| We are happy to announce the commencement of a new campaign
to get Chess into the Summer Olympic Games by 2012. We will put pressure
on the Federation Internationale Des Echecs ( F.I.D.E ). |
We aim to attract other Countries to work
with us to achieve our aim. Chess is recognised as a sport in most Countries
around the world. After football chess's international federation (F.I.D.E.)
has more member Countries than any other sport. Chess has gained recognition
by the International Olympic Committee as a Sport. We just have to put
a few things in place and soon we could be part of the Olympics proper.
Children around the world learning and playing Chess, could one day soon
be competing for Gold Medals and representing their country on the biggest
world stage of all. |
London is hoping to host the games in 2012 and we
would dearly love to have chess in these Olympics. |
| Remember Garry Kasparov's first match against the IBM
super computer Deep Blue that match had more than 59 million hits, that's
more than the official Atlanta Olympic '96 website the entire time it
was operational. This shows the phenomenal power of chess players and
the link to computers. Chess players have always been considered brainy
so lets pull all of our brain power together an get something done. |
Chess players from around the world must work together
and with their respective federations to make this happen. Check out the
London 2012 Olympic bid website. Ask them if they support chess. If you
as a chess player support London perhaps London can help us with our goal. |
Today more than 285 million people play chess with other
chess players from all over the world, via the internet. It is estimated
605 million people worldwide know how to play chess. Of these 7.5 million
are registered players, covering 160 countries worldwide. Making chess
one of the most popular sports around the world. |
| In the 1970's after the the American Bobby Fischer played
his Soviet counterpart, Boris Spassky. Their famous chess match being
televised throughout the world, a study was commissioned by the Temple
university. Leroy Dubek a physics professor at Temple was one of the team
involved. He found tremendous stress on chess players, with blood pressure,
breathing and heart rates increasing to a rate comparable to a professional
footballer, during a soccer match. During a 5 hour chess match a chess
player could lose more in bodyweight than a boxer over a twelve round
fight. |
Please come back to us soon, as we will be regularly
posting up new information as the campaign develops. |
The biggest news to date is chess's International Federation
(F.I.D.E.) is now recognised by the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.).
Chess will be in the Olympics one day soon, perhaps the first sport to
be played by athletes of both the Olympics and Paralympics on an equal
basis, that would be historical, remember chess has no physical boundaries
even at the highest competitive level. Remember what one of the greatest
world champions of our sport, Garry Kasparov said when he was the first
person to sign our petition. He made it clear that his mission is to "take
chess out of the ghetto where it has languished far too long - and where
mere games of chance belong". |
