BBC News
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 12:33 GMT
Chess showdown ends in check melt
Europe’s unseasonably warm winter has almost put paid to a chess match between London and Moscow, using huge pieces carved from ice.
The pieces began melting so quickly that some were almost indistinguishable by the time the match finished.
Huge chessboards had been laid out in the Russian and British capitals, with grandmasters Nigel Short and Anatoly Karpov taking charge of the teams.
The match was held as part of a Russian “Old New Year” festival in London.
The temperature was 12C in London’s Trafalgar Square and 5C in Moscow’s Pushkinskaya Square – both well above average for the time of year.
The whole of Europe has had an exceptionally warm autumn and winter, with Moscow bereft of its usual snow and ice.
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Leave it to Short to screw it up, even with the weather.
I wouldn’t pay a penny to see anything Short does. He is a vile human being.
Nigel Short’s dream is to reach 2700 ELO mark once again and to leave competitive chess then.
That’s the last I heard of him.
Expect incomming months some fine chess from him becouse Nigel works hard to catch up those missing 9-10 points.
I think they needed to switch to BLITZ chess. That way they would have avoided the melting and given people lots of exercise.