In Episode 194, I converse with Dmitri Shneider, Chief Financial Officer at Play Magnus Group , which is a leader in the chess industry and a publicly traded company.
PMG is the parent company of Chessable, chess24, New In Chess, iChess, AimChess, Everyman Chess, CoChess, and the Play Magnus suite of apps. It is also the organizer of the widely followed Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, a series of chess tournaments attracting the world's top players with a $1.6 million prize fund.
He became a National Master at age 12 and International Master at 17. His peak FIDE rating was 2502.
We speak about his decision to either make grandmaster or go to college, growing up with brother FIDE Master Igor Shneider, lessons learned about founding school programs, applications of chess in wealth management, the arts of planning and objectivity, the early days of Chessable, Play Magnus' acquisition of Chessable, Play Magnus' current initiatives, the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022, the rise of Chess PR and more.