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Monday, June 30, 2008

SPAIN WINS


VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A big-game flop no more, Spain won the European Championship 1-0 over Germany on Sunday for its first major title in 44 years.MORE

OBAMA CLINTON DREAM TICKET

HYBRID TICKET

WHY OBAMA WON

THIS IS FROM JUSTIN WEBB,S BLOG ON THE BBC

1. He is black. Geraldine Ferraro has a point: Obama's individual story is important and his racial makeup - he is of mixed race - is a part of his appeal. Black people have rallied to him.

2. He is not black. He is also the first black presidential hopeful to run as a post-racial candidate (hence the upset with Ferraro). White people feel unthreatened by him.

3. He was not taken seriously. Oops. If the Clinton people had blown him out in Iowa, at the beginning of the process, he would be toast.

4. He is serious. This appears to be a serious year, in which Americans are deeply worried about the state of the nation, and Obama's slightly professorial demeanour looks a good fit.

5. He offers self-help and self-improvement. She offered a plan to make America better - he offers a plan to make Americans themselves better.

6. He promises change in a year when Americans are ready for change.

7. He is 46 and handsome.

8. He catches the attention of the media but is a hard target to attack - you look uncool to diss him (as Hillary has discovered).

9. Mark Warner - the former governor of Virginia, the other young anti-Hillary man - didn't stand.

10. Axelrod wrote the script. David Axelrod was an adviser to The West Wing and helped mould the character (Matt Santos) who succeeded Jed Bartlett. He based him on Obama and now Obama seems based on Santos. But either way, it was written... And it has come to pass...

WU CHESS


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THE CHESS MASTER OF HAVARD SQUARE

An intersting post by Daaim here, with great photos.

KENYA SELECTS YOUTH TEAM

Chess Kenya has picked a team of eight boys and eight girls to represent the country in the World Youth Chess Championship slated for Vietnam from October 19 to 31.

The players were picked in the final trials at the Oshwal Academy Nairobi School on June 8. The first selection was in February at Premier Academy where eight boys and same number of girls in each age group were selected.

Kenya will be represented in the following categories: under-8, under-10, under-12, under-14, under-16 and under-18.

Steve Ouma who is in charge of youth chess said on Wednesday that there was a tie in the boys under in the boys under-14 between Ankush Nagba (Premier Academy) and Rahul Mohan (Oshwal Nairobi Primary). A rematch has been organised for the two next Saturday at Nairobi Chess Academy.

Peniel Weru, a 10-year old pupil at Brookfield Academy in Karatina qualified in the boy's under-12 group. It was not smooth sailing for Weru who was beaten to second place by Collins Apiri of Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa, in the national championship cum in February.


ANNAND!!


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EL GINDY EARNS FINAL GM NORM


Following on Amon Simutowe,s footsteps the number of African GMs is growing