Free and safe after nearly 6 years in captivity in the Colombian jungle! This was the biggest story from last week!
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) — The three Americans rescued last week from captivity in the Colombian jungle carried with them simple mementos of the 5-1/2 years they spent as hostages — a metal lock, a bullet, a chess board made of cardboard.
Freed hostage Marc Gonsalves describes how a rainbow he saw early in his captivity gave him confidence he would survive. The hostages played chess to clear their minds from the dire situation. They played chess to survive!
Amazing! Here is the full video interview.
Special thanks to Mr. Craig Sheehan from Winchester, KY for sending me this link.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Those are beautiful chess pieces considering they were carved with a broken machete. I hope they didn’t play all their games with the Kings and Queens on the wrong squares!
How to trick the 30-move rule: see Parahua-Gomez in http://www.ncfphilippines.org/
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I wonder if they would have escaped sooner if they played Monopoly.
Did you realize that the rescue operation was called “Operation Jaque”? (“Operation Check / Checkmate”)
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Jaque