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Chechmatekids e.V. - the chess club for competitive sports!

Our association takes pride in providing support for dedicated young chess talents at the competitive sports level.

Our focus is on targeted promotion of performance-oriented chess talents aged between 8 and 25 years old. We firmly believe that chess is not just a game but an art and a sport that promotes strategic thinking, mental endurance, and analytical skills.

The talents of our chess promotion association benefit from a variety of exclusive advantages:

Performance training & coaching with experienced Grandmasters:

Our talents have the opportunity to learn from top-notch chess trainers and grandmasters. We organize regular training camps and workshops to sharpen their skills.

Financial support for young talents:

Our association is particularly committed to promoting young chess talents. Through targeted projects and programs, we lay the foundation for a promising chess future.

Participation in national and international tournaments:

We actively support our talents in participating in high-profile chess tournaments at national and international levels.

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Join us in supporting and experiencing the captivating world of chess in competitive sports. We eagerly anticipate embarking on this chess journey with you.

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Account holder: Checkmatekids e.V.
IBAN: DE37 1005 0000 0191 2975 50

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Checkmate Kids welcome package

We welcome new members with an onboarding Checkmate Pack. The pack contains essential items to make you part of the checkmate team. All items can also be ordered individually.

The pack includes a t-shirt or hoodie, ceramic mug, stainless steel water bottle, socks and much more. To select your welcome package, please contact merch@checkmatekids.de.

Management Board

Dyria Sigrid Alloussi - President

For over a decade, Dyria Alloussi worked in communications in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Since 2020, she has been the Program Director of a pro-European association, which brings together European businesses, policy makers, academia and young professionals through bridging events and a cutting-edge mentoring program. She firmly believes that sport builds bridges and serves as a catalyst for peace and diplomacy. 

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Reinhard Schmidt - Treasurer

Reinhard is an actuary and an IVS-certified specialist in occupational pensions for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. His profession revolves around the mathematical valuation of pension obligations—often in the context of complex M&A projects or international financial reporting. He programs using VBA and works analytically, particularly in the field of stochastic analysis. As a mathematician, he is fascinated by the elegance of probabilities and random processes.

His son is an enthusiastic chess player—a game that, like mathematics, is rich in structure and strategy. Magnus Carlsen exemplifies how cognitive excellence and intuition can lead to world-class performance. Reinhard especially values the epistemological depth that chess can teach children.

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Sophie Guggenberger -media, press & marketing

Sophie’s greatest passion is to communicate – be it professionally in PR, marketing and journalism or privately when talking to people from different social, political or economic backgrounds, from other countries or while traveling the world. For Sophie, communication means discourse and exchange of thoughts as well as interaction between herself and her surroundings in a broader sense – inspiring others and being inspired herself. She loves to create newsworthy stories and campaigns around ideas, products or companies that she believes in, that spark public interest, address important issues or ignite new perspectives.

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Trainer

Elisabeth Pähtz

Elisabeth Pähtz is a German chess grandmaster. She has been one of the strongest German chess players since her youth. In 2002, Pähtz became world champion of girls in the under-18 age group, and in 2005 she became world champion of juniors. She won the European Women’s Rapid Chess Championship in 2018.

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Thomas Paehtz

Thomas Pähtz is a German chess player (grandmaster since 1990) and father of Elisabeth Pähtz. In May 2002, the German Chess Federation expressed its thanks and appreciation to him in the form of a certificate of honor.

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Robert Rabiega

Robert Rabiega is a German chess player and has been a grandmaster since 2002

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