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FIDE celebrates its 95thanniversary
July 20, 2019
From the FIDE website:
FIDE celebrates its 95th anniversary
Today, July 20th, is the 95th anniversary of the founding of FIDE, during the 8th Summer Olympics Games in Paris, 1924. Traditionally, since it was proposed by UNESCO in 1966, this date not only marks the anniversary of our organization, but also the International Chess Day. Ours is the only sport which has a special worldwide celebration day dedicated to it, showing that chess is a unique game that unites people over the globe.
This year, to celebrate International Chess Day, we launched a social media campaign under the hashtag #InternationalChessDay.
https://www.fide.com/component/conte...niversary.html
Some of the twitter postings:
(Vishy Anand) (showing his picture on the cover of a chess magazine) – An old favourite. That was how we learnt chess in my youth. Reading magazines. The best gift today. The 64 GMs in India. Happy Chess day India.
(Peter Heine Nielsen) – Chess is where I met my wife.
(Federico Marin) – When you play chess, it is almost impossible to hate someone, to have a bad thought or to remember the problems in your life.
(Carsten Hansen) (with a photo of Tal) – My brother, Bent, and I getting autographs from Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian in Naestved 1985
(Magnus Carlsen) – I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
(Jan Gustafsson) – As a six-year old growing up on a tiny yacht in the Mediterranean Sea, I saw chess as my only way out. Then I realized we were surrounded by water, so I just stayed inside and played chess with myself.
I have found my way off the bot since, but never a way out of chess, sacrificing everything, especially acquiring social or any other skills, to stay close to the game.
I wouldn’t trade it for any other job. Except dentist maybe.. Happy International Chess Day!
(Garry Kasparov) – Chess was my life from a very young age. It meant opportunity, competition, hard work, and joy. On International Chess Day, what does chess mean to you?
(John Hartmann) - It's #InternationalChessDay and I'm off to the @STLChessClub for work. Chess has been helped me find friends in new places and provided solace in tough times. My life has been immensely richer for it.
(Eduardo Iturrizaga) - "LIFE is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move knowing which move to make comes with in-sight and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. we become each and every piece within the game called LIFE". #InternationalChessDay
(Harika Dronavali) - Chess is incredible because of the unlimited combinations which it provides and the vast breadth of knowledge where one is always learning. I won my first world medal when I was 9 & from then there has been no looking back. Chess has become part of my life❣️
(Ryan Sarson) - I first started playing chess against the computer in 1982. Been losing to it ever since.
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Any ChessTalkers with comments on what chess means to you?
July 20, 2019
From the FIDE website:
FIDE celebrates its 95th anniversary
Today, July 20th, is the 95th anniversary of the founding of FIDE, during the 8th Summer Olympics Games in Paris, 1924. Traditionally, since it was proposed by UNESCO in 1966, this date not only marks the anniversary of our organization, but also the International Chess Day. Ours is the only sport which has a special worldwide celebration day dedicated to it, showing that chess is a unique game that unites people over the globe.
This year, to celebrate International Chess Day, we launched a social media campaign under the hashtag #InternationalChessDay.
https://www.fide.com/component/conte...niversary.html
Some of the twitter postings:
(Vishy Anand) (showing his picture on the cover of a chess magazine) – An old favourite. That was how we learnt chess in my youth. Reading magazines. The best gift today. The 64 GMs in India. Happy Chess day India.
(Peter Heine Nielsen) – Chess is where I met my wife.
(Federico Marin) – When you play chess, it is almost impossible to hate someone, to have a bad thought or to remember the problems in your life.
(Carsten Hansen) (with a photo of Tal) – My brother, Bent, and I getting autographs from Mikhail Tal and Rafael Vaganian in Naestved 1985
(Magnus Carlsen) – I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
(Jan Gustafsson) – As a six-year old growing up on a tiny yacht in the Mediterranean Sea, I saw chess as my only way out. Then I realized we were surrounded by water, so I just stayed inside and played chess with myself.
I have found my way off the bot since, but never a way out of chess, sacrificing everything, especially acquiring social or any other skills, to stay close to the game.
I wouldn’t trade it for any other job. Except dentist maybe.. Happy International Chess Day!
(Garry Kasparov) – Chess was my life from a very young age. It meant opportunity, competition, hard work, and joy. On International Chess Day, what does chess mean to you?
(John Hartmann) - It's #InternationalChessDay and I'm off to the @STLChessClub for work. Chess has been helped me find friends in new places and provided solace in tough times. My life has been immensely richer for it.
(Eduardo Iturrizaga) - "LIFE is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move knowing which move to make comes with in-sight and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. we become each and every piece within the game called LIFE". #InternationalChessDay
(Harika Dronavali) - Chess is incredible because of the unlimited combinations which it provides and the vast breadth of knowledge where one is always learning. I won my first world medal when I was 9 & from then there has been no looking back. Chess has become part of my life❣️
(Ryan Sarson) - I first started playing chess against the computer in 1982. Been losing to it ever since.
___________
Any ChessTalkers with comments on what chess means to you?
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