Carlsen also has been engaging in online marathons of bullet chess, exactly the kind of attention-disrupting, energy-draining stunt contenders are supposed to avoid. In a bullet game, each player has only one minute for all the moves. The pace is so rapid the games are hard to watch, much less play.

Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome

In very short order a flood of supercharacter lookalikes was being turned out by both Superman's publisher and the other publishers who, as publishers always do, vied with each other in rushing to market with hastily prepared imitations of each other's products in hopes of cleaning up before new product's novelty could die away.

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