I’m glad that finally Giuditta, the only chess star so far in the Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”’s firmament, made a new friend today, and that her new friend is a girl! It looked as if they wanted to play together as soon as they knew each other.
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Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina (left) vs. Çisel Anaçoğlu (right). Photo: Turkish Chess Federation.
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Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said there is a specific aspect of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest troubling her. “There’s a lot of concern for folks who disagree or are troubled by Assange’s past. To my knowledge, the specific charges that were raised for his extradition were even ones that the Obama administration entertained but turned down because it was kind of beyond the pale in terms of an attack on journalism and journalists”, she said.
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Marina Gajčin (right) vs. Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina (left). Photo: Turkish Chess Federation.
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A spring rainy sunny Saturday is coming, so don’t miss tomorrow’s class of chess960 at Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”, starting at 16,00 as usual — and pray take with you a pair of clean sneakers to be used in the dance room only!
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James (pictured above), the cat which had been living with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy since a long time, is apparently safe and free, as confirmed by British journalist and author James Ball in a tweet yesterday: “For the record: Julian Assange’s cat was reportedly given to a shelter by the Ecuadorian embassy ages ago, so don’t expect a feline extradition in the next few hours. (I genuinely offered to adopt it)”.
Photo: Peter Nicholls/Reuters.
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Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina (right) vs. Mónica Calzetta Ruiz (left). Photo: Turkish Chess Federation.
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Quidquid agit Rufus, nihil est nisi Naevia Rufo.
Si gaudet, si flet, si tacet, hanc loquitur. Cenat, propinat, poscit, negat, innuit: una est Naevia; si non sit Naevia, mutus erit. scriberet hesterna patri cum luce salutem, “Naevia lux” inquit “Naevia lumen, have”. Haec legit et ridet demisso Naevia voltu. Naevia non una est: quid, vir inepte, furis? Whatever Rufus is doing, Naevia is to Rufus his all in all. If glad, if tearful, if mute, of her he speaks. He dines, drinks healths, asks, denies, or nods: Naevia is everything; be there no Naevia, he will be dumb. When yesterday he was writing a greeting to his father, “Naevia, light of my eyes”, he wrote, “Naevia, my sunbeam, I salute thee”. Naevia reads these lines with face down-dropt, and laughs. There is more than one Naevia; Why, you silly husband, do you rage? |
Alejandro Cartagena, Discuartizados #32, 2019. Photo courtesy of Kopeikin, Los Angeles.
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Moscow, Russia: Municipal workers clean the Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin monument in preparations for the International Day of Human Space Flight, the 58th anniversary of Gagarin’s epic space flight, on April 12 worldwide. Photo: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA.
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Astronomers have captured the first-ever photo of a supermassive black hole big enough to swallow whole stars at the centre of a distant galaxy. The image of the colossal black hole at the core of the Messier 87 galaxy was obtained by combining eight radio dishes around the world into one global telescope — the so-called Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Photo: EHT Collaboration.
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A man exercises with an improvised cervical traction device attached to a high bar at a sports complex in 沈阳 (Shěnyáng), 辽宁省 (Liáoníng province), China. Photo: 胜利 (Shèng Lì)/Reuters.
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Saduakassova in Reykjavík’s magnificent Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre. Photo: szacharnia.blogspot.com.
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Saduakassova is one of the only two female chess players named in the “Entertainment & Sports” category of this year’s Forbes “30 Under 30 Asia” list. Screenshot: Forbes.
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The Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, celebrated the International Romani Day (April 8) in the most constructive way, proudly announcing that “thanks to our Roma Education Fund Scholarship we are able to support one Roma student each year to study public policy here in Oxford”. For further information visit: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/study/mpp/mpp-fees-and-funding.
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Armathwaite Hall Hotel in Keswick, Cumbria holds Lemoga classes with the lemurs from Lake District Wildlife Park mingling with the class to create a personal yoga experience which aims to heighten the sense of wellbeing for both lemur and human. Photo: PA.
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From left: Filipino Grandmaster Eugene Torre and 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer in Hungary, early 1990s. Photo credit: Tivadar Farkasházy, “Bobby visszatér avagy a Fischer-rejtély”, Adwise Media, Budapest, 2008.
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Manila, Philippines – What does one feel playing face-to-face against a chess legend?
A few weeks before the 1976 Haifa Chess Olympiad, former national women’s champion Lita Alvarez received a call from then World Chess Federation vice president Florencio Campomanes. Did she want to play Bobby Fischer, and if yes, he would fetch her at noon at Solidbank and go to Manila Hotel. “Campo fetched me by car and we drove to the Manila Hotel where I met Fischer. We played near the swimming pool. He was business-like. He took a White Pawn in one hand and a Black Pawn in the other and then crossed his wrist. He said, ‘Choose’. I picked the right hand and it was a Black Pawn”, recounted Alvarez in an interview Sunday, March 31. “He beat me easily”, added Alvarez, now 78. Fischer, the American who lost his world title by forfeit in 1975 to Anatoly Karpov of the then Soviet Union, was visiting the Philippines to discuss with Campomanes holding a big match. Campomanes asked him if he would agree to play the men’s and women’s team before they head for Haifa, Israel. Fischer agreed. Fischer met the women’s team, led by then national champion Hermie Cartel, physics and chemistry teacher Mila Emperado, student Andrea Lizares, and Alvarez, who won the 1956 national women’s championship at the age of 16. The games were held at the house of Lizares’ aunt in Urdaneta Village. [Read more]. |
Robert James “Bobby” Fischer with (from left) Andrea Lizares, Lita Alvarez, and Hermie Cartel, members of the first Philippine women’s team to the 7th Women’s Chess Olympiad at Haifa in 1976. Photo: Lita Alvarez/Rappler.
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A woman and her dog take part in a march in defence of animal rights in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Stringer/Reuters.
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