The Scandinavian teams played great chess and finished 3rd, 4th and 5th out of 8 teams in the final of the international Yes 2Chess tournament in London. Over 60,000 children have participated in the Yes2Chess programme over two years, with a third of those students – representing more than 500 schools across eight countries – taking part in the 2015 Yes2Chess tournament.
Dmitrijs Lukasevics from EnterCard’s Stockholm office won the internal EnterCard chess finals and met Magnus Carlsen for a match of blitz chess in TV2s studio last night. The 25 year old talent from Finance has worked for EnterCard since January and had nerves of ice as he entered the studio on Karl Johan in Oslo and was actually able to keep up against the world champion for 17 seconds. That is a
Yes2Chess finals took place at “Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park” with 15 Scandinavian children attending as a result of EnterCard’s citizenship work.