Mass chess festival to break world record<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Around 12,000 people are expected to participate in a gigantic
\nchess tournament in a bid to break the world record for 'the most
\npeople playing chess simultaneously', organizers of the event
\nannounced here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Called the Mega Chess 12000, it will be held at the Kemayoran
\nfair ground in Central Jakarta on Friday with the winner to be
\nawarded a Daihatsu Xenia car.<\/p>\n
\"We're hoping for 12,032 players exactly for the tournament.
\nWe want it to be recorded in the Guinness Book of Records,\" Santi
\nDiansari, the chairwoman of the organizing committee, said during
\na press conference.<\/p>\n
\"It's not an easy task to net that number. But we have been
\nworking with more than 100 coordinators assigned in the Greater
\nJakarta area to enlist the participants,\" she said, adding that
\nthey had registered 10,000 so far.<\/p>\n
Santi said they were hoping to break the current world record
\nset up in Havana, Cuba, with a turnout of 11,320 people on Dec.
\n7, 2002.<\/p>\n
The one-day tournament, which is scheduled to run from 8 a.m
\nto 6 p.m Jakarta time, will be conducted in fourteen rounds in a
\nsingle elimination tournament.<\/p>\n
The first seven rounds will be played with the participants
\neach allowed to complete the match in 15 minutes, while the
\nremaining rounds will be just 5 minutes.<\/p>\n
If there are the expected number of people, there will be
\n12,031 overall matches, compared to 5,660 in Havana, where the
\nplayers each just played one match.<\/p>\n
To ensure that the expected number is met, each of the
\nparticipants will be identified with a barcode which will
\nautomatically record their names on a monitor.<\/p>\n
Besides videotaping the event, officials from the Jakarta
\nChess Association and the Jakarta Sports Office will be invited
\nto the event, according to the organizers, as an independent
\nobserver to ensure the validity of the event.<\/p>\n
Apart from the great display of the top non-master and amateur
\nplayers, a highly rated smaller tourney will also be held for
\nmaster's players.<\/p>\n
The interesting feature in the master's competition is that
\nthe final will utilize gigantic pieces measuring up to 1.6
\nmeters.<\/p>",
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