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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.

Tony Ballard from the Gift of Chess paid a visit to Topeka Correctional Facility, the only women’s prison in Kansas.

The first in-person Chess for Freedom Conference will take place from 17-20 May, 2023, in Chicago, USA. The event will feature many experts from the worldwide chess community and will be broadcast live on FIDE’s Youtube channel. Additionally, its participants have the possibility to join the Zoom call and ask questions to the speakers. In order to …

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The event will feature many experts from the worldwide chess community introducing concepts and approaches to using chess as a rehabilitation tool for incarcerated people.