2018 FIDE women’s world chess championship match had the 5th game inside InterContinental Hotel Jing’an Suburb Shanghai on 9th May. The challenger Ju Wenjun defeated the current champion Tan Zhongyi. 3.5:1.5, Ended the first half match with 2 scores ahead. This 5th game is the last game of the first half in the championship match. [...]

The Icelandic Open 2018 – Hermann Gunnarsson Memorial is scheduled to take place from 1-9th June at the Valsheimilið in Reykjavík. The 10-round Swiss event is open to all players and available for FIDE title norms. The total prize fund is 7500 EUR of which 5000 is reserved for main prizes, 1000 for Icelandic champions, [...]

The 3rd Yerevan Open International Chess Tournament is scheduled to take place from 1-11th November at the Chess Academy of Armenia in Yerevan. The tournament is open to all Fide rated players and the format is 9 round Swiss system. The total prize fund is 20.000 USD. Main prizes are USD 4500 / 3000 / [...]

A FIDE Arbiters Seminar was organized from 1-5 April 2018 in Damascus, Syria, by Syrian Chess Federation and the Syrian Olympic Commission, in cooperation with Asian Chess Association and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the Elmohafza Club, in Damascus. The lecturer was IA Hassan Khaled (EGY), FIDE Lecturer. The [...]

From 21 to 25 April 2018 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Sochi, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer was IA Alexander Tkachev (RUS), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant lecturer was IA Vladimir Staratorzhskiy (RUS). The language of the Seminar was Russian. Eighty seven (87) National arbiters [...]

Our second annual tournament will be held on Sunday, May 20, 2018. All net proceeds will be donated to Mount Sinai Hospital’s Ovarian Cancer Translational Research Laboratory, a genomic research program dedicated to uncovering the genetic basis for the early detection and prevention of ovarian cancer. Charity Chess Championship 2nd Annual Tournament Sunday, May 20, [...]

All six players of the ACCENTUS Grandmaster Tournament are now known. World Champion Magnus Carlsen will also face world number 3 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) in Biel. A new multi-round Fischer Random Chess Tournament will be held at the Biel Chess Festival, as well as three ACCENTUS simultaneous tournaments for 75 juniors. The organizers of the [...]

TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament was a 6-player round-robin tournament taking place from 4-8 May 2018 in Malmo. Before the last round GM Nils Grandelius was leading by half point. He drew his final game, which gave the chance to GM Gujrathi Santosh Vidit to catch him, after winning his game. replay the games here Final [...]

The 2018 Summer Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 15-23 May in the St. Louis Chess Club, USA. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment starting from move one. No draw offers are allowed before move 30. [...]

The 2018 Summer Chess Classic is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 15-23 May in the St. Louis Chess Club, USA. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment starting from move one. No draw offers are allowed before move 30. [...]

The “Tournament of the Champions” is a 10-player round-robin tournament taking place from 14-21 May 2018 in Pleven, Bulgaria. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. Organizer is Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy. Hotel “Rostov” Pleven. Under the auspices of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria [...]

It is always been harder to fight on two fronts than one. So when your opponent is defending one front/weakness adequately the right strategy is to open the other front. This is because it is quite hard for the defender to transfer the pieces to the other side of the board. Here is one of […]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized from 23 to 27 April 2018 in Durres, Albania, by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission, in cooperation with the Albanian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The venue of the Seminar was the “FA FA Resort” Hotel, in Durres. The Lecturer was IA Jamie Kenmure (AUS), FIDE Lecturer [...]

The 2018 Budimex Polish Women’s Championship is a 10-player single round-robin taking place in the Trading Room of the Warsaw Stock Exchange from 12-20 May. The top prize is the same as for the open – 20,000 PLN (about $5,500), with the top two qualifying for the Polish team. The time control is 90 minutes [...]

The 2018 LOTTO Polish Championship is a 10-player single round-robin taking place in the Trading Room of the Warsaw Stock Exchange from 12-20 May. The top prize is 20,000 PLN (about $5,500) with the top two qualifying for the Polish Olympiad team. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes [...]