{"id":50989,"date":"2021-10-11T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50989"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:18:05","slug":"chess-grandmaster-magnus-carlsen-receives-nft-trophy-for-tournament-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/chess-grandmaster-magnus-carlsen-receives-nft-trophy-for-tournament-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen receives NFT trophy for tournament victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in chess history, Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen <a href=\\\"https:\/\/championschesstour.com\/magnus-carlsen-receives-worlds-first-nft-chess-trophy\/\\\">\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0438\u043b<\/a> a trophy in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) for his victory in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour (MCCT).<\/p>\n<p>Carlsen told <a href=\\\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/chess-grandmaster-magnus-carlsen-awarded-nft-trophy-after-tournament-win\\\">Cointelegraph<\/a> about the MCST&#8217;s collaboration with cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which allowed chess players to compete for a prize pool of 2.1825 BTC (approximately $123,300 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p>The grandmaster signed two copies of the Champion\u2019s Trophy NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. One of the tokens was auctioned off for 6.88 ETH (nearly $25,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cIt is a pleasure to share the trophy with a passionate fan. It will be interesting to play a match with him and meet him at the tournament final next season,\u201d Carlsen said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in November 2020, Ethereum co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/vitalik-buterin-takes-on-a-fide-master-in-chess-duel\">played a chess game<\/a> with Canadian national team player Alexandra Botez in a livestream.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in chess history, Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has received a trophy in the form of a non-fungible token for winning the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,828],"class_list":["post-50989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50991,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50989\/revisions\/50991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}