New Delhi: World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand will egg on 20,000 chess players as they take on each other in what will be the world's largest such congregation to eclipse the current world record for simultaneous chess that had been created four years ago.
As many as 13,446 players had played in a chess exhibition in Mexico City in 2006. The 'Swarnim Chess Mahotsav' that will be played on December 24 in Ahmedabad seeks to break that record.
The state government, in partnership with the Gujarat State Chess Association and NIIT, has organised the chess carnival to popularise chess in the state of Gujarat.
In run-up to the event, Chess Clubs were set up by NIIT MindChampions Academy in 1,575 computerised schools to facilitate maximum participation. And on December 24, the giant 29,000 square metres of the Gujarat University Grounds of Ahmedabad - venue of the event - will wear the look of a chessboard with 64 alternating black and white squares.
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