Chess Master Holds Charity Exhibition
6/13/09 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
North Carolina’s number one chess master, FM Andrey Chumachenko, will demonstrate his mastery for charity next month in Hickory by playing chess with up to 40 people simultaneously.
Sponsored in partnership with the Hickory Foundation YMCA Miller Teen Center and the Hickory Chess Club, the simultaneous exhibition takes place at the Foundation YMCA Miller Teen Center, meeting room A, 701 1st St. NW, Hickory, Saturday, June 13th, from 10a.m. – 3p.m. The event , conceived of by a student who is both a member of the chess club and a youth good-works group at the teen center, is to be a fund raiser for embattled hospitals in Chad.
In a simultaneous exhibition, a chess master moves from board to board inside a circle of tables, making a move at each.&nbs p; Challengers have time to consider their own move while the master cycles back to them.
A simul is the only chance most chess players will ever have to beat a master, while his attention is divided.
With so many games to keep track of, most masters simply size up the position on each board as they come to it, and move accordingly. Only the strongest players can expect to win most of their games against all comers under such conditions.
The simul will be preceded by a chess lecture by FM Chumachenko.
See www.hickorychessclub.org for more information about the Hickory Chess Club- and in coming days, the simultaneous exhibition.
Kudos to him!