From residence, Russian cosmonauts fight chess grandmaster to a diagram

Two Russian cosmonauts aboard the Global Space Space conducted chess in opposition to an Earth-proceed grandmaster on Tuesday, in a celebration of the predominant such recreation half of a century ago.

Equipped with an electronic chessboard, cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner conducted in zero gravity in opposition to 30-year-ancient Russian mature miniature one prodigy Sergei Karyakin.

The recreation was as soon as broadcast are residing and ended in a diagram after about 15 minutes.

It was as soon as organised by the residence company Roscosmos and the Russian Chess Federation to occupy a perfect time the 50th anniversary of the predominant Space-Earth recreation of chess conducted on June 9, 1970.

“It be an expansive honour for us to no longer lose to a grandmaster,” Ivanishin said, whereas Vagner added that US astronauts on the ISS watched the sport and gave guidelines.

Karyakin, who conducted from Moscow’s Museum of Cosmonautics, said he was as soon as jittery all throughout the recreation and can also no longer high-tail to sleep till 4 am on the night sooner than the match.

“They conducted successfully,” he said. “I will negate that the human mind capabilities totally in residence, and I occupy viewed this this day.”

At the age of 12 years and seven months, Karyakin turned into the arena’s youngest ever grandmaster.

Ivanishin, Vagner and US astronaut Chris Cassidy arrived on the ISS in April.

On Would perchance fair 31, they were joined by US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the predominant manned non-public flight to the ISS.

SpaceX made history by turning into the arena’s first commercial company to ship folks to the ISS, main Russia to lose its long-held monopoly on residence hasten.

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