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Three minutes - this is the amount of time that the TU Graz team along with Rector Kainz had for a game of chess at the 3rd Austrian University and Students' Union Blitz and Rapid Chess Championships. "When I was five I used to watch my father playing chess over his shoulder and memorised the moves. When I started playing at club level myself, I had my share of bad luck - but so did the others!" said a smiling TU Graz Rector Harald Kainz as he recounted his first chess moves in his youth. His chess playing ability was to take him to the Styrian and Austrian young people's chess championships (and secure him third and tenth place). TU Graz 2 team: Rector Harald Kainz, Kurt Jungwirth (President of the Austrian Chess Federation), Sandra Wilfling, Stefan Spirk and Heimo Theuretzbacher-Fritz. Heimo Theuretzbacher-Fritz of the Shareholdings administrative department can also look back on a great career. "The high point was when my brother and I simultaneously became provincial school and youth champions in Upper Austria." Together with Stefan Spirk from the Institute of Paper, Pulp and Fibre Technology and telematics student Sandra Wilfling, they have been playing in one of the TU Graz teams at the "Blitz Chess" event of the 3rd Austrian University and Students' Union Championship which took place from Thursday to Sunday at TU Graz.