![]() I’m a fan of Checkmate, who has long filled the role of an affordable family friendly performance boat. Not only is Checkmate in good hands, this is a great fit for Caldwell Marine Designs all around. On top of that, Pete is really passionate about performance boats, although he has worked with brands like Contender and Ski Nautique as well, he also has a history with Donzi and Fountain. With his company, Caldwell Marine Designs in North Carolina, Pete brings manufacturing capability, which put him in a unique position to acquire the brand as he has the facility and manpower in play already. This wasn’t a formal interview, I was genuinely curious and really wanted to see where Pete was at with the plans for Checkmate. The good news is the brand is in good hands, Pete knows how to build boats and he wants Checkmate to be a semi custom builder, opening the door to some positive changes to most of the models. He shared some thoughts and plans as well as some of his own background up until now. Now that some time has passed, I reached out to Pete to talk about his plans for the well known performance boat brand. He presented Khadafy with a chess set made in Kalmykia, the Buddhist region he headed from 1993 to 2010.On the first day of the Miami Boat Show I learned the good news that Checkmate Boats had been sold to Pete Caldwell of Caldwell Marine Designs. Ilyumzhinov described his trip as a “working visit” and pointed out that he had recently been in Afghanistan and would soon visit Iraq. We played chess and we talked,” AFP reported. Ilyumzhinov said that he found Khadafy to be “calm … normal and adequate. Khadafy also appeared to play white, while Ilyumzhinov played with cream-colored pieces on the crystal-studded board.Īs a player, Ilyumzhinov said that Khadafy was “of course weaker, much weaker than me … just an enthusiast who knows where to put the pieces and do a child’s-play checkmate.”īut Khadafy’s oldest son, Muhammad, with whom he also played, is a “serious player who knows the theory of chess.” He told the Moscow Echo that he offered Khadafy a tie to save him from embarrassment, which the leader accepted. Margelov meet with Khadafy’s opponents in the rebel bastion Benghazi last week and said he would travel to Tripoli next week.īut whether Ilyumzhinov delivered the message was unclear. The diplomat said, “I advised him to play white and move E-2 to E-4 - and make it clear to Khadafy that his side is close to the endgame.” “On the eve of his trip on Friday, Ilyumzhinov telephoned me and informed me that he was going to travel to Tripoli and was expected to meet with Khadafy to discuss chess questions,” Margelov told the Ria Novosti news agency. “I am not a politician - I went there as a sportsman.”īut Mikhail Margelov, who is leading Russia’s mediation efforts in Libya, said Ilyumzhinov was under instructions to tell Khadafy - through his subtle chess moves - that the despot’s game was up. “I would happily meet with anyone,” Ilyumzhinov told Moscow Echo radio from Libya. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the oddball president of the World Chess Federation who has repeatedly claimed to have met aliens and even on one occasion been shown round their spaceship, made a surprise visit to Tripoli on Sunday but said there was no political agenda other than promoting the game. TRIPOLI, Libya - The pictures on Libyan state TV showed a civilized game of chess between Moamar Khadafy and the eccentric Russian head of world chess, but was the visitor carrying a secret message from Moscow? (adds quotes from Margelov on secret message, changes source) Eccentric Russian chess head ‘told Khadafy it was checkmate’ in Libya
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