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ChessBase 17 - Mega package - Edition 2024
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NFTs have been known to a wider public for just under a year. They solve an urgent technical problem: Today art is becoming digital. Not every painter works oil on canvas anymore. Digital images, however, can be copied without loss of quality. How can an artist then still say, "I'll give or sell you this painting," when the concept of a handcrafted original no longer exists? How can a collector resell a digital work of art?
For example, if you own a copy of "Les Baigneuses" by Auguste Renoir, it would be easy to notice differences from the original: Even if your copy reproduced every brushstroke of Renoir in perfect texture, physical dating methods would immediately reveal the wrong age. An exact copy is physically impossible.
Auguste Renoir: Les Baigneuses, 1918-1919, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
The technical solution to the question of ownership in digital things are NFTs. Ownership is registered in the blockchain, an indestructible digital accounting system. Critics of NFTs ask: What value does this ownership represent if I can download the original anyway? The question is equivalent to "Why should I spend 20 million on a Renoir when I can buy a decent poster in the museum store downstairs for 20 euros?" Both views have their justification.
ChessBase has published "Moments of Genius", an NFT series of the world chess champions. This series is unique for the following reasons:
Regardless of the specific historical significance, one can also simply find value in Carl Eriksson's art, which fragments the portrait photo as an ingenious collage of the game notation.
World Champion |
End of Auction (CE Time) |
William Steinitz |
January 11, 11:59 (6 am EST) |
Emanuel Lasker |
January 11, 12:56 (7am EST) |
José Raúl Capablanca |
January 11, 14:57 (9am EST) |
Alexander Alekhine |
January 11, 15:59 (10am EST) |
Max Euwe |
January 11, 17:00 (11 am EST) |
Tigran Petrosian |
January, 11, 17:54 (12 pm EST) |
Mikhail Tal |
January, 11, 18:56 (1 pm EST) |
Mikhail Botvinnik |
January, 11, 19:55 (2 pm EST) |
Vassily Smyslov |
January 11, 20:57 (3pm EST) |
Boris Spassky |
January 11, 21:57 (4pm EST) |
Bobby Fischer |
January 12, 0:38 (6:38 EST) |
Anatoly Karpov |
January 12, 9:56 (4 am EST) |
Vladimir Kramnik |
January 12, 10:58 (5 am EST) |
Viswanathan Anand |
January 12, 11:56 (6 am EST) |
https://opensea.io/collection/chess-world-champions
The following guide "How to bid" assumes that you already own Ethereum. If not, you could buy it in the Metamask wallet.
Metamask in Firefox
Place a bid - click only once.
Good luck with your bid! If it does not win, there will be no further costs except for the gas in a possible transfer of the Ether back to your main wallet.
Do you find that complicated? Of course! That would make you a pioneer of crypto technology, which one day will permeate our entire lives. But opportunities (and risks) are offered to people who recognize the importance of things early on.
Wishing you success!