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The Politiken Cup will take place from 28th July to 5th August at the Konventum Lo-Skolen in Helsingør, Denmark. The popular open tournament has 280 registered players, including 25 Grandmasters and 8 International Masters. The tournament will be played as a 10-round Swiss event. There will be 20 prizes and the winner will take 20.000 [...]
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The British Championship got under way yesterday in North Shields. I’m not playing myself for several reasons. First of all nobody asked me (GMs are used to being invited to tournaments, especially their national championship) and in any case it would be difficult to create free time. Having said that I will be visiting the [...]
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23.07.12 – Judit Polgar celebrates her 36th birthday today with the news that she’s confirmed her participation for the 4th London Chess Classic, at Kensington Olympia, 1-10 December, 2012. Polgar now joins World No 1 Magnus Carlsen, World Champion Vishy Anand, World No 2 Levon Aronian, the defending champion Vladimir Kramnik, and the UK No [...]
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The British Chess Championships begin today at the Parks Leisure
Centre in North Shields. England internationals Gawain Jones and
David Howell are the favourites. Both looked in decent form last week
as they warmed up in open tournaments. Howell won at Leiden, while
Jones was in contention at Benasque but lost in the last round to the
tournament winner Dan Zoler of Israel who scored a...
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The British Chess Championships begin today at the Parks Leisure
Centre in North Shields. England internationals Gawain Jones and
David Howell are the favourites. Both looked in decent form last week
as they warmed up in open tournaments. Howell won at Leiden, while
Jones was in contention at Benasque but lost in the last round to the
tournament winner Dan Zoler of Israel who scored a...
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The 99th British Chess Championships take place in North Shields 23rd July to 4th August 2012. Gawain Jones is the top seed. Live coverage from 2:30pm each day. Yorkshire Chess are doing a prediction competition. Also official live commentary http://www.livestream.com/leylandchess.
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The 99th British Chess Championships take place in North Shields 23rd July to 4th August 2012. Gawain Jones is the top seed. Live coverage from 2:30pm each day. Yorkshire Chess are doing a prediction competition. Also official live commentary http://www.livestream.com/leylandchess.
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The 1st FIDE Grand Prix takes place in Simpson’s-in-the-Strand in London 20th September and 3rd October 2012.
Apparently Peter Svidler will play instead of Sergey Karjakin.
Players:
Hikaru Nakamura (2778),
Alexander Grischuk (2763),
Peter Svidler (2749)
Veselin Topalov (2752),
Hao Wang (2739),
Boris Gelfand (2738),
Peter Leko (2730),
Ruslan Ponomariov (2726),
Shakriyar Mamedyarov...
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The first showdown between the top two players in this year's big event in Biel was drawn, and if someone zipped through the game they might suspect that the Magnus Carlsen-Hikaru Nakamura contest was a non-event. Not so, though I confess to thinking that after 24.Rcc1 White's advantage was merely symbolic. Houdini 2 agrees (though I didn't look at any of the games with an engine while they were...
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The 5th Paleohora International Open Chess Tournament, organized by the Municipality of Kandanos – Selino, Chania Chess Academy and Greek Chess Federation, took place on 16-23rd July in Paleohora, Greece. The 9-round tournament with 8.000 EUR prize fund has attracted massive participation, with 214 players gathered at the playing venue in Municipality of Kandanos – [...]
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1. Διοργάνωση: Ο Σκακιστικός Σύλλογος Καστοριάς διοργανώνει το 2ο Ανοιχτό Καλοκαιρινό Τουρνουά Σκάκι «Καστοριά 2012». Το τουρνουά θα ληφθεί υπόψη τόσο για εθνική, όσο και για διεθνή αξιολόγηση. Δικαίωμα συμμετοχής έχουν...
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Από διεθνές τουρνουά στο Λας Πάλμας, στα Κανάρια νησιά τη δεκαετία του ’70 (δεν φανερώνω την ακριβή χρονολογία για να μην κάνω πιο εύκολο το κουίζ). Η φωτογραφία είναι σκαναρισμένη και προέρχεται από το μπουλετίν των...
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The 3rd Livigno International Chess Open is set to take place on 10-17th September at the Polifunzionale Plaza Placheda in Livigno, Italy. At 1900m above the sea level this is probably Europe’s “highest” international event. The Festival is managed by the A.S.D. Circolo Scacchistico Amos Cusini and will be played in two groups – Open [...]
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Παιδιά παίζουν σκάκι σε δημοτικό σχολείο της Οαχάκα. Φωτογραφία του Reuters, χειμώνας του 2010. H μεξικανική πολιτεία της Οαχάκα έζησε, το 2006, μια μεγάλη λαϊκή εξέγερση που προκάλεσε το θαυμασμό, τη συγκίνηση και την...
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Σκακιστικό πέρασμα της Σάντρα Μπούλοκ και του Χιου Γκραντ στην αμερικάνικη κομεντί “δυο βδομάδες προθεσμία” (πρωτότυπος τίτλος: Two Weeks Notice), παραγωγής 2002. Στην ταινία η Σάντρα ερμηνεύει τη δυναμική δικηγόρο...
