The fast-paced format, with solely minutes for every participant to finish their strikes, ended with victory for Duda, one of many world’s top-ranked gamers and the primary Pole to surpass the 2700 Elo “tremendous grandmaster” mark.
Talking forward of the sport, Duda described chess as a lifelong ardour combining logic and psychology.
Curiosity in chess is surging in Poland, with over 40,000 registered gamers and rising faculty programmes, together with courses now supplied in half of Katowice’s main faculties.
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