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Come and challenge yourself in the Decrop Memorial and follow in the footsteps of Daniel Dardha, winner of the last two editions. The international rapid tournament will take place in Namur on Sunday 7th September. 9 rounds of 10 min + 5 sec/move will be played. The prize fund is 4000€ and the tournament will also serve as rapid championship …
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The first version of the Interclub calendar is available on the Interclub competition page. Please note that this version is subject to change.
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Join us now on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wearechessbelgium On the last board meeting, Inias joined the RBCF administration as a employee responsible for the social media. Inias volunteers for this role from his eagerness to bring entry level chess to the broader population through social media channels. Next to his full-time job, Inias is also active as a chess influencer and gives …
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Dear Chess Friends, On behalf of Czech Adaptive Sports, we are pleased to inform you about the upcoming 5th IPCA European Individual Chess Championship, which will take place from October 10 to 19, 2025, in Ostrava, Czech Republic. This event is dedicated to players with physical disabilities and is organized under the auspices of IPCA, in cooperation with FIDE. The championship will feature tournaments in classical chess, rapid, …
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The organizers, FIDE and the Peruvian Chess Sports Federation, cordially invite all FIDE member federations to participate in the 2025 FIDE World Junior U-20 Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship, to be held from September 22 (arrival) to September 29 (departure) in Lima, Peru.
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Daniel Dardha (19), who has been our top chess player for years, dropped out of school at fifteen with one goal: to be among the world's absolute elite. “Most players peak around 25, but I believe I'll achieve it sooner.” https://www.standaard.be/binnenland/daniel-dardha-de-beste-schaker-van-belgie-belangrijker-dan-zelfvertrouwen-uit-te-stralen-is-toch-vooral-om-het-te-hebben/77809407.html
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A teenage chess grandmaster pushes his mind and body to the limit, facing 50 opponents at once in pursuit of a world record.But the real battle isn't on the chess boards, it's proving that with enough determination, anyone can overcome the obstacles standing between them and their dreams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsW2XyiahAA
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If there is a chess paradise, it might look very much like Saint Antonin Noble Val. What a great adventure that was for me. I fell from one pleasant surprise into another there. I have never experienced anything like it. None of my previous classic tournaments (over 60 of them) comes close. It is unimaginable that this jewel in the …
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Aug. 3-7, 2025 at the Royal Athenaeum Papiermolenstraat 105, Geraardsbergen We would like to invite you to either tournament in Geraardsbergen. Unlike other tournaments, we still have plenty of room! We do not offer a mass tournament, but a quiet tournament in a relaxed atmosphere in the Flemish Ardennes. On the final day, VSF Seniors Championship participants will be offered …
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The RBCF aims to promote the Belgian chess community in an accessible and inclusive way. We encourage clubs, organizers, trainers, arbiters, and individual players to contribute content. To ensure quality and relevance for a broad audience, please follow the guidelines below.
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The Kreuzberger Sommer-Schachfestival 2025 features a tripel tournament, including Blitz, Rapid and Chess960. The tripel tournament runs from 23 - 25th of July. Yesterday - GM Igor Glek won the Rapid with 6.5 / 7, featuring 6 wins and a single draw against the other 2400+ rated participant IM Gelman, Alexander.
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The European Chess Union has launched the ECU Chess in Education Partnership with National Chess Federations to help promote chess as an educational tool in schools and institutions across Europe and beyond, strengthening the connection amongst National Federations and the broader educational community.
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Luc Cornet organised a course 'how to work with SWAR' during this year's Belgian Championship.
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The Belgian Chess Championship 2025 takes place in Westerlo (Voortkapel). It is a collaboration between Rokade Westerlo VZW and Schaakliga Antwerpen VZW. The tournament takes place from Saturday 5 July 2025 to Sunday 13 July 2025.
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After a long hiatus, schaakfabriek.be is online again! Your favourite central hub for everything related to chess in Belgium and beyond is once more within reach. What can you expect? News and updates from the chess world Tournament announcements and results Articles, analyses, and tips to improve your game And much more! Visit us now and discover everything Schaakfabriek has …
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Our quarterly ranking update (July) has just been published. You can find the new rankings here. We have processed 9 305 games from 267 different tournament reports. https://blog.frbe-kbsb-ksb.be/elo/ Where can I see calculation details? Navigate to your own ranking chart, and click on 'Fiche Individuelle' / 'Individuele Fiche'. Here you see an overview of all games taken into account for your …
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The second edition of the Championnat de la Province de Luxembourg will be held in Arlon on Sunday, August 31, 2025. Organized by the Arlon club - one of the youngest clubs in the country and already the largest in the province - this event promises to be another highlight on the Belgian chess calendar. Last year's event was a …
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Each year on July 20, the global chess community unites to celebrate International Chess Day, commemorating the founding of FIDE in 1924.
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I revisit FIDE's recent rating changes and examine whether the Elo system still serves chess effectively. With data spanning March 2024 to June 2025, I show how global deflation, junior-driven volatility, and cross-federation mismatches expose systemic flaws. The system’s rigidity in a rapidly evolving chess landscape demands statistical modernization. Let’s unpack what the numbers reveal.
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Imagine a weekend where it's all about chess, learning, laughter and friendships.... Welcome to Chess & Learn 2025 in the heart of Ghent!
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On Saturday, June 7, 2025, 112 chess players from all over the country gathered at the Brielpoort in Deinze to compete in the Belgian Blitz Championship.
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Do you love chess and running? Discover ChessRun, an original hybrid sport where reflection and endurance meet! This new concept was created by François Van Lishout, a player at the Rochade club and founder of the website chessrun.org.
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1. The Registration Fee Is Division I€305Division II€80Division III€55Division IV€30Division V€30 2. The Match Schedule is as Follows July 1: start of the registration period July 31 at 11:59 PM: registration deadline August 15: publication of the first version of the calendar September 4: start of player list compilation September 15: End of player list compilation September 22: Publication of …
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Belgium's top chess player Daniel Dardha (19) this afternoon improved the world record for clock simultaneous chess. He played 50 games simultaneously in Deinze and achieved an overall score of 87 percent in them.
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July 1st, our national ELO rankings get their 3-monthly update. In order for games to be processed, the tournament reports need to be submitted to ratings@frbe-kbsb-ksb.be at latest 28.06. Furthermore, the General Assembly approved important changes to the national ELO processing (from 01.01.2025 onwards).
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The Belgian Championship 2025 is taking place in Voortkapel (Westerlo), from Saturday July 5th till Sunday July 13th. The pre-inscription deadline is 24.06!
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The board received the below request - which we endorse and fully support To the International Olympic Committee (IOC) To the Organizing Committee of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los AngelesI respectfully urge the International Olympic Committee and the Organizing Committee of the 2028 Olympic Games to include chess as an official Olympic discipline in the competition program.Chess fully meets …
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Earlier this year, the RBCF launched a call for participation to help evaluate and rethink our current membership model. In response, a group of volunteers stepped forward to form a dedicated working group, tasked with analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the current system and exploring possible improvements. With this post we give you a status update of this workgroup, and ask for feedback on several ideas.
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Nearly two years ago, I was chosen to lead the RBCF. A term normally lasts three years, but after much reflection, I have to face the fact that I no longer have the necessary time to devote to chess: I am relaunching my independent physiotherapy practice and have other projects in the pipeline. Instead of diminishing the quality of my …
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On Saturday, June 7, chess club Karpov Deinze organizes the BK Blitz. Because this BK is part of a 4-day chess festival, it promises to be a special edition.
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In our player database section (available for members only), we have recently removed the *.DBF database formats.
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The RBCF is (still) looking for one or more organizers for the following championships, as every season: The Belgian Rapid Championship 2025 (!) that must count for fide-rapid elo processing. The Belgian Standard Championship, preferably from 04.07.2026 to 12.07.2026 → however, at the BO of 06/01/2018 it was decided that the organizations themselves may choose their period in the large …
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On May 12, 2025, the most famous chess player who ever played for the Neerpelter Chess Circle (NSK) died. Grandmaster Vlastimil Hort was 81 years old, he was once No. 6 in the world rankings and was champion of the then Czechoslovakia several times, and after he emigrated to Germany, also champion of Germany three times. He was also the …
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Luc Cornet (58) travels the world as an international chess arbiter. The Maasmechelen native was still active at the World Championship in America in December. There he witnessed the famous jeans incident with chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen. "It all started in my section," he said.
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Interested parties should contact Luc Cornet as soon as possible. Deadline of reaction is Wednesday May 14th 2025 20h.
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IA Sylvin De Vet organizes a tournament leader C course during the Belgian Championship 2025. Pre-registration required. ITt is possible to participate in combination with participation in the BC.
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As many have seen, FIDE published a new ranking yesterday (04.05.2025) in which the correction of the incorrect results has been processed. The new elo's have also been processed in our databases and on our website. Please take these new elo files into account during the upcoming tournaments. Update 02.05.2025 - the fault is traced back to an error in …
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The Hainaut Chess Club, in collaboration with the Cercle d'Echecs La Tour Saint-Ghislain and with the support of the FEFB, is pleased to organize this 9-round FIDE tournament, played at a tempo of 90 minutes, with a 30-second increment per move from the 1st move.
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Remember we announced the initiative in Baarle-Nassau / Baarle-Hertog earlier this month? Today, Baarle unveiled the chess table that is literally on the border between Belgium and the Netherlands. Here are some pictures of the event.
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On Whit Monday, June 9, grandmaster Daniel Dardha will undertake an ambitious attempt to break the world record for clock simultaneous chess. That record currently stands in the name of Dutchman Sipke Ernst, set on Nov. 19, 2022 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
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Baarle-Nassau / Baarle-Hertog, the most fascinating village in the world, has a new and unique attraction: a chess table where the border runs right across the board!
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Sunday, April 27, is Flemish Heritage Day. The theme this year is "Game On," the spotlight is on sports and games. Neighborhood Center Kerklommer De Haan is making it an afternoon (2-7 p.m.) around the game of chess. Participation is free. Registration is not required.
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The RBCF is looking for candidates to host the Belgian Youth Championships in 2027, 2028 and 2029. On the one hand, the championship serves as a selection tournament for the European and World Youth Championships. On the other hand, the aim is to give as many children as possible a taste of a tournament with nine rounds and a classic …
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One of the objectives of the Belgian Chess Federation is to support young and ambitious talents in obtaining their IM/GM standards and titles.
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In May 2025, GothamChess (Levy Rozman) – the world’s biggest chess influencer with over 6 million YouTube followers – is coming to Europe for the very first time on the first-ever chess tour.
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Last Tuesday (08-04-2025), the library collection of Wortel prison was enriched with about forty chess books, suitable for all levels and aspects of the game, donated by Chess Club Oude God Mortsel.
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Since Monday April 7th all FIDE-idnumbers in the range between 200000 and 300000 were exhausted. So, the RBCF couldn’t assign new FIDE-ids anymore. New Belgian FIDE-ids will have 9 digits, while the old ones have only 6
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On Wednesday, April 23 at 13:00, a symbolic chess match will take place to mark the opening of a unique cross-border chess table in the garden of the Cultural Centre Baarle, located at Pastoor de Katerstraat 7, 2387 Baarle-Hertog. The chessboard is positioned precisely on the border between Belgium and the Netherlands.
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The winning Mini-Team (Sint-Pietersinstituut - Turnhout) - source GvA
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On Saturday, June 7, 2025 (from 11 AM to 6 PM), the Karpov Deinze chess club will organize the Belgian Blitz Championship. As this championship is part of a 4-day chess event, it promises to be a special edition. The tournament will take place in a unique setting.
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Our quarterly ranking update (April) has just been published. You can find the new rankings here.
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The Calais club is organizing its first classic cadence open from October 25 to 30, 2025. The playing area will be located in the grand salon of the Calais town hall. All the more reason for players to get their game on!
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22nd Tournoi International du Pays de Charleroi (TIPC) - A must this summer! Dates: July 26 to August 2, 2025Location: Complexe sportif de Roux, 2 rue des Couturelles For over 20 years, the Tournoi International du Pays de Charleroi (TIPC) has been an unmissable event for chess fans. For its 22nd edition, the event continues to combine competition and conviviality, …
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There were 65 Belgians participating in the 41st edition of Cappelle La Grande. Had it been in the spring break there would certainly have been many more. Cappelle La Grande is located less than 10km from the Belgian border so has been an important addition to the Belgian chess calendar for many years. The first time I participated in 2005, …
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Your Next Move organizes a chess event in October 2025 in the prestigious KMSKA in Antwerp. 5 children between 6 and 14 years old have a chance to win a seat in a simultaneous game against Garry Kasparov!
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We've put together a historic list of Belgian Chess Champions - Men, Women, and Youth—to the best of our knowledge. It’s an attempt to document the rich history of chess in Belgium, but we know there may be gaps or inaccuracies.
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The FIDE Council has announced the extension of its rating fee waiver for all Rapid and Blitz tournaments through 2025-2026
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We're still looking for French-speaking referees to complete the team that will referee the national inter-school final on March 29 at Sint-Michielscollege, Kapelsesteenweg 72, 2930 Brasschaat. Send me an sms (0491736871) or email laurent.wery@frbe-kbsb-ksb.be
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The 2025 Belgian Youth Championships are organised by Bycco vzw, and takes place from 2 March to 8 March 2025 in the Floreal in Blankenberge (Koning Albert-I-laan 59, 8370 Blankenberge).
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April 1st, our national ELO rankings get their 3-monthly update. In order for games to be processed, the tournament reports need to be submitted to ratings@frbe-kbsb-ksb.be at latest 28.03. Furthermore, the General Assembly approved important changes to the national ELO processing (from 01.01.2025 onwards).
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Read more: https://en.chessbase.com/post/djerba-festival-2025-r9 https://en.chessbase.com/newsroom/post/game-of-the-week-659-d-dardha-p-maghsoodloo-djerba-2025?page=0 French Grandmaster Marc'Andria Maurizzi delivered a commanding performance to win the Djerba Masters, a 10-player single round-robin held on the paradisiac Tunisian island. The 17-year-old secured first place with a round to spare and finished with an impressive 7½/9 score. Belgian GM Daniel Dardha claimed second place as the only other undefeated player, while Parham Maghsoodloo …
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Check out the new FIDE website here. The new FIDE website features a fresh design, improved navigation, and a structured data representation.
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The administrative council of 25/01 has decided to create workgroups for statues & Internal Rules, chess support and membership.
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Pairtwo 1.26 is now available on the website for download. This new version completes all needs for tournament organisers as far as they were identified and as a significant bonus, Pairtwo is now able to publish tournaments on the international website of chess-results.com where also Swiss-Manager results are published. This should make Pairwo your best choice tournament software for individual …
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MSV and Chess League East Flanders are organizing a National Chess Arbiter C course. Details, see attached flyer. Bart De Vogelaere
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For 2025, the organisation was entrusted to the Antwerp league and the Rokade Westerlo chess club.
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The RBCF is looking for one or more organizers for the following championships, as every season: The Belgian Standard Championship, preferably from 04.07.2026 to 12.07.2026 → however, at the BO of 06/01/2018 it was decided that the organizations themselves may choose their period in the large common holiday period (July-August). However, if there are several candidates, then organizations that overlap …
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An online FIDE Arbiters seminar in French will be held from March 4 to April 5, 2025, via several Zoom sessions. Program : Tuesday, March 4 - 19h-22h30: Rules of the Game (3h30)Saturday, March 8 - 19h-22h30: Rules of the Game (Rapid, Blitz, Appendices) (3h30)Wednesday, March 12 - 19h-22h30: Title Rules (1h45), Rankings (1h15), Pendulums (30 min)Tuesday, March 18 - …
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Yesterday was the school chess championships Flemish Brabant. Great organization by Dolle Toren Leuven! Regional channel ROB-TV came to make a nice report.
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The RBCF board yesterday decided on the Interclub calendar for the the 2025 - 2026 season.
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With the general meeting from November 2024 two months in the past, I'd like to take the time to provide a brief overview of where we are in terms of the national ELO system, the plans to migrate to FIDE ELO only, and the changes that have been voted.
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To ensure smooth and effective communication, we kindly ask all clubs to verify their contact details in our database. Accurate information helps us address the right people for specific purposes, and ensures that our official communication reaches you.
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Dear clubs, In view of the success of the first edition, FEFB is pleased to offer you a second refereeing course! Practical info : - Candidates must be 16 years old on the exam date, which is 03/15/2025. - Attached are some information on courses and dates: 8 and 9/02: club referee training 22 and 23/02: referee training C 03/15: …
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After each round of the Belgian interclub competition, the games from the first division of the national interclub are entered and collected by the home team on the Lichess Blog of Schaakinitiatief .
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Our newest Board member Stef Renkens has made an analysis of the age distribution of the Belgian clubs.
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The Tour Hyéroise chess club is organizing a major women's tournament from April 13 to 18. All interested women are welcome to take part. For the big tournament, the organizer invites a Belgian player and offers accommodation with breakfast and shuttle service between the accommodation and the playing room. The player will be responsible for her own travel expenses to …
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Our quarterly ranking update (January) has just been published. You can find the new rankings here. The General Assembly approved important changes in the way national ELO reporting needs to be carried out.
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The ECU Arbiters Council organizes a Swiss Manager Seminar (online) on 18th and 19th of January 2025. The seminar language will be English.
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During the Pentecost weekend of 2025, chess club SK Karpov Deinze is organizing a 4-day chess event in honor of their 50th anniversary.
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Your Player Manager is busy on the FIDE world Rapid & Blitz Championship in New York. We expect a slight delay in the publication of the new ELO rankings for beginning of 2025. You can expect an updated ranking list by January 3rd.
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Best wishes for the New Year. by the RBCF-team
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A General Meeting is scheduled for 18 January 2025. At the last GA, the number of full members present was not enough to vote on the amendments to the Articles of Association. At this GA, whatever the number of members present, we will be able to vote.
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New previously affiliated unranked players can be added from now until January 2nd 2025. For now, they should be added at the bottom of the existing players on the player list.
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January 1st, our national ELO rankings get their 3-monthly update. In order for games to be processed, the tournament reports need to be submitted to ratings@frbe-kbsb-ksb.be at latest 28.12. Furthermore, the General Assembly approved important changes to the national ELO processing (from 01.01.2025 onwards).
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The 7th edition of the Cercle d “Echecs d” Anderlues Triathlon is approaching: it will be held on January 3, 4, and 5, 2025 (Friday evening-Saturday-Sunday).
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From November 16 to 29, the World Championships for Seniors 50+ took place on the Portuguese peninsula of Porto Santo and the Royal Chess Club Rochade Eupen was represented in this category by Grandmaster Igor Glek and FIDE Master Rudolf Meessen.
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Belgium is a chess country that has a lot to offer on an organisational level: in addition to the ubiquitous online chess platforms, chess players here, for example, can enjoy the many clubs with some nice youth departments. You can also play a lot of Elo tournaments here, and what's more, the offer immediately becomes much wider if parents are …
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The Annual General Meeting took place this past Saturday at our head office. Despite efforts by the OA to facilitate an online meeting option, only 60 clubs participated, either in person or via representation. This turnout was unfortunately insufficient to vote on the proposed changes to the statutes, which means a follow-up general meeting will be necessary, where decisions can …
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Daniel Dardha of KSK Rochade became European Vice-Champion. From November 7 to 20, 2024, the European Individual Chess Championship took place in the picturesque town of Petrovac, Montenegro.
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This evening we've sent the registration codes for the election process for the general assembly of Saterday. We've sent out an invitation before 21h00, which contains the link to the general assembly of last year. We've corrected the link in a second email that was sent after 21h15. We are sorry for this inconvenience The registration codes were in both …
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In the upcoming General Assembly meeting November 23th, important modifications are proposed to abandon the national ELO system, and migrate towards a FIDE only ranking system. This article aims to provide more background on the votings on the agenda - votes 7 and 8 of the tournament regulations specifically. It also explains the impact your vote has on the resulting …
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From Friday 25 to Sunday 27 October 2024, Schaakinitiatief Vlaanderen vzw organized another Chess & Learn weekend. An educational chess weekend for (adult) chess players of all ages and levels in hotel Vayamundo on the Belgian coast. In retrospect, participants feel the timing in particular was a hit. By changing the clock to winter time, we had an extra hour …
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The days when we were happy if a Belgian scored two points at the Youth World Championships are long gone. With Daniel Dardha, we had our first player who competed among the better ones, and since then, the other Belgian players are doing quite well too. The question was whether any Belgians would stand out at the Youth World Cup …
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The European Club Championship is organized every year. I suspect the recent edition was a record with 26 Belgians playing for 9 different clubs (5 Belgian, 1 German, 1 French, 1 Luxembourg and 1 Dutch).
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The Ladies Open Ghent is a collaboration between the Royal Belgian Chess Federation and the Royal Ghent Chess Circle. It is a 3-day rapid tournament from January 3 to 5, 2025, counting for FIDE rapid rating. With this tournament, we want to organize a unique tournament just for ladies. To get more ladies to play chess, there are no miracle …
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Anyone wishing to get involved in the RBCF can send their application to the Board of Directors for submission to the GA on November 23. If you have energy and time to give to the organization, we're looking for one or more people to take charge of communications and sponsorship. You can also apply to be a member of one …
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Here is an interesting read with analysis of the first 7 months after the FIDE rating changes.
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You can find here all the documents for the GA. Only clubs may attend and vote if they are full members. Only one representative per club.Proxies may be used (see procedure). Agenda Procedure for proxies Voting system Guide to good conduct for an GA online Clubs with voting rights Minutes of GA of 23-12-2023 & 17-06-2023 Auditor's report dutch - …
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This version is the first that allows everyone to publish tournament results on the internet. Version 1.18 makes perfectly finished html files that can be placed directly on the internet. The version has also been extensively tested and is ready to be used in all major tournaments
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Following an official complaint from a club, the board met on wednesday evening to analyze the situation. The RBCF acknowledges that there was a problem and that team compositions may have been visible before the round on a site external to the RBCF, due to a date error in our system. This was rectified on sunday, and the other dates …
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Our quarterly ranking update (October) has just been published. Head over to Lichess if you're feeling lucky now. Read a good book if you feel depressed.
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The last report from Budapest, chess city par excellence, where all eyes were also on in the 1990s because one Bobby Fischer, who most probably descended from a Hungarian father (the physicist Dr Pal Nemeyi), lived there from 1993 to 2000. By the way, his rematch against Boris Spasski in 1992 was mainly due to a Hungarian player, Zita Rajcsanyi. …
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In the Interclubs Manager the planning module has become active, meaning that all clubs can input their teams for the first round of next Sunday. Also there is an imported bugfix: the excel download of the playerlist contains the players imported from another club.
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Lajos Portisch, who we presented in our yesterday's report, got to play the first move at the Olympiads today and he received recognition for all his achievements. Yet he is certainly not the only living legend of Hungarian chess. In women's chess too, Hungary grew into a top country and a great candidate for medals in the Olympiads. Until the …
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A country where chess was so popular would naturally put itself on the chess map. Laszlo Szabo took over from Gena Maroczy as best player. Gedeon Barcza (1911-1986) would mainly dedicate himself to patriotic chess as a writer and trainer. Together, from 1951, they would inspire an awful lot of Hungarians through the chess magazine Magyar Sakkélet. Popularity would also …
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Due to the many commissions I try to attend in Budapest, yesterday's report has been delayed for a while.... My apologies. Hungary did not just go through a period of poverty after WWI. In fact, it also had to cope with an identity shift. The Austrian empire had disintegrated and German culture became less pronounced. As a result, Jewish culture …
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The prize money in our Belgian summer tournaments has not been indexed for decades so that (foreign) professionals rarely play in them nowadays.
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October 1st, our national rankings get their 3-monthly update. In order for games to be processed, the tournament reports need to be submitted to ratings@frbe-kbsb-ksb.be at latest 27.09
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Chess to get out of misery... it could easily have been a theme at the Global Chess Festival organised for the 10th time by Judit Polgar yesterday and the day before yesterday, but it was reality after the First World War. On 6 November 1921, the Hungarian Chess Federation MSSZ was founded at the Budapest Chamber of Industry and Commerce …
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Just as our Olympics teams did not travel to Budapest to visit the city, the young Maroczy (yes, the one from the Maroczy bind) had not come to Budapest to see the new buildings. He was mostly intrigued by the already long tradition of Hungarian chess. When the first leg of Maroczy's career had ended, Budapest had become a city …
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Today I searched in vain for the Café Wurm in Budapest, the cradle of organised Hungarian chess, where in the first quarter of the 19th century chess players regularly met and conceived the idea of forming a league. Yet it was not that Café, but rather the Café Velence, equally untraceable today, that became the main venue for chess players …
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Find the latest calender publication of the National Interclubs on the National Interclub tournament page. To be sure, verify all the (latest) changes.
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As always, arbiters are appointed for the matches in the first national division. If you are interested, please let me know, with preference for dates and home clubs.
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‘Budapest is the most beautiful city in the world,’ I read in an article by Laszlo Jakobetz. Judit Polgar also confided this to me when she came to the 2022 Belgian Youth Championships, but she then also added: ‘... but Bruges is also a beautiful city’. I doubt that Budapest is the most beautiful city in the world, and the …
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Over the last years, Bernard Malfliet has reworked his PairTwo tournament management software. You can read the latest release notes below. PairTwo is available for download from the Software page.
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THIS INVITATION OF THE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL BELGIAN CHESS FEDERATION IS INTENDED FOR YOUR MEMBER CLUBS AND MEMBERS Dear Madam,Dear Sir, I’m honored to invite you to the 6th PCU Chess Cup from 22 to 24 November 2024 organized at the campuses of the official host, the AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts Antwerp, Belgium. The PCU Chess …
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Both Women en men's team are taking part at the Olympiad. This tournament has begun the 11th of september. In the first match, women made a good winning over Oman (4-0). They played the second match against the strong German team. And the Belgian players did better than defend themselves. The harsh score (1-3) does not reflect the fight on …
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In our April survey, a majority of respondents indicated their preference of moving towards a unified global rating system (FIDE). In order to have a good understanding of both systems, we are launching this series of articles. This is the last of four articles explaining the arbiter requirements.
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The RBCF is looking for one or more organizers for the following championships, as every season: The Belgian Standard Championship, preferably from 05/07 to 13/07 → however, at the BO of 06/01/2018 it was decided that the organizations themselves may choose their period in the large common holiday period (July-August). However, if there are several candidates, then organizations that overlap …
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228 players came to Namur on 8th September for the third edition of Mémorial Decrop, to battle during 9 rounds of rapid chess (10 minutes + 5 sec increment per move). The fight for 1st place mainly involved the two best belgian players. The first decisive game occurred at round 5 when Daniel Dardha (who had already lost half a …
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The clubs can now create/modify the playerlists in the Interclubs Manager.
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The registrations for the league championship of the chess league Antwerp are open.
This provincial tournament is open to all and is organized this season by the Royal Turnhout SK.
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All the details of the results of the belgian players can be find here Congratulations to all of you !
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The calendar 2024-2025 is published. Please find all relevant information on the National Interclub Competition page below.
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FRBE (ASBL) - KBSB (VZW) - KSB (VoG)
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Fédération Royale Belge des Echecs (ASBL)
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Koninklijke Belgische Schaakbond (VZW)
Königlicher Schachbund Belgien (VoG)
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Company number: 0413.797.644
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