Very interesting!

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4765

I saw that article. It is very interesting.

Chessbase.com is an excellent website for current news in the world of chess outside the United States.

ha ha.. funny.. carving chess pieces with machete

How strange, when it's the opposite for everyone on the site. Chess makes us mental!

I wonder if two guys with rating of 1200 playing one another for 5 years straight, for 4 hours a day could raise their rating without external input?

 

Also - he should've used something to paint the black pieces :)

Yes, a very nice story which should bring some positive light on the game of chess.

I was touched when I read it too. Very gripping especially the line "When you are [playing chess] you are free. Your mind is engaged, you are not a prisoner. That's the gain, that's the victory. And they don't even know it."

As a side note, several aid organisations complained heavily on how the rescue was accomplished, as they feel that it will do their work much harder.

Good idea! Although it seems from one of those pictures that they've got the king and queen the wrong way round - wonder if that was the same for the whole five years?

eternal21> I wonder if two guys with rating of 1200 playing one another for 5 years straight, for 4 hours a day could raise their rating without external input?

Yes, they could, if they wanted to.

THAT'S VERY INTERESTING! PLAYING CHESS KEEP OUR MIND STRONG!!