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The 5th Kings Tournament in Bazna is a 6 player 10 round event. A very strong field has been assembled with Magnus Carlsen playing his first classical tournament since Tata Steel in January. Sergey Karjakin, Vassily Ivanchuk, Tata Steel winner Hikaru Nakamura, Teimour Radjabov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu make up the rest of the field. Play starts at 1:30pm UK time on Saturday.

The 5th Kings Tournament in Medias (near Bazna) is a 6 player 10 round event. A very strong field has been assembled with Magnus Carlsen playing his first classical tournament since Tata Steel in January. Sergey Karjakin, Vassily Ivanchuk, Tata Steel winner Hikaru Nakamura, Teimour Radjabov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu make up the rest of the field. Play starts at 1:30pm UK time on Saturday.

The 19th Sigeman & Co tournament of 2011 with Alexei Shirov, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Johnny Jonny Hector, Nils Grandelius and Hans Tikkanen takes place Thursday 9th through until the following Monday.

The 19th Sigeman & Co tournament of 2011 with Alexei Shirov, Anish Giri, Wesley So, Jonny Hector, Nils Grandelius and Hans Tikkanen takes place Thursday 9th through until the following Monday.

The team of Marseille Echecs won the French Team Championship in Mulhouse on Sunday. It was the first title in five attempts for the team with Arkadij Naiditsch, Etienne Bacrot, Andrei Istratescu, Aleksander Delchev, Kamil Miton, Yannick Gozzoli, Didier Collas, Laurie Delorme, Vincent Chauvet and Romain Lambert. Marseille Echecs, the winning team in Mulhouse | [...]

The 3rd blitz tournament in the SP Masters Series will take place Tuesday, 7th June, at the Esporte Clube Pinheiros in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Twelve players take part in the event with the time control 3min+2sec.

Last weekend the ChessVibes camera was present in León to capture the match between Viswanathan Anand and Alexei Shirov. Here’s a video with some impressions of the town and the match. An interview with Anand will follow soon! The 24th edition of the Magistral Ciudad de León took place in the León Auditorium, from Friday, [...]

The Catalan is a chess opening which can be considered to be White adopting a mixture of the Queen's Gambit and Réti Opening: White plays d4 and c4 and fianchettoes the white bishop on g2. A common opening sequence is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2, though the opening can arise from a large number of move orders.

Το διαδίκτυο είναι ένα μέσο μαζικής επικοινωνίας που φέρνει τους ανθρώπους κοντά και εκμηδενίζει τις αποστάσεις. Φυσικά υπάρχουν και θετικά στοιχεία αλλά και αρνητικά. Δημιούργησα ένα βίντεο που, στο οποίο σας δείχνω...

No bids were received at the FIDE Presidential Board in Al Ain for the World Championship 2012 match between Anand and Gelfand. The host of the match has to guarantee a minimum prize fund of 1 million eur.

The FIDE Presidential Board in Al Ain decided to implement the recommendation of the Qualification Chairman and Rating Administrator to lower the rating floor to 1000 and produce the rating list on a monthly basis.

For the first time in the history of national events, all strongest chess players of the country will take part, except for Vassily Ivanchuk who earlier committed to Bazna Kings 2011. Ruslan Ponomariov,Pavel Eljanov, Alexander Moiseenko, Zahar Efimenko and Andrei Volokitin will play.

The first prize in Albena is the impressive 8000 EUR, but what is even better for the chess enthusiasts, there are 30 prizes ranging from 1000 to 100 EUR for amateur chess players, and 16 prizes ranging from 500 to 100 EUR for youngsters. Exactly such prize distribution is very typical for the Super Opens and beneficial to the whole chess community.

Oh those Germans. They can't let the French one-up them on anything, not even chess cheating. At the German championship last week, 23-year-old FM Christoph Natsidis of Bannewitz, who will now be quasi-famous for this one thing for the rest of his life thanks to Google and his own stupidity, decided it would be a good idea to check his position on his smartphone a few times in the toilet...