Israeli Chess grandmaster breaks Iranian world record with 527 simultaneous games
Chess
October 28, 2010
Last Thursday, October 21, at the Yitzhak Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Grandmaster Alik Gershon broke the Guinness Simultaneous Chess world record playing 527 games of chess simultaneously. The previous record was set last year by the Iranian Morteza Mahjoob, who played 500 simultaneous games in Tehran, Iran.
The Grandmaster Gershon is 30 years old and was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, but immigrated to Israel in 1990. Gershon started playing on Thursday 10:45am and finished in the early hours of Friday morning after almost 20 hours of walking around the table games. The series of games resulted in 454 wins, 11 losses, and 58 draws.
At the end of the journey, Gershon declared that “it’s a very sweet feeling, it’s something which we prepared for a very long time; we couldn’t have failed. I am very, very happy that I made it.”
With a smile he added “hopefully all our wars against Iran will be on the chess board.”
The Jewish Agency and the Israel Chess Federation were the sponsors of this special one-day event.
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