Analog-Theater 2.0

Behold the minor changes to the scheme here. I am working on losing some weight for a photo op, so I can put a cool picture behind the title. I have a nice fully clothed, eye catching idea. I just want to look better before I do it. I think I’ll even use styling gel so that my hair obeys my commands when I do it. A friend of mine suggested that we title the columns, not just the post so that everyone will know at a glance who is writing what. I created a test page and Robert didn’t say that he didn’t like it, so I decided to add the code to my half. He is more than welcome to follow suit. He is also welcome to join me in the photo op. Most likely, this change is just one of many as we prepare the website for the great multitudes that will come out of the wilderness to our promised website.

As you might have noticed, my working title is Jared’s Chess, Movies, and Video Games. After five and a half seconds of thought, I came up with that. The reasons are: first my name is Jared, second I will be writing about chess, movies, and video games, and third I couldn’t think of anything else.

Since chess is the first subject in my list, all me to give you some updates. Round 8 had finished at Corus. Here are the current standings:

Group A
• 1. M. Carlsen 5½
• 2. V. Kramnik, L. Aronian 5
• 4. T. Radjabov, V. Anand 4½
• 6. S. Mamedyarov, M. Adams, V. Ivanchuk, L. van Wely 4
• 10. J. Polgar, V. Topalov, P. Leko 3½
• 13. P. Eljanov, B. Gelfand 2½

Group B
• 1. S. Movsesian 6
• 2. E. Bacrot 5½
• 3. N. Short 5
• 4. P. Harikrishna, D. Stellwagen, J. Smeets 4½
• 7. I. Nepomniachtchi, E. L’Ami, M. Krasenkow 4
• 10. Y. Hou, H. Koneru, I. Cheparinov 3½
• 13. G. Sargissian 2½
• 14. W. Spoelman 1

Group C
• 1. F. Caruana 6
• 2. D. Reinderman 5½
• 3. P. Negi, A. Braun, J. van der Wiel 5
• 6. F. Nijboer, E. Grivas 4½
• 8. M. van der Werf 4
• 9. A. Ushenina, P. Carlsson 3½
• 11. S. Li, I. Krush 3
• 13. Z. Peng 2
• 14. D. Ruijgrok 1½

If any of you have read other chess blogs, then you probably heard about the match between GM Short and GM Cheparinov that was suspended over a handshake. There is a video of it on youtube. Cheparinov refused to shake Short’s hand. The tournament director ruled the match a forfeit, but after Cheparinov gave a written apology, they let them redo the match. FIDE has come out saying now that if you refuse to shake hands, you lose.

Item 2: movies. I’ve decided to do a regular feature, Dinner and a Movie. I might also bring back Lame Movies (I still have a list of them, but I don’t want to watch them). I saw Cloverfield recently and need to type up my thoughts on that. I’ll tell you this much, I was not impressed with it.

Finally, video games. Just to make sure everyone knows, next week I’m going down to Raleigh, NC to interview Raychul who does the Spike and Raychul podcast which is about video games.

I think that about covers it. Good night and good hunting.