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6 Chinese chess players fight in
Budapest!
It is a very much usual happening, that every month’s first
Saturday becomes an international get - together time for chess title
and rating aspirants, from all around the World. Site: Budapest,
organizer: Laszlo Nagy, who’s name and reputation in his field spreads
systematically among the chess fans. Players from Germany, from the
USA, or Israel, or Vietnam, Sweden , England, Argentina, or even from
China, yes, from China, are gathering there when the calendar’s date
approaching to the „first Saturday" of the month!
Talking about China! Would you believe, that actually in this
monthly event 6 players are participating from China, first time so
many, from so far away! The Hungarians are having a world champion
category player like Peter Leko, or the gentle, talented and World
wide renown Polgar sisters, and some others too, nice and worthwhile
to brag with or about! But I visited China, played friendly games with
experts of Shanghai, up front of so many kibitzes as an audience of a
theater, and I can witness, that the other side of our Globe, billions
of people follow different names, visions, ideals. If 6 enthusiasts of
such a sluggishly cultivated mind - game as chess at Far East rise
and set off in China of traveling to the small Hungary, just to
participate on a 2 week long
event means something very special and deserves particular attention
as a social ambassador between different cultures and historical
backgrounds.
For the future of chess this is more significant than any
isolated, personnel
achievement of some real or would be „stars".
The chess project of „First Saturdays" therefore under such tide
budget and generally named „financial" circumstances as chess has in
Hungary, not only deserves more media and far reaching marketing
support, but it has to be the seed of a continuous and permanent
showing toward the chess world. Hungarians are tempted to follow a row
of small nations in looking rather abroad for sensation in sport or
just about everything. Look the small
Netherlands! A chess superpower in any aspect of chess, with world
aces mobilizing super tourneys, with glorious computer program of
„Rebel",
with unique WEB publications and from Kasparov till Karpov old and
new world champions are happy to visit the small country and to play
there.
Many greater and richer European or on far Continents existing
countries
are far behind Netherlands.
„Hungary isn’t a Country of lower rank to anyone else!..." And
knowing the stock of the high rated Hungarian and Dutch chess players,
Hungary has
a great advantage in this field...
Besides the stubbornly and continuously repeated international
events, like of Laszlo Nagy „First Saturday", a well supported chess
media has to repeat and repeat the tasks, results, concerns etc. of
chess. Hungary is lucky. It’s chess media, the „Sakkélet" (which
means: „Chess Life") one of the world’s
best written, composed, and edited chess magazine. When for instance
it’s
article series about Bobby appeared, here in the USA many players
approached me with the plea, that I shall translate it .
One thing surprises me! Why „Sakkélet" does not launch forces with
the „First Saturday" organizers, the editors and contributors of the
magazine are real masters of the pen, and I know that a Hungarian
chess player would read with pleasure and curiosity about such
competitions on the home board, where often 12-14 foreign nation’s
players are present!
Lajos Pagony
Chess columnist, USA.
2000. február 14., hétfő 00:00
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