It's lunch...

and I have nothing more to say really... except JAI HIND! :)

Post-Tea Session EDIT
For a man who spent close to five hours at the crease, the class with which he walked back to the pavillion will forever be etched in my memory. Sachin Tendulkar, you might've fallen 6 runs short of Test Cricket History, but record or no record, you're the greatest that's ever played the game in my lifetime. Thank you for all the entertainment.

Go get the record in Kolkata. It's probably for the better. :)

Chess master Kasparov to retire - SHOCKING

Former world champion Gary Kasparov has announced that he is to retire from competitive chess. He made the surprise announcement after winning a prestigious tournament in Spain for the ninth time.

"I will continue to play chess because it is a lot of fun, but no longer on a professional level," he said. The 41-year-old said he had made the decision because of the intense pressure which he had been under over recent years.

The chess grandmaster, a leading critic of Mr Putin, heads a group of top Russian liberals who have joined forces to keep Vladimir Putin from staying in the Kremlin after 2008. His group, called Committee 2008: Free Choice, has criticised Mr Putin's control over Russia's parliament and the country's media, and what it calls the "flat-out falsification of the last election's results".

They have vowed to ensure a new president is elected in 2008. -Courtesy the Beeb

How depressing. :( I was actually following the Linares tourney very closely, the first time in a long while for a Chess tournament, but I can't say I expected this. The greatest chess player in modern times. Retiring @ 41!!! Even Korchonoi is still playing...