The Christian O'Connell Show

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Last week Jack told us about his new passion, which is chess.

Yes, I watched the Queen's Gambit and then downloaded chess.com app

where I can play against people all over the world.

And I have been playing up to 17 hours a week on the chess app.

And this is amazing because chess is a very hard game.

It's a game of strategy and skill and subterfuge.

And count them, oh yeah, there's subterfuge there as well, yeah.

And so 17 hours a week, it's something you will enjoy as well.

Every bit of spare time in the day, I'll get on the chess app.

Bianca's starting to hate it because I don't do,

are doing way less chores around the house.

Yeah, I can imagine.

If you're 17 hours a week, seven days a week,

we can all do the maths here.

There's plates and like dust and everything, every part and up.

And it's one of those things.

If you're playing somebody live in a different country, you can't

stop the game because then it's unfair to that person. So once I've entered into a game.

Have you played recently? You know, it might be Barry in Venezuela. I played someone in Panama yesterday.

Wow. And what do you know? Just a codename like the Rookmaister General.

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