Two hours of chess a week for Armenian school childrenIn April this year Chess-News reported that the Armenian government had decided to introduce chess as an obligatory school subject. The story also made a splash in the English non-chess media, being featured e.g. on the BBC website and provoking heated debate. “Calvin Klein” and other revelationsThe role played by Evgeny Bareev – already Vice Chairman of the Russian Chess Federation, head of the sporting management, Russian team captain and head coach – seems to have got even wider. A photo report by Bareev from Ningbo has appeared on the federation’s website. Mark Dvoretsky refuses to cooperate with RCF on principleThe sporting head of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF), Evgeny Bareev, talked in an interview with Vladimir Barsky about the federation’s relationship with the Honoured Trainer of the USSR, Mark Dvoretsky. The topic was attracting specialists to work with the RCF’s grandmaster schools: International Master Anatoly Shvedchikov has become a senior trainerInternational Master Anatoly Shvedchikov has become a senior trainer. That international training title was awarded to him at the last FIDE Presidential Council. You can find out more about the titles and those who hold them on the International Chess Federation's special page. Anatoly Karpov: “Ilyumzhinov’s promises turned out to be empty words”Many people still remember how in September last year in Khanty-Manisysk, on the day after the FIDE Presidential Elections, the re-elected Kirsan Ilyumzhinov sat down at the same table with his challenger, Anatoly Karpov. Anatoly Karpov claims FIDE is earning money at players’ expense“Ilyumzhinov’s team continues to pick the pockets of chess players,” noted Anatoly Karpov in an interview for file-rf.ru. “For example, at major international tournaments the cost of staying in the hotels FIDE books for the players turns out to be significantly higher athan in other hotels of comparable class in the same city. These strange markups earn federation officials at each of these events 50 to 100 thousand euros”.
“Chess in Schools” project reaches LibyaFIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov again visited Tripoli, the capital of Libya. There was no new game against Muammar Gaddafi but there was a meeting with Mohammed, Gaddafi’s son, who is Head of the National Olympic Committee, as well as with Abdelkabir El Fakhrey, the Secretary of State for Education. Ruslan Ponomariov thinks FIDE gave him extra rating points"FIDE even can't calculate ratings well. On 1-st July I must to be №10, but they add me 4 points and now I am №7. |
