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World Cup 2011 Semi Final Match
India Vs Pakistan Semi Final Highlights World Cup 2011
Monday, 3 September 2012
Chess Game Rules
How to Play Chess : Chess Game for Beginners
Chess is a game played by two people on
a chessboard, with sixteen pieces (of
six different types) for each player. Each type of piece moves in a distinct
way. The goal of the game is to checkmate,
i.e. to threaten the opponent's king with
inevitable capture. Games do not necessarily end with checkmate – players
often resign if they believe they will
lose. In addition, there are several ways that a game can end in a draw.
Besides the basic movement of the
pieces, rules also govern the equipment used, the time control,
the conduct and ethics of players, accommodations for physically challenged
players, the recording of moves using chess notation,
as well as provide procedures for resolving irregularities which can occur
during a game.
Rotating Tower
Dubai Rotating Tower
The Rotating Tower (also known as Dynamic Architecture Building or the Da Vinci Tower) is a planned 420-meter (1,378 ft), 80-floor moving
skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, designed by
architect David Fisher.
Similar to the Suite Vollard completed in 2001 in Brazil, each floor will be able to rotate independently. This will result in a constantly
changing shape of the tower. Each floor will rotate a maximum of 6 meters
(20 ft) per minute, or one full rotation in 90 minutes.
It will be the
world's first prefabricated skyscraper with 40 factory-built
modules for each floor. 90% of
the tower will be built in a factory and shipped to the construction site. This will allow the entire building to
be built in only 22 months. The
core of the tower will be built at the construction site. Part of this prefabrication will be
the decrease in cost and number of workers (90 at the work site and 600 in the
factory instead of 2,000 needed). The
total construction time will be over 30% less than a normal skyscraper of the
same size. The majority of the
workers will be in factories, where it will be much safer. The modules will be preinstalled
including kitchen and bathroom fixtures. The core will serve each floor with a
special, patented connection for clean water, based on technology used to
refuel airplanes in mid-flight.
The entire
tower will be powered from wind turbines and solar panels.
Enough surplus electricity should be produced to power five other
similar sized buildings in the vicinity. The
turbines will be located between each of the rotating floors. They could generate up to 1,200,000
kilowatt-hours of energy. The solar panels will be located on the roof and the
top of each floor.
In 2008,
Fisher said that he expected the skyscraper to be completed in 2010. In 2009,
Fisher said construction would be complete in late 2011. However, construction
has not started yet, and there has been no official announcement of the
building site. Fisher did not "say where the tower would be built, [...]
because he wanted to keep it a surprise." Fisher acknowledges that he is not
well known, has never built a skyscraper before and has not practiced
architecture regularly in decades
An
artist’s impression of the ‘Dynamic Tower’ that is supposed to be built in
Dubai. A similar tower will now come up in London.
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