Guildford FIDE Congress 2024 – Progress report #1
The FIDE Congress is now only 10 weeks away. How are the preparations going?
So far we have 46 entries.
The entries include 15 juniors; 11 members of Guildford; and 2 female players. These aren't mutually exclusive – a number of Guildford juniors have already signed up.
We have a team of three FIDE arbiters – Emma-Jane Billington-Phillips and John Bowley, who were arbiters at the first FIDE Congress in 2023, and Paul McKeown, who joins us this year.
As last year, this will be an international event: a total of 8 different FIDE Federations are already represented.
For more details, see the FIDE Congress page on this website or the Chess-Results server.
So far we have 46 entries.
- 23 in the Open (average rating 1978), including 3 IMs.
- 12 in the Major / U2000 (average rating 1640).
- 11 in the Minor / U1600 (average rating 1376).
The entries include 15 juniors; 11 members of Guildford; and 2 female players. These aren't mutually exclusive – a number of Guildford juniors have already signed up.
We have a team of three FIDE arbiters – Emma-Jane Billington-Phillips and John Bowley, who were arbiters at the first FIDE Congress in 2023, and Paul McKeown, who joins us this year.
As last year, this will be an international event: a total of 8 different FIDE Federations are already represented.
For more details, see the FIDE Congress page on this website or the Chess-Results server.