Israel set to destroy Iran . . . on the chess board
By YONI COHEN 10/14/2010 13:17
Israeli Chess Champion Alik Gershon plans to break Guinness World Record for largest number of simultaneous games, currently held by Iran.
The Jewish Agency together with the Israeli Chess Federation plan to break The Guinness World Record for the largest number of simultaneous Chess games played in a single session.Israel plans to break the record, which is currently held by Iran, by pitting one man against over 500 players.
The man who is stepping up to the challenge is Alik Gershon, Israeli Chess champion and former World Youth Chess champion.He will play against people of all ages from all over Israel and he will have to win 80% of the games in order to break the record.
Iranian GM Morteza Mahjoob currently holds the record, which previously stood at 360 simultaneous games,set earlier by Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev. Mahjoob broke the record by taking on 500 opponents and scoring 397 wins, 90 draws, 13 loses.The game is set to take place at Rabin Square on Thursday October 21 and begin at 11:30 a.mThe event is set to last for over 24 hours.
Source: http://www.jpost.com
How many will he play?
520 players. Susan, i will be there as one of the organisers. if you want i can send you pictures and nice games from the simul. my email is itayzloto@yahoo.com
I will be in my bomb shelter, my chess bomb shelter.
If it is a politically motivated move , logic says he has great chances of beating the record to be honest .
But if it is a genuine sporting attempt , my best wish of good luck to him , it is an amazing challenge to take so many and win 80% of games , i hope it will be fair and the governement will not try to “get a result” because of the political rivalry with Iran
I remember I met GM Alik Gershon in the past. I am surprised but happy he is doing this. I look at it as a great way to promote the game we love in Israel. But I am adding: No more war no more bloodshed.
By the way, GM Gershon is one of the kindest Israeli grandmasters I had met. He is a sweet person …but probably lethal on the chess board. I am scared to play him.
“No more war no more bloodshed.”
Tell that to the crazy Mujaheddin who believe killing Jews gets them into heaven.
Israel will thrive until the time has met it’s limit according to the prophet Daniel. When this happens, all enemies of Israel will be no more and Damascus will be a burning heap of ruins. Not my words, it is in the book of Daniel.
Damascus has never been destroyed during the history of Syria so this is clearly a future event yet to happen.
Alik is the best and the gaim will be 100% fair!