WHAT IS IN THE NAME...

In Finance
I used to read an article about banker's name that carry aroma of wealthy in it. Bob Diamond or JP Morgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon (Rhyme with diamond though some naughty one say its rhyme with demon) and few more.

In Chess 

In chess world we can witnessed the same phenomena, we have Morozevich ‘Moro’ (name of an ethnic in Southern Philippines that is fighting for independent, they are liberator or terrorist, depend on which side you are).

We have Nakamura ‘Naka’ which is fire in Japanese. Talked about Naka, there is one company/counter at KLSE named Nakamichi Corporation Berhad and the stock’s code is Naka and this Naka counter has been doing very well last week when Nakamura starts winning... and week before when GM Naka is losing, this Naka counter drop so much. Hmm, I wonder whether I should starts trading this counter next week based on GM Naka’s performance…

There are of course a lot others such as Magnus is the name of the Norway’s King, we have Tomashevsky (Tomahawk), Levon (Lion) Aronian, Tigran (Tiger) Petrosian and Captain Planet’s favourite player, Leonid Stein (Lion) etc.

All are great players with great, aggressive name…

Message 

There is one Estonian International Master player named Ular Lauk. Message in the name is simple, either you be an Ular (win) or be a Lauk (lose) to him.

Message or no message we will surely smile when we play against IM Ular Lauk.:)

Dream game 

My dream game is actually to see Nigel Short play a game with Peter Long ( Short vs Long). Just imagine if the opening is Sicilian Dragon, commentators can be heard saying “ Shortly after Short castled long, Long followed suit by castling short…” :)

And this imaginary game ended in a draw…after a long manoeuvre by Long to gain advantage, Short executed a nice, short combination that leads to a perpetual check.

Question. 

Question: Who emerged as the champion at Insofar Ipoh last week?
Answer: Mr Johan

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