A Bulgarian grandmaster has broken the world record for the highest number of chess games played at one time.
The AP says, “Kiril Georgiev played a total of 360 games simultaneously, winning 284, drawing 70 and losing six, during a marathon that lasted 14 hours and 8 minutes.”
Afterward, most people reacted by saying, “Uh, why?”
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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I'm guessing that country doesn't have TV, internet, running water or electricity. How do you find that many OTHER lunatics, err, chess masters, to play as if they don't have a care in the world,job.bathroom and homelife-wise.
I find America's obsession with chess distressing -- chess on Friday nights, chess on Monday nights, chess bowl matches, chess scholarships, chessmasters raoming the schools and beating up football players, chessmasters doing drugs and beating up their girlfriends -- when will this chess madness STOP!?
-- Mack
I think our schools need to focus less on chess and get real with genuine life-skills, such as football. What America needs is more drunks wearing the made-in-China jerseys of football players who wouldn't give 'em the time of day.
Sven the Viking
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