Sunday, September 30, 2007
Vishy Anand is new chess world champion!
An effortless 20-move draw against Peter Leko (2751) in an Anti-Marshall (Ruy Lopez) clinched it - Viswanathan Anand (2792) of India won the 2007 World Championship in Mexico City to become the undisputed World Chess Champion.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
New Car
Our car recently broke down and had to be towed home. It turned out there was something wrong with the recharger to the battery, which could not be fixed with replacing the battery.
We bought a black Toyota Corolla Ascent Sport. The Toyota Corolla is a compact car produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the bestselling car in the world, with over 30 million sold as of 2007.
Our original car was a dark green Daewoo Espero. The Espero sold well in the UK, but its competitive asking price, impressive equipment levels and the comprehensive aftersales package were about the only strengths the car had in comparison with other rivals.
We bought a black Toyota Corolla Ascent Sport. The Toyota Corolla is a compact car produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota, which has become very popular throughout the world since the nameplate was first introduced in 1966. In 1997, the Corolla became the bestselling car in the world, with over 30 million sold as of 2007.
Our original car was a dark green Daewoo Espero. The Espero sold well in the UK, but its competitive asking price, impressive equipment levels and the comprehensive aftersales package were about the only strengths the car had in comparison with other rivals.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Jokes on Cadet Camp
As is expected, some funny stuff always appear on camps. Here is some of the funny stuff that happened...
Someone gets bitten by a snake and you turkey slap them.
"Turn up this absolute gangsta music." (on the bus to Puckapunyal)
Lachy Webster tried to make coffee in a kidney cup on the fire.
"Demeris is going to have a 5-minute chat and then you can go to bed and have some fun."
"If anyone gets in my way, I'll cut them down." (after talking about teamwork)
I slipped down while trying to kick my friend.
"I got some fat guy in my year level to make the sign." (talking about the big 3 sign for the platoon)
Someone gets bitten by a snake and you turkey slap them.
"Turn up this absolute gangsta music." (on the bus to Puckapunyal)
Lachy Webster tried to make coffee in a kidney cup on the fire.
"Demeris is going to have a 5-minute chat and then you can go to bed and have some fun."
"If anyone gets in my way, I'll cut them down." (after talking about teamwork)
I slipped down while trying to kick my friend.
"I got some fat guy in my year level to make the sign." (talking about the big 3 sign for the platoon)
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Scotch Annual Cadet Camp Finished
I have just returned from a Puckapunyal military base. Overall, it has been a pretty good experience and I especially liked the live firing.
I woke up with the urge to vomit and feeling dizzy on the final day. I had to take some Panadol tablets and fell asleep a couple more times. The teachers and the platoon were very helpful while I was sick.
On the trip back we watched Scooby-Doo, a 2002 live-action film. The film concerns Mystery Inc. (Shaggy, Fred, Scooby-Doo, Velma and Daphne) investigating an island, owned by the eccentric Emile Mondavarious, where teenagers are turning into mindless zombies. They end up unravelling a rather bewildering plan. The film includes Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Linda Cardellini, Rowan Atkinson and Neil Fanning.
Here is what we did on the days...
Day 1
Arrival in bush
Abseiling (25 metres)
Day 2
Navigational exercise
Shelter building (using wood)
Night navigational exercise
Lantern Stalk
Day 3
Arrival in barracks
Drill using rifles
Day 4
Live firing (using, as I recall, the 5.56mm F88 Austeyr rifle)
Personal training (just a whole lot of exercise, and I found it particularly difficult)
Drill with rifles
Lantern stalk
Day 5
Drill with rifles
Concert night (with the whole unit)
Skit night (with Alpha company)
Day 6
Drill with rifles
Parade
I woke up with the urge to vomit and feeling dizzy on the final day. I had to take some Panadol tablets and fell asleep a couple more times. The teachers and the platoon were very helpful while I was sick.
On the trip back we watched Scooby-Doo, a 2002 live-action film. The film concerns Mystery Inc. (Shaggy, Fred, Scooby-Doo, Velma and Daphne) investigating an island, owned by the eccentric Emile Mondavarious, where teenagers are turning into mindless zombies. They end up unravelling a rather bewildering plan. The film includes Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Linda Cardellini, Rowan Atkinson and Neil Fanning.
Here is what we did on the days...
Day 1
Arrival in bush
Abseiling (25 metres)
Day 2
Navigational exercise
Shelter building (using wood)
Night navigational exercise
Lantern Stalk
Day 3
Arrival in barracks
Drill using rifles
Day 4
Live firing (using, as I recall, the 5.56mm F88 Austeyr rifle)
Personal training (just a whole lot of exercise, and I found it particularly difficult)
Drill with rifles
Lantern stalk
Day 5
Drill with rifles
Concert night (with the whole unit)
Skit night (with Alpha company)
Day 6
Drill with rifles
Parade
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Scotch Annual Cadet Camp
I will be off in the Scotch ACU Annual Camp from the 14th-19th of September. This will be two nights in the bush and three nights at a military base. The first activity my company is doing will be abseiling.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Labor leader Kevin Rudd speaks to Chinese President Hu Jintao in Chinese Mandarin
Here is a translation of Kevin Rudd's speech in Chinese Mandarin to Hu Jintao during a lunch dedicated to the Chinese president.
- Translation from Google Translate (BETA). This page has been translated directly from Chinese and therefore may be a bit strange in English.
"President Hu, I speak for my wife and I express to you our personal Welcome, welcome you to our visit to Australia. You and the Chinese friends here in Australia have many, many friends, many real friends, they are very welcome. President Hu, your in our country is our most distinguished guests, and I hope you can rest, we see beautiful places, we see pretty scenery, and our beautiful city.
In the 1980s, I took his wife and daughter and began working in China. My wife and I are right Beijing has a special love. We love Beijing's feelings, we love the people of Beijing, of course, its culture. After 20 years, we in April this year with our youngest daughter to Beijing, and one from Chinese Community married man.
My son was studying in Shanghai's Fudan University. I have a little boy, our youngest child, he was attending high school. He is really very, very naughty, do not like to do his own homework. But he has started learning the Chinese language."
A video of part of the speech can be found at http://media.theage.com.au/?rid=31424.
- Translation from Google Translate (BETA). This page has been translated directly from Chinese and therefore may be a bit strange in English."President Hu, I speak for my wife and I express to you our personal Welcome, welcome you to our visit to Australia. You and the Chinese friends here in Australia have many, many friends, many real friends, they are very welcome. President Hu, your in our country is our most distinguished guests, and I hope you can rest, we see beautiful places, we see pretty scenery, and our beautiful city.
In the 1980s, I took his wife and daughter and began working in China. My wife and I are right Beijing has a special love. We love Beijing's feelings, we love the people of Beijing, of course, its culture. After 20 years, we in April this year with our youngest daughter to Beijing, and one from Chinese Community married man.
My son was studying in Shanghai's Fudan University. I have a little boy, our youngest child, he was attending high school. He is really very, very naughty, do not like to do his own homework. But he has started learning the Chinese language."
A video of part of the speech can be found at http://media.theage.com.au/?rid=31424.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open 2007
Just like in the 2005, the 4th IGB Dato’ Arthur Tan Malaysia Open again saw the triumph of an untitled player, Li Chao (2529).
The website includes a game where Australian junior Max Illingworth (2137) draws with the winner of the tournament in the first round.
You can catch the ChessBase report at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4087.
The website includes a game where Australian junior Max Illingworth (2137) draws with the winner of the tournament in the first round.
You can catch the ChessBase report at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4087.
Coming Events
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Saturday, September 1, 2007
New ACF ratings out
The new ACF ratings are out. To work out ACF compared to FIDE ratings, in general, FIDE rating = ACF rating + several hundred points. The difference gets a lot smaller when you become 2300+ ACF. I am ranked in the top under 20. Here are some samples.
Top players
Top Under 20:
Top players
2605!! 21 NSW Rogers, Ian [GM]
2560!! 7 NSW Zhao, Zong-Yuan [IM]
2471!! 20 VIC Smerdon, David C [IM]
2447!! 26 QLD Solomon, Stephen J [IM]
2424!! 7 VIC Johansen, Darryl K [GM]
2423!! 23 NSW Bjelobrk, Igor [FM]
2406!! 7 NSW Xie, George [IM]
2405!! 7 NSW Lane, Gary W [IM]
2391!! 12 VIC Goldenberg, Igor [FM]
2375! 7 SA Tao, Trevor
2365!! 13 QLD Froehlich, Peter [IM]
2359! 13 SA Chapman, Mark [IM]
2328!! 20 VIC West, Guy [IM]
2327!! 7 VIC Chow, Samuel
2322! 0 NSW Canfell, Gregory J [FM]
2319!! 12 VIC Sandler, Leonid [IM]
2309! 0 VIC Baron, Michael [FM]
2288! 0 NSW Feldman, Vladimir [IM]
2281! 3 NSW Tan, Justin
2280! 13 QLD Ly, Moulthun
2279!! 14 NSW Rej, Tomek
2260!! 5 NSW Smirnov, Vladimir
2248! 9 VIC Jordan, Bill [FM]
2242! 0 VIC Depasquale, Chris J [FM]
2239! 8 NSW Scott, Ronald
2237!! 7 NSW Ayvazyan, Armen
2236! 4 QLD Humphrey, Jonathan [FM]
2235! 7 SA Obst, James
2232! 5 QLD Sarfati, Jonathan [FM]
2223!! 9 WA Boyd, Tristan
2216!! 16 VIC Rujevic, Mirko [IM]
2212!! 10 NSW Yu, Ronald
2202!! 35 VIC Wallis, Christopher
2199!! 23 NSW Wright, Neil S
2196!! 15 WA Horstmann, Michael
2183! 0 NSW O'Chee, Kevin
2181! 0 NSW Bouchaaya, Tony
2179!! 8 NSW Flatow, A (Fred) [FM]
2176! 17 NSW Dilla, Edsil
2176!! 14 ACT Ikeda, Junta
2172! 5 VIC Sorokina, Anastasia [WIM]
2172! 1 NSW Suttor, Vincent
2166! 0 NSW Vojvodic, Branislev
2163! 7 SA Nguyen, Giang
2158!! 7 ACT Oliver, Gareth
2158! 0 NSW Halpin, Patrick
2157! 7 QLD Caoili, Arianne B [WFM]
2156!! 9 VIC Levi, Eddy L [FM]
2154!! 20 VIC Hamilton, Douglas G [FM]
2154! 0 NSW Berezina - Feldman, Irina [IM]
2152!! 9 NSW Morris, Michael
2147!! 13 VIC Jager, Jesse
2147!! 5 NSW Bird, Andrew
2144! 13 WA Kurniawan, Stephanus
2142!! 40 VIC Stojic, Dusan
2139!! 42 VIC Dragicevic, Domagoj
2128! 3 QLD Mastilovic, Rajko
2124! 0 NSW Malik, Hani
2122!! 0 NSW Broekhuyse, Paul
2122! 0 WA Barber, Haydn J [FM]
Top Under 20
2327!! 19 VIC Chow, Samuel
2280! 15 QLD Ly, Moulthun
2235! 16 SA Obst, James
2212!! 18 NSW Yu, Ronald
2202!! 16 VIC Wallis, Christopher
2183! 19 NSW O'Chee, Kevin
2176!! 15 ACT Ikeda, Junta
2172! 18 NSW Suttor, Vincent
2158!! 18 ACT Oliver, Gareth
2152!! 18 NSW Morris, Michael
2147!! 18 VIC Jager, Jesse
2142!! 17 VIC Stojic, Dusan
2118!! 19 NSW Hu, Jason
2106! 17 ACT Wei, Michael
2097!! 14 NSW Illingworth, Max
2095!! 13 VIC Lin, Zhigen Wilson
2088!! 12 VIC Morris, James
2077! 19 NSW Xie, Ken
2058! 16 QLD Lazarus, Benjamin
2013!! 16 WA Donaldson, Thomas
China vs Russia Teams Match: China Wins!
The Russian men team were in the lead in the beginning of the match, but in the last three rounds China took over. China won in the end by a narrow margin 25.5-24.5. The Chinese women's team defeated the Russian women's team 27-23.
Games from the tournament can be downloaded at http://www.chessbase.com/news/2007/games/ruschn07.pgn.
Games from the tournament can be downloaded at http://www.chessbase.com/news/2007/games/ruschn07.pgn.
GeniusProphecy.com Template Problems and Chess Changes
I have changed the chess page considerably at http://www.geniusprophecy.com/chess/.
Currently the template is being annoying and some borders and lines are getting messed up (you can find the template at http://www.thetemplatestore.com/). It's so much easier with Blogger because everything is done for you.
Currently, I only plan to put the template on my frontpage (i.e. index.htm) and on my other pages, I plan to just put a logo on the top left and a link back home, e.g. http://www.geniusprophecy.com/main/recent-news.html.
Currently the template is being annoying and some borders and lines are getting messed up (you can find the template at http://www.thetemplatestore.com/). It's so much easier with Blogger because everything is done for you.
Currently, I only plan to put the template on my frontpage (i.e. index.htm) and on my other pages, I plan to just put a logo on the top left and a link back home, e.g. http://www.geniusprophecy.com/main/recent-news.html.
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