Baptista and Papadopoulos love chess
If we're talking about the promotion of chess anyway, why no bring this story as well. The famous club Real Madrid is at least as successful in basketball as in footbal. One of the players in their football team is the Brazilian player Julio C?ɬ©sar Baptista; in the basketball team Lazaros Papadopoulos from Greece plays. What these gentlemen have in common? Not only do they both play for Real, but they also love chess! Here an interview with the two.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
Peter's first book The Chess Revolution is out now!
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