When Kasparov arrived in Canada yesterday, he told the customs official that he was going to play chess in Toronto. The official said, “Chess? What is that?” The man had not heard of him, either.
But the thirteenth world champion put the Canadians in their place at the unfamiliar activity called chess by winning twenty-one simultaneous games in the course of ninety minutes. If only checkmating Putin were this easy!
The simultaneous exhibition was arranged by Belzberg Technologies.
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June 19, 2007 at 9:34 pm |
I wonder how often Kasparov meets someone who has no idea who he is.