Upcoming Events
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05 – 06 Dec 2020 UTC+0200
Event: London Chess Conference OnlineThe London Chess Conference is the premier chess-related conference in the world. Usually part of the London Chess Classic in early December, the gathering of international education and games experts takes place online this year on 5 and 6 December 2020 on the theme “Chess and Technology” with ChessTech as communications partner.
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03 Nov 2020 UTC+0200
Event: What Future for Professional Chess?How do professionals cope with lost earning opportunities during the pandemic? What does the ongoing ACP survey reveal about the players’ income? How do grandmasters react to FIDE President Dvorkovich’s reform ideas? Why will there be an Athletes Commission? Grandmasters Peter Heine Nielsen, Ivan Salgado Lopez, Noel Studer, Alex Colovic (ACP President) and Mohamad Al-Modiahki (FIDE International Director) are expected as discussants.
To get the zoom link please write to sl@chesstech.org
Features
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Call to Action
Chess and Technology online conference – 26 Oct 2020
ChessTech is proud partner of the London Chess Conference on 5 and 6 December 2020. Here is an advance on what the world’s premier chess-related conference first online edition has to offer. The call for contributions is still open.
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Interview
“I am not used to discussing politics” – 17 Oct 2020
During his frank interview with Daniil Dubov FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich gave a lot of insight in his proactive way of thinking and leading. He explained how the new FIDE management functions and why it needs more sponsors outside of Russia. This is the second and final part of excerpts by Stefan Löffler.
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Interview
FIDE’s next steps – 14 Oct 2020
In an interview in Russia, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich talked about possible changes in the world championship cycle and competitive chess at large: Players may be restricted to compete in only one national league. Team events may no longer be rated. The world championships for teams and children are under review. Stefan Löffler has excerpted the essentials in two parts. The first one focuses on competitive chess.
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Campaigns
Biggest chess investment ever – 07 Oct 2020
The Play Magnus Group is the first ever chess company that is going public. With an evaluation of NOK 1,1 billion (€ 100 million) it starts to trade this Thursday at the Oslo Stock Exchange. Questions and answers by Conrad Schormann, Stefan Löffler and financial journalist Thorsten Cmiel.
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Call to Action
We need to ground chess – 15 Sep 2020
In order to prevent a global climate catastrophe mankind has to change its play. The international chess community can contribute – by reducing its emissions and taking a leading role, writes Günther Beikert.
Latest News
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Short news
New sports director at Play Magnus – 26 Oct 2020
The Norwegian sport reporter and moderator Kaja Snare has been appointed as Sport Director by Play Magnus. She will direct the international broadcasts and be host of the second Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour, that will start in November and that the two main Norwegian channels NRK and TV2 will take turns to transmit. Snare worked for both in the past as well as for Viasat, Nettavisen and during the 2016 world championship for Worldchess.
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Short news
Three refuseniks in Minsk – 24 Oct 2020
The Championship of Belarus was completed with seven participants instead of ten. Three qualified players refused to accept politically motivated restrictions that were put up before the tournament like not talking to the press without permission. The top rated Vladislav Kovalev dropped out just hours before the first round and was defaulted in all games.
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Kasparov and Pandolfini consulted – 23 Oct 2020
Chess in movies and TV series is notoriously misrepresented. The miniseries “The Queen’s Gambit”, that is released by Netflix today, gets it all right according to Chess.com. Among the chess experts that consulted are Garry Kasparov and Bruce Pandolfini, a legendary New York coach, who wrote about it for US Chess magazine Chess Life.
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Short news
School chess survey – 23 Oct 2020
A joint group by FIDE and ECU is conducting a survey on chess in education. Key experts from federations and school chess providers are called to contribute answers and data from their country.
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Short news
World Youth announced – 22 Oct 2020
Online World Championships from U10 to U18, boys and girls, have been announced by FIDE with continental qualifiers starting in the end of November and Tornelo as hosting platform.