VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

The gold medal for the 44th Chess Olympiad has been shared by India and Russia. The countries received joint-gold because of a glitch with the Internet. The Olympiad takes place every two years to find the best chess-playing nation in the world. This year it was held online for the first time. The online version of the competition was because of coronavirus. The final was between players from Russia and India. However, some games came to an end after two Indian players lost their Internet connection. Officials at the tournament said they had no choice but to award the gold medal to the two countries. They said this was fair because the Indian players lost time when the Internet connection failed.

This year’s Chess Olympiad started in July. Teams from over 160 countries took part. The final round was not the only time teams had technical glitches. A player from Armenia was disconnected from the tournament’s server during his quarter-final match against India. However, on that occasion, officials rejected his appeal. Armenia withdrew from the competition in protest. Officials said there were “unprecedented circumstances” in the final. They said: “The Online Chess Olympiad has been impacted by a global Internet outage that severely affected several countries, including India. Two of the Indian players were affected and lost connection when the outcome of the match was still unclear.”

Vocabulary

medal – jiang pai
i.e. I won the gold medal in the competition.

chess – 国际象棋
i.e. They are playing a chess game.

glitch – mistake
i.e. There was a glitch with the internet.

tournament – competition that is held in different places around different places
i.e. I want to take part in the tennis tournament.

occasion – situation
i.e. In this occasion, I will vote in favor of my friend.

appeal – kong su
i.e. We should appeal to the judge in order to receive justice.

unprecedented – not happened before
i.e. This accident was completely unprecedented.

circumstance – situation
i.e. This circumstance is very special.

severely – badly
i.e. I was severely hurt by you.

outage – duan lu
i.e. There was an electricity outage in the building.

nitpicking – 鸡蛋里挑骨头
i.e. She likes to be nitpicking about everything.

Pronunciation

un’precedented

‘circumstances

se’verely

We had a livestream yesterday and there are two teams. One is branding team and the other team is tm. We work together. And bm is in charge of the celebrity and the host and the event. And the tm is in charge of the product and the stocking of product and the promotion deal of the event. We made the promotion deal, we designed promotion deal in the picture to present how our promotion is cheap. To boost customer to buy our products. We design the picture and send them to tm to ask them double checking. They said it’s not our business. We gave you the excel file and all the info is in the excel file. You can double check by yourself. my boss and i got angry. We just reply by the wechat. actually we designed the picture, we had done our work, we just want to tm to double check the offer. Why don’t you double check your work. and we fight. They double checked but I think they like double check one by one and point out some contents which we didn’t ask them to double check. Finally we won in the wechat but at last the big boss said yes the team work is important, we stop to challenge each other.

Revised:

We had a livestream yesterday and there were two teams. One was branding team and the other team was TM. We worked together. And BM was in charge of the celebrity, the host, and the event. And the tm was in charge of the product, the stocking of the product, and the promotion deal of the event. We designed the promotion deal in pictures to present how our promotion was cheaper to boast our sales. We designed the picture and sent to tm to ask them to double check. They said it was not their business. They said: “we gave you the excel file and all the information was in the file. you can double check by yourself.” my boss and I got angry and we just replied through wechat: “actually we designed the picture so we had done our job. we just want you to double check the offer. why don’t you double check your work?!” So we fought. although they doubled checked, I think they were nitpicking and they were pointing out things that didn’t need double checking. Finally, we won the argument on WeChat. But the big boss said that teamwork is very important and that we should stop challenging each other. 

A: Tell me about your favorite childhood memory.