Breast cancer and Bullet Chess. Two seemingly unrelated pairs of words, similar only in their initial letters, suddenly brought into each other’s acquaintance. And what better introducer than a charity event for National Cancer Prevention Month?
On February 17, 2012, a gentleman by the name of Bryan Bailey played an incredible one-thousand-game marathon of bullet chess. That’s 1,000 consecutive chess set games. Yes a thousand. The event is to raise awareness for breast cancer prevention where the proceeds will be donated directly to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The BCRF is an independent non-profit organisation whose aim is to achieve prevention and a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime through provision of critical funding for innovative clinical and transitional research at leading medical centres worldwide. It’s also their mission to increase public awareness about good breast health.
Breast Cancer comprises of 23% of all cancers in women. Interestingly, even men can fall victim to breast cancer and have even poorer outcomes due to delays in diagnosis.
Awareness really is the point of twenty-year-old Bryan’s endeavour as he sets out to perform the arduous task of playing a thousand straight games of bullet chess. This high octane form of chess is named as such because of the greatly reduced time each player has to make all their moves.
In ChessCube.com, the chess-playing site where the bullet games will be conducted, the time controls would range from two minutes with twelve-second-increments, to ten seconds with a one-second-increment. Yes 10 seconds!
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