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Makarycheva interviews Tkachiev on NTV during the Golden Blitz tournament in Moscow in 2005 | photo: Misha Savinov, ChessBase

FIDE, and new website, to change the face of chess?

By mishanp on June 23, 2011

Yesterday I tweeted that FIDE was to introduce blitz and rapid ratings from 1 January onwards. The source, Chess-News, gave no details, but it now appears FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was talking in a discussion that marked the launch of a new bilingual website by blitz aficionado, Vladislav Tkachiev.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Campomanes, Ilyumzhinov, Makarycheva, Surov, Tkachiev, WhyChess | 9 Responses

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