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The Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) or World Chess Federation is an international organization that acts as the governing body of international chess competition, organizing the World Chess Championship, the Women's World Chess Championship, the World Junior and Girls U-20 Chess Championship, the World Senior Chess Championship ¹, the World Youth Chess Championship, the Chess Olympiad, the World Team Chess Championship and regional championships. The FIDE was founded 1924 in Paris at the 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad as a kind of players' union by 15 participants and representatives of their countries.

Founding Members

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• István Abonyi
• Roberto Grau
• Ion Gudju
• Florenziano Marusi
• Marc Nicolet
• Jakov M. Ovadija
• Count Ignacio de Penalver y Zamora
• Major Francis Hooper Rawlins
• Alexander Rueb
• Karel Skalička
• Stephen Francis Smith
• Izaak Towbin
• Anatol Tschepurnoff
• Pierre Vincent
• Leon Willem Weltjens

FIDE Presidents

FIDE and ICGA

The ICGA is recognized as Affiliated International Organization of the FIDE ⁵. The WCCC 2006 along with the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin was the first and so far the only time the ICGA was “sequentially assembled” by the FIDE ⁶.

FIDE CC Events

• Deep Fritz versus Deep Junior 2007

Forum Posts

• Open Letter & $100,000 challenge to FIDE by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, May 31, 2007
• Rybka & ICGA at the FIDE Ethics Commission by vesuvio, Rybka Forum, August 17, 2012 » Rybka Controversy | FIDE
• a direct comparison of FIDE and CCRL rating systems by Erik Varend, CCC, February 22, 2016 » CCRL

External Links

• World Chess Federation - FIDE
• FIDE Handbook

Laws of Chess

Regulations for Play with Computers

• FIDE from Wikipedia
• Chess Olympiad from Wikipedia
• FIDE titles from Wikipedia
• FIDE: The Prehistory by Edward Winter
• Chess: The History of FIDE by Edward Winter
• The 1986 FIDE Presidential Election by Edward Winter

References