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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 .
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the systems are used to ...
A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs often provide for both informal and tournament games and sometimes offer league play. Traditionally clubs play over the board and face to face chess as opposed to playing on internet chess servers or computer chess.
In 2016 the League announced it would be opened to cities from around the world, moved to the website chess.com, and renamed the Professional Rapid Online Chess League. [1] At its peak, the USCL comprised twenty teams, whose members included some of the highest-rated chess players in the United States. [2]
Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. [3] One of the largest chess platforms in the world, [4] the site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available for accounts with subscriptions.
Alain C. White (March 3, 1880 to April 12, 1951) was an American conservationist and chess problem composer in the first half of the 20th century. He played a pivotal role in Connecticut land preservation, and founded the journal The Good Companion Chess Problem Club .
The entrance to the Marshall Chess Club at 23 West Tenth Street, Manhattan. The Marshall Chess Club, in Greenwich Village, New York City, is one of the oldest chess clubs in the United States. The club was formed in 1915 by a group of players led by Frank Marshall. It is a nonprofit organization and a gold affiliate of the United States Chess ...
There are numerous national and regional bodies for postal chess, as well as a number of organisations devoted to organizing email play for free such as the International Email Chess Group (IECG), Lechenicher SchachServer (LSS), and the Free Internet Correspondence Games Server (FICGS), that also run a world championship cycle, and ...