George Duke wrote on Mon, Jan 13, 2014 07:57 PM UTC:
So much for the element of surprise: Is d4 or e4 the better, asks
Chessbase, the Simpleminded Chess site,
http://en.chessbase.com/post/1-e4-best-by-test-part-2? Suppose, within
different elo ranges, one stands atop 1% or 2%. Then theoretically they
can ban the other opening move from given tournament, as stupid, and
eventually everyone must play even the first ten moves alike. Well, almost they do already in generalized sense that each sensible first 8 or 10 has been long recognizable as to have own disambiguated name.
Hence the liturgical ring of some "Nimzo-Indian Defence, Normal Variation,
Bernstein Defence, Exchange Line" though "simply" '1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3
Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 0-0 5 Nf3 d5 6 Bd3 c5 7 0-0 Nc6 8 a3 Bxc3 9 Bxc3...' It and
hundreds others speak volumes in memorizable confining repetition of fundamentalists.
The November 2014 championship is fully in the works: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/7672-bidding-procedure-fide-world-championship-match-2014-.html. It will pit Carlsen and someone other than Nakamura. Though Nakamura is now #3 elo, on technicality he happens to lack the pre-qualifiers this year.
"Magnus" and "Gargantua," though different cognates are of course synonyms within and across languages, meaning very big. Too, the images -- http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2012/07/magnus-carlsen-am-i-tired-what-stupid.html,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pantagruel%27s_childhood.jpg -- arguably bear not altogether remote resemblance, one of OrthoChess Carlsen, other from Rabelais five-book masterpiece. Now his 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'(circa 1540) is totally concerning Chess of the 1530s, when modern ranging Queen was recent invention, expressed in this work's Chapter XXV, http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rabelais/francois/r11g/book5.25.html, and later illustrated by Gustave Dore.