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Take Take Take, a new chess-viewing platform from the Norwegian grandmaster, wants to get casual chess players engaged in tournament broadcasts. At 24, Kaja Snare didn’t imagine she had a future in chess; she barely played the game. But in 2014, when she was a rookie sports reporter for TV2, Norway’s second-largest broadcast network, her bosses assigned her to cover a chess tournament featuring Magnus Carlsen, who was then a 23-year-old Norwegian phenom. 

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