Ok, lets continue...
11. To
have a chess opening named after me.
Almost impossible to achieve. I mean even
Kasparov do not have Kasparov opening and of all the World Champions, only one
WC has opening named after him (Alekhine) and some do not even have a variation
named after them.
But here lies my advantage against World Champions.
World Champions mostly played mainstream openings (Read: heavily analyzed
opening where there is a name even for sub, sub, sub, sub variation!) while for
me, i always played an underground/ alternative/ coffea shop opening! (Read:
less analyzed opening where sometimes even there is no name for a variation!).
He he he :)
But then again the advantage of World Champions
against me is obvious. He needs to play only once or two of these less played
opening and good chances his name stuck...while for me, even if i played the
opening for life (and my next life too), no guarantee it will stuck! Huh! :(
Maybe to be more realistic...i should aimed for
a sub-variation of chess opening, named after me.Example Blackmar Diemer
Gambit- Gunderam Defence - Ilham Attack...Hmm that will be just fine...as long
as not a blunder named after me. (Ilham’s folly or something like that...that i
don’t want)
12. To
write an article for Chessbase.
Chessbase to chess world, is what Wall Street's Journal to business world...high quality articles, globally read etc. Really
hope that one day i could publish my article at www.chessbase.com
13. To
watch a game of World Chess Championship match live.
For one in my lifetime, i need to watch World
Championship live...to feel the tension at the playing hall...hear the
commentary/post mortem of the game live and hopefully be part of a memorable
game (like Karpov-Kasparov 16th game, 1985 -The Octopus Knight game
or like Kasparov-Anand 10th game, 1995 - The Amazing Open Spanish
Novelty game etc)
What i don’t intent to be is to be part of a
game like Anand-Carlsen 1st game, 2013...draw in 16 moves! Yuck!
14. To
post 1000 articles for this blog.
This posting is posting number 252. Say i post
about one article per week...i shall achieve this 1000 postings in next 30
years time...Nope! I will not be 70 then...by that time, just like today, i
will still be 20 years old (with 50 years experience) -wink! ;-)
When it come to blogging...I am very much a
seasonal animal...sometimes in active, mating mood, 3 articles in a
week...sometimes in lazy, hibernating mood. 0 article in 3 months...To
overcome this and for more consistency...maybe i should stick with current
arrangement...I informed what i want to write next...so i am sort of under ‘obligation’
to produce and post that article.
15. To
play blitz at Central Park, New York.
There are so much legends surrounding blitz
game at Central Park, New York....How young Fischer amazed everyone by beating
adult here...The shooting of Waitzkin’s ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’...how a
regular here, a homeless hustler is actually some East Europe Champion...how a very
impressed Brazilian IM withdraw from a tournament at NY after being beaten by a
street hustler in blitz...how GM Roman give odd 5 minutes to one, and still
wins...and the list goes on.
I want to be part of these too so i could one
day say “Blitz at Central Park? Been there...done that!”
16. To
play a game of chess with GM Hikaru Nakamura.
The most exciting player around, i hope one day
i could play chess with him...shall gladly anticipate weird move such as Qh5 after
1.e4 e5...or his full chagrin expression when (hopefully) i play something
unexpected...:)
17. To
play a game of chess with Garry Kasparov.
Unlucky for me Kasparov is now retire from
competitive chess...lucky for me Kasparov still play chess (exhibition game,
simultaneous game, social game etc).
Kasparov, like Fischer, is said to have a
strong ‘aura’. An unexplained ‘energy’ that terrified opponents before even he
make his first move. Kramnik, during his 2001 World Chess Champion match even
refused to look at Kasparov during the game. Wise move.
I know i will be whacked mercilessly by him, no
doubt about it...all i want out of this game is just to feel Kasparov’s
invincible aura or what Jedi said, his ‘force’...and at the same time to enjoy
a game of chess with one of the world Greatest Player.
18. To
interview Nafisa Muminova for this blog.
Bigfoot don’t exist...Lochness Dino don’t
exist...UFO, maybe exist, maybe not but angel? Angel do exist...i know...I have
seen one.
19. To
own a DGT Board
In my room, i write on my white board a Buffet’s
quote...”If you buy things you don’t need, soon you will have to sell things
you need”.
Problem with me to achieve this...I am a firm believer on why
spend more? If the cheap one can works just fine...
But a DGT Board?...a ‘Vertu’, a ‘Roll Royce’ of
chessboard. ...I need to have this luxury, as a way to pamper me...as an
offering to Caissa, even though i already have like 4 chess sets (5 if include
that cheap, glass set) that ‘works just fine’...DGT Board is different, an
exception to my principle on why spend more.
But again i am a strange person. I am
‘calculative’ when it comes to spending money on myself...generous (or so i
would like to think) when spending money on my loved ones.
Example is on my laptop. Since the old one is
‘kong’ already...i fully dream to get a high end laptop...perhaps a RM3000
ACER?... or maybe that sleek, RM3,500 ASUS?. So last month i went to Lowyat’s
and after perusing laptops for half a day there, i finally bought this
laptop...the one i am using now...RM1000 Toshiba Satellite. (almost bought
RM900 Samsung laptop)...and it works just as fine!
However, not to worry Arshad, though you very
well know my principle in this...one fine day i will buy one DGT Board from
you....one fine day!
20.
To
represent Malaysia in Chess Olympiad
Chess is a sport (we have all sort of ‘coach’
in chess, we sweat when we are losing, we need to practice and spend crazy
amount of times to be good in it and so on) and as such i consider myself as a
sportsman.
...Every sportsman dream of taking part in
Olympic and me too, dream of taking part in Chess Olympiad as a player.
I know this is hard to do but if Hamid Majid (no
offence, ya :)) and one unknown Anwar Zainal could do it...why can't me?
Yeah, indeed. Why can't me...
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