Festa da Uva, the first major chess event in Brazil in 2012, took place on 1st-4th March in Caxias do Sul. The Festival started with the four-player double round robin rapid tournament on 1st March. The guest of honor GM Judit Polgar convincingly won the competition by collecting 5 points from six games. Grandmasters Gilberto [...]

Agon have announced that the FIDE Candidates tournament will be in London October 24 - November 12, 2012. This was published on the FIDE website and follows an Agreement of FIDE with CNC and AGON. There was a plea by the organisers of Bilbao to hold the Candidates in early 2013 rather than within 10 days of their own event in Bilbao and Sao Paulo, They say "It is very difficult to persuade any...

The 21st Annual Eastern Class Championships were held from March 2-4, 2012, at the Host Hotel at Cedar Lake, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. GM Mikheil Kekelidze finished at the top of the Master Section, beating out GM Alex Ivanov by virtue of the better tie-break score. Both Grandmasters finished with 4/5, a half-point ahead of two more [...]

The First International Chess Festival in El Haouaria, Tunisia, will be held from 17th March to 4th April, 2012. About two weeks before the start of this new international Chess Festival there are expected more than 400 players to compete in an Open, Blitz and closed GM, IM and WGM tournaments as well as an [...]

Παίζοντας σκάκι στο πάρκο μπροστά από το Κογκρέσο στο Μπουένος Άϊρες. Μία χαρωπή σκακιστική φωτογραφία από την Αργεντινή, μία χώρα που δεινοπάθησε όπως και η χώρα μας δεινοπαθεί τα τελευταία χρόνια. Η Αργεντινή...

3 players over 2700, GM Naiditsch wins on tiebreak

Την Δευτέρα 12 Μαρτίου στις 18:00μ.μ. ξεκινάει το τουρνουά Κάππα-58, με εθνική και διεθνή αξιολόγηση έλο. Θα είναι ανοιχτό τουρνουά με ελβετικό σύστημα επτά γύρων και παράβολο 15 ευρώ. Οι αγώνες θα συνεχιστούν με το εξής...

The 28th International Open Cappelle la Grande is taking place on 3-10th March 2012 at the Palais des arts in Cappelle la Grande, France. 490 players are participating. Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom

The Spanish version of Chessdom is closely following current and upcoming events in the Spanish and Latin chess world. Here are some of the most important upcoming events. Among them are the ongoing closed tournament Magistral Edith Soppe, the coming Capablanca Memorial, San Sebastian, Andorra Open, the 38th Roda tournament, and Campeonato Europeo Femenino de [...]

Αρχίζει αύριο,   6 Μαρτίου, στην πρωτεύουσα της Ισλανδίας το 270 Reykjavik Open.  Οι αγώνες θα διεξαχθούν σε ένα εντυπωσιακό νεόδμητο φουτουριστικό κτήριο που βρίσκεται στο λιμάνι της πόλης και στεγάζει κυρίως μουσικές...

If you are an avid chess player, you may be already familiar with ChessFriends.com. It is a website fully dedicated to The Royal Game, made by players for players. Until recently it was mainly focused on providing online chess games against computer and human opponents, various tournaments and even simultaneous exhibitions against well-established chess grandmasters. [...]

Chessity.com is a brand new chess portal offering a wide range of services for chess players that want to improve their game skills. With a simple interface and great program behind, Chessity is a hassle-free training environment. You will never need to download, install or update the software in order to enjoy the exercises and [...]

If you try to remember you will lose. You must free your ambitious mind. There’s an incredibly profound message here. There is so much advice out there on how to achieve excellence in a field but real experts operate at a level beyond consciousness. Thus the paradox that trying harder actually makes things worse because [...]

Από 17 έως 19 Φεβρουαρίου 2012 διοργανώθηκε από την ΕΣΣΝΑ , σε συνεργασία με την Ελληνική Σκαιστική Ομοσπονδία και υπό την έγκριση της FIDE Διεθνές Σεμινάριο Διαιτησίας με δυνατότητα απόκτησης νόρμας FIDE Arbiter (FA). Το σεμινάριο...

The 2012 European Individual Women Chess Championship is taking place from 2nd to 13th March at the Anatolian Hotel in Gaziantep, Turkey. European Rapid Championship and European Blitz Championship will follow in the same venue on 15-18th March. After three rounds of play only three players remain with the perfect score. The defending European champion [...]