Chess in Cuba
Cuba is hosting what it claims to be the world's biggest simultaneous chess competition..Eleven thousand are taking on more than 500 chess masters.
It is part of the closing ceremony of the event being described as the first Cuban Olympic Games.Chess pedigree
The idea is to top the world record of 10,007 tables set recently by Mexico.
Each one of the masters is playing 25 to 30 people simultaneously.
The event is part of the Cuban Olympic Games, organised after the country decided not to take part in the Central American-Caribbean Games because of security problems.
The competition is supported at the highest levels of government.
President Fidel Castro dropped in for an hour, one of several people playing one of the experts, before heading off to take part in a summit of Caribbean leaders.
Cuba has a chess pedigree.
The revolutionary hero, Che Guevara, was apparently also a fanatic of the game.
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Hey Norm--just a heads-up, there's an open italics tag in this post and it's italicizing everything below it on the main page. I think it's because you close the italics at the end of the post, which isn't displayed on the front page, only at the "MORE..." link.
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