ChessMates International
ChessMates is a Monaco-based association promoting international youth chess tournaments for teams. Team spirit and family belonging are part of our DNA. Our members are all European Chess federations and organizations reaching from Iceland to Estonia, Venice, etc.
By signing the ChessMates Charter, our members commit to organize, in a historic or cultural place, at least once every 6 years a chess tournament with the participation of all ChessMates members. This way, our members ensure that each year there will be a great international platform for talented teenage chess players, to defend their flag and play against teams from different European regions, cities and countries.
Our growing international cooperation will not only give a strong boost to international youth chess but also enhance cross-cultural and linguistic exchanges and team spirit and, through such exchanges, help constructing a better and less polarized world for the generations to come.
We are all ChessMates!
Signature
of the charter
The signing of the charter took place on March 29, 2019 at the Hôtel de Lauzun in Paris, in the presence of representatives from various embassies and cities.
1. The purpose of ChessMates™ is to put team chess competition at the service of youth in order to promote the development of youth chess competition at an international level and the friendship between young chess players from different cultures and nationalities.
2. ChessMates™ is a non-profit organization.
3. Will mainly be selected young talented players, passionate, who play for the love of the game but who do not necessarily seek to make chess their profession.
4. The competitions are only by team and will take place, except exemption, in the cities or the regions of the ChessMates™ teams. Each team will be composed of 10 (ten) players, two per category U12, U14, U16, U18 and U20.
5. In each team there will be at least one girl and one boy.
6. Members of the ChessMates™ family will use reasonable efforts to promote the ChessMates™ brand.
7. Members of the ChessMates™ family will use reasonable efforts to hold a ChessMates™ tournament every four years.
8. Membership of the ChessMates™ family is granted in the form of a non-exclusive, revocable and free license and gives the right to use the ChessMates™ brand as well as the ChessMates™ Logo for the benefit of the ChessMates™ team and of its members to obtain subsidies and to find sponsors.
9. ChessMates™ active members are automatically invited to ChessMates™ tournaments.
10. Belonging to the ChessMates™ family requires compliance with these fundamental principles.
