Alik Gershon Chess Master Breaks Guinness Record 0
17.25Alik Gershon Israeli chess
The tournament began in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square with grandmaster Alik Gershon shaking hands with every single player as he walked along rows of tables lined with chess boards.
In order to set the world record, the Ukrainian-born Mr Gershon must win at least 80 per cent of the games.
"I'm going to be breaking the Guinness world record for the biggest simultaneous chess game. The record today belongs to an Iranian grandmaster on 500 boards," Mr Gershon told AFP.
"I'm going to make it 520 and hopefully I will win over 80 per cent of the games."
Training for the event, which is likely to continue through the night and into Friday morning, was purely physical and included a lot of jogging and swimming, the 30-year-old former Israeli champion said.
"There are a lot of kilometres to walk and you have to stay focused," he said, noting that his Iranian rival Morteza Mahjoob walked 40 kilometres (25 miles) to secure his record.
Mr Mahjoob set the current record of 500 games in August 2009 in a feat which took him 18 hours with less than five seconds for each move.
"Hopefully all our wars against Iran will be on the chess board," said a smiling Mr Gershon. "For such wars, I am prepared."
Source : Ynetnew.
king koil Mattress Dominoes Springs were in the air yesterday when the world record for human mattress dominoes was broken.
The attempt was made by Palantine Beds, in Newcastle, and saw 400 mattresses toppled - beating the current world record set by a team in America.
After four months of planning, the team behind the event were last night celebrating in style.
The firm's sales and marketing manager Andrew Waters, is now awaiting official confirmation from the Guinness Book if World Records that his team are now the current world record holders in human mattress dominoes.
Mr Waters said: 'We didn't have the turnout we were hoping for so we had to improvise.
Volunteers in Newcastle breaking the World Record for human mattress dominoes when they toppled 400 mattresses in succession
The event took place at the spacious Newcaslte Furniture Service warehouse in Newburn Riverside, where excited participants whooped as they passed the current record
'The first two rows that toppled then had to pick their mattresses up and run around and join the end. But it actually made the whole thing more exciting to be honest.
'It was a great morning. I had a lump in my throat at the end of it.'
Until two weeks ago, the world record as held by a group in China, who toppled 256 mattresses in May this year.
Then a team in New York toppled 380 mattresses, making the record harder to beat.
But yesterday's attempt saw 400 mattresses fall, after colleagues from Palantine Beds, owned by Newcastle City Council, Your Homes in Newcastle (YHN), and other volunteers, took three minutes and 41 seconds to set a new record.
The event took place at the spacious Newcaslte Furniture Service warehouse in Newburn Riverside, Newcastle, where excited participants whooped as they passed the current record.
The Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Coun Brenda Hindmarsh, started the event, which involved hundreds of Geordies and their mattresses.
Mr Waters added: 'We followed their rules to the letter so there is no reason why we shouldn't have the record. It's what we set out to do.
'It was a lovely atmosphere and it just wouldn't have been possible without all of the volunteers who gave up their time on Saturday morning to take part.
'When we originally set out to do this it was going t be 301 mattresses, but a few weeks ago America did 380.
'So we upped ours. We had to extra staff working overtime to makae extra mattresses and they have all been absolutely fantastic.
'It was just a daft idea that snowballed, but it couldn't have been done without everybody who has taken part.'
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Some people like a big cup of coffee in the morning to wake them up. But not usually this big -- this is the world's biggest mug
The 8 foot tall cup contains a massive 2,010 gallons of freshly brewed coffee - that's the same as 32,160 regular cups.
It took a team of people more than eight hours to brew all the coffee required, who were in turn powered by several cups of coffee.
The previous Guinness World Record for largest cup of coffee was set in 2007 at just 911.5 gallons… that's now a medium a Starbuck..
But the record breakers didn't stop there. They then added 3,500 pounds of enormous ice cubes to also set the record for the world's largest cup of iced coffee too.
A spokesperson for GourmetGiftBaskets.com which set the records said: "We wanted to break both records because we had this massive cup and thought, 'We'd be crazy not to'.
Madeleine McGregor, who jumped into the filled cup added: "It was a wild experience. Hopping into a frigid cup of iced coffee was one of the most exhilarating experiences, and a once in a lifetime opportunity."
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