The field is almost complete and is absolutely stellar with the world champion Vishy Anand aiming to unseat Magnus Carlsen, the winner of the first two London Chess Classic tournaments. A glance at the Live Rating List shows that the Classic will have five of the world’s top six as we are honoured to welcome for the first time, Levon Aronian from Armenia ranked fourth in the world.

Με το εξαίσιο ρεμπέτικο τραγούδι "Το Μινόρε Της Αυγής" θα ξεκινήσει η ημέρα μας. Τραγούδι που την μουσική έχει γράψει ο Σπύρος Περιστέρης (άλλοι λένε πως ο Απόστολος Χατζηχρήστος ήταν ο συνθέτης του τραγουδιού), τους...

Every Continent will have the opportunity to bid for either event in the first year. There will be a separate six year cycle for Upper and Lower Youth with Europe only able to bid on three occasions within each cycle.

The Turkey İş Bank Chess League 2011 is taking place 27 June - 09 July in the Konya-Hilton Garden Inn Otel. It is one of the top club competitions of Europe, featuring 36 grandmasters and 86 titled players.

The 2nd Big Slick International took place Saturday 25th June 2011 - Sunday 3rd July 2011 at the Big Slick Poker Club in Purley. There were norm opportunities in both GM and IM all-play-alls. Simon Williams won the GM group half a point clear of Luis Galego and untitled Khosla Shiven.

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Malcolm Pein reports on the International Computer Games Association's investigation of the provenance of the computer program Rybka.

Η Τζούντιτ Πόλγκαρ έπαιξε στην δεύτερη σκακιέρα της ΠΣ Περιστερίου και κέρδισε, μαύρη, τον Έλληνα GM Σπύρο Καπνίση. Συνεχίζεται 39ο Διασυλλογικό Πρωτάθλημα της Α΄ Εθνικής κατηγορίας στο ξενοδοχείο Eretria Village, στην...

The London Chess Classic takes place December 3rd-12th at the Olympia Conference centre in Kensington. Field yet to be announced.

The 2011 London Chess Classic is the strongest yet with World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand and World Number One Magnus Carlsen returning. World Number three Levon Aronian is a new invitee as the field is extended by one. The full field will be announced shortly. Read the new press release of 14th July 2011 with the dates of the rounds and side events.

The 2011 London Chess Classic is the strongest yet with World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand and World Number One Magnus Carlsen returning. World Number three Levon Aronian is a new invitee as the field is extended by one. The full field will be announced shortly. Read the new press release of 4th July 2011 with the dates of the rounds and side events.

From regular reader (and commenter) Thomas: The deadline to submit team compositions has just passed, these are the most spectacular newcomers (all info only available in German for the time being [DM: source here]): - Aronian will play for (what used to be) a rather modest club from Berlin that narrowly escaped degradation last season. SF Berlin ("Schachfreunde" = Chess friends) were actually...

In Anish Giri's case, the triumph came before the tournament finished. With a win over tail-ender Ruud Janssen, Giri pushed his lead over his closest competitors to a point and a half with one round to go. His 6.5/8 gives him a TPR of 2821, cementing his 2700+ rating (which he'll probably maintain for a long, long time to come). One of the three players at 5 points is none other than Wouter...

The International Livigno Chess Open, at 1900m above sea level is probably Europe's "highest" International Tournament. Livigno also offers many activities all year round, so it is the ideal place even for those who aren't interested in chess.

Ο Irving Chernev (1900-1981) γεννήθηκε στη Μόσχα, μετανάστευσε στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες σε ηλικία 20 ετών και πολιτογραφήθηκε Αμερικανός. Δυναμικότητας μετρ, διατηρούσε παροιμιώδη αφοσίωση στο παιχνίδι του σκακιού. Κάποτε έγραψε...