Mark Glukhovsky is a press spokesman for the World Chess Championship match in Moscow for the Russian Chess Federation. Here is a letter about the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand saying that preparations are well under way, the official website will follow soon and giving contact details for journalists. Opening Ceremony 10th May 2012. Full text below.

The 42nd International Chess Tournament Bosna is scheduled to take place from 5th to 11th May, 2012, at the Hotel Saraj in Sarajevo, BIH. The players will be divided in two groups – Open A (elo 2200 and higher) and Open B (U2300). Both groups will be played over 9 rounds of Swiss system. The [...]

It’s time again for this super strong tournament. Last year, Gawain was 104th seed!! Here’s the starting list for the 2012 edition where there are 15 2700+ players and the Top 200 players are 2450+! It’s a very tough tournament, where you need to be well prepared as there is so much strong opposition.

Mark Glukhovsky the Press Officer for the World Chess Championship match in Moscow between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand has produced his first press release saying that preparations are well under way, the website will follow soon and giving contact details for journalists. Opening Ceremony 10th May 2012. Full text below.

The World Chess Championship match between defending Champion Viswanathan Anand and his Challenger Boris Gelfand takes place in Moscow 10th (Opening Ceremony) - 30th (Possible play-offs) May 2012. Official site not yet up and running but preparations are almost concluded at the Tretyakov Gallery.

The World Chess Championship match between defending Champion Viswanathan Anand and his Challenger Boris Gelfand takes place in Moscow 10th (Opening Ceremony) - 30th (Possible play-offs) May 2012. Official site not yet up and running but preparations are almost concluded at the Tretyakov Gallery.

It fell to the Women's World Champion Hou Yifan to try and topple world number seven Fabiano Caruana in the ninth and final round of the Reykjavik Open.

It fell to the Women's World Champion Hou Yifan to try and topple world number seven Fabiano Caruana in the ninth and final round of the Reykjavik Open.

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. Two weeks ago the RCF started the voting contest allowing the chess fans to select the 10th player. In the thrilling finale, English Grandmaster Luke McShane was placed on the top with 3860 votes. Alexei Shirov is second [...]

It may be a little early for women's world champion Hou Yifan to take on long, long-time women's #1 Judit Polgar, but the 18-year-old has been closing the gap and even managed to defeat her prestigious rival about a month or so ago. So they will play an eight-game match starting in China starting September 26: four classical games and then four rapid games. One would expect Polgar to be a pretty...

Ακολουθεί ένα βίντεο με φωτογραφίεςαπό το Σχολικό Πρωτάθλημα Δυτικής Ελλάδας που έγινε το 2012 στην Ηγουμενίτσα.Μπορείτε να περάσετε από τονΣκακιστικό Σύλλογο Ιωαννίνων, σήμερα μετά τις 18:00 το απόγευμα, με ένα φλασάκι–...

The registrations for the World Amateur Chess Championship, part of the Games Festival 2012, are in progress. One month before the start the Organizing Committee has announced 212 participants in the 3 chess completions, the largest of them being the World Amateur Chess Championships that attracts record interest (141 players from 30 countries until now). [...]

The long expected Judit Polgar – Yifan Hou match has now been now officially announced. It will take place in China September 26th – October 2nd, 2012. The organization plans for 4 classical games and 4 rapid games. The match announcement comes only a month after their game at the Gibraltar Chess Festival where Yifan [...]

The 30th International Chess Open in the Principality of Liechtenstein will take place on 11-19th May, 2012, at the Gemeindesaal Triesen. The tournament will be held under the patronage by S.D. Erbprinz Alois von und zu Liechtenstein. The prizes in the main Open event will be: 1st – CHF 2’000, 2nd – CHF 1’500, 3rd [...]

Θα εκδίδεται κάθε Παρασκευή απόγετμα σε pdf και pgn, σε 6 διαφορετικές γλώσσες, και περιέχει 20 σελίδες πολύ ενδιαφέροντος σκακιστικού υλικού.  Τουλάχιστον από τη γρήγορη ματιά που έριξα στο πρώτο τεύχος. Την επιμέλεια...