Selfy Sunday – October 28, 2012
Motivation
If you want to motivate someone, challenge them to do something they always wanted to do.
Niagara Falls – October 2012
Five Eyes Close Up
The Falls 2
Stairway to Lights
Memories
Canadian Treasures
The Skylon Tower
The Falls 3
Electric Development Co building
American Falls
Old and New
Brown Seagull
Five Eyes
The Horseshoe Falls
The Falls
Nikola Tesla Monument
Memorial
Electric Development Co building (front-side view)
20th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800) – Round 1
Game results in the order of their finish:
[pgn]
[Event “20th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800) – Round 1”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2012.09.01”]
[White “Cais”]
[Black “vk2008”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “1662”]
[BlackElo “1655”]
[TimeControl “1 in 3 days”]
[Termination “vk2008 won by resignation”]
1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Bd3 Nb4 6.O-O Nxd3 7.Qxd3 e6 8.a3 Bd7 9.Re1 c5 10.dxc5 Bxc5
11.b4 Ba7 12.Ne5 O-O 13.e4 Bc6 14.Nxc6 bxc6 15.exd5 cxd5 16.Qg3 Bb8 17.Qf3 Qc7 18.Bf4 Qxf4 19.Qxf4 Bxf4 20.g3 Bh6
21.a4 Rac8 22.Ra3 Bd2 0-1
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I will not be advancing in this tournament. Please feel free to have a look at the balance of the game below.
Continue reading “20th Chess.com Tournament (1601-1800) – Round 1”
Chess 2012.10.08
Not a very good showing on my part … I’ll have to come back to this game and have a look for my errors.
[pgn]
[Event “Let’s Play!”]
[Site “Chess.com”]
[Date “2012.09.29”]
[White “Cais”]
[Black “conansson”]
[Result “0-1”]
[WhiteElo “1639”]
[BlackElo “1424”]
[TimeControl “1 in 3 days”]
[Termination “conansson won by resignation”]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Bg5 Bg4 5.h3 Bh5 6.g4 Bg6 7.Bg2 Ne4 8.Bf4 e6 9.O-O Bd6 10.e3 Bxf4
11.exf4 Qf6 12.f5 exf5 13.Nxd5 Qd6 14.c4 fxg4 15.hxg4 h5 16.g5 h4 17.Bh3 O-O 18.Nxh4 Nxg5 19.Bf5 Ne7 20.Nxe7+ Qxe7
21.Bxg6 fxg6 22.Qg4 Rf4 23.Qg3 Rxh4 24.Qxh4 Nf3+ 0-1
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See a complete analysis compliments of Chess.com below …
Gold Foot
Into The Foggy Night
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This is a JPEG version of the original posting in order to display the EXIF data attached to the image. The original PNG can be found here
Going Forward
A philosophy of enjoying oneself first, and foremost, will provide the greatest encouragement to continue going forward.
The Return of 12-Strings
The Macy’s-Gimbels Approach
I often describe things as Mallory-Everest, and along those same lines I also use the descriptor Macy’s-Gimbels. Feel free to follow the link back to my explanation of Mallory-Everest … or continue reading to better understand what I am referring to when I say something is Macy’s-Gimbels.
This all started after my umpteenth watching of one of my all-time favorite Christmas movies: Miracle on 34th Street, (the original 1947 release in black and white … the colorized version is nice but I digress). There is a wonderful scene in the movie where Kris Kringle (portrayed by Edmund Gwenn) recommends a lady shopper go to the competition (Gimbels) for a gift the store (Macy’s) did not have in stock … and thus providing the impetus to coin the phrase, “The Macy’s-Gimbels Approach”; and in this case how it applies to real customer service.
To see the Movie click here.To hide the Movie click here.
Here is a link to the movie online (although noted on the site you can download the DivX Plus Web Player for Windows or for Mac from these links).
The scene I noted above can be found at … um, well … I’m going to watch the movie (again); I’ll try to remember to note the time and add it later 🙂