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March 17, 2019
Over the past few years, it has been easy just to tune into one of the online chess broadcasts and watch a tournament round-by-round, with commentary and news. The pairings, standings and games in pgn format are available to the viewer.
I see this service expanding with more choices, so that it will be like football on a Sunday – pick your contest and your commentators and sit and watch for the whole afternoon!
For me, chess24 provides the best service when Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson are the commentators.
I was interested in this recent press release:
chess24 and Play Magnus join forces
Today we’re proud to announce that chess24 has merged with Play Magnus, the Norwegian company behind a family of apps building on the brand of World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. Play Magnus and chess24 will continue to operate independently online, but with our joint resources and know-how we believe we’re better equipped than ever to provide the very best possible chess experience.
After months of behind-the-scenes hard work it finally became official today that chess24 and Play Magnus have merged. It was a landmark in the story of two companies that have been shaking up the chess world since 2014.
chess24 was born out of a discussion between successful business owner and chess fan Enrique Guzman and Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, after they first met in the Hamburg Chess Club. Jan was interested in a small chess video website, but Enrique persuaded him to think bigger and aim to build the world’s best all-round chess platform.
chess24 launched in February 2014, with Vishy Anand and Peter Svidler among the star names whose video series were immediately available. Broadcasting over 600 live games each round as the official website of the Tromsø Olympiad was a baptism of fire later that year, and since then time has flown by! Millions and millions of games have been played in the Playzone, Peter Svidler told Lawrence Trent “that’s not how chess works”, and we’ve watched as the young Magnus Carlsen defended his World Championship title three times. Who can forget Jan and Peter’s commentary on the final stages of the victory against Sergey Karjakin in New York in 2016?
Play Magnus, meanwhile, first launched their eponymous app in January 2014. The beautifully simple idea was that you could play against an AI version of Magnus Carlsen that would play as the World Champion did at different ages. A beginner could beat 5-year-old Magnus, but even the real Magnus would struggle against the latter ages!
The merger of the two companies is the start of an exciting new chapter in both stories, and there are a lot of plans we'd love to be able to tell you more about... but that's for a later date!
Colin McGourty at:
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/che...us-join-forces
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Of course, this is a commercial venture.
Some more details from Tarjei J. Svensen:
BREAKING NEWS: World Champion @MagnusCarlsen's company @PlayMagnus and @chess24com have become one. Seeing Carlsen being quite active on C24 in the last few months, it may not have come as a big surprise.
This looks like a good move by @PlayMagnus: @chess24com status in the chess world is great, while the World Champion now will be appearing frequently on the site.
Some details on the @PlayMagnus and @chess24com merger:
- @GMJanGustafsson and C24's Guzman will get 38 % of the stocks in Play Magnus.
- Carlsen's (and his father) share now valued at NOK 68M
- Play Magnus is now valued at NOK 291M (€30M)
https://www.dn.no/marked/sjakkeksper...kap/2-1-566077
March 17, 2019
Over the past few years, it has been easy just to tune into one of the online chess broadcasts and watch a tournament round-by-round, with commentary and news. The pairings, standings and games in pgn format are available to the viewer.
I see this service expanding with more choices, so that it will be like football on a Sunday – pick your contest and your commentators and sit and watch for the whole afternoon!
For me, chess24 provides the best service when Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson are the commentators.
I was interested in this recent press release:
chess24 and Play Magnus join forces
Today we’re proud to announce that chess24 has merged with Play Magnus, the Norwegian company behind a family of apps building on the brand of World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. Play Magnus and chess24 will continue to operate independently online, but with our joint resources and know-how we believe we’re better equipped than ever to provide the very best possible chess experience.
After months of behind-the-scenes hard work it finally became official today that chess24 and Play Magnus have merged. It was a landmark in the story of two companies that have been shaking up the chess world since 2014.
chess24 was born out of a discussion between successful business owner and chess fan Enrique Guzman and Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson, after they first met in the Hamburg Chess Club. Jan was interested in a small chess video website, but Enrique persuaded him to think bigger and aim to build the world’s best all-round chess platform.
chess24 launched in February 2014, with Vishy Anand and Peter Svidler among the star names whose video series were immediately available. Broadcasting over 600 live games each round as the official website of the Tromsø Olympiad was a baptism of fire later that year, and since then time has flown by! Millions and millions of games have been played in the Playzone, Peter Svidler told Lawrence Trent “that’s not how chess works”, and we’ve watched as the young Magnus Carlsen defended his World Championship title three times. Who can forget Jan and Peter’s commentary on the final stages of the victory against Sergey Karjakin in New York in 2016?
Play Magnus, meanwhile, first launched their eponymous app in January 2014. The beautifully simple idea was that you could play against an AI version of Magnus Carlsen that would play as the World Champion did at different ages. A beginner could beat 5-year-old Magnus, but even the real Magnus would struggle against the latter ages!
The merger of the two companies is the start of an exciting new chapter in both stories, and there are a lot of plans we'd love to be able to tell you more about... but that's for a later date!
Colin McGourty at:
https://chess24.com/en/read/news/che...us-join-forces
__________
Of course, this is a commercial venture.
Some more details from Tarjei J. Svensen:
BREAKING NEWS: World Champion @MagnusCarlsen's company @PlayMagnus and @chess24com have become one. Seeing Carlsen being quite active on C24 in the last few months, it may not have come as a big surprise.
This looks like a good move by @PlayMagnus: @chess24com status in the chess world is great, while the World Champion now will be appearing frequently on the site.
Some details on the @PlayMagnus and @chess24com merger:
- @GMJanGustafsson and C24's Guzman will get 38 % of the stocks in Play Magnus.
- Carlsen's (and his father) share now valued at NOK 68M
- Play Magnus is now valued at NOK 291M (€30M)
https://www.dn.no/marked/sjakkeksper...kap/2-1-566077