Staff Liquid has introduced the signing of chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen.
Because the second chess professional signed to Staff Liquid, Carlsen will characterize the North American esports organisation in worldwide chess tournaments happening all through 2025. With Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana on its roster, Staff Liquid has now signed the highest two chess gamers on this planet.
Carlsen is considered among the best chess gamers on this planet. He’s held the primary rating for 14 years along with profitable the world championship 5 instances.
“It’s so thrilling to be part of what I consider is the most important and greatest esports staff on this planet,” stated Carlsen. “As one of many greatest names in chess myself, partnering up with the most effective staff and a enjoyable model is an ideal match. I stay up for chess changing into staples of esports groups to any extent further.”
Alongside representing Staff Liquid, Carlsen can also be an envoy for the Esports World Cup, a multi-title occasion that can characteristic chess for the primary time in 2025.
Esports and chess in 2025
Staff Liquid isn’t the one esports organisation to increase into chess. On February eleventh, 2025, French organisation Staff Vitality signed Maxime ‘MVL’ Vachier-Lagrave to its roster. The pattern of esports organisations signing chess gamers reveals no indicators of slowing down.
The technique recreation’s inclusion on the Esports World Cup is a chance for organisations which are a part of the event’s companion programme.
Staff Liquid is one in every of 40 organisations which are a part of the programme, which contains a $20m (~£15.9m) prize pool distributed primarily based on the performances of its groups on the occasion.
With chess changing into one in every of 25 video games being performed on the occasion, the probabilities of different organisations signing chess gamers to their ranks are excessive.
