In exactly eight weeks from today, the official opening of the FIDE World Chess Championship Match between World Champion Viswanathan Anand (India) and Challenger Boris Gelfand (Israel) will take place in Moscow – on 10 May 2012, to be ...
Valentina Gunina won the European Women's Championship on Tuesday in Gaziantep, Turkey. The 23-year-old Russian IM edged out Tatiana Kosintseva and Anna Muzychuk on tie-break after the three had finished on 8.5/11. Valentina Gunina (Russia) wi...
On March 13th, 2012 in Strasbourg the European Parliament endorsed the 'Chess in European schools' program, a cooperation between the European Chess Union (ECU) and the Kasparov Chess Foundation. This was reported by Boyko Hristov, press o...
The 19 year-old Italian star Fabiano Caruana won the 2012 Reykjavik Open with a score of 7½/9 points, half a point clear of a seven-way tie for second place. Caruana was a strong ratings favourite for the event, but he was made to sweat in a fina...
Valentina Gunina of Russia won the European Women's Individual Championship in Gaziantep, Turkey with a score of 8½/11. Top seed Anna Muzychuk led by a full point going into the final round, but in a dramatic finish Gunina beat her to win the ti...
Fabiano Caruana finished sole first at the Reykjavik Open with a score of 7.5/9. The Italian grandmaster, who was the top seed in the Icelandic capital, remained unbeaten and finished half a point ahead of Ivan Sokolov, David Navara, Gawain Jones,...
The 2012 German Chess Championships took place from 2-10 March in Osterberg. The format was a 9-round Swiss Open with a total of 42 players competing. Daniel Fridman scored 7½ points to win by half a point from his nearest rival Igor Khenkin. Fr...
PRESS RELEASE The 28th North American Masters will be held at North Shore Chess Center located in Skokie, IL from Sunday March 11th through Thursday March 15, 2012. The event will showcase three different events all at the same time. Grandmas...
Pentala Harikrishna won the traditionally strong Cappelle la Grande open in northwest France. The Indian grandmaster edged out Parimarjan Negi (India), Tornike Sanikidze, (Georgia), Tigran Gharamian (France) and Marty Kravtsiv (Ukra...
The #3 ranked Indian player Pentala Harikrishna (pictured) won the 2012 Capelle-la-Grande tournament in France. Harikrishna finished narrowly ahead of his countryman Parimarjan Negi and three other players on tie-break with a score of 7 points. ...
The current furore over FIDE's scheduling of the next Candidates Tournament in such a way as to cause maximum disruption to two existing successful commercial tournaments, seems to have provoked a clear response: Tough. FIDE have now announced a ...
The organizers informed us about the Scottish Blitz Championship which takes place on Saturday 16th June. What follows is their press release: The first FIDE-rated Scottish Blitz Championship will be held at the Quincentenary building, Royal Surge...
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The Reykjavik Chess festival is underway, featuring 25 Grandmasters in the 9-round Open Swiss competition. The top seed is the young star Fabiano Caruana of Italy, followed by David Navara of the Czech Republic. Other notables include the #3 Bulg...
After four rounds at the Reykjavik Open, GMs Fabiano Caruana, David Navara, Ivan Sokolov, Ivan Cheparinov, Gawain Jones and Robert Hess are still on 100%. Outside it's cold, with very unpredictable and changeable weather, while inside the play...
In a new blog post on ChessVibes, Polish GM Bartek Macieja started a discussion on a topic that almost any chess player will have discussed at some point with his friends: should we introduce a new FIDE title, above GM? In this article we sum...
The European Women's Individual Chess Championships is providing upsets and excitement in Gaziantep, Turkey. Over 100 women from 25 countries are taking part in the Championship, which is an 11-round Swiss with a time control of 90 minutes for 4...
José Raul Capablanca passed away exactly 70 years ago today. In this small tribute we'd like to point out a 1939 interview with Capablanca, translated by chess historian Edward Winter. The interview was originally published in the ...
Hoang Thanh Trang is leading the European Women's Champoinship after six rounds. Four participants are half a point behind: Marie Sebag, Valentina Gunina, Cristina-Adela Foisor and Viktorija Cmilyte. Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) ...
The 1st Annual ACE Chess Arizona State Championship took place this past weekend from March 2nd-4th at the Chess Emporium in Tempe Arizona. This exciting event was brought forth through the vision of its main sponsor, Steven Kamp. The tourname...
The FIDE Candidates Tournament will be held October 24th-November 12th, 2012 in London. This was announced in a brief press release published on Monday on the FIDE website. In another press release, FIDE gives a 4-year schedule for two World Champ...
The HD Bank Cup in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ran from 2-7 March. The competition was a 9-round Swiss event, with 93 competitors including 15 Grandmasters led by top seed Le Quang Liem. But it was the 28 year-old Chinese player Ni Hua (pictured) ...
Today the annual chess festival in Reykjavik, Iceland takes off. The open tournament is very strong, with 25 GMs and 20 IMs. Top seeds are Fabiano Caruana and David Navara, who could be found in Wijk aan Zee's top group earlier this year. Reig...
Russians shake hands and go to the polls, Fabulous Fabiano, Growing Giri, and what's in a name? Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #18 is out! About the Full English BreakfastMission: Bring the serious chess news analysis. VERY ser...
