Archive for September 29th, 2010

2010 Chess Olympiad: Round #8

Posted in Olympiad, Seychelles, Tournaments on Sep 29th, 2010 3 Comments »

Top Boards (Open) Russia 1 2-2 Ukraine Hungary 2-2 Azerbaijan Poland 1½-2½ Armenia USA 2-2 China Georgia 2½-1½ Belarus France 2½-1½ Russia 2 Iran 1-3 Cuba Estonia 3-1 Russia 3 Israel 2-2 Netherlands Serbia 2½-1½ Slovakia Richard Conn, a dapper Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov on the floor during the FIDE Assembly. FIDE’s Nigel Freeman […]

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Day of Reckoning… 2010 FIDE Vote

Posted in FIDE, Olympiad, Politics, Tournaments on Sep 29th, 2010 6 Comments »

Chess community, Today marks the highly-anticipated election for the Presidency of the world body of chess known as FIDE (pronounced fee-day). More than 150 countries (including 56 proxies) will cast their ballots to select the body’s leader for the next four years. During the 2006 Olymipad in Turin, Italy, Bessel Kok lost to the Ilyumzhinov […]

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