Well that is more like it. Both the men's and women's teams from the USA finished third in this year's Chess Olympiad. A fantastic accomplishment indeed. I hope this continues to inspire the chess players in the US to continue to compete at a high level. Hopefully it will also cause more in this country to take notice and thus increase the interest (and sponsorship money) to chess.
Now if GM Gata Kamsky-USA's Board One were to beat Topalov in the World Championship semifinals, wow what a thing that would be!
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Gli squadri delgi Stati Uniti l'han fatto in onore del nuovo President-Elect Barack Obama, chi Silvio Berlusconi rappresento' come "abbronzato" :-).
ReplyDeleteSorry, IM Regan, I didn't get that. I only know PigLatin.
ReplyDelete"The US teams did it in honor of the new President-Elect Barack Obama, whom (Italian premier) Silvio Berlusconi described as `bronzed'."
ReplyDeleteI actually cut Berlusconi a little slack for his notorious remark because in Italian it can also mean "cast in bronze", i.e. idol-worshiped. Though in-context that's not included in what Berlusconi meant.
However, there is a real chance the US men's team could lose its bronze as a knock-on effect of Ivanchuk's doping-test dissing. I credit ChessBase with a good treatment of the issues here.
I think that you did stunning solution when you came up with this topic of the blog article of yours over here. Do you usually make your blog entries alone or you work with a writing partner or even an assistant?
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