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After finishing my games against Barry, I decided to have my second break before playing Kanak for the second time.  Feeling somewhat refreshed after this 28 minute break, I was ready to face the second and most difficult night of my challenge. My mind was telling me that once I had completed 48 hours of my challenge, I would almost be there!  Between 8.00 pm on Saturday and 2.00 am on Sunday I was playing Harley and Jordan Bryant.   When I was looking for opponents to play, I did not originally think of Harley and Jordan because I did not know that they played chess.  The twins are both excellent badminton players and before my stroke I partnered both of them, on different occasions, in badminton matches against rival teams in the Boston League. If my memory serves me correctly, we won most of the games we played in!  As chess players, I had no idea of their ability, but I was taking nothing for granted. After three hours of play against Harley I won ...
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            When I finished playing Richard at 11.00 pm I had been playing for over 15 hours and was getting in to a steady rhythm. During this entire period I had not used any of my allotted rest time. I planned to have my first 'sleep' during the nine hours that I would be playing the brothers, Kanak and Karan Gupta.      Karan is training to be a doctor and, a few days before I started this record event, he gave me a quick physical check-up. I spoke to him about my ability to leave and enter my body under control and he witnessed one such event and recorded his findings. So I was keen to find out if I would be refreshed by this method and not, therefore, need hours of sleep to carry on.           At 3/14/11 am when I had just finished my second game against Karan I decided to have my first official sleep period. As I had now been playing for just over 19 hours, I was entitled to over one hour of rest (5 m...
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  I must thank Chris and Ashley because between them they covered the three hours that Loki was due to play me.  Without their help my record attempt would have been stopped in its tracks.  Trying to organize my opponents, as well as concentrating on the difficult task of playing chess against powerful opponents, was difficult enough in itself without any major calamities like opponents not turning up! Between them, Chris and Ashley played me for 9 hours.  This took me through till 8.00 pm on Friday evening.  Twelve hours of playing non-stop.  So time for a quick assessment of how everything was proceeding.  Before this record attempt, I did practise over Xmas and Boxing Day.  Without too many problems, I managed to stay awake for over 50 hours; so 12 hours was a mere a mere drop in the ocean in the grand scale of what I was attempting!   I had a short toilet break at this point in time, but no rest before I played my next opponent, Rich...