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John Deere in the game of chess bigger of the world
27/08/2012
27 August 2012
The past Saturday 18 August, along all the morning, took place in Hinojosa, a small pedanía of Tartanedo in the region of Molina and to 135 kilometres of distance of main Guadalajara, the game of chess bigger of the world with an invited special: John Deere . This was not a conventional game, since they concentrated in a finca to the outskirts of the village a total of 30 tractors and 2 cosechadoras in a chessboard drawn by the own machines in the terrain, giving different height to the cut of the straw to achieve outline the 64 squares that compose said board.
Formed two equipment of 15 tractors and 1 cosechadora each one, had to each side, with different aperos. Of this form, the team formed by machinery of John Deere used tractors with the shovel raised to represent to the towers, tractors with pulverizadores for the horses and tractors without apero to simulate to the labourers. By his part, the cosechadoras were the queens of the game.
Once that the machines situated in his places of game, the finalists of a previous tournament realised the previous days, moved “his index cards” to give start to a game of unprecedented chess. Miguel Moreno, of 16 years and valid provincial champion of chess achieved to carry the victory in front of Salvador Palomino.
This singular evento, that gathered to a total of 800 people in a space of 25.600 square metres, was llevar thanks to the original idea of Carlos Bad, agriculturalist of profession and big fan to the chess, in collaboration with the Provincial Association of Agriculturalists and the dealer Quiles Agricultural Machinery, between other companies.
