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 ...
Andrew Paulson, the founder of Agon Limited and the man with a vision for the growth of top-level chess, died Tuesday from cancer. He was 59. Paulson's death was reported on the web site of the Russian newspaper Kommersant. It was confirmed by c...
Oslo is no longer a candidate to organize the 2018 world chess championship match. Agon and the Norwegian Chess Federation state that "funds have not been secured in time" but don't mention that the Norwegian government demanded a transparent...
In a statement to Chess.com, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov today announced that he will be running for FIDE president again in 2018. "One billion people playing chess" continues to be his motto. "Today I was analyzing everything that has happen...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is still the FIDE president, but all major powers are in the hands of deputy president Georgios Makropoulos. Yesterday's extraordinary presidential board meeting in Athens, described as "peaceful" by attendants, furthe...
In a new letter sent to all chess federations, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov today announced a $30 million investment in chess. Meanwhile Jorge Vega, continental president for America and an important ally of Ilyumzhinov in earlier electi...
Even though Kirsan Ilyumzhinov himself denies that he is stepping down as FIDE president, FIDE officials continue to claim that he has announced his resignation. At a press conference today in Moscow, Ilyumzhinov emphasised that he'll co...
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov denies that he will step down as FIDE president. Today the FIDE website brought this remarkable news, which was confirmed to Chess.com by the executive director of FIDE, Nigel Freeman. However, Berik Balgabaev, Il...
The 2017 Women's World Championship will be held in Iran, and the 2020 Chess Olympiad will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk. So decided the FIDE General Assembly in Baku. The FIDE Congress was held alongside the Olympiad in Baku, and, during...
On Wednesday, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The FIDE president was specifically mentioned as part of a group “providing support to the government of Syria, including for facilitating Syrian go...
At the FIDE Congress in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Garry Kasparov and Ignatius Leong were found guilty of breaching the FIDE Code of Ethics for their conduct during the 2014 FIDE presidential elections. The 86th FIDE Congress was held Septem...
Last Friday, the Bulgarian Chess Federation banned the three whistleblowers who recently accused the federation of fraud and corruption. Its president, Silvio Danailov, will run for FIDE President in 2018. Last Thursday, Chess.co...
Prosecutors in Bulgaria have started a corruption investigation against the Bulgarian Chess Federation. Its president, Silvio Danailov, has denied the accusations. A few days ago Chessdom reported on a “national press c...
World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen has signed the contract to defend his title according to his manager, Espen Agdestein. The match will take place as scheduled in Sochi, Russia from November 7-28, 2014. Both Carlsen and Agdestein are in St. Lou...
The players' contracts for the world championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand need to be signed within a week, but Carlsen wants to postpone his decision until after the Sinquefield Cup, which starts today. “The dead...
According to its president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE has denied a request from Magnus Carlsen to postpone his world championship match with Viswanathan Anand. Carlsen is not happy with the match taking place in November in Sochi, but Ilyumzhinov, w...
The incumbent FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov defeated his Challenger Garry Kasparov with 110 votes to 61 at the FIDE Presidential elections, held today during the General Assembly in Tromsø, Norway. Below is a report on what happened tod...
Update: FIDE published this on its web site to clarify statements made by Ank Stevens, a lawyer for Kasparov's team. The FIDE Presidential Election, to take place in the middle of the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Norway, will make 181 delegates very i...
The World Chess Federation has extended the bidding deadline for the 2017 Cup and the 2018 Olympiad until April 15th, despite having received two bids before the original deadline of April 1st. One of the bidders, the South African Chess Federatio...
