On its website, FIDE today to reports about a meeting between its President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev. The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate shared with Mr. Ilyumzhinov his creative plans on writing a new book ...
World Cup finalist Alexander Grischuk, who is currently playing in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia for the European Club Cup, was recently interviewed for the Russian Chess Federation website. WhyChess has an English translation. One quote: The ma...
The Full English Breakfast #13 is out! Svidler and the World Cup, "noble" Navara, Chess Queen Kosteniuk, and Marc Arnold for the Kings. About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess news analysis. VERY serious, and not...
Today the Russian Chess Federation announced a new super-strong tournament to be held October 7-20 in Saratov. It's called the 'Governor's Cup of the Saratov region' and it will be a 12-player round robin with Evgeny Tomashevsky, D...
Veselin Topalov (with 2768 currently the world's number 6) is missing in all of the current and upcoming super-tournaments this year, but the Bulgarian grandmaster will be in action soon. On Monday, October 3, Topalov will be playing a clock s...
Sad news reaches us via our co-editor Yochanan Afek, who writes that GM Konstantin Lerner passed away on the evening of Saturday, September 24th, 2011 in Hertzlia, Israel at the age of 61 following illness. Konstantin Zaivelevich Lerner was born 2...
Today the Russian Chess Federation announced the participants of this year's Tal Memorial at its website. They are: Viswanathan Anand (India, 2817) Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2823) Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2807) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2791) Ser...
On the FIDE website it is reported that on 15 September, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with Mr. Rezart Taci, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 2011 Women's World Chess Championship Match. The leaders signed an agreement o...
The timetable for the third London Chess Classic has been announced. The strongest tournament in the history of British chess will be complemented by a chess festival with tournaments for all levels and of course free chess coaching for schools. I...
Twenty-one youth chess players played the 2011 Youth Chess Tournament for Peace at the 2nd Global Conference on World’s Religions at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Québec, Canada on September 7, 2011. HHDL holding a...
In a letter to the FIDE Executive Board members, the Dutch Chess Federation expresses its concern about the proposals of the Events Commission for the Executive Board Meeting to be held from 15 to 22 October 2011 in Krakow, Poland. We received the...
Sergey Volkov finished clear first at the 2nd Livigno Open. The Russian grandmaster scored 7/9 and ended above GMs Peter Michalik, Georgy Timoshenko and Dmitry Svetushkin, who scored 6.5 points. During the final game it was enough for Volkov ...
There will be a performance with living chess at the opening ceremony of the Grand Slam Masters Final on September 19th, 2011. Mercedes de Miguel, a famous basque designer, will be the host of the ceremony that will take place in the Alhó...
ROUNDS 3-4Kings steamroll Queens to widen gapWhat a difference a day makes! Only one day after their strong showing, the Queens had a ‘very bad day at the office.’ A near perfect 4.5 – 0.5 result in the chess960 round, combined w...
After yesterday’s domination by the Kings, the ladies came to today’s matches ready for revenge. If the men thought that every day would be a rout, then after the chess960 round there was a definite ‘uh oh’ feeling setting ...
Sergey Tiviakov edged out Salvador Del Rio De Angelis on tie-break to win the first Isthmia Open in Korinthia, Greece. Both grandmasters finished on 7/9. There was a total of 160 participants from 18 countries, including 20 GMs, 3 IMs, 2 WIMs and ...
The European Youth Championship started last Saturday, September 10th in Albena, Bulgaria, with the opening ceremony. Each federation can register one player in each of the under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 (boys and girls) categories. On Sunday the ...
Tornike Sanikidze is the winner of the 8th LGA Premium Cup in Nürnberg, Germany. In the last round the 22-year-old Georgian beat opponent Roman Vidonyak and caught Arik Braun in the standings. Braun had earlier drawn with David Baramidze and ...
On Sunday the first Kings vs. Queens tournament started in St. Louis, USA. It's a Scheveningen-paired tournament with a men's team (GM Hikaru Nakamura, IM Marc Arnold, GM Ben Finegold, IM Jacek Stopa and Kevin Cao) against a women's te...
It was briefly mentioned in a press release from Saint Louis, and today the confirmation came: Anatoly Karpov is going politics. WhyChess quotes a number of Russian language sources that brought the news today: The 12th World Chess Champion is ...
Two players have withdrawn from the Kings vs. Queens tournament, which is scheduled to begin this week in Saint Louis. Former World Champion Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov and Grandmaster Judit Polgar are both unable to attend, and tournament organize...
The 82nd FIDE Executive Board 2011 is scheduled for 15 to 22 October 2011 in Krakow, Poland. Today FIDE published the Agenda and the first item, Press-release on the Commission on Modernisation, is interesting. We give the full text of the press r...
The Shenzhen FIDE Women's Grand Prix started today. The second event of the FIDE Woman Grand Prix cycle 2011-2012 is being held from 5th till 20th of September. It will take place in the Wuzhou Hotel in Shenzhen, China. The participants of t...
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