Chess Grandmasters play football!

27/04/2008 by Nikita

Chess players in Baku had a free day yesterday! See how they spent their day…playing football…watch the second movie to see the players in action!

Images: Fide.com

Sergey Karjakin, from Ukraine, (Ukrainian: Сергій Карякін; born January 12, 1990 in Simferopol) is a top chess player. At the age of twelve years and seven months he became the youngest grandmaster in history. On the FIDE ranking list of April 2008, he has a rating of 2732, making him number 14 in the world, number 2 in the category of boys up to 20 years old and number 2 in the Ukraine. On this first movie you can see the interview held with him. Both movies can be watched on the Fide.com site too.

Round 6 will be played today. You can see the pairings on this image.

Posted in Chess, Chess Grandmasters, chess movies, Sergey Karjakin, skaak | Tagged Baku 2008, Baku chess, Chess, Chess Grandmasters, Chess Grandmasters play football, chess movies, Sergey Karjakin, Sergey Karjakin interview, skaak | 3 Comments

3 Responses

on 27/04/2008 at 15:17 Baku round 6 « Chessalee

[…] to have a larger view. These are results of round 6 played today in Baku.On my previous post … HERE you can watch a movie about these players playing football on their free day. Also, there’s a […]
on 27/04/2008 at 16:00 mykopop

Op skool is mos vir ons ingedril: ‘n gesonde liggaam huisves ‘n gesonde gees. Dit sal hulle leer!
on 27/04/2008 at 22:34 Nikita

hi Kop…dit bly darem baie waar!