AlphaChess at the Global Chess League
AlphaChess at the Global Chess League On Saturday the 5th October 2024, AlphaChess participated in their first ever event. We brought a team of 31 to the Open Blitz run by the Global Chess League, boasting a £1000 prize fund. This is how we did. AlphaChess was delighted to be invited to enter a team in the open event at the Global Chess League, the world’s first official franchise chess league. The first round of the League, which features the biggest names in chess playing in six teams of six, started on Thursday 3rd October at Friends House, Euston. Two days later, our team, made up of 30 chess lovers from the London & Hertfordshire area, competed (in black) against Hammersmith Sharks, Eton College, King’s College London, Warwick Chess Society, She Plays to Win, UK Armed Forces and Durham Alumni in a 3+2 blitz arena on chess.com to reach an OTB final with a cash prize. The arena tournament is one in which players are paired with other available players from different t...