NewsWhore
11-17-2011, 02:00 PM
On a Sunday when most of the sports world was talking about the Pacquiao-Marquez fight or the F-1 race in Dubai, or almost anything else except chess, a ten-year old boy taking part in a 30-player simultaneous chess tournament against an International Grand Master, Ramon Mateo, quietly said "Checkmate" after moving his black queen in front of the white king in a move called DG2. The world did not stop, but a very stunned Grand Master quietly asked the little guy when he had moved the bishop, which supported the play by the queen to B7. The boy showed him the page torn out of a school notebook where he had written the game's progress. The Grand Master smiled and said, "Yes, yes, you have beaten me."
Grand Master Mateo later told Listin Diario reporters that the boy had great concentration and had the qualities of steadiness and stubbornness needed to triumph in chess. This all happened in the Guaricanos Chess Club in Santo Domingo where dozens of children learn and play the game of chess. The club, like so many in so many other barrios, lacks good facilities, but somehow it produces results among the young people who go there. They play in the patio of another club, they use plastic chairs borrowed from a nearby cafeteria, and they need a roof or some sort of cover to protect them from the sun and rain. With 200 members and just 20 chess sets, they make do. Club president Marcos Mateo told reporters that the nation's only Grand Master might have underestimated his opponents in the simultaneous event. He told the club president: "This will be over in 40 minutes." But five hours later he was sweating as the last match came to a close and he was a "victor" at 28-1-1.
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Grand Master Mateo later told Listin Diario reporters that the boy had great concentration and had the qualities of steadiness and stubbornness needed to triumph in chess. This all happened in the Guaricanos Chess Club in Santo Domingo where dozens of children learn and play the game of chess. The club, like so many in so many other barrios, lacks good facilities, but somehow it produces results among the young people who go there. They play in the patio of another club, they use plastic chairs borrowed from a nearby cafeteria, and they need a roof or some sort of cover to protect them from the sun and rain. With 200 members and just 20 chess sets, they make do. Club president Marcos Mateo told reporters that the nation's only Grand Master might have underestimated his opponents in the simultaneous event. He told the club president: "This will be over in 40 minutes." But five hours later he was sweating as the last match came to a close and he was a "victor" at 28-1-1.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)