Young, fresh, freestyle chess. The multimillionaire Jan Henric Büttner and Magnus Carlsen want to establish a new variant of the game. The grandmasters love it.
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A park-like hotel complex with a view of the Baltic Sea, 75 hectares in size – if you converted that into football fields! That would be quite a lot, but you would have to convert the 75 hectares into chessboards, because Jan Henric Büttner, soon to be 60 years old, hotel owner and knight-runner-rook aficionado, has neither balls nor goals on his mind from morning to night, but that royal game that he wants to bring back from the shabby tournament gyms into a stately ambience, in his Private Nature Luxury Resort in Weissenhaus.
