Я, конечно, понимаю - ЧМ по футболу и все такое, но и про шахматы не надо забывать. Наконец-то chessbase привел подробности истории с Левоном, Гормали и Арианне. Сорь, переводить нету времени, но если кто-то сможет, то велком. Просто отмечу, что GM X - это конечно же Варужан Акопян, а GM Y - Сейраван.
The Incident
What transpired at this year's Bermuda Party is described as accurately as possible further below. We held back for a while with this report, at the explicit request of the English team, who was worried about the effect a massive world-wide exposure would have on some of those involved. We complied, although the story was juicy and, equally important, offered us the opportunity of publishing a lot of pictures of attractive female players.
In the meantime the news of The Incident has made the broadsheets all over the world, which suddenly discovered a passionate interest for chess. The story was quickly dubbed "Gormallygate" and, according to The Guardian, is "probably the best thing to have happened to this much-mocked pastime in a generation." And the chess blogs, naturally, went wild over it, reporting on a day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour basis. For them this became the main topic of the 2006 Olympiad, sweeping their web pages clean of chess. Some of them really need to get a life.
So let's get to the facts. At the heart of the story is Arianne Caoili, Women's International Master playing on board three of the Australian team, rated 2169 on the FIDE list. Arianne, who will turn 20 this December, is of Filipino-Australian-Dutch extraction. She is also a bit of a glamour starlet (see the special section below), and an aspiring singer.
Levon Aronian in action, before the incident with Gormally
At the Bermuda party, which she attended at the arm of German GM Arkadij Naiditsch, Arianne at some stage started to dance with Levon Aronian, the world's number three player and top board of the Armenian team. The dance, she told us later, was neither close nor sexy, and Aronian an old friend whom she has known since she was eight or ten. "There is no romantic link between us," she said.
Aronian in action – the super-GM at the Bermuda party
( по-моему девушка справа это Лилит Мкртчян )
The dance with Aronian, however, incurred the wrath of – well not GM Naiditsch, but Daniel Gormally, a 30-year-old grandmaster, Elo 2554, who plays on board four for England. Danny knew Arianne only casually ("there is no romatic link," she told us once again), but the sight of the superstar dancing with his beautiful acquaintance resulted in a surge of jealousy in the Brit. He lunged at Aronian and sent the surprised GM sprawling on the dance floor.
Gormally's action was fairly harmless, but he had violated one of the basic laws of nature and evolution, which says: never attack an Armenian. Immediately a random countryman of Aronian, whom we shall call GM X (and who happens to be a reserve player on the US team, rated 2575), rushed forward with murder in his eyes. Figuratively speaking, we believe.
( этот абзац мне особенно понравился )
Fortuitously, at this point another grandmaster, a muscle-bound man of superhuman strength, whom we shall call GM Y, intervened energetically in order to prevent the situation from escalating any further. He pinned Gormally to the wall with one hand, while fending off GM X with the other. There was an emergency exit close by, and GM Y quickly popped Gormally out into the fresh air, while making sure that the vengeance-seeking GM X remained in the party room. During the scuffle the wife of Dutch GM Jan Timman took a light grazing blow to the chin – nothing serious, but it left her in tears and in need of comforting. This act of kindness, too, was absolved by GM Y. In case you are wondering: no phone booth, cape or Clark Kent glasses were involved.
The whole incident was dismissed a few days later by Arianne's mother Annette as "a storm in a teacup". We too had the feeling that everyone, except the newspapers and blogs, wanted to forget the incident as quickly as possible. Levon himself was completely unfazed when we spoke to him the next day. "Nothing happened," he said, implying it was just a minor dance-hall scuffle. Of course the laws of nature and evolution are not so casual about these things: later that day Gormally was confronted by a group of Armenians, who roughed him up a little. Danny decided enough was enough and returned to England. Aronian went on to win his next game in great style, and then take the Gold Medal with his team.
Gold medalists Armenia, led by Levon Aronian on the right
Arianne Caoili, WIM, singer, photo model
: December 22 1986; date of Departure: Unknown!
Breed: Australian and Dutch (mother), Filipino (father)
Interests: Singing and music, Latin dancing, the beach, chess, backgammon, tennis, running, ice-skating, languages, psychology, politics, history- ancient and modern, philosophy and revolutionary thought.
Likes: Funny stories, The Cream, arguing, getting up to no good, shopping, quotes, tea, Pink Floyd album covers, dancing (all forms), chocolate, blitz, theatre, Karpov's games, Oreo's, black and dry humour, singing, good music, gravity (without it we're doomed), sunsets, sunrises, fine food (and fine boys), stars, moons, water, Edward Norton and Johnny Depp, grace, green lights, cooking, pina colada's, vodka, red wine, Kahlua, dwarfs and the odd Cuban cigar.
Dislikes: Religion, insensitive people, boy bands, country music, lame humour, slow computers, red lights, beetroot, potatoes, beer, white wine, grammar Nazis.
Coffee/Tea: Milk, no sugar
A few countries visited for chess or otherwise: Australia, Spain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Singapore, U.A.E., Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Philippines, Japan, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey, England, Vietnam, Austria, USA and New Zealand.
Ambitions: Make a short comeback to chess in 2006; live in Norway, England or Italy for a period; complete a solo album; learn 10 languages; sky dive; soccer; bullet a bunny; meet Sting; study law and international relations [major in Middle Eastern studies]; earn giant gobs of money; make history. "I have other ambitions which will not be listed due to their dangerous and radical nature, unfit for this site! Hahaha..." (from her web site)
