Features
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Review
Tolka the hero – 20 Jan 2022
Chempion Mira is neither sound history nor works out as a sequel to The Queen’s Gambit. The Russian movie is patriotic kitsch and a monument to Anatoly Karpov who was involved as a consultant.
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Review
Winners and losers – 12 Jan 2022
2021 was great for top players, online chess and FIDE, but not for otb chess and lower rated professionals.
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Call to Action
Carlsen has a wish – 26 Dec 2021
The world champion cares about the welfare of the chess community. The chess community better also cares about the welfare of the world championship. Let’s have a proper debate.
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Background
Coming full circle – 06 Dec 2021
Competitive chess is returning to its roots with the world championship match at the Expo 2020.
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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.
Latest News
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Short news
General Atlantic invests in Chess.com – 15 Jan 2022
General Atlantic, a US equity form with early investments in Slack, Airbnb and TikTok, is financing further growth in Chess.com.
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Chess.com announced $650,000 rapid series – 14 Jan 2022
Chess.com’s answer to the Champions Chess Tour is their own series of online elite events starting six days earlier than the competitor on 12 February. Only the top 100 rated players, top 10 juniors and top 10 women are eligible to compete for $500,000 in the qualifiers and $150,000 in the final.
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Maia can guess the player from anonymous games – 14 Jan 2022
Maia, an AI by University of Toronto researchers Ashton Anderson and Reid McIlroy-Young, was trained on hundred games each of 3000 different players. It was then fed portions of hundred anonymous games not in the training sample and guessed correctly who played these in 86% of the cases. They told Science magazine that the code wasn’t published due to privacy concerns.
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Giri and Esipenko (re-)join Bundesliga – 13 Jan 2022
Germany’s top team is getting even stronger. Anish Giri joins the OSG Baden-Baden and so do Alexander Donchenko and Georg Meier who used to play for the second placed team SF Deizisau. Even though no agreement with Alireza Firouzja could be reached, winning a 16th championship title in this Bundesliga season starting in March is highly likely, as the Russian youngster Andrey Esipenko alone will not transform Turm Kiel into a title contender.
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Yuri Milner to invest $10 million in PMG – 12 Jan 2022
The Russian-Israeli tech investor and billionaire Yuri Milner offers to buy $10 million worth of shares in Play Magnus Group at the average prize of the last 90 trading days NOK 18,49, which is driving up the share prize that was near its all-time low at NOK 13,50 when trading closed on Tuesday. An extraordinary shareholder meeting is called for 19 January to decide on this private placement. Milner is a personal friend of Magnus Carlsen and has sponsored the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour through its Breakthrough Foundation.