When I first took part in the DATCC team league, I wasn’t very keen at the thought of coming to play a long time control game in the middle of the week as well as in the middle of the night. I like rapid chess as it’s more interesting. 90 minutes is just too long for me to hold my concentration I thought.

Anyway after passing the halfway mark for the DATCC series I find that I was wrong. Surprisingly the more I played the more I appreciated the long time controls. Of course the quality of games played is higher quality and the games can be very interesting . Also, it’s certainly nice to meet up with old friends and see top chess players like Mas, Yee Weng, Nicholas, Ian Udani, Saprin, Abdullah Che Hassan etc playing in one place.

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