A check game between the grand master Gawain Jones vs. everybody else has been set up at www.crowdchess.com. At CrowdChess you can play chess in groups. Each side is made up of teams of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people. Anyone on a team can suggest the next move, and the move that gets the most votes is the one that is played out.

It will be interesting to see if the crowd at CrowdChess can beat the master. In 1999 Kasparov won a four-month long similar match which he called “the greatest game in the history of chess.”