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From Space, Russian Cosmonauts Fight Chess Grandmaster to a Draw 9 June 2020 From space, Russian cosmonauts fight chess grandmaster to a draw 9 June 2020 and could not fall asleep until 4 am on the night before the match. "They played well," he said. "I can say that the human brain functions very well in space, and I have seen this today." At the age of 12 years and seven months, Karyakin became the world's youngest ever grandmaster. Ivanishin, Vagner and US astronaut Chris Cassidy arrived on the ISS in April. On May 31, they were joined by US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the first manned Credit: CC0 Public Domain private flight to the ISS. SpaceX made history by becoming the world's first commercial company to send humans to the ISS, Two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International leading Russia to lose its long-held monopoly on Space Station played chess against an Earth- space travel. bound grandmaster on Tuesday, in a celebration of the first such game half a century ago. © 2020 AFP Equipped with an electronic chessboard, cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner played in zero gravity against 30-year-old Russian former child prodigy Sergei Karyakin. The game was broadcast live and ended in a draw after about 15 minutes. It was organised by the space agency Roscosmos and the Russian Chess Federation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Space-Earth game of chess played on June 9, 1970. "It's a huge honour for us not to lose to a grandmaster," Ivanishin said, while Vagner added that US astronauts on the ISS watched the game and gave tips. Karyakin, who played from Moscow's Museum of Cosmonautics, said he was jittery during the game 1 / 2 APA citation: From space, Russian cosmonauts fight chess grandmaster to a draw (2020, June 9) retrieved 24 September 2021 from https://phys.org/news/2020-06-space-russian-cosmonauts-chess- grandmaster.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. 2 / 2 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).
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