Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SANTA CLARA, Cuba, April 29 (UPI) -- Cuba is looking to break its own world record for the most people playing chess at the same time. Organizers were expecting 13,000 dateless chess fans to show up in the Cuban city of Santa Clara for the event, to take place later this month, the BBC reported Thursday. Advertisement Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov will reportedly take part in the event, held in the square named after revolutionary Che Guevara. Some 11,320 Cubans, including President Fidel Castro, set the current record in December 2002. The group played 5,660 simultaneous games of chess in Revolution Square in Havana. That event closed what was described as Cuba's first Olympic Games. This year's event will end the second Cuban national games, which began April 18. Karpov, formerly a star of the Soviet Union, said he was interested in setting up a chess school in Cuba, as he had done in the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
