The 3rd Balkan Individual Chess Championship was played from 12th to 19th December in Podgorica, Montenegro. Ten players who qualified from the Open circuit competed in the round robin event. Tournaments valid for the Balkan Grand Prix: Memorial Branko Vukmanovic, Tivat, Montenegro 16-24.04.2010 16th “M. Sadoveanu”, Iasi, Romania 19-25.08.2011 Georgiev – Kesarovski Memorial...

One of the central matches of the second round of the Women World Team Chess Championship was the encounter between Russia and Ukraine. After the start of the match, the result was not easy to predict due to the epic fight on all boards. Deeper in the game Russia got an overall advantage that transformed [...]

The 1st Copa Capablanca in Memoriam 2011, Match Venezuela – Cuba, was hosted by the Organización Ajedrez Vinotinto y Saire Internacional, c.a. on 17th December at the Salón Tabure del Hotel Tiffany, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The match was played on 10 boards, over 6 rounds and with the time control of 30 minutes per player. [...]

GM Danielsen takes clear first place in Iceland.

The game of the day of the Women World Team Chess Championship is between the Armenian top GM Elina Danielian and the World Champion GM Yifan Hou. Follow all other games with analysis here View complete photo gallery of the first rounds Official website var cbeOptions = { layout: "3", room: "2011-wwt", game: "03-GM_E_DANIELIAN-GM_Y_HOU", annotations: [...]

Georgia lost to Vietnam 1-3 in the third round of the Women World Team Chess Championship as Lela Javakhishvili on the second board gave it up to Hoang Thi Bao Tram and Nino Khurtsidze lost to Hoang Thi Nhu Y on the fourth board. The encounters on the first and third boards ended in draws. [...]

The 78th Brazil Chess Championship was held from 10th to 20th December, 2011, at the Hotel Dann Inn Cambuí in Campinas. 12 players competed in the round robin tournament. The participants exercised a tremendous fighting spirit and two thirds of all games ended with decisive results. GM Rafael Leitao, previously four-times champion of Brazil, drew [...]

With 8 months left before the start of the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, Guernsey Chess Federation is the first to select the team which will be sent to the World chess summit. CM Toby Brookfield CM Peter Rowe FM Fred Hamperl Tim Knight CM Peter Kirby This sees the welcome return of Guernsey [...]

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The game of the day of the Women World Team Chess Championship is between the Armenian top GM Elina Danielian and the World Championship finalist GM Humpy Koneru. Follow all other games with analysis here View complete photo gallery of the first rounds Official website var cbeOptions = { layout: "3", room: "2011-wwt", game: "04-GM_H_KONERU-GM_E_DANIELIAN", [...]

The Azeri Grandmaster Azer Mirzoev won the XXI Magistral Elgoibar tournament that has taken place on 14-20th December in Guipúzcoa, Spain. He successfully defended the trophy that he won last year. Six-times champion in Elgoibar GM Oleg Korneev shared the second place with 5,5 points. The young Aragon Daniel Forcen had an extraordinary tournament, as [...]

The Vietnam Chess Federation has the honor to invite your Federation to participate in The 2nd HDBank Cup Open Chess tournament 2012 which to be held from 1st to 8th March, 2012, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Time control and format: Swiss System 9 rounds. FIDE rated and eligible for winning international title norms. [...]

Round four of the Women World Team Chess Championship did not bring many surprises. China won against Vietnam 3-1, thanks to the two lower boards (Zhao Xue – Nguyen Thi Thanh An 1-0 and Tan Zhongyi – Hoang Thi Nhu Y 1-0) and remains in the lead with the perfect score. India pulled 3,5 board [...]

New Delhi (22 Dec 11):- Indians once again proved its growing superiority in the age group championships as they won 11 Gold, 12 Silver and 10 Bronze out of the 36 at stake in the Asian School Chess Championship here at Indira Gandhi Stadium today. Apart from open sections of Under-5 and Under-7 India sweeps [...]

FIDE Honorary Vice President, President of the Qatar Chess Federation, Mr. Khalifa Mohammed Al-Hitmi: “People are not ready to award the smartest.” - Could you please tell us more about history of Arab Games? How long is chess included into that competition? Khalifa Mohammed Al-Hitmi: The first Arab Games started in the 50s. This is [...]