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The Roanoke Valley Chess Club is an IRS non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, registered with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. [1] The Roanoke Valley Chess Club brings and sustains chess activities to the region, and holds regular events. These events include United States Chess Federation USCF Grand Prix tournaments. The club also holds ...
This is a list of chess organizations.Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments.
In 1955, Bloodgood played a number of chess games against actor Humphrey Bogart, who was a good amateur player. [3] [better source needed] Bloodgood was an active chess organizer in Hampton Roads, Virginia in the late 1950s. He was the rating statistician for the Virginia State Chess Federation, where he rated himself at an Elo rating of 1956.
The collection of chess master and correspondence chess champion Walter Muir (1905-2000). Three hundred volumes, correspondence, and artifacts, including a complete run of British Chess Magazine, the rare 1723 edition of the Italian treatise Il Giuoco Degli Scacchi, and Walter Muir's autobiography My 75 year chess career (1997).
Chess likes to present itself as a major world sport, but it remains one of the few still dominated by Russian leadership. FIDE, the international chess federation, is headed by Arkady Dvorkovich ...
The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
The World Chess Federation is the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, or FIDE. A list of national member organizations of FIDE can be found in FIDE Federations . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chess organizations .
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