Belgian youth chess championship in Blankenberge

About 350 chess talents between six and twenty years old try to checkmate each other. It is a piece of top sport that has been on the rise since corona. The youth has rediscovered the chessboard. Chess has never been so popular.

The chess federation now has more than five thousand members. More than a thousand more since corona: “We have established that many people have become acquainted with chess at home on the computer and have been looking to play chess at the board after corona,” it sounds.