HEREFORDSHIRE’S prospective Conservatve candidate has raised almost £2000 by taking on two former world chess champions in a match at the Hay Festival.
Jesse Norman welcomed Garry Kasparov to the event before forming part of a 20 strong-team that took on Boris Spassky - a world champion in the 1970s - in a match which raised £1,960 for Macmillan Cancer Relief.
Jesse’s son Sam joined his dad in the team but both ended up on the losing side.
Meanwhile, Garry Kasparov, world champion between 1985 and 2000, was speaking at the Literary Festival as part of his current role as an opposition politician in his Russian homeland.
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