You win some You loose some

The world record for number of players playing chess at the same time is now 13,000. Set in the Che Guevara square. Former chess champion Anatoly Karpov was there. Che was a keen player who is credited with sparking Cuban interest in the game. (Last time a record was set Fidel played, that was in 2002 with 11,320 people.) But where was Bobby?
Bobby was in Japan. He has been. He even tried to marry a Japanese lady in order to stay there. But it didn’t work. He will be back in the good ol US of A on charges of beating Boris in Yugoslavia in 1992. And winning 3million. Apparently there was a US embargo on deeling with that country at that time. So when Bobby heard of the 9/11 attack he said good and wished that they would finish the job. Poor Bobby. He played such good chess.
So was it worth it? The US won the cold war but it lost its only Grand Master?