Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in chess history
I say this as someone with fairly little experience with chess, and even less exposure to competitive chess.<p>This article did a poor job at quickly explaining enough of what feat was amazing and why to keep me interested.<p>After skimming the rest of the article (past where it lost my attention), it seems to jump randomly through both the biographies of the players in the tournament and of historical players who weren't even present at the tournament.<p>Was this amazing because of the high overall ranking of the players? Because that would strike me as profoundly un-amazing. Pitting the world's best in a sport against each other is fairly common, is that not the case in chess?