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Hybrid chess is not a fundamentally new invention. When Bobby Fischer was not allowed to travel to Cuba in 1965, he instead made his moves at the New York Marshall Chess Club, which were then telegraphed to Havana. The radio tournament of 1945 featured arbiters overseeing Soviet and American teams, as well. Of course, back in the day there were no computers that would have been able to provide players with useful tips.
And this is not the only thing that is different nowadays. Due to Covid-19, numerous countries do not currently allow two people from different households to sit at a distance of less than six feet from each other for several hours. In hybrid chess, the players are not in the same room. Instead, each one of them has their own chess workplace. The arbiters can oversee all moves and time limits on their computer, while also being able to ensure that neither of the players are running other software parallel to the game platform and video c