The February 15, 2009 Edition of the Chess Carnival was very successful in spite of being hosted at chessvine this time around. A big thanks goes to all the participants and the winners in each category are presented below.

Annotated Games

George Duval presents New York 1924: Savielly Tartakower and the Bronx Zoo

Chess Culture and Politics

Mark Weeks presents Useless Stats/Qs about Ratings

Chess Events

James R. West presents Jim West On Chess: Guido van der Werve at Marshall CC

Humor

David Evans presents Good luck, bonne chance, buena suerte!

Opening Theory

Rolling Pawns presents >Are you afraid of the Marshall attack?

I look forward to the next Edition but Jack Le Moine hasn't sent me a deadline or to be honest told me if Chessvine is hosting the carnival again. When I know something I'll pass it on! I enjoyed reading the submissions and everything went very smoothly except for the plethora of poker entries. Poker enthusiasts can take comfort ... your entries were deleted without being read.

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Past posts and future hosts can be found on the blog carnival index page

I was really grabbed by an article on Chessvibes regarding managers in chess. The title of the article is "Who’s Britney’s manager?" and it featured a picture of Britney Spears. It was a stroke of genius on the part of Arne Moll to write the article and grab reader attention through unique flagging.

The question then arises to me, "Who is My Manager?". That brings up a whole group of questions like "does a chess blogger need a manager?". Anyhow, at the moment I appear to be my own manager ... booking events, organizing chess social coups, and generally arguing with myself how much percentage is fair payment in contract.

I've been thus far lucky that nobody has asked me to justify the great movements I've tried to spark. I started a chess blogger group on facebook just as Franco Romagnoli started his and as a consequence Franco signed over his group to my control. Pure dumb luck ... and I haven't yet brought that group to its full potential. It didn't happen through the genius engineering of a manager or an organizer ... I just got lucky.

The same thing happened with the blog carnival. I asked Jack Lemoine about the old Blog carnival that had all but died and it sparked a new carnival. I can't express my joy at that but it seems I'm only the rag doll of fate. There is a ton of other stuff developing too that I can't yet talk about. I guess in a way that makes my manager the Three Greek Fates.

For the February edition of the Chess Blog Carnival Chessvine has been selected as the venue of the judging. It is not yet clear whether Chessvine will be the official site for the carnival but we're happy to host it this month.

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