This Sunday, the Portal becomes a chessboard - and the world becomes our playground. ♟️ Players in different cities. One circle of connection. One beautiful game. This moment wouldn’t be possible without our brilliant partners: ⚪️ Chess.com - the #1 platform for online chess,

The four cities are challenging each other in a double round-robin tournament! Follow the games here: chess.com/events/2025-po… Tosh Iweta Rajlich IM Dawid Czerw Agne Semonaviciute MigleSemonaviciute Igor Khmelnitsky Jennifer Shahade Ayelén Chess.com portals.org ChessUp #PortalsChess

Action from Dublin, Philly, Lublin & Vilnius! What a great way 2 connect communities & build friendships across the world! TY portals.org & ChessUp for making it happen! Chess.com Ayelén Tosh Iweta Rajlich IM Dawid Czerw Agne Semonaviciute MigleSemonaviciute Igor Khmelnitsky Jennifer Shahade

One board down, but Dublin's portals.org site and Tosh won't let it stand in the way of celebrating International Chess Day! Check out the video our onsite colleague, Richard, sent us! 💚♟️ Chess.com portals.org ChessUp

What is portals.org? Connecting people across the world! What is International Chess Day? Celebrating Chess! 2 coming together & u get this heartwarming event where people across the globe are playing against each other & seeing each other! Chess.com ChessUp Ayelén

Kudos to IM Dawid Czerw and the entire Polish team for keeping the event dry :) Rain or shine, chess won't stop! portals.org Chess.com ChessUp Ayelén

We celebrated #InternationalChessDay at 4 locations with the help of portals.org and ChessUp! Thank you everyone! Chess.com Jennifer Shahade Tosh IM Dawid Czerw Agne Semonaviciute MigleSemonaviciute Igor Khmelnitsky ASAP Ayelén

Both women and the men teams are in the finals!!! Go Hungary! 🇭🇺

Having fun at the #EWC2025 with the best of the best! Levon Aronian Vidit Gujrathi

Amazing crew at the EWC ! Vagelis Patelis Simone Ungaro xhatrosh Bruno ''F41SC4'' Cambiano Dimitri Raner Greensoup Jakub Styrylski #EWC2025

Calm before the storm! Stage 2 for me today and tomorrow at #EWC2025. Staring with Group A’s match between Levon Aronian vs Team Spirit Chess player Artemiev.

“I just remembered I can play chess” Levon Aronian Safe to say that we are all happy about that! Congrats for winning your first match! “Reject the negativity” amen to that! REJECT

“My whole life I prepared” Alireza Firouzja from team Falcons Esports! Congrats on your smooth win!

Heartbroken ❤️‍🩹 over Jan-Krzysztof Duda‘s misclick.

And that’s a wrap! Thanks for following Aman and Eric’s chess commentary the past few days at Esports World Cup. The boys are headed back to Canada and hope to cast more events like this in the future. What do you guys think of the event format and production?

Happy birthday to our amazing Bori. 17!

What an incredible experience being part of the inaugural EWC Chess event! Learned so much about esports & absolutely thrilled to see chess finding its place in it! The past 10 days in Riyadh have been amazing, the country & its people are truly wonderful. Chess.com Esports World Cup

Fun fact about Riyahd: they sure love their Raising Canes and Dunkin’ Donuts:)

You can now search for players by FIDE IDs on chess.com/players I love my developer colleagues making effective and useful stuff on the platform! Chess.com

In da cage 🤽‍♀️ photo credit: Mr. O'Connor