FIDE Online Arena updates its daily tournament schedule FIDE Online Arena is updating its daily tournament schedule. More Rapid, Blitz and bullet tournaments are available for FIDE and Platinum members. The new program is enriched with thematic tournaments, chess...
World School Chess Championship 2017 in Iasi, Romania
World School Chess Championship 2017 started in Iasi on 21 of April with the conference press and the opening ceremony. These two events were attended by Mayor of Iasi Mihai Chirica, FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos, FIDE Executive Director...
FIDE World Chess Championships 2019 – Bids
FIDE Secretariat has published the bids for the World Chess Championships 2019 received by the deadline of 31st March 2017. The bids were forwarded to the FIDE Events Commission which will decide on the technical sufficiency of the bids...
List of Decisions of the 2017 1st quarter FIDE PB
2017 1st quarter Presidential Board meeting Athens, Greece 25-26 March 2017 DECISIONS 1PB-2017/1. The Secretariat to write a letter of reply to the USCF. 1PB-2017/2. To accept the Treasurer’s report. 1PB-2017/3. To pay the prize money for the Tehran...
2017 FIDE Arbiters’ Commission Councilors’ Meeting
The 2017 FIDE Arbiters’ Commission Councilors’ Meeting will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in the period 21 to 24 April 2017. The Icelandic Chess Federation is hosting the Meeting. Federations and individuals who are interested to send proposals to...
AGON struggles as big names said no to GP
FIDE Grand Prix struggling in Sharjah as big names stay away Magnus Carlsen, Vlad Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So are all absent and the organisers may struggle to sell pay-per-view packages Sharjah has its closing rounds...
Grischuk, MVL, Mamedyarov top Sharjah Grand Prix – Tiebreaks to Grischuk
7.3 Tie Break for Overall Winner With the objective of determining qualifiers to play in the Candidates Tournament, and in the case that two or more players have equal cumulative points at the top, the following criteria will be...
Sharjah GP complete standings after 5 rounds
Standings after 5 rounds Rank SN Name Fed Rtg Pts tb1 tb2 tb3 1 1 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime FRA 2796 3.5 0.5 2.0 1.0 2 4 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2766 3.5 0.5 2.0 0.0 3 7 Adams, Michael ENG 2751...
MVL off to 2-0 start at Sharjah Grand Prix
Round 2 results White Black Result Aronian, Levon Adams, Michael ½-½ Eljanov, Pavel Vallejo Pons, Francisco ½-½ Hammer, Jon Ludvig Nakamura, Hikaru ½-½ Jakovenko, Dmitry Grischuk, Alexander ½-½ Li, Chao b Hou, Yifan ½-½ Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar Tomashevsky, Evgeny 1-0...