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Features
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Background
151 official world championships and counting – 01.08.2024
FIDE and its affiliates award (at least) 139 individual and 12 team world championship titles in chess. Is this a record for a sport without weight categories? (updated)
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Campaigns
7,284,970 is not the maximum number of games in a day – 31.07.2024
Guinness World Records accepted a claim by FIDE of most games played in day, even though that number falls way short.
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Campaigns
$12 million for Freestyle Chess – 25.07.2024
German entrepreneur Jan Henric Buettner and Magnus Carlsen have created a company and found investors to start a high end league in the chess variant invented by Bobby Fischer.
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Campaigns
How to enhance the fan experience – 03.07.2024
The Global Chess League runs a competition for ideas to make chess more interesting and engaging for fans with submissions open until 20 July.
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Debate
Why men outperform women at ‘mindsports’ – and what to do about it – 30.06.2024
Having studied the gender divide in bridge, Samantha Punch has some insights for the chess community.
Latest News
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Equal pay Trondheim style – 09.08.2024
The ongoing Lewis Chess Legends in Trondheim runs a mixed open tournament where the prize money for the top ranked women matches the prize money for the top ranked men.
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Social Media job – 09.08.2024
World Chess, the company of Ilya Merenzon, is hiring a social media manager and content creator.
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Chess at Paris Olympics – 06.08.2024
The French Chess Federation is present throughout this week at the Club France fanzone of the Olympic Games at Paris-La Villette with GMs Marie Sebag and Laurent Fressinet.
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Lichess documentary released – 05.08.2024
A 30 minute documentary by Dominik Toepfer on the story of Lichess has been released on Youtube.
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First black USChess president – 05.08.2024
Kevin Pryor, a retired corporate lawyer from Florida, is the first black person at the helm of USChess, following Randy Bauer, who has come under fire for his alleged retaliation against Jennifer Shahade for making the Ramirez affair public.