News Articles · Hybrid Chess

  • How did it feel to play hybrid chess? Okay was the most frequent answer on the Mitropacup questionnaire.

    An okay way to play during the pandemic – 14 May 2021

    Feedback from the Mitropacup participants reveals mixed attitudes about hybrid chess and the rules that were applied, writes Stefan Löffler.

  • Tiger Hillarp Persson competed in the first Hybrid Cities Cup with a Malmö team from a theatre in Malmö, while his opponents Romain Edouard, Johan-Sebastian Christiansen and Jergus Pechac were in Barcelona, Oslo respectively Bratislava.

    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.

  • Hybrid Cities Cup

    Curtains up for hybrid chess! – 19 Feb 2021

    Grandmasters, masters and arbiters meet this weekend in four European cities to test a cheating-proof way of play in the Hybrid Cities Cup, writes the event’s initiator Stefan Löffler.

  • This year’s 25th edition of “Ciutat de Barcelona” plans to have tournament halls all over the globe.

    The new reality comes with new tournaments – 23 Jun 2020

    Chess as a sport will not be the same after the pandemic. Over-the-board and online play will move closer together. Under the rubric hybrid chess we present pioneering organisations, projects and events. The start is made by Jordí Magem from the Catalan Chess Federation on the birth of the hybrid tournament that connects different venues.