The Bulgarian Chess Federation organizes the official national individual and team championships in all categories (including Bulgarian Youth Championships), as well as determines the national chess teams of Bulgaria, license and educates coaches and chess arbiters, and others. Officials of the BCF are elected every 4 years by all active chess clubs in Bulgaria, the elected officials may serve unlimited terms. The post of President in the last elections in 2014 was filled again by
Silvio Danailov, who was then also serves as the president of the
European Chess Union. In 2016 it was expelled from the
European Chess Union, and Silvio Danailov was removed from a leadership position in the ECU. Since the summer of 2017, the newly established
Bulgarian Chess Federation 1928 has been formally managing chess in Bulgaria, and since 2018 it has also officially represented it internationally as a full member of FIDE. ==See also==