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Mr. Deity
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Anyone with a healthy sense of the absurd contradictions of religious belief should appreciate a very funny series of videos entitled Mr.Deity which is now available on Youtube.

Try the first one below for a taster!

Tags: mr.deity, religion
Sunday 18 March 2007 - 02:01PM (GMT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
The God Delusion
The God Delusion magnify
Richard Dawkins latest book, 'The God Delusion' is certainly worth a read and topped the best-seller lists for a considerable time. I wholly agree with the book and it's conclusions and it is reassuring that it was popular even in America, which seems to be a relatively religious area by the standards of most developed countries.

An excellent interview was recently conducted by the BBC and is available below.

Tags: atheism, richard_dawkins
Wednesday 28 February 2007 - 10:46PM (GMT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Moving home...
I've now moved over to blogger and will be continuing my blog there, but this time just about chess!

My new blog is called SonOfPearl's Chess Blog.

This blog will end for a while, but hopefully restart after a break as a non-chess blog.

I hope you enjoy both!!!

Tags: chess, mychessblog, blogger
Sunday 4 February 2007 - 05:33PM (GMT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
The three musketeers win Corus
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So it all ended with a three way tie in Wijk Aan Zee. Topalov, Radjabov and Aronian are the joint winners of the event (as far as I can tell, there is no tie-break system in operation).

There was a lot of exciting chess during the tournament and the number of 'grandmaster' draws were relatively few. However, I can't help feeling a bit dissatisfied with the outcome - a three way tie?! Surely there needs to be a single winner of such an event?

Of course, the difficulty is deciding how to operate the tiebreak . The Sonnenborn-Berger (S-B) system seems to be a standard way, but surely rapid playoffs could be used to decide a winner? I appreciate that time would need to be built into the schedule for this, but this should not be a problem.

What do the sponsors think of a three-way tie as an outcome? Maybe the Wijk sponsors, Corus, are too busy making steel and don't care, but I think many chess fans and sponsors would prefer a sole winner to be crowned. It's not too much to ask is it?


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Tags: chess, corus, tiebreaks
Sunday 28 January 2007 - 08:54PM (GMT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Ra Ra Radjabov
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After 4 rounds at the Corus chess tornament in Wijk Aan Zee, Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan leads with 3.5/4 points after winning against the Dutch Champion Sergei Tiviakov.

[Event "Corus A"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2007.01.16"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Radjabov, T."]
[Black "Tiviakov, S."]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2729"]
[BlackElo "2667"]
[EventDate "2007.01.13"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 O-O 8.
Bb3 a5 9. O-O Nxd4 10. Bxd4 d6 11. Qe2 Bd7 12. Rad1 a4 13. Bc4 Bc6 14. a3 Ra5
15. Nd5 Nd7 16. Rfe1 Re8 17. c3 e6 18. Nb4 Bf8 19. f3 Qc7 20. Qf2 Nc5 21. Rd2
Qe7 22. Rde2 Rc8 23. Ba2 Bb5 24. Rd2 Nd7 25. f4 Bc4 26. Bb1 Nc5 27. Bc2 Nb3 28.
Bxb3 Bxb3 29. Rd3 Bc4 30. Rh3 e5 31. Bb6 Rb5


Board


32. f5 f6 33. Be3 gxf5 34. Qxf5Be6 35. Rg3+ Kh8 36. Qf2 Bg7 37. Qd2 Rg8 38. Rd1 Bf8 39. Rxg8+ Kxg8 40. Bh6 Bb3 41. Rf1 Rc5 42. Rf3 Rc8 43. Nd5 Bxd5 44. Qxd5+ Kh8 45. Be3 Bg7 46. Qb5 Ra8 47.Bf2 Qc7 48. Rd3 Bf8 49. Rd5 Qc6 50. Qd3 Be7 51. Rb5 Bd8 52. Rd5 Bc7 53. h3 Rf854. Rb5 Ra8 55. Rd5 Rg8 56. Kh2 Rg6 57. c4 Rg8 58. Bh4 Rg6 59. Qf3 Kg7 60. c5 dxc5 61.Qf5 Bd6 62. Qe6 f5 63. Qxf5 Qc7 64. Bg3 Rf6 65. Qh5 Re6 66. Qe2 Kf8 67. Qd1 b5 68. Qf1+ Ke8 69. Qxb5+ Qd7 70. Qe2 Qf7 71. Qa6 Qd7 72. Qa8+ Kf7 73. Qh8 h6 74. Qh7+ Ke8 75. Qg8+ 1-0


Tags: chess, corus, radjabov
Wednesday 17 January 2007 - 04:23PM (GMT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments

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