Registrations, Transfers and Rules of Eligibility for Participation in FIDE Competitions 1. Registration under a Federation1.1 A player may only be registered under one Federation at any one time.1.2 A player who has dual citizenship must be registered under...
Changes to Title and Rating Regulations
Changes to Title and Rating Regulations effective from July 1st 2009Monday, 13 July 2009 13:40www.FIDE.com Changes in the Rating Regulations from 1.7.2009Registration of Tournaments All tournaments have to be pre-registered one month before the tournament; exceptions to this may...
FIDE Laws of Chess
Handbook :: E. Miscellaneous E.I. Laws of Chess E.I.01A. Laws of ChessE.I.01B. Appendices Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
New Laws of Chess – what has changed?
The new Laws of Chess: what has changed?1 July 2009 11:00 AM CET Last modified: 11:16 By Peter Doggers As of today, July 1st, 2009 our beloved game of chess has a new edition of its official rules: the...
Rules with consequences
CHESS WITH LUKE MCSHANESunday June 21,2009 AT LAST YEAR’S Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Fide decided to test a new rule which would award a player a loss by default for turning up late to the board. In my view,...
New rule. Good or bad? You decide.
FIDE has implemented the new rule about players arriving to tournament late. It used to be that players are forfeited after being late for one hour. Now, players are forfeited immediately, even if they are late for only seconds....
Major changes in Laws of Chess
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FIDE new Title and Rating regulations
FIDE publishes new Title and Rating Regulations which will come into effect starting from 1st July 2009. Please download new Title and Rating Regulations in PDF format. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
FIDE Laws of Chess
THE FIDE LAWS OF CHESS The FIDE Laws of Chess cover over-the-board play. The English text is the authentic version of the Laws of Chess, which was adopted at the 77th FIDE Congress in Dresden (Germany), November 2008, coming...
Serious flaws with chess rules
Open Letter from GM Macieja On the 28th of September 2008 GM Bartlomiej Macieja sent a letter to the FIDE Rules and Tournament Regulations Committee, which was pubished in Chess Today. The text is below: “Dear Members of the...