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Season 3

Season 3 Begins

On Thursday, October 7, North American Corporate Chess League launched season 3, with 454 players and 35 teams.  The NACCL, organized by the Charlotte Chess Center on the popular free and open-source chess site, lichess.org, is now a well-established online chess league with hundreds of players and dozens of company teams competing every season.  It […]

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Season 1

NACCL Week 1 – Breaking the Records!

The North American Corporate Chess League, a brainchild of the Charlotte Chess Center in cooperation with lichess and Chessstream, is not the first recreational corporate chess competition nor is it one with commercial interests.  So, when registration totaled 43 teams and over 425 players, all expectations were out the door.  On Thursday night, the nervous […]