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Amid the war against Hamas, 132 chess players ranging in age from 9 to 78 competed in the Israeli Open Championship from January 21 through January 29 in Acre, northern Israel, including about 20 international masters and grandmasters, considered the highest ranks in the world of chess.

The nine-day Israeli Chess Federation tournament drew people from all over Israel, including children from the Druze villages of Beit Jann and Peki’in in the Galilee. Despite the war — or maybe because of it — everyone was there to play chess.

“Instead of sitting around worrying about the war, it’s therapeutic,” said Avi Cohen, whose son, Israel, the tournament’s youngest competitor, won the eight-and-under Israeli chess tournament in 2022. “Chess is like an escape.”

The organizer of the event, Olga Volkov, runs the chess club in nearby Nahariya in addition to coaching chess players in Shlomi, a town on the border with Lebanon.

In the weeks after the war began on October 7 with the Hamas-led massacre that killed 1,200 people in southern Israel, mostly civilians, and saw 253 more abducted to the Gaza Strip, Shlomi’s residents were evacuated due to sympathy attacks from the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization stationed in southern Lebanon.

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Chess tournament makes mates of Arabs, Jews and Druze amid Gaza war

In late January, the Israeli Open Championship in Acre brought all of Israel's diverse sectors together to battle it out on the board, fostering community through love of the game

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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Meanwhile the body of a six year old Palestinian girl was recovered after 12 days, she was in a car with family members trying to leave the area when a Israeli Child killer shredded the car with a 50 Cal mounted on his tank killing all of them then shot up a Ambulance killing two medics who had come on the scene, there is no time limit on war crimes.

6-year-old Gazan child found dead after days of uncertainty

Hind Rajab was trapped in a car after it came under Israeli fire on Jan. 29 - Anadolu Ajansı

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