Steven Bellens 15.11.2024 24
In the upcoming General Assembly meeting November 23th, important modifications are proposed to abandon the national ELO system, and migrate…
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Schaakinitiatief 11.11.2024
From Friday 25 to Sunday 27 October 2024, Schaakinitiatief Vlaanderen vzw organized another Chess & Learn weekend. An educational chess…
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Philippe Vukojevic 10.11.2024
The days when we were happy if a Belgian scored two points at the Youth World Championships are long gone.…
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Helmut Froeyman 07.11.2024 1
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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Laurent Wery 07.11.2024
The Ladies Open Ghent is a collaboration between the Royal Belgian Chess Federation and the Royal Ghent Chess Circle. It…
Read moreLaurent Wery 01.11.2024 1
Anyone wishing to get involved in the RBCF can send their application to the Board of Directors for submission to…
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Steven Bellens 27.10.2024 4
Here is an interesting read with analysis of the first 7 months after the FIDE rating changes.
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Laurent Wery 25.10.2024 18
You can find here all the documents for the GA. Only clubs may attend and vote if they are full…
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Bernard Malfliet 21.10.2024 2
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
Read more Laurent Wery 02.10.2024 19
Following an official complaint from a club, the board met on wednesday evening to analyze the situation. The RBCF acknowledges…
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Philippe Vukojevic 23.09.2024 3
The last report from Budapest, chess city par excellence, where all eyes were also on in the 1990s because one…
Read moreRuben Decrop 22.09.2024 15
In the Interclubs Manager the planning module has become active, meaning that all clubs can input their teams for the…
Read more Philippe Vukojevic 22.09.2024
Lajos Portisch, who we presented in our yesterday’s report, got to play the first move at the Olympiads today and…
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A country where chess was so popular would naturally put itself on the chess map. Laszlo Szabo took over from…
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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…
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Helmut Froeyman 19.09.2024
The prize money in our Belgian summer tournaments has not been indexed for decades so that (foreign) professionals rarely play in them nowadays.
Read more Philippe Vukojevic 19.09.2024
Chess to get out of misery… it could easily have been a theme at the Global Chess Festival organised for…
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Just as our Olympics teams did not travel to Budapest to visit the city, the young Maroczy (yes, the one…
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Philippe Vukojevic 16.09.2024 5
Today I searched in vain for the Café Wurm in Budapest, the cradle of organised Hungarian chess, where in the…
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Steven Bellens 15.09.2024
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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Steven Bellens 15.09.2024
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.
Read more Philippe Vukojevic 15.09.2024
‘Budapest is the most beautiful city in the world,’ I read in an article by Laszlo Jakobetz. Judit Polgar also…
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Bernard Malfliet 14.09.2024 2
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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Laurent Wery 14.09.2024
THIS INVITATION OF THE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL BELGIAN CHESS FEDERATION IS INTENDED FOR YOUR MEMBER CLUBS AND MEMBERS Dear…
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