Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has hinted that he may stand for the FIDE Presidency in 2014 in order to remove the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who has held the post since 1995. In an interview with Stefan Löffler for the German nati...
The Russian Chess Federation has denounced the decision by the Turkish Chess Federation President Ali Nihat Yazici’s to ban arbiters from England, Georgia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States of America from officiating at ...
The Chess Olympiad is a huge biennial celebration of chess, with national teams from virtually every country in the world participating. Sadly, it as also frequently a magnet for controversies, and the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Turkey has followed t...
The current furore over FIDE's scheduling of the next Candidates Tournament in such a way as to cause maximum disruption to two existing successful commercial tournaments, seems to have provoked a clear response: Tough. FIDE have now announced a ...
After twitter rumours led to much speculation and an apparent confirmation from FIDE President Kirsan Illyumzhinov, London has now been officially confirmed as the venue for the 2012 Candidates Tournament by an AGON press release which was re-publ...
Believing 'news' that you read on Twitter can be a foolish pastime, so despite days of speculation on the popular micro-blogging site, chess fans and press alike have understandably waited for official confirmation of a remarkable rumour. Now it ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 31...
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...
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...
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, establishing...
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 thoughts...
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 ...
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...
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 pol...
