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A Golden Load

2009-11-07T09:45:00.003Z

See more beautiful pics on my WP blog about the area where we live. The link will open in a new window.

Green Point Football Stadium

2009-10-27T14:30:00.002Z

Beautiful, isn't it! Click HERE to see more images of this football stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. The link will open in a new window.

Jane Austen

2009-09-27T20:27:00.002+01:00

Visit my Jane Austen entry on my WP blog to see more photos about my visit to the Jane Austen museum-house. The link will open in a new window.

Woman Chess Grandmaster for South Africa!

2009-08-31T11:36:00.006+01:00

Congratulations to Melissa! We are proud of you!Click on this link to read about 14 year old Melissa.

South Africa

2009-08-16T09:04:00.003+01:00

Friday, 14th August was Afrikaans Language day - well in the "old days" - in South Africa. On this link - which will open in a new window - you can read a few interesting facts about South Africa. Afrikaans is also the youngest official language. Here is just a few interesting facts.....We have the greenest canyon in the world- which is also the 3rd largest in the world, we have the highest waterfall in Africa and the 2nd highest in the world, the 3rd longest Tufa waterfall , the deepest mines, the largest zoo, the smallest butterfly, the largest diamond, the second largest amount of windmills on farms (280 000), the largest impact crater on earth, white lions... read more on the link too and you will also find on this link another link to an entry on my blog about the Afrikaans Language Museum. If you don't know what a Tufa Waterfall is, you will also find a link to read what it is and also, a few Afrikaans songs. Enjoy!

Countryside

2009-08-11T13:26:00.004+01:00

You know what's in this photo?
See more images of the countryside in Bucks on
my WP-blog here. The link will open in a new window.

African Individual Chess Championship - Tripoli

2009-07-24T14:01:00.004+01:00

Pairings/Results
Round 3 on 2009/07/23 at 15:00
WIM Alaa el Din Yosra vs WFM Latreche Sabrina–0-1
WIM Solomons Anzel vs WCM Beddar Karima– 1-0
WGM Mona Khaled vs WIM Greeff Melissa –1-0
WIM Mezioud Amina vs Al Jahani Marwah –1-0
Elansary Eman vs Elgohary Myada –1-0
Rahal Mawadda vs Abdulgader Amira–1/2
WFM Mudongo Boikhutso vs WFM Elfelo Khouled–1/2
Al Felo Ekhlas vs Matoussi Amina–0-1

Men: RESULTS AFTER THREE ROUNDS:

1-3 : (2,5 Points) : IM. Kenny Solomon, GM. Ahmed Adley & GM. Essam Elgindy

4-5 : (2,0 Points) : GM. Amon Simutowe, IM. Watu Kobese & GM. Amin Bassem

GM. Slim Belkhidja is on 1,5 Points and we have no word yet on GM. Aimen Rezouk except to report that IM.Kenny Solomon took advantage of him in pocketing full score!
This tournament is now taking place in Libya. Many players couldn't get visas to enter Libya...more info on a link on my Wordpress-blog. Little information is available about this tournament. Please click HERE to follow the tournament in Tripoli and to read more about the "issues". The link will open in a new window.

South African Open Chess Championship 2009

2009-07-11T09:09:00.004+01:00

If you have missed out on the South African Open 2009, you are still in time to catch-up with some news as this tournament ends only today!

Please click here to read more and to see the results of all the rounds.The final round - round 11 - is being played this morning at 11:00-16:00 South African local time. The link will open in a new window.

Exciting news: Ryan van Rensburg (2106) (SA) drew a game against GM Dimitri Komarov (2530) (UKR). Ryan has also beaten IM Watu Kobese (2493) (SA) in round 7 and in round 8 he drew a game against IM MABUSELA, JM (2244)! Ryan drew in round 9 his game against IM P Wang (2453) and in round 10: Ryan drew his game against FM NP van der Nat (2322) and also, FM CCA De Villiers -2179- (SA) drew against GM G Jones-2550-(ENG).

From Chesscube: The South African Open is being contested by 208 with the following nations being represented in the field: AUS, ENG, EB, EK, FRA, GER, HUN, KEN, MAW, MOZ, NAM, NWP, NZL, RSA, UK, UKR, WP, ZIM. With 2 GM’s, a handful of IM’s, and a couple of FM’s/CM’s in the field, you are for sure to see good chess. There are 3 games being played live exclusively to ChessCube of SA Open. To watch these games all you have to do is go into the SA room and you can watch straight away. Games are commencing at 9:30 and 18.30 each day – local time.
In a world first for chess, some of the matches will be played online. This is a format many internet chess players have been waiting for – an online event being played simultaneously over 2 continents, yet officially recognized and rated by FIDE!
From Melbourne, Australia, behind the computer screens will be GM Gawain Jones (GBR, ELO 2550), IM Puchen Wang (NZL, ELO 2453), IM Mirko Rujevic (AUS, ELO 2282), and IM Leonid Sandler (AUS, ELO 2332) on standby. On the other end of the computer terminal at Cape Town, South Africa, will sit their opponents. The South African opponents will be paired each round, as will all the other players, using the Swiss Pairing system. This means that three different South African players will play online every round.
“Having these players compete in the tournament from another location using the Internet is a world first. Each Australian player will use a computer to connect to ChessCube and play their game, and will be supervised by the arbiter on that side. Similarly the players paired against them in Cape Town will play their games online using a computer, and will be supervised by an arbiter on this side,” commented Mr. Mark Levitt, founder of ChessCube. FIDE rated event over the internet! FIDE have agreed to officially rate the games played over the Internet.ChessCube powering the community and the SA OpenChessCube as a playing platform has been bringing innovative ideas into online chess playing for the last couple of months, turning into one of the busiest and most populated web chess servers with player peaks reaching over 3000 players online simultaneously, and a growing base that has eclipsed half a million users. The platform has turned into something that the chess world has been missing at previous online chess communities – it is a place where one can socialize and have fun at the same time.
Now ChessCube are taking a step further and create a tournament, part of which will take place online, and will be officially recognized by FIDE.- source: chessdom

SAAF during WWII in Italy

2009-06-24T16:34:00.002+01:00

On this first image you can read about the South African Air Force and the bomber squadron that served during WWII in Italy.

News about the SAAF, Marauders and Baltimores

On the back of image 1, this was printed, interesting!

This was printed on the back of the next image

A quick plan... South Africans are known for making plans quickly whenever they have to! Here you can see how they made a snow-plough.

Well done to the SAAF! Broken records!

Another well done! The British Lieutenant-colonel signalled a message to a SAAF medium bomber wing. "I watched the medium and light bombers operating from a forward observation post. It was simply incredibly devastating. Their accuracy and the destruction they caused were unbelievable."

MTel Chess 2009

2009-05-16T19:30:00.003+01:00

MTel is on! The chess machines of the world are playing.Please click here on my WP-blog to see the results and chess graphics of the rounds too.The link will open in a new window.

Topalov played a game blindfolded before the start of the tournament.

US Chess Championship 2009

2009-05-10T21:09:00.013+01:00

Please click HERE to follow the tournament and results.

This game is Kamsky's game in Round 4. On the photo you can see Shulman vs Kamsky

The following game is Kamsky's game played in Round 8

Play through the game of Hess and Shulman played in Round 8

Play through the game of Brooks and Nakamura played in Round 8

Azerbaijan vs Fide World

2009-05-09T11:49:00.007+01:00

Big Chess is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan. The world's "big game" in Chess! In this glass front you can see the images of the 9 players...Fide World Team against the Azerbaijan Team. Follow the link at the bottom of this entry for more details.

Mamedov vs Anand - 1/2

Please click here to see more chess graphics and results on my WP-blog about the tournament.

South African Women's Open Chess Championships 2009

2009-05-02T13:00:00.005+01:00

The South African Women's Open Chess Championship is now taking place in Pretoria till Sunday the 5th May 2009.

Please click here to follow the results on my WP-blog. The link will open in a new window.

US Chess Championship 2009

2009-05-01T16:28:00.009+01:00

The US Chess Championship 2009 starts from the 7-17th May 2009.

Click on THIS LINK to get more info and to read more about the Championship.
This game here is REAL time chess! Click the arrows to follow round 3 of Kamsky's game - 10th May 2009

Real time chess!

Kamsky round 2 - end position

Earth Day 22 April 2009

2009-04-22T17:01:00.001+01:00

We have only ONE Earth!

Fook Island

2009-04-20T16:55:00.005+01:00

Fook Gallooper..image: artthrob.co.za artist:Norman Catherine

If you wanna know what Fook Island is all about..then click here to read who was the creater of this island. He even created fookian banknotes and exchanged it on the airport of Rome. His fookian drivers license was accepted in the USA! hehehe...The link will open in a new window.

Nalchik 2009

2009-04-20T16:49:00.004+01:00

Please click HERE to follow the games at Nalchik live. See more spectacular images of the opening ceremony. Nalchik is in Russia and on the link you can see who are the Grandmasters taking part in this Fide Grand Prix tournament. The link will open in a new window.

Boscastle

2009-04-20T16:45:00.002+01:00

Please click HERE to see pictures taken on our visit to Cornwall from Boscastle, a fishing village. This village was flooded in 2004. The link will open in a new window.

Hawker's Hut

2009-04-12T23:11:00.004+01:00

Please click HERE to read about Hawker's Hut and the eccentric man, Hawker, and to see more images about this part of Cornish-land. The link will open in a new window.

Hush now, my little baby

2009-02-15T13:12:00.007Z

Image: Wikimedia

This poem is my translation of the Afrikaans poem with the same title. The poem was written by one of South Africa's national poets, A G Visser. The poem is based on the truth. During the 1800's the Dutch settlers trekked around the country to find suitable places to settle and they fought different wars at the time. This poem is based on the 6th Xhosa war. It is a sad/emotional poem. I think many South Africans know this poem quite well. It was one of the poems I had to recite during my primary years and it's always been one of my favourites! I was asked on my Wordpress blog by a blog reader to translate it and I hope I've done a good job as it's sometimes difficult to translate a poem, not all poems are easy to translate as you have to get the same message across. I didn't try any rhyming patterns in this poem with the translation, so, what you see is what you get! The story-line in the poem was more important.

Amakeia

In the shadow of the mountains
bush-sheltered on all sides
stands alone the wattle-and-daub hut
on the boarder of Kaffir country.

Softly Amakeia hums
on the banks of the River Kei
till he sleeps, the tender baby
of the white pioneer:

“Hush now, hush now, hush little one
see how the evening star twinkles
No one will hurt you, little one
hush now, even if Mummy isn’t near.”

To read the complete poem, please click here and slide a bit down on the page. The page will open in a new window.

The Amatola mountains in South Africa, Western Cape.

Enjoy this song by Helmut Lotti...Tula Tula...(which means..hush/keep quiet)

Happy Valentine's Day

2009-02-06T10:44:00.004Z

On THIS LINK you can find more beautiful images and quotes about Love. The link will open in a new window.

Video Games History

2009-02-01T10:31:00.005Z

Technology!
Follow THIS LINK to watch a video about the history of video games. The link will open in a new window.

Corus Chess 2009 Live

2009-01-18T00:43:00.003Z

Please click HERE to follow the Corus Chess 2009 Live.The link will open in a new window.

Chess, love, music and the African Juniors!

2009-01-02T18:03:00.006Z

My first entry for 2009! Hope your year is going to be a wonderful 2009.
If you want to read about my "melodies of love" and to listen to Jean-Claude Borelly...AND to know how to get his album with Dolannes Melody...for free! then, you better click here and if you want to know what's going on with the African Junior Chess Championships in South Africa...then I suggest that you follow this link here, but if you want both...greedy, hey..like me..you can click on one of the links and still get both..as it's on my Wordpress-blog, the most recent entries..do enjoy! The links will open in a new window. This image in this entry is my "creation"..beautiful, isn't it?:)

Happy New Year!

2008-12-30T12:07:00.000Z