Features
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Background
The party is over – 16 Jun 2022
The online chess boom induced by pandemic restrictions, the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour and The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix is behind us.
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Educational Chess
A universal game teaching tool – 11 Jun 2022
If you teach chess or other strategy games, you should know LogiqBoard. It enables you to create diagrams and teach online in new ways.
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![Yosha Iglésias is a Paris-based chess teacher, [youtuber][1] and community manager at chess24.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzg9wQOjSliZnuNdlPqsxZg](/files/screenshot-2022-06-09-at-10-29.240.jpeg)
Background
Can Yosha compete as a woman? – 09 Jun 2022
The French Chess Federation is hesitating to accept the gender change of Yosha Iglésias. Is affirmative action for female professionals at risk?
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Interview
“No more political sponsorship and sportswashing” – 30 May 2022
The Ukrainian grandmaster Andrii Baryshpolets explains why he is running to replace FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich in the 7 August election.
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Digital Divide
Should Carlsen decide now? – 28 May 2022
Magnus Carlsen announced that he might not defend the classical world champion title again. Is it unfair to his colleagues who compete at the forthcoming Candidates Tournament?
Latest News
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Immortal Game raised $15,5 million – 20 Sep 2022
The French start-up Immortal Game that is bringing Play2Earn to online chess based on monetization through NFT pieces has raised $3,5 million a few months ago and $12 million now from The Chernin Group (TCG) Crypto Fund and Greenfield, another investment company specializing in crypto companies.
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Where are the Ukrainian kids? – 18 Sep 2022
The U8–12 World Championships that are going on in Batumi until 28 September have 76 participants with a FIDE designation, 59 of which are listed for Russia in the FIDE rating list, but not a single kid from Ukraine.
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Caruana wins Fischer tournament in St. Louis – 17 Sep 2022
Fabiano Caruana won the 9LX aka Fischer Random tournament at the St Louis Chess Club after a tie-break against Alireza Firouzja. One month before the Fischer Random World Championship in Reykjavik world champion Wesley So scored 50%. The inactive former world champion Garry Kasparov clinched only one draw in nine games.
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Social applications conference on 15 October – 17 Sep 2022
The International Society for Applied Chess celebrates its fifth anniversary with an online conference on “Bio-psycho social applications of the game chess” held online on 15 October.
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Lviv vs Berlin – 16 Sep 2022
Next Friday, 23 September, teams meet in Lviv, the capital of Western Ukraine, and in Berlin to play a hybrid rapid match in front of spectators and presence of arbiters, raising funds for Unicef and testing the Millennium Supreme Tournament 55 electronic boards.