The conference “Chess in Education - Methodology and perspectives” will take place on May 18, 2024 via online. This activity is organised by the Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU), the Chess Scientific Research Institute and the Kasparov Chess Foundation, and led by GM Smbat Lputian. These conferences are significant because they provide a platform to explore the relationship between chess, cognitive science and education.
New York, NY, Nov. 28, 2023: The Kasparov Chess Foundation (KCF) announces the fourth annual KCF University Cup, which will take place February 3 and 4, 2024. The KCF University Cup is an international online tournament, which is open to teams from a post-secondary school (university, college, community college, etc.) enrolled in at least one class in the January 2024 semester.
The Kasparov Chess Foundation organized the third annual KCF University Cup in February this year. The tournament, which attracted well over 500 university students from every continent, was won by Texas Tech University. Francesco Bortolussi, who played board 4 for the winning team, sent us a first-person account of the tournament itself and of the team’s visit to New York City, where they had a training session with the legend himself, Garry Kasparov! | Photo: Alexander Onischuk
The Kasparov Chess Foundation organized the third annual KCF University Cup. This event was played on lichess.org and hosted on chessstream.com on the weekend of February 4 and 5, 2023. The tournament attracted well over 500 university students from every continent and from nearly thirty countries. The event was a resounding success.
Saint Louis University (SLU) won their first ever President's Cup this past weekend by out-scoring Webster University, Texas Tech University, and University of Texas at Dallas in the Final Four. These four teams earned their spots in the tournament by making top four at the 2022 Pan-American Intercollegiate.