Big Apology!!

I owe a big apology to all of my readers! Had no idea that comment moderation was on. And I was wondering why is no one posting comments, sigh :)

I'll try to correct things and answer some of your questions here. Promise to enable comments in the future.


Post about entry fees was interesting one.There are 5 comments, thank you all for sharing your thoughts.

ChessManiac.com Team Member: Funny thing about chessbase they had a news story picked up by google news and at the same time the story was picked up from another news site where the story orginated from. All they did was make a few changes and add some different pictures. (Regarding "Are we paranoid" post)
- Maybe the original site gave permission to ChessBase? Anyway, I think sometimes we make a big deal out of nothing. I wish someone would steal my content, that would be the biggest compliment!

DG and Slotermeyer gave correct answers to Chucky and Gulko questions!

Meaghan: Hey Goran -
I admit, much of your blog is a mystery to me, but I wanted to check it out and say hello. I originally intended my blog americanforhire to be for my family to keep track of my goings on over here, but I have to say that I'm tickled that Serbians are following along as well!
I'll keep in mind what you said about seeing a Partizan vs. Zvezda match, but I think I'd be taking my life in my hands...
Happy chess playing.
Best,
Meaghan
- Thank you Meaghan, you should try this beautiful game :-) I'll be in Kragujevac on Feb 26th

Smith-Morra: FYI: Best placed NZD player and winner of the 2006 NZ Championship title was GM Murray Chandler, who is still a NZ citizen. FM (not IM) Igor Bjelobrk was 2nd placed NZ player, and scored an IM norm for his efforts. Bjelobrk, like Chandler, does not actually live in NZ. Bjelobrk was 4th= overall, along with about 8 others, including NZ players FM Lukey (gained an IM norm too), and IM Ker
- Thank you for the info! To be honest, I dont know much about chess in Oceania, I was just reading the crosstable.

The Closet Grandmaster: Mate, I still don't know much about this RSS business. I'll have to figure it out on the weekend. Cheers.
- I see you figured it out :) Well done!

The Closet Grandmaster: What is this title of 'MK'?
- Candidate Master (Majstorski Kandidat). National title, I guess something like National Master or Expert in US. Above that is FM.

Leninovitski Almonky: Its a great surprise know that you wrote this for me.
Thx for your good wishes, and I wish the best blessings for you!
- Take a good care of young Dana! Cheers mate

DG about "Authority": A blog makes Technorati's chess list only if it has at least one post tagged "chess". If you've never tagged a post then you won't be on the list -- presumably that's why TCG and Polgar aren't mentioned. Authority is simply measured by the number of other blogs that Technorati says have ever been linked to you.

Bart on "Anand takes the lead": I'm still smiling about your Carla Huppeldepup.... So funny to see such a dutch expression on an english site... ("huppeldepup" is used in dutch as a standard frase to say that you either don't know the real name or don't really care -It's not so polite -so I take it someone told you that silly name).
- Actually, she was using that as her last name on WCN playing site. And she never told us what does it mean! Crazy girl, you can meet her at Corus next year :-)


*Blushing now*