The article presents the results of a study on the question of compliance of the content of the federal standard of sports training in chess with the specifics of the sport, carried out by the method of comparative comparison. It was found that the normative act does not fully correspond to the specifics of chess. It is proposed to bring the goal-setting and control-transfer norms into conformity with the specificity of a sport, to make changes in the structure of sports training of chess players.