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	<title>My Life In Chess</title>
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	<description>The memoirs of a blitz fanatic</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>an irrational, but logical action&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/161</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what&#8217;s all this about then? What new trip is this  guy on again?,&#8230;sigh,  when are we going to be rid of this  rambler and all his  theories and  nonsensical explorations&#8230; ah well, might as well read on and see what this is all about  
Hey, straight up I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>race against time&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/168</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about isn&#8217;t it? You know what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;, &#8216;life&#8217;. On the treadmill from the date of birth, just another product with a shelf-life (three-score  and ten  in the good book, isn&#8217;t it?). An extremely pessimistic outlook I know, but isn&#8217;t this the plain reality of things as they are?
&#8220;in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>so what exactly is the &#8216;future&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/160</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to take on the moniker &#8216;nostradamus&#8216;, albeit mostly in my spare time  . But on a more serious note, I will assume that at some time or the other in our lives we have all felt that sense of &#8216;premonition&#8217;,  &#8216;foreboding&#8217;, or just simply, a &#8216;feeling&#8216; that something is going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;six foot-seven and full of muscle&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/159</link>
		<comments>http://odirov.com/archives/159#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Getty Images ESPNsoccernet.com 
&#8216;whoa mike! what did I ever do to you?&#8217;
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		<title>the case for a &#8217;strategic reserve&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/157</link>
		<comments>http://odirov.com/archives/157#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has always, and will always be a touchy issue. When is it ethical or moral to keep a &#8217;spare&#8217;? In the words of Ray Parker Jnr from back in the day; &#8220;you should have kept a spare/a backup love affair&#8230;&#8221;.
Using a simple analogy, let me represent a standard relationship with a car, a motor-vehicle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;daylight robbery&#8217;; a BBC Panorama expose&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/156</link>
		<comments>http://odirov.com/archives/156#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I just can&#8217;t hold back a large (but wry&#8230;) smile whenever I hear news like this. Call me vengeful, spiteful, childish or just plain vindictive but when I see all these massive examples (sorry, allegations  ) of fraud (financial mismanagement) and corruption (poor accounting?) in the western world I sit back and think; are African nations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>re: the Oxford Chess Congress</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/150</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second and fourth round produced a couple of interesting games. Yeah, inaccurate play in patches on both sides but overall, two very interesting games of Chess. Check out the fourth round.
Below, there are a few pix from the lovely little town of Oxford and the magnificient Exeter College.  

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		<title>the Oxford Chess Congress.</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/149</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very nice Chess Congress over this past weekend. Exeter College in the quaint town of Oxford was the venue. Funny enough, the room in which the open section was played had the amusing label (for Chess purposes, a misnomer  );  Quarell Room.
Okay, done with the mundane stuff. I somehow (unsurprisingly) ended up in what appears to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the beauty of Chess</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/147</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the number one feature of Chess for me is it&#8217;s duality as an individual game and a team sport. The team sport takes away the persistent shadows of &#8216;isolation&#8216; and &#8217;weirdness&#8216; or &#8216;different nature&#8217; that hang over Chess players. One only has to look at the World Chess Olympiad (hey!!, the olympiad is coming up in Dresden in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;veni, vidi, vici&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://odirov.com/archives/146</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 09:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Getty Images ESPNsoccernet.com
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