2/16/2024 – The second World Corporate Chess Championship will consist of a series of online events that will conclude with an over-the-board final in New York in June. The event is open to teams representing legally recognized companies from all around the world. Every team has a right to include one invited player who is not directly employed at the company or is a member of the board.

2/22/2021 – Grenke Bank defeated SBER in the final match to win the 1st FIDE World Corporate Championship. The German team, led by Georg Meier and Alina Kashlinskaya, beat Anahuac (Mexico) and PT Pelabuhan Tanjung Priok (Indonesia) in the knockout stage before facing the Russian favourites headed by Ian Nepomniachtchi.

2/19/2021 – The FIDE World Corporate Championship will take place online on February 19-21. It will be a team tournament in which companies will present a roster made up of employees and at the most one invited player. Giants like Amazon, Samsung, Ford, Microsoft and Gazprom have registered to participate, with some of them inviting elite grandmasters to join their teams — among them, Kindred (Magnus Carlsen), Sberbank (Ian Nepomniachtchi) and Optiver (Anish Giri) just to name a few.