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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.
FIDE Logo [2]

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

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 ^{[6] [7]}. 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 ^[8].

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
  E.I.01A. - Laws of Chess, pdf
  E.III. Regulations for Play with Computers
  A. Administrative Subjects | 09. FIDE Code of Ethics
• FIDE - Affiliated International Organizations
  Chess Network Company appeared in 2009 as exclusive commercial FIDE partner
• 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

References

1. ^ The United States Chess Federation - Larry Kaufman World Senior Champion!, November 8, 2008 » Larry Kaufman
2. ^ FIDE from Wikipedia
3. ^ FIDE - Recognized by the International Olympic Committee, 82nd Fide Congress, 15-22 Oct 2011, Krakow
4. ^ 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad from Wikipedia
5. ^ Chess: The History of FIDE by Edward Winter
6. ^ FIDE - International Computer Games Association (ICGA)
7. ^ Affiliated International Organizations
8. ^ Jaap van den Herik (2008). Computer Games in China. ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1

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