The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour delivers a world first for its next event: an elite-level bitcoin chess tournament. The star-studded FTX Crypto Cup starts on May 23 and offers a record $320,000 prize pot for an online event $100,000 of that is a bonus paid in crypto by new sponsor FTX, the leading cryptocurrency exchange. Fans will be able to track the prize pot's value in real-time throughout the broadcast to see how it fluctuates.
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The World Championship Match Mikhail Botvinnik vs Mihail Tal, Moscow 1961
Some World Championship matches receive a lot of attention, others less. The 1960 World Championship match between Tal and Botvinnik received a lot of attention, their return match in 1961 created less interest and a lot of people thought that the wrong player won.
Tal won the 1960 match to become the then youngest world champion of all time. His bold dynamic play thrilled fans all over the world and his victory against Botvinnik seemed to be a victory of fearless imagination against cold and rational logic and promised to be the beginning of a new era. But only a year later, in the 1961 return match, disillusionment followed: Botvinnik won 13 to 8 (+10, -5, =6) and reclaimed the world title. But the second match was played under unequal conditions.
Dubai: If you are a fan of the Netflix chess drama The Queen’s Gambit, you are in for a treat this year. Expo 2020 Dubai, which kicks off in October, is gearing up to host the World Chess Championship, a global competition organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) every two years.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic the finale was postponed to 2021, and will now kick off on November 24 and conclude on December 16.
Who is competing at the World Chess Championship 2021?
Magnus Carlsen, the four-time world champion from Norway, will be up against the winner of the Candidates Tournament, Russia s Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Ian Nepomniachtchi (World No. 4, Russia) scored 8.5/14 to win a historic Candidates event
The world No. 4 chess player, Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia finished in clear first place in the 2021 FIDE Candidates Tournament, the ‘semifinal’ of the official World Chess Championship cycle. With a score of 8.5/14, he won the event ahead of seven other candidates and earned the right to challenge the current World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen of Norway in a 12-game title match, to take place this November 2021 in Dubai.
The candidates tournament, a double-round-robin featuring eight of the world’s top players, was originally halted and postponed after the first seven rounds were played back in March 2020. The event resumed this month in Yekaterinburg, Russia, after what was essentially a one-year hiatus for the players to rest and prepare for the second half.
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