FIDE
International organization that connects the various national chess federations
Also known as Fédération Internationale des Échecs · World Chess Federation · Federation Internationale des Echecs
- Instance of
- Country
- Located in
- Founded
- July 20, 1924
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Sources- 1.Stated in Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 2.Stated in Great Russian Encyclopedia
- July 20, 1924
Overview
All data
84 statements · 18% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Headquarters
- Lausanne street address: Avenue de Rhodanie, 54 · coordinates: 46.5155°N, 6.6093°E
- Chair
- Arkady Dvorkovich(since 2018)
- Alexander Rueb(1924–1949)
- Folke Rogard(1949–1970)
- Max Euwe(1970–1978)
- Friðrik Ólafsson(1978–1982)
- Florencio Campomanes(1982–1995)
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov(1995–2018)
- Motto text
- Gens Una Sumus
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Sources- 1.“FIDE : Actividad • lichess.org”lichess.org/@/FIDERetrieved 2021-03-27
- Gens Una Sumus
- Social media followers
- 291,000(September 20, 2025) youtube channel id: UC9B47GnzCRFHTT1BIBWvStQ
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- 213,434(February 5, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 249601765
- 262,000(February 9, 2025) youtube channel id: UC9B47GnzCRFHTT1BIBWvStQ
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- 157,000(May 31, 2023) youtube channel id: UC9B47GnzCRFHTT1BIBWvStQ
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- 161,729(February 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 249601765
- 80,800(July 2, 2021) youtube channel id: UC9B47GnzCRFHTT1BIBWvStQ
- 102,516(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 249601765
- 90,156(September 1, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 249601765
- 291,000(September 20, 2025) youtube channel id: UC9B47GnzCRFHTT1BIBWvStQ
- Short name
- FIDE
- ФИДЕ
- ФИДЕ
- ФИДЕ
- ФИДЕ
- ФИДЕ
- ФІДЕ
- ფიდე
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- פיד״ה
- 国际棋联
- 國際棋聯
- ՖԻԴԵ
- فیده
- ফিদে
- ഫിഡെ
- Affiliation
- International Olympic Committee(June 25, 1999)
On other databases
29 identifiers linking FIDE across the web's reference databases
- Armeniapedia ID6074
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11988724c
- Domain namefide.com
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Federation-Internationale-des-Echecs
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)MnxVz
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)91829
- Facebook usernameChessFIDE
- FES digital collections entity ID368731
- Freebase ID/m/02_4k
- GND ID1044932-2
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2199074
- Harper's tagworld-chess-federation
- IdRef ID027956091
- Instagram usernamefide_chess
- ISNI0000000121514527
- J9U entity ID987007269949505171
- Lex IDFIDE
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn50067918
- Lichess usernameFIDE
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000143300
- NE.se IDvärldsschackförbundet
- NL CR AUT IDko2002152584
- SHARE Catalogue author ID490437
- UIA Open Yearbook organization website ID1100019026
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID34047
- VIAF cluster ID125119978
- X (Twitter) usernameFIDE_chess
- Yale LUX IDgroup/4abfb14a-323f-4c84-820a-31e9da3f81f0
- YouTube channel IDUC9B47GnzCRFHTT1BIBWvStQ