攻殼機動隊 (Ghost in the Shell)

Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”

SCUOLA DI DANZA
舞蹈学校
SCACCHI CLASSICI E SCACCHI DI FISCHER
国际象棋和菲舍尔氏象棋

宙斯 (Zeus)

 

Robert James Fischer and Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian enjoying blitz at the Moscow Central Chess Club in June 1958.

早在苏联

Ghosts

马多·弗林的主意
(Da un’idea di Mado Flynn)

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Artwork: Mike Flanagan

For the Beauty of the Heart

Peter Veniaminovich Svidler – Baadur Jobava
FIDE Grand Prix; Tbilisi, February 23, 2015
Caro-Kann Defence B12

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Nd7 6. 0-0 f6!? 7. c4 fxe5 8. dxe5 Bc5 9. Nc3 a6. For 9. ... Ne7 10. Na4 0-0 see V. Popov – Kukhmazov, Saint Petersburg 2013. 10. cxd5 cxd5 11. Be3!? “Cementing White’s hold over d4 at the cost of a long term weakness on e3 and e5”, Grandmaster Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez writes. 11. ... Bxe3 12. fxe3 Ne7 13. Qb3 Qb8 14. Qa3 Nxe5 15. Nd4 N5c6 16. Nxf5. 16. g4 Nxd4 17. exd4 Bg6 18. Na4 would have possibly offered White better prospects to compensate the sacrificed Pawn. 16. ... exf5 17. Bf3 Qe5 18. Qc5 0-0-0 19. Rfd1 Kb8. Good news for Svidler: White has absolutely nothing for the sacrificed Pawn. 20. b4 Rd6! 21. b5

21. ... Rc8! A killer! After both 22. bxc6 Rcxc6 and 22. bxa6 Nd8! (protecting b7) White’s game is past any redemption. 22. Rac1 Na7 23. Qa3 axb5 24. Ne2 Rxc1 25. Rxc1 Nac6 26. Qc5 g5! The genial Jobava launches the final assault against White’s King. 27. h3 b4 28. a3 Re6 29. Kf2 d4! 30. exd4 Qxc5 31. dxc5 Ne5 0 : 1.

Baadur Jobava
Photo: Maria Alekseevna Emelianova

我的父亲母亲

Motorola Ming8 with GPS in China
© Ogilvy & Mather 北京市 (Běijīng)

Women’s World Chess Championship 2015
Krasnaya Polyana (Sochi, Russia), 16 March – 7 April 2015
Regulations
Qualifiers and Player’s Contract
VISA Support Information
Schedule (PDF)

Honour before reason

• J. R. Shridharan, Koneru Humpy gearing up for Sochi, The Hindu, February 22, 2015

World No. 3 women’s chess player and Grandmaster Koneru Humpy (2581) is all set to take a shot at the world championships for the sixth time, featuring top Grandmasters at Sochi (Russia) from March 15. The news that defending champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) (2672) of China might skip the event owing to prior commitments (playing a tourney in Hawaii) must be music to Humpy’s ears. However, she is aware that there are other gifted players in the fray. [Read more].

On February 4, 2015, during her Master Class at 13th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, 13th Women’s World Chess Champion 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) (right) told her interviewer Stuart Conquest (left) that probably she will not play in the upcoming Women’s World Championship Tournament. Her given reason was that she’s committed to playing a tournament in Hawaii, but she didn’t sound excited about the knockout format anyway.

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Easy as it seems

Baadur Jobava – Leinier Domínguez Pérez
FIDE Grand Prix; Tbilisi, February 22, 2015
Inverted Hanham Opening C44

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Be2 Nf6 4. d3 d5 5. Nbd2 Bc5 6. c3 a5 7. a4 0-0 8. 0-0 Re8 9. h3 h6 10. Re1. Another brick in the wall: 10. Qc2 b6 11. Re1 Bb7 12. Nf1 Bd6 13. Ng3 Ne7 14. Nh4 c5 15. Bg4 c4 16. dxc4 Nxe4 17. Rxe4 dxe4 18. Bxh6 Bc5 19. Rd1 Qc7 20. Qc1 e3 21. Bxe3 Bxe3 22. Qxe3 Qxc4 23. Nh5 Qe4 24. Qg5 Ng6 25. Kh2 Bc8 26. f3 Qc2 27. Rd6 Bxg4 28. hxg4 Kh7 29. Nxg6 fxg6 30. Nf6+ gxf6 31. Rd7+ Kg8 32. Qxf6 1 : 0 Jobava – Bok, 76th Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 2014. 10. ... Be6 11. Nh2. For 11. Qc2 Nd7 see Dimitrijevic – Malaniuk, Tseshkovsky Memorial, Sochi 2014. 11. ... Ne7 12. Bf1 Ng6 13. Nhf3 dxe4. In the press conference Domínguez Pérez said that, before surrounding the centre, 13. ... c6 was better since he could have replied 14. Qc2 by 14. ... Qb6. 14. dxe4 c6 15. Qc2 Qc7. Now, after 15. ... Qb6 then simply follows 16. Nc4 (Pawn no longer on d5). 16. Nc4 Red8 17. Be3 Bxe3 18. Nxe3 Rdb8 19. Rad1 Rd8 20. g3 Qb6 21. Nd2 Qc7 22. Kg2 Nf8 23. Nf3 N8d7 24. b4 axb4 25. cxb4 Qb6 26. Rb1 Qa7 27. Ra1 Qb6 28. Reb1 Qc7 29. a5 Rdc8 30. Bc4 Qd6 31. Nd2 b6 32. Bxe6 Qxe6 33. Nb3 Rcb8 34. Nc4 bxa5 35. bxa5 Rb5 36. a6 Ne8 37. Rd1 Nc5 38. Nxc5 Rxc5 39. Ra4

39. ... Nc7? A mistake in grave time trouble. Correct was 39. ... Nd6! 40. Qb3 Nxc4 41. a7 (the tempting 41. Qb7? is refuted by 41. ... Ne3+!) 41. ... Rb5 42. Qxc4 Qxc4 43. Rxc4 Rxa7 44. Rxc6 Rb4 with a drawish-looking position. 40. a7! Nb5 41. Qd3! Rxa7 42. Rxa7 Rxc4. If 42. ... Nxa7 then 43. Qd8+ Kh7 44. Ne3 with overwhelming threats. 43. Qd8+ Kh7 44. Re7 Qf6 45. Qd7 Rd4 46. Rxd4 Nxd4 47. Rxf7 Qg6 48. f3 c5 49. h4 h5 50. Kh3 Qh6 51. g4 hxg4+ 52. Qxg4 Kg8 53. Rc7 Ne6 54. Rc8+ Kf7 55. Qf5+ Ke7 56. Qxe5 Kd7 57. Ra8 Nf4+ 58. Kg4 Qxh4+ 59. Kxh4 Ng6+ 60. Kg3 Nxe5 61. Kf4 Kd6 62. Rd8+ Nd7 63. Rg8 c4 64. Rxg7 Ne5 65. Ke3 c3 66. f4 1 : 0.

Baadur Jobava
Photo: Maria Alekseevna Emelianova

The Answer Lies Within

Maybe they are betting on where I’ll take a coffee on Sundays and who with me?

Need a new approach

Too many sellers and too many exploiters around me. They have nothing to sell, but they absolutely want me to buy it! How to get away? They are friends and enemies each other at once. Anyone pretends to be at the top and all together are trying hard to push me at the bottom. I don’t know why. I ask it myself any day. It is like to play a mask without knowing. Not so funny.

紧急报警系统

马多·弗林的主意
(Da un’idea di Mado Flynn)

散步场地

秘密地方，2015年2月22日
Photo: Isadora Duncan

Mare nostrum

秘密地方，2015年2月22日
Photo: Isadora Duncan

What will happen to the girl

羊年

Artwork: border-collie

Red Lights

• Tsipras: 'Cancellati gli impegni sull’austerity', R.it, 21 febbraio 2015

Alexīs Tsipras

微分方程

Artwork: Shades-Of-Lethe

失去你，而找到了我自己。
Shīqù nǐ, ér zhǎodàole wǒ zìjǐ.
Lost you. Found myself.

乒乓球 (Table tennis)

Robert James Fischer

Michail Nechem’evič Tal’ & Tigran Vartanovič Petrossiàn

Zsuzsa, Zsófia and Judit Polgár

Magnus Carlsen

Photos: Zsuzsa Polgár (@SusanPolgar)

Amor patriae nostra lex

Confucius Institute at the University of Florence

反證法

Baadur Jobava – Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
FIDE Grand Prix; Tbilisi, February 20, 2015
Larsen’s Opening A01

1. b3 Nf6 2. Bb2 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 c5 5. e3 cxd4 6. exd4 d5 7. Qd2 Nc6 8. 0-0-0. For the immediate 8. f3 h5 see Jobava – Carlsen, 77th Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee 2015. 8. ... Qa5 9. f3 h5 10. Kb1 Bf5 11. Bd3 Nxd4 12. Nge2 Nxe2 13. Qxe2 Bd7 14. Rhe1 e6

15. Bxg6!?? A typically Jobava idea. 15. ... fxg6 16. Nxd5 Nxd5 17. Bxg7 Rg8 18. Qe5 Rxg7? 18. ... Qc7! (possibly followed by ... 0-0-0) would have seriously questioned Jobava’s Bishop sacrifice. 19. Rxd5! Maybe Mamedyarov was expecting only 19. Qxg7? Nc3+ 20. Kb2 Nxd1+ 21. Rxd1 0-0-0 with advantage to Black. 19. ... Qb4 20. Rd6 Kf8 21. Red1 Bc6? From bad to worse. 22. R1d4? Simply incredible! Baadur misses an easy win: 22. Rd8+ Rxd8 23. Rxd8+ Kf7 24. a3! Qe7 25. Qf4+ Qf6 26. Rf8+! and Black can resign. 22. ... Qb5 23. Rd8+ Rxd8 24. Rxd8+ Ke7 25. Qd6+ Kf6 26. Qd4+. Also after 26. Rf8+ Rf7 27. Qd8+ Kg7 28. Rg8+ Kh7 29. Rh8+ Kg7 White has no more than than a draw by perpetual check. 26. ... Kf7?? A tragicomic blunder! The obvious 26. ... Ke7 27. Qd6+ Kf6 leaves nothing but a draw. 27. Qf4+ 1 : 0. Just one move before checkmate: 27. ... Ke7 28. Qf8 mate.

Baadur Jobava
Photo: Maria Alekseevna Emelianova

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