World Chess Day is celebrated every year by the United Nations on July 20. In addition, it recognizes the important role played by FIDE towards cooperation at the international level, as well as providing an important platform to encourage care, dialogue, solidarity, and peace, aimed at chess programs the day is observed to improve cooperation and friendly harmony among all the peoples of the world. Significantly, chess is one of the oldest, intellectual and cultural games.
World Chess Day is celebrated every year on July 20. The day also marks the date of the founding of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Paris in the year 1924. It is noteworthy that under the initiative of the International Chess Federation, since the year 1966, people around the world celebrate 20 July as International Chess Day.
This day is celebrated by the 185 members of the International Chess Federation around the world. On this day chess competitions are organized at many places. It is believed that chess originated in India and then reached Europe via Arabia. Chess was invented in India in the fifth century and was named “Chaturanga”. Chess is one of the oldest games and it is a very popular game that is played globally. Chess helps in developing skills like strategy, and tactics as well as visual memory.
Current Theme, Quotes, Images, Posters, Wishes for World Chess Day 2022
“I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” – Marcel Duchamp
Chess holds its lord in its own bonds, shackling the psyche and mind so the internal opportunity of the most grounded must endure—World Chess Day to everyone.
“If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.” — Mikhail Botvinnik
“In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse slip sometimes changes the evaluation” — Viswanathan Anand”
“Chess is once in a while a round of perfect moves. Often, a player faces a progression of troublesome outcomes whichever move he makes.”
