1st FIDE Council meeting
March 21-22, 2025
List of decisions
CM1-2025/01 To note President’s report.
CM1-2025/02 To approve Treasurer’s report.
CM1-2025/03To instruct FIDE President to continue the negotiations regarding FIDE’s online projects based on Council members’ suggestions.
CM1-2025/04To note FIDE Calendar 2024/2025.
CM1-2025/05 To note the Global Strategy Commission’s report.
CM1-2025/06 To approve the Global Strategy Commission’s proposal regarding the reversal of the qualification paths B and C due to the swap in the chronological order of the World Cup and Grand Swiss tournaments for the year 2025.
CM1-2025/07 To note the Arbiters’ Commission’s report.
CM1-2025/08 To approve the recommendations of the Arbiters’ Commission on Seminars, Classification upgrades, Amendments to the lecturer list, FA norms and titles.
CM1-2025/09 To note the Qualification Commission report.
CM1-2025/10 To approve the recommendations of the Qualification Commission on titles.
CM1-2025/11 To approve the award of direct titles to ASEAN youth event and to the Central Asia Youth Chess Championship.
CM1-2025/12 To approve the Qualification Commission decision not to rate the tournaments that took place in July-August 2024 in Mramorak, Serbia.
CM1-2025/13 To approve the recommendations of the Trainers’ Commission on titles and Academies.
CM1-2025/14 To approve the recommendations of the Events Commission on titles.
CM1-2025/15 To approve the FIDE World Cadet U8, U10, U12 Championships 2025 to be organized in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
CM1-2025/16 To approve the World Championships 2027 in age categories U7, U9 and U11 to be organised by the Spanish Chess Federation and the World Championships 2027 in age categories U13, U15 and U17 by the Turkish Chess Federation, subject to the successful inspection.
CM1-2025/17 To award the World Cadet Rapid and Blitz Championships 2027 to Spain to be organised during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Chess Federation subject to the successful inspection.
CM1-2025/18 To note the Chess in Education Commission’s report
CM1-2025/19 To approve the recommendations of the Chess in Education Commission on titles.
CM1-2025/20 To approve the Chess in Education Commission’s proposal in respect of the Regulations for Accreditation in Chess in Education.
CM1-2025/21 To note the changes in the Fair Play Commission and the report on their way forward.
CM1-2025/22 To approve the recommendations of the Fair Play Commission on titles.
CM1-2025/23 To approve that a working group comprising representatives from the respective FIDE Commissions be established to elaborate on the proposal regarding sanctions for the breach of Fair Play Regulations.
CM1-2025/24 To note the Planning and Development Commission’s report.
CM1-2025/25 To conditionally approve the Planning and Development Commission’s proposal in respect of the Development Index Regulations, taking into consideration the FIDE Council’s input.
CM1-2025/26 To approve the proposal of the Historical Committee regarding the nominations for the World Chess Hall of Fame: E. Bogolyubov, P. Cramling, J. Timman and V. Hort.
CM1-2025/27 To support in principle establishing continuous bi-annual FIDE Awards, establishing a working group that would define awards categories and selection criteria.
CM1-2025/28 To note the Commission’s for Women’s Chess report.
CM1-2025/29 To note Continental Presidents’ reports.
CM1-2025/30 To approve that an official warning in respect of its arrears before the continent is issued to the Venezuela Chess Federation with the payment deadline of July 1st2025. To inform the Venezuela Chess Federation that FIDE may withdraw its services (art. 6.3. of the Financial Rules)
CM1-2025/31 To note the Constitutional Commission’s report and to instruct the Commission to develop the draft of the guidelines for all situations related to the development of chess in any territories with dispute status.
CM1-2025/32 To approve the launch of the FIDE digital museum project.
CM1-2025/33 To confirm that if a player who qualified from a certain zone/continent for the FIDE World Cup/FIDE Women’s World Cup afterwards changes his or her national federation and the new national federation doesn’t belong to the same zone/continent, the corresponding spot shall be awarded to the player who finished as the next best ranked in that qualifying tournament.