01.05.2012 – The gap is narrowing, Magnus! 29-year-old Armenian GM Levon Aronian, who first broke 2600 at the ripe old age of twenty, keeps crawling up the ratings ladder and is five points closer to the leader than in the previous rankings. In th...
Capablaca Memorial 2012 will take place 3rd to 15th May at the Riviera hotel in Havana, Cuba. Participants in the main group are Ivanchuk, Dominguez, Nepomniachtchi, Laznicka, Potkin, and Yuniesky Quesada. Round 1 starts May 4th at 21:00 CET, al...
Artwork by Mike MagnanOn Chess: Club once snubbed disguised FischerSaturday April 14, 2012 7:46 AMOne of my favorite stories involves an appearance by Bobby Fischer at the Chess and Checker Club of New York, a once-sprawling Times Square center w...
Garry Kasparov: In the last 30 years the rate of technological breakthroughs has slowed down At a financial conference (Pärnu Finantskonverents), which will take place in Pärnu on 19 April, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and the famous ...
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CEWN dedicates the month of April to the talent of Bobby Fischer The 7th edition Chess Evolution Weekly Newsletter by GM Arkadij Naiditsch and GM Csaba Balogh is already published. It contains30 pages of great chess material including: - the top...
FIDE adds 2 GMs, 4 WGMs, 19 IMs, and 2 WIMs FIDE has approved new titles at the 2nd quarter Presidential Board held in Elista, RUS from 5 to 7 of April 2012. Among them are 2 GMs, 4 WGMs, 19 IMs, and 2 WIMs. More news from the PB in Elista are h...
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15.04.2012 – The Japanese chess variant Shogi is the most popular board game in the country. In recent years some of its greatest contemporary champions have started taking up chess, and two intersting experiments were recently conducted: a top GM...
The amateur English GM Luke McShane has accepted the 2012 Tal Memorial spot that he was offered when he topped anonline poll of chess fans arranged by the organisers. The news was revealed by the Russian sport news sitersport.ru which reported th...
I would like to introduce you to a game, played by the 4th World Chess Champion, Alexander Alekhine. The game was played in 1925, when he was 43 years old. Two years later, he won the World Title against Capablanca. Alekhine played this game in...
Toasting success! Garry Kasparov, Silvio Danailov and the team celebrate Chess In Schools Campaign Succeeds « News home Submitted by SonofPearl on Tue, 03/20/2012 at 12:22am. The European Chess In Schools Campaign has succeeded after being end...
Careers replayedBy ANDY SOLTISLast Updated: 10:19 PM, March 17, 2012 Several of New York’s greatest players — such as Bobby Fischer, Larry Evans and Edmar Mednis — never got around to writing memoirs. But some of their contemporaries are now tell...
19.03.2012 – She already won the title in the classical time controls, now Russian IM Valentina Gunina added the Blitz title to it. In the final round she was able to defeat former women's world champion Antoaneta Stefanov 2-0 and overtake the lea...
The Moscow Championship Final was held from 10th to 18th March at the International Centre for chess education RSCU in Moscow. The Championship was managed by the Department of Physical Education and Sport in Moscow and the Moscow Chess Federati...
Not even the financial crisis has been enough to kill the Ciudad de Leon, one of the very few top tournaments that have been held for 25 consecutive years. Veselin Topalov and Paco Vallejo will play six rapid games at the Auditorium on 8-10th June...
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Vladimir Petrov Memorial – Preliminary TournamentsThe preliminary stage of the Vladimir Petrov Memorial was played on Thursday and Friday at the Jurmala City museum in Latvia. The tournament was played in two groups based on rating and over 9 rou...
Top finishers # Title Name Fed. FIDE Total 1 GM Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2769 15.0 2 GM Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2761 14.5 3 GM Yu, Yangyi CHN 2631 13.5 4 GM Popov, Ivan RUS 2599 13.5 5 GM Sh...
6th Georgy Agzamov Memorial The 6th International Chess Tournament, dedicated to the memory of Georgy Agzamov, the first grandmaster of Uzbekistan, will be held in Tashkent from March 5th (arrival) till March 15th (departure).Registration will ta...
European Women’s Chess Championships 2012 The Government of Turkey and the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF) and Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality have the honour to invite all the ECU member Chess Federations to participate in the European Indivi...
Allegations against another Chess EngineThe LOOP ProgramBy David LevyThe International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has received a formal complaint from Fabien Letouzey, the programmer of FRUIT, regarding the program LOOP. The allegation is ...
The US TV Network CBS is broadcasting a show about chess, and in particular Magnus Carlsen, on Sunday 19 February at 7pm ET/PT. A brief preview can be seen here. The program is part of the CBS news "60 Minutes" magazine. By way of comparison, a 4...
