OLYMPIC CHESS EXPEDITION 2005

By embarking on this expedition we will secure new interest through the media on the UK Chess as a Sport Campaign. We will be leaving as soon as we have our two vehicles and all our funding is in place. We are backing the London 2012 bid. We want all the chess players in the UK to support this bid. That is 4 million of us chess players. We want you to visit their site and register your name please remember to let them know you are a chess player. (Our Expedition leader meets Garry Kasparov in London, 8th January 2005 - picture right)

We need help from sponsors. Can your company help? Are you an individual who can help us? Please email us.
See here for Expedition account details.

We are dedicated chess enthusiasts who have been promoting chess in the UK for many years. We now need help for the ChessXpedition 2005. We have already invested a lot of time and energy and finance to get to this stage, however we require further assistance.

  • A company to loan us 2 4x4 vehicles. (Your cars will travel the world ). We need help on this urgently.
  • Corporate sponsorship. Get your company logo on the cars, or sponsor a specific part of the expedition.
  • Clothing and Camping equipment.
  • Camera equipment. We are filming the expedition for broadcast on television.
    SPONSORSHIP NEWS.. See our sponsorship page for update.
  • All electrical and communications equipment. (Satellite phone, GPS system, short wave radios etc.)
  • Clothing, merchandise to give away, you can sponsor any number of parts of this expedition.
You can sponsor our petrol, tyres, any part of the expedition. Please get in touch with us. If you are a company or an individual who can help, please do contact us. We still require funding of the trip, so we are looking for Sponsors.

We can not give all the details here at the moment please watch this space as developments happen.

We hope that chess players will be able to follow our route around the world and that we can keep you updated every week of our progress.Once we are on off, you can keep up with how we are doing using our map below. We will keep you updated with weekly and monthly reports from the countries we are visiting.

So you get the idea. We travel 64 countries we have already marked on our magic chessboard, play a game of chess and move on to the next country. We garner support for Chess in the Olympics, Chess as a sport in the UK, as well as the London 2012 bid to host the games. If chess can help London maybe London will help chess, with its overdue status of a sport.

Chess Expedition 2005 - follow our progress

Mission Statement

Chess is one of the sports that the UK excels at globally. Moreover FIDE (the world chess governing body) is the second largest sporting organisation in the world.

Despite chess being played by more than 4 million people regardless of social, cultural and physical backgrounds in this country, the sport is run on a shoestring budget based on a grant of barely £50,000.
Our goal is to see chess:
  • categorised as a sport, as in practically all other EU countries
  • secure extra grants and funds for development of the sport
  • promote the educational and social advantages of chess in school curricula
  • further market the sport for the average player
  • help and support the fast growing ranks of chess professionals in this country
  • encouraging and supporting any budding Kasparovs, Shorts or Polgars
  • to get Chess recognised as a full medal Olympic sport


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