That's a lot of chessboards!

[lithander]

Look what I stumbled upon today on my way to work

[Guenther]

Look what I stumbled upon today on my way to work :shock:

Oh I see, Bremen will be the chess center of Germany for four days!
A huge scholar chess event on the main place in Bremen and moreover all four last rounds
of the German Chess Bundesliga in the Bremer 'Weser-Stadion' until July 10th.

https://de.chessbase.com/post/schachhauptstadt-bremen

[lithander]

Oh I see, Bremen will be the chess center of Germany for four days!

Thanks for the link, Günther! Maybe that's something I should have been aware of as a local resident but I wasn't!

If anyone else is curious here's a translation of the important parts to english (using Deepl)

06.06.2022 - At the beginning of June, Bremen will be the chess capital of Germany. The Weser Stadium will then host the season finale of the Bundesliga - with many world stars. And on July 7, Bremen schoolchildren will once again transform Bremen's Rathausplatz into a large open-air chess festival with their school chess tournament.

Three years ago there was already a big school chess tournament on Bremen's town hall square and now the event is being repeated - not coincidentally at the season finale of the German Chess League, hosted by Werder Bremen.

Bremen can also point with pride to a lesser-known fact. In 2018, the largest pilot project to incorporate chess in the classroom started there. In the 2020/2021 school year, 144 school classes from all 4 grades will participate. Over 3,000 children have one hour of chess every week in regular classes and have been fully equipped with workbooks, chess games and educational software.

On the initiative of the association "Das erste Buch e.V." and with the support of the Senator for Education, "Schach macht schlau" aims to strengthen educational opportunities for all children in the state of Bremen and also to promote the integration of children with little knowledge of German!

"We are concerned with reaching all children and strengthening them in their educational opportunities and academic performance. "Chess is a wonderful game to support teaching, says Marco Bode, ex-professional soccer player and project initiator.

On July 7, when the big tournament of the elite at the board begins in the Weser Stadium, 1,000 Bremen elementary school students are expected in front of the town hall for the final event of "Schach macht schlau".

[shadyantra]

Wow. Good to increase my general knowlede pool. I though Russians were mad after chess