All India Chess Federation to discuss chess events, filling up of posts on Feb 27
Chennai: The first special meeting of the All India Chess Federation (AICF) general body convened after the election of new office bearers will discuss matters relating to the upcoming chess Olympiad, national championships and others, said the Secretary.
“We will discuss matters related to chess. We are working on chess issues. The meeting would also discuss how to fill up the remaining vacancies in AICF,” Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary, AICF told IANS. The general body will be held on February 27 at Ahmedabad.
The 44th Chess Olympiad will be held in Moscow this August.
For the 2018 Olympiad held at Batumi in Georgia, the AICF had arranged a foreign coach, high-speed servers or “chess engines”, four young chess Grand Masters (GM) to provide research and analytical assistance, which were unheard of earlier.
The AICF had also located a restaurant serving Indian food in Batumi for the Indian players. It has to be seen what the AICF is planning to do this time around.
With the general body being called soon after the conclusion to election process, Chauhan does not expect it to be acrimonious. Nor does he expect any drastic moves by the members of the rival camp against the newly elected (unopposed) five-member team at the helm of the AICF. IANS