Новости за 13.12.2018

The King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships-2018 will be held in Saint Petersburg on December 25-31.

The venue is Manege, the largest exhibition space in central Saint Petersburg. Address: 1, St. Isaac’s Square.

A classical building of Manege was constructed by Giacomo Quarenghi in the beginning of the 19th century for the Imperial Horse Guards. Then it was used for various purposes depending on the epoch. In 1970s, the Saint Petersburg Manege housed the Central exhibition hall. Читать дальше...

Dear Chess Friends!

Accredited players, accompanying persons and press are now able to submit their accommodation requests and travel details online at the registration system https://wrbc2018registration.fide.com.

Note that the above apply only if the above mentioned accredited participants participants would like to be accommodated in one of the two official hotels of the event, with the agreed pricelists. Transfers will be only provided from the airport or the railway stations to the official hotels and vice versa.

Dear chess friends,

The 2019 FIDE budget is adopted and published. It implements the two fundamental planks of my electoral campaign. When I ran for the FIDE President, I promised you that the budget would increase while the FIDE fees charged to federations, players and organizers would decrease dramatically.

You can see it in black and white now.

First of all, the 2019 FIDE annual budget reached 5.5 million Euros while the previous, 2018 budget had only 2.3 million Euros. Читать дальше...

FIDE publishes the Minutes and Annexes of the General Assembly meeting that was held in Batumi, Georgia, 3-5 October 2018.

Download the 2018 General Assembly Minutes and Annexes here.