I understand facebook. I can’t for the life of me figure out what the heck Twitter is for. To blare out 2 line idiocies, do people need the attention that badly? I wouldn’t waste 2 seconds on it. Already wasted too much time posting about it.
Anti-Monroevillean?
RD3. Shak beat Giri in 41 half moves. Others drew.
Some believe that To Kill a Mockingbird was written, or at least heavily edited and/or re-written, by Harper Lee’s childhood friend Truman Capote.
Capote and Lee grew up a few blocks apart in Monroeville. The character Dill is supposedly based largely on Capote as a boy. Lee downplayed the autobiographical aspect of the novel, which seems obvious when you read her bio.
I am no expert on Capote’s work, but from what I have read I doubt he wrote “Mockingbird.”
Catherine Keener convinced me that Lee wrote In Cold Blood. 
Nakamura is certainly playing interesting chess in London!
RD4. Grischu(c)k 1 Mamedyarov 0…Gelfand 1 Wang 0…others 1/2
RD5. All 1/2 Nakamura’s foe missed a bishop sac that should’ve sealed the deal.
Does Nakamura have a chance in qualifying for the world champion candidates cycle, etc?
For the next (match in 2013?), no. Nakamura is not one of the eight participants in the Candidates tournament (taking place in March 2013) nor is he one of the two alternates should anyone drop out.
For the following cycle (match in 2014?), yes. Nakamura is currently participating in the Grand Prix tournaments, where the top players will qualify for the Candidates tournament in that cycle. Nakamura did poorly in the first tournament, but he’s not out of it yet, as each player’s lowest score will be dropped.
What is “interesting” chess? That needs to be defined in the context of winning a world title. Tal and Alekhine had styles that were popular with the public. Alekhine was forced to play with greater technical proficiency in order to defeat Capablanca. He banked down his tactics in favor of playing often tedious endgames. Tal could not hold the title for long and could not fight his way through the heavily prepared theorists, logicians, and univeral players of his time back to challenge once again for the world championship.
There are several markers for most of those who have held the title:
- Exceptional knowledge and experience in the endgame.
- Consistency in handling typical middlegame postions
- Strong will to prepare along with a strong will to win.
- High degree of tactical vision and ability to calculate complex positions.
- Defensive skill in all types of positions. Ability to hold many inferior positions.
It may also be necessary for a player to master himself as well as the pieces on the board. When you look at many of the champions, they have had difficulty being “up” all of the time. Ennui, fading interest, the search for something more have all plagued them. As many of the GMs who have striven for the crown have discovered, it is not so easy to rise to the occasion. Nerves, personal flaws, and the weaknesses of being human have all been obstacles in the path. Eternal “seconds” are in every generation, great players who should have been champion but for one reason or another failed to scale the ultimate peak. We lesser mortals know the pains of defeat and thwarted hopes all too well. Of course, we play just for fun, don’t we?
For me, interesting = trying to win. Serve and volley has the right to exist, but so does baseline. So Carlsen is almost always very interesting.
A couple of Nakamura’s recent wins against Giri might look a little arid to the bloodthirsty. But most tournament players appreciate how hard it is to grind a player like this.
Herr Nakamura will battle the following opponents at next January’s Tata Steel Event Carlsen-Aronian-Caruana-Anand-Harikrishna-Karjakin-Leko-Wang Hao-Hou-Giri-Wely-Sokolov-L’Ami
Best wishes to all combatants 
There are only 2 sections instead of 3.
He finished tenth in the chess oscar voting
“Fighting Chess with Hikaru Nakamura” is on sale now. Be sure to compare prices :mrgreen:
Don’t forget the London Chess Classic in early December, featuring Nakamura, Carlsen, Aronian, Anand, Kramnik, Adams, Polgar, McShane and Gawain. Yes, there’s an odd number at this event.
The odd (wo)man out usually does commentary.
Happy Thanksgiving and or Thursday to Mr. Nakamura and the rest of the planet.
London Chess Classic has begun. Nakamura(black) is up at least 0.24 on Aronian through 26 ply according to the Houdini chess thingamabob
He just drew Carlsen who I think may never lose a game again EVER!!!
Happy birthday to Mr.Nakamura and 4 others