With an exciting start to the season last Wednesday, The PRO Chess League will be the hot topic in chess for the next two months . In this piece, I would like to delve deeper into various aspects of the league, and its potential to revolutionize the game of chess. Let’s start with the basic facts. The league is comprised of 48 teams representing five continents. The whopping $50,000 prize fund with $20,000 to the first place team has attracted the world’s top players. The Norway Gnomes boasts the league’s top player, reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Additionally, the top three American players (Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, and Hikaru Nakamura) are competing. In the six-week regular season, teams face off across five divisions grouped by time zone and global region. Matches are played on Chess.com, with each team fielding four players. In an “all-play-all” format, the four players on one team play every other player on the opposing team, for a total of 16 rapid games in each match