Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 22:23:22 07/08/05
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Terry, Nice story. I wonder if Mr. K's luck will hold out in Florida. Actually Hurricane Dennis is headed for Mississippi. TJ On July 08, 2005 at 22:17:52, Terry McCracken wrote: >09.07.2005 The Thursday atrocities in London left the world stunned, with >terrorists hitting the nerve centres of the city's transport system. After the >initial horror had subsided, and the phones were working again, we started >contacting our friends. None had been harmed, but one escaped disaster by just >twenty minutes. It is hard to believe who that was... > > >Thursday night and Friday morning we were able to contact most of our friends in >London, and found them all shocked but safe. Malcolm Pein, whose London Chess >Centre lies right between the sites of three of the explosions, told us how he >had experienced the events. His description is given below. > >But the real stunner came on Friday morning, when we received a call from – >Garry Kasparov. He was at Heathrow Airport, on his way to Florida. Somewhat >reluctantly he gave us the harrowing details of his stay in London. > >On Thursday morning Garry had decided to make a trip to the countryside in the >north of the city. To get there he and his wife decided to take the London >Underground. They got on the train at King's Cross and travelled to their >destination without incident. Once they arrived they learnt what had happened. A >quick time check revealed that they had been at the place of the King's Cross >explosion twenty to maximum thirty minutes before it had happened. > >Getting back to the hotel was another adventure. The two were lucky enough to >find a cab on the outskirts, and the Pakistani driver somehow navigated his way >through the gridlock to deliver them safely at their hotel. Himself a Muslim, >the driver was deeply upset by what had taken place. > >We must say that Garry Kasparov leads a dangerous life. Just a week earlier he >had been to Dagestan, where shortly after his departure a bomb packed with metal >rods shredded three military trucks and killed 11 Russian soldiers. Thank >heavens the next stop, Florida, where he is working on his new book, is probably >fairly safe. Except perhaps for Hurricane Dennis... > >whole article.. >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2502
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