Chess in London One of my pleasure is playing chess with locals during travel. I went to London last week and stopped by a park where chess players haunt every afternoon. When I arrived there were already 10+ locals played blitz and bullet game (5-10 mins fast chess). I believe that I was the first Japanese female chess player who visited there as chess was not popular in Japan. I am good at fast games than long games, so I performed better than they expected and surprised them. Chess does not matter age, gender, and nationality. We can communicate over the board whether or not we have common language, because chess is universal language.