Statement of FIDE President on International Chess Day 2025.




My dear chess friends, to you, to all who love our game, happy International Chess Day, today we celebrate it as we continue to develop chess all across the world. And I hope that both today and every day you'll get a chance to play and also to show how to play to your friends, to those who didn't enter our chess community yet. So let's do it together and let's do it again every day. This day I would like to stress that we have been committed fully to bring chess uh all across the globe to all corners of our beautiful world from big tournaments where top masters, top grand masters play for the prizes and we continue to increase the prices. We continue to have more and more events. But this year is special. We dedicated it to social chess, to the impact that chess can make in all area of our social life, in all our communities. Bring chess to the classrooms, bring chess to community halls, to refugee camps, even to prison cells everywhere. We show what impact can the 64 square board make on people, how we can improve lives, how we can make sure that people learn something from chess and become better. So at these days I call you to continue those initiatives not only this year but for all the future years to come. Again happy international chess day and let's do all those things together. On this special day, we wish a very Happy International Chess Day to all who love and live the game — and calls on the world to keep playing, teaching, and growing our global chess family every day.

Arkady Dvorkovich, FIDE President.


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