It’s Saturday Open Forum. The Moscow Open is the strongest on going tournament right now. However, Morelia / Linares will start soon. The first half will take place in Morelia, Mexico (February 15 – 23) and the second half will take place in Linares, Spain (February 28 – March 7). Here are the 8 players who will engage in this double round robin event:
GM Viswanathan Anand
GM Veselin Topalov
GM Vassily Ivanchuk
GM Teimour Radjabov
GM Peter Leko
GM Levon Aronian
GM Magnus Carlsen
GM Alexei Shirov
And yes, the Giants did win the Super Bowl by 3 points 🙂
What would you like to discuss? The forum is yours.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The Giants were fantastic. They played much better than the Patriots.
Anand will make a big comeback here. Topalov will finish second.
Did you bet on the Super Bowl? You would have made a bundle with your prediction.
I bet on an upset just like Corus, but this time it will be Magnus and Anand who tie for first place.
why isn’t Kramnik playing?
“Anonymous said…
why isn’t Kramnik playing?”
His toilet couldn’t get a visa!
I would like to ask all of you:
Why do you understimate aronian all the time? Hasn’t he proved several times, that he is one of the top stars these days?
Topalovs best times are over, in my opinion!
okay
Okay. I haven’t figured out how to use my blogger handle. So I’m logging in as Anonymous for another week.
BUT … here’s a piece of chess trivia that got in under the radar.
The motion picture “Charlie Wilson’s War” depicts a United States Representative’s covert operations to supply weapons to the mujahadeen fighters in Afghanistan when they were fighting against the Soviet Army’s invasion in 1980-88, resulting the the Soviets’ first defeat in a conventional war and contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film got decidedly mixed reviews (even from me), since the Soviets were replaced by the Taliban. It’s also rated R for good reason: plenty of four-letter words and some male and female nudity, as well as a lot of Soviet helicopters going down in flames. Don’t take the kids to see it.
BUT … about halfway through the picture, the title character and a CIA operative he’s befriended take a walk in a park (presumably Washington, D.C., but it could have been some other place). They are looking for a weapons expert. They find him, a young man of about 30, giving a simultaneous four-board exhibition moving around the picnic tables. When the young man turns around to talk to the Congressman and the CIA man, his opponents call out the moves to him and, without missing a beat, the young man calls back his replies (he even points out one other player’s error in notation). Since the movie is set in 1980, the characters call out their moves in English descriptive notation (which was still the notation of choice in the United States at the time). It’s one of the most entertaining scenes in the movie.
“Charlie Wilson’s War” is now playing in discount movie theaters. It would be seeing at a reduced price.
Peter Harris