Outside Edge (13/12/2009)
By Andrew Tong
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Chequered mates of the week
There’s no smoke without fire in the high-pressure world of chess. Two Chinese grand masters, Wang Yue and Li Chao, were disqualified from the World Chess Cup held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, after they returned late from a smoking break. Edge is a fan of any sport that allows fag breaks but it’s sad that Wang should drag Li down like this; he only took up the habit to keep Wang company.
Top-class chess has returned to the UK for the first time in 25 years at the London Chess Classic, featuring the inappropriately monikered Hikaru ‘H-Bomb’ Nakamura, who beat Bobby Fischer’s record as the youngest grand master at 15 years, 79 days. Let’s hope he doesn’t fall in with the wrong cloud.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/outside-edge-13122009-1839217.html
