Originally Posted by JacksonWShowalter
Sports measure things like speed, endurance and skill. So if chess is to be in the Olympics GM’s should be forced to play one minute games using large, heavy “garden-sized” chess sets…make it grueling.
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Hmm, I suppose they could be required to actually lift the pieces and carry them across the board and put some weights in them, the heavier the piece, the heavier the piece. Could be fun, though I imagine there won't be many queens cutting across entire ranks, files and diagonals.
