This was the 11th time Imre has won the British Othello Championship, 32 years after the first time. That's a pretty impressive record, really, and not something that's anywhere close to being matched in memory competitions. Partly because there was no such thing as memory competitions before 1991, but also because it doesn't seem to be something that people can stick around at the top level of for more than a decade at most. But who knows, maybe there will be some kind of comeback by one of those old has-beens who used to be good at it...
Yeah, I'm convinced the has-beens day is coming soon too...
ReplyDeleteThe World Championship is trying to attract old-timers back - registration is currently limited to the top fifty active competitors, the best three in each country and about a million other sub-categories that basically encompass 83% of the world's population... but there are also five slots reserved for "inactive" memorisers (no competitions since 2013). So if any has-beens reading this can afford a plane ticket to China, get in touch with the powers that be and book your place!
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