Stavanger, Norway is officially out of the bidding process for the 2020 world chess championship, organizers announced. Magnus Carlsen's father, Henrik Carlsen, asked the Stavanger organizers to withdraw the bid in a Facebook post on Thursd...
Magnus Carlsen drew strong reactions in Norway today by creating a new chess club that offers free membership to the first 1,000 members, with Carlsen paying the federation fees himself. Carlsen said the club was made to help new players an...
Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the president of the European Chess Union (ECU), apologized on Facebook for having insinuated a possible case of cheating at the World Youth U14 Championship in Porto Carras, Greece. If anything could be learned from ...
With a two-vote margin, Lewis Ncube was re-elected as president of the African Chess Confederation (ACC) at the FIDE congress last month. Our correspondent Alessandro Parodi explains what it means for chess in Africa. Zambia's Lewis Ncube was re...
Arkady Dvorkovich has been elected FIDE president for the coming four years at the World Chess Federation's General Assembly in Batumi, Georgia. He defeated Georgios Makropoulos with 103 votes to 78 after Nigel Short withdrew his candidacy at...
In 11 days from now, a new FIDE president will be elected in Batumi, Georgia. Today we're providing answers from Arkady Dvorkovich and Nigel Short to Chess.com questions sent to all three candidates. Sadly, Georgios Makropoulos declined to pa...
With the October 3 FIDE presidential elections approaching, the battle between the three candidates is fierce. Today the team of Georgios Makropoulos announced that letters about his main rival Arkady Dvorkovich have been sent to both the FID...
Over the last three weeks, the teams of FIDE presidential candidates Georgios Makropoulos and Arkady Dvorkovich have been involved in a sharp, verbal battle about transparency and federations in arrears, where even the term "fake news" made s...
Last week, Chess.com sat down with FIDE presidential candidate Arkady Dvorkovich, to find out his plans for the future of chess. The recent allegations of bribery was an important topic. All photos © Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. ...
Three weeks after the three candidates for the FIDE presidential elections became known, the key word for some of the candidates seems to be "corruption." An anti-corruption committee has been established, and Makropoulos ticket members have accus...
The FIDE ethics commission has sanctioned Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for violating the FIDE code of ethics. The FIDE president, who was banned from "holding any position" effectively for six months, plans to fight the decision. ...
It's official: the FIDE presidential elections will be a three-horse race between Arkady Dvorkovich, Georgios Makropoulos and Nigel Short. "Makro" presented his ticket with a surprisingly high number of supporting federations: 64. After yesterda...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov today announced that he is withdrawing his candidacy for the upcoming FIDE presidential elections on October 3 in Batumi. Instead, he is supporting Russia's new candidate, Arkady Dvorkovich. "I decided not to nominat...
The Russian Chess Federation has elected Arkady Dvorkovich as its candidate for the FIDE presidential elections. The Kirsan Ilyumzhinov era in chess seems to be coming to an end. In an absentee ballot, 24 votes were received by the Russian ...
October 3 will not only see the elections for a new FIDE president, but also that of the leadership of the chess continents Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Alessandro Parodi reports on the situation in Africa. Ahead of the FIDE presidential e...
Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Deputy Prime Minister and a former Assistant to the President in the Russian government, has announced that he is running for FIDE President. It is expected that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov will withdraw his candidacy soon....
Indian WGM Soumya Swaminathan (former World Junior Girls' Champion 2009) was selected for the Indian women's team in the upcoming Asian Nations Cup in Hamadan, Iran from July 26 to August 4. WGM Soumya officially declined her invitation to this...
On Monday, FIDE presidential candidate Georgios Makropoulos announced his ticket. The deputy president on his ticket is the well-known organizer Malcolm Pein, who told Chess.com he "would be interested" in running for president in 2022. The FIDE...
On May 4, FIDE transferred its money to two fiduciary accounts after the Swiss bank UBS had closed its account at the start of the month. This was revealed by FIDE's treasurer on Sunday. It took the World Chess Federation two weeks, but finally ...
Last week, the incumbent FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov presented his ticket for the FIDE presidential elections, with which he managed to achieve the important endorsement from the Russian Chess Federation—despite the fact that one ...
Nigel Short is running for FIDE president. It had been rumored for a few days, and today Short confirmed to Chess.com that he is the third candidate, besides the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the current deputy president Georgios Makrop...
The FIDE ethics commission has suspended GM Evgeniy Solozhenkin for making unsubstantiated allegations of cheating, published in different articles on the internet. A group of grandmasters has written an open letter in support of Solozhenkin....
Earlier this week, FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos announced his candidacy for FIDE president. For the October 2018 elections he will most likely run against the incumbent FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who rejected a request f...
The Swiss department of UBS bank has informed the World Chess Federation that it will close its bank account, in April at the latest, due to FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's presence on the sanctions list of the U.S. Department of the Trea...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov seems to have lost further ground inside the World Chess Federation. A non-binding motion asking him not to run for FIDE President in 2018 was passed by the FIDE Executive Board on Friday in Antalya, Turkey. The motion, voted ...