The license registration website (www.suomisport.fi) is available in Finnish, Swedish & English.

By paying your yearly membership fee you get a licence to take part in tournaments and receive your copy of the Finnish chess magazine, Shakki (4 issues in a year). The licence is valid until the end of the current year.

Licence is not needed for the first 10 official tournament games.

Membership fees (1 year)

  • A-licence (for adults) = 100 euros
  • Juniors (under 20 years) = 50 euros

Special licences

Discount for families (B-license)
There is discount available for a family with many chess players. With one family member taking an A-licence, the others will have a discount through the B-licence. The Finnish chess magazine is not included in the B-licence.

  • B-licence (for adults) = 70 euros
  • B-licence for juniors (under 20 years) = 35 euros

Over one year membership fee
There is also a possibility to buy a licence which is valid from the purchase date until the end of the next calendar year. The price for that licence changes every month. The price is calculated in following way: the full price of one year license + amount of months left in current year (one month of adult licence is 8,33 euros).

Team license
You can buy a team licence and play one team tournament with it. The team licence fee is 30 euros.

Licence for one tournament (individual)
A-licence for one tournament costs 40 euros (under 20 year olds 20 euros). This licence fee will be paid to the tournament organiser.

Club change
The fee for changing your club is 10 euros.

Information for tournament organisers

Tournament organisers are responsible for checking that every player has a valid licence. Players’ licence validity can be checked from the selo list (www.shakki.net/cgi-bin/selo). The character ’L’ in the selo list means that player has a valid licence and the character ’J’ stands for a valid team licence.

Tournament fees
For every player participating in a tournament a fee must be paid to the Federation by the organisers.

  • Normal tournaments: 5 euros / player (adult) and 2.5 euros / player (under 20 year old)
  • Rapid and blitz tournaments: 1.5 euros / player (all players)

For official Finnish championship tournaments there is no fee to the Federation.

Information for club chairmen
Club annual fees to the Finnish Chess Federation are

  • 7 euros / player (adults)
  • 4 euros / player (under 20 year old)

The minimum payment is 70 euros. The fee should be paid by the end of March. When a new club joins the Finnish Chess Federation there is a one time fee of 70 euros.

Chess magazine
The Finnish chess magazine, Shakki, costs 45 euros for one year (licence not included). Orders: info@shakkiliitto.fi.

For more information contact
info@shakkiliitto.fi