Features
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Campaigns
A liberating game – 22 Oct 2021
The Chess For Freedom project is about much more than prison and online play, writes Salomėja Zaksaitė.
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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.
Latest News
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Short news
Lichess publishes opening tool – 25 Oct 2021
The enhanced Opening Explorer tool lets you see how you have been scoring on Lichess with different opening moves, or prepare for a specific opponent based on their Lichess games. According to the announcement, the innovation has been inspired by OpeningTree.com another open source tool.
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Grand Swiss in Riga despite lockdown – 21 Oct 2021
The Latvian government has issued an exemption for top sport events held in the country during the strict lockdown that starts today with non-essential shops, schools and entertainment venues closed and a night curfew. FIDE can go through with the Grand Swiss and Women Grand Swiss, that have been moved to Riga from the Isle of Man in view of UK travel restrictions. The first round is scheduled on Tuesday. The invited players are asked to confirm their participation by this Friday. Since two places each for the next Candidates Tournament and $550,000 in prices are at stake, most of the top players are expected.
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Vitiugov is Russian champion – 21 Oct 2021
As usual the Russian Championship took place in a museum with a grant from the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Foundation, this time the Nesterov Art Museum in Ufa. The most experienced participant Nikita Vitiugov won ahead of Maxim Matlakov and Vladimir Fedoseev, all from St. Petersburg.
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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.