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Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour: Digging for the NextGen Gold

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Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour: Digging for the NextGen Gold

While the most-watched online chess event, the Play Magnus Group’s Meltwater Champions Chess Tournament 2021, has won much attention worldwide, yet another online tour is getting ready for the launch. The Chess legends Judit Polgar and Vladimir Kramnik come together to join hands with the Play Magnus Group for a fresh new online tour. The elite tour is designed with a focus to advance gender equality in chess and ensure female participation as well as to coach and promote upcoming young players.

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The Magnus Carlsen Invitational: Breaking Through Newer Frontiers

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The Magnus Carlsen Invitational: Breaking Through Newer Frontiers

The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, the Fourth event of the Champions Chess Tour, will be held on March 13-21. The World Champion has teamed up with Breakthrough Initiatives to commemorate the 60th anniversary of man’s first flight to outer space. The organisation that is driven by a quest for investigating the fundamentals of life beyond Earth is funded by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, headed by philanthropists and tech investors Yuri and Julia Milner.

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Oops! So did it again! Wesley So Beats Magnus Carlsen in the Opera Euro Rapid Finals

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Oops! So did it again! Wesley So Beats Magnus Carlsen in the Opera Euro Rapid Finals

American GM Wesley So slays it on Valentine’s Day leaving the World Champion heartbroken as one of his own arrows back-fired and drowned him in a mire of blunders.

Following two draws that led to a thrilling final game, a third one sealed the overall victory for So giving him the rare opportunity to beat the Norwegian Chess King twice in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.

Wesley So had earlier won the opening match – the Skilling Open - of the online chess tour in November 2020 against Magnus Carlsen, “ruining” Carlsen’s 30th birthday that fell on the D-day.

Azerbaijan’s Teimour Radjabov clinched third place playing against the Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, winning twice with white.

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Chess Calendar 2021: The Major Chess Events of the Year to Watch Out for

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Chess Calendar 2021: The Major Chess Events of the Year to Watch Out for

2021 began with an impressive OTB tournament of the 83rd edition of Tata Steel Chess in January. What’s in store for the coming months for the chess fans? Let’s glimpse through the chess tournaments calendar 2021 and take a note of the major events that have been scheduled for the year.

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Jorden van Foreest claims the title at the Tata Steel Chess Championship 2021

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Jorden van Foreest claims the title at the Tata Steel Chess Championship 2021

In a dramatic coup d'état, Dutchman Jorden van Foreest won the prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament held at Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The 21 year old GM became the first ever Dutch player to win the grand tournament in 36 years. Van Foreest overthrew his mighty opponent and compatriot GM Anish Giri in a miraculous playoff following an 8.5/13 finish for both.

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Rehabilitation in Black and White: The role of chess in de-addiction therapy

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Rehabilitation in Black and White: The role of chess in de-addiction therapy

Chess is known for its cognitive properties and as a booster for improving memory, strategic thinking and span of attention. It isn’t a surprise that the ancient game has been used in behavioural therapy for decades. The neurological and psychological impact of chess on human minds has been a topic of intense research and has led to innovative breakthroughs in cognitive skill development, artificial intelligence and behaviour modulation.

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Chess in 2020 – the Silver Line of a Turbulent Corona Cloud

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Chess in 2020 – the Silver Line of a Turbulent Corona Cloud

As the year winds up in silent mode, the world of chess can’t grumble much. It did taste a different wine online. Yes, the star players felt strangled and deprived of the pure excitement of a real face-off. But 2020 did eventually bring out the glory of online chess. And the platform witnessed quite a few gripping games.

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The 7 Most Controversial Chess Championships in History

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The 7 Most Controversial Chess Championships in History

It is a year-end warm-up for chess lovers as the prestigious online Champions Chess Tournament 2020 kick-started by November end, followed closely on the heels by the Speed Chess Championship in December. As the championships bring cheers to chess galleries, it would be interesting to look back at some of the most controversial tournaments that stirred up a few storms in the history of chess.

Killing it Skillfully - The Magnus Skilling Open

Killing it Skillfully - The Magnus Skilling Open

The chess world is in the galleries now - eager eyes fixed on one of the most prestigious and thrilling tournaments of the year. The Champions Chess Tournament 2020 has kicked off with its initial episode on 22nd November. An initiative by the Play Magnus Group, the Champions Chess Tour is one of its kind in online chess, where leading players across the globe will compete over ten tournaments spread over 10 months for a total prize amount of USD 1.5 million.

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Cognitive Development during COVID-19: Helping kids balance the stress of online classes

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Cognitive Development during COVID-19: Helping kids balance the stress of online classes

Children across the world have accepted the new norm in education: online learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has hijacked our traditional, brick-and-mortar schooling into a new wave of e-learning. If there is a sector that’s among the worst affected, it is education. The outbreak has enormously affected the structure of schooling, including teaching, learning and evaluation methodologies.

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AI in Chess: Warmer Waters for the Cold Logics

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AI in Chess: Warmer Waters for the Cold Logics

In September 2020, the world of chess witnessed an interesting U-turn when a former world chess champion and an AI game-playing software came together to explore interesting variants of the game to initiate players into newer creative patterns.

It was the first time in chess that human intelligence collaborated, rather than compete, with machine learning to bring innovative game variants.

‘Chess Machine’ Jose Raul Capablanca and His Perfect Game Play

‘Chess Machine’ Jose Raul Capablanca and His Perfect Game Play

The master player from Cuba stirred up as much admiration in chess players of successive generations as envy in his competitors. He ruled the world of chess unparalleled with his fantastic technique and inimitable talent. Capablanca stands out with his style that is easy and extremely flexible, something that grandmasters like Bobby Fischer studied in detail with verve.

The Little Giants of the Chess Kingdom: IRON TIGRAN’S ARMENIA

The Little Giants of the Chess Kingdom: IRON TIGRAN’S ARMENIA

A small chess-crazy nation of over 3 million people achieved a mighty feat that the formidable Russians could not: winning the World Chess Olympiad three times!

Armenia, the ancient and tiny Caucasian nation and the former Soviet Republic is #6 in the world of chess going by the average rating of its Top 10 players and has one of the highest numbers of grandmasters per capita in the world.

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