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pymexy s.:
1. white queen(c7)-c1(check!);black bishop(d2)*white queen(c2)
2. white knight(d5)-c3(check!);black king(b1)-a1
3. white rook(g2)*pawn(a2)(checkmate!)

Thanks you solve the puzzle and we have a lot of people boasting they can play chess in here see how many month it takes to see who can solve this simple chess knot.
hope to play with you someday.

nosa101:
I could get it for you but since you are being nasty, I won't.

Why can't you make a mansion out of it and sleep there and for your information i don't ned your help you stupid thing

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Some of the letters are comical (a man asking God to let him win the lottery, twice), others are heartbreaking (a distraught teen asking forgiveness for an abortion, an unwed mother pleading with God to make the baby's father marry her).

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The letters — about 300 in all, sent to a New Jersey minister — ended up dumped in the ocean, most of them unopened.

The minister died two years ago at 79. How the letters, some dating to 1973, wound up bobbing in the surf is a mystery.

"There are hundreds of lives here, a lot of struggle, washed up on the beach," said Bill Lacovara, a Ventnor insurance adjuster who was fishing last month with his son when he spotted a flowered plastic shopping bag and waded out to retrieve it. "This is just a hint of what really happens. How many letters like this all over the world aren't being opened or answered?"

Many of the letters were addressed to the Rev. Grady Cooper, though many more simply said "Altar." According to the text of several of them, they were intended to be placed on a church's altar and prayed over by the minister, the congregation or both.

Some were neatly written in script on white-lined paper, others in a feverish scrawl on tattered scraps of parchment or note cards. Many were crinkled from being in the water and then dried out after Lacovara fished them out of the sea.

A dog-eared business card inside one of the letters identified Cooper as associate pastor of the Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Jersey City. A woman who answered the phone at the church office confirmed Cooper once was a minister there, and had died nearly two years ago. The current pastor did not return several calls from The Associated Press over the past few days.

Other documents in the bag, including bank statements and canceled checks, also listed Cooper's name and an address for him in Jersey City. A death certificate issued in 2004 for a Grady Cooper lists the same address as those on the bank documents and some of the letters.

His wife, Frances, whose name also showed up on some of the letters at the same address, died in 2000, according to Hudson County records.

No one answered the door last week at the address where Cooper once lived, and a neighbor said he did not recall anyone by that name. Attempts to locate Cooper's relatives were unsuccessful.

Lacovara speculated that someone cleaning out Cooper's home found the letters and threw them on the beach in Atlantic City, about 100 miles from Jersey City.

"I guess rather than just throw them in the garbage, maybe they thought they'd set them out to sea to bless these people," he said. "So they made a trip to Atlantic City, maybe went to a casino, and put the letters in the water."

The letters, wrapped in several smaller brown paper bags inside the larger plastic bag, did not appear to have been in the water too long, Lacovara said, though about half were too badly damaged to be legible.

He opened a few with his son, Rocky, on the beach. The first few were humorous.

"I'm still praying to hit the lottery twice: first the $50,000," one man wrote. "Than after some changes have taken place let me hit the millionaire."

Another asked God to make a certain someone "leave me alone and stay off my back," while still another asks God to calm a woman who "call the Internal Revenue on me."

One woman complained that her husband always talks about sex, and another writer anonymously dropped a dime to God on someone cheating on his wife, complete with dates, times and locations.

But those, Lacovara soon found, were the exception.

Many more were written by anguished spouses, children or widows, pouring out their hearts to God, asking for help with relatives who were using drugs, gambling or cheating on them. One man wrote from prison, saying he was innocent and wanted to be back home with his family. A woman wrote that her boyfriend was now closing the door to her daughter's bedroom each night when it used to stay open, and wondered why.

A teenager poured out her heart on yellow-lined paper in the curlicue pencil handwriting of a schoolgirl, begging God to forgive her and asking for a second chance.

"Lord, I know that I have had an abortion and I killed one of your angels," she wrote. "There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about the mistake I made."

One unwed mother wrote that her baby was due in four weeks, and asked God to make the father fall in love with her and marry her so the child would have a father.

Lacovara said he is sad that most of the writers never had their letters read. But he hopes to change that soon: He is putting the collection up for sale on eBay


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_re_us/unanswered_prayers

nosa101:
I smell a scam

Because you are a scammer dosen't make everybody one, so keep off if you dont know it.

Please can anyone help me with the name of Brazillian ambassador to Nigeria?

Just because they are tired of watching a movie so they need to rent some outside because buying another movie can be problem (code)

Kramnik's first interview after Elista

by Gonzalo Aragonés, Moscow.
Translated by IM Michael Rahal

They said that he had the advantage as he was Russian and the Reunification World Chess Championship would take place in his country. But it wasn’t to be. Vladimir Kramnik (Tuapse, 1975), was the dissident champion, the heir of Garry Kasparov, the man who provoked the 1993 chess schism when he faced the International Federation (FIDE). Also, the “toilet gambit” invented by Bulgarian Vesselin Topalov made him lose his psychological balance, something which is fundamental in the highest level of competition. However, Kramnik maintained his strength of character and avoided falling into the trap. Now, more relaxed in a Moscow Hotel, Vladimir receives “La Vanguardia”, to recall the last three weeks that have turned him into the unique World Chess Champion.

Q. Which differences have you found between this duel with Topalov in Elista (Kalmykian Republic) and the match for the World Championship title in 2000, when you defeated Garry Kasparov?

A. Each World Championship is unique and comparing them is quite difficult. With regard to the match, in this one with Topalov the same thing has happened. This match has meant a lot to my career and, in addition, it has been very significant for the chess world. It was slightly different due to the events that happened during the match, but the opponent was very strong.

For me, each match is special. Comparing is difficult and also a long time has already passed since the match with Kasparov and of course the situation has changed a bit. You start playing differently, you have more experience. And on the other hand, while you gain more experience you lose energy when you grow older.

But can we say that this title is a bit special, as it means the reunification of the two titles?

Yes, of course. This match is special exactly because of that. This is a unique characteristic; there hasn’t been any other match in the history with two champions.

There are many people who consider you to be Kasparov’s heir, the young grand master of the next generation who studied and then defeated him.

Of course, that is true. I learned a lot in the match against Kasparov, but not only against him. I studied all his predecessors, and I tried to learn the best of each of them, in addition to all the strongest players in the history of chess. But as I personally worked with Kasparov, maybe he influenced my growth even more, as we were communicating personally during the study sessions.

Did the Elista “toilet scandal” involve a psychological blow for you?

-Unfortunately this is not the first time that a player tries to influence his opponent psychologically in a World Championship match, or try to break the favourable playing rhythm, especially when he is losing. I have never used these methods and I never will. In this case, it is clear that my opponent was trying to achieve an advantage and create uneasiness, as in this duel there was no objective reason to start this type of protests. The organization was top-level, everything was under surveillance and revised, both of us had signed a contract beforehand. I think that the objective was to create tension and put psychological pressure on me. At some moments it wasn’t very nice and it affected my balance… But simply I would like this to serve as a lesson so that this doesn’t happen again in the future in a World Championship match, because I consider the game of chess to be a competition. But the result must be decided on the board, and all the rest must be kept at the level of a relationship between gentlemen.

The word Bleep

Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English language today is the word 'Bleep'. It is the one magical word which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love, and hate.

In language, 'Bleep' falls into many grammatical categories.

It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John bleeped Mary) and intransitive (Mary was bleeped by John).
It can be an action verb (John really gives a Bleep), a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a Bleep), an adverb (Mary is fucking interested in John), or as a noun (Mary is a terrific Bleep).
It can also be used as an adjective (Mary is fucking beautiful) or an interjection (Bleep! I'm late for my date with Mary).
It can even be used as a conjunction (Mary is easy, Bleep she's also stupid).
As you can see, there are very few words with the overall versatility of the word 'Bleep'. Aside from its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations,

Greetings "How the Bleep are ya?"

Fraud "I got bleeped by the car dealer."

Resignation "Oh, Bleep it!"

Trouble "I guess I'm bleeped now."

Aggression "Bleep YOU!"

Disgust "Bleep me."

Confusion "What the Bleep, ?"

Difficulty "I don't understand this fucking business!"

Despair "bleeped again, "

Pleasure "I couldn't be fucking happier."

Displeasure "What the Bleep is going on here?"

Lost "Where the Bleep are we."

Disbelief "UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE!"

Retaliation "Up your fucking ass!"

Denial "I didn't fucking do it."

Perplexity "I know Bleep all about it."

Apathy "Who really gives a Bleep, anyhow?"

Greetings "How the Bleep are ya?"

Suspicion "Who the Bleep are you?"

Panic "Let's get the Bleep out of here."

Directions "Bleep off."

Disbelief "How the Bleep did you do that?"

It can be used in an anatomical description- "He's a fucking asshole."

It can be used to tell time- "It's five fucking thirty."

It can be used in business- "How did I wind up with this fucking job?"

It can be maternal- "Mother fucker."

It can be political- "Bleep Al Gore!"

It has also been used by many notable people throughout history,

"What the Bleep was that?"
- Mayor of Hiroshima

"Where the Bleep is all this water coming from?"
- Captain of the Titanic

"That's not a real fucking gun."
- John Lennon

"Who's gonna fucking find out?"
- Richard Nixon

"Heads are going to fucking roll."
- Anne Boleyn

"Let the fucking woman drive."
- Commander of Space Shuttle

"What fucking map?"
- "Challenger," Mark Thatcher

"Any fucking idiot could understand that."
- Albert Einstein

"It does so fucking look like her!"
- Picasso

"How the Bleep did you work that out?"
- Pythagoras

"You want what on the fucking ceiling?"
- Michaelangelo

"Bleep a duck."
- Walt Disney

"Why?- Because its fucking there!"
- Edmund Hilary

"I don't suppose its gonna fucking rain?"
- Joan of Arc

"Scattered fucking showers my ass."
- Noah

"I need this parade like I need a fucking hole in my head."
- John F. Kennedy

Indecent Proposal

A man walks up to a woman in a bar and says, "Excuse me, would you have sex with a man you didn't know for one million dollars?"

She thinks about the proposition for a minute, and then
replies,"Yes, I would sleep with a man I don't know for a million dollars."

The man then asks,"Would you sleep with me for fifty cents?"

Insulted, the woman replies, "Of course not!! How could you ask me such a thing?"

The man states, "Well, we've already established the fact that you're a LovePeddler. Now I'm just haggling over the price."

Pay attention

"Are You Paying Attention?" A professor is giving the first year medical students their first lecture on autopsies, and decides to give them a few basics before starting.

"You must be capable of two things to do an autopsy. The first thing is that you must have no sense of fear." At this point, the lecturer sticks his finger into the dead man's anus, and then licks it.

He asks all the students to do the same thing with the corpses in front of them.

After a couple of minutes silence, they follow suit.

"The second thing is that you must have an acute sense of
observation: I stuck my middle finger into the corpse's anus, but I licked my index."

qblaze:
Does anybody here know how I can play Chess online? My favorite site Instantchess.com is no longer free.

You can register with www.chessworld.net, www.gameknot.com and www.itsyourturn.com for your free online chess game. You are going to enjoy it.

Kramnik's first declarations as World Champion

Immediately after Topalov extended his hand in a sign of resigning the 4th tiebreak game, the crowd became ecstatic. There were shouts, applause, friendly slaps and handshakes… Kramnik got off the table, threw his fists in the sky, just like in Moscow 1994 after his sensational victory over Kasparov, and got into tight embrace of his manager Hensel. Other team members were also there – Illescas, Rublevsky, Motylev, Krylov, Rösch, and even the cook… In a few minutes the new ‘absolute’ FIDE world champion moved to the press conference hall, where he was warmly met by dozens of journalists.

– In a situation that was similar to yours Mikhail Tal said ‘My head is filled with sun!’ What were your first words after the match ended?
– I was very concentrated on the play, and even after I won the last game, I was still in a fighting mood. The moment after Veselin played 44…Rc5 was very emotional for me – I felt very happy. The joy passed after I replied 45.Rb7+. I need time to realize what happened. This was a very tough match, and I think I did a good job, considering the odds given to the opponent. Maybe it was the first case in the history of the world championship matches when one of the players had extra point and extra White. I am glad I managed to win under such circumstances.

As for me I'm a registered member of International Chess Club (ICC) i have access to watch GRANDMASTER matches live online and to play with whom i want.

Russian GM Vladimir Kramnik defeated GM Veselin Topalov 2.5-1.5 in the four-game tiebreak after a tough twelve-game match, which ended 6-6. Kramnik demonstrated his excellent nervous system by grinding down his opponent in two very well-played endings in game two and four.

With this victory in the tie-break there will be no discussion at all regarding the famous fifth game, which everyone remembers was won by Topalov after Kramnik forfeited in protest to the decision of the Appeals Committee to close his bathroom, following Topalov’s protest.

Although maybe not playing the best chess, Kramnik has demonstrated once again his excellent match game technique, by winning three classical games (Topalov only won two on-the-board games) in addition to his first class approach to the tie-break games, a series of four 25 minute games with a ten-second increment.

After defeating Garry Kasparov in 2000 and Peter Leko in 2004, Kramnik will definitely go into the history books as one of the few champions who have defended the WC title twice in a row successfully, whereas this match in Elista will also be sorrowfully remembered as the “Toilet and Computers” match.

Two other items will still have to be discussed. Will Vladimir defend his title next year in the Mexico City 2007 championship? Topalov will not play now that he has lost. Also, we shall see if Kramnik will take over the challenge that Radjabov had put forward to Topalov before this match, with a 1-milion euro prize fund.

The twelve-game match for the world title between Vladimir Kramnik, Classical World Chess Champion and Veselin Topalov, FIDE World Champion started on Saturday, September 23rd at 3 pm local time in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia. The opening ceremony was on the September, 21st 2006 where it was established that Kramnik will have white in game one.

Has any one been following this game, if yes what'syour comment  about itand what about Topalov complain on the toilet issue,is it a genuine one?

If you not been following this, you are really missing, though today is a rest day,this is how the table stand as as yesterday after game 8

NAME FED FIDE RES                             1  2   3    4   5*   6   7    8   9   10   11   12
GM Vesselin Topalov  BUL 2813   4.0   0  0   ½   ½  1    ½   ½   1     
GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2743    4.0   1  1   ½   ½  0    ½   ½   0

The best is "larrydeking" by king larry, just try it out you won't use stop using it

rhytham:
Hi Kinglarry, would like to move in this way:
Rook from B7 to E7
Queen from F2 to F6
Queen from F6 to G7
, check mate,

What if after your first move the red night is moved from H6 to F7

Izzo:
why don't u try giving info on how 2 play along.

Try learn your chess first

A language instructor was explaining to her class that French
nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically
designated as masculine or feminine.

Things like 'chalk' or 'pencil,' she described, would have a
gender association although in English these words were
neutral. Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, "What
gender is a computer?"

The teacher wasn't certain which it was,and so divided the
class into two groups and asked them to decide if a computer
should be masculine or feminine. One group was comprised of the
women in the class, and the other, of men. Both groups were
asked to give four reasons for their recommendation.

The group of women concluded that computers should be referred
to in masculine gender because:
1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half
the time they ARE the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you had
waited a little longer, you could have had a better model.

The men, on the other hand, decided that computers should
definitely be referred to in the feminine gender because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other
computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory
for later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself
spending half your paycheck on accessories.

About two weeks before Christmas, a little Catholic boy decided
to write a letter to Santa. He started "Dear Santa, ", he
thought "No, I will go to a higher authority", so he decided to
write a letter to Jesus.

"Dear Jesus, If you get me a bike for Christmas, I will be good
for two weeks, "

"NO NO NO NO I can't be good for two weeks", he thought to
himself.

So he started all over again,

"Dear Jesus, If you get me a bike for Christmas I will be good
for one week."

"NO NO NO NO I can't be good for one week", he thought to
himself.

So he quickly ran to the Study room and grabbed their statue of
Mary, and quickly wrapped it up in a blanket.

He started all over again.

"Dear Jesus, I have your mother, if you ever want to see her
again, get me a bike for Christmas!"

The most expensive mobile phone in the world - costing more than £500,000 - is being made in Austria.

The phone, designed by luxury accessories maker Peter Aloisson, has sections of pure gold as well as 2,950 blue diamonds embedded into the cover. 

Aloisson has for the past few years been taking existing phones and customising them with jewels and precious metals.

"I knew that mobile phones would become part of daily life, and as with all things that are part of daily life, such as watches or tie pins, there should be luxury versions of them," he told CNN.

Aloisson currently produces about three phones per year, depending on orders from his celebrity and wealthy clients, mostly retailing for about £20,000.

The new phone is a special order for a German manufacturer.

"It will feature solid gold parts with an exterior covered with 2,950 natural blue diamonds, some of the rarest jewels on Earth," he said.

Although the phone is being constructed for marketing purposes, it will eventually be sold off.

The New Priest
There was a catholic priest heading a parish in one small town.When the people discovered that the priest didn't like the way they confess there fornicating and adultery act they decided to code it so instead of saying that they commited adultery the will say "i fell".
The old priest was then posted away to another town and there come the new preist, so one day the new preist call one of the elder in church and i said "we should try to do something to improve the road because many people use to fall beacause the road is bad,the elder hearing this started laughing,then the priest look at him and said "why are you laughing is this a laughing matter? even your wife fell four times last week"

Janet Jackson Wants Fans To Design New Album Cover

The cover of Janet Jackson's new album, 20 Years Old, due out September 26, will be designed by a fan. On July 18, Janet launched a contest giving fans an opportunity to create the artwork for her ninth studio set.


The Design Me contest requires participants to download images of Janet, create proposed album covers, and to post the creations on the contest page. Contestants will vote for their favorite submissions, and Janet will select her top four favorites, which will be used for the first one million copies of the album.


Janet and her beau Jermaine Dupri, President Virgin Records, Urban Music, came up with the idea for the promotion. "We were going on the website and looking at all this creative stuff the kids were doing, and it amazed us," Janet says. "They were taking old pictures and they were just very creative with all the designs. We said, 'Let's have these kids design our album cover.'"


Janet hand-picked dozens of images, new and old, to be used in the contest. "They told me that I should pick maybe 20, 30 photos, but I think I went a little crazy," Janet says. "I picked way more than that. I gave them some of the new stuff I just shot for the album cover shoot. So they have some really recent photos as well as some stuff from 20 years ago."


Janet does not give participants any parameters for their designs. She wants them to be uninhibited and to "go for it."


"That's what it's really about," Janet says, "for them to manipulate it and get creative, and go wherever their images takes them."


To enter the contest, contestants should visit: http://designme.janetjackson.com.

George W. Bush, in an airport lobby, noticed a man in a long
flowing white robe with a long flowing white beard and flowing
white hair.

The man had a staff in one hand and some stone tablets under
the other arm. George W. approached the man and inquired,
"Aren't you Moses?" The man ignored George W. and stared at the
ceiling.

George W. positioned himself more directly in the man's view
and asked again, "Aren't you Moses?" The man continued to
peruse the ceiling. George W. tugged at the man's sleeve and
asked once again, "Aren't you Moses?"

The man finally responded in an irritated voice, "YES, I AM!"

George W. asked him why he was so uppity and had taken so long
to answer him.

The man replied, "The last time I spoke to a Bush I ended up
stuck in a desert for forty years!

Gamine:
well king larry don't blow up for goodness sake!
i felt u copied that stuff thats all.ok

Why should I? this is a public forum and everybody is entitle to his or her own oppinon, so i dont give tought to it if am not guilty.

[b]Be careful when entering your husband or wife's name in your phone!
U better enter names or code instead of husband, wife, darling, home, etc.

Criminals are into it nowadays!



Here is a true story:

This lady has changed her habit on the hand phone after her handbag was stolen.

Her handbag which contained her mobile, credit card, purse, etc, was stolen.

Twenty min later she called her hubby, telling him what happened.

Husband says "I just received your SMS asking about your Pin number

And I've replied a little while ago".



When they rushed down to the bank, Bank staff told them all the money was

already withdrawn. The pickpocket had actually used the stolen hand phone to

sms "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the pin number.


Within 20 mins he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.


Morale of the lesson:
Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list.

Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mum etc. and very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked thru SMS, CONFIRM by calling back.[/b]

[b]Prince Poldi crowned Gillette Best Young Player

The FIFA Technical Study Group has made its decision, bestowing Germany's Lukas Podolski with the coveted Gillette Best Young Player award. Selected from a shortlist of six talented nominees, the striker becomes the first Gillette Best Young Player award winner in the history of the FIFA World Cup™.
Germany enjoyed a thrilling FIFA World Cup journey on home soil, achieving a place in the semi-finals few felt confident of predicting before the tournament began. A joy to watch as they poured forward in attack, the hosts owed much of their success to the fearsome strike duo of Miroslav Klose and Podolski. Junior partner Podolski, at 21, was one of 40 candidates competing for the title of Gillette Best Young Player.

An integral part of Jurgen Klinsmann's starting line-up, 'Prince Poldi' already boasts a tally of 15 goals in 31 games for his country. An impressive haul for one so young, over the course of this FIFA World Cup Podolski has demonstrated time and time again that he thrives under pressure.

"He not only scored three goals, he was a key element in Germany's attack," explained Holger Osieck, Head of the FIFA Technical Study Group. "He showed a great understanding with Miroslav Klose and the two players formed a very effective partnership. Together, they netted eight of the Mannschaft's 11 goals."
Three strikes and boundless energy
The Polish-born German put in perhaps his strongest performance against Sweden in the Round of 16, firing in a brace to cap a display of tireless front-running. Facing Argentina in the quarter-finals, the youngster once again gave everything. The Bayern Munich-bound forward demonstrated real character in what was an extremely tight encounter, not least when he coolly converted from the spot during the penalty shoot-out.

Having scored against Ecuador in the first round, Podolski currently has three goals to his name and will be looking to bolster his account in the match for third place against Portugal on Saturday.

His youth may have caused him to snap at a few chances along the way, but ‘Poldi’ undoubtedly possesses remarkable maturity for a 21-year-old. However, his greatest attributes have to be his boundless energy and hunger for success. "Another factor we considered was how much playing-time he saw," added Osieck. "He started all the games and was only substituted after scoring twice against Sweden and right at the end of the Poland match."
Indeed, his statistics bear out his considerable contribution to the host nation's cause: in 563 minutes, Podolski struck three goals, took 21 shots and drew 15 fouls. "Our choices are based on hard facts and how a player performs at a given tournament, the World Cup in this case," concluded Osiek. "Podolski still has a lot to learn but he is clearly a player with a great future." [/b]

Have you ever lost contact of a freind or lost one? you can post the name and where you met last, there maybe someone in here who know the person or know the person who know him or her, even the person may be a nairalander. So lets go, this may be an oppoutunity to connect the disconnected friends again.

Here is another one

I dont think i draw,but am use to playing with my pencil when i am less busy