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In this episode:

• FIDE President Timur Turlov unveiled a new organizational structure for the federation on Monday — a Governance Secretariat to serve the Council and commissions, a President's Office under Adil Kozhikhov, an Advisory Board chaired by Kazakh GM Darmen Sadvakasov and a Secretary General, Alina Dvoretskaya, to run the administration — and the same day convened an Extraordinary General Assembly online for December 27 to settle the business left unfinished at Samarkand.
• Three in four women and girls in chess report at least one form of discrimination or harassment, and 44 percent have thought about leaving the game, FIDE's Commission for Women's Chess finds in the federation's first global survey of women in chess — 672 responses from 127 federations — with reported gender bias highest among respondents who compete in North America, at 83 percent.
• Affiliates ran 40 rated tournaments with 1,791 players under the National Chess Day name on Saturday, October 10, by US Chess's count of events carrying the title on MUIR — leaving out dozens more that weekend and the unrated exhibitions and meet-ups — and the federation's wrap-up gathers organizers' reports from Princeton to the New Orleans French Quarter.
• GM Vasyl Ivanchuk has been inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, the Ukrainian Chess Federation announced, one of five players in this year's class — with Boris Gelfand, Ulf Andersson, Nana Ioseliani and Alexandra Kosteniuk — honored across the U.S. Championships' October 8 opening ceremony and the Saint Louis Chess Conference's October 24 closing, the Saint Louis Chess Club's wrap-up release says.
• TWIC #1668 arrived overnight with 7,159 games from 51 events — the U.S. Championship's 18 games and its two-game tiebreak, the European Club Cup, Titled Tuesday and the three 3 0 Thursday events among them — and names the winners of events our broadcasts never carried: Lalit Babu M R at Münsterland, Li Min Peng at Annemasse, Christian Bauer with 9/9 at Perpignan, V S Rathanvel at Chefchaouen, Mladen Palac at Hvar and Murad Ibrahimli at Shirvan.

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