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Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen awarded NFT trophy after tournament win

11.10.2021
Following the competition, a replica of Carlsen's NFT trophy was auctioned off to a fan for 6.88 ETH

Wonderbox Is Like Zelda Meets Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker

27.9.2021
I really enjoyed the Captain Toad mini-games in this year’s expanded Switch version of Super Mario 3D World; they gave my mind a welcome reprieve from the frustration of navigating the main adventure’s floaty, 3D platforming. I know Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker has long been a thing, and while...

Chess Star Sues Netflix Because Queen’s Gambit Erased Her Accolades

18.9.2021
Female Soviet chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for $5 million after a scene in the hit show Queen’s Gambit falsely claimed she had never played against men. In fact, she claims to have played and beaten dozens of men. In the suit, Gaprindashvili called the incorrect dialogue...

Smash Bros.’ Most Ridiculous Tournament Is Glorious Chaos

8.9.2021
Pro-level fighting game tournaments are a joy to watch, often even when you’re unfamiliar with the game being played. The one guy gets hit, and then everybody yells, and then some cool shit happens. It’s great. While the nuances of a given game may be lost on a newcomer, that’s fine. Fighting games...

Former COD Pro Plays With 5 Cameras To Combat Cheating Accusations

9.7.2021
Yesterday, Charlie “MuTeX” Saouma, a Call of Duty Twitch streamer with over 600k followers, ran an unusual livestream. While he played Call of Duty Warzone, as he often does, this time he had set up five different camera angles, each one pointed at different parts of his gaming setup. All of this...

FTX Becomes MLB’s Official Cryptocurrency Exchange Brand in Long Term Deal

23.6.2021
Following the naming rights deal for the NBA’s Miami Heat arena and the partnership with the esports giant TSM, FTX Trading Limited revealed a long term partnership with the professional baseball organization Major League Baseball (MLB). FTX Partners With Major League Baseball FTX Trading...

Crypto Meets Chess in Coinbase Sponsored Cryptochamps Tournament

19.5.2021
Chess.com, one of the most popular chess internet sites, has announced it will host a contest called “Cryptochamps,” a crypto-themed chess tournament. The event, which will be sponsored by Coinbase, will feature several important cryptocurrency personalities and will offer prizes that...

Top Chess Players To Compete For USD 100K Worth Of Bitcoin

18.5.2021
Source: Adobe/bizoo_n Forthcoming online chess tournament FTX Crypto Cup is slated to pit the world’s top ten players against each other, allowing the global chess elite to compete for USD 100,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC), provided by the event’s sponsor and crypto derivatives exchange FTX, and...

Chess Champion Plays "Bongcloud" Move, Which Is Very Funny

17.3.2021
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen is a chess grandmaster, the current world champion, as well as world #1 in rapid and blitz chess as well. He is very good at chess, but in this match against fellow grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, he opens by playing one of the worst possible moves in the entire game.Read more

Cyclists Are Now Cheating In Video Games As Well As Real Life

5.2.2021
Cycling is a sport that is riddled with lycra-clad cheats. It has been since the very beginning, and remains so to this day. So much so that even while stuck inside and competing in their sport virtually, cyclists are still cheating.Read more

Checkerboard Reveal

25.1.2021
Back when I was 10, I remember my cousin visiting our house. He was (and still is) a cool kid, the kind who’d bring his own self-programmed chess game on a floppy disk. And his version of chess was … The post Checkerboard Reveal appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks...

Chess Looks Wild In 2021

23.1.2021
This week we figure out how tall the very big lady from Resident Evil Village is, flip out a Bernie chair, learn what games will be free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers this month, buy 900lbs of PlayStation consoles and check in on chess YouTube in 2021. Read more

Auto Chess Is Getting a MOBA, Continuing the Eternal Cycle

18.1.2021
The history of the MOBA genre is one of mods and iteration. Its most popular and still-standing games today are the result of multiple reimaginings and tweaks to skirt copyright issues. Now, there’s one more absurd step to the story: the makers of Auto Chess are making a MOBA. An Auto Chess MOBA...

Ethereum King Buterin Loses Live Showdown to Twitch Chess Queen

23.11.2020
Source: a video screenshot, twitch.tv Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin took a break from his crypto activities and met his match – on the chess board versus a National Canadian Team player and well-known Twitch-based chess streamer. In a much-talked-about live-streamed faceoff versus...

Battle of the Gigabrains: Vitalik Buterin to match wits with chess master

22.11.2020
Prediction market activity shows that few bettors think Vitalik Buterin has a chance against the Canadian master

Dell-owned VMware launches enterprise-focused blockchain

19.11.2020
VMware, a Dell subsidiary that brought in $10B in revenue last year, has launched its enterprise-focused blockchain platform

Greatest Chess Grandmaster: Bitcoin Empowers Public and Protects Dissidents

26.7.2020
Russian human rights campaigner and chess supremo Gary Kasparov has said that the current economic crisis, which has led to unconventional monetary policy, will drive people towards bitcoin. Bitcoin’s finite supply compares favorably to agenda-driven printing of money by governments, noted...