Will there be more online chess events in the future? What kind of action will the international chess federation have? Devorkovic, the “leader” of the International Chess Federation, answered these questions one by one in an interview recently.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 13 (reporter Zheng Zhi, Lu Yuchen) the Chinese team pressed the US team to win the championship, drawing a successful end to the 2020 International Chess Federation Chess.com online National Cup. During the period when the epidemic pressed the pause button in the global sports arena, chess broke into the sight of more people due to its uniqueness. Will there be more online events in the future? What kind of action will the international chess federation have? Devorkovic, the “leader” of the International Chess Federation, answered these questions one by one in an interview recently.
The National Cup may continue in the future
“First of all, I would like to congratulate all Chinese national elephant lovers. Your national team has won this national cup.” Devorkovic said.
After the impact of the March candidate Saiin epidemic was forced to be interrupted, the international chess federation turned its eyes to the line.
“Although it is a difficult and gloomy period for the whole world, including the global sports arena, since chess can be performed on a computer except for two people sitting opposite to each other on the chessboard, then we may be able to use this period to switch to the network to attract new enthusiasts.” Devorkovic said.
A total of six teams from China, India, the United States, Russia, the European United and the world united participated in this top-level event held during the epidemic. “This is also a special mixed group competition. It is rare for men and women national team members to compete together.” He said, “it is not easy to organize such an event. In addition to obtaining the support of partners, all top players should reach a consensus on details such as the competition time…… But anyway, we did it.”
According to the official data provided by the International Chess Federation, the total number of people watching the event has reached millions, and the attention from China is particularly high. “We are very satisfied with the holding of the event.” Devorkovic revealed, “given the very positive feedback from the participants of this national cup, we may continue to hold this event in the future.”
More online events are waiting to be announced
After the end of the National Cup, other online events will also appear one after another.
“This year we plan to hold different types of online events. We will observe the effect of the event, the reaction of the audience, and the feedback from the partners, so as to decide which events will be retained, which will turn offline in the future.”
“Now everyone is waiting for the international chess federation to hold a personal competition. In a few days, we will hold the Stanitz cup fast chess to commemorate the first official world champion of chess.” Devorkovic introduced, “This event will be staged in Chess24.com from May 14, and 20 top players will participate in the competition, of which the most striking is undoubtedly the current world chess king Carlson.”
“In addition, we will soon announce a batch of cross-platform events for non-professional players. The competition will be held simultaneously on each platform, thus attracting more people to participate. There are still many competitions waiting for everyone in the future.”
Devorkovic also mentioned the possible cheating problem in online matches. He said that the international chess federation believes in the fair competition spirit of top players because their reputation is more important than winning or losing. “We will also use cameras and computer algorithms to identify cheating in the competition. I believe this set of” combination boxing “should minimize the risk.”
Focus on building a global national image database
talking about the future work priorities of the International Chess Federation, devorkovic especially pointed out that although all walks of life are affected by the epidemic, the operation of the international chess federation is still smooth.
“My colleagues are all over cities in various countries, so the remote working mode is quite familiar to us, and we keep online communication every day.” He said, “the planned online training meeting for coaches and referees has also begun. Everyone is very interested in this. It is gratifying to be able to achieve business level in such a special period.”
“Life should continue, and the national elephant should continue.” Devorkovic said that he is optimistic that the number of online matches will continue to grow in the future. “No matter what the form is, it is still a national elephant competition. We have seen more and more people from different countries begin to participate in this project, and more and more media around the world have also included the National Elephant competition in the reporting plan.”
What technology brings to chess is not only the conversion of the stadium, but also devorkovic revealed: “One of our recent key projects will start from the current 1 million registered users of the International Chess Federation, integrate a global database that includes all national image-related activities and accommodates as many users as possible.”
“All chess-related activities and services will be attributed to CHESSID, which is a data platform based on several modules. It will collect the data of National Elephant related activities from every corner of the world, thus establishing a national elephant digital ecosystem to ensure better interaction, service and marketing opportunities for all participants, achieve an increase in the number of chess participants.”
“Therefore, the international chess federation will continue to actively coordinate and develop chess around the world.” He said.