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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Hancock started his career with Donald Byrd. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles.

Hancock's best-known compositions include the jazz standards "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man", "Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", as well as the hit singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.

Early life

Hancock was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Winnie Belle (Griffin), a secretary, and Wayman Edward Hancock, a government meat inspector. His parents named him after the singer and actor Herb Jeffries. He attended Hyde Park High School. Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical music education. He studied from age seven, and his talent was recognized early. Considered a child prodigy, he played the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major, K. 537 (Coronation) at a young people's concert on February 5, 1952, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (led by CSO assistant conductor George Schick) at the age of 11.

Through his teens, Hancock never had a jazz teacher, but developed his ear and sense of harmony. He was also influenced by records of the vocal group the Hi-Lo's. He reported that:

"...by the time I actually heard the Hi-Lo's, I started picking that stuff out; my ear was happening. I could hear stuff and that's when I really learned some much farther-out voicings – like the harmonies I used on Speak Like a Child – just being able to do that. I really got that from Clare Fischer's arrangements for the Hi-Lo's. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept...he and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it came from."

In 1960, he heard Chris Anderson play just once, and begged him to accept him as a student. Hancock often mentions Anderson as his harmonic guru. Hancock left Grinnell College, moved to Chicago and began working with Donald Byrd and Coleman Hawkins, during which period he also took courses at Roosevelt University (he later graduated from Grinnell with degrees in electrical engineering and music. Grinnell also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1972). Byrd was attending the Manhattan School of Music in New York at the time and suggested that Hancock study composition with Vittorio Giannini, which he did for a short time in 1960. The pianist quickly earned a reputation, and played subsequent sessions with Oliver Nelson and Phil Woods. He recorded his first solo album Takin' Off for Blue Note Records in 1962. "Watermelon Man" (from Takin' Off) was to provide Mongo Santamaría with a hit single, but more importantly for Hancock, Takin' Off caught the attention of Miles Davis, who was at that time assembling a new band. Hancock was introduced to Davis by the young drummer Tony Williams, a member of the new band.

Career

Miles Davis Quintet (1963–68) and Blue Note Records (1962–69)

Hancock received considerable attention when, in May 1963, he joined Davis's Second Great Quintet. Davis personally sought out Hancock, whom he saw as one of the most promising talents in jazz. The rhythm section Davis organized was young but effective, comprising bassist Ron Carter, 17-year-old drummer Williams, and Hancock on piano. After George Coleman and Sam Rivers each took a turn at the saxophone spot, the quintet gelled with Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone. This quintet is often regarded as one of the finest jazz ensembles yet.

While in Davis's band, Hancock also found time to record dozens of sessions for the Blue Note label, both under his own name and as a sideman with other musicians such as Shorter, Williams, Grant Green, Bobby Hutcherson, Rivers, Byrd, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard.

Hancock also recorded several less-well-known but still critically acclaimed albums with larger ensembles – My Point of View (1963), Speak Like a Child (1968) and The Prisoner (1969) featured flugelhorn, alto flute and bass trombone. 1963's Inventions and Dimensions was an album of almost entirely improvised music, teaming Hancock with bassist Paul Chambers and two Latin percussionists, Willie Bobo and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez.

During this period, Hancock also composed the score to Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup (1966), the first of many film soundtracks he recorded in his career. As well as feature film soundtracks, Hancock recorded a number of musical themes used on American television commercials for such then well known products as Pillsbury's Space Food Sticks, Standard Oil, Tab diet cola and Virginia Slims cigarettes. Hancock also wrote, arranged and conducted a spy type theme for a series of F. William Free commercials for Silva Thins cigarettes. Hancock liked it so much he wished to record it as a song but the ad agency would not let him. He rewrote the harmony, tempo and tone and recorded the piece as the track "He Who Lives in Fear" from his The Prisoner album of 1969.

Davis had begun incorporating elements of rock and popular music into his recordings by the end of Hancock's tenure with the band. Despite some initial reluctance, Hancock began doubling on electric keyboards including the Fender Rhodes electric piano at Davis's insistence. Hancock adapted quickly to the new instruments, which proved to be important in his future artistic endeavors.

Under the pretext that he had returned late from a honeymoon in Brazil, Hancock was dismissed from Davis's band. In the summer of 1968 Hancock formed his own sextet. However, although Davis soon disbanded his quintet to search for a new sound, Hancock, despite his departure from the working band, continued to appear on Davis records for the next few years. Appearances included In a Silent Way, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On the Corner.

Fat Albert (1969) and Mwandishi (1971)

Hancock left Blue Note in 1969, signing with Warner Bros. Records. In 1969, Hancock composed the soundtrack for Bill Cosby's animated prime-time television special Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert. Music from the soundtrack was later included on Fat Albert Rotunda (1969), an R&B-inspired album with strong jazz overtones. One of the jazzier songs on the record, the moody ballad "Tell Me a Bedtime Story", was later re-worked as a more electronic sounding song for the Quincy Jones album Sounds...and Stuff Like That!! (1978).

Hancock became fascinated with electronic musical instruments. Together with the profound influence of Davis's Bitches Brew (1970), this fascination culminated in a series of albums in which electronic instruments were coupled with acoustic instruments.

Hancock's first ventures into electronic music started with a sextet comprising Hancock, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Billy Hart, and a trio of horn players: Eddie Henderson (trumpet), Julian Priester (trombone), and multireedist Bennie Maupin. Patrick Gleeson was eventually added to the mix to play and program the synthesizers.

The sextet, later a septet with the addition of Gleeson, made three albums under Hancock's name: Mwandishi (1971), Crossings (1972) (both on Warner Bros. Records), and Sextant (1973) (released on Columbia Records); two more, Realization and Inside Out, were recorded under Henderson's name with essentially the same personnel. The music exhibited strong improvisational aspect beyond the confines of jazz mainstream and showed influence from the electronic music of contemporary classical composers.

Hancock's three records released in 1971–73 later became known as the "Mwandishi" albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes used during this era ("Mwandishi" is Swahili for "writer"). The first two, including Fat Albert Rotunda were made available on the 2-CD set Mwandishi: the Complete Warner Bros. Recordings, released in 1994. "Hornets" was later revised on the 2001 album Future2Future as "Virtual Hornets".

Among the instruments Hancock and Gleeson used were Fender Rhodes piano, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, ARP Pro Soloist Synthesizer, a Mellotron and the Moog synthesizer III.

From Head Hunters (1973) to Secrets (1976)

Hancock formed The Headhunters, keeping only Maupin from the sextet and adding bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers, and drummer Harvey Mason. The album Head Hunters (1973) was a hit, crossing over to pop audiences but criticized within his jazz audience. Stephen Erlewine, in a retrospective summary for AllMusic, said, "Head Hunters still sounds fresh and vital three decades after its initial release, and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hip-hop."

Drummer Mason was replaced by Mike Clark, and the band released a second album, Thrust, the following year, 1974. (A live album from a Japan performance, consisting of compositions from those first two Head Hunters releases was released in 1975 as Flood.) This was almost as well received as its predecessor, if not attaining the same level of commercial success. The Headhunters made another successful album called Survival of the Fittest in 1975 without Hancock, while Hancock himself started to make even more commercial albums, often featuring members of the band, but no longer billed as The Headhunters. The Headhunters reunited with Hancock in 1998 for Return of the Headhunters, and a version of the band (featuring Jackson and Clark) continues to play and record.

In 1973, Hancock composed his soundtrack to the controversial film The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Then in 1974, he composed the soundtrack to the first Death Wish film. One of his memorable songs, "Joanna's Theme", was re-recorded in 1997 on his duet album with Shorter, 1+1.

Hancock's next jazz-funk albums of the 1970s were Man-Child (1975), and Secrets (1976), which point toward the more commercial direction Hancock would take over the next decade. These albums feature the members of the Headhunters band, but also a variety of other musicians in important roles.

From V.S.O.P. (1976) to Future Shock (1983)

In 1978, Hancock recorded a duet with Chick Corea, who had replaced him in the Davis band a decade earlier. Hancock also released a solo acoustic piano album, The Piano (1979), which was released only in Japan. (It was released in the US in 2004.) Other Japan-only albums include Dedication (1974), V.S.O.P.'s Tempest in the Colosseum (1977), and Direct Step (1978). VSOP: Live Under the Sky was a VSOP album remastered for the US in 2004 and included a second concert from the tour in July 1979.

From 1978 to 1982, Hancock recorded many albums of jazz-inflected disco and pop music, beginning with Sunlight (featuring guest musicians including Williams and Pastorius on the last track) (1978). Singing through a vocoder, he earned a British hit, "I Thought It Was You", although critics were unimpressed. This led to more vocoder on his next album, Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979), which gave him another UK hit in "You Bet Your Love".

Hancock toured with Williams and Carter in 1981, recording Herbie Hancock Trio, a five-track live album released only in Japan. A month later, he recorded Quartet with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, released in the US the following year. Hancock, Williams, and Carter toured internationally with Wynton Marsalis and his brother, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, in what was known as "VSOP II". This quintet can be heard on Wynton Marsalis's debut album on Columbia (1981). In 1984 VSOP II performed at the Playboy Jazz Festival as a sextet with Hancock, Williams, Carter, the Marsalis Brothers, and Bobby McFerrin.

In 1982 Hancock contributed to the album New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) by Simple Minds, playing a synthesizer solo on the track "Hunter and the Hunted".

In 1983, Hancock had a pop hit with the Grammy-award-winning single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock. It was the first jazz hip-hop song and became a worldwide anthem for breakdancers and for hip-hop in the 1980s. It was the first mainstream single to feature scratching, and also featured an innovative animated music video, which was directed by Godley and Creme and showed several robot-like artworks by Jim Whiting. The video was a hit on MTV and reached No. 8 in the UK. The video won in five categories at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. This single ushered in a collaboration with noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Hancock experimented with electronic music on a string of three LPs produced by Laswell: Future Shock (1983), the Grammy Award-winning Sound-System (1984), and Perfect Machine (1988).

During this period, he appeared onstage at the Grammy Awards with Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones, and Thomas Dolby, in a synthesizer jam. Lesser known works from the 1980s are the live album Jazz Africa (1987) and the studio album Village Life (1984), which were recorded with Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso. Also, in 1985 Hancock performed as a guest on the album So Red the Rose (1985) by the Duran Duran spinoff group Arcadia. He also provided introductory and closing comments for the PBS rebroadcast in the United States of the BBC educational series from the mid-1980s, Rockschool (not to be confused with the most recent Gene Simmons' Rock School series).

In 1986 Hancock performed and acted in the film 'Round Midnight. He also wrote the score/soundtrack, for which he won an Academy Award for Original Music Score. His film work was prolific during the 1980s, and included the scores to A Soldier's Story (1984), Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986), Action Jackson (1988, with Michael Kamen), Colors (1988), and the Eddie Murphy comedy Harlem Nights (1989). Often he would also write music for TV commercials. "Maiden Voyage", in fact, started out as a cologne advertisement. At the end of the Perfect Machine tour, Hancock decided to leave Columbia Records after a 15-plus-year relationship.

1990s to 2000

After a break following his departure from Columbia, Hancock, together with Carter, Williams, Shorter, and Davis admirer Wallace Roney, recorded A Tribute to Miles, which was released in 1994. The album contained two live recordings and studio recording songs, with Roney playing Davis's part as trumpet player. The album won a Grammy for best group album. Hancock also toured with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Pat Metheny in 1990 on their Parallel Realities tour, which included a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990, and scored the 1991 comedy film Livin' Large, which starred Terrence C. Carson.

Hancock's next album, Dis Is da Drum, released in 1994, saw him return to acid jazz. Also in 1994, he appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by Time Magazine.

1995's The New Standard found Hancock and an all-star band including John Scofield, DeJohnette and Michael Brecker, interpreting pop songs by Nirvana, Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Prince, Peter Gabriel and others.

A 1997 duet album with Shorter, entitled 1+1, was successful; the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. Hancock also achieved great success in 1998 with his album Gershwin's World, which featured readings of George and Ira Gershwin standards by Hancock and a plethora of guest stars, including Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter. Hancock toured the world in support of Gershwin's World with a sextet that featured Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson.

2000 to 2009

In 2001 Hancock recorded Future2Future, which reunited Hancock with Laswell and featured doses of electronica as well as turntablist Rob Swift of The X-Ecutioners. Hancock later toured with the band, and released a concert DVD with a different lineup, which also included the "Rockit" music video. Also in 2001 Hancock partnered with Brecker and Roy Hargrove to record a live concert album saluting Davis and John Coltrane, entitled Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall, recorded live in Toronto. The threesome toured to support the album, and toured on-and-off through 2005.

The year 2005 saw the release of a duet album called Possibilities. It featured duets with Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Annie Lennox, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Sting and others. In 2006 Possibilities was nominated for Grammy Awards in two categories: "A Song for You" (featuring Aguilera) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, and "Gelo No Montanha" (featuring Trey Anastasio on guitar) was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance, although neither nomination resulted in an award.

Also in 2005 Hancock toured Europe with a new quartet that included Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke, and explored textures ranging from ambient to straight jazz to African music. Plus, during the summer of 2005, Hancock re-staffed the Headhunters and went on tour with them, including a performance at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. This lineup did not consist of any of the original Headhunters musicians. The group included Marcus Miller, Carrington, Loueke and Mayer. Hancock also served as the first artist in residence for Bonnaroo that summer.

Also in 2006 Sony BMG Music Entertainment (which bought out Hancock's old label, Columbia Records) released the two-disc retrospective The Essential Herbie Hancock. This set was the first compilation of his work at Warner Bros., Blue Note, Columbia and Verve/Polygram. This became Hancock's second major compilation of work since the 2002 Columbia-only The Herbie Hancock Box, which was released at first in a plastic 4 × 4 cube then re-released in 2004 in a long box set. Also in 2006, Hancock recorded a new song with Josh Groban and Eric Mouquet (co-founder of Deep Forest), entitled "Machine". It is featured on Groban's CD Awake. Hancock also recorded and improvised with guitarist Loueke on Loueke's 1996 debut album Virgin Forest, on the ObliqSound label, resulting in two improvisational tracks – "Le Réveil des agneaux (The Awakening of the Lambs)" and "La Poursuite du lion (The Lion's Pursuit)".

Hancock, a longtime associate and friend of Mitchell, released a 2007 album, River: The Joni Letters, that paid tribute to her work, with Norah Jones and Tina Turner adding vocals to the album, as did Corinne Bailey Rae. Leonard Cohen contributed a spoken piece set to Hancock's piano. Mitchell herself also made an appearance. The album was released on September 25, 2007, simultaneously with the release of Mitchell's newest album at that time: Shine. River won the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy Award. The album also won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, and the song "Both Sides Now" was nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Solo. That was only the second time in history that a jazz album had both those Grammys.

On June 14, 2008 Hancock performed with others at Rhythm on the Vine at the South Coast Winery in Temecula, California, for Shriners Hospitals for Children. The event raised $515,000 for Shriners Hospital.

On January 18, 2009, Hancock performed at the We Are One concert, marking the start of inaugural celebrations for American President Barack Obama. Hancock also performed Rhapsody in Blue at the 2009 Classical BRIT Awards with classical pianist Lang Lang. Hancock was named as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's creative chair for jazz for 2010–12.

2010 to present

In June 2010, Hancock released The Imagine Project.

On June 5, 2010, he received an Alumni Award from his alma mater, Grinnell College. On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Paris, he was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue. In 2013 Hancock joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professor in the UCLA music department where he will teach jazz music.

In a June 2010 interview with Michael Gallant of Keyboard magazine, Hancock talks about his Fazioli giving him inspiration to do things.

On December 8, 2013, he was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the performing arts with artists like Snoop Dogg and Mixmaster Mike from the Beastie Boys performing his music.

He appeared on the album You're Dead by Flying Lotus, released in October 2014.

Hancock is the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. Holders of the chair deliver a series of six lectures on poetry, "The Norton Lectures", poetry being "interpreted in the broadest sense, including all poetic expression in language, music, or fine arts." Previous Norton lecturers include musicians Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky and John Cage. Hancock's theme is "The Ethics of Jazz."

Hancock's next album is being produced by Terrace Martin, and will feature a broad variety of jazz and hip-hop artists including Wayne Shorter, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Lionel Loueke, Zakir Hussein and Snoop Dogg.

On May 19, 2018, Hancock received an honorary degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Personal life

Nichiren Buddhism

Since 1972, Hancock has practiced Nichiren Buddhism as a member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International. As part of Hancock's spiritual practice, he recites the Buddhist chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo each day. In 2013, Hancock's dialogue with musician Wayne Shorter and Soka Gakkai International president Daisaku Ikeda on jazz, Buddhism and life was published in Japanese and English.

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Đinh Lập Nhân thua ván thứ hai ở Candidates

NgaKỳ thủ số một Trung Quốc - Đinh Lập Nhân - cầm quân đen, thua Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ở ván hai, giải cờ vua Candidates 2020 hôm qua 18/3.

"Như thể Đinh đã bị ngộ độc khi cách ly ở Moscow vậy", Alexander Grischuk nói, khi niềm kỳ vọng trí tuệ Trung Quốc thua cả hai ván đầu tiên. Đinh đến Nga dự giải từ Trung Quốc, nên phải tự cách ly 14 ngày trong một căn hộ ở Moscow. Sát ngày đấu, anh mới di chuyển đến Ekaterinburg dự giải. Nếu muốn tranh ngôi với Vua cờ Magnus Carlsen, Đinh sẽ phải kiếm màn ngược dòng ấn tượng nhất lịch sử Candidates.

Cả hai thất bại của Đinh đều manh nha từ những nước đẩy tốt cột f. Hôm đầu tiên, anh thua đồng hương Vương Hạo với nước cờ yếu f2-f4. Đến hôm qua, kỳ thủ 27 tuổi sai lầm từ nước 15...f7-f5.

Đen vừa đi 15...f5, nước cờ yếu. Sau khi đổi tốt và xe bên cánh hậu, theo thứ tự nước đi hình mũi tên, Trắng đẩy c2-c4.

Trắng vừa đi 18.c4. Đen không thể giữ tốt b5, bởi Trắng sẽ nhảy tượng lên a4, bắt hậu hoặc xe đen ở đường chéo a4-e8. Nước 18.c4 còn khiến tượng đen ở a8 coi như bị cô lập.

Nếu từ nước 15, Đinh chọn f7-f6, để giữ tốt e5, mọi chuyện đã khác. Khi đó, Đen có thể đi tiếp 18...Rf8 19.cxb5 Qxb5. Nước nhảy tượng lên a4 của Vachier-Lagrave sẽ không còn có tác dụng. Nhưng do Đinh không có tốt f6 giữ tốt e5, Vachier-Lagrave sẽ dùng đòn thí mã vào e5. Nước 18...Rf8 sẽ vô nghĩa.

Giả sử Đen đi 18....Rf8 trong biến 15...f5, Trắng đáp lại với 19.Ne5, rồi 20.d6 chiếu, 21.dxe7, và 22.exf8.

Thực tế, Đinh chọn 18...Nf7, nhưng vẫn mất tốt b5. Trắng đoạt ưu thế lớn. Đen cố gắng phản công ở cánh vua với 19...g5. Giới chuyên môn cho rằng Đinh muốn lừa Vachier-Lagrave bằng cách tỏ ra tự tin và đi nhanh, như thể Đen vẫn ổn trong thế cờ này. "Là ai thì tôi không biết, chứ Vachier-Lagrave không thể bị lừa thế được", Đại kiện tướng Alireza Firouzja nói trên Chess24.

Vachier-Lagrave hóa giải hoàn toàn nguy cơ bị phản công cánh vua với nước cờ hay 20.Nh2. Sau trận, kỳ thủ số một Pháp nói: "Đinh đi rất nhanh sau khi mắc sai lầm ở nước 15. Nhưng, tôi không nghĩ ý đồ của cậu ta không hay. Tượng đen ở a8 mãi cô lập. Mã đen ở f7 nếu nhảy được lên e5 sẽ rất mạnh, nhưng Đen không thể đẩy được tốt e5-e4 để dành chỗ cho mã".

Đinh Lập Nhân (phải) thua Vachier-Lagrave. Ảnh: Lennart Ootes.

Vachier-Lagrave còn cho rằng anh mắc một số sai lầm trong những nước tiếp theo, nhưng thế cờ vẫn quá bị động cho Đinh. "Tôi chẳng thấy Đen có thể đi nước cờ nào hợp lý nữa", cựu Vua cờ Viswanathan Anand nói. Sau 37 nước cờ, kỳ thủ số một Trung Quốc cũng phải chịu thua. Anh là người duy nhất chưa kiếm điểm nào sau hai ván.

Vòng hai chỉ xuất hiện thêm một ván phân thắng bại, giữa Fabiano Caruana và Kirill Alekseenko - cặp đấu chênh lệch nhất giải. Caruana cầm quân trắng, chọn biến mạo hiểm ở nước 4.f3, trong khai cuộc Phòng thủ Nimzo-Ấn Độ (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4).

Nước 4.f3 trong khai cuộc này còn gọi là biến Gheorghiu - đặt tên theo huyền thoại cờ vua Romania - Florin Gheorghiu. Ông từng áp dụng biến này để thắng Bobby Fischer, tại Olympiad cờ vua 1966 tại Havana, Cuba. Đó là thất bại duy nhất của Fischer trước một kỳ thủ kém tuổi, trong cả sự nghiệp.

Caruana chưa từng dùng biến này ở các ván đấu chính thức. Anh đánh chủ động, dồn ép đối thủ. Alekseenko mất nhiều thời gian suy nghĩ trong và sau khai cuộc. Đến nước 20, Đen chỉ còn 16 phút, còn Trắng còn tới một tiếng 15 phút. Bị hạt giống số một áp đảo, kỳ thủ trẻ nhất giải buông cờ sau 34 nước đi.

Caruana (trái) thắng Alekseenko. Ảnh: Lennart Ootes.

Sau hai ván, không còn kỳ thủ nào toàn thắng. Nhưng Vương Hạo đã có thể làm được điều đó nếu tận dụng tốt hơn ưu thế trong tàn cuộc trước Anish Giri. Ở ván này, kỳ thủ số hai Trung Quốc cầm quân trắng và có cơ hội đưa cờ vào thế bất biến, để cầu hòa ngay nước thứ 12. Nhưng, anh không làm vậy. "Trong khai cuộc, tôi không nghĩ ra phương án nào hợp lý. Tôi đã tính đến khả năng cầm hòa ở nước 12. Nhưng rồi tôi thấy Giri mất tới hơn 50 phút để đi nước thứ 12. Không hiểu sao cậu ấy lại nghĩ lâu thế".

Đó là nước cờ yếu của Giri. Anh muốn ngăn Vương tạo thế bất biến, nhưng lại làm yếu cờ của Đen. Vương bước vào tàn cuộc với lợi thế hơn một tốt. Anand thậm chí cho rằng Trắng đạt ưu thế thắng. Nhưng, Giri đưa cờ về thế chiếu bất biến, hòa sau 61 nước đi.

Ở ván còn lại, cuộc chiến nội bộ Nga giữa Ian Nepomniachtchi và Alexander Grischuk kết thúc ở nước thứ 40. Thế cờ nhỉnh hơn cho Grischuk, nhưng anh không tận dụng được vì cạn thời gian. Hai kỳ thủ chia điểm.

Ván ba diễn ra lúc 18h hôm nay 19/3. Tâm điểm là ván đấu giữa Đinh và Caruana.

Bảng điểm sau ván hai

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Bobby Fischer vs Fidel Castro, 1966 - a lot of you niccas is playing checkers https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzjl3EjAM3y/?igshid=dfvmu6p4kss5

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In september komt het voetbalseizoen langzaam op gang. De voetbalkalender verplicht nationale elftallen echter tot boter bij de vis. De nationale competitie is amper op gang of de spelers mogen al aan de interlands. Ook Oranje speelde diverse (voetbal)interlands in september. Opvallend daarbij: liefst viermaal was Ierland de tegenstander. Zowel in 1980, 1981 als 1982 speelde Nederland een interland tegen Ierland. Niet altijd met succes. Eenmaal werd verloren en geljkgespeeld. Slechts eenmaal werd er gewonnen. De meest beruchte Ierland- Nederland stamt uit recenter tijden. In 2001 verloor Oranje van Ierland met 1-0. Daardoor haalde het Nederlands elftal onder leiding van Louis van Gaal het WK in Zuid-korea en Japan niet. 1 september: 1972 - In Reykjavik eindigt de match van de eeuw tussen Boris Spasski en Bobby Fischer, van wie de laatste zich de nieuwe wereldkampioen schaken mag noemen. 1981 - Willy Jansen (PSV), Ruud Gullit (Haarlem), Wim Kieft (Ajax) en Frank Rijkaard (Ajax) maken hun debuut voor het Nederlands voetbalelftal, dat in een oefenwedstrijd in Zürich met 2-1 verliest van Zwitserland. John Metgod maakt de enige treffer voor Oranje. 1982 - Gerard Schipper, Maarten Ducrot, Gerrit Solleveld en Frits van Bindsbergen worden wereldkampioen ploegentijdrit in het amateurwielrennen. 1982 - De start van de EK-kwalificatiereeks begint in mineur voor het Nederlands voetbalelftal, dat in Reykjavik met 1-1 gelijkspeelt tegen IJsland. Dick Schoenaker redt de eer. 1985 - Joop Zoetemelk (38) wordt in Italië wereldkampioen wielrennen. 2001 - De 1-0 nederlaag van het Nederlands elftal in en tegen Ierland leidt uiteindelijk tot uitschakeling van het WK van 2002. De definitieve uitschakeling is 5 september. Voor het eerst in zestien jaar is Nederland niet van de partij op een eindtoernooi. 2 september: 1990 - In Utsunomiya (Japan) wordt de Belg Rudy Dhaenens wereldkampioen wielrennen op de weg. Tweede is zijn landgenoot en ploegmaat Dirk De Wolf. 3 september: 1967 - Eddy Merckx wordt in Heerlen wereldkampioen wielrennen.1989 - Het Chileens voetbalelftal weigert het WK-kwalificatieduel tegen Brazilië uit te spelen, nadat doelman Roberto Rojas naar eigen zeggen is geraakt door vuurwerk dat vanaf de tribunes gegooid zou zijn. De wereldvoetbalbond FIFA schorst Chili later omdat het incident niet bewezen kan worden. 4 september: 1974 - In de eerste interland na het WK voetbal 1974 in West-Duitsland wint het Nederlands voetbalelftal in Stockholm met 5-1 van Zweden. Johan Neeskens benut twee strafschoppen. Middenvelder Jan Peters van N.E.C. maakt zijn debuut voor Oranje.1985 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal bereidt zich voor op de play-offs tegen België en verslaat Bulgarije. Rob de Wit maakt in Heerenveen het enige doelpunt voor Oranje. Ernie Brandts (28ste) en Huub Stevens (18de) spelen hun laatste interland. 5 september: 1960 - Cassius Clay wint de gouden medaille in boksen bij de Olympische Spelen in Rome. 1971 - Eddy Merckx wordt wereldkampioen wielrennen in Mendrisio. 1972 - Palestijnse terroristen vallen Israëlische atleten aan tijdens de Olympische Spelen in München. 1982 - De Italiaanse wielrenner Giuseppe Saronni wint in Goodwood (Groot-Brittannië) de wereldtitel op de weg bij de profs. 6 september: 1964 - Jan Janssen wordt in Sallanches wereldkampioen wielrennen.1972 - Israëlische atleten en coaches die in München gegijzeld worden door leden van Black September worden vermoord wanneer een bevrijdingsactie door de politie jammerlijk mislukt. 7 september: 1966 - Johan Cruijff maakt zijn debuut voor het Nederlands voetbalelftal in het EK-kwalificatieduel tegen Hongarije (2-2)1983 - Ajax-aanvaller Marco van Basten debuteert voor het Nederlands voetbalelftal in het EK-kwalificatieduel tegen IJsland (3-0).1988 - Pedro van Raamsdonk is de eerste bokser die binnen elf partijen gebokst te hebben, Europees kampioen (halfzwaargewicht) wordt.2011 - 36 van de 37 spelers van het Russische ijshockeyteam Lokomotiv Jaroslavl komen om bij het verongelukken van Yak-Service-vlucht 9634. 9 september: 1970 - Feyenoord wint als eerste Nederlandse club de Wereldbeker1981 - Door een 2-2 gelijkspel tegen Ierland komt voor het Nederlands voetbalelftal de deelname aan het WK voetbal 1982 in gevaar. 10 september: 1972 - De Verenigde Staten verliezen hun eerste internationale basketbalwedstrijd in een omstreden duel met de Sovjet-Unie bij de Olympische Spelenin München.1975 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal gaat in Chorzow met 4-1 onderuit tegen Polen in de kwalificatiereeks voor het EK voetbal 1976, onder meer door twee doelpunten van Andrzej Szarmach.1980 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal begint de kwalificatiereeks voor het WK voetbal 1982 met een 2-1 nederlaag in en tegen Ierland. Oranje telt vier debutanten in Dublin: Ronald Spelbos (AZ’67), Toine van Mierlo (Willem II), Jan van Deinsen (Feyenoord) en doelman Joop Hiele (Feyenoord).1986 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal verliest in een oefeninterland in Praag met 1-0 van Tsjechoslowakije.1990 - Het mannenenkelspel op de US Open wordt gewonnen door de Amerikaan Pete Sampras. Hij verslaat in de finale zijn landgenoot Andre Agassi 11 september: 2001: Terroristische aanvallen op de Twin Towers in New York, en het Pentagon bij Washington D.C.. Bijna 3000 mensen verliezen het leven 12 september: 1973 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal verslaat Noorwegen in Oslo met 2-1 in de kwalificatiereeks voor het WK voetbal 1974 in West-Duitsland. Doelpuntenmakers zijn Johan Cruijff en Barry Hulshoff.1990 - Tegen België speelt het voetbalelftal van de Duitse Democratische Republiek zijn allerlaatste interland uit de geschiedenis 14 september: 1960 - Rik Van Looy wordt op de Sachsenring wereldkampioen wielrennen.1988 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal begint de kwalificatiereeks voor het WK voetbal 1990 in Italië met een 1-0 overwinning op Wales. 21 september: 1955 - Voor het eerst is er een Nederlandse voetbalclub in een Europacuptoernooi actief. PSV verliest uit met 6-1 van Rapid Wien.1968 - Harry Steevens wint de derde editie van Nederlands enige wielerklassieker, de Amstel Gold Race.1983 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal speelt in Brussel met 1-1 gelijk tegen België. Nieuwkomer Marco van Basten scoort na rust voor Oranje. Adri van Tiggelen (FC Groningen) maakt zijn debuut voor Oranje. 22 september: 1982 - Het Nederlands voetbalelftal herstelt van de matige start van de EK-kwalificatiereeks en verslaat Ierland in Rotterdam met 2-1. René van de Kerkhof speelt zijn 47ste en laatste interland voor Oranje, René van der Gijp (Lokeren) debuteert. 24 september: 1983 - De Amerikaanse atleet Carl Lewis verbetert het ruim vijf jaar oude record op de 100 meter sprint met 0,01 sec en brengt het op 9,92 seconden.1994 - Bokser Regilio Tuur verovert in sportpaleis Ahoy' de wereldtitel in het supervedergewicht (58,97 kilogram) van de World Boxing Organisation (WBO) ten koste van de Amerikaan Eugene Speed. 26 september: 1988 - Atleet Ben Johnson wordt gediskwalificeerd wegens dopinggebruik nadat hij de 100-meterfinale had gewonnen tijdens de Olympische Spelen in Seoel. Test

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#SinAgua, #SinCANTV en el Hatillo

El Hatillo 17 de Octubre del 2019

Este resumen de noticias llega a ustedes por cortesía de @NotiHatillo /La Ceiba de Ramón Muchacho /Alcaldía de El Hatillo.

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Via redes sociales, informan usuarios que aun el dia de hoy no reciben suministro de agua como solian hacerlo los días miércoles en la noche. Siguen a la espera del ciclo semanal el día de hoy.

Y continúan los problemas en la prestación del servicio de CANTV, usuarios que aun estan comunicados por este medio a diferencia de otros miles que tienen años sinnel servicio por el cual pagan informan que ls fallas continúan, en esta oportunidad suscriptores de CANTV del conjunto Parque Oripoto informaron que un tablero de CANTV estaba "echando chispas" y como consecuencia los suscriptores del sector se quedaron sin tono ni ABA.

Cuadrillas de aguas blancas de la Alcaldía continúan asumiendo el rol de Hidrocapital, en esta oportunidad en el sector Llano Verde procedieron a reparar dos botes de aguas blancas que tenian tiempo denunciados y que la Hidrológica no reparaba. Como es sabido estas acciones son responsabilidad de Hidrocapital que no está asumiendo por lo que las Alcaldías lo han hecho.

Cuadrillas de la Alcaldía continúan labores de mantenimiento en la Av. Ppal. De La Lagunita donde realizaron poda de árboles para brindar más claridad a los conductores en esa importante vía de circulación en el municipio.

Aguacero de ayer que muchos consideraron que fue el llamado Cordonazo de San Francisco mantuvo en alerta a @PC_ElHatillo en prevención de posibles contingencias.

Bloomberg: Administración de Guaidó estimó recibir financiamiento del FMI para reconstruir Venezuela.

Alejandro Grisanti, miembro de la junta directiva ad hoc de PDVSA, dijo que el equipo del presidente Guaidó se reunió con funcionarios del FMI para discutir la posibilidad de un paquete de financiamiento de al menos $60 mil millones para reconstruir la economía venezolana.

La Patilla: Guaidó denuncia que el régimen bloquea propuesta de la AN para solucionar la crisis.

El Nacional. Mike Pompeo: Maduro usa la comida como arma política. El secretario de EEUU afirmó que 94% de los venezolanos no puede cubrir sus necesidades alimentarias.

La Patilla: Jorge Rodríguez se reunió con los “mini partidos” y anunció la creación de una mesa complementaria electoral.

Maduro anuncia que mostrará “pruebas” de “intentos guarimberos” en noviembre.

El Nacional: Edgar Zambrano acudió a los tribunales para la imposición de medidas cautelares.

Saab anunció que se encuentra “gestionando” posibles liberaciones de presos políticos.

Dos pilotos fallecieron en accidente de un Sukhoi en Guárico.

El Pitazo: Accidente militar aéreo de este miércoles es el cuarto ocurrido en 2019.

Maestros volvieron a protestar frente al Ministerio de Educación.

El Nacional: Gremio de enfermeros retomará protestas luego del «pírrico» aumento salarial. Persisten las colas para cargar gasolina en el país.

Caraqueños reportaron fuertes lluvias con granizo durante la tarde del miércoles.

Tal Cual: Presencia de Stalin González en juego de béisbol en EEUU desata controversia en redes.

Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal: “Toda Venezuela es ruta del narcotráfico”.

Guaidó se reunió con el director para América del Sur de la Cancillería británica.

Aldeas Infantiles SOS advierte del aumento de la cifra de migrantes venezolanos en Colombia.

El Nacional: Borrell espera recabar información de primera mano sobre diáspora venezolana.

El canciller de España espera conocer en Colombia algunos de los testimonios sobre la situación de los migrantes, que llevará a una conferencia internacional que la UE para finales de mes, reseña El Nacional.

EuropaPress: Advierten el colapso de los programas de ayuda humanitaria en la frontera colombiana.

VOA. Senador Republicano Díaz Balart: “Estamos hablando con la administración” para dar TPS a los venezolanos.

Impulsan campaña #OrgulloVenezolano para combatir la xenofobia.

ABC. Canciller de Ecuador: Maduro y la guerrilla colombiana han instigado los disturbios y la violencia.

AFP: Trump anunció que Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras recibirán asistencia específica.

EFE: Evo Morales cierra la campaña confiado en ganar de nuevo por «paliza».

El País: Nueva noche de violencia en Cataluña con vehículos quemados y ácido contra los Mossos.

AFP: Italia introducirá un impuesto a las empresas digitales.

El País: Trump sobre la intervención de Turquía en Siria: “No es nuestro problema”.

Acciones de Netflix suben por alza de clientes antes de arremetida de Disney y Apple.

S&P: -0.20%; Dow: -0.08%; Nasdaq: -0.30%.

Meridiano TV es reconocido con el Monseñor Pellín.

LaLiga propone jugar el Villarreal- Atlético en Miami.

Reuters: Futbolistas profesionales de Colombia anuncian huelga.

Púgil estadounidense Patrick Day murió por lesiones cerebrales. El peleador de 27 años cayó noqueado el sábado ante su compatriota Charles Conwell.

88 peloteros y coaches quedan en libertad en la LVBP.

Suspenden juego 4 entre New York Yankees y Houston Astros por lluvia.

El País: El vuelo más largo de la historia: 20 horas, 15 husos horarios y cobayas humanas. Qantas Airways operará este fin de semana el viaje en avión más extenso, entre Nueva York y Sídney.

Pronóstico del tiempo cortesía del INAMEH válido por las próximas 6 horas.

Servidor no disponible.

Efemérides de hoy.

535 a.C. - Ciro II el Grande rey de Persia marcha a Babilonia, liberando a los judíos de casi 70 años de exilio.

1346 - en Calais, Eduardo III de Inglaterra captura al rey David II de Escocia (aliado de Francia) en la batalla de Neville’s Cross. durante la primera fase de la Guerra de los cien años.

1448 - Segunda batalla de Kosovo: el ejército húngaro liderado por John Hunyadi es derrotado por las tropas del Sultán Murad II.

1456 - abre sus puertas la Universidad de Greifswald, la segunda universidad más antigua del norte de Europa.

1604 - El astrónomo Johannes Kepler observa una supernova en la constelación de Ofiuco.

1610 - el rey francés Luis XIII es coronado en Rheims.

1662 - Carlos II de Inglaterra vende Dunkirk a Francia por 40.000 mil libras.

1777 - las tropas estadounidenses derrotan al ejército británico en la Batalla de Saratoga, en el valle del Hudson.

1781 - en Yorktown, Virginia capitula el general Charles Cornwallis.

1797 - el Tratado de Campoformio entre Francia y el Sacro Imperio Romano.

1800 - Inglaterra toma control de la colonia neerlandesa de Curaçao.

1810 - los patriotas mexicanos toman la ciudad de Valladolid.

1813 - en El Roble (Chile), una columna realista sorprende y dispersa a los patriotas chilenos.

1815 - en el océano Atlántico Sur, Napoleón llega desterrado a la isla de Santa Helena.

1842 - se produce la Batalla de Agua Santa (Perú) donde las fuerzas de Juan Francisco de Vidal vencen a las del general Juan Crisóstomo Torrico en el marco de la anarquía militar que se desató en el Perú tras la muerte del presidente Agustín Gamarra.

1884 - el 4.º congreso de la anarquista Federación Estadounidense del Trabajo resuelve que desde el 1 de mayo de

1886 la duración legal de la jornada de trabajo debería ser de 8 horas. Esto generará el Crimen de Chicago.

1888 - Thomas Edison patenta el fonógrafo óptico (la primera película).

1905 - El zar Nicolás II de Rusia emite el Manifiesto de Octubre.

1907 - Guglielmo Marconi comienza el primer servicio comercial de telegrafái sin hilos entre Glace Bay (Canadá) y Clifden (Irlanda).

1912 - Bulgaria, Serbia, Grecia y Montenegro declaran la guerra a Turquía.

1918 - Yugoslavia se declara república.

1919 - se inaugura el Metro de Madrid.

1930 - en Buenos Aires (Argentina) se inaugura la Línea B de subterráneos.

1931 - Al Capone, gánster estadounidense, es sentenciado a 11 años de prisión por evadir impuestos.

1933 - Albert Einstein abandona la Alemania nazi para trasladarse a los Estados Unidos.

1941 - primer ataque de un submarino alemán a un barco estadounidense.

1943 - Holocausto: se cierra el campo de concentración de Sobibor.

1945 - en la Plaza de Mayo de Buenos Aires, un millón de personas se reúnen para exigir la liberación del popular ministro de Trabajo, Juan Domingo Perón, detenido por fuerzas militares. (Día de la Lealtad Peronista).

1951 - se realiza la primera transmisión televisiva en Argentina de un acto político del Día de la Lealtad Peronista con un discurso de Eva Duarte de Perón a través del canal público Canal 7.

1956 - Donald Byrne y Bobby Fischer juegan la famosa partida de ajedrez llamada "La partida del siglo".

1961 - protestantes algerianos son masacrados por la policía francesa por instigaciñon del excolaborador nazi Maurice Papon, entonces jefe de la Prefectura de Policía.

1966 - Botsuana y Lesoto se unen a las Naciones Unidas.

1973 - la OPEP comienza el embargo contra los países que ayudan a Israel en su guerra con Siria.

1976 - en el pueblo argentino de Los Surgentes (provincia de Córdoba), la policía de Rosario asesina a siete presos políticos (masacre de Los Surgentes), en el marco de la dictadura de Videla.

1977 - entra en vigor la Ley de Amnistía en España de 1977.

1979 - la Madre Teresa de Calcuta recibe el Premio Nobel de la Paz.

1981 - el piloto brasileño de Fórmula 1, Nelson Piquet, logra su primer título del mundo.

1986 - los miembros del COI designan a la ciudad de Barcelona como escenario de los Juegos Olímpicos de 1992.

1987 - en Estados Unidos se inaugura el puente Tampico.

1989 - un terremoto (7,1 en la escala Richter) causa 300 muertos en San Francisco.

1991 - en España, la banda terrorista ETA mutila a Irene Villa y a su madre con una bomba lapa en su coche.

1992 - la ONU estableció "día internacional para la erradicación de la pobreza".

2003 - a causa del conflicto boliviano por la exportación de gas natural, el presidente Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada renuncia a su cargo y abandona el país.

2004 - Valentino Rossi gana el mundial de MotoGP y Dani Pedrosa se convierte en el piloto más joven del mundo campeón de 250 cc.

2004 - Venezuela, un incendio deja parcialmente destruida la torre este de Torres de Parque Central.

2006 - en Argentina, durante la marcha en conmemoración de los 60 años del Día de la Lealtad Peronista se trasladan los restos del general Juan Domingo Perón a la quinta Diecisiete de Octubre, en el partido de San Vicente (en la zona norte del Gran Buenos Aires).

2006 - en algún momento de este día nace el habitante 300 millones del planeta.

2011 - Conferencia de Paz de San Sebastián concluyó con una declaración de cinco puntos en la que los representantes internacionales instaban a la organización terrorista Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) a un cese definitivo de la violencia.

2011 - en Chile entra en vigencia la llamada ley de posnatal de 6 meses, que permitirá a los padres y madres estar más tiempo con sus hijos recién nacidos.

La cita de hoy.

La mayoría de las personas gastan más tiempo y energías en hablar de los problemas que en afrontarlos.

Henry Ford (1863-1947) Industrial

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pangeanews · 5 years

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“Oggi? Un appiattimento globale. I pigmei hanno avuto la meglio sui titani”: dialogo con Paolo Maurensig, che ha messo sotto scacco la letteratura italiana

Effettivamente, gli scacchi sono figura del mondo e del tempo, della galassia e della volontà divina, incastro di fato, di vento e di genio, e lo scacchista, dunque, è un mago. Chi si vota al gioco con disciplina d’acciaio e ascolto del cuore e della sinfonia dei nervi, è un mago, uomo che ripiega in sé ogni mondo possibile, al di là della logica. In un anno avverso, ho immaginato Bobby Fischer imperatore degli Stati Uniti e avrei dato ad Alechin le chiavi dell’Europa; d’altronde, ho consideravo Il maestro di go – variante nipponica e amplificata degli scacchi – di Kawabata uno dei romanzi più belli di sempre. Gli scacchi, mistura di strategia e di avidità, di obbedienza e ispirazione, sono, per altro, ipostasi della scrittura, ma è stato Paolo Maurensig, venticinque anni fa, con La variante di Lüneburg a mettere sotto scacco la letteratura italiana, con una mossa narrativa francamente geniale. Autore di libri raffinati e di successo – Canone inverso, ad esempio, poi tradotto in film – Murensig continua la sua ricerca nell’atlante cangiante dell’arte scacchistica con L’arcangelo degli scacchi: vita segreta di Paul Morphy (Mondadori, 2013), Teoria delle ombre (Adelphi, 2015) e questo ultimo, Il gioco degli dèi (Einaudi, 2019). Maurensig racconta qui la biografia verosimile e sibillina di Mir Sultan Khan, affascinante per i laghi d’ombra: talento strabiliante nel “gioco della guerra concepito in India nella notte dei tempi e diffuso poi dalla Persia fino in Europa”, il chaturanga, l’antenato degli scacchi, cresciuto nelle oscurità indiane, viene notato e condotto in UK dove vince un paio di campionati britannici e batte un gigante come José Raúl Capablanca (eccolo: “sempre impeccabilmente vestito, con un angolo del fazzoletto che gli spuntava dal taschino della giacca, intonato con cura alla cravatta dal nodo sottile, fissato al colletto da una spilla d’argento, gli occhi scuri un po’ sporgenti e i capelli impomatati, la stretta di mano asciutta e vigorosa… E quel sentore di lavanda, cosa davvero rara in un ambiente in cui predominava un forte odore acidulo che era la misura stessa della tensione dominante”). La sua fama, tuttavia, dura una rapace manciata di anni, nei Trenta del secolo scorso, poi lo scacchista torna nell’ombra, nella pagoda indiana dell’oblio: “la vita di questo straordinario personaggio” che “sembra uscire dalle pagine di Kipling” si spegne mestamente e misteriosamente nel 1966, causa tubercolosi. Maurensig, con ferrea strategia narrativa – l’estrema confessione dello scacchista indiano è offerta a Norman La Motta, corrispondente del Washington Post, laggiù a seguire la crisi diplomatica tra India e Pakistan – riempie le ombre biografiche di Sultan Khan con una scrittura che guizza, ha il tuono della favola e pare pronta per il cinema. Il libro affronta temi, in fondo, capitali: la preveggenza dei grandi artisti – lo scacchista è mago e sciamano, ha potere sui regni dell’altro, della mente –, il rapporto tra gioco e vita, tra arte e Storia, la ferocia e la fatalità del talento (“Essere supportati dagli dèi non è poi quella gran cosa che tutti credono; non è un merito muoversi appesi alle loro fila, diventare una loro pedina”, dice Sultan Khan in una zona capitale del romanzo). Così, mi sono preso il privilegio, perciò, di dialogare con Maurensig. (Davide Brullo)

“Ero uno scherzo della natura, un fenomeno da baraccone più che un autentico scacchista”, fa dire al suo eroe, Mir Sultan Khan. Qual è la ragione che la ha condotta a ipotizzarne la biografia? L’enigma, la ‘vita oscura’, la geniale marginalità, che cosa?

Dopo aver scritto Teoria delle ombre, romanzo ispirato agli ultimi giorni di vita del grande scacchista russo Alexandre Alechine – probabilmente vittima di un omicidio – mi ero ripromesso di lasciar perdere il gioco degli scacchi. Il caso volle però che una “risorgente” casa editrice mi chiedesse di dare un’occhiata nel retrobottega per vedere se tra i saldi non fosse rimasto qualcosa di scacchistico da poter pubblicare. Dovetti rifiutare la loro offerta perché avevo esaurito ogni argomento. Solo qualche tempo dopo mi venne in mente questo misterioso indiano, realmente esistito, che da guardiano degli elefanti era diventato uno scacchista capace di sbaragliare tutti i campioni occidentali del tempo, compreso Capablanca. In questo personaggio e nella sua storia c’erano tutti i requisiti per un romanzo: l’enigma, la genialità, l’emarginazione, il razzismo, la guerra…

C’è un’altra frase del suo romanzo che mi pare emblematica per accerchiare l’inafferrabile Sultan Khan, questa: “Non mi sono mai ritenuto un grande giocatore, perché la mia era una dote naturale. Non ero io a inventare o a progettare, mi limitavo ad aspettare che il genio preposto al gioco mi desse il suggerimento giusto. Essere supportati dagli dèi non è poi quella gran cosa che tutti credono; non è un merito muoversi appesi alle loro fila, diventare una loro pedina”. Forse era questo che voleva descrivere, la pura ispirazione, la “dote naturale”? In fondo, sembra che dietro alla storia favolosa di Sultan Khan lei stia svelando una dizione estetica, un programma letterario, una indagine nell’arte.

Il tema della grandezza e miseria del genio è già stato trattato più volte in passato, non per ultimo nel romanzo biografico su Paul Morphy (L’arcangelo degli scacchi), in cui ci sono alcune riflessioni sul dono del talento e sul suo utilizzo. Anche Sultan Khan si pone questo interrogativo: “Perché gli dèi hanno scelto proprio me?”. In suo soccorso viene il suo maestro che gli suggerisce una spiegazione che solo la credenza orientale nel ciclo delle rinascite può avallare: gli dèi non elargiscono a caso i loro doni. Il talento può essere quindi il risultato dell’applicazione e dello studio praticati in vite passate.

Fino a che punto ha ‘riempito il vuoto’, cioè è stato romanziere nel dipingere e decrittare la vita di Sultan Khan?

Ho fatto una ricerca approfondita soprattutto per quel che riguarda il periodo europeo, il resto è verosimile.

Al di là degli scacchi metafora della guerra – evidenza che appare nel romanzo: “Che differenza c’era tra la fanteria e lo schieramento dei pedoni? E tra i carri e i carri armati? E tra la cavalleria e l’artiglieria leggera?” – mi preme una sua riflessione sui rapporti tra gli scacchi e il potere, tra gli scacchi e l’istinto di dominio. Nei suoi romanzi ‘scacchistici’, in fondo, si percepisce che ogni gioco esula dai suoi confini, è sempre pericolo e rischio. Sembra quasi che dominare il gioco consenta di dominare l’uomo, gli uomini.

Il potere si esercita a ogni età della nostra vita e in ogni ambiente: nella famiglia, nella scuola, sul posto di lavoro; persino gli dèi si contendono il potere giocando a chaturanga con gli uomini, individualmente, o con le masse. Questo è in fondo l’assunto del romanzo. In ogni congregazione umana, dalla tribù primitiva alla moderna società occidentale, il maschio tende a raggiungere una posizione di supremazia rispetto agli altri. Nelle tribù primitive solo lo sciamano, che vive ai margini della comunità detiene il vero potere. In termini moderni, ogni uomo (tra cui molte donne) mira a essere l’elemento alfa, il leader, il capo, quando farebbe meglio a esplorare la direzione opposta, quella dell’“elemento omega”, il quale non prevarica il suo prossimo, semplicemente perché è animato da un sentimento raro: la comprensione per la natura umana. A Sultan Khan ogni forma di potere è negata dalla sua religione e dalla posizione sociale che il Karma gli ha assegnato. Solo sulla scacchiera egli può esercitare temporaneamente una forma di supremazia.

Su chi altri vorrebbe scrivere il prossimo romanzo biografico?

Se lo sapessi sarei già al lavoro.

Chi è a suo dire lo scrittore più ‘scacchista’ del canone? Insomma, chi è il Capablanca e l’Alekhine della letteratura?

Oggi tutto procede verso un appiattimento globale, dove non ci sono molti scrittori di spicco. I pigmei hanno avuto la meglio sui titani.

Una domanda sulla letteratura italiana contemporanea: le interessa? Chi legge? Dove sta andando?

In Italia le cose vanno ancora peggio, basta vedere quante sono le librerie costrette a chiudere. Quando vedo tutti questi adolescenti ipnotizzati dal loro smartphone mi chiedo quali saranno le loro letture. Forse in futuro avranno ancora spazio i libri di ricette, le autobiografie dei cantanti e dei personaggi televisivi, le rivelazioni scandalistiche, il gossip, la politica… A salvarsi sarà di sicuro il genere poliziesco, ed è una fortuna perché un domani l’acuto ispettore di turno scoprirà finalmente chi ha ucciso la letteratura.

L'articolo “Oggi? Un appiattimento globale. I pigmei hanno avuto la meglio sui titani”: dialogo con Paolo Maurensig, che ha messo sotto scacco la letteratura italiana proviene da Pangea.

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Diego Ricol Freyre recomienda: Diego Ricol recomienda: La ASC publica la lista de las 100 mejores direcciones de fotografía

La ASC es la Sociedad Americana de Directores de Fotografía, toda una institución en el mundo de la fotografía. Muchos soñamos con los que ellos han filmado bajo la atenta mirada de los directores. Este año que empieza cumplen 100 años y sus miembros han hecho una votación para decidir cuáles son las mejores películas según su fotografía.

Estas son las siglas que vemos tantas veces cuando buscamos en los títulos de crédito quién es el director de fotografía que nos ha emocionado con sus planos y sobre todo su luz. Durante estos 100 años han dado forma a la luz para que los demás puedan contar la historia. La lista que vamos a ver continuación abre el año en la ASC y es un homenaje a los grandes maestros del siglo XX que todavía hoy son una referencia.

Como todas las listas es tremendamente relativa. Lo único es que es la primera realizada por los propios directores de fotografía. En principio tiene más valor pero a no ser que se centren en aspectos técnicos, no quiere decir absolutamente nada. La mayoría de las diez primeras no tienen ni el premiado premio Oscar. Pero todas están en la retina de los cinéfilos. Y todas estas películas serán honradas por la Asociación a lo largo del año… Ojalá saquen un libro, o un documental, o las dos cosas.

La lista de las mejores películas

En esta selección de películas solo las diez primeras son las que más votos han recibido. Las demás quieren recordar los logros más significativos de la dirección de fotografía. Así que vamos a conocer primero las películas más votadas y luego veremos, por orden cronológico, las 90 restantes. Espero que si no habéis visto alguna la busquéis desaforadamente hasta encontrarla… la mayoría ni siquiera estarán en las plataformas digitales, una verdadera pena.

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Las diez primeras son obras fantásticas. Si no las has visto no dudes en hacerlo. No son fáciles de ver si te riges por los estándares actuales. La cámara no se mueve sin parar. Y la historia no está mascada. Son puro cine, cine con mayúsculas que serían menos importantes sin el trabajo de la cámara.

Sorprende ver solo dos en blanco y negro. Llama la atención que Storaro esté dos veces en el top 10. Alegra y mucho que se reconozca a Néstor Almendros. Y es increíble que hayan elegido antes ‘2001’ que ‘Barry Lyndon’.

‘Lawrence de Arabia’ (1962), Freddie Young (David Lean)

‘Blade Runner’ (1982), Jordan Cronenweth (Ridley Scott)

‘Apocalypse Now’ (1979), Vittorio Storaro (Francis Ford Coppola)

‘Ciudadano Kane’ (1941), Gregg Toland (Orson Welles)

‘El padrino’ (1972), Gordon Willis (Francis Ford Coppola)

‘Toro salvaje’ (1980), Michael Chapman (Martin Scorsese)

‘El conformista’ (1970), Vittorio Storaro (Bernardo Bertolucci)

‘Días del cielo’ (1978), Néstor Almendros (Terrence Malick)

‘2001: Odisea en el espacio’ (1968), Geoffrey Unsworth y John Alcott (Stanley Kubrick)

‘French Connection’ (1971), Owen Roizman (William Friedkin)

El resto de la lista

Aquí seguro que encontrarás las películas que más te gustan, las que más recuerdas. Es una lista orientada al cine americano. Creo, si no me equivoco, que no hay ninguna española. alguna oriental, unas pocas italianas y para de contar. Es verdad que es una lista hecha por y para la ASC, pero creo que muchos de esos profesionales se sorprenderían con películas como ‘El sur’ de Victor Erice fotografiada por Alcaine, por poner solo un ejemplo.

La lista es muy larga, así que vamos a conocer las mejores según los profesionales de la imagen:

‘Metropolis’ (1927), Karl Freund, ASC; Günther Rittau

‘Napoleon’ (1927), Leonce-Henri Burel, Jules Kruger, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller

‘Amanecer’ (1927), Charles Rosher, ASC y Karl Struss, ASC

‘Lo que el viento se llevó’ (1939), Ernest Haller, ASC

‘El mago de Oz‘ (1939), Harold Rosson, ASC

‘Las uvas de la ira’ (1940), Gregg Toland, ASC

‘Qué verde era mi valle’ (1941), Arthur C. Miller, ASC

‘Casablanca’ (1942), Arthur Edeson, ASC

‘El cuarto mandamiento’ (1942), Stanley Cortez, ASC

‘Narciso negro’ (1947), Jack Cardiff, BSC

‘Ladrón de bicicletas’ (1948), Carlo Montuori

‘Las zapatillas rojas’ (1948), Jack Cardiff, BSC

‘El tercer hombre’ (1949), Robert Krasker, BSC

‘Rashomon’ (1950), Kazuo Miyagawa

‘Sunset Boulevard’ (1950), John Seitz, ASC

‘La ley del silencio’ (1954), Boris Kaufman, ASC

‘Los siete samuráis’ (1954), Asakazu Nakai

‘La noche del cazador’ (1955), Stanley Cortez, ASC

‘Centauros del desierto’ (1956), Winton C. Hoch, ASC

‘El puente sobre el río Kwai (1957), Jack HIlyard, BSC

‘Sed de mal’ (1958), Russell Metty, ASC

‘Vértigo’ (1958), Robert Burks, ASC

‘Con la muerte en los talones’ (1959), Robert Burks, ASC

‘Al final de la escapada’ (1960), Raoul Coutard

‘El último año en Marienbad’ (1961), Sacha Vierny

‘8 ½’ (1963), Gianni Di Venanzo

‘Hud’ (1963), James Wong Howe, ASC

‘¿Teléfono rojo?, volamos hacia Moscú’ (1964), Gilbert Taylor, BSC

‘Soy Cuba’ (1964), Sergei Urusevsky

‘Doctor Zhivago’ (1965), Freddie Young, BSC

‘La Batalla de Argel’ (1966), Marcello Gatti

‘¿Quién teme a Virginia Woolf?’ (1966), Haskell Wexler, ASC

‘La leyenda del indomable’ (1967), Conrad Hall, ASC

‘El graduado’ (1967), Robert Surtees, ASC

‘A sangre fría’ (1967), Conrad Hall, ASC

‘Hasta que llegó su hora’ (1968), Tonino Delli Colli, AIC

‘Dos hombres y un destino’ (1969), Conrad Hall, ASC

‘Grupo salvaje‘ (1969), Lucien Ballard, ASC

‘La naranja mecánica’ (1971), John Alcott, BSC

‘Klute’ (1971), Gordon Willis, ASC

‘La última película’ (1971), Robert Surtees, ASC

‘Los vividores’ (1971), Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC

‘Cabaret’ (1972), Geoffery Unsworth, BSC

‘El último tango en París’ (1972), Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC

‘El exorcista’ (1973), Owen Roizman, ASC

‘Chinatown’ (1974), John Alonzo, ASC

‘El padrino: parte II’ (1974), Gordon Willis, ASC

‘Barry Lyndon’ (1975), John Alcott, BSC

‘Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco’ (1975), Haskell Wexler, ASC

‘Todos los hombres del presidente’ (1976), Gordon Willis, ASC

‘Taxi Driver’ (1976), Michael Chapman, ASC

‘Encuentros en la tercera fase’ (1977), Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC

‘Los duelistas’ (1977), Frank Tidy, BSC

‘El cazador‘ (1978), Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC

‘Alien’ (1979), Derek Vanlint, CSC

‘All that Jazz’ (1979), Giuseppe Rotunno, ASC, AIC

‘Bienvenido Mr. Chance’ (1979), Caleb Deschanel, ASC

‘El cordel negro’ (1979), Caleb Deschanel, ASC

‘Manhattan’ (1979), Gordon Willis, ASC

‘El resplandor’ (1980), John Alcott, BSC

‘Carros de fuego’ (1981), David Watkin, BSC

‘El submarino’ (1981), Jost Vacano, ASC

‘Rojos’ (1981), Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC

‘Fanny y Alexander’ (1982), Sven Nykvist, ASC

‘Elegidos para la gloria’ (1983), Caleb Deschanel, ASC

‘Amadeus’ (1984), Miroslav Ondricek, ASC, ACK

‘El mejor’ (1984), Caleb Deschanel, ASC

‘Paris, Texas’ (1984), Robby Müller, NSC, BVK

‘Brazil’ (1985), Roger Pratt, BSC

‘La misión’ (1986), Chris Menges, ASC, BSC

‘El imperio del sol’ (1987), Allen Daviau, ASC

‘El último emperador’ (1987), Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC

‘El cielo sobre Berlín’ (1987), Henri Alekan

‘Arde Mississippi’ (1988), Peter Biziou, BSC

‘JFK’ (1991), Robert Richardson, ASC

‘La linterna roja’ (1991), Fei Zhao

‘Sin perdón’ (1992), Jack Green, ASC

‘Baraka’ (1992), Ron Fricke

‘La lista de Schindler’ (1993), Janusz Kaminski

‘En busca de Bobby Fischer’ (1993), Conrad Hall, ASC

‘Tres colores: Azul’ (1993), Slawomir Idziak, PSC

‘Cadena Perpetua’ (1994), Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC

‘Seven’ (1995), Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC

‘El paciente inglés’ (1996), John Seale, ASC, BSC

‘L. A. Confidential’ (1997), Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC

‘Salvar al soldado Ryan (1998), Janusz Kaminski

‘La delgada línea roja’ (1998), John Toll, ASC

‘American Beauty’ (1999), Conrad Hall, ASC

‘Matrix’ (1999), Bill Pope, ASC

‘In the Mood for Love’ (2000), Christopher Doyle, HKSC

Seguro que se te ha ocurrido que uno de los propósitos del año es ver todas estas películas para conocer de verdad parte de la historia del cine. Además es una inspiración perfecta para salir a hacer fotos con la cabeza llena de ideas.

Y lo más llamativo, la gran mayoría de ellas se sirve más de la penumbra que de la luz para contar historias. A lo mejor ya no quieres salir al mediodía con la cámara al hombro y te esperas a que la luz sea perfecta. Es lo que nos enseña el cine, además de la pura vida.

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Events 10.17

1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. 1346 – The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years. 1448 – An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo. 1456 – The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe. 1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass. 1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. 1604 – Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus. 1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral. 1660 – The Nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered. 1662 – Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds. 1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown. 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao. 1806 – Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule. 1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood. 1817 – The tomb of Pharaoh Seti I is discovered. 1827 – Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Milan. 1860 – First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open). 1861 – Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre. 1888 – Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie). 1907 – Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service. 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. 1919 – RCA is incorporated as the Radio Corporation of America. 1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. 1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. 1940 – The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery. 1941 – World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat. 1943 – The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed. 1943 – Holocaust in Poland: Sobibór extermination camp is closed. 1945 – A massive demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan Perón's release. 1956 – The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England. 1956 – Bobby Fischer defeats Donald Byrne in the chess Game of the Century. 1961 – Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters. 1965 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees. 1966 – The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters. 1969 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. 1970 – FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. 1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War. 1977 – The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued. 1979 – Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1979 – The Department of Education Organization Act creates the US Department of Education. 1980 – As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican 1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing Sixty-three. 1989 – The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary. 1992 – Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. 2000 – The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack. 2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack. 2003 – Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, becomes the world's tallest highrise. 2018 – The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada. 2018 – Kerch Polytechnic College attack in Crimea.

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Bobby Fischer. Chess Champion APK

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Bobby Fischer. Chess Champion APK

All 940 games played by the legendary World Champion, 217 of them with commentary. 180 exercises: play like Fischer and play against Fischer.

This course is in the series Chess King Learn (https://learn.chessking.com/), which is an unprecedented chess teaching method. In the series are included courses in tactics, strategy, openings, middle game, and endgame, split by levels from beginners to experienced players, and even professional players.

With the help of this course, you can improve your chess knowledge, learn new tactical tricks and combinations, and consolidate the acquired knowledge into practice.

The program acts as a coach who gives tasks to solve and helps to solve them if you get stuck. It will give you hints, explanations and show you even striking refutation of the mistakes you might make.

The program also contains a theoretical section, which explains the methods of the game in a certain stage of the game, based on actual examples. The theory is presented in an interactive way, which means you can not only read the text of the lessons, but also to make moves on the board and work out unclear moves on the board.

Advantages of the program: ♔ High quality examples, all double-checked for correctness ♔ You need to enter all key moves, required by the teacher ♔ Different levels of complexity of the tasks ♔ Various goals, which need to be reached in the problems ♔ The program gives hint if an error is made ♔ For typical mistaken moves, the refutation is shown ♔ You can play out any position of the tasks against the computer ♔ Interactive theoretical lessons ♔ Structured table of contents ♔ The program monitors the change in the rating (ELO) of the player during the learning process ♔ Test mode with flexible settings ♔ Possibility to bookmark favorite exercises ♔ The application is adapted to the bigger screen of a tablet ♔ The application does not require an internet connection

The course includes a free part, in which you can test the program. Lessons offered in the free version is fully functional. They allow you to test the application in real world conditions before releasing the following topics: 1. Combinations 1.1. Play like Fischer 1.2. Play against Fischer 2. Games 2.1. 1955-1957 2.2. 1958-1959 2.3. 1960-1961 2.4. 1962-1963 2.5. 1964-1965 2.6. 1966-1968 2.7. 1969-1971 2.8. 1972-1992

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Three vintage TV shows from three different genres — and which began airing during three different decades — have been released this week in complete-series DVD sets.

And in the spirit of full disclosure, I’ve been around long enough to remember all three. Yikes!

First up is “Take a Good Look: The Definitive Collection” (Shout!, 1959-61, b/w, seven discs, 49 episodes).

An eccentric game-show spoof created by and starring Ernie Kovacs, “Take a Good Look” has been somewhat available in random excerpts floating around the internet — but now every single complete episode known to exist has been collected in this set (four are considered lost).

Kovacs, with his prominent mustache and ever-present cigar, was a truly inventive comedian whose style of humor was perhaps ahead of its time. His obtuse and surreal skits might fit quite well with some 21st-century comic sensibilities. It’s really not difficult to picture Kate McKinnon or Kristen Wiig or Will Ferrell fitting into Kovacs’ absurdist stock company.

Kovacs particularly excelled at blackouts, pantomime sketches that last only a few minutes, using skills he experimented with on some no-budget NBC shows from 1955-56, and which he further honed in this off-the-wall two-season quiz show.

He conceived the show as a spoof of such popular quiz programs of the era as “I’ve Got a Secret,” “To Tell the Truth” and “What’s My Line?”

Each episode has a three-celebrity panel, with movie star Cesar Romero, “Dragnet” actor Ben Alexander, comic/voice actor Hans Conried and Kovacs’ wife, singer Edie Adams, as rotating regulars. (Also on hand as fill-ins are Carl Reiner, Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Mort Sahl, Jack Carson, Jane Wyatt, Jim Backus, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Mormon actress Laraine Day.)

Their task is to identify guests that have achieved a modicum of fame (but whose faces are generally unfamiliar) — ranging from silent-film director Mack Sennett to 1959 Miss America Mary Ann Mobley to jet pilot Scott Crossfield (who shows up in two episodes!) to chess champ Bobby Fischer to former child actress Jean Darling to a lot of baseball players, and many more.

To assist the panel, Kovacs hosts each half-hour episode and introduces several skits (some filmed) that ostensibly offer “clues” to the guests’ identities. And yes, Kovacs fans, his regular characters, such as Percy Dovetonsils and the Nairobi Trio, make appearances. (He also does comic commercials for the show’s sponsor, Dutch Masters cigars.)

Of course, whether the skits actually suggest intelligible hints is up for debate, and it’s amusing to see the panelists scratching their heads or joshing Kovacs about these goofy playlets.

It’s often silly, sometimes hilarious and always an interesting time capsule as early shows are quite primitive and unrehearsed, giving way by the second season to a more polished veneer — even if the skits are no less indecipherable.

Then there’s “Green Acres: The Complete Series” (Shout!/MGM, 1965-71, 24 discs, 170 episodes, audio commentaries on pilot and final episodes, 1966 excerpt of “The Merv Griffin Show,” featurette, photo gallery, six audio episodes of “Granby’s Green Acres” radio show).

This is one of the more popular “rural comedies” of the 1960s — a trend that began with “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Petticoat Junction.”

But “Green Acres” is unique among them. Adapted from the short-lived radio show “Granby’s Green Acres” (and owing something to the 1947 film “The Egg and I”), "Green Acres" has a lawyer (Eddie Albert) buying a rundown farm near Hooterville (the location of “Petticoat Junction,” whose stars make guest appearances throughout season one).

The expected sitcom formula portrays him as a hapless farmer while his wife (Eva Gabor) never quite adapts to rural life, and eccentrics surround them on every side. But what makes this show stand is its penchant for absurdity, which becomes more pronounced as the series progresses.

Obviously, the best known of these three is “Dynasty: The Complete Series” (CBS/Paramount, 1981-89, 57 discs, 217 episodes, featurettes, 1985 “Entertainment Tonight” excerpt).

The show was conceived by ABC to challenge "Dallas," the juggernaut prime-time soap opera on CBS, and quickly took on a life of its own, developing a fan base that still can’t get enough.

The focus is on the fabulously wealthy but highly dysfunctional Carrington family, headed by oil tycoon Blake (John Forsythe) and his new wife Krystle (Linda Evans) — but it really comes to life with the addition of his former wife Alexis (Joan Collins) in season two (who technically makes a veiled appearance in the final episode of the first season).

Among the stars that came and went during the show’s nine seasons are Pamela Sue Martin, Lloyd Bochner, Heather Locklear, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Nader, Diahann Carroll, Emma Samms and Rock Hudson. (And there was a two-season spinoff series, “The Colbys.”)

A reboot of “Dynasty" is now airing on The CW with a fairly unknown cast that hopes to recapture the original’s magic.

Chris Hicks is the author of "Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind? A Parent’s Guide to Movie Ratings." He also writes at www.hicksflicks.com and can be contacted at [email protected].

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey (Herbie) Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Starting his career with Donald Byrd, he shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet where Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences.

Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.

Early life and career

Hancock was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Winnie Belle (Griffin), a secretary, and Wayman Edward Hancock, a government meat inspector. His parents named him after the singer and actor Herb Jeffries. He attended the Hyde Park Academy. Like many jazz pianists, Hancock started with a classical music education. He studied from age seven, and his talent was recognized early. Considered a child prodigy, he played the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major, K. 537 (Coronation) at a young people's concert on February 5, 1952, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (led by CSO assistant conductor George Schick) at the age of 11.

Through his teens, Hancock never had a jazz teacher, but developed his ear and sense of harmony. He was also influenced by records of the vocal group the Hi-Lo's. He reported that:

Miles Davis Quintet (1963–68) and Blue Note Records (1962–69)

The second great quintet was where Hancock found his own voice as a pianist. Not only did he find new ways to use common chords, but he also popularized chords that had not previously been used in jazz. Hancock also developed a unique taste for "orchestral" accompaniment – using quartal harmony and Debussy-like harmonies, with stark contrasts then unheard of in jazz. With Williams and Carter he wove a labyrinth of rhythmic intricacy on, around and over existing melodic and chordal schemes. In the latter half of the 1960s their approach became so sophisticated and unorthodox that conventional chord changes would hardly be discernible; hence their improvisational concept would become known as "Time, No Changes".

His albums Empyrean Isles (1964) and Maiden Voyage (1965) were to be two of the most famous and influential jazz LPs of the 1960s, winning praise for both their innovation and accessibility (the latter demonstrated by the subsequent enormous popularity of the Maiden Voyage title track as a jazz standard, and by the jazz rap group US3 having a hit single with "Cantaloop" (derived from "Cantaloupe Island" on Empyrean Isles) some twenty five years later). Empyrean Isles featured the Davis rhythm section of Hancock, Carter and Williams with the addition of Hubbard on cornet, while Maiden Voyage also added former Davis saxophonist Coleman (with Hubbard remaining on trumpet). Both albums are regarded as among the principal foundations of the post-bop style. Hancock also recorded several less-well-known but still critically acclaimed albums with larger ensembles – My Point of View (1963), Speak Like a Child (1968) and The Prisoner (1969) featured flugelhorn, alto flute and bass trombone. 1963's Inventions and Dimensions was an album of almost entirely improvised music, teaming Hancock with bassist Paul Chambers and two Latin percussionists, Willie Bobo and Osvaldo "Chihuahua" Martinez.

Fat Albert (1969) and Mwandishi (1971)

Hancock became fascinated with accumulating musical gadgets and toys. Together with the profound influence of Davis's Bitches Brew (1970), this fascination would culminate in a series of albums, in which electronic instruments are coupled with acoustic instruments.

Synthesizer player Gleeson introduced the instrument on Crossings, released in 1972, one of a handful of influential electronic jazz/fusion recordings to feature synthesizer that year. On Crossings (as well as on Weather Report's I Sing the Body Electric), the synthesizer is used more as an improvisatory global orchestration device than as a strictly melodic instrument. An early review of Crossings in Downbeat magazine complained about the synthesizer, but a few years later the magazine noted in a cover story on Gleeson that he was "a pioneer" in the field of electronics in jazz. In the albums following The Crossings, Hancock started to play synth himself, with synth taking on a melodic role.

Hancock's three records released in 1971–73 later became known as the "Mwandishi" albums, so-called after a Swahili name Hancock sometimes used during this era (Mwandishi is Swahili for writer). The first two, including Fat Albert Rotunda were made available on the 2-CD set Mwandishi: the Complete Warner Bros. Recordings, released in 1994. Of the three electronic albums, Sextant is probably the most experimental since the ARP synthesizers are used extensively, and some advanced improvisation ("post-modal free impressionism") is found on the tracks "Hornets" and "Hidden Shadows" (which is in the meter 19/4). "Hornets" was later revised on the 2001 album Future2Future as "Virtual Hornets".

Among the instruments Hancock and Gleeson used were Fender Rhodes piano, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, ARP Pro Soloist Synthesizer, a Mellotron and the Moog synthesizer III.

All three Warner Bros. albums Fat Albert Rotunda (1969), Mwandishi (1971), and Crossings (1972), were remastered in 2001 and released in Europe but were not released in the US as of June 2005. In the winter of 2006–7 a remastered edition of Crossings was announced and scheduled for release in the spring.

From Head Hunters (1973) to Secrets (1976)

After the sometimes "airy" and decidedly experimental "Mwandishi" albums, Hancock was eager to perform more "earthy" and "funky" music. The Mwandishi albums – though later seen as respected early fusion recordings – had seen mixed reviews and poor sales, so it is probable that Hancock was motivated by financial concerns as well as artistic restlessness. Hancock was also bothered by the fact that many people did not understand avant-garde music. He explained that he loved funk music, especially Sly Stone's music, so he wanted to try to make funk himself.

He gathered a new band, which he called The Headhunters, keeping only Maupin from the sextet and adding bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers, and drummer Harvey Mason. The album Head Hunters, released in 1973, was a major hit and crossed over to pop audiences, though it prompted criticism from some jazz fans.

Despite charges of "selling out", Stephen Erlewine of AllMusic positively reviewed the album among other friendly critics, saying, "Head Hunters still sounds fresh and vital three decades after its initial release, and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hip-hop."

In 1973, Hancock composed his soundtrack to the controversial film The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Then in 1974, he also composed the soundtrack to the first Death Wish film. One of his memorable songs, "Joanna's Theme", was re-recorded in 1997 on his duet album with Shorter, 1 + 1.

From V.S.O.P. (1976–) to Future Shock (1983)

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hancock toured with his V.S.O.P. quintet, which featured all the members of the 1960s Davis quintet except Davis, who was replaced by trumpeter Hubbard. There was constant speculation that one day Davis would reunite with his classic band, but he never did so. VSOP recorded several live albums in the late 1970s, including The Quintet (1977).

In 1978, Hancock recorded a duet with Chick Corea, who had replaced him in the Davis band a decade earlier. Hancock also released a solo acoustic piano album titled The Piano (1979), which, like so many Hancock albums at the time, was initially released only in Japan. (It was finally released in the US in 2004.) Several other Japan-only releases have yet to appear in the US, such as Dedication (1974), V.S.O.P.'s Tempest in the Colosseum (1977), and Direct Step (1978). Live Under the Sky was a VSOP album remastered for the US in 2004, and included an entire second concert from the July 1979 tour.

From 1978 to 1982, Hancock recorded many albums consisting of jazz-inflected disco and pop music, beginning with Sunlight (featuring guest musicians including Williams and Pastorius on the last track) (1978). Singing through a vocoder, he earned a British hit, "I Thought It Was You", although critics were unimpressed. This led to more vocoder on 1979 follow-up, Feets, Don't Fail Me Now, which gave him another UK hit in "You Bet Your Love".

Albums such as Monster (1980), Magic Windows (1981), and Lite Me Up (1982) were some of Hancock's most criticized and unwelcomed albums, the market at the time being somewhat saturated with similar pop-jazz hybrids from the likes of former bandmate Hubbard. Hancock himself had quite a limited role in some of those albums, leaving singing, composing and even producing to others. Mr. Hands (1980) is perhaps the one album during this period, that was critically acclaimed. To the delight of many fans, there were no vocals on the album, and one track featured Pastorius on bass. The album contained a wide variety of different styles, including a disco instrumental song, a Latin-jazz number and an electronic piece, in which Hancock plays alone with the help of computers.

Hancock also found time to record more traditional jazz while creating more commercially oriented music. He toured with Williams and Carter in 1981, recording Herbie Hancock Trio, a five-track live album released only in Japan. A month later, he recorded Quartet with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, released in the US the following year. Hancock, Williams and Carter toured internationally with Wynton and his brother, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, in what was known as "VSOP II". This quintet can be heard on Marsalis's debut album on Columbia (1981). In 1984 VSOP II performed at the Playboy Jazz Festival as a sextet with Hancock, Williams, Carter, the Marsalis Brothers and the addition of a third member into the horn section by way of Bobby McFerrin contributing his unique vocal stylings.

In 1982 Hancock contributed to the Simple Minds album New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84), playing a synthesizer solo on the track "Hunter and the Hunted".

In 1983, Hancock had a mainstream hit with the Grammy-award-winning instrumental single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock. It was the first jazz hip-hop song and became a worldwide anthem for the breakdancers and for the hip-hop culture of the 1980s. It was also the first mainstream single to feature scratching, and also featured an innovative animated music video, which was directed by Godley and Creme and showed several robot-like artworks by Jim Whiting. The video was a hit on MTV and reached No. 8 in the UK. The video won in five categories at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. This single ushered in a collaboration with noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Hancock experimented with electronic music on a string of three LPs produced by Laswell: Future Shock (1983), the Grammy Award-winning Sound-System (1984), and Perfect Machine (1988).

1990s to 2000

After a break following his leaving of Columbia, Hancock, together with Carter, Williams, Shorter, and Davis admirer Wallace Roney, recorded A Tribute to Miles, which was released in 1994. The album contained two live recordings and studio recording songs, with Roney playing Davis's part as trumpet player. The album won a Grammy for best group album. Hancock also toured with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland and Pat Metheny in 1990 on their Parallel Realities tour, which included a performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990, and scored the 1991 comedy film Livin' Large, which starred Terrence C. Carson.

A 1997 duet album with Shorter, entitled 1 + 1, was successful; the song "Aung San Suu Kyi" winning the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition. Hancock also achieved great success in 1998 with his album Gershwin's World, which featured readings of George and Ira Gershwin standards by Hancock and a plethora of guest stars, including Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Shorter. Hancock toured the world in support of Gershwin's World with a sextet that featured Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson.

2000 to 2009

Hancock, a longtime associate and friend of Mitchell, released a 2007 album, River: The Joni Letters, that paid tribute to her work, with Norah Jones and Tina Turner, adding vocals to the album, as did Corinne Bailey Rae. Leonard Cohen contributed a spoken piece set to Hancock's piano. Mitchell herself also made an appearance. The album was released on September 25, 2007, simultaneously with the release of Mitchell's newest album at that time: Shine. River won the 2008 Album of the Year Grammy Award. The album also won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, and the song "Both Sides Now" was nominated for Best Instrumental Jazz Solo. That was only the second time in history that a jazz album had both those Grammys.

His latest work includes assisting the production of the Kanye West track "RoboCop", found on 808s & Heartbreak.

Current work from 2010 to present

In June 2010 Hancock released The Imagine Project. On June 5, 2010 Hancock received an Alumni Award from his alma mater, Grinnell College. On July 22, 2011, at a ceremony in Paris, Hancock was named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of Intercultural Dialogue. In 2013 Hancock joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty as a professor in the UCLA music department where he will teach jazz music. On December 8, 2013 he was given the Kennedy Center Honors Award for achievement in the performing arts with artists like Snoop Dogg and Mixmaster Mike from the Beastie Boys performing his music.

Hancock appeared on the 5th Flying Lotus studio album, You're Dead, released in October 2014.

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Discography

Film

Selected concert films

2000: DeJohnette, Hancock, Holland and Metheny – Live in Concert

2002: Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane! with Ron Carter and Billy Cobham

2002: The Jazz Channel Presents Herbie Hancock (BET on Jazz) with Cyro Baptista, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ira Coleman, Eli Degibri and Eddie Henderson (recorded in 2000)

2004: Herbie Hancock – Future2Future Live

2005: Herbie Hancock's Headhunters Watermelon Man (Live in Japan)

2006: Herbie Hancock – Possibilities with John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Joss Stone, and more

Books

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (2014) ISBN 978-0-670-01471-2

Awards

Academy Awards

1986, Original Soundtrack, for Round Midnight

Grammy Awards

1984, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Rockit

1985, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Sound-System

1988, Best Instrumental Composition, for Call Sheet Blues

1995, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group, for A Tribute to Miles

1997, Best Instrumental Composition, for Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love)

1999, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s), for St. Louis Blues

1999, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group, for Gershwin's World

2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, for Directions in Musicve at Massey Hall

2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for My Ship

2005, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for Speak Like a Child

2008, Album of the Year, for River: The Joni Letters

2008, Best Contemporary Jazz Album, for River: The Joni Letters

2011, Best Improvised Jazz Solo, for A Change Is Gonna Come

2011, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, for Imagine

Playboy Music Poll

Best Jazz Group, 1985

Best Jazz Keyboards, 1985

Best Jazz Album – Rockit, 1985

Best Jazz Keyboards, 1986

Best R&B Instrumentalist, 1987

Best Jazz Instrumentalist, 1988

Keyboard Magazine's Readers Poll

Best Jazz & Pop Keyboardist, 1983

Best Jazz Pianist, 1987

Best Jazz Keyboardist, 1987

Best Jazz Pianist, 1988

Other notable awards

MTV Awards (5 awards in total) – Best Concept Video – Rockit, 1983–84

Gold Note Jazz Awards – NY Chapter of the National Black MBA Association, 1985

French Award Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters – Paris, 1985

BMI Film Music Award Round Midnight, 1986

U.S. Radio Award "Best Original Music Scoring – Thom McAnn Shoes", 1986

Los Angeles Film Critics Association "Best Score – Round Midnight", 1986

BMI Film Music Award Colors, 1989

Miles Davis Award, granted by the Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1997

Soul Train Music Award "Best Jazz Album – The New Standard", 1997

Festival International Jazz de Montreal Prix Miles Davis, 1997

VH1's 100 Greatest Videos Rockit is "10th Greatest Video", 2001

NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004

Downbeat Magazine Readers Poll Hall of Fame, 2005

Recipient of the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013

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