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Jan Henric Buettner

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

We're going to finish the games within one and a half to two hours maximum.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

So we are also more eligible for linear TV as well.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

And it makes it all more exciting and we can have the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals each on one day.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

And so the pre-round is like two days.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

so we can finish the whole tournament in five days.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

I love it.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

And you brought the best 25 players, right?

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

Yes, yes.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

We have created a freestyle chess players club.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

You are eligible with an ELO of 2725.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

We just talked about ELO, so you have to be way up there, which basically applies to maybe the top 20, 22 players in the world.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

You see the live 2700 ranking, which basically has like 30 players all together.

Digital Social Hour
Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

And so if you are 2725, you are in the club.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

and you are eligible to be picked for the tour.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

Of course, we can't take everybody because we started with eight players, then we had like 10, then we had 12, now we have 16 players.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

We will go back less than that, but now we have 16 players out of the top 25 playing the tournament.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

And yeah, that's the situation.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

At the Wynn Hotel.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

At the Wynn, yes.

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Jan Henric Buettner: Why a $10B Founder Came Back to Build a Chess Startup at 60 | DSH #1640

Shout out to the Wynn.