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If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York, New York.
Well, this is what it looks like, in many streets and intersections of New York
city. And at night they light the whole thing up! Time to beat a hasty retreat
and head for the suburbs. A 20 minute busride to the New Jersey side of the
Hudson river takes you to friends and more peaceful surroundings.
This is three-time US women's champion Anjelina Belakovskia in her beautiful
appartment, together with her betrothed Laurence Bernstein, preparing the sushi
of the century.
The ingredients come from a Japanese and a Korean supermarket, which sell foods
that we Europeans can only dream of. This is what a fresh, home-made sushi looks
like.
And Anjelina serves it with piping hot sake.
And this is the view in the evening from their appartment building, over the
Hudson, looking on Manhatten. If you want to get an impression of the whole
panorama click on the picture above (be prepared to scroll quite a bit). Of
course you can also simply make friends with Anjelina and Laurence and try to
get an invitation to a sushi dinner.
They don't seem to have zoos in New York, or at least I haven't discovered any so far. But they have the next best thing: a dawg run in the park.
This is an eclosed area where our four-legged friends can run an frolic to their
heart's content. There are always people standing outside the fence watching
the action – just like in a zoo.
Some of the dawgs are too aristocratic to join in the fun.
And yes, that is the correct spelling here in New York, as you can
see on the restaurant sign next to the frolicking fields.
PS: Scott Schnee of Rockville Centre, New York informs me that there is an adorable zoo in Central Park, and quite an impressive zoo in the Bronx.
Here's a nomen-est-omen place right next to the playing hall, where Garry Kasparov
battles Deep Junior.
A truly magnificent building which is impossible to photograph in its full splendor.
Looking up the side of the Athletic Club building I can see the communication
lines we dropped
on the first day. But hey, it's all working fine, all the big web sites are
getting the games.
Speaking about communications, the thing you must never, never forget when going
to America is the electric socket converter (left in the picture). The entire
Internet coverage for millions of people all over the world depend on this little
piece of metal and plastic. They cost less than a dollar back home and are almost
impossible to get here (plenty of devices to convert the other way). And remember
the Americans have 110 volts in their electrical grid, not the 230 volts we
kill our utility customers with.
Remember we showed you the Internet coverage corner where the live commentary
is generated. Above we see GMs Joel Benjamin and Max Dlugy visiting Mig Greengard
and John Fernandez. Well we have other visitors as well.
This is the legendary Lev Aburt, who is always good for a wry comment
This is the Argentinian GM Miguel Quinteros, confidante of Bobby Fischer
Our favourite, US women's champion Anna Hahn, playing around with the X3D shutter
glasses.
Even a man who writes live chess commentary for his profession will have his
admirers (just look at their faces!). This is our own Mig Greengard thoroughly
enjoying himself.
In the press corner one journalist who had come in on a red-eye can take no
more of the boring chess thing.
It is of course John now-he's-awake-now-he's-asleep Henderson
And all the time one man is working, working, working. Will Garry Kasparov be
able to maintain his energy in this nerve-racking match? We will tell you on
Wednesday, when the next game will be played.