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From the BBC (one of the best–if worst–news sources in the world):

Cuba has broken its own world record for the most people playing chess at the same time. About 13,000 chess fans gathered in the central Cuba city of Santa Clara for the mass game.

Ah. The “mass game.” Anything is possible at the point of an AK-47.

Apr 30, 2004 | Comments

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  1. Posted by Eric Wearne - 05/01/2004

    I just saw Looking for Fidel yesterday. In the film Stone seemed pretty phony, but the Slate interview made him sound like he was doing a bad high school video project. My favorite quote:

    ALB: Did it strike you as interesting that at one point in the scene with the prisoners, Castro turned to the prisoners’ defense lawyers, who just happened to be there, and he says, “I urge you to do your best to reduce the sentences”?

    OS: I love that. I thought that was hilarious. Those guys just popped up.

    Yeah, sham trials and prisoners in fear for their lives always crack me up too.

    Also, what’s up with the camera zooming right into Fidel’s teeth every few minutes?

  2. Posted by Aakash - 05/15/2004

    I wonder what would happen to a guy if he played Fidel, and beat him…

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