The FIDE Chessable Academy, the initiative of Chessable, the world’s leading chess E-learning platform, in partnership with FIDE, resumed on Saturday, 5 March 2022. The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) initially implemented a three-year junior educational program in summer 2021, when 265 most talented and promising young players between the ages of 8 to 16, representing 100 national federations, attended the program from July till December 2021.
The new semester will be held from March to May 2022. And it attracted even more talented young players. 415 participants from 88 countries will learn and improve their chess working with the strongest trainers, including grandmasters Mikhail Kobalia, R. B.Ramesh, Evgeniy Najer, Farrukh Amonatov, Yu Shaoteng, Mikhail Gurevich, Alexey Kuzmin, Nigel Short, Alonso Zapata, Ilya Smirin and many others..
The introductory classes were held today in 10 Groups in English, Russian and Spanish languages and featured FIDE Managing Director Dana Reizniece-Ozola, Chief Executive Officer of Chessable Geert van der Velde, FIDE Executive Director Victor Bologan and other officials.
FIDE Managing Director Dana Reizniece-Ozola:
“Let me welcome you on behalf of FIDE! The fact that you are here means that you are not only among the most talented children in your country, but also you have worked a lot. I am a chess player myself, and I know that there’s no easy way to the top of the mountain. You have to work very hard, that is why I respect you so much! I hope you will have a great experience here. Just remember that every regular boring day, you are preparing yourself for the one extraordinary one. And my special greetings to girls! Now we have the Year of the Woman in Chess in FIDE and we want to emphasize how smart female chess players are what a strong part of the chess community they are. I have a dream that one day it will be a lady sitting at the board at the World Chess Championship match! Try hard to make my dream come true!”
Chief Executive Officer of Chessable Geert van der Velde:
“I am really proud that we have over 400 kids this season joining from almost 90 different countries and federations. That is a really broad spectrum of kids joining this year. You guys are obviously some of the strongest players already. Some of you actually are grandmasters, but it is still fantastic. One of the things that we envisioned when we built the Chessable Classroom was to create a live video learning environment where people can gather around the chessboard. One of the nice things that this board is interactive; I hope you will have a lot of fun with it. This is the second season of the Chessable FIDE Academy. We are still working on improving the product every single time, so you might see some new features released over the next couple of months. If you have any ideas for us on how to improve our product, we are very happy to hear your suggestions.”
FIDE Executive Director Victor Bologan:
“We had very good successful in-person meetings with pupils from the first season in Dubai during the World Championship match. It was a great experience. I remember myself when I was a kid; for me, those meetings, lessons and seminars with grandmasters and world champions were very inspirational. So I hope that these lectures with famous trainers will also help you. That’s why FIDE is very happy to support these courses and thanks Chessable for this great opportunity. I think it is a very good synergy of knowledge, tools, experience and platform. From the FIDE’s side, we do have a very good interaction with almost 200 national chess federations in the world. It’s a huge scale, and I understand we have the best of the best. We are aiming for good attendance, so don’t miss classes, even if sometimes you feel it is boring. It will surely positively impact your performance and chess skills. Good luck to all of you!”
During three months of training, a panel expert representing FIDE and Chessable will oversee the participants’ progress, provide assignments, and work together to evaluate the young talents. Students will also get access to numerous free chess learning materials from Chessable. The players, showing the best performance during the training, will have a chance to attend the offline training with top grandmasters.
About Chessable
Chessable is the world’s leading chess E-learning platform and the largest digital chess library in the world. Chessable’s mission is to make learning chess as fun and efficient as possible. It has published interactive video courses by a wide range of presenters and authors, including many of the world’s top players, such as current World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen.
The company was co-founded in 2015 by David Kramaley and International Master John Bartholomew. Chessable’s team consists of expert content creators, scientists, developers and chess grandmasters all working together to create the best chess learning platform in the world.
