Outside, the risk to catch the virus is much lower than inside. While others complain about cancelled tournaments, I say: This could be an extraordinary chess summer. But we must not rely on those who have not yet organised any tournament outside, we must take action ourselves.
With fewer players, more space and being more relaxed. But first of all we must find out how we can play chess while complying to the current corona-rules that make it difficult to play live-tournaments. Austria is a good place for such an attempt. The number of infections goes down and small outdoor events with up to ten participants are allowed again.
The recommended minimum distance has been reduced to one meter. This could at least be feasible for a game of chess.
In Germany the distance is 1. Individual sports are allowed again in Austria but rules for indoor sports — which is what chess is — still have to worked out.
However, two departments of the Ministry of Health have expressly approved our tournament. The other tables in the park are either part of the playground or were closed off for the residents of a retirement home. Thus, we were more exposed to the sun, which we prepared for with hats and sunglasses, and played only a few metres away from the glass containers, but on a Sunday morning this was not much of a problem. We had the masks ready, but played without them. Oxygen is simply part of the basic equipment in tournament chess.
Ilya Balinov had fun keeping his hat on and pulling his scarf up over his nose. He recently frightened the employees of a bank in this outfit. Which he only realized when he saw their faces. Joe Wallner and tournament winner llja Balinov, who looked like a bank robber when he pulled the scarf over his nose.
Originally, we wanted to play with ten seconds increment. But with such a time-limit we would not be in time for dinner at Mother's Day dinner. So we agreed on a five second increment. Which wasn't enough time for me. Apparently, I was not only distant to my opponent but also quickly learned not to take a loss too close to heart. We weren't allowed to lean forward, leaning on our elbows and bringing our heads over the board, as we are used to.
When two opponents do this at the same time, the distance from face to face shrinks to to about thirty centimetres. So we leaned back and tried to play in that posture.
It takes some time. The arbiter Kaweh Kristof warned us if we came too close to the board and the distance between the players was less than one meter. In the first round this happened to everyone, sometimes even more than once. But in the end the arbiter did not have to intervene anymore. Atlantic cable chess Even chess game via Atlantic cable was carried in That historical event took place between London and New York on March 13th and 14th.
Unfortunately historians didn't give much attention to this fact and decided not to describe it. Space vs. Earth The most eminent chess game was played in the Space using radio communication. It was their day off - if one can apply the word 'off' to a totally sealed can high above in the sky - and they wanted to play one against another but the Central Control offered them to play together against the Control team on the Earth.
That game has been since then known as "Space vs. Earth Match". Nearly all newspapers widely covered it giving main attention to the game course. In a year the international meeting was held in Moscow with the same teams.
Mobile phone chess It is mostly a prerogative of teens to play chess via the cell phone. But the greatest pleasure is the chess-playing with their friends by means of this device. Computers' chess Chess-players began to become familiar with the PC right away it has started spreading.
Computer software appeared and chess tournament among computers began. The 1st Digital Chess Tournament was held in Stockholm in That was the game of chess for programmers, the game a chess-player does not participate in directly. The chess-players' aim became to write the software "fighting" against similar softwares. Such tournaments are not popular in comparison to the ones of computers and humans, which are held more often. Computer vs. Human The best chess software play at nearly the same level with grand masters, and can win even chess champion.
But then Kasparov overplayed the chess software 'Deep Though' twice, developed in the institute named after Carnegie-Mellon. And later Kasparov won the comp with the score , demonstrating people's superiority. Matches against commercial software 'Deep Junior' and 'Deep Fritz' run on 4 Intel Xeon processors in ended in a draw.
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