Champion of FIDE
The FIDE World Chess Federation created the title of FIDE Champion . At its fifth congress in The Hague in 1928, the FIDE awarded the title to Efim Bogoljubow , who had previously won a "competition for the championship of FIDE" against Max Euwe .
backgrounds
The World Chess Federation, founded in 1924 initially had no influence on the world title , the then José Raúl Capablanca held. At its congresses in 1925 and 1926, FIDE decided to become the patron of the World Chess Championship on the basis of the London rules signed in 1922 by Alexander Alekhine , Capablanca, Géza Maróczy , Richard Réti , Akiba Rubinstein , Savielly Tartakower and Milan Vidmar . Since they could not raise the necessary financial means, the FIDE commissioned world champion Capablanca to enter into negotiations with leading chess masters.
After Capablanca's defeat by Alekhine at the 1927 World Chess Championship , Efim Bogoljubow and Max Euwe agreed to a match. FIDE President Alexander Rueb contacted the players and suggested that the proposed match be played off as a fight for the FIDE championship. The German chess newspaper of May 1928 described the duel as a fight "for the championship of the World Chess Federation". The British Chess Magazine stated in June 1928 that the winner of the duel should be an official FIDE candidate for a competition with the world chess champion. However, it is unclear how this was determined, since the annual FIDE congress does not take place until August 1928.
FIDE was already planning to combine the FIDE title with the historic world championship title, but its attempts in the interwar period failed. Alekhine agreed at the FIDE Congress in 1928 to play world chess championships under the aegis of FIDE as long as duels against Capablanca would take place under the same conditions as in Buenos Aires in 1927 at the world chess championship, but Rueb fell ill and could not attend the congress. At the FIDE Congress the following year, preparations for a duel between Alekhine and Bogolyubov were already underway, without taking FIDE or the London rules into account.
The world championship match finally took place in 1929 without FIDE influence. FIDE was only able to establish control of the world championship title after Alekhine's death and the subsequent period without a world champion . The Moscow World Championship tournament in 1948 was the first official FIDE World Chess Championship.
The name FIDE champion was later interpreted as a world championship title. In fact, Bogolyubov was never considered a recognized world champion; the FIDE title he had won remained of no great historical significance.
Web links
- Edward Winter : FIDE Championship (1928) (English)