A Tribute To The Soul Of The Legendary 35th US President John Kennedy : One Of the Greatest World Leaders In The History Of ManKind

 John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy  (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 and Motor Torpedo Boat PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43,the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first president to have been born in the 20th Century.Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early stages of the Vietnam War.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime but was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby before any trial. The FBI, the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that Oswald was the assassin, with the HSCA allowing for the probability of conspiracy based on disputed acoustic evidence. Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of former U.S. presidents...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy)

God bless your Soul Mr.President..Rest in peace my friend and my hero.

Source of the photo : http://cdn.babble.com/famecrawler/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/jfk-deathbed-confession.jpg
Source of the video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iX2f6Omflo

The Candidates Final Match In Kazan : GM\Gelfand Beats GM\Grischuk To Challenge World Chess Champion GM\Anand For The Title In 2012 !

The FIDE Candidates matches are being held in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, From 3 to 27 May 2011with eight super GMs competing to qualify as Challenger for the 2012 World Champion match against GM\Vishi Anand for the world chess crown.The prize fund of the candidates is 500,000 Euros .

 GM\Gelfand went finally for 1.d4 and surprisingly GM.Grischuk responded with the Grunfeld {it was a 

Neo-Grunfeld, 5.Nf3 (D73}I believe this was the influence of GM\Svidler -who is the second of GM\Grischuk in this match- but I think that in such a critical encounter GM\Grischuk should have played a defense he is familiar to such as the Nimzo Indian or the King's Indian .I believe that Black's fatal mistake was not the move 20... Bxh4 ?! but was not playing the most appropriate line of defense .GM\Gelfand pressed hard with his pawns in the center and was able to neutralize Black's counter-attack in the king-side (16... Ra5 then followed by 17...Rh5) .Move by move Gelfand got closer to win and in a completely lost position Grischuk congratulated the new challenger who deservedly won the match .
Source :  http://kazan2011.fide.com/
                                                                      Scoreboard

Nat.

Rtg

G1

G2

G3

G4

G5

G6

R1

R2

R3

R4

Blitz

Tot.

Boris Gelfand

ISR

2733

½

½

½

½

½

1

3.5

Alexander Grischuk

RUS

2747

½

½

½

½

½

0

2.5

The Legendary 12th World Chess Champion GM\Anatoly Karpov Celebrates His Birthday !

 Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (Russian: Анатолий Евгеньевич Карпов Anatolij Evgen'evič Karpov; May 23, 1951 ) is a Soviet / Russian chess Grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming Fide World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993. He held the title until 1999, when he resigned his title in protest against FIDE's new world championship rules. For his decades-long standing among the world's elite, Karpov is considered one of the greatest players of all time.His tournament successes include over 160 first-place finishes. He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 90 total months at world number one is second all time behind only Garry Kasparov since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1971.Since 2005, he has been a member of the Public Chamber of Russia. He has recently involved himself in several humanitarian causes, such as advocating the use of iodised salt...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Karpov).

The legendary 12th World Chess Champion visited SCCA (Smouha Club Chess Academy) on the 4th of July 2010 during his campaign for the Presidency of the Fide (http://medhatmoheb.blogspot.com/2010/07/full-illustrated-report-about.html)

GM\Karpov has a charismatic type of personality : modest , sincere,kind person ; a real gentleman who has the ethics of a real hero and a World Champion who has millions of fans and admirers all over the world. 

I wish you a very Happy Birthday World Chess Champion !

GM\Viktorija Čmilytė Has Deservedly Won The Gold Medal At The Women's European Individual Chess Championship In Tiblisi

 Top Lithuanian chess Grandmaster Viktorija Čmilytė deservedly clinched the Women's  European Individual Chess Championship that took place in Tiblisi (the capital and the largest city of Georgia)  from 6-19 May 2011.

GM\ Čmilytė (2504 Elo) scored an incredible score of (9) points out of 11 games.(+8 =2 -1 ) with a performance of 2692 ! Bulgarian GM\ Antoaneta Stevanova (2506) came second with (8.5) points and in the third place GM\Elina Danielian (2506) from Armenia with (8) points .

[Viktorija Čmilytė (born on August 6, 1983 in Šiauliai) is a Lithuanian chess player with the titles of Grandmaster (GM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).She started playing chess at the age of six, having been taught the moves by her father. He remained her coach during the formative years  and the early achievements were sensational, as she collected many important junior titles, including European Youth Champion for Girls (under 10) (Szombathely 1993) and World Youth Champion for Girls (under 12) (São Lourenço 1995)](...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktorija_%C4%8Cmilyt%C4%97)
source of the photo :  http://www.chessbase.com/news/2009/misc/cmilyte01.jpg
Congratulations !

The Candidates Semi Final Matches In Kazan "The 2 Gs Eliminate the 2 Ks ":GM\Grischuk Beats GM\Kramnik And GM\Gelfand Beats GM\Kamsky To Reach The Final

The FIDE Candidates matches are being held in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, From 3 to 27 May 2011with eight super GMs competing to qualify as Challenger for the 2012 World Champion match against GM\Vishi Anand for the world chess crown.The prize fund of the candidates is 500,000 Euros .

Scoreboard

Nat.

Rtg

G1

G2

G3

G4

R1

R2

R3

R4

Blitz

Tot.

Perf

Vladimir Kramnik

RUS

2785

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

0.5

4.5

Alexander Grischuk

RUS

2747

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

½

1.5

5.5

Nat.

Rtg

G1

G2

G3

G4

R1

R2

R3

R4

Blitz

Tot.

Perf

Boris Gelfand

ISR

2733

½

½

½

½

½

½

0

1

1.5

6.0

Gata Kamsky

USA

2732

½

½

½

½

½

½

1

0

0.5

4.0

Source : http://kazan2011.fide.com/

The Candidates Semi Final Matches In Kazan : GM\Kramnik X GM\Grischuk And GM\Gelfand X GM\Kamsky With The Same Result 2 Draws !

The FIDE Candidates matches are being held in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, From 3 to 27 May 2011with eight super GMs competing to qualify as Challenger for the 2012 World Champion match  against GM\Vishi Anand for the world chess crown.The prize fund of the candidates is 500,000 Euros .

SEMI-FINAL

	Nat.	Rtg	G1	G2	G3	G4	R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot.
Vladimir Kramnik	RUS	2785	½	½							1
Alexander Grischuk	RUS	2747	½	½							1

 

	Nat.	Rtg	G1	G2	G3	G4	R1	R2	R3	R4	Tot.
Boris Gelfand	ISR	2733	½	½							1
Gata Kamsky	USA	2732	½	½							1

 Source : http://kazan2011.fide.com/