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Ten year old defeats chess no.1 Carlsen

It's not every ten-year old who can claim to have forced the world's number one chess grandmaster into submission.

Published: 20 August 2013 08:36 CEST
Ten year old defeats chess no.1 Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen - Club de Ajedrez Linex-Magic
But Ram Aravind, a student at Chennai's Vaishnav College, was one of four students who on Monday managed to check-mate Norwegian chess genius Magnus Carlsen,  who is in the city to prepare for his coming World Championship match.
 
Carlsen played simultaneous chess with twenty students, drawing with six of them, and losing to four. 
 
Carlsen congratulated the students on their victories: "They were talented. Especially tactically they were good and could beat a Norwegian with a little jet lag." 
 
"I'm a little surprised," Aravind told India's PTI news wire. 
 

Carlsen is in India to inspect conditions at the venue, the Hotel Hyatt Regency in Chennai, before taking on the reigning world champion, 22-year-old Vishy Anand on 6 November. 
 

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Spanish chessboard maker sees surge in demand thanks to The Queen’s Gambit

Barcelona-based Rechapados Ferrer has been inundated with orders since supplying products to the Netflix series.

Published: 7 February 2021 15:10 CET
Spanish chessboard maker sees surge in demand thanks to The Queen's Gambit
Rechapados Ferrer is the latest firm to find itself impacted by a renewed interest in Chess. Photo: AFP

The company, founded in the 1950s, usually produces only about 20,000 chessboards a year from its factory in La Garriga, near Barcelona.

But since supplying its products to the successful Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, it has received a wave of orders in the past months.

The mini series, an adaptation of a novel by Walter Tevis, has fuelled interest in the game of chess. Since it debuted last autumn, Rechapados Ferrer has received orders for 40,000 boards.

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“When the Netflix series came out, it all just went crazy and drove sales of chessboards through the roof,” David Ferrer, who runs the family business, told The Guardian.

It's not the only company to have seen a surge in demand. Ebay also noted a 215% rise in sales of chess boards and accessories since October.

In February last year, the Spanish crisp-maker Bonilla saw a huge increase in online sales after its distinctive tins were featured in Oscar-winning film 'Parasite'.

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