Überblick · News · 2024
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.
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Background
Downsizing on staff and subsidiaries, Chess.com prioritizes profitability – 26.06.2024
The market leader is parting with several dozen staff members and publishers New in Chess and Everyman, reports Stefan Löffler
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Review
Match-fixing as a form of protest – 10.01.2024
How to deal with players who refuse to play proper moves?
Short 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.
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Russia celebrates team victory – 05.08.2024
The Russian federation celebrates the victory of the predominantly Russian team of Emirates sponsored Al-Ain ACMG at the Rapid Team World Championship in Astana.
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Hensel and Koth retire from event team – 02.08.2024
For Carsten Hensel and Stefan Koth, who have been the faces of the Dortmund Chess Days since three decades and also organised the 2008 world championship match nearby in Bonn, the 2024 edition starting next week is their last on the event team. Christian Jochmann is the new executive director.
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Curriculum expert wanted – 02.08.2024
Chess in the Schools is hiring a Manager of Curriculum and Instruction, a developing and supervising role that requires presence in New York City.
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Julius Baer continues sponsorship – 01.08.2024
Julius Baer, a Swiss bank specializing in wealth management, continues to partner with Chess.com on the Women Speed Championship, after sponsoring the Champions Chess Tour and children chess camps earlier.
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Last computer championship – 01.08.2024
The 50th Computer Chess World Championship held in October in Santiago de Compostela during the ICGA conference will be its last edition.
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Russian Anti-Olympiad canceled – 31.07.2024
The so-called Friendship Games in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, which would have featured a team chess event with a high prizefund right after the Chess Olympiad and were thus seen by many as an Anti-Olympiad or Counter-Olympiad, will be indefinitely postponed.
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Van den Herik heads Max Euwe Centrum – 30.07.2024
Jaap van den Herik, who worked together with the late Max Euwe before becoming a professor of computer science himself and contributed in many roles to the development of computer chess, is the new chairman of the Max Euwe Centrum in Amsterdam. He follows Paul van der Sterren who continues as ambassador.
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Shahade sues USChess – 22.07.2024
17 months after not waiting for the result of US Chess investigation into alleged serial sexual abuses by Alejandro Ramirez, Jennifer Shahade has not waited out a mediation process but gone into offensive by filing a lawsuit against her former employer and chess writer Pete Tamburro for alleged retaliating against her.
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5,4 million games recorded – 22.07.2024
Guiness World Records accepted 5,4 million games played on International Chess Day as a record, sponsored by FIDE, that says about itself that on an average day more than 60 million games are played.
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Cricket star co-owns GCL team – 09.07.2024
Indian cricket star Ravichandran Ashwin has agreed to become co-owner of the American Gambits team that will replace the Chingari Gulf Titans in the forthcoming Global Chess League season.
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ChessFest London record crowd – 09.07.2024
The fourth ChessFest on Trafalgar Square by Chess in Schools and Communities drew 23.000 attendees helped by publicity around the 9-year-old star guest Bodhana Sivanandan and her nomination for the English Olympiad women team.
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Singapore hosts Ding-Gukesh – 01.07.2024
FIDE has awarded the classical World Championship to Singapore, where the government is the main sponsor. The two other bids came from India, which had caused a political stir between the camps of Indian Prime Minister Modi and the All India Chess Federation that supported Delhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin behind the Indian chess capital Chennai.
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Niemann match tour in August – 01.07.2024
The American GM Hans Niemann announced a series of matches with Giri in Utrecht, Vitiugov in London, Bacrot in Paris and Nihal Sarin in Sharjah throughout August. Each match to consist of 6 classical, 6 rapid and 12 blitz games. The announcement includes a call for sponsors.
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Russia decision appealed – 30.06.2024
Both parties have appealed against the decision of the FIDE Ethics Commission to ban the Russian Chess Federation for having war criminals on its supervisory board and to reprimand President Arkady Dvorkovich for being on that board and not having intervened. The Chess Federation of Russia is also demanding to dissolve the Ethics Commission, revise its codex and readmit Russia, Belarus and their national symbols in FIDE events.
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London hosts Global Chess League – 27.06.2024
Tech Mahindra has announced a second season of its Global Chess League on 3–12 October in London, securing a live audience and interaction with fans for the high powered rapid team event, which will be followed by the WR Chess Masters Cup on 14–18 October held by German sponsor Wadim Rosenstein in a k.o.-format, also in London.
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Fantasychess is hiring – 26.06.2024
Backed by Magnus Carlsen the Oslo-based startup Fantasychess has raised $3million in 2023 and is currently hiring a CFO, head of content, fullstack developer, designer and also invites open applications.
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Austria prepares bid for R&B 2025 – 26.06.2024
After being reelected as President of the Austrian Chess Federation for two more years, Michael Stöttinger told ChessTech that FIDE’s announcement of the Rapid & Blitz World Championship 2024 in New York helps him to secure funding and support to bid for the 2025 event in Austria, where it may be held in Linz, Salzburg or Vienna.
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Schachbundesliga final rounds in Deggendorf – 26.06.2024
Going into its strongest season ever with virtually all world-class players committed to a club, the German Bundesliga will hold its final three rounds on 25–27 April 2025 near Munich in Deggendorf, where the local club will celebrate its 100th anniversary. On 22/23 March 2025 eight out of 16 teams will meet at the FC St Pauli football stadion in Hamburg and most likely Magnus Carlsen, who is connected with St Pauli and the Weissenhaus Chess Academy, will be among them.
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Congress schedule published – 26.06.2024
FIDE has published the dates of commission and continental meetings during its congress in Budapest on 17 to 22 September with the last two days reserved for the General Assembly. The Chess Olympiad is played on 11 to 22 September. On the only free day, 17 September, Judit Polgár and her team invite to the Global Chess Festival at the National Gallery.