Steven Bellens 23.01.2025
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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Steven Bellens 22.01.2025 2
The RBCF board yesterday decided on the Interclub calendar for the the 2025 – 2026 season.
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Steven Bellens 19.01.2025 3
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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Laurent Wery 18.01.2025
Dear clubs, In view of the success of the first edition, FEFB is pleased to offer you a second refereeing…
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Schaakinitiatief 08.01.2025
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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Steven Bellens 07.01.2025 7
Our newest Board member Stef Renkens has made an analysis of the age distribution of the Belgian clubs.
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Laurent Wery 07.01.2025
The Tour Hyéroise chess club is organizing a major women’s tournament from April 13 to 18. All interested women are…
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Steven Bellens 01.01.2025 1
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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Steven Bellens 31.12.2024
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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Steven Bellens 24.12.2024
Best wishes for the New Year. by the RBCF-team
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Laurent Wery 20.12.2024 2
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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Luc Cornet 17.12.2024
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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Steven Bellens 12.12.2024 23
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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Christian Henrotte 08.12.2024
The 7th edition of the Cercle d’Echecs d’Anderlues Triathlon is approaching: it’s January 3,4,5, 2025 (Friday evening-Saturday-Sunday).
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Gunther Delhaes 01.12.2024 1
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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Philippe Vukojevic 29.11.2024 7
Belgium is a chess country that has a lot to offer on an organisational level: in addition to the ubiquitous…
Read more Laurent Wery 25.11.2024 4
The Annual General Meeting took place this past Saturday at our head office. Despite efforts by the OA to facilitate…
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Gunther Delhaes 22.11.2024 2
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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Ruben Decrop 19.11.2024 10
This evening we’ve sent the registration codes for the election process for the general assembly of Saterday. We’ve sent out…
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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…
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