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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess tournament is taking place from 12-27 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
This famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, B, and C Groups, each featuring 14 players.
Th... | Read More
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PRESS RELEASE by John Saunders - The 11th edition of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival starts on Monday and promises to be as prestigious and exciting as the previous ten.
With ten tournaments now played, the Gibraltar Festival already ha... | Read More
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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess is taking place from 12-27 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
This famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, B, and C Groups, each featuring 14 players.
The strongest t... | Read More
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In yet another thrilling Blitz Death Match, Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi edged out Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez by a final score of 16.5-13.5, pulling away just enough in the final portion of play (Bullet) to win by three games.
The first Death ... | Read More
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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess is taking place from 12-27 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
This famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, B, and C Groups, each featuring 14 players.
The strongest t... | Read More
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The World Chess Candidates Tournament to be Held in London
PRESS RELEASE: London, January 15, 2013 – FIDE and AGON – the World Chess Federation’s commercial partner – are pleased to announce the players, dates and venue of the 2013 Candi... | Read More
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The 2013 Australian Open Chess Championships took place from 2-13 January at the Norths Chess Club in Cammeray.
The competition was an 11-round Swiss with over 100 players taking part and the winner was 15-year old Bobby Cheng (pictured).
Bobby ... | Read More
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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess is taking place from 12-27 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
This famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, B, and C Groups, each featuring 14 players.
The strongest t... | Read More
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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess is taking place from 12-27 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
This famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, B, and C Groups, each featuring 14 players.
The strongest t... | Read More
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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess is taking place from 12-27 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
This famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, B, and C Groups, each featuring 14 players.
The strongest t... | Read More
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The model, actress and fashion designer Kim Kardashian caused a stir in chess circles yesterday when she tweeted, "I want to learn how to play chess. Wondering if Levon Aronian can teach me!"
The Armenian world #3 ranked player Lev Aronian is cur... | Read More
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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess is taking place from 12-27 January in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
This famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, B, and C Groups, each featuring 14 players.
The strongest t... | Read More
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The first round of the fantastic Tata Steel tournament starts today in Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands, and you can follow the games with live coverage and commentary at Chess.com/tv by IM Daniel Rensch & Brother Josh! This is FREE to all mem... | Read More
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The 2013 Tata Steel Chess tournament takes place from 12-27 January in the small town of Wijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands.
Once again the familiar format of this famous annual tournament has three separate single round-robin competitions, the A, ... | Read More
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Starting on January 16, 2013, Grandmaster Timur Gareev will compete against Chess.com members in a unique bi-weekly event: He will attempt to break the world record for total number of boards played in a Blindfold Simultaneous match at t... | Read More
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The 2012 Basel Chess Festival took place from 1-5 January 2013 in northwest Switzerland.
The main event was a 7 round Swiss Open with a strong field of 89 players competing. The 26 year-old Russian Boris Grachev claimed victory by a superior ti... | Read More
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The 88th edition of the Hastings International Congress took place from 28 Dec 2012 - 5 Jan 2013.
The historic town of Hastings on the southern coast of England has hosted chess tournaments for over a century, most famously the 1895 Hastings tou... | Read More
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GRENKE Chess Classic Baden-Baden
Category 19 GM tournament: 7th–17th Feb 2013For the first time ever, the Chess Center Baden-Baden (Schachzentrum Baden-Baden) will host a category 19 GM tournament, the GRENKE Chess Classic Bade... | Read More
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Many thanks to all the Chess.com members who entered the 2012 Chess.com Holiday Puzzler!
There were 18 chess related questions, and a total of 29 marks to earn, but how many did you answer correctly?
As always the standard of entries was excelle... | Read More
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Grandmaster Anton Korobov of Ukraine won the 2012 AICF-AAI Cup in New Delhi.
The 6-player double round-robin tournament ran from 21-30 December and was claimed to be the strongest tournament ever held in India.
The Ukrainian finished with 6½/10... | Read More
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The official January 2013 FIDE chess rating list has been published, confirming that Magnus Carlsen now has the highest ever recorded chess rating of 2861 Elo.
The 22-year old Norwegian overtakes the previous 2851 Elo record high of Garry Kasparo... | Read More
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The great Viktor Korchnoi is reported to be in such poor health after a recent stroke that he may have played his last competitive game of chess.
At 81 years of age the legendary Viktor Korchnoi is the oldest active Grandmaster on the chess circu... | Read More
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News has emerged that a Bulgarian chess player was "strip searched" after being suspected of cheating during a tournament in Zadar, Croatia held from 16-22 December.
There were 36 players in the tournament, including 16 Grandmasters, yet the 26-... | Read More
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The team from Hoogeveen in the Netherlands has won the 2012 World Cities Chess Championship held from 22-28 December in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Hoogeveen were represented by Anish Giri, Ivan Sokolov, Sergey Tiviakov and Jan Smeets.
The... | Read More
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Grandmaster Robin Van Kampen and International Master Benjamin Bok have confirmed their participation in Chess.com's 11th Blitz Death Match, to be held Saturday, February 2nd 2013 at 9am PST - 1PM EST. The two players will be competing for the $1,... | Read More