Simultaneously in Tel Aviv
October 24, 2010 at 16:47 1 comment
Last week, Israeli grandmaster Alik Gershon broke the Guinness World Record in simultaneous chess by playing against 527 other chess players, winning 87 percent of his games. The event took place at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Thursday and Friday.
The previous record, set in 2009, was held by the Iranian grandmaster Morteza Mahjoub.
The Ministry of Defense has yet to announce whether systematically going through the book of Guinness World Records and breaking every single Iranian record is a new form of psychological warfare against the Islamic Republic.
Entry filed under: Life, Tel Aviviana.
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Amir | October 25, 2010 at 09:41
The last record was taken from the Lebanese –
Biggest Hummus plate