"What struck him most was the fact that from Monday on he would be Luzhin."
I almost never make posts of this sort, but I just thought this was both really neat and quite odd.
Today, to waste time as my car was being looked at for the third time in two weeks at the Honda up on Blue Heron Blvd., my dad, brother, and I went to the Palm Beach Gardens Mall. And when we arrived there, almost right as the mall opened, there were rows and rows of tables of people of all ages playing chess, rows that ran across almost the entire mall. In wondering what was going on, I randomly ran into Marisa Montesino, and we went up to the registration desk to find out. The kindly man and woman at the desk told us that they were attempting to break the world record for most simultaneous chess games played at once, and that this woman, who was the first female Grandmaster in the entire world, was playing all 500 or so people participating. She was just walking up and down the aisles, going from one board to another, making a single move on each, and then starting all over again.
The man and woman at the registration desk kept urging us to join, and even as I repeated that I had to leave in only about five minutes, they stuck numbers on Marisa's and my backs, gave us free t-shirts, and sent us to our chess boards. The Grandmaster was white on every board (as is apparently customary in simultaneous chess games), so we had to just sit there and wait until she made the first move. But soon enough she came around and moved a pawn, and I only got to respond with moving another pawn before my dad and brother were finished sneaker shopping and took me away. But, Marisa got my board signed for me after I left, and now I can say I somehow participated in the world record of simultaneous chess matches, and technically played against a world chess champion and Grandmaster. :P
Today, to waste time as my car was being looked at for the third time in two weeks at the Honda up on Blue Heron Blvd., my dad, brother, and I went to the Palm Beach Gardens Mall. And when we arrived there, almost right as the mall opened, there were rows and rows of tables of people of all ages playing chess, rows that ran across almost the entire mall. In wondering what was going on, I randomly ran into Marisa Montesino, and we went up to the registration desk to find out. The kindly man and woman at the desk told us that they were attempting to break the world record for most simultaneous chess games played at once, and that this woman, who was the first female Grandmaster in the entire world, was playing all 500 or so people participating. She was just walking up and down the aisles, going from one board to another, making a single move on each, and then starting all over again.
The man and woman at the registration desk kept urging us to join, and even as I repeated that I had to leave in only about five minutes, they stuck numbers on Marisa's and my backs, gave us free t-shirts, and sent us to our chess boards. The Grandmaster was white on every board (as is apparently customary in simultaneous chess games), so we had to just sit there and wait until she made the first move. But soon enough she came around and moved a pawn, and I only got to respond with moving another pawn before my dad and brother were finished sneaker shopping and took me away. But, Marisa got my board signed for me after I left, and now I can say I somehow participated in the world record of simultaneous chess matches, and technically played against a world chess champion and Grandmaster. :P