{"id":39126,"date":"2022-12-24T18:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T18:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=39126"},"modified":"2022-12-24T18:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T18:16:55","slug":"international-chess-federation-fide-comes-to-avalanche-avax-blockchain-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=39126","title":{"rendered":"International Chess Federation (FIDE) Comes to Avalanche (AVAX) Blockchain: Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__lead-img--wrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/vladislav-sopov\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"140\" alt=\"article image\" src=\"https:\/\/u.today\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-07\/8893.jpg\" class=\"author__item-user-avata\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__lead-info\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__lead-name\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/vladislav-sopov\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladislav Sopov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>World&#8217;s most influential chess association FIDE actively developing Web3 products for Avalanche (AVAX)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article__contents\">\n<p>Contents<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article__contents-list\">\n<li class=\"article__contents-item\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__contents-link link-pseudo\" href=\"#h20\" rel=\"noopener\">FIDE developing Web3 products on Avalanche: Check out major use cases<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article__contents-item\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__contents-link link-pseudo\" href=\"#h31\" rel=\"noopener\">Ava Labs becomes 2022 World Rapid and Blitz Championships sponsor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ava Labs, a Web3 organization overseeing the progress and promotion of the Avalanche (AVAX) blockchain, scores a long-term partnership with FIDE to introduce blockchain solutions to the world of\u00a0competitive international chess.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h20\">FIDE developing Web3 products on Avalanche: Check out major use cases<\/h2>\n<p>According to an official <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/avalancheavax\/the-international-chess-federation-brings-chess-into-web3-on-avalanche-5720f9ceb23\">statement<\/a> by the Avalanche (AVAX) team, the blockchain was chosen by FIDE as a technical platform for its upcoming on-chain applications for chess players. Avalanche-centric chess solutions will be used for transparent data processing, tamper-proof experience tracking and so on.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\/n<br \/>Chess Chain. This is massive. At least 500m chess players globally, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIDE_chess?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIDE_chess<\/a> is working on Avalanche products with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avalabsofficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@avalabsofficial<\/a>. Here are two ways (of MANY) this partnership can create massive value for the sport:<\/p>\n<p>A &#x1f9f5;&#x1f447; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RIylgvWDlS\">https:\/\/t.co\/RIylgvWDlS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 &#x1f53a;&#x1fab5; (@iwillpat) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iwillpat\/status\/1606327496785305606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FIDE coordinates the operations of 200 national chess associations across the globe: it observes all major world tournaments, including the World Chess Championship and the Chess Olympiad. The development of online chess is of particular importance to FIDE, as 100 million out of 500 million chess players globally participate in online matches.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche&#8217;s technical solutions will be primarily used for\u00a0calculating official player ratings on-chain, sharing\u00a0tournament data on-chain, demonstrating personalized experience through public services and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Emil Sutovsky, CEO of FIDE, stresses that Ava Labs was chosen as FIDE&#8217;s tech partner due to Avalanche&#8217;s innovative and resource-efficient design:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are excited to get into this project. Ava Labs is one of the leaders or rather driving forces behind on-chain technologies, while FIDE is constantly working on improving players&#8217; engagement and experience. Chess is a unique sport, and this cooperation will allow us to unify our community and strengthen the ties between players, clubs, federations and FIDE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the next step of the new partnership, Avalanche aims at building\u00a0a FIDE game explorer solely powered by on-chain data aggregated through Avalanche&#8217;s smart contracts.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h31\">Ava Labs becomes 2022 World Rapid and Blitz Championships sponsor<\/h2>\n<p>Blockchain veteran\u00a0Emin G\u00fcn Sirer, CEO of Ava Labs, is excited by the opportunities the new collaboration unlocks for chess and crypto enthusiasts worldwide:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The possibilities created by bringing chess on-chain are about as limitless as the game of chess itself. We are thrilled to welcome FIDE to the Avalanche community and ushering chess into a new era together. On Avalanche, players all over the world will experience chess like never before<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The partnership will be unveiled officially on the 2022 World Rapid and Blitz Championships that kick off in Almaty, Kazakhstan, tomorrow on Dec. 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ava Labs will be a sponsor of FIDE&#8217;s chess tournaments. It is also going to onboard\u00a0tournament prize pools that can be publicly raised on-chain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHBzOi8vdS50b2RheS9pbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsLWNoZXNzLWZlZGVyYXRpb24tZmlkZS1jb21lcy10by1hdmFsYW5jaGUtYXZheC1ibG9ja2NoYWluLWRldGFpbHPSAWJodHRwczovL3UudG9kYXkvaW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbC1jaGVzcy1mZWRlcmF0aW9uLWZpZGUtY29tZXMtdG8tYXZhbGFuY2hlLWF2YXgtYmxvY2tjaGFpbi1kZXRhaWxzP2FtcA?oc=5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladislav Sopov World&#8217;s most influential chess association FIDE actively developing Web3 products for Avalanche (AVAX) Contents FIDE developing Web3 products on Avalanche: Check out major use cases Ava Labs becomes 2022 World Rapid and Blitz Championships sponsor Ava Labs, a Web3 organization overseeing the progress and promotion of the Avalanche (AVAX) blockchain, scores a long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38],"tags":[939,937,73,13021,2797,13022,13023,865],"class_list":["post-39126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-avalanche","tag-avax","tag-blockchain","tag-chess","tag-details","tag-federation","tag-fide","tag-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/29236.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39128,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39126\/revisions\/39128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}