Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Feb 8, 2012 2:59pm.
The Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) is moving from from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas to Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri in June this year.Susan Polgar (pictured) confirmed the move, adding that 8 leading m... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Feb 2, 2012 2:40pm.
Armenian GM Lev Aronian, currently ranked #2 in the world and recent winner of the 2012 Tata Steel tournament has issued an open letter to FIDE making it clear that if Azerbaijan is chosen as the host country for the 2012 Candidates tournament, he... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:37am.
The recent Reggio Emilia tournament won by Anish Giri in Italy certainly delivered lots of excitement on the board, but there was some off-the-board disquiet about the last-minute exclusion of defending champion Vugar Gashimov from the event.
Gas... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:24pm.
There has been no official announcement yet from FIDE, but the apparently semi-official WhyChess website of GM Vladislav Tkachiev reports that FIDE has decided to scrap Candidates Matches for the next WCC cycle in favour of a double round-robin Ca... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Aug 8, 2011 11:19am.
8th August 2011 - PRESS RELEASE
The Commission for the Modernization of FIDE (CMF) met between the 6th and 7th of August 2011 in Moscow, Russia to discuss the ideas which would contribute towards the further development of chess and FIDE in th... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Aug 8, 2011 4:48am.
Monday, August 08, 2011 - PRESS RELEASE The Federation Internationale des Echecs is pleased to announce that following the evaluation of the bids for the World Chess Championship Match 2012 and the recommendations by the World Championship and ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Aug 2, 2011 11:48am.
FIDE have confirmed that they have received 2 bids to host the 2012 World Championship Match between Vishy Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel.
The Indian bid is sponsored by the Tamil Nadu government to the sum of 200 million rupees (appr... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:09am.
FIDE recently announced the setting up of a Foundation for Modernisation, with the objective of:
"...reviewing the development of chess these last years, and proposing new processes, procedures, regulations, events rating systems, chess in scho... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:19am.
The visit of the FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (pictured) to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has caused such a storm of protest that FIDE has released a brief response to the controversy.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011PRESS RELEASE
I was asked to ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:50am.
FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov popped in to see an old friend in Tripoli on the 11th and 12th June; the Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi.
Gaddafi is struggling to hang on to power in a civil war in Libya, and the International Criminal Court h... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Tue Jun 7, 2011 10:55am.
The latest FIDE Presidential Board meeting took place from 5-6 June in Abu Dhabi.
It was announced that no bids to host the World Chess Championship 2012 between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand had been received, so the deadline was extended to 3... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:40pm.
Without wishing to overdose on the open letters that chess players and organisations appear so fond of, it seems only fair to publish the official responses to the complaints raised by some of the competitors at the recently held Womens' World Cha... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Feb 9, 2011 10:47am.
A few days ago the organisers of the London bid for the 2012 World Chess Championship withdrew their offer to host the event, as reported here.
FIDE has now responded with an open letter claiming that the real reason that the London bid was wit... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Feb 3, 2011 8:53am.
No, not the Olympics, they're still going ahead. The London bid for the 2012 World Chess Championship has been withdrawn by the potential organisers.
A great shame, since Malcolm Pein has shown himself to be an excellent organiser, establishin... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:08am.
Open letter regarding the Women's World Chess Championship 2010
We, the players of the Women’s World Chess Championship 2010 in Antakya/Hatay who have signed this document below, would like to share with the chess community and FIDE our though... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:54am.
The world chess governing body FIDE has announced the dates for the candidates matches to determine the next challenger for Vishy Anand's world title.
The matches will take place between 3-27 May 2011 in Kazan, Russia.
Interestingly, FIDE seems ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:06am.
Following on from the shock announcement by Magnus Carlsen of his withdrawal from the upcoming world chess championship candidates matches, FIDE has given its response.
FIDE respects that every player makes his own decisions and regrets that G... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:24pm.
The biggest contest taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk has been decided. The incumbent FIDE president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has been re-elected for another 4-year term after beating Anatoly Karpov by 95 votes to 55.
It was a bitter and unpleasant po... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:54am.
This news story is straight from the files of "you couldn't make it up".
Incumbent FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has made a bid of $10 million to purchase the land at 45 Park Place, New York to build an "International Chess Center".
This add... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:38pm.
Breaking news has emerged from the FIDE Presidential Meeting held today, that the venue for the 2011 candidates matches is to be switched to Kazan in Russia.
The original venue had been the Azerbaijan capital, Baku, but Lev Aronian's qualificatio... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Jun 3, 2010 9:39am.
With the sort of press coverage that our royal game gets from popular newswires, you could forgive the average man in the street for thinking, like Sherlock Holmes, that all chess players have a scheming mind.
Recent developments will do nothing ... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Fri May 14, 2010 12:46pm.
Chess politics is not a subject that thrills the heart of many chess fans, but the importance of the future leadership and direction of the world's governing body FIDE is hard to overstate.
Candidates for the presidency have to be nominated by na... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:43am.
The former world champion and prospective FIDE President Anatoly Karpov (pictured) has released his mission statement as part of his campaign to win support from national chess federations.
The German and French federations have expressed their p... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:59am.
Multi-millionaire Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from Kalmykia has been president of FIDE since 1995, and although he has ploughed a lot of his own money into the game, commercial sponsors are few and far between.
Rightly or wrongly, FIDE has a reputation fo... Read more »
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Submitted by
SonofPearl on Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:02pm.
At the recent FIDE executive board meeting in Halkidiki, Greece, one of the most bizarre suggestions yet was thankfully NOT approved. However, the FIDE powers-that-be may still try to introduce it at a later date.
The already hugely controversi... Read more »
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