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John Hartmann

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Oct 20, 2026

7:08
Other people might have had the idea, but they're like, "Look, we don't have an extra $5,000 laying around to give as a prize." But, but to have the idea and to execute it, I think it will make a huge difference in the competitive nature of the second half of this and any other tournaments that are able to implement it.
7:24
Yeah, it's...
7:25
I, I think this is where, you know, once again we're remind- we're reminded of how, how important St. Louis is to the American chess landscape.
7:33
Um, you know, I, I, I went to the club for the first time, I think, since before COVID, really, um, last year for the US Championship, and they had just finished most of the renovations to the chess club at that point.
7:51
So for people who have not been to St. Louis, uh, when it first opened, it was roughly...
7:59
The, the playing hall and the sort of club atmosphere was about two row houses worth of a block in, in, in the, on the Central West End of St. Louis.
8:09
Um, they had a little restaurant attached to it, so that took up part of the third block of the, the third row house.

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