27 Facts About FIDE

International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE, is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

In 1999, FIDE was recognized by the International Olympic Committee.

FIDE is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the supreme body responsible for the organization of chess and its championships at global and continental levels.

FIDE calculates the Elo ratings of players and awards titles for achievement in competitive play, such as the Grandmaster title.

FIDE was largely happy with the "London Rules", but claimed that the requirement for a purse of $10,000 was impracticable and called upon Capablanca to come to an agreement with the leading masters to revise the Rules.

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In 1927, FIDE began organizing the First Chess Olympiad during its 4th Congress in London.

In 1928 FIDE recognized Bogoljubow as "Champion of FIDE" after he won a match against Max Euwe.

FIDE accepted this and decided to form a commission to modify the London Rules for future matches, though this commission never met; by the time of the 1929 Congress, a world championship match between Alekhine and Bogoljubow was under way, held neither under the auspices of FIDE nor in accordance with the London Rules.

FIDE had been trying since 1935 to introduce rules on how to select challengers, and its various proposals favored selection by some sort of committee.

FIDE rejected this proposal and at their second attempt nominated Salo Flohr as the official challenger.

FIDE found it difficult to organize the early discussions on how to resolve the interregnum, because problems with money and travel in the aftermath of World War II prevented many countries from sending representatives, most notably the Soviet Union.

Two of the participants at AVRO—Alekhine and former world champion Capablanca—had since died; but FIDE decided that the other six participants at AVRO would play a quadruple round-robin tournament.

FIDE soon accepted a Soviet request to substitute Vasily Smyslov for Flohr, and Fine withdrew in order to continue his degree studies in psychiatry, so five players competed, in a quintuple round robin.

FIDE found itself embroiled in some controversies relating to the American player Bobby Fischer.

The FIDE argued that it was unfair for a challenger to be able to beat the world champion, yet not take his title.

FIDE had a number of conflicts with the Soviet Chess Federation.

FIDE stripped Kasparov of his FIDE title and dropped Kasparov and Short from the official rating list.

In 1994 Kasparov concluded that breaking away from FIDE had been a mistake, because both commercial sponsors and the majority of grandmasters disliked the split in the world championship.

Kasparov started trying to improve relations with FIDE and supported Campomanes' bid for re-election as president of FIDE.

In 1999, FIDE was recognised by the International Olympic Committee.

In 2012 FIDE entered into a commercial agreement, initially planned to last until 2021, with the company Agon Limited.

On February 20,2012, an agreement between Agon and FIDE was made, subject to approval by the 2012 FIDE General Assembly.

FIDE was followed by the Englishman Nigel Short, a world title contender in the World Chess Championship 1993 against Garry Kasparov.

In virtue of this new agreement, FIDE reasserted control over the 2020 Candidates and the World Championship match, which from now on will undergo an open bidding procedure.

On February 27,2022, FIDE issued an official statement condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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On March 22,2022, FIDE decided to issue a six month ban from competing in rated tournaments against Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.

FIDE argued that Karjakin's statements had shed a negative light on chess and on the federation and found that he had violated the FIDE code of ethics.