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 * [[image:200px-Fidelogo.svg.png link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE"]] ||~ || 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], 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.  ||
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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]
 * ~ President ||~ from ||~ until ||
 * [|Alexander Rueb] || 1924 || 1949 ||
 * [|Folke Rogard] || 1949 || 1970 ||
 * Max Euwe || 1970|| 1978 ||
 * [|Friðrik Ólafsson] || 1978|| 1982 ||
 * [|Florencio Campomanes] || 1982 || 1995 ||
 * [|Kirsan Ilyumzhinov] || 1995 || ||

=FIDE and ICGA= The ICGA is recognized as Affiliated International Organization of the FIDE. 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.

=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= > [|E.I.01A. - Laws of Chess], [|pdf] > [|E.III. Regulations for Play with Computers] > [|A. Administrative Subjects | 09. FIDE Code of Ethics] > [|Chess Network Company] appeared in 2009 as exclusive commercial FIDE partner
 * [|World Chess Federation - FIDE]
 * [|FIDE Handbook]
 * [|FIDE - Affiliated International Organizations]
 * [|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]
 * [|Elections 2006: Does democracy work in FIDE?] by David Levy, ChessBase News, May 11, 2006
 * [|Breaking news: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov reelected] by David Levy, ChessBase News, June 02, 2006
 * [|FIDE - The Ultimate Computer Chess Challenge 2007]

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