. He was taught chess
by his elder brother, Berthold. As a child Lasker displayed a talent for both chess and mathematics. He attended a school in Berlin to develop his mathematical skills further and he later went on to study mathematics at Erlangen University. He achieved the German master title in 1889.
In 1892 he won his first important success in a small but strong tournament in London when he took first place a half a point ahead of Blackburne. Lasker then played a match against Blackburne and when he won decisively he began to think of the possibility of becoming world champion. He challenged
Tarrasch but his challenge was declined. Lasker told him that he should first win a major tournament.
Read more HERE on Chess-corner&hellip
;there is also a game  to play through and a link to his game collection! …..and as soon as I&
Chess game 14 - Pyramid game 2007-12-14 14:41:28
 This is a pyramid-game. I’m still on level 2 after this game, as my opponent (who challenged me) was on level 1,  therefore, I stay on my level and only move up in the pyramid when I beat a player on a higher level. I played black in this game and at one stage this game just felt too long!….. my opponent preferred to resign when he realised there was no way out! I made a move with my Knight and hoped that he would capture my Knight with his Queen,  so I could make the final devastating checkmate move(s)!
Please click ant.com vs. Nikita1 HERE to play through the game which will open in a new window.
AND…if you click Bouncy vs. Nikita1 HERE you can see what a SILLY move I made before the final checkmate in this game!! - I played black…. - This is what usually happens to me when I’m in a hurry, when I don’t spend enough time to make sure! and that happens quite often!! This game could have been a won for me…but…I don’t Read more:Pyramid
Chess puzzle 2007-12-25 12:24:28
White needs to move…which piece do you think you should move to solve the puzzle? If you want to check on yourself….please click HERE and click on “hint” to see if you were right!
Click here to solve another Chesspuzzle!
Bishops 2007-12-24 17:37:11
Earl, this scroll is of course for you and have some coffee to think about that move! …..I don’t like Bishops, but I do know they can be very powerful if you use them together! I like my Knights and won’t let them be captured so easily, if I can prevent it…because of their crafty moves they can make! Bishops can make things very difficult on the chess board! In this first diagram - a game I’m busy playing - moving my Bishop was perhaps not a good idea and I think I should have moved my pawn to block my opponent’s Bishop…I’m playing black in this game - only a friendly… have a look on the following diagrams… you can’t checkmate your opponent with a Bishop or a Bishop and a Knight, but you can when having two Bishops! Using a Bishop Pair with their King against a lone opposing King is usually quicker to develop the mating pattern and mating net than checkmating with a Bishop & a Knight, and also is
Sicilian Chess Openings 2007-12-22 10:54:57
Smyslov in 2002
Please Click HERE to play through a game of Smyslov V. - Denker A. played in
Moscow, 1946. They played a Sicilian Opening. Click HERE for more Sicilian openings! You do get different variations on the Sicilian.
If you click HERE you can read on Wikipedia about the Sicilian Defence! I like the Dragon -variation = see the 2nd small image in this  post = because of the white Knights’ formation…! It looks beautiful….hehehe…
Vasily Vasiliyevich Smyslov was born March 24, 1921, in Moscow and is a Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions (1948, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1983, and 1985). Smyslov was twice Soviet Champion (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.
Read HERE more about Smyslov and if you scroll down on this link, you w
Game of Chess 2008-03-11 12:27:05
Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, of an old New England family. He was educated at Harvard and did graduate work in philosophy at the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England, where he was for a time a schoolmaster and a bank clerk, and eventually literary editor [...]
Namibia: Bank Donates to School Chess 2008-03-09 18:10:43 Fantastic news for Namibia
n chess players!!!! What about Banks in other countries? Are you not following this Bank’s brilliant idea??!! N$60 000 is roughly £3700! and if you get quality chess sets for about £6…that’s what I can get…Staunton chess sets … then schools in the UK can get about 615 chess sets IF a [...] Read more:School
Anne Frank 2008-03-08 16:23:18
Image:www.boer.co.za/boerwar/hellkamp.htm
Today I was inspired by Rosalind due to her post about the South African Concentration camps(photos on this link to see) during the British/Boer-War in the late 1800’s-early 1900’s…I’ve got a book about the concentration camps and it was so sad to read how those people were treated and the circumstances they lived in! My [...] Read more:Frank
Eastern Class Championship 2008 2008-03-08 05:17:21 Alexander Shabalov and Braden Bournival
More photos and games HERE
Click HERE to go to Bournival’s chess page…
The 2008 Eastern
Class Championship was held in Sturbridge, MA from February 29 - March 2, 2008. The event featured 3 GMs competing for the title along with many other master players. GM Alexander Shabalov made a score of [...]
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