HAVANA TIMES – I’ve been waiting months for this to happen. I know they announce it every year, but the unspeakable has been a slow time coming. I sometimes doubt whether one of the most important events will be reissued, but it can’t be, not this year when I’ve picked up on my childhood passion…
I sign into my account on Chess.com and an announcement finally appears on the home page: 2024 Chess.com Daily Chess Championship.
It’s the biggest chess tournament in the world, which will kick off on December 31st. Every year, over 30,000 players compete for the title of chess world champion playing on Chess.com (there are already over 35,000 people registered as I’m writing this article, which must be a new record).
Not just that, there are also categories for best game, best play, best video and best blog, for prizes worth $100 USD, with prizes amounting to a total of $5,000 USD, which I think is ridiculous for a company with over 100 million active players with revenue of over 1 billion USD per year, between ads and users with a Pre
