Pancevo Chess Union and IO Miladin Mitrovic are organizing two International Women Chess Tournaments that take place concurrently from 9th to 18th September in Pancevo, Serbia.

The 9th Open Villa de Ibi is scheduled to take place as a rapid tournament on 11th September at the Centro Cultural de la Villa de IBI in Alicante, Spain.

The DYTM Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah Invitational Masters proved a huge success with three grandmaster norms producing two new Grandmasters in Oliver Barbosa and Richard Bitoon from the Philippines and confirming one International Master in Uzbekistan's Jahongir Vakhidov.

World Cup game 2 with computer and GM analysis.

Round 9 video and interview with the winner Oliver Barbosa, produced by Vijay Kumar

The 9th Obert Internacional d’Escacs “Ribera d’Ebre-Central Nuclear d’Ascó” took place on Saturday, 10th September, at the Teatre municipal “La Llanterna” in Móra d’Ebre, Spain.

The second games of the World Cup Quarter-Finals were played on Saturday, September 10th, in Khanty-Mansiysk. Yesterday Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) defeated Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), and three other games were drawn.

Open Santisimo Cristo de Candas was held from 2nd to 10th Septembar in Candas, Spain. The tournament is organized by the local chess club. 95 players took participation in the 9-round Swiss tournament.

Today, St. Louis area Boy Scouts played a game of human chess during an event co-hosted by the World Chess Hall of Fame and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis to launch the first-ever Chess Merit Badge for the Boy Scouts of America.

The recently concluded Serbian Premier League had an unfortunate event when GM Dragan Paunovic experienced strong chest pain after completing the 9th round game.

The semifinals will start on Monday, September 12th, when we'll witness the matches between two Ukrainian and two Russian chess players: Vassily Ivanchuk vs Alexander Grischuk and Ruslan Ponomariov vs Peter Svidler.

As expected, the first day of the Kings vs. Queens tournament produced the fireworks everyone had hoped for! Taking into consideration the fast pace of both formats (rapid and chess960), the games were exciting, uncompromising and thankfully for the spectators, not free of mistakes and heartbreakers.

The 8th Diada d'Escacs Actius 2011, organized by the Societat Coral Colon, was held on 11th September in Sabadell, Spain. 83 players competed, including four Grandmasters.

The 9th Open Villa de Ibi took place as a rapid tournament on 11th September at the Centro Cultural de la Villa de IBI in Alicante, Spain.

The simul will be a regular event every Tuesday.