Features
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Background
Building a team to build a board – 23 Jun 2021
Bryght Labs has appointed Abrahamyan and Aronian and keeps hiring developers for the Chessup board, reports Stefan Löffler.
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Educational Chess
Because kids love quizzes – 22 Jun 2021
Kahoot! enables teachers to create quizzes in a fun format for their whiteboard, digital or online classes. It is also a great tool for chess teachers, writes Philippe Kalman.
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Call to Action
By all appearances – 07 Jun 2021
Reporting on women and girls in chess can go wrong in many ways, but do not despair, help is near. Tatiana Flores has some guidelines.
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Debate
Protect our prodigies! – 28 May 2021
Our obsession with titles and the age at which they are accomplished ill-serves our most talented and most vulnerable players. A better way to protect child prodigies from overzealous parents, coaches and officials is suggested by Stefan Löffler.
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Hybrid Chess
An okay way to play during the pandemic – 14 May 2021
Feedback from the Mitropacup participants reveals mixed attitudes about hybrid chess and the rules that were applied, writes Stefan Löffler.
Latest News
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Short news
Horst Rittner (1930–2021) – 24 Jun 2021
Horst Rittner, who for 26 years edited the German magazine Schach, presented chess on Eastern German TV and became correspondence chess world champion in 1971, has passed away in Berlin on 14 June, as has become known only now.
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South Westphalia tries something new – 24 Jun 2021
The chess district of South Westphalia in the centre of Germany has decided to suspend the 2021/22 team season and invite those who want to play to test new match formats with smaller teams or two shorter games instead of a long one. Some regional leagues are considering hybrid matches.
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So wins Paris Rapid & Blitz ahead of Nepo – 22 Jun 2021
Wesley So confirms the great form he has been showing in the Champions Chess Tour by winning both the rapid and the blitz at the Paris leg of the Grand Chess Tour, while challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi came in as clear second. No spectators were allowed at the Kasparovchess.com- broadcast event. Next is the Croatia Rapid and Blitz in Zagreb on 6–11 July where the wildcard is reserved for a Croatian citizen, Garry Kasparov, who will make a rare appearance at the board.
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NYC kids campaign goes strong – 22 Jun 2021
Providing 10,000 kids from disadvantaged families in New York City with chess instruction, learning software and a set is the goal of The Gift of Chess campaign, that has raised two thirds of its goal within a month and is covered by ABC.
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Dansk Skoleskak appoints development director – 21 Jun 2021
Andreas Weidinger, former head of the Danish Conservative People party youth and a climate policy expert, is the newly appointed Director of Development at Dansk Skoleskak, an innovator in school chess that is planning to open a “chess house” by 2025.