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| | | (1) Posted by Siegfried Hornecker [Sunday, May 10, 2009 04:26]; edited by Siegfried Hornecker [09-05-10] | The future of chesskind in space
While the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Chess Federation (USCF) started a chessgame between earth and space last year (see the actual position on USCF website at http://www.uschess.org/content/blogcategory/198/475/ and also see infos on http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4875), a task that Vitaly Sevastianov had completed much earlier (see http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/sevast.txt), it was even more earlier that a chess problem went into space.
I remember it was on a Soviet mission, but does anyone remember the details on it or give me a weblink, because Google doesn't really help here?
(not sure but it may have been the famous Platov study)
| | | (2) Posted by Kevin Begley [Sunday, May 10, 2009 14:25]; edited by Kevin Begley [09-05-10] |
I can't wait to land on Mars Circe :-)
| | | (3) Posted by Steven Dowd [Sunday, May 10, 2009 16:40] |
Aren't you just reborn back on earth when you land there?
| | | (4) Posted by Joose Norri [Sunday, May 10, 2009 23:39] |
The first game between earth and space was played already in the sixties (or very latest early seventies). It was of course a Soviet mission; I have to browse through all of Schach-Echo to find it, unless it was one of the years that I have the index of.
| | | (5) Posted by Joose Norri [Sunday, May 10, 2009 23:40] |
Oh sorry Siegfried, you mentioned it...
| | | (6) Posted by Siegfried Hornecker [Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 04:40]; edited by Siegfried Hornecker [09-09-16] |
If my memory is correct that came up when reading Wikipedia, it must have been Nikolaev on June 1 1970, Soyuz-9. It was some threemover, I think. Anyone can look for this in cyrillic since Russian was probably the language I found it in.
It was on a site with his obituary then.
Thanks,
Siegfried
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EDIT: Nikolaev was the one with the first chess game in space. But I'm still sure it was a Soyuz mission. There was a photo on that site, I search, of things that cosmonaut took into space, among it a threemover, obviously cut off from a newspaper or book (newspaper is more probable). Vitaly Sevastianov was chess president and cosmonaut, as Bill Wall tells on his website. Was he the one?
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EDIT:
I found it!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.selivanov.ru/newss/?act=show_news&id=109
It was this problem by Valentin Rudenko! And it is my mistake: It was a birthday article for Rudenko, not an obituary for Nikolaev! Now I must criticize Andrey Selivanov for either not reading this topic or not remembering his article. :-)
Was it the first in space? I don't know but I assume it.
Translation:
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And as an unusual gift - a photo from the Astronautics Museum in Cheboksary where there is your problem which has visited Space onboard a spaceship of "Sojuz-9" (date of start and returning to the Earth 1.06-19.06.1970 years) together with cosmonauts Adrianom Nikolaevym and Vitaly Sevastyanov.
 (= 7+5 )
Mate in three moves
Valentin Rudenko
Suomen Shakki 1957, 1st prize
So let us celebrate the 40th anniversary of a chess composition in space! On 1st June 1970, history was written! Nikolaev and Sevastianov are heroes not only of space but also of chess! In a hundred years, it will be written: This was the first step!
Or to quote the computer game Alpha Centauri:
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No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars!
| | | (7) Posted by Siegfried Hornecker [Monday, Apr 12, 2010 22:26] |
The sad news only reached me today that Vitali Ivanovich Sevastianov has died on April 5th 2010. Let the 40th anniversary celebration also be a memoriam of him then and let us thank him and Nikolaev, who died on 3rd July 2004, for being the first to popularise chess in space.
They were heroes.
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