FIDE Identity Manual & Sponsorship Guidelines Oct 7, 2013 During the 84th FIDE Congress, FIDE Events Commission presented the new edition “FIDE Identity Manual & Sponsorship Guidelines” – a professional marketing tool which will provide more information to the...
Carlsen becomes Ambassador for Nordic Semiconductor
Magnus Carlsen, the Best Player in Chess History, Becomes an Ambassador for Nordic Semiconductor in Three-year Sponsorship Deal The Jakarta Post – PR Newswire | August 13, 2013 OSLO, Norway, Aug. 14, 2013/PRNewswire / — Ultra low power (ULP)...
Major sponsorship for English Chess Federation
Boost for school chessBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am GMT 29/02/2008 The English Chess Federation has secured a ground breaking new commercial sponsorship that should provide a huge boost to chess in schools. Holloid Plastics Limited of Basingstoke has agreed...
SPICE Cup Media Coverage
The local TV networks, print media and local radio stations are all covering the 2007 SPICE Cup, in addition to the NY Times, TWIC, Chessville, USCF online, Chessdom, MonRoi, etc. I expect many more chess and general news sources...
BIG thanks to SPICE Cup sponsors and supporters
Special thanks to our Sponsors and Supporters Chancellor Kent Hance, Dr. Jon Whitmore, Dr. William Marcy, Dr. Jim Brink, Mayor David Miller, Ambassador Tibor Nagy, Jr., Commissioner Ysidro Gutierrez, State Representative Carl Isett, Carol and Larry Clemmensen, the Cohen...
An interesting question about Chess Sponsorship
A poster of this blog just asked the following question. I think it is a very interesting and important question and deserves its own thread. However, I will let the readers post their opinions first and I will offer...
House of Staunton is the latest sponsor of the SPF
Yesterday, I posted the following: Thanks to the additional generous sponsorships from Mr. Jeff Smith, ICC, ICM, SPF and Texas Tech University, the Susan Polgar Foundation will award additional chess prizes (over 100 chess prizes) and scholarships at the...
Sponsorship and the new approach to making chess viable
A note of information about the 2007 Canadian Youth Championship event. I was informed by the organizers last night that this event has more sponsors than any previous event in history. Bravo! This once again proves that we NEED...
Wonderful ideas to learn from
This is the kind of chess board that is being used at the Canadian Youth Chess Championship. It has the names of all the sponsors from both sides of the board. I usually list all the sponsors in the...
The chess image and sponsorship – Part II
How important is it for the professional players to learn how to properly communicate with the media? How important is it for the professional players to reach out and interact with the fans, sponsors and supporters? Or is it...