June 2020

Algorand - a world-class blockchain powering a secure and efficient frictionless exchange founded by Turing Prize-winning cryptographer Silvio micali from MIT - will capture official ratings and title data from World Chess players on…

AdvertisingIt is wrong to assume, like most Western media and Chinese propaganda, that COVID-19 in China is contained by the central government, or “Beijing”. The vast majority of measures in the event…

Update March 30, 2020: Due to the current COVID-19 situation in the United States, the Co-Chairs of the Scholastic Council have decided to extend the application deadline for the National Scholar Chess Player Award 2020 to May 15. Please…

Grandmaster Ankit Rajpara, chess trainer and writer Tibor…

In 1970, a game of chess was played between two opponents, but while one was on Earth the other was on the International Space Station. To mark the 50th anniversary of this wonderful occasion, two astronauts from the International…

Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin played a game of chess against cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner on Tuesday June 9 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Space-Earth game. The cosmonauts were 400 km above Earth…

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the FIDE Checkmate Coronavirus project has resulted in over 1,500 tournaments being played over the past 17 days on multiple chess platforms. The project runs until June 16 and there are plenty of other prizes up for grabs for players of…