Upcoming Events
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29 Sep 2021 17.00–18.30 UTC+0200
Event: Teaching Beginners with ClassroomIntroduction to the free video chess teaching tool with Luciana Morales (Chessable)
Features
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Work4Chess
Inside Chessable – 17 Sep 2021
How is work at Chessable, the biggest company in the Play Magnus Group? Stefan Löffler reports.
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Background
Back to life – 15 Sep 2021
Clubs and leagues are returning, but uncertainties remain. How different European federations are coping, is reported by Stefan Löffler
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Educational Chess
Incredible that this is for free – 08 Sep 2021
The Classroom video teaching tool from Chessable has made group teaching simpler and more efficient for Johan Hellsten.
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Background
New boards for online and hybrid play – 31 Aug 2021
Among the electronic chess boards that keep hitting the market, the latest products of Millennium and DGT stand out as suitable for competitive players, reports Conrad Schormann.
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Call to Action
Work 4 Chess! – 21 Aug 2021
How to plan and manage chess competitions during a (hopefully fading) pandemic? Which apps and platforms help clubs to mobilize old members and gain new ones? These questions and more will be answered at our free online conference Work4Chess on 18 September.
Latest News
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Short news
Mastercard enters chess – 21 Sep 2021
Magnus Carlsen becomes ambassador for the global brand Mastercard, which announced a partnership with the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Cardholders are invited to a virtual event with the world champion on 22 October. For holders of expensive cards chess offerings are planned within the Priceless scheme.
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Chess ambassadors for the environment – 20 Sep 2021
Probably for the first time, an international chess organisation campaigns with a pro-environment message. The ECU partners with the WWF and Judit Polgár to launch the Chess Ambassadors for the Environment at the Global Chess Festival on 9 October.
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Carlsen found his form – 19 Sep 2021
Magnus Carlsen won four games in a row in the second half of Norway Chess and came first. The world champion condeded a draw only when playing with Black against his challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi, who lost against Aryan Tari and scored only 50 % in the classical games. Carlsen is expected in Struga to play some European Club Cup games for the club Offerspill he founded in 2019.
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Gaprindashvili sues Netflix – 17 Sep 2021
Former women’s world champion Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for $5 million in damages because a commentator in the final episode of The Queen’s Gambit said “there’s Nona Gaprindashvili, but she’s the female world champion and has never faced men”, which according to her lawyer Rodney Smolla is false and sexist.
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Short news
Tour final with three players in Oslo – 17 Sep 2021
The Final of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour on 25 September to 4 October cannot be held as hoped over-the-board in San Francisco. Still, three of the ten qualified players, world champion Magnus Carlsen, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Anish Giri, will not compete from their home but from the main production studio in Oslo, giving the $300,000-event a hybrid element. Out of the first ten in the standings, Ian Nepomniachtchi bowed out to concentrate on his preparation for the world championship. His place went to the 12th in the standings, Shakriyar Mamedyarov.