(Sept. 22, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s chess teams pulled out of their sixth-round matches against the Netherlands and Bulgaria at the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan that were scheduled to take place on Monday, after both opponents declined requests to change the date, which fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.<\/p>\n
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) \u201cbreached\u201d its commitment and forced the Israeli teams to miss the games on Yom Kippur, the Israel Chess Federation said in a Hebrew-language statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn an official letter sent to the Israel Chess Federation, FIDE undertook to ensure that the games involving the two Israeli teams on Sept. 20 would conclude by 5 p.m., and that the games on Sept. 21 would begin no earlier than 7:30 p.m., after the end of Yom Kippur,\u201d the Israeli association said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn practice, the games were not adjusted in accordance with this commitment, and both teams\u2014the men\u2019s and women\u2019s\u2014were required to play during Yom Kippur,\u201d the chess body continued. \u201cOut of respect for the holy day and for the players representing the teams, Israel did not show up for the games, and both teams were recorded as having suffered technical losses without points,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
The Israel Chess Federation went on to say that it will demand explanations from FIDE and seek to remedy the \u201csporting injustice\u201d caused to Israel\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n
The statement further attached a letter issued by FIDE on Jan. 15 that confirmed that the schedule of the Israeli teams in the Olympiad would be adjusted to accommodate for Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n
According to Ynet, the agreement to adjust the matches\u2019 hours was not incorporated into the competition regulations, leaving the decision to alter the timings with the respective national teams playing against the Israeli teams.<\/p>\n
Contrary to the Dutch and Bulgarian teams, the Colombian and Singaporean teams agreed to start their matches against Israel early on Sunday\u2014before the start of Yom Kippur\u2014enabling these matches to go ahead as originally agreed, the report added.<\/p>\n
The Israeli teams were recorded a technical 0-4 loss to the Netherlands and Bulgaria due to their decision not to show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Sept. 22, 2026 \/ JNS) Israel\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s chess teams pulled out of their sixth-round matches against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-623704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}