Business Meets Suburbs is an Swedish event held on 27th of April 2018 to promote the integration of ethnic minorities and to work against segregation in society by using chess as a bridging tool.
Chess can be played by everyone regardless of background or socioeconomic status, as the event highlights. The centrepiece is a tandem chess tournament where a business executive is paired with a child from the suburbs in a team where they alternate moves (without discussion). Twenty teams compete and the format of the tournament is a Swiss tournament with 20 teams. The first four teams qualifies for semifinal matches and, finally, there is a knockout until a winner is crowned. The time control is 3 minutes for all moves plus a 3-second increment per move. Among the players are the hip hop artist Promoe, The politician David Lega and the businessman Anders Kvarby. The event is being held publicly in the big shopping mall of Nordstan with 100 000 daily visitors.
Official site
Schedule: (UTC) 7 rounds from 13:00 to 15:30 on 27.04.2018
Watch the games of the Business Meets Suburbs 27 April 2018 with computer analysis LIVE on ChessBomb.
The blog post of the previous year event.
