Västerås Open 2011 is scheduled to take place on 23rd-25th September at the Växhuset, Viktor Larssons plats, in Västerås, Sweden. The tournament format is 8-rounds modified Swiss system. First four games will be played on Friday with the rapid time control of 20 minutes per player. The remaining four rounds will be played at the [...]

Morozevich - Grischuk start at 11:00 CET.

GM Bu Xiangzhi - GM Abhijeet Gupta in round 3 of the World Cup

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Polgar - Karjakin with Grandmaster and computer analysis.

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This year an International Chess Open will be organized among the activities of the Chess Grand Slam Final. This tournament will be valid for FIDE rating and will allow all chess players to play next to the big glass-cube in which the world’s top chessplayers will play the Grand Slam Final. Dates: from 6th to [...]

The International Chess Festival “Istanbul Open 2011″ will be held in Istanbul from 11 September (the date of arrival) to 18 September 2011 (the date of departure). Two Open Tournaments (A and B) are made up according to the rating of the participants. This time, the Qualification Tournament for the Blitz Tournament will be held [...]

The first games of the Round 3 of the World Chess Cup were played on Saturday, September 3 in Khanty-Mansiysk. At this stage the strongest players begin to meet each other. All the remaining participants undoubtedly belong to the world chess elite. In two games Black faced 1.e4 and selected the super-solid Berlin Defense, which [...]

The 2nd Obert Internacional d’Escacs de Ciutat Vella was held as a rapid tournament with 15′+5″ time control on 3rd September at the headquarters of Comissions Obreres de Barcelona. The tournament is part of the VII Catalan Circuit of Open International, Gran Premi Generalitat de Catalunya, in the category of “candidate”. The tournament format was [...]

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The second day of the 3rd Round of the World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk finished in an unexpected way. After six-hour-matches there was only one game played in the empty tournament hall: David Navara (Czech Republic) was converting the decisive material advantage (Queen vs Rook) against Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine). Having beaten down the desperate resistance [...]

The return games of the 3rd Round of the World Chess Cup were played on Sunday in Khanty-Mansiysk. Alexander Morozevich, who needed a win to equalize the match score, surprised everyone by offering a draw to Alexander Grischuk on the 12th move in a well-known theoretical position. Grischuk confessed at the press-conference that he has [...]

International rapid chess tournament Ilok 2011 was held on 4th September at the new Sports Hall in the Croatian bordering city of Ilok. The tournament was played over 9 Swiss rounds with the time control of 15 minutes per player. Nine Grandmasters entered the field of 96 players. Davor Rogic and Milos Perunovic shared the [...]