These are just some of the people who are responsible for the success of chess in the Bellevue / Seattle area. I would like to thank IM Eric Tangborn and NM Elliott Neff for inviting me to the Chess4Life Center to meet everyone and for doing such a fantastic job with chess and education. 
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Wow, you do this blog in the wee hours. Unbelievable!
Yes, Susan is a work-machine.
She is incredible!!!
She is an example to follow.
Victor Francia.
that guy in the middle looks like he’s wearing a crown. LOL
From ChessBase.com:
{
Andrew Martin – Life on the Edge
14.11.2006 Want something new against the Sicilian? On his Wednesday night Playchess lecture Andrew Martin recommends 2.Na3, “if you have a sense of humour and you are willing to embrace eccenticity.”
}
In October 2006, at this same Chess4Life Center room, in the Slugfest BAP tournament…
A.Shabalov opened with this same 1. e24 c75 2. Nb1a3 against G.Serper. The next few plies were 2… d76 [came after a long think] 3. c23 [vacating c2 for a later 9. Na3c2] ng8f6.
The game ended in a draw; which under BAP gave Black more points than it gave White. In fact, in the .PGN file, the draw is noted by the following:
{draw: 0-1}
From Slugfest7.com, here is a link to all the BAP tournament games, including Shabalov-Serper.
http:// http://www.slugfest.org/ gm/ gmslugfest/ allgames.pgn
Gene Milener
http://CastleLong.com/