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March 31 in History :
Births :
1987 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
1983 – Hashim Amla, South African Cricketer
1948 – Al Gore, American politician, 45th Vice
President of the United States and Nobel
laureate
1938 – Sheila Dikshit, Chief minister of Delhi
1596 – René Descartes, French philosopher,
mathematician and writer (d. 1650)
Deaths :
2005 – Terri Schiavo, American figure in
right-to-die case (b. 1963)
2002 – Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist
(b. 1924)
1972 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
1993 – Brandon Lee,son of Bruce Lee, American
actor (b. 1965)
Events :
1995 – Selena, an American singer, was
murdered by her friend and employee of her
boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling
money from the establishments. The event was
named "Black Friday" by Hispanics.
1994 – The journal Nature reports the finding
in Ethiopia of the first complete
Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United
States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in
Long Beach, California.
1990 – 200,000 protestors take to the streets
of London to protest against the newly
introduced Poll Tax.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.

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Ghatak

"Queen Elizabeth is a man! Prince Charles is a faggot! Winston Churchill was full of shit! Shit! Fuck!"

Hé

Levon Aronian vs. Hikaru Nakamura - 2012 London Chess Classic

Anderson

Thanks all for the birthday wishes!

I am making the most of it - watching the chess candidate matches in London until mid day while trying to find a few good Scrabble moves.

We do what we can.

Russell

The Italian Opening: Ruger vs Gebhard - Dresden GE 1915

Patel

London Chess Classic 2012 - Round 4 - MAGNUS CARLSEN -vs- GAWAIN JONES

Díaz

You know that India's Viswanathan Anand has won the World Chess Championship 5 times. He will be defending his World championship in November 2013. A tournament called the Candidates tournament is now underway in London to determine a challenger to Anand's crown. A Norwegian prodigy called Magnus Carlsen is the world's top ranked chess player according to ELO ratings (Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo). Carlsen is also competing in the London Candidates tournament: he has been leading in points and looked all set to win the tournament and become the challenger to Anand. But something happened late last night: in the 12th round of the 14 round tournament, he had lost to veteran Vassily Ivanchuk and at the same time Vladimir Kramnik, a 3 time former world champion had won his 12th round game to surge into lead. With only 2 more rounds to go, would Carlsen be able to regain his lead? This is significant, because, Carlsen is in such awesome form in the recent months that he looked certain, not only to become the challenger, but, actually beat Anand.

Rodríguez

FIDE Candidates Tournament
Site London
Date 2013/03/15 to 2013/04/01
Rank after Round 13

Sanders

Chess World.net: Michael Adams vs Magnus Carlsen - London Classic (2012) - Spanish Game (C78)

Foster

Simultaneous Chess Exhibition w/ Live Commentary #9: 7 Opponents

Levi

Playing chess with Dad. Evening gymnastics for the brains.

Barnes

Rob Saggs shared the following Sponsor the amazing Ben Cormack who is doing the London Marathon on behalf of CHESS http://t.co/kQDA5vzInR

Upadhyay

Tata Steel Chess 2013 - En passant - Viswanathan Anand round 12

Myers

Thanks Sean! Support the Young Masters #Chess Tournament by Adam Raoof — Kickstarter http://t.co/zU7VWG11rQ via @kickstarter

Ward

Computers Advance Chess Play

López

Chess opening London System part 6 - as Black with colours reversed - colors reverse

Desai

Blitz Chess #247 with Live Comments Old Indian

Reed

Chess: Aronian finishes fourth as Candidates Tournament ends in London http://t.co/XSWPstYATt

Cukkemane

I Know Him So Well [Chess ~ London, 1986] - Elaine Paige & Siobhan McCarthy

Reyes

Chess [complete cast album] - Endgame

Murakami

Magnus Carlsen emerges as Challenger to Vishy Anand:

The 2013 Candidates Tournament which took place from 15 March to 1 April in London has reached its culmination with Magnus Carlsen of Norway emerging as the winner. With this win Carlsen has earned the right to challenge the World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand (winner of the World Chess Championship 2012).

The 14th and last round of the Candidates Tournament turned out to be anticlimactic with both the contenders for the top position: Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik losing their respective games, but, despite their last round defeats, they finished at the top with 8 ½ points each. Carlsen was declared the winner because of his better tie-break score.

The World Chess Championship 2013 will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 6 to 26 November 2013. Chennai, the hometown of World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand, is being considered as the venue for the World Chess Championship 2013.

Ōta

Chess World.net: Hikaru Nakamura vs Magnus Carlsen - London Classic (2012) - Sicilian Defense (B30)

David

Magnus Carlsen - Gawain Jones London Chess Classic 2012 Round 4

Sánchez

London Chess Classic - A Celebration

Davis

Chess World.net: Hikaru Nakamura vs Vladimir Kramnik - London Chess Classic (2012) - Scotch (C45)

Yamamoto

Alexander Alekhine vs. Frederick Yates - London 1922

Miura

Levon Aronian - Magnus Carlsen London Chess Classic 2011 Round 5 Analysis

Gray

London Chess Classic 2012 - ronda 8

Kawle

#2194
last night
my bf raped me guys plz suggest wat to do or should i die ......
or do smthing else

Peretz

Josh Groban - Anthem - Chess 2008 - HQ

Fujii

Chess World.net: Levon Aronian vs Hikaru Nakamura - English Opening - London Chess Classic 2012

Sakamoto

Wijk aan Zee 2013 Round 1 Play of the Day: Sergey Karjakin - Hou Yifan

Takahashi

GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, "All Eight Participants Deserved to Play in London" | chess-news.ru http://t.co/5rE5xPQPFr

Brooks

"In 1913, exactly a century ago, the United States was a flourishing, economically advanced country. Its real output per capita was the world’s highest. It produced a great abundance of agricultural products and was a leading exporter of cotton, wheat, and many other farm products. Yet it also had the world’s largest industrial sector, producing as much manufactured output as France, Germany, and the United Kingdom combined. It brought forth new technological marvels almost daily, and its cities featured well paved and lighted streets, automobiles, modern sewerage and water-supply systems, central electrical-supply systems, skyscrapers, street cars, subways, and frequent intercity train service. During the preceding fifty years, its real income per capita had grown by about 2 percent per year, on average, and its total real output by about 4 percent per year, on average. All races, classes, and regions participated in this progress. In 1913, the rate of unemployment was 4.3 percent, and the price level was roughly the same as its average during the nineteenth century.

Yet the United States in 1913 had no federal income tax, no central bank, no social security taxes, no general sales taxes, no Securities and Exchange Commission, no Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, no Department of Health and Human Services, no National Labor Relations Board, no federal this, that, and the other as far as the eye can see."

~ Robert Higgs, with a look at life in the United States before the institution of the Federal Reserve and the income tax. Needless to say, it's pretty much been downhill ever since.