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The game of chess continues to see a meteoric rise in participants. Â
The pandemic has exploded the board game's popularity.Â
It started as something to do when everyone was in lockdown; then came The Queen's Gambit on Netflix, followed by a large number of online influencers playing online to hundreds of thousands of viewers, and it has only grown in strength from there. Â
The number one online chess site in the world, chess.com, has grown from 25 milllion users to more than 71 million in 18 months. Â
 NZ Chess Federation president Nigel Metge joined Mike HoskingÂ
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