FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 6 games

Here are the moves from all the games from round 6:

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 6 report

The sixth round of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix chess event was played in Doha, Qatar today. Here are the results from all of the games (the player on the left had the white pieces in the game):

Round 6 on 2011/02/28 at 15:00

GM Dzagnidze -- GM Xu Yuhua result: 1-0
IM Mkrtchian -- GM Danielian result: draw
GM Zhu Chen -- IM Munguntuul result: 0-1
GM Koneru -- GM Chiburdanidze result: 1-0
IM Fierro Baquero- GM Sebag result: 0-1
GM Cramling --GM Stefanova result: 1-0

These results mean the following standings exist after 6 rounds of play:

6th Women GP 2011

Average Elo: 2490 <=> Cat: 10 gm = 7.37 m = 5.17

1	Danielian,Elina		2454	+447	&;		1		1		1	1			1	½	5.5 / 6
2	Cramling,Pia		2516	+108		&;		½	1	½			1	½		½	4.0 / 6	0.00
3	Sebag,Marie		2489	+109	0		&;	½		1				1	1	½	4.0 / 6	0.00
4	Koneru,Humpy		2607	-55		½	½	&;	0	1	1		½				3.5 / 6
5	Dzagnidze,Nana		2550	-79	0	0		1	&;	0		1			1		3.0 / 6	0.00
6	Fierro Baquero,Martha L		2353	+180		½	0	0	1	&;			½	1			3.0 / 6	0.00
7	Chiburdanidze,Maia		2502	-72	0			0			&;	0		½	1	1	2.5 / 6	0.00
8	Munguntuul,Batkhuyag		2410	+24	0				0		1	&;		1	0	½	2.5 / 6	0.00
9	Stefanova,Antoaneta		2546	-178		0		½		½			&;	0	0	1	2.0 / 6	0.00
10	Zhu,Chen		2495	-146		½	0			0	½	0	1	&;			2.0 / 6	0.00
11	Xu,Yuhua		2484	-112	0		0		0		0	1	1		&;		2.0 / 6	0.00
12	Mkrtchian,Lilit		2475	-109	½	½	½				0	½	0			&;	2.0 / 6	0.00

The Story of the Bluefin

Please watch this video and pass it on to your friends:

Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDiuj6Vvofs

Tories' gross fiscal mismanagement sells Albertans short

                                                       Source: Government of Alberta annual reports, 2004–2009
                                                     and :http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2009/06/30/edmonton-deficit-alberta.html






To read an article entitled, "Tories' gross fiscal mismanagement sells Albertans short", which was written by Diana Gibson and Ricardo Acuna of the Parkland Institute please click on the following link:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Tories+gross+fiscal+mismanagement+sells+Albertans+short/4345338/story.html

If you live in Alberta you owe it to yourself and your family to read this article! The Provincial Tory Government of the Province of Alberta has had enough chances to run this province! The members of this party have proved they cannot handle the responsibility of handling the economic and social environments of this province! They have totally mismanaged the economy of this province! Remember what you read in this article come election time and do not vote for the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and its candidates ever again! There is no way you can rationalize voting for a party which could care less about the people of this province!

"Alberta is still too reliant on money from the oil and gas sector, and that has danger written all over it, NDP MLA Rachel Notley said."

When will the Government of Alberta and its premier diversify our economy? When will it get what we deserve for our oil and gas reserves?  Premier Stelmach the people of this province want to know the answers to these questions??

Even back in 2007 experts stated this about the ruling Progressive Conservative party in Alberta:

""Alberta is under-selling its resources and mismanaging the economy, exacerbating the boom-bust cycle. This report shows there are clear alternatives and makes strong recommendations for an alternative path."

(source:http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/expressnews_template/article.cfm?id=8426 )

In 4 years the Progressive Conservative party has not changed its handling our our resources and continued to mismanage our economy! They don't deserve any more chances to run this province!

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 4 and 5 games

Here are the moves in all the games from round 4 and 5:

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 4,5 results and standings

Here are the results from round 4 of the Women's FIDE Grand Prix in Doha Qatar.The player on the left had the white pieces in the game.Once again GM Elina Danielian won again!

Results of round four

Ti.	Name	Rtg	Res.	Ti.	Name	Rtg
GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2550	0-1	GM	Danielian Elina	2454
GM	Xu Yuhua	2484	1-0	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2410
IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2475	0-1	GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	2502
GM	Zhu Chen	2495	0-1	GM	Sebag Marie	2489
GM	Koneru Humpy	2607	½-½	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2546
IM	Fierro Baquero Martha	2363	½-½	GM	Cramling Pia	2516

These results mean the standings after 4 rounds of play were :

1.Danielian  4 points,  2nd-3rd Sebag Fierro Baquero, 2.5 points each, 4th-8th Koneru, Dzagnidze,Cramling,Chiburdanidze,Yuhua Xu all with 2 points, Stefanova  and Xu Chen both had
1.5 points, Mkrtchian and Munguntuul both had one point.

Results of round five (the player on the left had the white pieces) Elina Danielian won for the fifth consecutive game,what a  performance!!:

Ti.	Name	Rtg	Res.	Ti.	Name	Rtg
GM	Cramling Pia	2516	1-0	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2550
GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2546	½-½	IM	Fierro Baquero Martha	2363
GM	Sebag Marie	2489	½-½	GM	Koneru Humpy	2607
GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	2502	½-½	GM	Zhu Chen	2495
IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2410	½-½	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2475
GM	Danielian Elina	2454	1-0	GM	Xu Yuhua	2484

These results mean the standings after 5 rounds of play are these:

Here are the pairings for round 6 which will be played on Monday (Sunday is  a rest day for the players):

Round 6 on 2011/02/28 at 15:00


GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550 - GM Xu Yuhua 2484
IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475 - GM Danielian Elina 2454
GM Zhu Chen 2495 - IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410
GM Koneru Humpy 2607 - GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502
IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363 - GM Sebag Marie 2489
GM Cramling Pia 2516 - GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546

Dolphins Slaughtered in Taiji

Please take the time to read two articles written by Nicole McLachlan.These articles are  the first-hand account of what the Japanese are doing to dolphins in their country. We cannot allow this behavior to continue,and I am trying to educate you about what is really happening in this World to dolphins, by people whose only concern is to murder or imprison these very intelligent animals against their will. To read these articles please click on the following links:

http://www.celsias.com/article/dolphins-slaughtered-taiji/

http://nicolemclachlan.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/the-end-for-now/ 

Here is some background about the behavior of these Japanese:
Please take the time to read this article for the sake of the dolphins:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/taiji-japan-mayor-defends_n_690902.html

Thank you for reading these articles.I hope you have decided to help end the slaughter by sending your thoughts about this awful behavior of some Japanese to the Japanese Government.

This is how dolphins should be allowed to live in our World ,free to live as they chose in the waters of our planet in their family groups:

Source:http://photos.igougo.com/pictures-photos-p225338-Spinner_Dolphins.html

not like this in captivity: being used against their will for the amusement of our species:

source of photo: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=tour-operator-cancels-trips-to-captive-dolphin-attractions-2009-11-18 
and certainly not like this, killed  or captured against their will in Taiji yes the color of the water is red, that is the blood of dolphins!:

Analysis of Dzagnidze-Danielian, 2011 FIDE Women's Grand Prix round 4

Analysis of Dzagnidze-Danielian, 2011 FIDE Women's Grand Prix round 4

I have analyzed another chess game for my blog. This game comes from round 4 of the current FIDE Women's Grand Prix Tournament in Doha, Qatar. The game  is between

GM Nana Dzagnidze of the Republic of Georgia (pictured above and whose elo is 2550 making her the 6th-highest rated Woman player in the World), and  Elina Danielian of Armenia  (pictured below)

whose elo is 2454, which makes her the 37th highest-rated Woman player in the World. The opening played in this game is the Queen's Gambit Exchange variation. I hope you enjoy playing through this analysis. I allowed the strong program Hiarcs 13.2 MP to analyze this game for 2 hours in analysis mode on my quad-core computer. In addition I created a  26,498 game database using Chessbase 11 and Chessbase Megadatabase 2011, to help me analyze this game. This analysis will appear as the next blog post on my blog. Enjoy!

Source of image of  Nana Dzagnidze: http://soloscacchi.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Dzagnidze.jpg

Source of image of Elina Danielian:  http://soloscacchi.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Danielian.jpg

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 4 pairings

Here are the pairings for round 4 of the tournament.The player on the left has the white pieces in the game. Best wishes to all of the players! These games are going to be played on Friday.

	Name	Rtg	Res.		Name	Rtg
GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2550	-	GM	Danielian Elina	2454
GM	Xu Yuhua	2484	-	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2410
IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2475	-	GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	2502
GM	Zhu Chen	2495	-	GM	Sebag Marie	2489
GM	Koneru Humpy	2607	-	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2546
IM	Fierro Baquero Martha L	2363	-	GM	Cramling Pia	2516

Source: http://qatar2011.fide.com/tourview/show-5.html

Round 5 will be played on Saturday.

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 3 results,standings,games

The third round of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix chess event was played in Doha Qatar today.Here are the results from all the games: (the player on the left had the white pieces in the game):

Results of round three

Ti.	Name	Rtg	Res.	Ti.	Name	Rtg
IM	Fierro Baquero Martha L	2363	1-0	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2550
GM	Cramling Pia	2516	½-½	GM	Koneru Humpy	2607
GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2546	0-1	GM	Zhu Chen	2495
GM	Sebag Marie	2489	½-½	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2475
GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	2502	1-0	GM	Xu Yuhua	2484
IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2410	0-1	GM	Danielian Elina	2454

These results mean the following standings exist after 3 rounds of play:

Here are the moves in all of the games played in round 3:

Chronic Fatigue syndrome soon to be a disease?

According to an article entitled, "Spinal fluid proteins distinguish lyme disease from chronic fatigue syndrome" which you can read by clicking on the following link: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-spinal-fluid-proteins-distinguish-lyme.html , it has been found that people who suffer from Chronic  Fatigue Syndrome have
protein abnormalities in their spinal fluid which are not found in people who do not have the condition. One of
these researchers,  "Dr. Schutzer, states: "spinal fluid proteins can likely be used as a marker of disease, and this study provides a starting point for research in that area. "One next step will be to find the best biomarkers that will give conclusive diagnostic results," he says. "In addition, if a protein pathway is found to influence either disease, scientists could then develop treatments to target that particular pathway." It will be interesting to see what the research indicates about CFS,especially if these researchers come to the conclusion that people with CFS should be viewed as having a disease. If this occurs it will not be those who have been afflicted by this terrible medical condition who will look like dummies will it?

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 3 pairings

The third round of this tournament will be played tomorrow (Thursday February 24,2011)
(the player on the left has the white pieces in the game):

IM   Fierro Baquero --- GM Dzagnidze
GM Cramling           --- GM Koneru
GM Stefanova         ---GM Zhu Chen
GM Sebag              --- IM Mkrtchian
GM Chiburdanidze ----GM Xu Yuhua
IM Munguntuul       ----Danielian
Best wishes to all of the players for round 3! 
  

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Doha Qatar:round 2 results and standings

The second round of the  Women's FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament was played today in Doha,Qatar.Here are the results (the player on the left had the white pieces in the game):


GM Dzagnidze 2550--  IM Munguntuul       2410      result: 1-0
GM Danielian  2454 -- GM Chiburdanidze  2502      result:1-0
GM Xu Yuhua 2484 -- GM Sebag             2489       result: 0-1
IM Mkrtchian  2475---GM Stefanova       2546        result: 0-1
GM Zhu Chen 2495--  GM Cramling Pia 2516         result: draw
GM Koneru    2607--- IM Fierro Baquero  2363     result: 1-0

These results mean the following standings exist after 2 rounds of play:

6th Women GP 2011

6th Women GP 2011

				1	2
1	Dzagnidze,Nana		2550	♦ 1/3	◊ 1/8	2.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
2	Danielian,Elina		2454	♦ 1/6	◊ 1/12	2.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
3	Koneru,Humpy		2607	◊ 0/1	◊ 1/9	1.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
4	Stefanova,Antoaneta		2546	◊ 0/7	♦ 1/11	1.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
5	Cramling,Pia		2516	◊ ½/11	♦ ½/10	1.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
6	Sebag,Marie		2489	◊ 0/2	♦ 1/7	1.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
7	Xu,Yuhua		2484	♦ 1/4	◊ 0/6	1.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
8	Munguntuul,Batkhuyag		2410	♦ 1/12	♦ 0/1	1.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
9	Fierro Baquero,Martha L		2353	◊ 1/10	♦ 0/3	1.0 / 2	0.00	0.00
10	Zhu,Chen		2495	♦ 0/9	◊ ½/5	0.5 / 2	0.00	0.00
11	Mkrtchian,Lilit		2475	♦ ½/5	◊ 0/4	0.5 / 2	0.00	0.00
12	Chiburdanidze,Maia		2502	◊ 0/8	♦ 0/2	0.0 / 2

Here are the moves from all of today's games:

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Qatar:round 2 pairings

Here are the pairings for the second round of play in the tournament (the player on the left has the white pieces in the game):

                
GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550 - IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410
GM Danielian Elina 2454 - GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502
GM Xu Yuhua 2484 - GM Sebag Marie 2489
IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475 - GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546
GM Zhu Chen 2495 - GM Cramling Pia 2516
GM Koneru Humpy 2607 - IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363

Best wishes to all of the players for round 2. 

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Qatar round 1 results,standings and games

The first round of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix chess event in Doha - Qatar was played today.
Here are the results from round 1 (the player on the left had the white pieces in the game):

Results of round one

Ti.	Name	Rtg	Res.	Ti.	Name	Rtg
GM	Koneru Humpy	2607	0-1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2550
IM	Fierro Baquero Martha	2363	1-0	GM	Zhu Chen	2495
GM	Cramling Pia	2516	½-½	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2475
GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2546	0-1	GM	Xu Yuhua	2484
GM	Sebag Marie	2489	0-1	GM	Danielian Elina	2454
GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	2502	0-1	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2410

Here are the standings after one round of play:

6th Women GP Doha (QAT), 22 ii-5 iii 2011															cat. X (2490)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2550	*	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	1
2.	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2454	.	*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1
3.	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2484	.	.	*	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	1
4.	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2410	.	.	.	*	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1
5.	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2353	.	.	.	.	*	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1
6.	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2516	.	.	.	.	.	*	½	.	.	.	.	.	½	2475
7.	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2475	.	.	.	.	.	½	*	.	.	.	.	.	½	2516
8.	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2607	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	*	.	.	.	.	0
9.	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2546	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	*	.	.	.	0
10.	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2489	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	*	.	.	0
11.	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2502	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	*	.	0
12.	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2495	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	*	0

Using the program ChessViewer Deluxe I have placed all of the moves from all of these games from round one below so you can play through them. Enjoy!

Politicians listen to second-graders in North Dakota:ladybug may become state insect

Some very determined second-grade students in North Dakota have shown  us an interesting aspect of a Democratic system of government.  "Second-grade students from Kenmare in northwestern North Dakota asked Kenmare state Rep. Glen Froseth to introduce  legislation to the North Dakota state legislature which would make the ladybug the state insect of North Dakota.Representatives voted 88-6 last week to approve the bill. It now goes to the North Dakota Senate for its review."

Source of this information:http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/17912/ 

Wow, I doubt if we would have thought of doing this back in 1963 when I was in grade 2!!

Here are some news stories about these enterprising grade 2 students :

http://www.governor.nd.gov/images/first-lady-betsy-dalrymple-and-kenmare-second-graders 

http://www.kenmarend.com/?id=72&ncid=2&nid=315 

Here is a link to a video about these children and their presentation regarding making the ladybug the state insect of North Dakota!:

http://www.kxnet.com/video.asp?ArticleId=710260&VideoId=41970 

I imagine the parents of these students are so proud of their children and rightfully so!!  

Rights of Non-Human Persons

                                         Image:Bottlenose dolphins

"The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is committed to the idea that some non-human animals meet the criteria of legal personhood and thus are deserving of specific rights and protections."

This quote was taken from the following website:

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/RNHP

Please visit this website so that you will learn about new efforts to afford Non-Human persons such as dolphins,whales and the great apes  the protection of 'human rights' from our species to all beings who  exhibit characteristics and tendencies consistent with that of a person—traits like self-awareness, intentionality, creativity, symbolic communication, and many others.Thank you!

Source of image:http://www.solcomhouse.com/dolphins.htm 

 To learn more about the idea of non-human persons please visit the following websites:

http://www.physorg.com/news181981904.html 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973994.ece 

http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=94537816102 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/chimpanzees-not/ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights 

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/are_animals_people/ 

FIDE Women's Grand Prix event in Qatar 2011

 

Photo:Grandmaster Humpy Koneru of India the  top seed in the Qatar FIDE Women's Grand Prix event
about to start in Qatar.

"The FIDE Women's Grand Prix is a new series of elite tournaments which will be organised by FIDE and Global Chess. There will be 6 legs over two years in various countries around the world with three tournaments every year."
source:http://qatar2011.fide.com/index.php


A new FIDE Grand Prix event is about to start in the country of Qatar, featuring these players:GM Humpy Koneru,India, GM Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgaria, GM Pia Cramling, Sweden,GM Nana Dzagnidze ;Republic of Geogia, GM Marie Sebag, France, GM Maia Chiburdanidze,Republic of Georgia ;GM Zhu Chen, Qatar, ;GM Elina Danielian, Armenia, GM Xu Yuhua,China,(all of the preceding players hold the Male Grandmaster Title), WGM Munguntuul Batkhuyag, Mongolia,WGM/IM Marta Fierro, Ecuador,;
WGM/IM Lilit Mrktchian, Armenia.;The players will be participating in a 10 round tournament which runs from February 22nd-March 5th (with one free day given during the tournament) The time control to be used in this tournament is 120m:60moves:15m+30sec/move on move 61.  The games will be shown live on the internet at the following link:

http://qatar2011.fide.com/tournament-games.html 

The official tournament website for this event is : http://qatar2011.fide.com/ 

Best wishes to all of the players in this event!