Sofia defeated Zagreb with 30-20 points in a friendly chess match over 50 boards between the two capitals. GM Dejan Bojkov reports on the match that was held on Monday, May 28th at the “Bankya Palace” hotel in Banky...
I wanted to make the best tournament, at the best possible place. This is how Murray Chandler explained his decision to choose Queenstown as the place of the Classic tournament, an extremely rare event in the chess calendar which takes place every...
Michael Adams won the first Metropolitan International in Los Angeles, California. The English grandmaster finished clear first wth 7.5/9, a full point ahead of a group of six players, including GMs Loek van Wely and Dejan Bojkov, who reports for ...
After our two tournament reports from the U.S.A. by IM Robert Ris, we now have GM Dejan Bojkov writing for us about American tournaments. In January the Bulgarian played in both the Golden State Open in Concord, California and a round-robin GM nor...
The fourth tournament of the women's Grand Prix series started yesterday in Jermuk, Armenia. The idea of the Grand Prix is not only to bring together the best female players in the world for six round-robin tournaments, but also to define one of t...
Like we see in more and more events, this week's Bulgarian Team Championships also applied a variation of the Sofia Rule. In the third round this led to an incident: the result of one game was declared 0-0 for breaking the tournament regulations.B...
Stelios Halkias has won the 17th Greek Open held in Kavala, Greece. Finishing shared first with Alexander Graf, the Greek GM had a better tiebreak. By Dejan BojkovThe seventeenth edition of one of the strongest Greek Open Tournaments was also the ...
At the Atlantic coast of north-west Spain, from 15-20 July the 23rd edition of open tournament ?¢‚Ǩ?ìCiudad de Ferrol?¢‚Ǩ? took place. Besides the regular ones, "accidental prizes" were given during the closing ceremony.By IM Dejan BojkovThe tou...