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Play Magnus Group is a Norwegian chess company co-founded by chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in 2013. The company released the mobile app Play Magnus in 2014, before merging with chess24 in 2019 and being acquired by Chess.com in 2022.
Play Magnus was released in January 2014 for iOS and late 2014 for Android. It received close to one million downloads by November 2016. [8] It had risen to 2.8 million downloads as of December 2017. [11] In August 2022, the Play Magnus Group accepted an offer of acquisition from Chess.com, for nearly $83 million. [12] [13] [14]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990) For people with a similar name, see Magnus Carlsson (disambiguation), Magnus Karlsson (disambiguation), and Magnus Carlson. Magnus Carlsen Carlsen in 2024 Full name Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen Country Norway Born (1990-11-30) 30 November 1990 (age 34 ...
Play Magnus may refer to: Play Magnus Group , a Norwegian chess company co-founded by Magnus Carlsen Play Magnus (mobile app) , a computer chess mobile app developed by Play Magnus Group
Peter Heine Nielsen (born 24 May 1973) is a Danish chess trainer and player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. He has won a record nine consecutive World Chess Championship titles as a coach, working with Viswanathan Anand in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2012; then with Magnus Carlsen in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2021.
Former World Champion Magnus Carlsen's Play Magnus company released a Magnus Trainer app for Android and iOS. Chessbase has Fritz and Chesster for children. Convekta provides a large number of training apps such as CT-ART and its Chess King line based on tutorials by GM Alexander Kalinin and Maxim Blokh.
The 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour was a series of online chess tournaments featuring most of the world’s best players, playing for a prize money pool of US$ 1 million. The tour consisted of four super-tournaments (elite competitions), with the winners then playing in a Grand Final in August 2020.
Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi (Russian: Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, romanized: Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, IPA: [ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj] ⓘ; born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi is the reigning (shared with Magnus Carlsen) World Blitz Chess ...