diving into underwater chess

 as if game chess weren't challenging enough imagine playing  at the  bottom  of  a swimming pool. some of  the  worlds top chess  players  recently did  that  an event is South  Africa  diving chess a hybrid  sport created in 2021 is played underwater on a weighted  magnetic chessboard players take diving down to make their then resurfacing for air while  their opponent moves chess grandmaster hand niemann won the thouament  to become the first american frestyle diving  chess champion. from book called the week junior