George Duke wrote on Wed, Jul 30, 2014 06:58 PM UTC:
It starts: http://en.chessbase.com/post/olympiad-just-two-days-left
(Environment-conscious are free to think of the repugnant Whaling aspect to the
venue, http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/our-work/whales/which-countries-are-still-whaling).
It ends? -- http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-29/scottish-referendum-could-end-300-year-union-with-england/5629924.
Edinburgh, Scotland, to Oslo Norway, direct as the crow flies, is 934 kilometres (580 miles), the same distance as Chicago to Washington and same as Moscow to Kryvyi Rih, central Ukraine. Recall Ukraine, http://www.chessvariants.org/multimove.dir/progressive.html, holding Progressive tournaments, and Scottish Progressive one of the few.