Anand to play against 40 players simultaneously
Press Trust of India, Updated: August 19, 2010 19:26 IST
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is all set witness a spectacular chess match between the grandmaster Viswanathan Anand who will play against 40 players simultaneously.
According to the organisers of ICM International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, 40 participants have been chosen for simultaneous chess play.
“As many as 17 players including some eminent mathematics professors are from India,” said an official from the organizing committee.
The official said some expert mathematicians form all over the world will also take part in the match which will be held on August 24.
Anand is said to be a keen follower of developments in mathematics and science. One of his favourite books which he often refers to is Andrew Hodges’s ‘Inner Life of Numbers’.
Source: http://www.ndtv.com
Big fan.
See Susan, now it starting again, they gunna all get in a room together and start lookin at each other and wearin suits and i read that they sayin in India that white has a “miniscule advantage” of the first move, its a tricky way of sayin we know we need to Change but we dont actually know why, but our champ is doing good with this knight concept so its all good, hehe, see Susan know u know why i named them the top tricksters.