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Programme sessions are in GMT (London time). Registrants will be sent details for the active Zoom links.
09:00 - 10:00
Chess as a Driver of Technology
Welcome: Zurab Azmaiparashvili [President ECU] Keynote: Arkady Dvorkovich [President, FIDE]
10:00 - 11:00
ECF Book of the Year Award
David Smerdon receives the award from Baroness Hale of Richmond for “The Complete Chess Swindler” (Quality Chess)
10:00 - 11:00
Hybrid events, blended clubs
Jon Kristian Haarr (SK Offerspill, Norway)
Erik Biemans (SG KiNG, Netherlands)
Tim Wall (Northumbria Chess)
Ruy Moura (ICC)
11:00 - 12:30
School Chess during the Pandemic
Sean Marsh (CSC, chair)
Sarah Longson (UK Chess Challenge)
Luis Blasco de la Cruz (Villalba 64, Madrid)
Vitor Cardoso (Teacher and Chess Teacher, Portugal)
Alexander Kostyev (Russian Chess Federation)
11:00 - 12:00
Why Sponsor Chess Now?
John Ashworth (Caplin)
Jim Egerton (Business on the Board)
Pavel Spirin (Skilling)
11:00 - 12:00
The Hidden Costs of Cheating and Anti-Cheating
Wolfgang Grünstäudl (University Wuppertal)
David Smerdon (University of Queensland)
Alexander Matros (University of South Carolina)
Alex Holowczak (English Chess Federation)
12:00 - 13:30
Developments in Chess Learning Technology
David Joerg (Learn Chess with Dr Wolf) David Beaton (Chessable)
12:00 - 13:00
Think Like a Machine!
Noam Manella (author)
Jacob Aagaard (Quality Chess)
13:00 - 14:30
Best Practices in Anti-Cheating
Salomėja Zaksaitė (FIDE Fair Play Commission, Law Institute of Lithuania)
Shohreh Bayat (International Arbiter)
David Cordover (Tornelo)
Roland Walker (Chess.com)
Ruy Moura (ICC)
Chris Callahan (Lichess)
Sanjoy Bannerjee (chess24)
14:00 - 15:00
Strategic Resources for Chess in Education
Jesper Hall (FIDE-ECU working group, chair)
Jerry Nash (FIDE-ECU working group)
Salome Thomas-EL (school principal, chess coach)
Frank Bicker (Chess-science.com)
14:00 - 16:00
Ajedrez y tecnologia: la conferenza en español
Pep Suárez
Joan Buch Prades
Esteban Jaureguizar
David Martínez
Adrián Randazzo
Ruy Mora
15:00 - 16:00
Online Arbitration
Shohreh Bayat (International Arbiter)
Judit Sztaray (International Arbiter)
15:00 - 16:00
How to Detect Cheating
Roland Walker (chess.com Director of Research)
Joan Buch Prades (szuperchess.com)
Vince Negri (Game Ahead Consulting, chair)
15:00 - 16:30
Beyond Chess I: Didactics of Strategy Games
Rita Atkins (ChessPlus, chair)
Tiago Hirth (Ludus)
Jorge Nuno Silva (Ludus)
16:00 - 17:00
Open Source Chess
Chris Callahan (Lichess)
16:00 - 17:00
The Erasmus+ CGS Project
Alessandro Dominici (Co-ordinator / Alfiere Bianco)
Miriam Minardi (CSEN National Sports Educational Centre)
Jesper Hall (European Chess Union)
Carl Fredrik Johansson (Sweden)
Luis Blasco de la Cruz (Spain)
Marcel Pruijt (Chessity)
16:00 - 18:00
La conférence en français (17h-19h heure de Paris)
Les retombées de la série “Le jeu de la Dame”, l’explosion du jeu en ligne, le phénomène de la triche.
Programme schedules from 09:00am to 17:30pm (GMT)
09:00 - 10:00
Victor's Chess House
Alessandro Dominici (Alfiere Bianco)
Giulia Tonel (Le Due Torri)
Info
ZOOM
09:00 - 10:00
Business Case Study Interview: ChessCube
Mark Levitt
Sasa Radic
09:00 - 11:00
Using Chess Data for Science
Barry Hymer (Chessable Science Consultant)
Fernand Gobet (LSE)
Andrea Brancaccio (University of Padua)
Dainis Zegners (Rotterdam School of Management)
Christian Seel (Maastricht University)
10:00 - 11:00
Chess on YouTube
Daniel King
Pawel Kacprczak (Chessvision)
11:00 - 12:00
The Gender Gap
José Camacho Collados (Cardiff University)
Alice O´Gorman (ECU Women´s Commission)
David Smerdon (University of Queensland)
Tom Stafford (Sheffield University)
11:00 - 12:00
Make a difference in learning chess - set up a large-scale online educational project in 30 minutes
Janos Pallagi (LearningChess.net)
12:00 - 13:00
Artificial Intelligence and Chess Variants
Ullrich Paquet (Google DeepMind)
Nenad Tomasev (Google DeepMind)
Mike Klein (Chesskid)
12:00 - 13:30
Idea and Tools for Clubs to Survive the Pandemic
Sanjoy Banerjee (chess24)
Lars Drygajlo (German Youth Chess Association)
Ljubica Lazarevic (Kingston Chess Club)
Matthias Wüllenweber (ChessBase, tbc)
13:00 - 14:00
Online Tournament Services
Mike Klein (Chesskid)
David Cordover (Tornelo)
Aris Marghetis (International Arbiter)
13:00 - 14:00
Queens Gambit Declined? Stories the chess community should tell
Kaja Snare (Play Magnus)
Dylan Loeb McClain (New York Times / The Check Weekly)
Alojzije Jankovic (Croatian TV)
Delia Duca (Romanian TV)
Fernando Offermann (freelance writer)
14:00 - 15:30
Online Projects for Girls and Women
Jennifer Shahade (US Chess)
Adia Onyango (US Chess)
Bianca de Jong-Muhren (Dutch Chess Federation)
Polina Otto (Swedish Chess Federation)
Teresa Munoz (Catalan Chess Federation)
Lilli Hahn (German Youth Chess Association)
14:00 - 15:00
New Tools for Chess Coaches and Educators
Arun Srinivaas (Chesslang)
Niels van der Mark (Chesser)
14:00 - 17:00
Schach und Technologie - die Konferenz auf Deutsch
Conrad Schormann (ChessTech)
Paul Meyer-Duncker (Berliner Schachverband)
Lars Drygajlo (Deutsche Schachjugend)
Helge Frowein (Deutsche Schachjugend)
Frank Bicker (Chess-science.com)
und einige mehr.
15:00 - 16:00
Streaming Chess
James Canty III (US)
Sasha Starr (Canada)
Ljubica Lazarevic (UK)
Kevin Bordi (France tbc)
15:00 - 16:00
Didactics of Online Chess Teaching
Elizabeth Spiegel (I.S. 318 Brooklyn)
Andrew Varney (Acornchess)
15:00 - 16:30
Artificial Intelligence meets Big Data
Reid McElroy-Young (University of Toronto)
Ashton Anderson (University of Toronto)
Delia Duca (University of Brasov)
Martin Bennedik (ChessPuzzle.net)
Pawel Kacprzak (Chessvision)
Albert Silver (ChessBase)
15:00 - 17:00
How to coach online
Jop Delemarre
16:00 - 17:00
Training Chess Tutors for Online Delivery
Sean Marsh
16:00 - 17:00
New Formats for Online Chess
Judit Sztaray (Mechanics Chess Club San Francisco)
David Cordover (Tornelo)
Stefan Löffler (ChessTech, chair)
16:00 - 17:00
New Formats for Chess Journalism
Ben Johnson (Perpetual Chess)
John Hartmann (Chess Life)
Dylan Loeb McClain (The Check Weekly)
16:00 - 17:00
Chess for every student with ChessKid.com
Ranae Bartlett
17:00 - 19:00
Psychological Issues and Chess
Alexey Root
