Two members of Snodland Chess Club, David Lettington and Steve Giddins, were lucky enough to have dinner with Garry Kasparov yesterday ....... along with 200 other people at the Staunton Memorial Dinner at the historic Simpsons-in-the Strand.The event was held to raise money for charity and also for Anatoly Karpov's bid to become President of FIDE, the world chess federation. There were many chess luminaries there and the Chairman of the Kent County Chess Association, Mike Wiltshire, was lucky enough to get to play against former World Championship challenger, Nigel Short (pictured above).
In addition to Karpov, Kasparov and Short, other top players in attendance were Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Norwood, Raymond Keene, Nicholas Pert and Jonathan Speelman. The evening was organised by CJ de Mooi, of Eggheads fame, who is the President of the English Chess Federation.
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