The first in-person Chess for Freedom Conference will take place from 17-20 May, 2023, in Chicago, USA. The event will feature many experts from the worldwide chess community and will be broadcast live on FIDE’s Youtube channel. Additionally, its participants have the possibility to join the Zoom call and ask questions to the speakers. In order to join via Zoom, you would need to register via the following link .
The detailed schedule of the conference is the following:
May 19 Conference Program
10.00 — 10.15 – Openning remarks – Mikhail Korenman, Arkady Dvorkovich, Dana Reizniece-Ozola
10.15 — 11:30 – Conference Session 1
10:15 – 10:35 – Carl Portman (England) “From Genesis to Revelation” – online
10:35 – 10:50 – GM Abhijit Kunte (India) “National Chess for Freedom program in India” – in person
10:50 – 11:05 – Jop Delemarre “A prison becomes a home when you have the key.” And maybe the key can be chess! – online
11:05 – 11:20 – Andre Voegtlin (Switzerland) “What can social chess do in society using “Chess for Freedom” as an example (raison d’être, challenges, vision, mission and goals)?” – in person
11:20 – 11:30 QA session
11:30 – 12:00 – Coffee break & joint photo session
12:00 – 13:15 – Conference Section 2
12:00 – 12:20:30 – Mirko Trasciatti (Italy) “The moves of redemption. The chess project at Spoleto supermax correctional facility” – in person
12:20 – 12:40 – Jerry Nash (USA) “Chess as a Diversionary Strategy for Juvenile Offenders” – in person
12:40 – 13:05 – Lance Grigg, Kaileb Olson, Jade Oldfield (CAN) “Connection before Correction: Chess for Life and restorative justice for at-risk youth” – online
13:05 – 13:20 – Arie Van Den Hurk (Netherlands) “Reintegration – 360 problem analysis and which role can chess have” – online
13:20 – 13:30 QA session
13:30 – 14:30 — Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 pm – Conference Section 3
14:30 – 14:50 – Sergejs Klimakovs (Latvia) “How to turn a crowd into a united chess team? A voluntary work experience in three different prisons in Latvia” – in person
14:50 – 15:10 – Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (Mongolia) “History of chess in prisons in Mongolia” – in person
15:10 – 15:30 – Nebojsa Baralic (Serbia) “Chess for Freedom project in Serbia” – in person
15:30 – 15:50 – Sonja Johnson (Trinidad and Tobago) “Chess program at female prison in Trinidad & Tobago” – in person
15:50 – 16:00 QA session
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee break & networking
16:30 – 17:30 Conference Section 4
16:30 – 16:50 – Hector Guifarro, Toni Ballard (USA) “Positive impact of chess on the lives of people who have ended up in jail after making a wrong choice” – in person
16:50 – 17:10 – Anna DeLuna Fergusson, Russ Makovsky (5USA) “Edovo tablets chess program for prisoners” – in person
17:10 – 17:30 – Tom Noiprasit (Australia) “Chess program in Macquarie Correctional Centre, Wellington, Australia” – in person
17305 – 17:50 – Russ Makovsky, Kevin Oneth (USA) “State-wide chess in prison project in Kansas, USA” – in person
17:50 – 18:10 Susan Namangale (Malawi) “Partnerships for chess in prison transformation initiative” – in person
18:10 – Conference closing remarks by D.Reizniece-Ozola & M.Korenman
