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Over 100 teams from 50 countries will take part in the 3rd Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners

Inmates from the Senior Correctional Centre in Accra, Ghana prepare to participate in the 3rd Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners. The event, scheduled for October 11-13, 2023, is a part of the Chess for Freedom Program, launched two years ago to promote chess as a tool for education and social inclusion in prisons worldwide. …

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Chess federation of Zambia will begin the selection of the players who will be part of the team to compete.

A record number of participants – 88 teams representing 41 countries have already registered for the third Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners, scheduled for October 11-13, 2023. Teams wanting to join the tournament can register via the following link until September 29, 2023. 57 male, 18 female and 11 youth teams made of amateur chess players, for whom the game became …

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53 teams representing prisons and correctional facilities from 27 countries have already registered for the competition.

Chess sets are distributed to 16 Prison facilities in Malawi and two of these are ready to participate in the Intercontinental Championship

Fifteen teams from 9 countries have already confirmed their participation

FIDE is excited to announce the third Intercontinental Online Chess Championship for Prisoners, to be held from October 11-13, 2023.

More than 40 participants dicussed concepts of using chess as a rehabilitation tool for incarcerated people.

More than 40 participants have come to Chicago to discuss concepts and approaches to using chess as a rehabilitation tool for incarcerated people.