1st FIDE Council meeting 2025: List of decisions published
1st FIDE Council meeting March 21-22, 2025 List of decisions CM1-2025/01 To note President’s report. CM1-2025/02 To approve Treasurer’s report. CM1-2025/03 To instruct FIDE President to continue the negotiations regarding FIDE’s online projects based on Council members’ suggestions. CM1-2025/04 To note FIDE Calendar 2024/2025. CM1-2025/05 To note the Global Strategy Commission’s report. CM1-2025/06 To approve the Global Strategy Commission’s proposal regarding the reversal of the qualification paths B and C due to the swap in the chronological order of the World Cup and Grand Swiss tournaments for the year 2025. CM1-2025/07 To note the Arbiters’ Commission’s report. CM1-2025/08 To approve the recommendations of the Arbiters’ Commission on Seminars, Classification upgrades, Amendments to the lecturer list, FA norms and titles. CM1-2025/09 To note the Qualification Commission report. CM1-2025/10 To approve the recommendations of the Qualification Commission on titles. CM1-2025/11 To approve the award of direct titles to ASEAN youth event and to the Central Asia Youth Chess Championship. CM1-2025/12 To approve the Qualification Commission decision not to rate the tournaments that took place in July-August 2024 in Mramorak, Serbia. CM1-2025/13 To approve the recommendations of the Trainers’ Commission on titles and Academies. CM1-2025/14 To approve the recommendations of the Events Commission on titles. CM1-2025/15 To approve the FIDE World Cadet U8, U10, U12 Championships 2025 to be organized in Almaty, Kazakhstan. CM1-2025/16 To approve the World Championships 2027 in age categories U7, U9 and U11 to be organised by the Spanish Chess Federation and the World Championships 2027 in age categories U13, U15 and U17 by the Turkish Chess Federation, subject to the successful inspection. CM1-2025/17 To award the World Cadet Rapid and Blitz Championships 2027 to Spain to be organised during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Chess Federation subject to the successful inspection. CM1-2025/18 To note the Chess in Education Commission’s report CM1-2025/19 To approve the recommendations of the Chess in Education Commission on titles. CM1-2025/20 To approve the Chess in Education Commission’s proposal in respect of the Regulations for Accreditation in Chess in Education. CM1-2025/21 To note the changes in the Fair Play Commission and the report on their way forward. CM1-2025/22 To approve the recommendations of the Fair Play Commission on titles. CM1-2025/23 To approve that a working group comprising representatives from the respective FIDE Commissions be established to elaborate on the proposal regarding sanctions for the breach of Fair Play Regulations. CM1-2025/24 To note the Planning and Development Commission’s report. CM1-2025/25 To conditionally approve the Planning and Development Commission’s proposal in respect of the Development Index Regulations, taking into consideration the FIDE Council’s input. CM1-2025/26 To approve the proposal of the Historical Committee regarding the nominations for the World Chess Hall of Fame: E. Bogolyubov, P. Cramling, J. Timman and V. Hort. CM1-2025/27 To support in principle establishing continuous bi-annual FIDE Awards, establishing a working group that would define awards categories and selection criteria. CM1-2025/28 To note the Commission’s for Women’s Chess report. CM1-2025/29 To note Continental Presidents’ reports. CM1-2025/30 To approve that an official warning in respect of its arrears before the continent is issued to the Venezuela Chess Federation with the payment deadline of July 1st2025. To inform the Venezuela Chess Federation that FIDE may withdraw its services (art. 6.3. of the Financial Rules) CM1-2025/31 To note the Constitutional Commission’s report and to instruct the Commission to develop the draft of the guidelines for all situations related to the development of chess in any territories with dispute status. CM1-2025/32 To approve the launch of the FIDE digital museum project. CM1-2025/33 To confirm that if a player who qualified from a certain zone/continent for the FIDE World Cup/FIDE Women’s World Cup afterwards changes his or her national federation and the new national federation doesn’t belong to the same zone/continent, the corresponding spot shall be awarded to the player who finished as the next best ranked in that qualifying tournament. 1st FC Meeting 2025 – List of Decisions (PDF)
2024 4th FIDE Council Meeting: List of Decisions
FIDE publishes the decisions of the 4th FIDE Council meeting 2024, held online on November 10. 2024 4th FIDE Council meeting decisions (PDF)
2024 FIDE Zonal Council meeting: Minutes
FIDE publishes the minutes of FIDE Zonal Council Meeting, held on September 20, 2024. 2024 FIDE Zonal Council meeting minutes (PDF)
2024 FIDE General Assembly: List of Decisions
FIDE publishes the decisions of FIDE General Assembly held on September 21-22, 2024. FIDE General Assembly 2024 decisions (PDF)
2024 3rd FIDE Council meeting: List of Decisions
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2024 2nd FIDE Council meeting: List of Decisions
FIDE publishes the decisions of FIDE Council meeting held on July 21 and 29, 2024. FIDE Council meeting July 21 and 29, 2024, decisions
2024 1st FIDE Council meeting: List of Decisions
FIDE publishes the decisions of FIDE Council meeting held on April 13, 2024. FIDE Council meeting April 13, 2024, decisions (PDF)
2024 FIDE General Assembly: Minutes
FIDE General Assembly Minutes (pdf)
FIDE Resolution on suspending membership of Egyptian Chess Federation
The International Chess Federation publishes a decision following the recent approval of the Resolution on the Egyptian Chess Federation. The FIDE World Cadet Championship took place in Egypt on 14-27 October, 2023. Due to the tragic events of October 7, 2023, a large number of federations and individual players were unable to arrive/refused to participate in the championship due to concerns about their safety (at least 172 persons from 12 different federations). Despite numerous assurances from the Egyptian Chess Federation, the fees made by those federations/players have not been returned to them in due order. Besides, the Egyptian Chess Federation failed to provide the necessary documents and information about non-returned funds and didn’t start paying off the debt. In view of this, the FIDE Council decided to suspend the membership of the Egyptian Chess Federation with immediate effect, revoking the right to organize any FIDE rated tournaments as well as the right to delegate any representatives to FIDE events. Starting from 08.03.2024 all Egyptian players may only play in all FIDE-rated tournaments with FIDE flag only. However, on March 06 2024 FIDE has received a letter of guarantee from the National Olympic Committee of Egypt stating that the debts will be paid off in the nearest future. It has also initiated the procedure of changing the management of the Chess Federation of Egypt. Taking into account the above-mentioned, FIDE took a decision to allow players from Egypt to participate in the African Games, hosted by the Republic of Ghana on March 8-23 2024, under their national flag. FIDE is ready to remove restrictions imposed on players from Egypt to play under their national flag as soon as the fulfillment of commitments starts and hopes it will be done in the nearest future. The full text of the Resolution can be found here.
2023 FIDE Online General Assembly: Minutes
FIDE publishes the Minutes of FIDE Online General Assembly Meeting which was held on December 17, 2023. FIDE General Assembly Minutes (pdf)