Features
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Campaigns
What new users want – 23 Apr 2021
Chess.com is eager to redesign their website and has invited users to submit their ideas. The winner could take $10,000 and potentially a job. User experience designer Jessi Shakarian has some clues.
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Campaigns
Kasparovchess 2.0 – 16 Apr 2021
A new contender enters the premium market: A platform to train, watch and play chess is launched by the French media giant Vivendi and Garry Kasparov, reports Stefan Löffler.
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Hybrid Chess
Hybrid lessons – 12 Apr 2021
During the next weeks we see many more arbiter-supervised, cheating-proof competitions. What has been learned so far about hybrid chess is summed up by Stefan Löffler in ten neat lessons for organisers, arbiters and players.
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Background
E-board of a different kind – 26 Mar 2021
Another electronic board project is succeeding in crowdfunding. Conrad Schormann introduces ChessUp and looks back at the Regium scam.
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Educational Chess
Girls need a different approach – 08 Mar 2021
Chess teaching materials are often stereotyping and neglecting girls. Silke Schwartau has some suggestions to make it gender-sensitive.
Latest News
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Short news
Grandmasters replace bulls – 10 May 2021
For the first time in seventy years, the Sanfermines festival in Pamplona, Spain, will take place without a running of the bulls. Instead, Magnus Carlsen will come to the Spanish town to compete in a €50,000 online blitz tournament hosted by chess24 with seven other players, four of which will be decided through a qualifier.
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Covid charity for India – 10 May 2021
Viswanathan Anand, Nihal Sarin, R. Praggnandhaa and Humpy Koneru give an online simul this Thursday to raiss funds for Covid relief in their hard-hit home country. The simul’s host Chess.com will match the donations.
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Conference connects prison projects – 07 May 2021
FIDE holds an online conference Chess for Freedom next Tuesday to present findings about chess in reintegraton programmes and to connect prison chess projects.
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Italian E-sport cooperation – 06 May 2021
QLASH, an E-sport company, provides the Italian Chess Federation with a venue for the Mitropacup, that is currently played as a hybrid event. The Italian teams compete under supervision of arbiters and the newly appointed national coach Loek van Wely from the QLASH House in Villorba near Venice, where the setting induces the players to think on the screen rather than the board.
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Chess training study looks for participants – 06 May 2021
The Development of Chess Expertise study by scientists in Austria and the UK invites competitive players to complete a questionnaire on motivation, chess activities and cognitive tasks. Those who spend the required 35–45 minutes can compare themselves with others. The questionnaire is available in English and in German and soon in Russian and Chinese.