Animoca Brands and Lympo Partner With Play Magnus Group on Chess Blockchain Game Anichess

[PRESS RELEASE – Tallinn, Estonia, 15th August 2022]

Animoca Brands and its subsidiary Lympo, a number one world sports activities NFT ecosystem, introduced at the moment that they’re creating Anichess in partnership with Play Magnus Group (PMG), a world chief within the chess business that provides leisure and e-learning companies by way of its chess market manufacturers. Anichess is a blockchain-based chess sport with a play-and-earn ecosystem, and when it launches in 2023 it is going to merge the worlds of chess and GameFi to create superior gaming experiences.

Play Magnus Group, based by Magnus Carlsen in 2013, the identical year he grew to become a World Chess Champion, is targeted on delivering one of the best on-line companies and experiences to develop the variety of chess gamers globally. With greater than 60,000 month-to-month paying customers, Play Magnus Group serves customers worldwide and covers key areas of chess, together with studying, taking part in, competing, teaching, and watching.

Lympo, a seasoned knowledgeable in GameFi and Sports NFTs, will lead the event and launch of Anichess, a chess-inspired blockchain-based sport. The partnership with Play Magnus Group permits Lympo to entry over 30 chess grandmasters, together with Magnus Carlsen, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Liem Le, and others, to advise, monitor, and check Anichess as an immersive gaming expertise for skilled and casual chess gamers, followers, and technique sport fans.

The distinctive partnership will deliver chess gamers to blockchain gaming and vice versa. Play Magnus Group will invite high chess gamers to assist and advise on the implementation of chess engines in Anichess to help novice gamers and present casual and skilled gamers with enjoyable gameplay. Anichess will make the most of Lympo’s $SPORT token as its major utility token, which can act as a gateway to the broader Lympo ecosystem, enhancing the taking part in expertise and worth proposition of the sport.

“Chess has emerged as one of the fastest-growing esports. By partnering with Play Magnus Group to create Anichess we will create unparalleled experiences for chess players, casual gamers, and fans,” mentioned Yat Siu, co-founder and government chairman of Animoca Brands.

“The concept of Anichess will amplify the traditional chess experience with a new phenomenal strategic layer that will produce situations never seen before. Well-established game designers, super chess grandmasters, esports stars, and casual gamers are working together to deliver an action-packed blockchain chess experience,” said Tadas Maurukas, CEO and co-founder of Lympo.

About Play Magnus Group

Play Magnus Group is a world chief within the chess business centered on offering premier digital experiences for hundreds of thousands of chess gamers and college students. The company presents e-learning and leisure companies by way of its market main manufacturers: chess24, Chessable, iChess, New In Chess, Everyman Chess, Silver Knights, Aimchess, the Play Magnus App Suite, and the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. The Group’s mission is to develop chess to make the world a better place by encouraging extra folks to play, watch, research, and earn a dwelling from chess. Play Magnus Group is listed on Euronext Growth Oslo underneath the ticker PMG. www.pmg.me

About Lympo

Lympo, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is constructing a GameFi product ecosystem primarily based on formally licensed athletes’ non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Lympo’s merchandise embody NFT Minting and NFT Staking Platforms in addition to upcoming sports-themed play-and-earn video games primarily based on basketball administration and chess. In addition to NFTs, Lympo operates $SPORT, the principle Lympo ecosystem token-. Lympo holds the IP rights to greater than 50 world-leading athletes, together with the reigning five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, thought of one of many best chess gamers of all time. Learn extra at www.lympo.io or get updates on Twitter, Telegram or Discord.

About Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked within the Financial Times record of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a pacesetter in digital leisure, blockchain, and gamification that’s working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the institution of the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of merchandise together with the REVV token and SAND token; unique video games together with The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and merchandise using well-liked mental properties together with Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP, and Formula E. It has a number of subsidiaries, together with The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a rising portfolio of greater than 340 investments, together with Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For extra data go to www.animocabrands.com or observe on Twitter or Facebook​.