Diving Chess has had numerous press and has been broadcast internationally on television. Here is a recent selection:
Reuters, 2022: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/battle-minds-lungs-dive-chess-world-championship-2022-08-15/
BBC, Jan 5, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_xMgmm6ZY
Chessable, 2023: https://www.chessable.com/blog/scuba-diving-and-chess/
Reddit, 2022: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/wqh6oc/2022_diving_chess_world_championship/
Chessbase, 2018: https://en.chessbase.com/post/diving-chess-world-championship-2018
and some more press:
- “Introducing Diving Chess!”. ChessBase News. 20 August 2016.
- http://content.yudu.com/A1vdb5/ChessLifeFeb2012/resources/12.htm Chess Life magazine, February 2012
- “Underwater chess is one of the mind games at Mind Sports Olympiad”. thestar.com. 12 June 2012.
- “Board games: bringing the Olympic spirit to the sitting room”. Telegraph.co.uk. 3 August 2012
- “‘I invented diving chess'”. www.ft.com. 12 August 2016.
- Diving Chess in London, ChessBase News(Sept, 2018)
The 2018 World Championships was filmed by Reuters and the video went viral and was broadcast live in Ukraine, USA, Israel, the Phillippines, UK (Sky News and BBC News), Australia and many other countries. Here are just a few examples: