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man on the moon…
From twitter
Without these women, man would not have walked on the moon
The code that put the first man on the moon, next to the woman that wrote it.
Posted in Chess, chess games, Greg Chamitoff, NASA, skaak, space, space flights, tagged chess games, Chess in Space, chess in space youtube movie, Greg Chamitoff, NASA, space, space flights on 08/09/2008| 15 Comments »
How do astronauts pass the time in between whatever it is that they do whilst they are up there in space? There’s not much room to move about, so physical activities are pretty much out. You could listen to music or read, but what if you feel the need for a bit of friendly competition with ground control?
Greg Chamitoff is a 46 year-old American astronaut currently orbiting the earth as one of the crew of the International Space Station. He also happens to be a keen amateur chess player and didn’t want a little thing like being in space to stop him playing a game or two. He therefore took a lightweight chess set into orbit with him and challenged all the various mission control centres on earth to a joint game.
Millions of miles and 30 moves later, Greg was victorious. Buoyed by his success, he has now challenged each mission control centre to an individual game.
Read more about Greg Chamitoff here on his Wikipedia site and the his flight here on Nasa’s site.
Original article on Chess com where you can play through his game! This post entry was post no 980!
Image rotated specially for LittleIndian…
Posted in Carlsen, Chess Grandmasters, Dmitry Jakovenko, Eljanov, First human in Space, Foros Chess 2008, Ivanchuck, Jakovenko, Karjakin, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Magnus Carlsen, Pavel Eljanov, Shirov, space, Svidler, Vassily Ivanchuk, tagged Aerosvit 2008, Aerosvit Chess, Aerosvit Chess 2008, Aerosvit Chess International, Aerosvit Chess International 2008, Aerosvit Chess International Tournament 2008, Aerosvit Chess Results, Aerosvit Chess results round 8, Aerosvit interactive games 2008, Aerosvit round 2 games interactive, Aerosvit round 3 results, Alexander Onischuk, Alexei Shirov, Andrei Volokitin, Balaklava, Chess, Chess 2008, chess games, Chess in Ukraine Foros, Chess International Tournaments 2008, chess movies, Chess Results Aerosvit 2008, Chess Tournament Aerosvit, Chess Tournaments 2008, Chessmaster games, Church on Rock Foros, Cosmonaut, Crimea Chess, Crimea Chess 2008, Crimea map, Dmitry Jakovenko, Eljanov, Evgeny Alekseev, First man in Space, Foros 2008, Foros Chess, Foros Chess 2008, Foros Crimea 2008, Foros map, Foros round 6 results, game of the day movie, interactive chess games, Ivanchuck, Jakovenko, Karjakin, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Loek van Wely, Magnus Carlsen, Magnus Carlsen winner of 2008 Aerosvit, Pavel Eljanov, Peter Svidler, results round 10, results round 11, Results round 8 Aerosvit Chess, results round 9, Sergey Karjakin, Shirov, space, Svidler, Ukrainian Chess, Ukrainian Chess 2008, Vassily Ivanchuk, Yalta, Yalta Crimea, Yuri Gagarin on 08/06/2008| 7 Comments »
Magnus Carlsen winner with a total of 8 and Ivanchuk in 2nd place with a total of 7 games.
Image: http://ukrchess.org.ua/aerosvit2008/foto_e.htm
| The final standings: | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Carlsen | 2765 | * | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 8 |
| 2 | Ivanchuk | 2740 | 0 | * | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 7 |
| 3 | Karjakin | 2732 | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 6 |
| 4 | Eljanov | 2687 | 0 | 0 | ½ | * | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Volokitin | 2684 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | * | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 5½ |
| 6 | Jakovenko | 2711 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | * | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 5½ |
| 7 | Shirov | 2740 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | * | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5½ |
| 8 | Alekseev | 2711 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | * | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 5 |
| 9 | Svidler | 2746 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | * | ½ | ½ | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | Nisipeanu | 2684 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | * | 1 | ½ | 5 |
| 11 | Van Wely | 2677 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | * | ½ | 4 |
| 12 | Onischuk | 2664 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | * | 3½ |
Standings after round 7…source: Chessgames
Please click Chessgames here to follow the results of games and to play through games played on any particular day!
If you click on the link of CHESSCLUB you can watch the “game of the day” on a movie!
Round 11 : Final round…results
Svidler, Peter ½ – ½ Van Wely, Loek
Ivanchuk, Vassily 1-0 Eljanov, Pavel
Karjakin, Sergey ½ – ½ Carlsen, Magnus
Volokitin, Andrei 1 – 0 Alekseev, Evgeny
Jakovenko, Dmitry ½ – ½ Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
Onischuk, Alexander 0 – 1 Shirov, Alexei
Carlsen still leading!
Round 10 : Results
Van Wely, Loek 0 – 1 Ivanchuk, Vassily
Eljanov, Pavel ½ – ½ Karjakin, Sergey
Carlsen, Magnus ½ – ½ Volokitin, Andrei
Alekseev, Evgeny ½ – ½ Jakovenko, Dmitry
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ½ – ½ Onischuk, Alexander
Shirov, Alexei 1 – 0 Svidler, Peter
Round 9 results:
Karjakin, Sergey ½ – ½ Van Wely, Loek
Volokitin, Andrei 0 – 1 Eljanov, Pavel
Jakovenko, Dmitry ½ – ½ Carlsen, Magnus
Onischuk, Alexander ½ – ½ Alekseev, Evgeny
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1 – 0 Shirov, Alexei
Ivanchuk, Vassily ½ – ½ Svidler, Peter
Results: Round 8
Van Wely, Loek 1 – 0 Volokitin, Andrei
Eljanov, Pavel ½ – ½ Jakovenko, Dmitry
Carlsen, Magnus ½ – ½ Onischuk, Alexander
Alekseev, Evgeny 1 – 0 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
Svidler, Peter ½ – ½ Karjakin, Sergey
Shirov, Alexei 0 – 1 Ivanchuk, Vassily
Round 7 results:
Jakovenko, Dmitry 1 – 0 Van Wely, Loek
Onischuk, Alexander 0 – 1 Eljanov, Pavel
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 0 – 1 Carlsen, Magnus
Alekseev, Evgeny ½ – ½ Shirov, Alexei
Volokitin, Andrei ½ – ½ Svidler, Peter
Karjakin, Sergey ½ – ½ Ivanchuk, Vassily
Please click HERE to play through games of round 7.
Magical Magnus conjures win over Shirov
Round 5 at Foros and yet another elite Grandmaster crumbles in the face of Magnus Carlsen’s relentless pressure. Alexei Shirov is a formidable player and has himself come close to the World Championship crown, but today he became Carlsen’s latest victim.
Shirov answered 1.d4 with the Slav defence and Magnus chose the popular ‘Moscow’ variation in reply. A balanced opening developed into an even middlegame, but as in previous games, Magnus kept creating tricky problems for his opponent to solve and soon Shirov fell into time trouble as he sought to find the best answers.
It was on the 61st move that Shirov finally cracked, allowing Magnus to catch his King in a mating net.
Elsewhere on another exciting day, the closest challenger to Magnus failed to keep up the pace as Sergey Karjakin lost with the Black pieces against Andrei Volokitin. The other decisive games saw Nisipeanu put Van Wely to the sword in a Najdorf Sicilian and Svidler employed his favourite Grunfeld defence to good effect against Onischuk.
Vassily Ivanchuk fought hard against Dmitry Jakovenko, but an extra pawn in a Knight ending was not enough and the game ended all-square after 72 moves.
Magnus Carlsen now leads by a clear 1.5 points with a very impressive score of 4.5/5. If the world rankings were published today then Carlsen would be ranked second in the world, with only World Champion Vishy Anand ahead of him.
Please click HERE to play through the games of round 5…played on the 12th June.
Source of article….about round 5: http://www.chess.com
Round 6 results!
Van Wely, Loek ½ – ½ Onischuk, Alexander
Eljanov, Pavel ½ – ½ Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
Carlsen, Magnus ½ – ½ Alekseev, Evgeny
Svidler, Peter ½ – ½ Jakovenko, Dmitry
Ivanchuk, Vassily ½ – ½ Volokitin, Andrei
Shirov, Alexei ½ – ½ Karjakin, Sergey
Ukrainian Chess Federation
International Chess Tournament from 7-20 June 2008
Please click
HERE to play through the games of round 1 and on THIS LINK you can see the results of rounds 2 and 3.
On THIS LINK you can play through games played in round 2.
Results Round 3
Carlsen, Magnus 1 – 0 Van Wely, Loek
Eljanov, Pavel 1 – 0 Shirov, Alexei
Alekseev, Evgeny 1 – 0 Svidler, Peter
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ½ – ½ Ivanchuk, Vassily
Onischuk, Alexander ½ – ½ Karjakin, Sergey
Jakovenko, Dmitry 1 – 0 Volokitin, Andrei
Standings …Round 4
Van Wely, Loek vs Alekseev, Evgeny
Eljanov, Pavel vs Carlsen, Magnus
Svidler, Peter vs Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter
Ivanchuk, Vassily vs Onischuk, Alexander
Karjakin, Sergey vs Jakovenko, Dmitry
Shirov, Alexei vs Volokitin, Andrei
Day of Rest…Balaklava…
~Day of Rest…Balaklava…Images: Official site of Aerosvit
Magnus Carlsen, Norway, 2765
Peter Svidler, Russia, 2746
Vasiliy Ivanchuk, Ukraine, 2740
Alexei Shirov, Spain, 2740
Sergey Karjakin, Ukraine, 2732
Dmitry Jakovenko, Russia, 2711
Evgeny Alekseev, Russia, 2711
Pavel Eljanov, Ukraine, 2687
See 4 more players’ photos HERE with more information on all players.The list of participants:
1. Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2765
2. Svidler, Peter RUS 2746
3. Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2740
4. Shirov, Alexei ESP 2740
5. Karjakin, Sergey UKR 2732
6. Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2711
7. Alekseev, Evgeny RUS 2711
8. Eljanov, Pavel UKR 2687
9. Volokitin, Andrei UKR 2684
10. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter ROU 2684
11. Van Wely, Loek NED 2676
12. Onischuk, Alexander USA 2664
June 8th, 2008, Round 1, Time 15:00…ALL rounds start at 15:00 —every day!
June 9th, Round 2
June 10th, Round 3
June 11th, Round 4
June 12th, Round 5
June 13th, Round 6
June 14th, REST DAY
June 15th, Round 7
June 16th, Round 8
June 17th, Round 9
June 18th, Round 10
June 19th, Round 11
Round 2 Magnus Carlsen
Foros, Crimea is the settlement in the Ukraine where this tournament is taking place…
The region is also known as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and lies on the northern coast of the Black Sea. The population is two million inhabitants, the capital is the city of Simferopol.
Foros, where the AeroSvit tournament is held, is a small village situated about 40 km from Yalta, in the southern part of Crimea. The climate conditions are gorgeous. Foros is the place were the dacha (summer-house) of the President of Ukraine is situated. The Russian writer Maxim Gorkiy lived and worked for some time in Foros. Today Ukrainian politicians and businessmen own summer houses there. Students spend their summers in Foros. There is the orthodox Foros Church and a beautiful national park. What is also good in Foros – you spell the name of the village exactly the way you pronounce it – F-o-r-o-s.
Source: chessbase
Last 2 Images: chessbase
In Foros, you will get this monument about Yuri Gagarin, the first man in Space!
Click HERE to read more about him.
Posted in Irlen syndrome, lights, North Sky lights, Northern lights, polar lights, Southern lights, space, tagged Aurora, Aurora Australis, Aurora Borealis, Australis lights, Colour, Colour changing clock, Colour psychology, colour therapy, eye conditions, favourite colour personality, Irlen syndrome, lights, Northern lights, Northern sky lights, polar lights, Reading syndromes, Southern lights, Southern sky lights, space on 20/01/2008| 13 Comments »
Colour is part of our everyday life. Just think what life will be without colour/s! I would like to go one day and see the Northern lights! Read here more about the Auroras/e of our world.
Auroras (Polar Lights; or aurorae, sing.: aurora) are natural different colored light displays, which are usually observed in the night sky, particularly in the polar zone. Some scientists therefore call them “polar auroras” (or “aurorae polaris”). In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. It often appears as a greenish glow (or sometimes a faint red), as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis is also called the northern [polar] lights, as it is only visible in the North sky from the Northern Hemisphere. The aurora borealis most often occurs from September to October and from March to April.
Its southern counterpart, aurora australis/southern [polar] lights, has similar properties. Australis is the Latin word for “of the South”.
Read more HERE about the Auroras/e.
Aurora colour changing clock
Please click HERE to buy the clock from the Science Museum.
I’ve always been interested in colours and how colour influences your life/personality or your way of living. You even get children with visual difficulties and through tests, they might discover that the child needs particular colour tinted glasses to read with. Some children will be said that they have the Irlen syndrome.
Read HERE more about the syndrome.
Colour psychology is the study of the effect that colours have on human behaviour particularly the natural instinctive feelings that each colour evokes. Colour preference is subjective however colour psychology reveals how each colour creates a collective emotional, mental and physical response in people as a whole.
Red for example will create feelings of warmth, movement, ambition, determination and sometimes anger! red may bring to mind sayings that have been passed down through the ages such as ‘it was like holding up a red rag to a bull!’
Colours in Our Environment
Colours in our environment affect us on a daily basis, they can act as unconscious triggers that influence how we think, feel and react to the world around us. We are able to see around 7,000,000 colours, some combinations can create a clash of the senses where as other colour combinations create an atmosphere of harmony and balance. The ‘right’ choice of colours can create a haven for relaxation or an environment that can increase productivity, stimulate the mind and raise energy levels.Click HERE to read more about this article on the “colours of the soul” site, where you can also click on “Colour attribute” and read about your favourite colour. You can see mine here! Enjoy the two videos about the Auroras!
Psychology of Colour Effects Patients Recovery
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