"We Have a Duty to Treat All Federations Alike"

This is announced by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Tomorrow morning chess community awaits for the answer of the Organizing Committee of the Tromso Olympiad on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's request to allow Russian and oother eight teams to participate in the event. The FIDE president even posed in a t-shirt in support of the excluded federations. 

Israel Gelfer, FIDE Vice-President, commented today's news on excluding Russian women's national team from the Olympiad. The decision was made by the organizers of the Olympiad.  

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"Why must it be that chessplayers always suffer for the errors and arrogance of officials and bureaucrats?" - Garry Kasparov asks in his statemenet published on ChessBase.

Crimea and Lagno - topics discussed in UCF open letter to FIDE

The FIDE Women's World Team Championship is scheduled to be held from March 2-13 in Astana, Kazakhstan. At the moment the tournament has not got an official website; the participants haven't been officially announced, however, as Chess-News has found out the FIDE President nominee team has been determined, that is Turkish national women's team.

The tension around the upcoming Tromso Olympiad, FIDE Congress and the presidential elections increases.

"I don’t think that boycotting the Olympiad is the right method for solving the problems", said the Head of the Management Board of the Russian Chess Federation Ilya Levitov in an interview to our site, "It’s necessary to achieve the right solution in a constructive way, rather than by boycotting the Olympiad. To write a letter and meet with Yazici; I don’t know - talk to him, understand his motivation and position, and try to change his position".