Greek Chess Federation Elections On Sunday 18/12/2016 were held the elections for the new Council for Board of the Greek Chess Federation with the participation of 3 candidate teams. Mr. Georgios Makropoulos and his team has won the elections...
Response by FIDE – Chess election war continues
31 January 2014 To: All National Chess Federations, Chess Media Dear chess friends, During the last days there has been an orchestrated attack to the FIDE President and FIDE officials concerning the FIDE/AGON contract. Although the truth is very...
Moskovsky Komsomolets and New York Times on FIDE elections
Garry Kasparov and Ignatius Leong (photo by Mig)Intrigues and mutual accusations in anticipation of the elections for the head of a large sports federation, are normal thing. But this year, nearly 8 months prior to the elections a huge...
Response by FIDE Deputy President Mr. Makropoulos to leaked contract
Above is the official response from FIDE Deputy President Mr. Makropoulos to Peter Doggers of Chess.com and Chessvibes.com. Once again, as a policy of this site, I will not take sides, and I will be fair to all parties...
Welcome message by President of the Greek Chess Federation
The Greek Chess Federation welcomes 12 of the world’s leading Grandmasters who are participating in the Thessaloniki Grand-Prix tournament. It is a unique honour for Greece and Thessaloniki that this great event takes place in our country and especially...
Makropoulos re-elected as head of the Greek Chess Federation
Georgios Makropoulos re-elected as head of the Greek Chess Federation Georgios Makropoulos was re-elected as head of the Greek Chess Federation on Sunday in Athens. A total of 204 clubs, 3 candidates for President, and 70 Candidates for the...
FIDE inspection of the WWCC Match site
FIDE inspection of the WWCC Match site Thursday, 03 November 2011 12:02 FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos was in Albania inspecting the site for the FIDE Women’s World Championship Match 2011 between Hou Yifan and Humpy Koneru to be...
The system debate and how to change it?
Pros and cons of the Candidates matches system and organizationDebate arises after the Candidates on short draws and media coverage Right after the Candidates matches a public debate on the system, coverage, and organization of the WCC cycle was...
The 700 lbs Gorilla Issue: To Draw or NOT to Draw
An Open Debate: The 700lb Gorilla Issue In the past few days, thousands of chess fans gave their opinions about the recently concluded Candidates’ Matches in Kazan. The main complaint was there were too many draws, over 90%. Even...
Official response by FIDE to ECU President
Dear all, With great surprise we read the announcement of Mr Silvio Danailov on 25 May, accusing the members of the FIDE World Championship Committee as being responsible for the high percentage of …draws(!) in Kazan. A non-chess reader...