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Chess Tour will feature the youngest Grandmaster in history while celebrating
this year’s incredible rising trend in chess education. The Chessable Masters,
which starts on July 31, aims to shine a light on the chess world’s top
educators, authors and publishers.
Interest in learning and improving at chess has spiked since the start of the
pandemic and Chessable, the event’s title partner, has been at the forefront of
that. The online learning platform, which uses cutting-edge MoveTrainer
technology - https://www.chessable.com/movetrainer/, has fuelled its parent
company, Play Magnus Group’s Q1 course revenue growth of 337% year-on-year,
enabling both established and many emerging authors to make a living from the
game during a difficult time. From the start of 2020, over $3 million has been
paid out to chess educators from Chessable.
The Chessable Masters, organized by Play Magnus Group, is the eighth leg of the
year-long Meltwater Champions Chess Tour and carries a $100,000 prize pot and an
elite line-up of 16 top stars.
Among the stars invited to compete is 12-year-old Chessable fan Abhimanyu
Mishra, from New Jersey, who made headlines worldwide when he broke the
Grandmaster title age record last month. He will be pitted against an elite
field featuring Hikaru Nakamura, the US speed demon and hugely-popular Twitch
streamer, alongside fellow American Wesley So. The young hotshot Alireza
Firouzja will be back to battle for a place in the Tour Final along with another
rising star Jorden Van Foreest. Azerbaijan’s number 1 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov also
lines up with Vietnam’s Liem Quang Le and the Venezuelan Eduardo Iturrizaga, who
qualified via the Iberoamericano tournament. Viewers will also see recent
entrant in the Tour, Vladislav Artemiev, as well as one of the Tour leaders,
Levon Aronian, playing again after strong performances in the Tour’s last
tournament, the Goldmoney Asian Rapid.
Play Magnus Group has also stepped up its support for female players by inviting
two of the world’s top women to compete in its next elite event. The reigning
Women’s World Champion Ju Wenjun and India’s reigning Women’s World Rapid
Champion Humpy Koneru will also make their Tour debuts alongside Mishra and
Iturrizaga. Norway’s Aryan Tari, Adhiban Baskaran and Pentala Harikrishna of
India, and Spanish Champion David Anton complete the player list.
Among the authors highlighted by the event is International Master Yuriy Krykun,
a Ukrainian chess coach who recently graduated from Webster University in Saint
Louis. Yuriy said: “As someone who aspires to share my passion for chess with as
many people as possible, both via private coaching and writing, I find it
extremely rewarding to see that more and more people in the chess world are able
to comfortably do this and focus all their energy on sharing their passion and
growing our game full-time.”
“This is in no small part possible due to the amazing royalties on Chessable’s
interactive courses and I am thankful to Chessable and Play Magnus Group for the
opportunity to not only enjoy passive income, but also deliver my content to
thousands of people all over the world!”
With more authors like IM Krykun providing their content on Chessable, there has
been a significant increase in the quality and quantity of the content leading
to a much improved user experience and making it as easy as it ever was to
improve at chess.
Chessable aims to solve the problem of how to actually remember chess openings -
Chess Openings Online - Chessable.com, using spaced-repetition learning and
other scientifically-based approaches. Chessable’s co-founder is John
Bartholomew, an International Master and chess coach who also runs a popular
YouTube channel with 170,000 subscribers. IM Bartholomew said: “The demand for
online coaching has absolutely skyrocketed in the past year.”
“It’s crazy,” he added. “Chess education is hot - as it should be! It’s a dream
come true that Chessable is able to regularly pay out substantial sums to
deserving chess teachers and publishers.”
All matches in the Chessable Masters will be hosted in chess24.com -
http://www.chess24.com’s playzone and available to watch on the platform’s
Twitch and YouTube channels for free. The Chessable Masters is the penultimate
leg of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour before the Tour Final in September,
where the ultimate winner will be crowned the world’s best online chess player.
For further comments contact:
Andreas Thome, CEO Play Magnus Group
andreas@playmagnus.com
ABOUT THE 2021 MELTWATER CHAMPIONS CHESS TOUR
The 2021 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour will, for the ?rst time in history,
determine the world’s best chess player over a full competitive season of online
chess. Beginning in November 2020, the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour features
monthly tournaments culminating in a ?nal tournament in September 2021. The best
chess players in the world are competing in a total of ten tournaments of rapid
chess. All games take place online on www.chess24.com - http://www.chess24.com/
with players competing for a total prize pool of over USD 1.6 million. For more
information visit https://championschesstour.com/.
ABOUT PLAY MAGNUS GROUP
Play Magnus Group is a global leader in the chess industry focused on providing
premier digital experiences for millions of chess players and students. The
company offers e-learning and entertainment services via its market leading
brands: chess24, Chessable, iChess, New In Chess, Everyman Chess, CoChess,
Aimchess, the Play Magnus App Suite, and the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The
Group’s mission is to grow chess to make the world a smarter place by
encouraging more people to play, watch, study, and earn a living from chess.
Play Magnus Group is listed on Euronext Growth Oslo under the ticker PMG. For
more information visit pmg.me - http://pmg.me/.
DISCLOSURE REGULATION
This information is subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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