Bughouse in Berlin

As mentioned before, I spent a week in Berlin before I went to Dortmund. It was an quite a coincidence that a club member happened to be in Berlin too. During the weekend of 23/24 June he would play, for the 6th time already, in a tournament I had never heard of! It wasn’t that surprising after I read further: he was talking about a bughouse tourney. I met my friend at the hotel where the players resided, and suddenly found myself in between the crème de la crème of the international bughouse chess scene. Wrong, of the international bughouse scene. Bughouse isn’t chess. full story »