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I built a solar hot water system for my father's house. To save money, I built my own solar panels using copper tubing, wood frame, cover glass, and styrofoam board insulation- two 4'x4' and one 3'x3' panels. Built a south facing platform sloped for the latitude. Modified the hot water heater for solar, and surrounded it with additional insulation. Installed plumbing, check valve, differential controller and recirculation pump. The system was not very efficient, but it worked.
Later I designed a system using double-walled transparent polycarbonate glazing panels with manifolds glued onto the ends, water blackened with india ink, a heat exchanger and 250 pounds of paraffin wax for heat storage in a 55 gallon oil drum surrounded by fiberglass insulation. The sun heated the blacked water directly; the pump circulated this water through the heat exchanger counterflow to the domestic water. This heated the stagnant domestic water in the heat exchanger to 137F buffered by the melting point of the wax. When a hot water tap was opened, this preheated water flowed into a conventional hot water heater. As the wax solidified it supplied its latent heat of fusion to the flowing domestic water. Design flaws compromised the efficiency of the system; however, it worked, and I believe a commercial unit could be designed to be entirely satisfactory. If I were to do a domestic solar hot water system today, I'd do it differently yet again. I'd use a high efficiency commercial panel- 4'x8' or 5'x10'; Large pre-heat tank of perhaps 160 gallons; small hot water heater of perhaps 30 gallons; hot-water/cold-water mixing valve. The solar panel would preheat the water to whatever temperature the conditions would allow. If this temperature was lower than required, the water heater would raise it. If the temperature of the water in the heater was higher than required then the mixing valve would add cold water to the outflowing hot water to reduce the temperature to that specified. This would entail no penalty because it would merely cut down the flow of water from the heater- thus conserving hot water in the pre-heat and heater tanks. I'm certain a system could be properly engineered for hot water requirements and climate to provide a high percentage of total yearly domestic hot water needs at reasonable capital expense. A fourth alternative is to have flash heaters and mixers at all hot water taps, and no conventional hot water heater- only the solar pre-heat tank. This would have the highest capital costs, but also would be most efficient in operation. Interestingly, Israel has the largest usage, proportionate to popuation, of simple thermosyphon solar domestic hot water systems in the world ___________________ solar hot water system dealer Last edited by indatom123; 12-28-2010 at 12:16 PM. |
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Knicks Coach Resigns While Under Fire From Superstar And Fans
It's just sitting there, blank and full of possibilities, open to any permutation your little heart desires. Everyone and their brother fills one out, but your bracket is special. It represents your gut feelings, your carefully crafted March Madness theories. When it's done, you sit back and admire it, sure that this is the year you nail virtually every pick.
But something inevitably goes wrong.
That Cinderella never dances. That sure-fire Final Four team goes ice cold. Nobody guards the f*cking inbounder in a late-game situation.
Yes, it all goes to pot and someone's girlfriend, who made her selections based on which mascot was the most ferocious, wins the your pool. LOL
Jeremy Lin struggled on Sunday against the 76ers, finishing with 14 points on 5-of-18 shooting to go along with seven assists, three rebounds and six turnovers. His poor shooting eclipsed his usual heavy turnovers. Lin also led all Knicks in FG atempts .. 18 while Melo had but 13, Amare had but 9.
TEBO II is now more written in cement than the flash of linsanity that is now offically a fluke.
Low IQ fans along with a bias Anti- Melo & Amare Media are blind to the truth that LIN is more TEBO than not.
How can a PG take horrific shots such as lin and remain on the floor is beyond reason. LIN throws the ball at the rim rather than shoot.
How is it allowed that he takes more shots then anyone on the Knicks? Lin has proven he can't guard anyone with a pulse in this league.
But the hype lives on to the point of destruction of any chance this team has to move forward.
Don't worry knick fans with a clue. It will all be over tonight after the BULLS demolish LIN for DANTONI'S LAST GAME.
What took it so long to happen is a topic for debate after the BULLS game.
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The American Kidney Fund advocates for policies that improve the quality of care for individuals with both chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Below are our policy priorities for this year.
Essential Health Benefits - In 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to set standards for essential health benefits – a set of items and services that health plans will be required to offer beginning in January 2014. In the rule, CMS outlined an approach that would give each State the flexibility to define its essential health benefits package through the selection of an existing benchmark plan, rather than prescribe a specific list of items and services that all health plans must provide.
POSITION: AKF understands the need for state flexibility but maintains the position that states should clarify coverage of ESRD as an essential health benefit within the qualified health plans.
Health Insurance Exchanges - Health insurance exchanges are new organizations mandated by the Affordable Care Act that will be set up to create a more organized and competitive market for buying health insurance. They will offer a choice of different health plans, certifying plans that participate and providing information to help consumers better understand their options. Beginning in 2014, exchanges will serve primarily individuals buying insurance on their own and small businesses with up to 100 employees. States have been given the option to run their own marketplaces, partner with the federal government to set up and manage the marketplaces, or allow the federal government to run the program. As of February 15, 2013, the deadline for states to express their intent, it appeared as though 26 states opted for a federally run program, 7 states opted for a partnership, and the remaining 17 states will run their own exchanges.
POSITION: AKF supports the creation of health insurance exchanges. As matter of equity and access, as the health exchanges are developed, AKF will advocate to ensure that plans do not discriminate against patients with ESRD and that ESRD patients have access to the same benefits and subsidies available to others.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act delayed the implementation of automatic cuts to Medicare, including its ESRD program, that were scheduled to take effect in January 2013. These cuts are part of sequestration – a series of federal budget cuts that were enacted as a result of the failed Super Committee negotiations of 2011. These cuts are now scheduled to take effect at the beginning of March, and the Medicare ESRD program could see a reduction of up to two percent. The Medicare ESRD program has faced a series of significant payment reforms since 2011 including: a new bundled payment system that came with a 2 percent reduction in provider reimbursements; a new Quality Incentive Program (QIP) that further reduced payments to certain facilities; and a low projected payment update to the ESRD bundled payment system.
POSITION: AKF and the kidney care community have and will continue to strongly advocate against these and any further cuts that may threaten kidney patients' access to quality care.
Kidney failure is the only chronic disease that automatically qualifies an individual for Medicare, regardless of age. Dialysis patients have the option to continue with their employer group health plans (EGHPs) as a primary payer for the first 30 months after their diagnosis. After that period, patients must use Medicare as their primary insurance, even if the EGHP offers better coverage, and Medicare becomes the secondary payer. Other Medicare patients already have the option of continuing their private insurance as primary for as long as they choose. For many patients, private health insurance coverage provides a more extensive benefit package and lower out-of-pocket costs.
POSITION: As a matter of equity, ESRD patients should be given the option of continuing private coverage beyond 30 months if they choose. AKF will support proposals to retain and extend private coverage for ESRD patients for an additional 12 months. In the context of reducing the federal debt, AKF believes that extending MSP could provide cost savings to the government by delaying enrollment into Medicare.
A kidney transplant is often the treatment option associated with the best outcomes for patients. Patients who receive a kidney transplant must take immunosuppressive drugs for the life of their kidney transplant. However, Medicare will only pay for these anti-rejection drugs for the first 36 months after a patient receives their transplant. These medications average $17,000 per year. Patients who are unable to pay for the medications are often forced to discontinue their use, resulting in kidney rejection and a return to Medicare-covered dialysis treatments at an annual cost of nearly $71,000 per patient.
POSITION: AKF urges Congress to fund the vital lifetime coverage for immunosuppressive drugs.
The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA) created a Quality Incentive Program (QIP) for Medicare's ESRD program, which took effect in January 2012. The QIP, now entering its second payment year, establishes a payment reduction program for dialysis facilities based on performance standards on specific measures of dialysis care.
POSITION: AKF supports the establishment of the ESRD QIP and will continue to monitor the implementation of QIP and consideration of future measures. Specifically, AKF remains concerned about the lack of a clear minimum standard of anemia management in the QIP, and will continue to work with CMS to establish a clinically relevant lower hemoglobin measure to protect patients.
The growing epidemic of kidney disease in America highlights the importance of robust medical research to continue to improve care and outcomes for over 31 million people living with this disease. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has been funding research, providing new pathways for treating and preventing kidney disease. Under the sequester, several thousand researchers could lose their jobs. In addition, up to 12,000 scientists and students will be impacted.
POSITION: As Congress addresses issues surrounding budget reconciliation and deficit reduction, AKF urges a thoughtful, balanced approach, taking into account the importance of NIH and the impact that federal investments in biomedical research have on improving and saving lives, as well as reducing health costs.
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ASU Selected For Nuclear Protection ProgramASU will soon be the home to the world's first training program designed to protect our nation's nuclear power sites. It's been years in the making, but the board of trustees unanimously voted to approve the project. Board Chairman Elton Dean says it was a pleasant surprise when Total Protection Services selected ASU out of the entire country.
"It's cutting edge. The biggest change, we never did expect anything like this so soon. For somebody to choose you out of all these institutions to partner with nuclear regulatory and training people for security and nuclear jobs, it's just phenomenal," said Dean.
Now that the board has approved the program, Total Protection Services's CEO Phrantceena Halres will work with the school to develop the specific training. She says once students graduate, they'll have guaranteed jobs with her company.
"Very good paying jobs, very good paying jobs particularly in rural areas at a time when unemployment is very high. So we're excited about that, we're excited about the partnership with the university," said Halres.
There were several reasons that the company picked ASU to train students for work with nuclear power plants, but one really stood out.
"The geographic location, because as Ms. Halres says, 91% of these nuclear power facilities are located east of the Mississippi," said Donald Watkins, a former ASU board member.
The program will be funded by grants and any other universities who want the program will have to be licensed through ASU.
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Four new sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List
The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (Ukraine), the Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia), The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape (France) and León Cathedral (Nicaragua) - have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. The full list of new inscriptions which is now complete will be given out shortly.
The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans (Ukraine) represents a masterful synergy of architectural styles built by Czech architect Josef Hlavka from 1864 to 1882. The property, an outstanding example of 19th -century historicist architecture, also includes a seminary and monastery and is dominated by the domed, cruciform Seminary Church with a garden and park. The complex expresses architectural and cultural influences from the Byzantine period onward and embodies the powerful presence of the Orthodox Church during Habsburg rule, reflecting the Austro-Hungarian Empire policy of religious tolerance.
Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai (Mongolia). The numerous rock carvings and funerary monuments found in these three sites illustrate the development of culture in Mongolia over a period of 12,000 years. The earliest images reflect a time (11,000 - 6,000 BC) when the area was partly forested and the valley provided a habitat for hunters of large game. Later images show the transition to herding as the dominant way of life. The most recent images show the transition to a horse-dependent nomadic lifestyle during the early 1st millennium BC, the Scythian period and the later Turkic period (7th and 8th centuries AD). The carvings contribute valuably to our understanding of pre-historic communities in northern Asia.
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean Agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape (France). The 302,319 hectare property, in the southern part of central France, is a mountain landscape interspersed by deep valleys that is representative of the relationship between agro-pastoral systems and their biophysical environment, notably through drailles or drove roads. Villages and substantial stone farmhouses on deep terraces of the Causses reflect the organization of large abbeys from the 11th century. Mont Lozère, inside the property, is one of the last places where summer transhumance is still practiced.
León Cathedral (Nicaragua) . Built between 1747 and the early 19th century to the design of Guatemalan architect Diego José de Porres Esquivel, the monument expresses the transition from Baroque to Neoclassical architecture and its style can be considered to be eclectic. The Cathedral is characterized by the sobriety of its interior decoration and the abundance of natural light. The vault of the Sanctuary, however, presents rich ornamentation. The Cathedral houses important works of art including a wooden Flemish altarpiece, and paintings of the 14 stations of the Way of the Cross by Nicaraguan artist Antonio Sarria (late 19th and early 20th centuries).
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- Twenty-five new properties inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List which now numbers 936 Tuesday, June 28, 2011
- Six new sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Monday, June 27, 2011
- Sites in Ethiopia, Kenya and Viet Nam inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Monday, June 27, 2011
- World Heritage Committee inscribes five new sites in Colombia, Sudan, Jordan, Italy and Germany Saturday, June 25, 2011
- Barbados enters World Heritage List with Bridgetown and its Garrison; Hiraizumi (Japan) and Germany's Beech Forests also inscribed Saturday, June 25, 2011
- Ancient Chinese cultural landscape, the West Lake of Hangzhou, inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Friday, June 24, 2011
- Japan's Ogasawara Islands on UNESCO's World Heritage List Friday, June 24, 2011
- Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley and Australia's Ningaloo Coast inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Friday, June 24, 2011
- Senegal's Saloum Delta inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List Friday, June 24, 2011


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This cardinal was perched on the branch which is located right outside our kitchen window. I didn't think I could get my camera quick enough to get a good shot, but he just sat there and looked at me.
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Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez sent his side four points clear at the top of the Premier League with two goals in a 3-2 comeback win at Aston Villa on Saturday.
Austria international Andreas Weimann scored either side of half-time to give Villa - who have not beaten United on home soil in the league for 17 years - a deserved two-goal lead.
But half-time substitute Hernandez inspired the United comeback as he scored twice and was only denied a hat-trick after the visitors' second goal went down as a Ron Vlaar own goal.United manager Alex Ferguson made six changes to the team that beat Braga 3-1 in the Champions League during the week, when United booked their place in the last 16.Rio Ferdinand, Rafael Da Silva, Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Ashley Young and Robin van Persie all returned to the starting line-up, with the injured pair of Jonny Evans and Nani ruled out.Villa coach Paul Lambert made one change to the side that won at Sunderland, as Enda Stevens came in at left-back for the injured Joe Bennett.United started brightly and former Villa man Young went close when he cut in from the left flank in the fifth minute and curled a low shot around the post from distance.Villa seemed content to soak up the pressure and hit on the counter-attack.
Ashley Westwood's lofted ball over the top found Christian Benteke in the 15th minute and his near-post effort was saved by United goalkeeper David de Gea.Wayne Rooney had been shackled well by the Villa defence but he gave a reminder of his threat when he hit a shot from 30 yards that went straight at Villa keeper Brad Guzan.
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However, it was Villa who took the lead on the stroke of half-time, when Belgium international Benteke showed great strength to shrug off United defender Chris Smalling on the hosts' left flank.Benteke's low cross picked out the run of Weimann on the edge of the penalty area and the Villa forward smashed a superb shot past de Gea, who failed to react in time, and into the roof of the net.Villa made a brilliant start to the second half and Weimann scored his second five minutes after the break when he finished off a sweeping move.Midfielder Stephen Ireland spread the ball out to Gabriel Agbonlahor on the left wing and he delivered a pinpoint cross into the six-yard area for the unmarked Weimann to tap past de Gea.United hit back moments later, though, when Paul Scholes lifted a ball over the top of the Villa defence for Hernandez, who had replaced Young at the interval.The Mexico international broke clear of the Villa defence and kept his cool to strike a low shot past the dive of Guzan in the Villa goal.United equalised in the 63rd minute when Rafael's cross found Hernandez at the back post and his volley from a tight angle struck the chest of Dutch centre-back Vlaar and deflected into the net.Van Persie then rattled the crossbar twice in the space of a minute when he got his head on a Valencia corner and curled a shot goalwards from 25 yards out.
And the Netherlands international then had a hand in United's winner when his 87th-minute free-kick was met by the diving Hernandez, who headed past Guzan to seal a brilliant second-half comeback.
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House Bill 1698 reduces the medical fee schedule for workers' compensation claims by 30 percent as of September 1, 2011. It also adopts the American Medical Association standards for determining disability, institutes workers' compensation provider networks that resemble those currently used for health care, and implements an enhanced claims review process. In addition, these reforms call for the appointment of workers' compensation arbitrators to three year terms that will be approved by the Senate. The legislation also makes another vital reform; if an employee's injury is a result of intoxication the employee will not receive workers' compensation benefits for that injury. Lastly, the legislation institutes a new system of fraud penalties with increased fines and possible prison time if there are additional cases of fraud.
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(A note in regard to that: The West Virginia attorney general's office has been added to the school's filed lawsuit as counsel.)
But if anyone within the Mountaineer athletic department knows the Big 12, it's Huggins. Kansas State gave him an opportunity after his falling out with Cincinnati.
During the 2006-07 season, Huggins led the Wildcats to 23 wins, their most in 19 years, and built the base for excitement in Manhattan before moving to the Mountain State.
The style of play within the Big 12?
"It's like in every league," Huggins said. "You have contrasting styles. Some play slower, some play faster. Some play zone 90 percent of the time, some play man-to-man 100 percent of the time.
"Obviously, though, there aren't as many contrasting styles because you have six less teams [than the Big East]. Other than that, it's about the same."
Huggins said if the rumors of extending the runway at Morgantown's airport come true, travel shouldn't be a problem.
"It takes about the same time to travel to Manhattan, Kansas, as Manhattan, New York, if you consider the travel after you get off the plane at LaGuardia, etc.,'' he said. "It might, though, affect our fan base."
Whatever the case, Huggins will survive and, more than likely, thrive with the new challenges.
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The Plumas County Board of Supervisors recently approved a $230,000 settlement with former county employee Tim Ball, stemming from his layoff in 2005 and the subsequent 2008 closing of the county's alcohol and drug department, where Ball worked.
Ball agreed to dismiss any lawsuits, allegations or complaints, including those filed with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, against the county except for workers' compensation claims.
The settlement also indicated Ball discharged the county from any other liability or obligations from the time he was employed to the date of the settlement.
The settlement stressed Ball could never work for the county again: "Ball agrees that he shall not and cannot ever, for the rest of his life, apply for, reapply for, seek, or accept employment with the county."
The county spent $100,000 on outside legal counsel to handle the case before County Counsel James Reichle intervened and arranged for mediation. The case had been scheduled to go to trial in January, at an estimated cost of $300,000.
The county is self-insured for $100,000, which will go to the outside counsel, and has excess insurance through the California State Association of Counties, which will pick up the rest of the costs.
This is not the first time Ball and the county have been at odds. Ball filed a grievance when he was terminated in 2002. In that case, an arbitrator ordered that the county reinstate Ball with back pay.
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Lighter and spicier, chicken salad is dressed in a lemony mix of nonfat yogurt with just a touch of mayonnaise. The flavor is boosted by aromatic curry powder and a kick of jalapeno. Almonds are a source of "good" fat; apple chunks supply fiber.
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- 1 lemon, halved
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 6 sprigs fresh cilantro, plus more for garnish, plus 1 tablespoon coarsely chopped fresh cilantro leaves
- 1 jalapeno, quartered
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (about 1 pound total)
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- 1 small Granny Smith apple, cored and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- 3/4 teaspoon coarse salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 4 whole-wheat pitas (2 1/2 ounces each)
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Fill a medium (4-quart) stockpot halfway with water; add 1 lemon half, garlic, cilantro sprigs, and jalapeno. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 5 minutes. Add chicken. Simmer, partially covered, until chicken is cooked through, about 16 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer chicken to a plate; discard liquid. Tent chicken with foil, and let stand until cool enough to handle. Cut chicken into 1/2-inch pieces.
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Stir yogurt, mayonnaise, 2 teaspoons lemon juice from remaining lemon half, the curry powder, scallions, almonds, chopped cilantro, apple, and salt; season with pepper. Stir in chicken.
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Toast pitas. Top each with a lettuce leaf. Spoon 1 cup chicken salad over lettuce, and garnish with a cilantro sprig.
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mamatothemax17 Sep, 2009
I agree that I don't think much flavor was added by poaching the chicken with the other ingredients. Great chx salad, though!
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very good. did not think there was much flavor added by boiling in jalepeno/cilantro/lemon water. would bypass that step in the future and save on extra ingredients. other than that, the flavor was fantastic! will definitely make it again


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Beauty in Chess IV: What we can learn from ski jumping
In his fourth column about beauty in chess, Michael Schwerteck was inspired by the recent German championship, as well as by ski jumping.
It has always bugged me that the scoring system in chess is so primitive. As everybody knows, there are only three possible results: 1, 1/2, and 0. However, there are so many different ways to achieve them!
Let's compare two different kinds of games: in one game the players are full of fighting spirit, both strive for the full point, blow meets counterblow, and finally, after a tough 80-move battle, there are only two bare kings left. On the neighbouring board, meanwhile, the players have reproduced 10 moves of well-known theory, shaken hands and spent the rest of the day at the beach. The result is exactly the same: half a point for everybody.
Another example. Somebody plays a brilliant attacking game, has his opponent completely on the ropes, but suddenly suffers from chess blindness, hangs a piece and has to resign. He gets exactly the same thing (zero points) as someone who makes mistake after mistake, blunders one piece after another and gets mated quickly, at the same time overstepping the time limit (yes, these are real-life examples!). Isn't this totally unfair?
They say that chess is not just a sport, but also an art. However, artistic play usually gets little reward. Perhaps we could learn from ski jumping: there it does not only matter how far you can jump, you also get points for style. I don't know much about the details, but let's say for argument's sake that a nicely performed 110-metre jump is worth more than a 115-metre jump with a botched landing.
I'm not saying that an ugly win in chess should be worth less than a beautiful draw. Still, it would be nice if there were higher rewards for good style in chess as well. This does not necessarily mean that you have to sacrifice loads of pieces. As far as I'm concerned, you could just as well display some excellent endgame technique. It's not so easy to give a precise definition of "good style", but those who read my articles probably know what I mean.
At least there are some tournaments, if only a few, where best game or brilliancy prizes are awarded. At the recently finished German championship, for instance, the general public was invited to vote for their favourite game via internet. The winner of each round got 100 €. This is not a bad idea, but sometimes the outcome was quite surprising and I have the nagging feeling that some people voted not for their favourite game, but for their favourite player. There shouldn't be any doubt that the jurors are both competent and impartial. Thus I prefer the system that was introduced in Wijk aan Zee: there it was GM Ivan Sokolov who awarded best game prizes (250 €) and there can be little doubt that his choices were justified. It would be a good idea to implement this system in other top tournaments as well.
Still, I wouldn't be completely satisfied. There can easily be two or three equally great games in the same round, and if there is only one prize, what can you do? I would go even further: why shouldn't "style points" even influence the results, as they do in ski jumping? One idea is to use them as a tiebreak system (at least in round-robin tournaments): if several players have the same number of points, priority is given to those who played the most attractive chess. For particularly well played games you can gain style points. If, on the other hands, you make boring draws and show no fighting spirit, points should be deducted.
Now you might say: what about the Sofia rules? Don't they prevent short, uneventful draws? Well, to a certain extent, yes. However, if the players really want to make a quick draw, they can always find an opening line which leads to an early move repetition or perpetual check. E.g. the following line is very useful: 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Lg7 5.Nf3 c5 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.e5 Ng4 8.e6 fxe6 9.Ng5 Bxb5 10.Nxe6 Bxd4 11.Nxd8 Bf2+ draw. When this was played for the first time, it was brilliant. When it was played for the next thousand times, it was a disgrace.
Let's go back to the German championship. In the last round the leader Michael Prusikin (6.5 points) played one of his pursuers, Klaus Bischoff (6), and the other pursuer, Arik Braun (6), was paired against David Baramidze (5,5). Since Braun had the better tiebreak (rating performance), a draw was a dangerous result for Prusikin. One would have expected him to at least keep his game going for a while to see what would happen in the other encounter.
Alas, he made a draw after 12 moves with White! His decision was duly punished when Braun, who chose a highly complex and risky opening, eventually ground down his opponent. However, this game could just as well have ended in a draw and Prusikin would have been rewarded for his non-game - quite annoying in my view. If you want to win a chess tournament, you have to play chess, for heaven's sake. Admittedly, my above-mentioned idea wouldn't have changed much in this case. Perhaps our readers can come up with even better ideas?
I'm glad that Arik Braun won in the end, because he certainly has an attractive playing style – aggressive, dynamic, not afraid of complications. I'll give you one of his games with light comments:
For the record: I'm completely against Sofia and Bilbao rules. 2 plain stupidities!
@Mike: Interesting sideline of this discussion .... . I agree with you that the Alapin can still be efficient (read: white can play for a win)
- as a surprise weapon
- if black also wants to win (probably the case in Svidler-Kasparov). If white can at most obtain a "meaningless +=" in certain lines, black has even less fighting resources ..... .
"About me": Coincidentally, just last Monday I picked up 2.c3 again in a club game against a weaker player, for two reasons: I am not comfortable with the line he plays in the open Sicilian, and - given the rating difference (1900 vs. 1600) - I was reasonably confident that += out of the opening would be enough to win in the end .... indeed I won, but due to his 'creative' play it wasn't a typical Alapin structure.
And the other side of my personal medal: I also play the Sicilian with black, and I tend to be a bit annoyed if white avoids the open lines ..... .
About Svidler: Yep I remembered that game, and found it back on chessgames.com - and an interesting comment from 'plang':
'Svidler describing his opening choice in this game "I thought it was a better idea to play chess against the guy to comparing my opening preparation with him. So I needed something obscure which he had never had on the board before".'
The same database also shows that Svidler continued using this line as a surprise weapon (6 times in a span of 10 years). And once (2001 FIDE WCh) he had a quite convincing win with black against Adams in the same line.
Good chess style and fighting spirit must not be obliged by rules, but rewarded by the admiration of others.
At this moment Sofia rules and BIlbao system are the best remedy for draws , other than that it comes to organizers to chose carefully who they want in their tournaments.
Very nice article again, Michael!
Excellent games! Regarding the game Fridman - Strohh?§ker, I myself as a club player had got good results in most of my games when I use the 3.Bb5 (Rossolimo) or the 2.c2 variation of the Sicilian. The early castles and the center pawns that white creates after 2.c3 or 3.Bb5, with d4 and e4 is normally crushing. I seems that Black's long castles in this game of was almost suicidal...
Short draws are a part of chess just as in football (the real, european kind) you can have games in which the ball rarely enters the penalty box. There is no need for "remedies against draws" because players who make too many draws are less likely to win tournaments and less likely to gain many chess fans.
I am not even sure the celebrated Sofia rules have brought much. I have the feeling of having seen an increase in exchange-everything-as-fast-as-possible type draws since the advent of Sofia rules, but I suppose this could also be an effect of increased focus on opening theory.
¨Short draws are a part of chess just as in football (the real, european kind) ¨
The real , european kind?
You must be kidding , or you chose the worst example to defend your theory.
Or you have the worst taste for footbal a person can have.
It's true, the best football players play in Europe. Thats just not arguable.
I think he was thinking american football - european football (american soccer).
I think we should keep it the way it is. 3 points for a win is not a good idea. Brilliancy prizes should be more common though.
The best football players are southamerican , THAT is something you cant argue about.
Most of them play in Europe becouse of the money , and still southamerican leagues (especially Argentina and Brasil) are far more entertaining than most of the leagues in Europe.
@Mike: I used to play the Alapin (1.e4 c5 2.c3) myself, also as a club player - mostly because I consider it inefficient (or I am too lazy) to study loads of theory in other main lines. However, I more or less abandoned 2.c3 because many continuations are very drawish - usually white cannot build up or keep the strong centre you mentioned.
In the featured game, black was 'cooperative' (or wanted to play for a win), particularly by castling long .... .
@Thomas: I see. You probably are right, because of the modern techniques used in master chess which are used to destabilize the classical center of pawns. But anyway, these openings directed towards rapid development and the establishment of the White's powerful center (a la Morphy..) are always at least a reserve weapon..You probably know that game when Peter Svidler played 2.c3 against Kasparov (at Tilburg Fontys) and won after sacrificing one of the center pawns during the opening, posing a lot of problems to the Black's pieces...
Great article, Michael! For me, however, the fact that chess, like life, contains an element of cruelty (actually often a huge part!) is somehow a huge consolation and even a source of inspiration. Life just isn't perfect and be honest, would you want it to be? Wouldn't it be terribly boring?! What about another sport where points for style are important: ice figure skating? Isn't it terrible, yet at the same time wonderful, that one tiny mistake can lead to a fall and to defeat, even when all intentions of great performance are within the mind of the skater and all other jumps are executed perfectly?
In fact, perhaps people call chess an art not because it can contain beauty (although that, too, of course), but precisely because it's such an unfair and cruel game. After all, isn't all great art in the end about tragedy, unhappiness, failure and death?
Chess is traditionally a mathematical, rational game. I don't think a good idea to introduce the subjective judgement of some kind in order to attribute different points to drawn games for example. The best way is just change the obsolete way (in my opinion) of counting points, for example, just change to: Loss=0, Draw=1 and Win=3 point. This will turn the "drawisch" players into "no-winners" at all, and one will think two times before setting a "cheating" draw (If he want to win something..)
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