e4-c5 or e4-e5

Well,I don't know how many of the "numerous" people, who visit this heavenly place, do play chess but then I think that even a novice at chess would be knowing a bit about it.
It has been a week full of making my moves correctly for me.Yes,its purely chess...just a game and trust me, I have never enjoyed and learnt so much of it in so short duration.Ups and downs, highs and lows, we went through them and finally unlike a bollywood movie type "And they lived happily ever after" ending, in all probability we will be left with just a small piece of cherry.

The interhalls kicked off in style with our first match against Nehru in which we almost lost 3-0 until I got my share of UNDESRVED luck and we made it 2-1, a defeat but not all that awful. (from the scoreline point of view I am talking about :) )

As far as the games are concerned, I don't know whether any of the people play Ruy Lopez here but I would say that with white if you are going for Ruy Lopez my suggestion would be think twice!Its not as simple as it looks...its good, its attacking but its vulnerable.With black, after a lot of research (within the constraints of space, time and our intellect) we finally settled for Najdorf which did look quite aggressive for black.For the first time I implemented it today god hold of the game, dominated...came to the end game, with 25 more minutes than my opponent, one pawn up....and overlooked a simple trap only to find myself singing "I tried so hard and got so far but in the end it doesn't even matter!"

Enough of technical terms I guess, but it was really an enjoyable week and believe me, its really a great fun to watch a game of chess.
After around 3-4 years, I came back to this wonderful game.Chess has always been my favourite game and I am really glad to find a lot of time to play in full flow again.
We finally made it to semis, lost in the semis and now we will fight for Bronze tomorrow.
May god help us in achieving that Bronze!I wish me and my team all the good luck! :)

Bond, James Bond!

After a month long vacation, I finally (very reluctantly) set foot on the ground of Kharagpur yet again...coming closer towards a longer lasting salvation and solitude.I had spent barely a few hours in acclimatising myself before I was handed over with one piece of paper which most of the iitians inadvertently tend to throw away! (barring a few exceptions who are still stuck in the rat race of grades and marks). But still I had some kind of curiosity about my CGPA (cumulative grade point average which is called as CG ).I saw the magical figure and it just reminded me of the greatest fictional character ever! Bond-James Bond.We often used to crack a joke (not an original) that my CG is 9- 6.9.In this case though, quite unfortunately, it was true! My CG was 8....7.8! For a second I laughed for I had retired from the race of the lesser mortals for the grades long back.But then, the third consecutive massacre was a bit hard to deal with.Not that it came completely unannounced but then again seeing anything in black and white does tend to make you think a bit.
This time I was or rather am quite stubborn about my decision to study regularly.I said to myself "ok, enough is enough, this time I am going to study regularly and I am going to get 9.5!" Now, I started contemplating my grades and plans for getting 9.5.
I also realized that it was quite a daunting task but then I told myself "when the going gets tough the tough gets going"
This also reminded me of many more things that I had to carry out..for years I used to be depressed about the state of the rickshaw pullers and other fourth class people in West Bengal.I really wanted to do something for them.I could clearly see that this was probably the only sem where I could do any such things.So, finally I was going to get the home lessons of time management!Also, the news of terrorist attacks on IISc and its repercusions on IITs had really saddened me....so I had decided to educate the Indian Muslims to be loyal...I had very less time at my disposal.This further led me to chalk out a plan to educate all the infidels all around the world...so there could be no fights between the rulers and ruled....which will lead to world peace....which will eventually make all the people equal...there won't be any oppressed and oppressors....everyone would be happy! There won't be any poors and riches...all of them will be self sufficient!There won't be any war..all the countries would be co-operating each other.There won't be any gangsters and murders and AIDS will be a disease of the past.Everyone would be happy...everybody would be completely happy...so I had some extravagant plans in my tiny little brain results of which would be hidden from noone in a time of barely a few months.My 9.5 would just be one of them....everyone would be happy.....