Smallest chess pieces recorded

Smallest chess pieces recorded

JAKARTA (JP): Small is beautiful. Or it certainly is the case
for Prasetyo Sumedi who was officially recognized yesterday as
having made the smallest chess pieces in Indonesia.

The set was made in one week with the tallest pieces, the
Kings, standing a "sizable" nine millimeters high and three
millimeters wide.

The smallest pieces, the pawns, are seven millimeters tall and
two millimeters wide.

The chess board is 35 millimeters square and 4.5 millimeters
thick.

All the pieces are made of wood.

For his zeal, the resident of Salatiga, Central Java, received
a certificate in Semarang, Central Java, stating that his
accomplishment was now recorded in the Indonesian Museum of
Records.

As reported by Antara, the certificate was presented by the
museum's manager, Paulus Pangka, who said that it was the 300th
record to be entered in the museum.

Another record which has recently been entered is the 40-story
Mulia Senayan Hotel in South Jakarta, which at eight-and-a-half
months was recorded as the fastest built.

In February, the museum entered the name of a 75-year-old man
nicknamed "the man of a thousand faces" because he is able to
twist his face into numerous positions.

Masngudin of Tegalsari Barat village near Semarang could
change his face by moving the muscles in his eyes, mouth, and
nose.

Paulus said it was possible that Masngudin's "miraculous
ability" could be recorded also in the Guinness Book of World
Records. (mds)