Nalchik 2010

Tatiana Kosintseva is the winner of the Fide Women Grand Prix which ended today - 8th May -  in Russia. Click HERE for the Official site. The site will open in a new window.

Anand vs Topalov

Click the image for a larger view...Anand 5 Topalov 5 after Game 10. Today 8th May is a rest day, Game 11 to be played tomorrow.

Follow THIS link for more about the match and to see some chess graphics about their games. The link will open in a new window.

Check_my_mate

These two game I've played on chess.com - one of my favourite sites to play chess. I do like chesscube more as there are always tons of players ready for a realtime game. I played white in both games.

Anand vs Topalov

Images: Official site

Click on the link HERE to follow the match and the results on my WP blog, with chess graphics about the moves too. The link will open in a new window.

Confusion and...more confusion

first there were three.....and...more confusion

..and then...only two.....and now...the next step...

...and finally

And now....the beginning...of...

....a new Government

Anand vs Topalov

Anand...



Schedule



See the image/link to the Official site on my blog's sidebar (my Wordpress-blog - see link at the bottom of this entry) [top right on my other blog]. The link will open in a new window.



Topalov vs Anand - Round 1 move 19 [click on images for a larger view]



Round 1 move 23



Move 25



Round 1 move 29 - big trouble - Anand has resigned this game

Topalov - 1 Anand - 0

[Event "Sofia BUL, WCC2010"]
[Site "Sofia BUL"]
[Date "2010.04.24"]
[Round "1.22"]
[White "Topalov, V."]
[Black "Anand, V."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D87"]
[WhiteElo "2805"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2010.04.24"]
[EventType "match"]
[EventRounds "12"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8. Ne2 Nc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O Na5 11. Bd3 b6 12. Qd2 e5 13. Bh6 cxd4 14. Bxg7 Kxg7 15. cxd4 exd4 16. Rac1 Qd6 17. f4 f6 18. f5 Qe5 19. Nf4 g5 20. Nh5+ Kg8 21. h4 h6 22. hxg5 hxg5 23. Rf3 Kf7 24. Nxf6 Kxf6 25. Rh3 Rg8 26. Rh6+ Kf7 27. Rh7+Ke8 28. Rcc7 Kd8 29. Bb5 Qxe4 30. Rxc8+ 1-0



Follow THIS LINK on my WP-blog to follow the other games.

The Yooks and the Zooks

This is part 1 of the video [book]. This is a kiddies' video, but has so many uses...even for older children.

How to Dance the Argentine Tango

Report Crime - South Africa

Please click on the image for a large view

Report Crime is something thats been in the back of my mind for a while now and 6 months ago, If not longer I decided to implement it. It will be an on-going project that I really want to get off the ground. Its a community based crime notification and awareness tool. It's currently a free service and I intend to keep it that way. However it needs to look after itself financially in the end, and that would be supported by advertisers.

My main focus rite now is to build up users for the site, Ive already started advertising on Facebook. I originally tested the idea by putting up a very simple crime logging system, and the response I got from advertising though Google was very good. However that system had no methods in place to track users. It was extremely simple and was setup in less than a week, I wonder if the current system is too complex and the key to its success is to be ridiculously simple.

Look at Craigs list, as ugly as hell as there is no styling and no js, but that makes it fast and is one of the most successful sites around the world.
Please click HERE to visit  Derrick's site to read more and HERE to visit the Report Crime-site where you can also report a crime if you know about one! Please tell Derrick what you think about his site as he needs to know if you want him to continue it.

I think this kind of site is the first in the world and I personally think it is great! I'm in contact with Frederic on Twitter - his twitter-name is Deighardt and through him I got to know about this site which is his cousin's mastermind - Derrick. I hope people will find it useful and use it too as it is a great tool to even report crime too. Planning to visit South Africa...check out this site for crime hotspots! Planning to travel...from Pretoria to Durban...or wherever...check it out. You know of any crime...report it! You can even search for places in South Africa or set up an email/sms-alert. This is what we need in our country...maybe all over the world!

South Africa's got talent

Thank you to the people of Netherland!

In South Africa farmers get killed on a daily basis! The world is turning a blind eye as to what is going on in South Africa. Luckily, ONE country is NOT turning a blind eye. Holland! Thank you to Holland, our "mother country" for supporting the white farmers of South Africa by doing something about it! This image-screenshot is from the website here. Please click HERE to see the original page. If you don't understand Dutch, you can use google-translator. These news headlines in blue are ALL about the killings. [look at the dates too] South Africa is on the slippery road due to our government. This is SAD, but true. We've thought that our country would become [under the new government] a fantastic place to live, but unfortunately, it's not the case after how many years since 1994. These killers feel nothing for children, elderly people and even women. If you're one of those turning a blind eye to everything, then you can do at least something and that is to pray that all people are save tonight when YOU go to bed.

Blank Chess

Engele - Angels

Chess Invitation to the Dance

Enjoy this Chess Dance - and the music of Weber - Invitation to the Dance

Chess game 26

In this game I played black against arturo1113 on the chess site where the game was played.
This was really a tough game....one of those challenging games. If you play through the game you will see why. Luckily...as always... I had a Knight-to-the-rescue. I will even sacrifice a Rook just to have my Knight! Exactly like in real life... that's why Knights are there! hehehe... look at move 80! Fork! and from there one...it was really easy. If you play through the game, you will see why my opponent named this game after this nursery rhyme - ring-a-ring-a-rosie... See if you can work out why I couldn't really move away from that advanced Pawn of my opponent...He resigned this game at the end. Enjoy playing through the game.

Image: Wikipedia

Beethoven's 5th

Ek was op Hoerskool, die minister van Onderwys het ons skool besoek en hierdie simfonie van Beethoven was die musiek wat ons massa gimnastiekvertoning vir die besoek begelei het. Dit was harde werk vir 'n hele paar maande, maar die moeite werd en dit was eintlik iets aanskouliks, noudat ek daaraan terugdink! Waar's die goeie ou dae!

When I was at Secondary School, we had a mass gymnastics display for the visiting minister of Education and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony 5th Movement was the music our teachers selected for the display! What a wonderful time it was! This was also on my music menu for Saturday mornings when I did my school homework. On the verandah - with the large old oak trees a few metres away...all the farm-sounds...circled by mountains....and the echo of a running river not very far away...geeee...this is life!




In this next track you can listen to Waldo de los Rios playing the same piece of music, of course [for me] better than the orchestra in this video! I'm a lover of Waldo de los Rios! This is only a taster, but quite a bit to enjoy!


On THIS LINK you can follow a few blog-links with the music-link of Waldo de los Rios.The link will open in a new window.