{"id":5235,"date":"2020-11-29T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T07:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T20:18:38","slug":"making-connections-with-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2020\/11\/making-connections-with-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Making connections with chess"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Netflix movie The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> has captured the imagination of New Zealand audiences, with many dusting off their chess sets or heading out to the local games store.<\/p>\n This weekend that passion stretched a virtual 16,000 kilometers across globe as around 200 chess enthusiasts from New Zealand and Israel joined together in an online \u201cChess4Solidarity\u201d event. This was part of the Chess4All<\/em> initiative, supported by the Savyon municipality in Israel and the embassy of Israel in Wellington.<\/p>\n Timothy Ha, a member of the online chess committee of the NZ Chess Federation, and active player in the Auckland Chess Centre, stated,<\/p>\n “We are very thankful for the friendly team of Chess4All<\/em> and their idea of solidarity events. The participation from the Israeli side was also impressive, with several famous GMs playing and the U16 champion doing well in the tournament, too.”<\/p>\n