One of my pleasant discoveries in the Asean+ tourney is finding out that WGM Zhang Jilin also maintains a chess blog. I showed her my blog and she showed me hers. Alas it was in Chinese. So the only thing I could do was use Altavista’s Bebelfish online translator to try to understand some of her blog posts.
Here’s the translated text on her post regarding her team’s win in one of their major league tournament:
Last with the Beijing team’s decisive battle, we won! ! ! Finally has attained the league tournament
champion! ! !
champion! ! !
Last year league tournament final situation compared to this year fortunately, but because everybody too young is
insufficiently experienced, how doesn’t understand the handle pressure, the regret just misses with the league tournament champion This year our entire troop all even more unites, is maturer, displays the very high level in the critical moment, finally tastes hopes! Good is happy
Our team’s big cow, the fat tiger, Long Long and young Hou under extremely is all good Everybody very is happy,
now quickly asks them please to eat meal, definitely does not have the question: ) Our team’s group leaders and the staff all compete for us extremely go all out, everybody is laborious, thank you
P.s. just saw had several friends’ to help me to translate that interview, extremely thank Because before
continuously is competing, does not have time to translate
continuously is competing, does not have time to translate
http://blog.sina.com.cn/zhangjilin
Anyway, we had a good laugh reading the quirky translated text.
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