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http://fidefirst.com/. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/garry-kasparov.html?_r=0. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/chess-with-qaddafi-and-aliens. Ilyumzhinov speculates above on extraterrestrials, and Kasparov below on new chronology: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/newchronology.html.
http://kasparov2014.com/2014/08/07/ilyumzhinovs-proxy-war/. http://fidefirst.com/. On the World Chess Federation site, there are occasional references to Chess variants, such as Chinese Chess and this recent one to Fischer Random: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/7769-fischer-random-chess-tournament-in-moscow.html. Kasparov plays Shogi: http://www.chessvariants.org/shogi.dir/kasparov/kasparovshogi.html. Kasparov's one-time advocacy of Advanced Chess, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess, was called a terrible idea by GM Seirawan (co-inventor of Seirawan Chess). On Fischer Random, Kasparov has given some consideration to playing widely one position a year: http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-garry-kasparov-interview-part-2. The Chessbase interview has photo of Kasparov and Ilyumzhinov together at Prague in 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2014 -- less than 3 months to the rematch of Carlsen-Anand (added 13.08.14). http://en.chessbase.com/post/kirsan-ilyumzhinov-remains-fide-president
Victory statement and 4-year mission: http://fidefirst.com/. http://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-and-ecu-elections-in-the-international-press.
Congratulations to both: http://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-elections-putin-congratulates-ilyumzhinov. Who can explain Kasparov's, "While Europe is becoming a lost continent...."? [Incidentally over ten years ago, Chessbase deleted or revised after a while a slur on Africans by Kasparov in article covering Wijk aan Zee chess tournament. The great former champion by now makes complete amends in promoting Chess in Africa not only during the campaign.] There will be another election in four years, and for all his successes, such as having over 200 member states, Ilyumzhinov probably doesn't want it for life. FIDE is relatively new organization, just turning 90 years, as 1500-year-old Chess goes. This thread being Anand-Carlsen 2013, by time of election 2018 we may have Carlsen-Anand V, if there are any takers besides Sochi. Anyway rest assured Chess variants are sure to overtake standard little 64-square OrthoChess, if only for sake of making it interesting to Computers again. After diverting side-trip, back to games of Carlsen and Anand in anticipation of Sochi 2014.
In the other vote a month away, http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/17/scottish-independence-poll-yes-gains-ground, the poll has narrowed to 45 to 55 for Scotland independence, prospective end to 400-year joint monarchy. From M&B02 current revision Charles Gilman clarifies how Stuart as in House of Stuart derives from Steward "...STEWARD, this piece moves one step along any orthogonal except when capturing, which it does one step along any standard diagonal - a Pawn expanded to sideways and backward as well as forward. One of the most famous stewards in history was Walter the Steward, who married a daughter of Robert the First of Scotland and whose son by her ultimately became Robert the Second, first king of the House of Stuart. The surname Stuart derives from steward. In the current British monarchy, the title of High Steward of Scotland is a courtesy title of the heir to the throne." There were the six Union Stuarts: http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/monarchy/stuarts.html.
The comments on the Scottish referendum puzzled me, as abolishing the monarchy is no part of S.N.P. plans. The S.N.P. seek to revert to being a separate nation but sharing the same monarch as England, as was the case for the century or so before the union of the parliaments but after the union of the crowns. This reflects the fact tha Scotland is more strongly monarchist than England and Wales, for example Scots law protects royal insignia against use by commoners more strongly than does English law. It is surely no coincodence that God Save the King/Queen denounced "rebellious Scots" who sought to replace a Protestant king with a Catholic one but dared not even mention English rebels who sought to abolish the monarchy altogether - and indeed managed to for a few decades under Oliver Cromwell. Whichever way the referendum goes, the shared monarchy is unlikely to end until, as I hope will happen, English republicans get into the ascendant again.
What was happening 100 years ago? http://www.openchessbooks.org/reti-mic/chapter6/reform_in_chess.html. Well 91 years ago, actually 100 years ago because Reti is (reti)-reiterating Lasker from 100 years ago in Chapter 6 of year 1923 'Modern Ideas in Chess'. Lasker friend of Einstein and fellow German mathematics professor. Oh not one hundred years ago, today, http://en.chessbase.com/post/stalemate-the-long-and-the-short-of-it-2. They think they have a stalemate or something, or metaphorically win by Stalemate, but they lost, lost as soundly as Kasparov this time and that 20 yrs. ago or thereabouts 17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov. to not reform but revolution of some kind. In the over-refined decadence of Simpleminded Chess, they rerun Stalemate as Win almost as often as falsifying reinvention of compounds Rook-Knight and Bishop-Knight* -- suppressing its 400-year-old origin in west Mediterranean Carrera's, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/carrera.html. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1693032. That's Carlsen-Anand from 2012, where does Black go wrong? _____________________________________________________________ ///*For example shouldn't well-known 10-yr.-old Seirawan Chess (http://www.seirawanchess.com/ if it upheld intellectual honesty have mentioned Capablanca and Bird and Carrera and Reshevsky using the same "new" pieces before today?
The poll narrows, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11069121/Scottish-independence-Yes-camp-closes-the-poll-gap.html, all but neck and neck. Two weeks to go, will Scotia return to the days of William and Mary, if not strictly Elizabeth I, as anti-monarchist Charles Gilman points out? [ Sorry all the above duplicated in longer comment, added 3.Sept.14: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29037323 ]
The poll narrows, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11069121/Scottish-independence-Yes-camp-closes-the-poll-gap.html, all but neck and neck whether to secede from 300-year united Kingdom. Two weeks to go, will Scotia return to the days of William and Mary, with Scottish correspondence in http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usfeatures/timeline/to1740.html -- if not strictly shakespearean-age Elizabeth I, as UK-citizen anti-monarchist Charles Gilman points out? Http://www.chessvariants.org/unequal.dir/magnacarta.html -> http://www.chessvariants.org/diffmove.dir/separate-realms.html? [ http://whatscotlandthinks.org/questions/should-scotland-be-an-independent-country-1#line ]
Current poll is neck and neck, http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/08/world/europe/uk-scotland-independence/index.html?hpt=hp_t2, for Scotland and England to end 300-yr. arrangement. What CVs have that same catch-up quality? That is, 'Yes' on Scotland seems to have jumped almost 10 points in a month.* First to mind, CV Rococo lets player opposing same-level down a major piece still turn it around and win. Looking at the NextChess list suspended in 2011, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=27016, other candidate CVs for reversing big deficit to eventual win are Bifurcators and Time Travel Chess and Eight-Stone. A factor is not enough actual play to judge. Two months 'til the World Championship of Simpleminded Chess: http://en.chessbase.com/post/carlsen-signs-for-sochi-will-defend-title. *http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/06/latest-scottish-referendum-poll-yes-lead/.
One theme covered in my variants that Scottish independence would affect is Orders of Knighthood. Only the Scottish government could appoint knights of the Thistle, and only the rump United Kingdonm those of the garter and of St. Patrick - albeit still officially through the same head of state. An interesting question is what would happen about the order of the British Empire - the Scots were, after all, always the keenest on the imperial project.
It's become like diplomacy, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/scotland-referendum-no-longer-about-keeping-calm-and-carrying-on-1.2762611. There are on CVPage three no less to compare: Diplomacy Chess, Diplomatic Chess, and Diplomat Chess by three different authors. One http://www.chessvariants.org/43.dir/diplomat/diplomat-chess.html for looking like Scottish kilt. What about the flag? Charles, won't the Scotland aspect in the flag have to go? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack.
You have a point about the flag, whih is of course the theme of Unionschach. Just taking out the Scottish bits would be problematic, as it would leave a flag rather reminiscent of the WW2-era Japanese one. Perhaps the best thing would be to go for something completely new and unrelated to the symbols of patron saints, as the Irish Republic did.
BBC thought about the flag question almost a year ago ... here are some designs http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25205017 (BTW, I find the "German Jack" in black, red and gold quite funny) and here are 25 more designs: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25222891 (BTW, I like Dave Parker's and Michael Elliot's designs)
Oddly enough I saw something similar to the red, yellow, and black one in a newspaper later in the morning when I had posted my comment. It has two problems. Firstly it still does not completely remove Scotland as the assymetry of the red diagonal bits is based on having both Scotland and Ireland. Secondly to he extent that it does remove Scotland it removes the rest as well, sinve the yellow replaces the white which is supposed to be the backgruond of the English and Irish flags.
The article also gets it wrong about precedence. The most important part of a heraldic composition is the background, and as this is the blue of Scotland it is a Sottish flag with other bits bolted on. This could be seen as a recognition that the first king of both relams ruled Scotland before he nherited England.
Of the flags on the second page linked to, the "Union Jackson" looks quite amusing but would be hard to describe in words - or replicate consistently. Options adding the royal arms are just confusing two strands of imagery. The idea for simply replacing te blue with green is the best of tha bunch, but should be done in conjunction with making the red diagonal bits symmetric to complete the removal of the flag's Scottish elements.
The ChessBase Kasparov piece, http://en.chessbase.com/post/kasparov-the-future-of-chess-not-fide, has today's date, but the article itself is same one on the Kasparov site for over a month, "Europe a lost continent" and all -- sounds like Fischer. Please someone listen to the Fox interview first and see if any of it is about innovation in Chess. Probably it's all dry politics not Chess, Kasparov cozy with Wall Street Journal editors in contrast to WSJ progressive reporters. Anyway politics is absolute order of the eve of the Scottish election, all bets off. And the fitting CV? Four-Handed Chaturanga, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/chaturang4.html, the variant from around 1000, under "Variant for Gamblers," by Arabian Abu'r-Raihan Muhammad, b. Ahmad al beruni (973-1048) played with two six-sided dice, ostensibly peaceably. Fitting because the invention of the subvariant of Indian subcontinent original (possible Chinese aspect), does roughly coincide with arrival of Chess itself for the settled masses of Kasparov's "lost continent." Beyond Simpleminded Chess to friendly Chess, how trivial can you get: http://online.wsj.com/articles/chess-greats-meet-in-midtown-1410836727, no not long ago also this week. Guaranteed, Kasparov could not be in shape to handle even a short Simpleminded match, let alone selection from our top 50. A Fourriere or Cetina or half dozen others would crush him.
Where does Black go wrong? Let's guess it's beyond their strict memorization at around Move 9 ...Q-c7. Still several more moves are pretty routine. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1693032. How about saying error by Black standing out is 14 ...Q-b6, where instead 14 ...Q-h5 looks pretty fearless. The way it actually went, after Castling, 19 ...fe6, and Black has awkward doubled Pawn.
Stalemate Part 3: http://en.chessbase.com/post/stalemate-the-long-and-the-short-of-it-3. Reti in year 1924: http://www.openchessbooks.org/reti-mic/chapter6/reform_in_chess.html. ________________________ Six weeks to the Championship in Sochi: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/8257-fide-world-chess-championship-match-2014.html.
Where does White go wrong? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1499643 In the close-held world of top simpleminded Chess, they don't like to review their own games after the month of a tournament. Notice the ChessGames Kibitzing does not include the players.
Where does White go wrong? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1479611.
Where does Black go wrong? http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1340320. These three pre-world championship games, Carlsen lost to Anand. (The post mortem will be in same messages as intended, not three separate ones.)
New Chess star age 22, http://en.chessbase.com/post/grandmaster-clash-in-slate-magazine, US-born now Italian is quickly #3. Carlsen-Anand II will probably be the last of two between them, with couple candidates to replace Anand in 2015. http://en.chessbase.com/post/huffington-caruana-s-spectacular-chess-leap.
I think it's wonderful that they're playing again and I can't count Anand-the-underdog out. I'm rooting for him because he's a peer age-wise. He might very well come back and win. He earned the rematch by beating very fine players. He has experience, nerve and pluck. Carlsen and Anand both have remarkably fine personalities, similar ones even, winsome and charismatic and a pinch self-deprecatory. Great chess athletes and fine, beloved people. I won't be surprised if this isn't their last world championship match. Caruana vs. Carlsen seems like a good possibility too though. Edit: This is a fun site to monitor: http://www.2700chess.com/
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