Bulgarian Chess Federation Plans To Bid For the FIDE Candidates 2014

FIDE opened the bidding procedure for the World Women's Championship 2014. This will be a knock-out competition with 64 participants. The championship is scheduled to take place from October 9-31.

The 84th FIDE Congress has started in Tallinn, Estonia. FIDE website provides with the agenda of the Congress which consists of 40 topics. first five days are allocated for FIDE Commisions' meetings, presidential council will be held on October 7 and 8. It should decide the venue for the nearest Candidates. Chess-News plans to cover the final part of the Congress in detail.

Bulgarian Chess Federation (BCF) filed statement of appeal against FIDE at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne and requested cancelation of the contract between FIDE and the company AGON, it also protests against paragraphs 13.5 and 13.6 of the FIDE Regulations approved at the FIDE Congress. We have received the official press release stating BCF's position. We are offering it below:

FIDE website reports the next Candidates to be held from March 12 to 30. The venue is Russian city Khanty-Mansiysk.

As Chess-News has found out the trial initiated by the Bulgarian Chess Federation (BCF) which sued FIDE has finished in Lausanne. Namely, BCF demanded abrogation of the contract signed between FIDE and company AGON. According to the contract, the Candidates tournament was scheduled to take place in March 2013 in London. The suit implied the demand for cancellation of the tournament.

The next World Women's Championship match, in which the reigning champion Hou Yifan should face the winner of the World Championship knock-out in Sochi, has been scheduled for October 11th-31st, 2015.

All participants of the Candidates signed the contract

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