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Ok, I attended a local blitz-chess tournament yesterday and there are some things I learned:
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I'm really amazed that this is a 1000+ year old game that is still played today, with lively new developments. Like bullet chess with just 1min thinking time per person. A former 4x "inofficial" world champion also attended this tournament.
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It's the only sport (chess it definitely a sport of sorts) I know where you can have players aged from 10 to 70 in the same tournament, potentially playing against each other.
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