Parallels, Inc. is a privately held virtualization technology company, best known for "Parallels Desktop for Mac", a hardware emulation virtualization software that uses a lightweight hypervisor to enable users to run Windows, Linux and other operating systems simultaneously with Mac OS X on their Intel based Macs. (In fact the ChessVibes editor-in-chief uses the program to run Chessbase on his Mac!)

Last week in a press release the company announced that Magnus Carlsen will be attending their "Parallels Summit" which is scheduled from February 4-6, 2013 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

At the reception he will be playing simultaneous chess matches against Parallels Summit attendees. They will get a chance to see first-hand how Magnus tackles such challenges.

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