Chess Grandmaster plays 25 amateurs simultaneously ahead of inaugural Sheridan Wyoming Open Chess Tournament

Posted 5/8/22

People filed into the Sheridan County YMCA Friday night with bags slung over their shoulders. They weren’t the standard workout bags that enter and exit the YMCA all day long. Many were oblong and rectangular, designed to hold clinking plastic pieces and chess clocks. A rolled-up checkerboard mat poked out of the top of one backpack.

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