Features
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Campaigns
An exception for Carlsen – 30 Nov 2021
Advertising any form of gambling is illegal in Dubai. The Expo 2020 has granted the world champion a special permission to display Unibet logos on his shirts during the match.
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Educational Chess
Other games on 64 squares – 23 Nov 2021
If you teach chess for educational motives, you should know about simpler games on the chess board and how to introduce them to your students.
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Hands On
The best ways to study chess online – 21 Nov 2021
We never had so many resources and options to study and train chess as we do today. Here are some guidelines how to make the best of it.
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Review
Nepo’s Gambit – 19 Nov 2021
The world championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi presents a Chessable course on no lesser opening than the King’s Gambit. Fernando Offermann had a look.
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Research
The interplay of talent and practice in chess – 01 Nov 2021
Merim Bilalić, Roland Grabner and Nemanja Vaci explain what chess development can teach about the development of skill and performance across lifetime and how you can benefit from participating in their new study.
Latest News
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Most watched top game – 05 Dec 2021
Carlsen’s win in the sixth game of the FIDE World Championship on Friday reached a live audience on all streams combined peaking at 613,376 viewers according to Esports Charts. However, when in March Irene Sukandar played Dadang Subur aka Dewa Kipas to expose him as a cheater, 1,25 million had watched on several streams combined.
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Jerry Nash appointed as EDU secretary – 02 Dec 2021
After eleven years, Kevin O’Connell has stepped down as Secretary of the FIDE Chess in Education Commission, formerly Chess in Schools Commission. The Irishman who has served in different functions in FIDE since 1990 stays on as Honorary Chairman. The new Secretary is the American education consultant Jerry Nash who created the Chess in Education network.
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UAE team played Israeli team – 28 Nov 2021
The World School Tournament at the Spanish Expo 2020 pavilion set the precedent of a first match between a team from the United Arab Emirates and a team from Israel. The Green Village School team from North Tel Aviv won by 4:1.
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Next world championship in spring 2023 – 26 Nov 2021
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich said in an interview with the Russian Chess Federation that the next world championship match shall take place in spring 2023 and the host of the Candidates Tournament in the second half of 2022 is to be chosen during the next days.
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Black Friday sales have started – 22 Nov 2021
Discounts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday have started at Chessable, Everyman Chess, USChess, Chesshouse, ICC and probably other chess retailers.