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Organize the busy skies and guide the planes and helicopters to a safe landing in Air Traffic Chief. Keep your cool and don't let the numbers overwhelm you and most of all, do not crash. If you like to land a plane just draw a route for him and wait till it lands using your mouse. Do this for all the planes and helicopters. You have three runways so it`s pretty hard to land many airplanes. Be focused and try to see every planes trajectory to avoid crashing.
Instructions
Use your mouse to drag flight paths for the aircraft to land on the runway and drag helicopters to the helipad.
The recently finished Sinquefield Cup is going to attract chess players' attention for a long time. Mostly, chess analysts will concentrate their efforts trying to explain the phenomenal result of Fabiano Caruana. You can read my version here.
It is very unusual to see a tournament where Magnus "the Magnificent" Carlsen is not the main media magnet.
Despite being in the Caruana's shadow the whole tournament, Carlsen still produced some good chess and came second. In the process, he demonstrated his trademark hypnotic skills. I
1f you are not sure what I am talking about, here is what GM Victor Korchnoi said about Magnus:
"I don't see that Carlsen has the chess ability and I can't understand at all how he achieves such incredible success. I can guess why, but it's got no direct relation to chess. In the chess world there are a few people with absolutely incredible hypnotic abilities. Not so long ago I wrote in one of my books that there were three chess players in history who could (or can) read thoughts of their opponents: Tal, Mecking and Carlsen. That's what, I think, explains the Norwegian phenomenon. He reads thoughts!"
Now look at the position from the game Aronian-Carlsen played in the Sinquefield Cup to see what Korchnoi was talking about.
Levon Aronian (2805) vs. Magnus Carlsen (2877)
Sinquefield Cup | Saint Louis USA | Round 5.2 | 31 Aug 2014 | ECO: A47 | 0-1
Here is Carlsen discussing the game with Chess.com:
Yes, the position on the diagram is slightly better for Black due to the superior pawn structure, but why give up a pawn? After the unnecessary pawn sac, White could probably still make a draw, but I don't see any reason to complicate your own defense by giving up a pawn. Carlsen duly won the game.
Here is another high profile example of Carlsen's hypnosis:
Viswanathan Anand (?) vs. Magnus Carlsen (?)
Anand-Carlsen World Championship | Chennai IND | Round 6 | 16 Nov 2013 | ECO: C65 | 0-1
Again, we see a game where a very strong chess player (the world champion actually!) gave up a pawn for no reason in the position where almost any other reasonable move was sufficient. And just like in the previous game, White could still hold a draw later in the game, but it is beyond the point.
It reminds me about my days in the famous Botvinnik-Kasparov school, when the Patriarch would say about a move like this: "Bolsheviks liked to create problems for themselves in order to successfully solve them later."
So how did Magnus do it? He didn't set traps for his opponents; instead it is his opponents found a weird way to make their own lives more complicated by giving away pawns for no reason!
Should we check Magnus' obligatory orange juice for a trace of "eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"?
Before we do it, let's open an interesting book "Practical Chess Psychology" by Amatzia Avni.
Pismeny vs. Liberzon
Israel | 1984 | 0-1
In the last two games you can notice identical placement of Black kings, queens and the king's side pawns. Moreover, in all three games a mysterious move of the black king preceded White's blunder. It was similar to a magician who snaps his fingers and the audience falls asleep. Black played Kf8 or Kg7 and White immediately gave away a pawn!
So, finally the secret of Magnus Carlsen is revealed! It is a move with his king at the right moment! Want more evidence? Here it is:
Teimour Radjabov (?) vs. Magnus Carlsen (?)
World Championship Candidates | London ENG | Round 13 | 31 Mar 2013 | ECO: E32 | 0-1
Even amateur chess players know that in the bishops of the same color endgames, you are not supposed to put your pawns on the squares of the same color as your bishop, so how could a super GM play 64. a4? and ultimately lose this pawn?
It is definitely the hypnosis and the king's move!
If you are not satisfied with the mounting evidence of Carlsen's blunder-inducing kings moves and insist on more materialistic explanation, here is what GM Liberzon wrote about his game that we just analyzed:
"I had not seen a path to victory, nor do I see one now; in such a state of mind, a chessplayer must strengthen his position, and pretend as if he has a plan leading to victory. Such an approach will intimidate his adversary and induce errors on his part."
This is exactly what Magnus Carlsen is doing! He is confident, energetic and ready to play for as long as it is necessary to break his opponent's will.
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Under the Application-specific passwords section, enter a descriptive name for the application (label 1) you want to authorize, such as "AdWords Editor – Desktop," then click “Generate application-specific password" (label 2).
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World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen has signed the contract to defend his title according to his manager, Espen Agdestein.
The match will take place as scheduled in Sochi, Russia from November 7-28, 2014.
Both Carlsen and Agdestein are in St. Louis following the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. Agdestein made the announcement to Kaja Snare of TV2 in Norway.
You can read the full transcript on TV2's web site here.
Snare translated some of the interview with Agdestein for Chess.com.
Manager Espen Agdestein confirms that Carlsen will play
"We have sent in the contract today. Magnus is playing in the world championship. He wants to play. His experience from last year is very was good. He is the world champion and he is a chess player and he wants to defend his title."
The contract was faxed to the FIDE office in Athens, and FIDE has confirmed that it received the contract. Here's their official statement:
“FIDE is happy to announce that both the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and the Challenger Vishy Anand have signed the World Championship Match contract and preparations are proceeding as planned.
The World Championship Match will take place in Sochi, Russia between the 6th and the 27th of November. The FIDE President is planning to invite both Prime Ministers of Norway and India to the opening ceremony and to the "first move". The FIDE President has also decided to invite all World Champions to the ceremony, which will take place on November 7th.
FIDE wishes both players and all the chess world a great match.
Gens Una Sumus”
In the third week of August, news came out that FIDE had denied a request from Carlsen to postpone his world championship match with Anand. Carlsen was not happy with the match taking place in November in Sochi due to “much uncertainty about it”, as stated by his manager.
However, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov made clear at a press conference that the deadline would be upheld. Meanwhile, Anand had already signed, and was ready to play in Sochi.
Then, the Carlsen team wanted to postpone the decision whether to sign the match contract or not until after the Sinquefield Cup. FIDE's initial reaction, by Vice President Isreal Gelfer, was negative but later Ilyumzhinov agreed to postpone the deadline to September 7th (today).
Now that both contracts have been signed, Anand-Carlsen Part II is on. The match is scheduled to take place November 7-28, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
