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It was a novel idea... to crowd-source a chess match online. If your computer's address was in Norway, you could vote on Norway's moves. If it was outside Norway, then you could vote on the "rest of the world's" moves. If only it had worked that way...
The World Chess Championship is underway in Chennai, India. Norway's Magnus Carlsen has taken an impressive lead over local hero and reigning champion Viswanathan Anand. And in Norway, people are getting pretty stoked. So the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has challenged the rest of the world to play Norway — all of Norway.