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Meet Veronika Goi from the Italian Chess Federation
SPOTLIGHT- Females and Males Working Behind The Scene In our Spotlight articles, we introduce you the women but also men working behind the scene, doing a fantastic work to support women in chess. They play a key role as players, arbiters, coaches, volunteers,…. Up...
Lecture & discussion with GM Jan Markos: Taming The Time. Time Management For Chessplayers.
We’d like to invite European female chess community (of all ages and all rating groups) to join our first lecture this year with a Slovak GM Jan Markos this year. And the chess content is again very interesting: “How to handle one of the most stressful, but at the...
Interview with Emilia Castelao, CEO of Women in Chess Foundation
We're very glad to start this year a cooperation with “Women in Chess“ and Emilia Castelao, CEO of this Foundation, who is currently studying at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria. You can find the full article also in the new edition of ECU monthly...
Meet Turkan Mamedjarova from The Azerbaijan Chess Federation
SPOTLIGHT- Females and Males Working Behind The Scene In our Spotlight articles, we introduce you the women but also men working behind the scene, doing a fantastic work to support women in chess. They play a key role as players, arbiters, coaches and volunteers. Up...
Support for Women’s tournaments 2024
We continue also in the year 2024 to support organizers of female norm tournaments in Europe. We are very glad that in 2023 we managed to financially support 3 women’s closed tournaments and raised an awareness of our initiative. It remains our goal and vision to...
Online Seminar: What recent research studies tell us about females in chess
That women are underrepresented in chess and only very few made it into the top 100 player list so far is well established knowledge. Yet, the reasons of why we see such gender discrepancy and why so few women play chess remains poorly understood, with many...
SPOTLIGHT- Females and Males Working Behind The Scene
In our Spotlight articles, we introduce you the women but also men working behind the scene, doing a fantastic work to support women in chess. They play a key role as players, arbiters, coaches, volunteers,…. Up this month: Renato Frick from the Liechtenstein Chess...
Financial Support for Women’s Tournaments: The 2nd She Plays To Win: WIM & Challengers, Edinburgh
We are very glad to provide our last financial support for 2023 to “The 2nd She Plays To Win: WIM & Challengers" that was organized in February last year by Lorin D'Costa. You can read about the tournament as well as about his initiative "She Plays To Win"...
Winners of European Women’s Chess Trophy
ECU Commission For Women’s Chess announced last year “European Women’s Chess Trophy”, an initiative that aimed to financially reward women and girls actively taking part in the solely female tournaments in Europe. It was for the first time and we hope to continue with...