She is a Women FIDE Master and has represented Trinidad and Tobago as the Board 1 player at a number of World Chess Olympiads.
Arianne Caoili (born December 22, 1986) is an Australian chess player who achieved the FIDE Woman International Master title.
He became an International Master in 1950 (the year the title was first awarded by FIDE).
In the FIDE list of March 2012, she has an Elo rating of 2342, making her Turkey's number two female player.
He is a FIDE Master and has represented Trinidad and Tobago as the board 1 player at a number of World Chess Olympiads.
It is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the supreme body responsible for the organization of chess and its championships at global and continental levels.
As of the July 2012 FIDE rating list, she is ranked number 199 in the world and second in Turkey among female active players.
Both the United States Chess Federation and FIDE have switched their formulas for calculating chess ratings from the normal distribution to the logistic distribution; see Elo rating system.
Murugan continued to improve rapidly, reaching 2269 Elo on FIDE's published rating list before age twelve.
As a chess player, he holds the USCF title of National Master and Life Master, and the FIDE title of FIDE Master.
phpChess supports different modes of play and adheres to the chess rules set down by FIDE.
In May 2012, the Tretyakov Art Gallery played host to the prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at the same time.
It was organised by FIDE and was played in a match format between the defending champion and a challenger, determined via the FIDE Grand Prix series.
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On 20 July, the last day of the games, 15 delegates from all over the World signed the proclamation act of the International Chess Federation (originally known as Fédération Internationale des Échecs in French) and elected Dr. Alexander Rueb of Holland the first FIDE president.
Even without their strongest players, the "Three K's" (PCA world champion Garry Kasparov, FIDE champion Anatoly Karpov and Vladimir Kramnik), Russia were still favourites, and the team did win their fourth consecutive title.
In the next four FIDE World Championship tournaments he was knocked out at the last sixteen stage: at Las Vegas 1999 by Michael Adams, at New Delhi 2000 to Veselin Topalov, at Moscow 2001 to Viswanathan Anand, and finally at Tripoli 2004 to Leinier Dominguez.
The organisation has been compared by some to the Professional Chess Association, the body established by Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short as an organisation under which to play their 1993 World Championship having broken away from FIDE, the official governing body of chess.
Florencio Campomanes (1927–2010), Filipino chess player and President of FIDE.
# Angelo Mai, secretary of S. C. Propaganda Fide (in pectore, published on 12 February 1838) – cardinal priest of S. Anastasia (received the title on 15 February 1838), died 9 September 1854
De Mooi described the events, which saw Kirsan Ilyumzhinov re-elected over Anatoly Karpov, as "a farce of a vote", going on to declare: "You wouldn't believe the blatant breaking of rules and FIDE's written statutes. It's amazing. There wasn't even a pretence of fairness and free speech."
Following the split in the world chess championship in 1993, there were two rival world titles: the official FIDE world title, and the PCA world title held by Garry Kasparov.
The team had only one bona-fide player, ex-Ottawa star Weldy Young, but he was unable to make it to Ottawa in time, delayed in Dawson City as an election official.
On the April 2007 FIDE rating list he has an Elo rating of 2567, making him Slovenia's second highest-rated player after Alexander Beliavsky.
While sailing off the coast of Great Yarmouth on 14 August 1915, Gunner Jehan received news that a merchant ship, the Bona Fide, of 59 tons, had been stopped by the German submarine UB-4 and subsequently scuttled with explosives by a boarding party.
The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 took place in Potrero de los Funes, San Luis Province in Argentina from September 27 to October 16, 2005.
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However, the non-participation of "Classical" World Champion Vladimir Kramnik meant that there were still two competing claimants to World Champion: FIDE Champion Topalov, and "Classical" Champion Kramnik.
He received his episcopal consecration on the following 10 April from Cardinal Girolamo Maria Gotti, OCD, with Archbishops Pietro Gasparri and Edmund Stonor serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide.
Friðrik Ólafsson (born 1935), Icelandic chess Grandmaster and former president of FIDE
For this attempt, Olafsson drew the wrath of the Soviets, who then backed the FIDE Vice-President, Florencio Campomanes for Presidency of FIDE.
This project dated back to 1670, when it was instigated by the secretary of Propaganda Fide, Monsignor Baldeschi, who, along with Cardinal Altieri, were among his most influential friends and contacts in the city.
Simeoni received his episcopal consecration on the following April 4 from Cardinal Alessandro Franchi, with Archbishops Edward Henry Howard and Pietro Villanova Castellacci serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Pontifical Urban Athenaeum of Propaganda Fide.
Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with "telling it like it is", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham—in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.
Although bona fide infectious diseases such as Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ick) do not spontaneously appear due to overcrowding itself, a disease-state results from elevated nitrates.
It is found among rocks in dark, shady ravines in the Tirupati Hills (fide M.A. Smith 1935).
FIDE's discussions mainly favored: A round-robin tournament involving the world's top players, to determine who would be the new World Champion (their first proposal in July 1946 nominated Euwe, Botvinnik, Paul Keres, Vasily Smyslov, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and one of the winners of the Groningen and Prague tournaments to be held later in 1946).
However the whole congress and the election took place under very suspicious circumstances, including one employee of FIDE, Ignatius Leong from Singapore, who was holding a number of proxies, feeling threatened and asking for protection by the American Embassy.
Ryan's tenure as commander of PACAF and Air Force Chief of Staff also engendered controversy when he was described as one of a group that helped destroy General Jack Lavelle's career after Lavelle gave fighter pilots permission to shoot back at bona fide threats, something previously denied them by rules of engagement.
He joined the Armenian Uniate Catholic Church, then studied in Rome, serving as an Armenian teacher to The Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide and was present at First Vatican Council.
Michael Wayne Belcher II (born November 10, 1972) is a local tournament director of the United States Chess Federation and Chief/Deputy Arbiter of FIDE (World Chess Federation).
But after the FIDE world championship cycle was established in 1948, reigning champions had to play the strongest contender every three years, and successful title defenses became less common than in the pre-World War II years, when the titleholder could select his challenger.
Mikko Markkula (1942-2012) of Finland is Chairman of the FIDE Qualification Commission, which decides on title applications for the GM, IM and lesser titles.
She won this gold medal at the 30th Chess Olympiad, organized by FIDE and which took place between June 7 and June 25, 1992, at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila, Philippines.
Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses can be summarized as “Sola Gratia" ("by Divine Grace alone"), Sola Fide ("by Faith alone”), and Sola Scriptura ("by the Bible alone").
The first championship was held the year that FIDE was founded, at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
In early 2006, FIDE had already announced the conditions for the World Chess Championship 2007: an eight-player tournament which included FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov, but not "Classical" World Champion Vladimir Kramnik.