World Chess PLC

AGM Information • Jun 25, 2025

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World Chess PLC

25 June 2025

25 June 2025

WORLD CHESS PLC

Result of Annual General Meeting

World Chess PLC (LSE: CHSS) (the "Company"), a leading chess organisation committed to expanding the global appeal of chess, announces that at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today ("AGM"), all resolutions were duly passed.

Proxy votes received and held by the Chair in the event a poll had been called were as follows:

No	Resolution1	Votes FOR	% votes For	Votes AGAINST	% votes Against	Votes WITHHELD2
	ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS (1 to 11)
1	To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2024.	400,781,248	100%	0	0%	0
2	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
3	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
4	To re-appoint as a director Richard Henry Collett.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
5	To re-appoint as a director Jamison Reed Firestone.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
6	To re-appoint as a director Ilya Merenzon.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
7	To re-appoint as a director Neil Martin Rafferty.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
8	To re-appoint as a director Matvey Shekhovtsov.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
9	To re-appoint Moore Kingston Smith LLP as auditors.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
10	To authorise the directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
11	That pursuant to Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006, the Directors be and are generally and unconditionally authorised to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot shares in the Company or to grant rights to subscribe for or convert any security into shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £28,604.35.	400,779,748	100%	1,500	0%	0
	SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS (12 to 14)
12	That, subject to the passing of resolution 11 above, the Directors be empowered pursuant to section 571 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution 11 above as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of 11,667,187 Ordinary Shares of 0.01p in connection with the share subscription agreement announced on 8 February 2024.	400,781,248	100%	0	0%	0
13	That, subject to the passing of resolution 11 above, the Directors be empowered pursuant to section 571 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution 11 above as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of 16,666,667 Ordinary Shares of 0.01p in connection with the convertible loan note announced on 13 May 2025.	400,781,248	100%	0	0%	0
14	That, subject to the passing of resolution 11 above, the Directors be empowered pursuant to section 571 of the Act to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act) for cash pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution 11 above as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to such allotment, provided that this power shall be limited to the allotment of an aggregate nominal amount of £25,028.80 being approximately 35% per cent. of the current issued share capital of the Company.	400,781,248	100%	0	0%	0

1.     The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Annual General Meeting sent to shareholders on the Company's website at www.worldchess.com/investors.

2.     Votes 'Withheld' are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes % 'For' and % votes 'Against' the resolutions.

In accordance with Listing Rule UKLR 22.2.6 R copies of all the resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .

A copy of the poll results for the Annual General Meeting will also be available on the World Chess Plc website: https://worldchess.com/investors

For more information, visit: www.worldchess.com or contact:

World Chess PLC Ilya Merenzon, CEO	merenzon@worldchess.com
Novum Securities Limited - Financial Adviser David Coffman / Anastassiya Eley	+44 (0) 20 7399 9400

Notes to Editors

About World Chess PLC

World Chess (LSE: CHSS) is a London-based chess gaming and entertainment company and Fédération Internationale des Échecs ('FIDE') official commercial partner. World Chess organised the FIDE Championship Matches in the USA, and the UK, and revolutionised the sport by signing the biggest media partnerships in history. World Chess develops Armageddon, the chess league for prime-time television. World Chess also runs FIDE Online Arena, the exclusive official chess gaming platform.

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