Praful Zaveri

FI Praful Zaveri is the founder of Indian Chess School Academy. He is a popular trainer in Mumbai and also the author of the critically acclaimed Chess Course book for beginners. His vision is to build the chess culture in his hometown Mumbai as well as India and help the country produce many more grandmasters in future.

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Two Indians play non-stop blitz for 53 hours!

4/26/2019 – Everyone loves to play blitz! But two guys from Himachal Pradesh in India Hansraj Thakur and Hitesh Azad decided to take this a notch higher. They played non stop blitz for 53 hours, 17 minutes and 49 seconds and 303 games to create a world record for the longest period of playing non stop blitz chess games. They bettered the total time of Jacek Gajewski and Wojciech Waruga who had played a total of 514 blitz games in 50 hours. In this article FI PRAFUL ZAVERI tells us all about this new world record. We also have all the 303 encounters, just in case you would like to check the quality of the games.

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