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Chess

Internet trouble

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

12 September 2020

9:00 AM

It was as baffling to me as quantum entanglement. Every time the Algerian player on the Zoom call shared his screen, my own screen share would stop working. That we were playing in separate matches was beside the point — this was online chess under something like exam conditions, and the software glitch left me briefly in breach of the rules.

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