Grand Master Anatoly Karpov to Play at Cuban Mass Match
Havana, April 15 (acn) Russian chess Grand Master and former world champion Anatoly Karpov will take part in a gigantic 4,000 chess board simultaneous match on April 21 at the University of Computer and Informatics Sciences (UCI) in Havana.
Karpov was welcomed upon his arrival Monday by Osvaldo Vento, an official from the Cuban Sports, Physical Education and Recreation Institute (INDER). Vento greeted the chess great on behalf of Jose Ramon Fernandez, president of the Cuban Olympic Committee and Christian Jimenez, who heads INDER.
Besides participating in the large gathering of chess enthusiasts at the UCI, Karpov will visit the International School of Sports and Physical Education and a local rehabilitation center for Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
The Russian chess grand master will also visit the pantheon containing the remains of mythical Cuban chess master Jose Raul Capablanca, world champion from 1921 to 1927, who Karpov considers a great inspiration.
Source: www.cubanews.ain.cu
It’s great that GM Karpov is still so active in chess and is going to visit the grave of Capablanca. I wish it was in a country that wasn’t a dictatorship, as Cuba is, but what Karpov is doing as a chess ambassador is very good for our sport….
I just hope he doesn’t endorse or meet with anyone of Cuba’s dictator leaders…..
Keep it at chess…..communism in Cuba will cease to exist probably within 20 years.
But, I’m proud of GM Karpov for doing this. He’s a wonderful chess ambasssador.
4000 boards??!
Hope he has orthotics.
Is this huge number, 4000 (four thousand), believable?
This would be 166 hours of non-stop chess for Karpov (without sleep).
Assume 30 move-pairs per game.
IF Karpov could make every move in 5 seconds, and did not have to spend any time walking between boards, and if he took no breaks, — then it would take Karpov 166 uninterrupted hours.
That would be 7 consecutive days solid (24 hrs, playing all night, no sleep).
Karpov is not young, but he is rich. He does not need the money. 4000 games, really?
GeneM
What is this:
“mythical Cuban chess master Jose Raul Capablanca“
I thought Capablanca was a real person!
“Karpov is not young, but he is rich. He does not need the money. 4000 games, really?”
Isn’t Kaprov married?
“If Karpov could make every move in 5 seconds”
Have you ever played in a simul? You need a second for a move, man.
The article was probably written by some misinformed journalist who know about chess as much as I do about golf or the Dragon Sicilian. It’s a 40-board simul, my guess is.
“Keep it at chess…..communism in Cuba will cease to exist probably within 20 years.”
You sound like you are a fortune teller? Or someone who decides about communism in Cuba? Rather a blog-addicted, with nothing-to-do-during-the-day chess patzer you are.
166 straight hours? Karpov will surely use this as a pretext to take some “bathroom breaks”.
Hopefully, the Cuban authorities are taking measures to make sure he isn’t using his pocket Fritz in there…
4,000 board simul. Doesn’t mean Karpov is playing in all the boards. Massive simuls are normally played by several masters at the same time, each of them taking on a segment of the boards.
Communism has been dead a lonf time. What Fidel had was not Communism, but a Tyrannical Dictatorship a-la-North Korea, a-la Mogadishu, a-la Pakistan, a-la Russia. Open your eyes. Capitalism and Communism are different sides of the same coin. Both are used to control the sheeply masses to manipulate and kill in useless wars over imaginary issues created by the popular press.
True knowledge comes to those who dare seek it on their own, not off of Fox News or BBC.
My dear chess friends, you have no idea of what slaughter these evil globalist wish to do to you.
Click on my name to find out.
Google my name and find out its significance. Wikipedia will work well enough. Time is running out.
Seriously.
Cassandra,
You have some serious “issues” to deal with. A “Messiah Complex” in that you hold within your brain “true knowledge” and everyone that doesn’t agree with you is “ignorant ” in some way! Stupid.
Armageddon isn’t coming….you just hate the USA. This isn’t the proper venue to discuss such radical ideas.
They’re ridiculous. Every news organization tends to distort the truth. CNN is a bit more liberal than FoxNews and we all know it.
And, the old philosophical question: “What is the ‘truth’?” “what is ‘Knowledge’?” This is the realm of Epistemology.
There are very real issues that lead to wars especially since WWI. The press distorts issues but the media doesn’t create issues that cause nations to go to war. I suppose the NY Times or CNN could somehow “cause a war”?
Your ideas are that of a disturbed person. I bet you think some UFO is going to come save humanity like the “heaven’s Gate” cult did back in the 1990’s.
Choose another venue to attempt to spread your paranoid lies.
Anon.
I love the USA. I love the Constitution. I hate the traitors who are destroying both to maintain their wealth and position in the new world order.
No Messiah complexes here. There is a real document code named End Game that has its origins in another declassified document called “0peration Northwoods”. Look it up on your own. Don’t take my word for it! It details a radical change in the way the new world order deals with money(cashless), technology(tracking IDs), using fear tactics to control the population (terrorism)and cotrol the people(slaves).
The changes are happening around you and you can’t even see them.
Remember 6 million Jews were killed in WW2 because they couldn’t see the changes happening around them to get the hell out of Nazi Germany in time.
They were all patriotic German citizens. The poor Jews didn’t know what hit them, but were still arguing among themselves about why they were put in concentration camps all the way to the death showers and infernal ovens.
This time, there is nowhere to run.
You are ready for your oven because many like minded people like you continue to let the government destroy the Constitution with the formation of the North American Union, the one-world currency; the Amero, and the control over America via the UN and the World Court. This is happening now.
Look up Rex84
This is the age of ignorance.
“Karpov will take part …”
In English it means “participate”. He won’t play 4,000 games himeself, just small part of it.
Dear Cassandra,
First, you are a complete joke….a knave and In my upcoming comments, I want to emphasize that I mean no disprespect.
You have a right to your paranoid opinions and I believe it is logical for two people to “agree to disagree.” That said, I am a Professor of History, I use the name “Seneca” on this blog and, in addition to having a Ph.D. in history I have an MA in philosophy, also.
Now, let us discuss this idea of yours because I know, as a historian, it is nothing new. However, it is quite flawed.
When making a formal argument to support an opinion you must supply facts, not just general statements such as, “I hate the traitors who are destroying both to maintain their wealth and position in the new world order.”
1.) Who are your perceived “traitors?” To support your argument you must state who your perceived enemy is., do not generalize. Who are they? What SPECIFICALLY did they do in your mind?
2.) “New World Order…” This is a phrase that has been used frequently (albeit in different contexts, since the French Revolution), but who (what group, I ask you), what SPECIFIC events shall lead to your perceived “new world order?”
Your use of the phrase “New World Order” in your statements is quite vague. You do not specifically define what this means nor entails, what events are going to lead to your perceived “new orld order,” nor do you give room for the neccessary sociological forces at work that will make your perceived vision of the future (“New world order”) possible.
Facts, dear Cassandra, not opinion or logical red herrings. You mention that one “could look up Operation Northwoods” and see all the special “secrets” of some grand conspiracy.
You can also type into Google “Blair Witch” and get a hundred ghosts stories that are “scientifically verified” and such.
Worst, is your words regarding German Jews living in Germany prior to WWII. You are certainly mistaken and misguided with your comment, “The poor Jews didn’t know what hit them…”
Prior to the German invasion of Poland in 1939 (this was 6 or 7 years after Hitler came to power) the Nazis increasingly began to put into effect “anti-Jewish” laws and I have personally known jewish people that lived in German prior to 1940 (but left the country, thankfully) and they most certainly “knew what hit them” and knew the tide of anti-semitism…which has been a problem since the reign of Augustus as Roman Emperor (i.e. coinciding with the life of Jesus and the orign of Christianity). Nothing new here. Anti-semitism has shown itself in many forms within the past 1,983 years. I could give many examples but it would already make a long post much longer.
I OBJECT MOST OF ALL TO THIS COMMENT OF YOURS: “You are ready for your oven because many like minded people like you continue to let the government destroy the Constitution with the formation of the North American Union, the one-world currency; the Amero, and the control over America via the UN and the World Court. This is happening now.”
I, Cassandra, a person you never met, “am ready for the oven.” Unless you can truly see into the future with a time machine, you have no idea what humanity can and will evolve into or what events will occur. You, I suspect, are an undergraduate philosphy major that has been reading too many of the writing of radical contemporary writing, attempting to compare these opinions with history, and you, AND ONLY YOU perceive things that can neither be proven nor have any basis in reality.
I know history. I teach it for a living. I know philosopy…I earned an MA in it. If you had proof of anything, the media would be surrounding you right now. You are a misguided person. I do hope you seek help.
Why bring this absurd topic up on Susan’s blog? Your mindsetis no differet than the flagellants that beat themselves to ward off the Black Plague during the 1300’s.
You believe in a future that has not happened. This is illogical. History has yet to be written and, yes, your words convey that you have “knowledge” beyong that of others. Hence, my use of the adjective “Messiah Complex.”
Future history…Future “truth” is yet to be written and, after speding 27 years studying the history of humanity, I can say that this mind set is nothing new, based upon mental fictions created within your troubled mind.
It is exactly the strange, borderline domestic terrorists that I’d love to debate in an open forum, for all to see, to let you throw all of your “proof” of this and that at me, and then….
let everyone witness every argument of yours broken down and destroyed, with logic, piece by piece.
You pronounce to have “knowledge” of things yet to be. I do not. the future can only be based upon the past.
There will be no armageddon. No “new world order” (in your radical sense of the phrase) and you do not base any sentence, any claim, upon a logical sourse. Where are your primary sources? Why are you “special” and have this so called “knowledge” while we “sheep” as you call the rest of humanity, just go blindly through each day?
Is your “insight” from God…perhas as Joan of Arc was “divinely inspired?”
You are a person that teeters on the edge of a cult leader or domestic terrorist. Your words are scary and have no place on this blog.
Take your delusions elsewhere….Susan’s blog is not the proper place for espousing your ideology.
“Seneca”
What is scary is your declaration that someone is a “terrorist or a cult leader” because they exercised free speech. With all of your supposed education, how can you aregue and counter illogical rantings of a deranged person? I question your intelligence, sir.
Of course this place is no place for such crazy talk, but I think your pronouncments are more undesirable than the rantings of some poor totured soul scared by Internet stories and the such. Lets talk about Chess ans stop feeding the trolls.
The irony out of all of this is: What if chicken little was right and the sky is falling? Ha! Ha!
All you dimwits don’t know Cuba well enough. In Cuba, all numbers above 10 are reported to 2 decimal places.
The simul is a 40-board simul which was correctly reported by the Cuban press as 40.00 boards.
Sadly, someone interpreted this to mean 4000.
Wikipedia says this about Seneca:
Dante placed Seneca in the First Circle of Hell.
A fitting end for a fat fool.
He was responsible for that idot Nero. Nothing like doing the “bacon” dance for all eternity.
Good riddance.
I like Cuban cuisine! Especially the fried bananas and salsa!
Yum!
Has anyone beaten Susan’s simul World Record?