Features
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Work4Chess
Inside Chess.com – 08 Oct 2021
How is work in a fully remote company that runs the biggest platform in online chess? Tatiana Flores profiles Chess.com.
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Campaigns
Chasing the biggest fans – 03 Oct 2021
Digital collector items are the latest hype in American team sports, but is there a demand in chess? Stefan Löffler has doubts.
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Background
“Noone can remain an indifferent bystander any more” – 30 Sep 2021
While cheating seems to decline, its prevention will soon involve everyone. Stefan Löffler reports on a Work4Chess conference session.
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Campaigns
Sony’s Gambit – 23 Sep 2021
The chess-themed new PlayStation spot is a hot item in the gaming industry, reports Stefan Löffler.
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Background
Corporate sponsorship is back – 22 Sep 2021
Why Mastercard’s contract with Magnus Carlsen and the Champions Chess Tour is good news for professional chess, is explained by Stefan Löffler.
Latest News
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Short news
Wesley So wins third US title after tiebreak – 20 Oct 2021
Fabiano Caruana overcame a poor start at the US Championship and was close to winning it in the last round and again in the tie-breaker against Wesley So, who in the end won his third US championship plus $50,000 and conceded that Caruana would have deserved it.
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McDonald’s now has a chess ad, too – 19 Oct 2021
“Bishop takes fries” is the title of this chess-themed ad about players who meet at a South Chicago McDonald’s restaurant and have started to win scholastic titles.
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Pragg dominates Challengers – 17 Oct 2021
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa smashed through the final of the Bank Julius Bär Challengers Chess Tour. He needed only nine games to win his three matches against Murzin, Keymer and Yoo, conceding a single draw and winning all other games, to secure $12,500 and a fix spot on the next Champions Chess Tour.
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15 times Baden-Baden – 17 Oct 2021
The Bundesliga season that started in November 2019 has finally been completed after 23 months with seven rounds centrally played in Berlin. The OSG Baden-Baden won the German league for the 15th time. The SV Hockenheim 1930 was on an equal score until their direct encounter in the penultimate round, which Baden-Baden won by 4,5:3,5. Hockenheim, who also lost the last round to SF Deizisau and had to concede the second place to them, retreat to the third league as announced earlier.
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Dutch players fight Corona-regulation and lose in court – 15 Oct 2021
Six Dutch players, including 2019 champion Lucas van Foreest, tried to overcome the regulations of the Dutch Championship that has begun this Friday requiring a Corona-passport (being fully vaccinated of recovered from a Covid-19 infection) or daily tests. The court upheld the regulations and condemned the plaintiffs to pay €3,364 to the Dutch Chess Federation and the town of Hoogeveen. Lucas van Foreest, who is known to love publicity, was called a hero by the right-wing populist Thierry Baudet.