"Nine decades later, Alvarez's love of the game has only increased. A little after 10am on Saturday, the 104-year-old madrileno believed to be the oldest active registered chess player in the world stepped off a bus in the south of the city and pushed his homemade walker towards the door of the cultural centre where he comes for his weekly matches."
"Time may have gone to work on his hearing but Don Manuel, as his friends at the Valdebernardo chess club affectionately call him, has lost neither his memory nor his sense of humour. Alvarez's homemade walker is the product of his engineering past. Photograph: Pablo Garcia/The Guardian I was about 16 when my big brother taught me to play chess, he said as he sat down in front of the board in a room that doubles as a venue for fitness classes,"
Manuel Alvarez Escudero, a 104-year-old madrileno, remains an active, registered chess player who attends weekly matches at the Valdebernardo cultural centre. He engineered and built his own lightweight walker to maintain mobility and independence. Chess has allowed him to indulge a love of mathematics and problem-solving while also providing valuable social connections that help maintain memory and humor despite some hearing loss. He first learned chess from his older brother around age 16, later improved through practice and challenging games with a colleague, and continues to play regularly in a community setting.
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