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La entrega de los premios "Golden Pawn" ("Peón de Oro") se realizó el 30 de noviembre de 2019, en el Hotel de Paris en Montecarlo, Mónaco. El patrocinador de los galardones era la empresa georgiana AiGroup, que también es el patrocinador general de la ECU (Unión Europea de Ajedrez).
El acontecimiento fue presentado por GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Presidente de la Federación Europea de Ajedrez y por Giorgi Khurodze, como representante de Diamond Sponsor.
El Hotel de Paris, en Montecarlo fue el lugar del encuentro
La cena de gala de los Golden Pawn Awards en el Hotel de Paris, en Montecarlo
El escenario en el cual se entregarían los premios
Leontxo García fue galardonado "Mejor Periodista Especializado" | Foto: via Leontxo García
El Peón de Oro por el "Mejor Proyecto Europeo de Ajedrez" fue entregado al co-fundador de la empresa ChessBase, Frederic Friedel.
Hay un vídeo vídeo la ceremonia de la entrega de los "Golden Pawn".
Maurice Ashley: Just like everything else in the universer chess has developed. The computer has brought considerable change in chess preperation. Databases with millions of games are being updated every single day, and numerous online platforms have appeared. The next nomination is Best European Chess Project.
For the announcement FIDE Deputy President and president of the Chess Federation of France is invited on the stage.
Bachar Kouatly: We have chess for such a long time, for over 1,300 years. There was chess before 1985 – a long history – and there was chess after 1985. The best European Chess Project is for a great, great project that came into the lives of many chess players in the last third of a century – in 1985-1986. I would like to ask Frederic Friedel to come up here. ChessBase is nominated as the best European Chess Project.
Bachar Kouatly, Frederic Friedel, Maurice Ashley [Foto: Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, editor de la Revista New in Chess, otro de los galardonados]
Frederic Friedel: Good evening, guten Abend. I would like to accept this also in the name of the co-founder, the person who wrote all of the code in the beginning, Matthias Wüllenweber, and for the thirty people who are working now in Hamburg to improve the program constantly.
I would also like to thank a 22-year-old grandmaster who, in 1985, came to my home, outside of Hamburg. He introduced himself, and then sat down with me and described what a computer should be able to help chess players. Then I found Matthias Wüllenweber who had already created a chess database program. We showed it to this grandmaster, who was absolutely fascinated and delighted. He told us – urged me – to found a company and make it available to chess players all over the world. That's how ChessBase started, in 1986, and became very successful. So: thank you Garry [nodding to Garry Kasparov] for initiating that and changing my life completely.
I would also like to thank the European Chess Union for staging this awards presentation – chess needs this kind of event to become really popular in Europe.
I would also like to mention that I am now going into retirement, and my last goal is to make software available for children to learn chess, starting from the age of six. Because that's where the future of chess is [applause]. We have a program that does that, and we have sold 500,000 copies of it. But I would like to make it free for any child who wants to learn chess. Anyone who is interested in this, please contact me, and I will tell you how that can work – make it free of charge, one click and they can play and learn. In a few weeks the child will come back to you and say: "Can we play?" because it knows how to play chess.
Thank you very much.
La ciudad y el puerto deportivo de Montecarlo. Puede ver una vista panorámica al pinchar aquí
El Palacio del Príncipe de Mónaco y de la familia Grimaldi
La entrada del hotel
El hall del hotel
Garry Kasparov y Maurice Ashley
Bessel Kok, el Presidente de la FIDE Akardy Dvorkovich, Willi Icklicki, de la junta directiva y autor del libro de la FIDE Golden Book 1924-2016.
El ex vicepresidente de la FIDE, Georgios Makropoulos y ex presidente de la ECU, Boris Kutin
El presidente de la FIDE Akardy Dvorkovich y Judit Polgar
Maya Chiburdanize y Nona Gaprindashvili
Maya Chiburdanize y Bessel Kok recibiendo sus galardones
Hubo actuaciones de danza y música
Ballet
Juga di Prima
Garry Kasparov con su premio
Foto de familia con los galardonados | Foto: ECU
