2nd Global Strategy Commission's Meeting
The second GSC meeting took place in Wijk aan Zee from January 25th to 27th 2019.
Present:
Arkady Dvorkovich (FIDE President)
Emil Sutovsky (GSC Chairman)
Bassem Amin
Ken Rogoff
Ignatius Leong
Darmen Sadvakasov
Pavel Tregubov
Jeroen van den Berg
The following topics have been discussed:
- Concrete steps approaching the corporate world
- Format and Bidding procedure for the World Championship Match and other Major FIDE events
- World Team Championship 2019 location
- Final structure of Candidates Tournament 2020 composition
- Dress code in official tournaments
- Grand Master title image
- Draw offer
- Asian chess boom
- Technical issues (tie-break and pairings systems for Swiss tournaments)
Many important decisions are submitted for the Presidential Board’s approval.