The Kramnik Challenge is a 16-player rapid round-robin taking place on chess24 from August 12-15. The third of five events on the $100,000 Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, it features two teams of 8 young players captained by Vladimir Kramnik and Judit Polgar.

The winner earns $3,000 as well as a place on the next event on the $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, starting August 28. The time control is 10 minutes for all moves, with a 5-second increment per move starting from move 1. The winner is decided by individual points, but the players’ scores also count towards team standings. After the tour is over the best scoring team earns a trip to the World Chess Championship match in Dubai.

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Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour: Kramnik Challenge | Day 1 | Surya Ganguly and guests

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FIDE Athletes Commission composition announced

Dinara Saduakassova (Kazakhstan) will be the first athlete to chair this commission for a period of half a year, followed by Ju Wenjun, and Ahmed Adly, in a six-month rotation.

The International Chess Federation is pleased to announce the composition of the newly created Athletes Commission:

GM A. R. Saleh Salem (UAE)

GM Ahmed Adly (Egypt)

IM Alina Kashlinskaya (Russia)

GM Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria)

IM Carolina Lujan (Argentina)

GM David Navara (Czech Republic)

IM Dinara Saduakassova (Kazakhstan)

IM Ekaterina Atalik (Turkey)

IM Jomo Pitterson (Jamaica)

GM Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo (Colombia)

GM Ju Wenjun (China)

IM Odion Aikhoje (Nigeria)

IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iran)

By the deadline of December 21, FIDE had received nine candidacies for the ten elected positions. Therefore, as decided by the FIDE Council, voting was not required and these nine candidates made it directly into the Commission. Along with these athletes who presented their candidacy, four other members were appointed by the FIDE Council: IM Alina Kashlinskaya, IM Ekaterina Atalik, IM Jomo Pitterson, and IM Odion Aikhoje.

The FIDE Council reserves itself the right to appoint two more members, in order to reach a total composition of 15 representatives of the players as stipulated in the regulations.

The term of election and appointment of all members will be four years, but exceptionally the first term is limited to two years, until the 2022 FIDE Congress.

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