Spectating the 91st FIDE Congress

Chess had a good year in 2020. Thanks to the Switch to Online Chess (June 2020) and Queen's Gambit Mania (October 2020), there were many more fans of the royal game at the end of the year than there were at the beginning.

FIDE, on the other hand, had a not-so-good year in 2020. The bungled Coronavirus Candidates (March 2020) might have been the low point, but the Olympiad fiasco, Splitting a Gold Medal (September 2020), wasn't much higher. Toward the end of the year, FIDE held an online pow-wow, documented in a number of administrative posts:-

• 2020-12-05: 2020 FIDE Online General Assembly Agenda
• 2020-12-10: 91st FIDE Congress: decisions, documents, numbers
• 2020-12-16: Decisions of the 4th quarter FIDE Online Council Meeting
• 2020-12-17: Decisions of the FIDE Online General Assembly 2020

That gives me the opportunity to continue with the 'Spectating FIDE' series, last seen in Spectating the 90th FIDE Congress? (February 2020), a month before the covid pandemic started wreaking havoc with the world's traditions, chess or otherwise. Just like in previous years, last year I made a series of posts out of the Congress:-

• 2020-02-21: FIDE Commissions 2020
• 2020-02-23: FIDE's Social Commission 2019?
• 2020-02-28: FIDE's Media and Fair Play Commissions 2019
• 2020-03-06: FIDE's Ethics Commission 2019
• 2020-04-24: Minutes of the 90th FIDE Congress • 'Remember the series of posts ending with "FIDE's Ethics Commission 2019?"'
• 2020-05-08: The FIDE Charter
• 2020-05-15: The FIDE Charter : Discussions

Supplementing that series were a couple of posts on my World Championship blog:-

• 2020-02-12: The Missing Link : Whither the World Championship?
• 2020-02-19: The GSC : Whither the World Championship?

Last year the title of the kickoff post ended in a question mark: 'Spectating the 90th FIDE Congress?'. This year I'm sure I'll be doing some serious spectating: no question mark required.