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More Flavor: Competition 9 Queens Knockout Invitational Chess Tournament

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Chess is often thought of as a game for the patient, strategic, and diesel-brained among us, but today's open-invitation tournament encourages New Yorkers of all brain types to flaunt their checkmate skills. Youth-education nonprofit 9 Queens partners with WuChess founder and hip-hop alpha nerd RZA to host the affair, while vlogger Jay Smooth and ChessBitch champ Jennifer Shahade take on the rest of the city in a single-elimination speed-chess challenge. If you forgot how gangster the game really is, check Wu-Tang's "Da Mystery of ChessBoxin'," and then get back to us.

– Chloe Leichman

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