Insolite - When Bublik and Safiullin rediscover the atmosphere of neighborhood tournaments

It's a moody scene.

In a Shanghai tournament severely disrupted by bad weather, the event organizers were forced to make some rather zany decisions.

Several matches were rescheduled to a small indoor gymnasium in order to keep the tournament moving.

Although this sequence was quite mind-boggling, it did at least serve to remind some of the playing conditions at local tournaments (see photo below).