Open thread
Am out of office all day on a series of meetings, folks. Back here tomorrow — meanwhile, welcome to the week, love to see/hear any links, thoughts, comments you may have. On anything at all. And everything
Am out of office all day on a series of meetings, folks. Back here tomorrow — meanwhile, welcome to the week, love to see/hear any links, thoughts, comments you may have. On anything at all. And everything

Just because...
TGIF.
Then again…

It's all about balance...
…or how about…

...and skill...
Enjoy your weekend.
Part one of the Vishy Anand interview on Chessbase [posted yesterday] was totally fascinating.
Here’s the equally insightful part two — where he talks of mice machines, and men, and the mysteries of match prep. Enjoy.
So you can wait 22 days, and follow World Cup soccer excitement here [our colleagues in the US are providing us a World Cup site for the Yahoo India portal, will link as soon as it is live] — or you can skip right ahead to the final result [spoiler alert], and get on with your life. You chose.
Because every country is good at something. [Relevant data here]