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Swiss teens aim to break world domino record

Two 14-year-old boys from the canton of Saint Gallen aim to set a Guinness World Record for the longest wall of toppling dominos.

Swiss teens aim to break world domino record
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Daniel Huwiler and Oswald Jonas used 41,680 dominoes to build a wall 38 metres long and one metre high in a gym in the town of Häggenschwil, 20 Minuten reported on Monday.

The world record for the longest domino wall is currently 30 metres, the newspaper said.

The record attempt will be made on Saturday.

“If a single domino budges before that day, everything will collapse,” Hulwiler told 20 Minutes.

The teenagers spent 10 hours a day for a week-long period to build the wall, which was finished ahead of schedule.

Hulwiler said the work is hard on the back and requires a lot of patience.

The two friends discovered their passion for dominoes seven years ago when they started with a collection of 200.

Now they have 75,000 which they store in a specially rented room, 20 Minutes said.

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WORLD RECORD

VIDEO: Norway makes world’s biggest chess board

A world record for the biggest chess board was set in the town of Brekstad in Norway’s Sør-Trøndelag region on Sunday.

VIDEO: Norway makes world’s biggest chess board
Norwegian grandmaster Simen Agdestein won the world's largest scale chess match. File photo: Erlend Aas/NTB scanpix

The board, measuring at 6,400 square metres, hosted a match between Norwegian grandmaster Simen Agdestein and Germand rival grandmaster Niklas Hushenbeth.

Photographer Pål Åge Røstad posted spectacular drone footage of the event on Facebook on Monday.

“The record has been approved and will be in the Guinness Book of Records,” Hallgeir Grøntvedt of Ørland Cultural Centre told NRK.

Chess rivals Agdestein and Huschenbeth stood on cranes at the side of the board to move their pieces, who were all played by local people.

“We were very luck with the weather. It started to rain just as the black king was put in checkmate,” Grøntvedt told Adresseavisen.

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After an hour and a half’s play on the giant board, the checkmate went to Agdestein.

“Sure, it was a bit unusual using an enormous board and a bit special, but it was a fantastic event,” the grandmaster told NRK.

“We were lifted very high up, so we had a good view. But to be honest, I mostly had the positions of the pieces in my head,” Agdestein added.

“The board was fantastic, and the view was wonderful, we could see across the fjord and it was cool with all the living pieces,” he said.

The previous Guinness record for the largest chess board stood at 5.89 square metres. 

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