Yesterday there was a quite special world championship in Groningen: the Underwater Chess World Championship. 42 people from different countries participated, including children.
Participants competed for victory at the bottom of a swimming pool. The pawns are attached to the board with magnets. This way they don’t float up.
Hold your breath
The participants had to dive down every time to make a move. And that’s not that easy. In normal chess you can sometimes think about your next move for a long time, half an hour for example. But that’s not possible underwater. You can’t hold your breath for that long.
You must immediately see what has happened underwater and do something yourself. The best chess players sometimes make a mistake because they have little time.
Two Dutch people have won the World Cup. Josephine Damen (17) for the women and Zyon Kollen (30) for the men.
Next year the Underwater Chess World Championship will be organized in Poland.
Huh? This Chess World Cup is underwater
What kind of World Cup was there in Groningen?
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