Most Interesting Chess To Me !!!
DIVING CHESS
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I love chess, I love diving, I am surprised chess diving actually exists ! Now it's my favorite chess variation.
Diving Chess is played underwater and your thinking time is determined by how long you can hold your breath.
The rules are really simple, its normal chess except for each dive you make you have to play a move so as soon as the opponent has played a move you have to dive and make your move creating one of the tactics of playing fast and leaving the opponent out of breath.
There are even Diving Chess World Championships.
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Players from the 2015 Diving Chess World Championship. James Heppell (England) took gold, followed by Etan Ilfeld (USA) with silver, and Alain Dekker (South Africa) with bronze.
Do you think every swimming pool should own this so that people would have the option to play Diving Chess ?
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