1. CHESS IN SCHOOLS -SURVEY- Address: Masarikova 5/19, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia E-mail: office@europechess.org Phone: +381 11 414 2470 (5 lines) Fax: +381 11 306 1319 Skype name: ECU.office

2.  ALBANIA  Contact person: Mikel Smaçi  Smaçi099@gmail.com, tel. 00355692080886 Smaçi099@gmail.com  Chess is accepted as a sport in schools curriculum  No official chess manuals in schools  ANDORRA  Contact person: Oscar de la Riva Aguado  info@escacsandorra.com, tel. +376 824465 info@escacsandorra.com  Chess is accepted as a sport and an educational matter in schools curriculum  1 100 children are being taught chess is kindergartens and schools  There are official chess manuals in schools  2 chess instructors  ARMENIA  Contact person: Smbat Lputian  smbatlputian@gmail.com, tel. +37491- 417064 smbatlputian@gmail.com  Chess is accepted as an educational matter in schools curriculum  There are official chess manuals in schools  1 500 instructors  AUSTRIA  Contact person:  Contact person: Harald Schneider-Zinner   hsz@chello.at, tel. 0043 699 1-945-82-90 hsz@chello.at   Chess is accepted as an educational matter in schools curriculum   4 000 chess players, under 18.   There are official chess manuals in schools   12 A trainers, 32 B trainers and about 150 C trainers.

3.  BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA  1 000 children are being taught chess in schools, mainly in Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Siroki Brijeg  There are official chess manuals in schools  60 instructors  CYPRUS  Contact person: Constantinos Papatryfonos  ratingofficer@cypruschessfed.com ratingofficer@cypruschessfed.com  Tel. 00357-99-945654  Chess is accepted as sport in schools  FRANCE  Contact person: Jérôme MAUFRAS  jerome.maufras@club-internet.fr jerome.maufras@club-internet.fr  tel. 0667223210  Chess is accepted as a sport and an educational matter in schools curriculum  200-300 000 children are being taught chess in schools, mainly in Corsica, Cretei, Cannes, paris, La Reunion  2 000-3 000 instructors  BULGARIA  Contact person: Radislav Atanasov  baschradi@vip.bg, tel. 00359 888787640 baschradi@vip.bg  Chess is accepted as a sport optional matter in schools curriculum  1 000 children are being taught chess in schools, mainly in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Blagoevgrad.  There are several official manuals in schools  100 instructors.

4.  FINLAND  Contact person: Kimmo Telenius  kimmo.telenius@gmail.com, kimmo.telenius@gmail.com  tel. +358503017425  Chess is played only in chess clubs, not schools  1 000 children are being taught chess in schools, mainly in Helsinki-area (Espoo, Vantaa),Tampere, Turku, Jyväskylä  There are official chess manuals in schools  50 instructors  GREECE  Contact person: Sklavounos Panagiotis  panavounos2004ol@yahoo.gr panavounos2004ol@yahoo.gr  Tel. +30 6944594090  Chess is accepted as sport in schools  50 000 children are being taught chess in schools mainly in Athens, Thessaloniki, Creta, Kavala, Peloponisos  500 instructors  HUNGARY  Chess is accepted as an educational matter in schools  5 000 children are being taught chess in schools, mainly in Budapest, Szeged, Szombathely,Debrecen, Miskolc, Gyor  GEORGIA  Contact person:Akaki Iashvili  akaki.iashvili@yahoo.com akaki.iashvili@yahoo.com  Tel. + 995 77 41 41 21  Chess is accepted as an educational matter i  300-400 children in kindergartens and 5 000 in schools, mainly in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Poti, Zugdidi, Batumi  There are official manuals in schools  1 000 instructors

5.  IRELEND  Contact person: Kevin O’Connell  Kevinoconnell12@gmail.com Kevinoconnell12@gmail.com  Tel. 0033 565 781 396  1 000 children are being taught chess in schools, mainly in Kilkenny, Dublin, Limerick, Galway, Cork.  15-20 independent instructors  LITHUANIA  Contact person: Miroslavas Rusevičius  info@chessfed.lt, tel. +37062078288 info@chessfed.lt  Chess is accepted as sport and educational matter in schools curriculum  There are official manuals in schools  MACEDONIA  Contact person: GM Bogdanovski Vlatko  vlatkobit@hotmail.com, tel. +389 78 259200 vlatkobit@hotmail.com  100 children are being taught chess in schools and clubs, mainly in Skopje, Prilep, Negotino, Struga, Kumanovo  10 instructors  MOLDOVA  Contact person: Victor Bologan  worldrose@hotmail.com, tel.+373-79766342 worldrose@hotmail.com  Sport is accepted as sport and educational matter in schools curriculum  3 000 children are being taught chess in schools, mainly in Chisinau, Beltsy, villages  10 instructors

6.  NETHERLANDS  Contact person: E. van Breugel  Bondsbureau@schaakbond.nl, +31- (0)235254025 Bondsbureau@schaakbond.nl  Chess is accepted as sport in schools curriculum  10 000 children are being taught chess, mainly in Amsterdam, Rotterdam,The Hague, Groningen, Arnhem  There are official chess manuals in schools  300-500 instructors  POLAND  Contact person: Piotr Zieliński  piotr11z@wp.pl, tel. +48 608 085 228 piotr11z@wp.pl  Chess is accepted as sport and educational matter ( in some schools)  10-20 000 children are being taught chess, mainly in schools from Wrocław, Warszawa,Suwałki, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Rybnik, Katowice Poznań, Skierniewice, Kielce, Koszalin  There are official chess manuals  400-500 instructors  ROMANIA  Contact person: Ungureanu Vlad  ajsiasi@yahoo.com, tel. +4 0741 66 53 84 ajsiasi@yahoo.com  Chess is accepted as sport and educational matter (only in kindergartens)  5 400 children are being taught chess, mainly in Iasi, Brasov, Oradea, Vaslui, Ploiesti, Timisoara  There are official chess manuals  100 instructors  SLOVENIA  Contact person: Iztok Jelen  iztok.jelen@sah-zveza.si, tel.+386-40-555- 500 iztok.jelen@sah-zveza.si  Chess is accepted as educational matter in schools curriculum  1 000 children are being taught chess in schools  200 instructors

7.  RUSSIA  Contact person: Mikhail Kobalia  juniorchess@russiachess.org juniorchess@russiachess.org  Tel. +7(495)691-87-70  Chess is accepted as an educational matter  There are official chess manuals  SAN MARINO  Chess is accepted as sport in schools  20 children are being taught chess in schools  6 instructors  SLOVAKIA  Contact person: Martin Huba  huba@chess.sk, tel. 00421 903 509 115 huba@chess.sk  Chess is accepted as sport and educational matter in schools curriculum  12 000 children will be taught chess in schools in 3-4 years, mainly in Bratislava, Ruzomberok, Secovska Polianka, Liptovsky Mikulas  There are official chess manuals  500 instructors in 3 years  SWEDEN  Contact person: Jesper Hall  jesper.hall@schack.se, jesper.hall@schack.se  tel. 0046-70-111 00 18  Chess is accepted as educational matter in schools  30 000 children are being taught chess in schools  There are official chess manuals  270 instructors  UKRAINE  Contact person: Olena Boytsun  olena@marketingchess.com, olena@marketingchess.com  tel. +38-044-279-29-33  children are learning chess in schools, mainly in Kyiv, Kharkiv Dnipropetrovsk,Donetsk, Odessa, Lviv