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  • How do Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and Magnus Carlsen perform from their home office?

    Don’t expect too much from home office! – 27 Nov 2020

    How do we perform at cognitive tasks when we work from home? Not as good as in our usual work environment, if we take the quality of moves by world class players as an indicator, writes economist and study coauthor Christian Seel.

  • Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal have traveled for chess a lot, with him, an International Master, writing and reporting and her, a former junior champion with four WIM norms, capturing photos and videos.

    Make it available for Indians – 16 Jul 2020

    The chess boom in India has been driven by ChessBase India and its multitasking co-founder and CEO Sagar Shah. Five years ago he convinced the Hamburg headquarter to reduce prices for the subcontinent.

  • Children can now be members of the Dutch Chess Federation without joining a club

    Projects to watch (part 1) – 10 May 2020

    What can chess organisations do during the pandemic? We reported FIDE’s online activities and strategy. Now we turn to the national federations: what can they do beyond organising online competitions, meetings and training?

  • FollowChess App: USSR vs World

    Asim Pereira on broadcasting USSR–World 1970 as if it was a live event – 16 Apr 2020

    With no more over-the-board competitions going on, chess sites started to transmit a historic event that made history fifty years ago. ChessTech found the man who had this marvellous idea. Here is his story.