Magnus Carlsen’s brilliant wrap-up of his successful 2016 World Chess Championship match defense has been immortalized and minted by Citrusw00d Productions on the OpenSea NFT marketplace. It depicts the concluding phase of Carlsen’s final playoff game win five years ago, culminating with a shocking queen sacrifice that has been called the most dramatic final move of any World Chess Championship since the institution originated some 135 years ago.
“Everything in this film and in the two previous ones is 100% comprehensible to any viewer who knows nothing more than the rules of play,” said Coordie64, the chess-playing visual artist behind the Chess Board Rapture project. “The onboard action is explained without use of chess notation or special terminology, but in under 100 everyday words that illuminate both the game’s aesthetic beauty and appealing tidbits about its history.”
Like previous entries in the collection, the featured move sequence is rendered by means of sophisticated videographic technology and is accompanied by text and graphic elements that evoke the time and place where the game occurred, and by branded music synchronized to reinforce the impact of the viewing experience. Each of these practices is unique — making Chess Board Rapture a pathbreaking project in the nascent chess NFT universe.
Each Chess Board Rapture film presents a short sequence of moves that decided a historically important game, followed by a text vignette describing the context and the players. Designed for the general public and art collectors, the content contains no chess notation. Each NFT will be produced in a pre-set number of editions that carry a unique digital certificate of authenticity recorded on the Ethereum blockchain.
(All information was provided by The Porterville Recorder)