An encounter with the parallel world
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Sergei Tiviakov was born in Krasnodar (USSR) in 1973.
He started playing chess at the age of 5, from 1980 until 1984 he was
a pupil in the school of the Former World Champion Vassily Smyslov.
Sergei became the World Junior Champion U-16 in 1989 and
U-18 in 1990. The GM title cam in 1991 and in 1995 he finished his studies
in ther Ecomony of Agriculture. Since September 1997 he has lived in Groningen
(Netherlands).
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Sergei speaks Russian, English, Italian, Dutch and Spanish.
He has visited 38 countries and territories so far. His hobbies are art, Russian
pop music, reading. He is one of our favourite contributors to ChessBase Magazine,
supplying us with very interesting articles and insightful game commentary.
Attending the Botvinnik-Kasparov school
Strange encounters
At the beginning of April this year Sergei attended the 6th Golden Cleopatra
international open chess tournament in Cairo. He had always dreamt of visiting
Egypt, especially since he had a deep interest in the pyramids and the unknown.
During his stay he (a) won the tournament and (b) had some remarkable encounters.
The link below will lead you to a full and richly illustrated account of the
latter.
When you read Sergei's article you may get the impression that he may have
been conned by a group of mystics the way so many European tourists are conned
when they visit exotic countries. But his interest in the subject did not start
with this trip to Egypt. Just before he left he already told us a lot about
what he expected to find in the vicinity of the Great Pyramids. "I don't
believe in the curse of the mummy," he wrote, "but nevertheless I
am not sure whether I'll go inside the Pyramids."
He did and comes back with some remarkable theories and pictures. Sergei believes
that inside burial chamber of the Chefren Pyramid his camera captured an image
of the "Asuri" – a creature from the parallel world which is
not normally visible to humans. He presents a photograph of the creature, the
only picture of its kind in the world!
The pictures in Sergei's report are in medium resolution – if you want
to study the key picture in the original he will send it to you. The detail
above is in the original resolution (Camera Canon PowerShot S40, full image
sitz 2272 x 1704 pixels, flash and red-eye reduction on).
On to the report
