So a wild guess would be that yes, chess is to be blamed - the king has found his queen! And no, our lovely game doesn't say everything about husband and wife, where the King has to take things one step at a time, while the Queen can do whatever she wants. But it does say a lot about the love story that brought the Georgian and Dutch together, defying distance or any obstacles they had along the way; because just like in chess, Sopiko protects her King while Anish goes the extra mile to keep his queen happy. I can vouch for that, since I was present in one of the most beautiful day of their lives, where I witnessed Anish... rapping?! But about that later, although you do have a spoiler alert already.
The opening phase of their chronicle started in Italy, continued all over the globe in a complicated yet smooth middle game, gradually but surely evolved into a...stalemate (or was it zugzwang?!) in Georgia through an absolutely gorgeous wedding that took place on 18th July 2015 – marked on the calendar – and will eventually be crowned in the Netherlands, where the new chess family decided to settle down. All of this wouldn't have happened if not for true love... I wish I would describe it in the most romantic terms, making all the single ladies (and perhaps gentlemen?!) sigh and crave for such scenarios, but I just cannot become another Sandra Brown, portraying these two wonderful people who “surprisingly” become even better when together. I am enthusiastic and, most probably, exaggerated at times, so thank God chess has been invented to balance me out! But if all of the adjectives, metaphors, allegories, epithets, comparisons and so forth were be erased from the dictionary, one thing would yet hold: Anish and Sopiko are made for each other. I feel that if I try to explain, depict, relate or paint the moments of the wonderful Saturday we had, it would just make the moments smaller than they were.
Congratulations and all the best wishes we could possibly think of! May you enjoy the same smiles in the years to come as on 18th July 2015. And Anish, I know you like to win but I am afraid you got checkmated this time...
See the full article about the wedding.
The opening phase of their chronicle started in Italy, continued all over the globe in a complicated yet smooth middle game, gradually but surely evolved into a...stalemate (or was it zugzwang?!) in Georgia through an absolutely gorgeous wedding that took place on 18th July 2015 – marked on the calendar – and will eventually be crowned in the Netherlands, where the new chess family decided to settle down. All of this wouldn't have happened if not for true love... I wish I would describe it in the most romantic terms, making all the single ladies (and perhaps gentlemen?!) sigh and crave for such scenarios, but I just cannot become another Sandra Brown, portraying these two wonderful people who “surprisingly” become even better when together. I am enthusiastic and, most probably, exaggerated at times, so thank God chess has been invented to balance me out! But if all of the adjectives, metaphors, allegories, epithets, comparisons and so forth were be erased from the dictionary, one thing would yet hold: Anish and Sopiko are made for each other. I feel that if I try to explain, depict, relate or paint the moments of the wonderful Saturday we had, it would just make the moments smaller than they were.
Congratulations and all the best wishes we could possibly think of! May you enjoy the same smiles in the years to come as on 18th July 2015. And Anish, I know you like to win but I am afraid you got checkmated this time...
See the full article about the wedding.
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