Checkmate Coronavirus

🎉 FIDE initiative
🗓May 18th - June 16th
♟️2,000+ online tournaments at Lichess, chess24, and FIDE Online Arena
🏆1,500+ prizes (raffle system)

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@BalynsAdam The souvenirs were shipped and now are being delivered to the winners.

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🤩 The mini-matches between winners of the #CheckmateCoronavirus project and top grandmasters continue. Today world #5 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave played against four amateur players from Brazil, the Philippines, and Egypt.

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Despite the fact that all games ended with a victory of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, participants are still happy to get a chance to play against a top GM!
You can follow Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on Lichess 👇https://t.co/DZ3eIuNr8X

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The mini-matches between winners of the #CheckmateCoronavirus project and top grandmasters continue. Today Maxime @Vachier_Lagrave plays against four lucky @CheckmateCOVID winners on @lichess.

You can follow him 👇https://t.co/tBJ84ZAYn1

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🔥 3 more lucky winners of #checkmatecoronavirus project had a chance to play mini-matches with a top GM! World #10, participant of Candidates 2020 Anish Giri played with opponents from Algeria, Greece and Serbia. Missed it live? Watch now on Youtube of @FIDE_chess and @anishgiri

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💻 Watch it live at 19:00 CEST (17:00 UTC) on Youtube channels of Anish Giri https://t.co/aGHokZKneY or FIDE - International Chess Federation https://t.co/AJ8d9d9cYr.

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It’s time to announce the new mini-matches between winners of the #CheckmateCoronavirus project and top grandmasters!

👉 On August 17th and 18th GM @anishgiri , FIDE Candidates tournament participant and world #10 will face 5 lucky players of our 720-hour chess marathon.

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5 lucky players from Greece 🇬🇷, Germany 🇩🇪, Turkey 🇹🇷 and Thailand 🇹🇭 with rating from 1300 to 2100+ were playing their mini-matches against GM Kirill Alekseenko, FIDE Candidates tournament participant earlier this week. 💥 The next matches will be played in just a few days!

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💻We'll stream it live with the help of one and only Anna Muzychuk! Catch the action at 17:00 CEST .

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💥GM Kirill Alekseenko, FIDE Candidates tournament participant, will be the first one to have mini-matches with #checkmatecoronavirus project winners. On Monday, August 10, he will face 3 opponents and play a two-game rapid match with each. Time odds will be involved!

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And while we are getting ready for a new season, you can watch the live broadcasts of mini-matches played between top GMs and winners of the Checkmate Coronavirus project. The first games will be played on August 10th and 11th . Don’t miss out!

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☝️All’s well that ends well, but all that continues is even better! After #checkmatecoronavirus project was over, many of you were asking to continue this initiative. So we are happy to announce that in late autumn #FIDE is planning to restart the global online chess project!

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Lucky winners missing. Have you seen them? 🧐

Check, maybe you or your friends are one of them: https://t.co/V5FGpvzsuA and let us know. The prize claim deadline is July 9th. We will redraw all the unclaimed prizes on July 10th.

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We are live with 70 prizes to give away! Join us

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With #checkmatecoronavirus entries, we have passed the population of Iceland, Malta, Bahamas, Monaco, and Barbados! How amazing is this? #fide

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#checkmatecoronavirus is over and we realized that our unique participating players were 10 times more than all the athletes in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and 200 times more than all players of the NBA season or of the FIDE World Cup 😮 Crazy right? #fide

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Recently European Chess Union held a webinar "Women in Leadership roles" with Latvian WGM and politician Dana Reizniece-Ozola as one of the speakers. Among other issues, Dara talked about e-chess and its potential.
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The draw of invitations and mini-matches will be performed live on stream by 5 very special guests! Check them out and stay tuned at 5:00 p.m. UTC (8:00 p.m. Moscow time) on the official #FIDE channels on Youtube and Twitch. #checkmatecoronavirus

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There are 3 "Checkmate Coronavirus" #Marathons running in a couple of hours on Linchess

✅ 23:00-11:00 UTC | 12 hours Blitz Marathon https://t.co/CNeWGDYGbO

✅ 2 x 6 hours Bullet Marathon
23:00-05:00 UTC: https://t.co/RFtKS3K5NW
05:00-11:00 UTC: https://t.co/Yb2pi1PSj9

Join!

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Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player of all time, was the special guest of online master-class of Swiss Masters Chess Academy, and she talked about many interesting things. Watch the full video, go here: https://t.co/HoTVUqLc02