Tech Chess Tournament #1 (International edition 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳)
"Whereas tech drinks optimise for alcoholics, tech games optimise for high-IQ crowds." 🧠
You're invited to a Tech Chess Tournament with a crowd of high signal founders, operators, & investors, presented by Techgames.xyz.
If you're a statistically literate techy who also finds beauty in abstraction, you probably LOVE games. 🧠
Perhaps you also worked very hard this week and now you're looking to relax. 🔥
If this sounds like you, we want YOU to come. 🫵🏽
What to expect?
Swiss-style tournament: 5+2
Curated tech crowd - We're running high-signal gaming events for you to recharge AND find the best allies to boost the odds of your venture's success.
Games + elite tech crowd = Max-ROI 👾
Our theses?
We believe the best founders, operators, and investors in the world are great gamers (e.g. Demis Hassabis with Chess, Reid Hoffman with Catan, Zuckerberg with Poker, etc).
Games attract the strongest allies you can imagine (e.g. future co-founder, hire, partner, investor).
Regular attendees?
✅ T1-investors (Sequoia, Bessemer Ventures, a16z, Dawn Capital, etc)
✅ Operators with evidence of exceptional abilities (early at now unicorns, Olympiad winners, etc)
✅ VC-Backed founders ($1M-$100M+ raised)
Who this event is NOT for?
❌ Consultancies/agencies
❌ Sales people
👉 Apply to join by filling out the RSVP form.
Peter Thiel - Founder @ Paypal, Founders Fund, Palantir
Peter Thiel grew up as a nationally ranked chess prodigy with a peak USCF rating of 2199 - just one point shy of National Master. He still actively plays.
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🫂 About our Hosts & Sponsors:
🎤 Remy Messadene is an exited founder, Oxford PhD dropout, and the creator of TechGames.xyz — the world’s largest network of curated tech games for elite founders and investors. He’s hosted 200+ high-ROI events for 10,000+ attendees across London, NYC, and SF — from rooftop Catan battles to underground poker nights. Remy sees startups as games, and TechGames as a magnet for the smartest minds in tech. He believes tech games have the potential to be the most bonding, recharging, and ROI-positive format for exceptional operators — where insight, energy, and serendipity compound through play