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It wasn’t until afterwards, reviewing the game as usual, that Pal noticed his opponent’s name: Christian Pulisic. While Pal worked methodically through the endgame, the other player rushed into errors and finally resigned. By the midgame it looked like black might even fight his way back to win if not for his clock, which had ticked down near zero, leaving no time to think.
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Pal used a knight to fork black’s king and rook, which should have killed off the game, but his opponent didn’t give up easily. While Pal developed his white pieces and controlled the centre of the board, black wasted too much time pushing pawns around - a rookie mistake. In the match that followed, however, the extra training didn’t pay off. The opponent must have been older in real life, though, because his account showed this person was paying for a premium membership that unlocked lessons and puzzles to improve his chess. The fifth game of the night matched Pal against an opponent whose profile had a Union Jack emoji beside a photo of a pale, brown-haired kid who looked about seven or eight years old. Each game was over in a few minutes, but he would go back to analyse it afterward, reviewing the computer’s suggestions for how he could have played better. He cruised to wins over players in Canada, Belgium, Germany, Brazil. Pal logged onto a popular chess site and played a few random match-ups against players near his skill level (“not very good,” he says). During lockdown, however, like millions of people around the world, he’d gotten hooked on another game: online chess. His desk had all the hallmarks of a serious video-game set-up - dual monitors, a glowing rainbow LED keyboard, a PS5 nearby for console gaming - and on some other night maybe he would have played FIFA as his favourite team, Chelsea. Around three o’clock in the morning on May 4, 2021, a 20-year-old computer-science student named Sounak Pal fired up his gaming rig at his parents’ place in Pune, near Mumbai in India.