Where There is Smoke, Their is Fire!
The way I did it, I moved the curser in chessBase move for move at exactly the same speed of the game.
It is from the first the ACP World Rapid Chess Cup in Odessa, Ukraine [1]. That these guys can really play chess--like other similarly endowed Super Grandmasters--with nerves of steel cannot be doubted. Enjoy!
Impatient viewers can move to the 5:40 mark with Bologan's very tense 31.e6, when things really heat up. No one disagrees that that is Korchnoi's unique voice in the background?
Bologan,V (2658) - Bacrot,E (2705)
1st ACP World Rapid Cup, Odessa UKR (1.4), 06.01.2007 [C88]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0–0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.a3 Na5 11.Ba2 c5 12.Nc3 Nc6 13.Bg5 Nd7 14.Bd2 Nb6 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.Bxd5 Qc7 17.c3 Nb8 18.b4 Nd7 19.c4 Bxd5 20.cxd5 Nb6 21.Rc1 Na4 22.bxc5 dxc5 23.d4 exd4 24.Nxd4 c4 25.e5 Bxa3 26.Rc2 Qd7 27.Qf3 c3 28.Bxc3 Nxc3 29.Qxc3 Qxd5 30.Nc6 Rfc8 31.e6 fxe6 32.Re5 Qd1+ 33.Re1 Qd5 34.Qxa3 Rxc6 35.Rce2 Rac8 36.Re5 Qd7 37.Qe3 b4 38.h4 Rb8 39.Qf4 Rf8 40.Qxb4 Qc7 41.Qe4 Rc1 42.Rxe6 Rxe1+ 43.Qxe1 a5 44.Re4 Qc5 45.g3 Qb5 46.Qa1 Qf5 47.Qa2+ Qf7 48.Qe2 Qf5 49.Ra4 Rc8 50.Qa2+ Qf7 51.Qd2 Qf5 52.Rxa5 Qf7 53.Ra1 Re8 54.Rd1 Qe6 55.Rf1 Qe4 56.Qa2+ Kh8 57.Qb2 Ra8 58.Rc1 Re8 59.Rc7 Qg6 60.Qd2 Qb1+ 61.Kh2 Qf5 62.Qd4 Qg6 63.Rd7 Rf8 64.Rd8 Qf7 65.Rxf8+ Qxf8 66.g4 h6 67.Kg3 Qf7 68.Qe4 Qc7+ 69.Qf4 Qc3+ 70.Kg2 Qc6+ 71.Qf3 Qd6 72.Qe4 Kg8 73.Kh3 Qa3+ 74.Qe3 Qd6 75.Qb3+ Kh8 76.Qf3 Qe5 77.Kg2 Qd6 78.Qe4 Qc5 79.Qf4 Qc6+ 80.Qf3 Qd6 81.g5 hxg5 82.hxg5 Kg8 83.Qe4 Kf7 84.Kf3 Qh2 85.Qf4+ Qxf4+ 86.Kxf4 Ke6 87.Ke4 g6 88.f4 Kd6 89.f5 gxf5+ 90.Kxf5 Ke7 91.Kg6 1–0
On one short personal note, I am currently spending several hours each day in job hunting. As French anthropologist Rene Dubos once said:
"In many ways, modern man is like an animal kept in a zoo, protected from the inclemencies, confined and depriving him of many of the natural stimulae essential for the well being of his mind and body".
That about says what it is like--home alone all week, cyber knocking on doors and occassionally on the telephone in an equally arcane and impersonal, dissociated world. Man.
Warmest, dk
[1] Source, the weekly video at chessCafe.com.
27 Comments:
A nice game between the two grandmasters with each his part of the blunders.
Goodluck in the jobhunting department!
"...confined and depriving him of many of the natural stimulae essential for the well being of his mind and body".
Once our biological knowledge is sufficient and computers strong enough, it will be simple. We'll know the exact chemicals to inject, pills to take, and machines to graft into our bodies in order to make us happy, productive, and optimal. Making the need for such trivialities "natural stimulae" and "human interaction" obsolete.
I wonder if the Glicko rating system can serve as a method to iterate the value of stocks and shares.
May the coming new year be revitalizing for you my friend.
What a crazy video. Those dudes are madmen of chess.
Have you ever thought about working in health care? Its one feild that is always lacking in compassionate, intellectually inspiring people.
How's the job search going?
@pawn shaman: i admit to having an unusually broad grasp of business and communication and leadership at this point, but health care is always at off or to the bottom of my list. not to any intrinsic cause, but its just not me. i am very caring, but just like the boy sees the girl and just knows, so i know here. the one exception is territory sales in medical products, but i am not experienced in that market.... i have zero medical experience.
i just go an email for a contract non-technical position at Microsoft helping to manage the gaming beta division, and am not a gamer, but at least play chess...
a recruiter in India found my resume on Monster (not my best resource, but some do pop up), and had my phone interview with the seattle based recruiter, and evidently am eligable for the next round.
@ivan. it is very, very hard. i am actually very, very heavy into chessBase in the evenings, in badly needed downtime and have been carving out and polishing my repertoire in a big way, and heavy into CTS (headed to 50,000 at 90.1% by 49,600, at a run rate of last 1,500 at 98.2%),
and spend hours per day in job markets. i have close to zero urge to email even close friends nothing save, one to two line emails, except for the IM Candidate i am mentoring in effectiveness and communication, and planning and structuring his effort. very rewarding, but dont charge him.
this affects bloggin directly, of course...
my second interview this week is with a SaaS or software as service providor. and, yes, he is from India and odds are 98% he is from the Microsoft culture, spawned amply in these parts.
the way of the world. take up chinese, hindi, sea kayaking, survival skills, hydroponic gardening, and canning.
expressing architect and broker and former senior non-managment Lowes employee into Territory Sales and Project, Program, and Knowledge Managment is very challenging. most reluctantly, i had to completely redo my resume, and spent 13 of 17 days writing and rewriting. i now have a two page and amazing, but even a one page version.
actually, blunderprone was the first to point out the need to redo it as a structure-functional resume, do deflect the out of place Lowes cronologically. smart dude.
lastly, there is tremendous fraud in job markets, and weaving around that, dodging it is a real challenge. you cannot believe the harmful schemes out there... you get an email asking you to apply for a project management position. then another asking about your scientitifci skills. and you kindly tell them, if they want to talk, it must be for your non-technical project management skills, and not a scientist!
next thing you know, you get an email offering training for just $1995. you opt out. a month latter, something similar from someone else. you opt out. but, just to make sure, call them in Ottawa and lay the law down, its all work. you have to protect yourself.
warmest, dk
if anyone wants to see the resume from our community who isnt already in direct email contact with me, you might enjoy it :).
contact me at tran formation at cables peed hot calm.
transformation is one word. and cablespeed is one word. put the d ot in, communicate, commited, compassionate, etc. let me know, and i will send it. only took me 44 hours of writing and rewriting.
I hear you. And its good to know where you stand, what you enjoy. It also sounds like you could make a lot of money which is a bonus ;).
@pawn shaman: i can assure you, A. making a bunch of money is the farthest thing from my mind. i want to get the task right, with the right people, the right product or service, 100%. i hate to say this, but i have seen too much stupidity in my life. when the relations are wrong, or the product or service faulted, it is an embarassment. so many fail.
B. microsoft is not what it was ten or fifteen years ago. i would be honored to work for them, for access to a new perspective, but its probably become too big, hires many contractors, and the stock will NOT soar as before. you would be shocked if you knew what they are offering me to go in as a contractor. i am a bargan. interview tomorrow. i am not arrogant about it, just realistic.
another interview today. believe me, when you have 26+years of business experience, you interview them even if they THINK they are interviewing you, and are older than most of those qualifying you, more experienced. i am 2500 in business, but i am not 30 any more.
its like dating. again, same. there is so little that i can accept. i am picky in my old age, and see into things quickly. :)
warmly, dk
hello dk,
Interesting mention about Microsoft.
About 8 years ago, my company was asked to send someone to Microsoft to help with development on Win98/Win2000 in Building 27A/B (that's the building near the Homestead Village suite of motels on the main campus) in Seattle and I was tasked to go.
When the project was completed, surprisingly, I got offered a job there by one of the dept heads (in charge of future OS development) who was impressed with my work while I was there.
However, the pay was slightly below the industry std but MS hoped to sign me on via enticement of share allotments.
In the end, after weighing the pros/cons, I declined and turned down the offer. The dept head left about a year later to work for a startup instead.
Funnily enough, I met my wife a year after the interview and got hitched some time later.
Since then, I've constantly wondered what my life would have turned out if I had signed for them?
cheers and hope everything turned out to your satisfaction.
How is the job search going DK?
playing through that on chessbase while watching the video was splendid. excellent suggestion.
i very deeply value the comments and well wishes of everyone... tanc (happy hippo, drunkn knight), but i am doing, what my therapist from 1995-1997 used to call:
'Deep UV Work'.
there are, as many of you must have heard, 700 applicants or more for ONE janitorial jobs (a job that i would love, its DIRECT and no nonesense!),
my father is dieing.
and i am sorting the detretus of more than 15 years unwinding my wall street career and thereafter...
AND if that were not enough, play bullet daily at FICS AND am and have been making an entire repertoire.
i cook all my own food, often but not always organic vegetables, run every day...
finally, i need to write post 199 to repay a debt of gratitude and have a block there, then write the BIG chessBase post, as number 200. why lower standards now????????????
love to all beings, dk
We look forward to your return when you are ready to see us again :)
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due to job hunting, i had to move the posts on depression so far back only someone who really looked for them or knew where to find them could.
i am making a video, so instead of the big chessBase 200th article, post, it will be the video.
this is piggy backed on business video i hired my oldest friend, who is a true genius, and the most creative person i have ever known, by far--coming from me, thats saying a lot--Tom Fallat of SoundSsound Studios in Seattle. i met him 29.75 years ago hitch hiking in NJ leaving a mall, where i went to look at da Vinchi anatomical drawing books :)
he owns and operates a 12 track, digital video editing studio, and we are making a intro video to go with my job applications.
he is what i said, to Phaedrus in a note, last night:
'I have been writing fewer letters but letters five times more carefully. If volume were the answer, I’d be ok by now. Of course, I cannot just sit back, but I took the States advise to ALL OF US, ‘whatever you are doing, you need to do it differently from here on out’. Great advise. Its like I have gone from slow blitz and normal fast blitz to standard games in business writing—good analogy. I even have one move a day type letters. …'
job markets are tough, super tough. i cant get a 60k a year job, and no one will hire me for a $15 an hour job, even if i tone it all down.
see resume added to links at ALL my blogs now, for the morbidly curious.
its easy. Oh yea. prodigy architect who left NY to go live in a Zen temple in Korea who is an expert in construction contract administration and engineering design, who left Morgan Stanley inches shy of Senior VP (i was a +++ First VP), on sabatical for two years then took a job at Lowes in millwork, then flooring, then tools, and was a fork lift trainer, for the average corporate joe to reframe that, why thats easy.
'My abiding love: Patterns. Architecture-Running-Japanese-Kanji-Karate; stocks-climbing-inner work; integrative study-chess-fine cooking-blog'
im at twitter now, and this last line, i wrote in draft. i have already drafted 100 tweets, and slowly polish them out, trying to let as many out as pearls each day, slowly, and rhythmically paced. recently, i am slightly less formal, but have many Zen-Knowledge Management, global idiosynratic view tweets.
cf. heuristcal at twitter. at first, i refused to join, in fact, hated the idea. but now i see, its the way west in laying out the rails.
to me it all fits, but well, i am dk
love you guys and gals!
Somehow I find hard to believe you can communicate in 140 words or less! As I commented on BDK's blog when put up your twitter link. "DK tweeting is like Shakespeare writing Mac Beth in 140 words.
dk brain on a chip. i accept Polly's challenge.
but really, in blogging, i am a true sprinter trapped in the body of a long distance runner.
in my current circumstance, no income since November, this fits my need for short, epigramic bursts.
however diverse or informal below is, rest assured, i have a very specific agenda and plan for my job search, including videos for sales and project management and general, AND chessBase videos. :)
without futher ado, folks meet my brain on a chip.
Brain: meet chess bloggers, Heuristical:
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Sans digital artistry: Few know that filmmaker Kurosawa drew/painted all his life, in era when scenes HAD to be planned by drawing vignettes 9:15 AM Jul 18th from web 033 ** Hotbed Afghanistan seems off map, but like queen radiating full chess board: center @ east/west Iran/Pakistan/Tajikistan/China ~India/Russia 6:22 PM Jul 17th from web 032 ** @lancearmstrong Who actually thinks Armstrong now finishes copiously just behind Contador is inadvertent, doesn't have plan? Big burst waits 2:29 PM Jul 17th from web in reply to lancearmstrong 031 **
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LOVE to all you guys and gals and creatures. David Korn :) XXX hugs and kisses !
sorry Polly, i approved your comment immediately before those long notes of mine, but somehow it didnt go through, i now see.
please accept my apology.
a visit from you is always precious!
warmly, dk
hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just visiting here....
Bologan is quite a chess player. I find humor in how he moves the pieces in the video, it seems like hes a beginner ( talk about being very nervous)
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