Will Fabiano Caruana win today in the Semi-Finals of the #London_chess Classic and overtake Magnus Carlsen to become World No. 1 on the #FIDE_chess live ratings? Could this be the start of a new era in chess? Vote now!
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No, Magnus will stay top – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

Yes, Fabi can do it! – 3
👍👍👍👍 38%

👥 8 people voted so far.

Happy New Year! Let 2020 bring you a lot of interesting chess games and brilliant moves on and off the board!

#happynewyear2020 #FIDE

Endi har hafta kafolatlangan mukofot jamg'armasi 1200 dollor😎💵

https://youtu.be/qP-xbMvvSdc

📡"Подписаться" tugmasini bosib yangiliklardan eng birinchi xabardor bo'lib turing💡

💵 Participants of every #checkmatecoronavirus tournament have a chance to win some of 1500+ special prizes from FIDE - International Chess Federation, including 64 one-week invitations to the 2021 Chess Olympiad in Moscow. More than that, tournaments with real money prizes are also joining the initiative!

♟Unity Chess Club used to organize different kinds of over-the-board tournaments, but temporarily due to the pandemic, they have now moved online. Their “Sundays with Unity” event is an international weekly online chess tournament with a $1400 prize fund for each week.

🤩 The tournament has many top GMs participating in it. Among them are GM Gata Kamsky (USA), GM Parham Maghsoodloo (IRI), GM Praggnanandhaa (IND). More than 400 titled players! Every week “Sundays with Unity” has 800+ participants!

🏆 Prizes are available for more than 100 players:
- Top 10 players,
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The 50th, 100th, 150th, 200th, 250th, 300th, 350th, 400th, 450th, 500th, 550th, 600th, 650th, 700th, 750th, 800th, 850th, 900th, 950th, and 1000th places that will be announced at the end of the tournament by Lichess.

📍 Website: lichess.org
Time control: 3+0
Duration: 120 minutes
Date: Every Sunday, 16:00 UTC

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#fide #staysafe #playchessonline

“It is worth to play. All family members support and cheer for us. In this tournament, we played together with grandmasters and masters from different countries. It is a big experience for us, because it's a rarity to meet such an opportunity in the daily life”, says one of our participants of our tournament from Kazakhstan Sadyk Khammat
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FIDE has decided to postpone the 2020 edition of the World Rapid and Blitz Championship. We will do our best to make it happen in spring 2021.

https://www.fide.com/news/773

#chess #RapidBlitz #FIDE

Match against Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, in #Tehran, on the 22nd February, 2003. I won by the score of +2,=4. Mahdi Abdulrahim (current Chairman of the #FIDE Rules Commission), from the UAE, stands observing.

🔗 Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess)

The world map of Grandmasters per capita, based on the stats from the FIDE database. 🌐♟

You can see that European countries have the highest concentration of GMs in population, up to 5.13 per 100,000 people!

#FIDE #Grandmaster #Statistics

🔗 International Chess Federation (@FIDE\_chess)

White heavy check mark FIDE approves Online Chess Regulations.

The FIDE Council has approved a new set of rules to be applied to official online chess competitions. The document will be incorporated into the laws of chess.

Find the Regulations here: https://fide.com/news/889

#FIDE #OnlineChess

The March issue of British Chess Magazine British Chess Magazine includes an interview with the FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich.

Courtesy of BCM, we published some excerpts from the interview on the FIDE website: https://www.fide.com/news/985

#interview #FIDE

he winner of the #FIDEWorldCup Jan-Krzysztof Duda received his award from the #FIDE Vice President Lukasz Turlej.