Videos courtesy of Dario Pedini and Scacchierando Blog

Latvian Chess federation and Grandmaster Alexei Shirov have a pleasure to announce the Vladimir Petrov Memorial. The aim of the tournament is to pay the tribute to one of the brightest representatives of Latvian Chess ever who tragically died in Soviet camps during the Second World War. The tournament will be supported by the family [...]

The second day of the Reggio Emilia tournament has been very exciting, the games between Giri and Morozevich, Nakamura and Caruana and Ivanchuk opposed to Vitugov have generated great interest in the audience and in the IM Giulio Borgo’s analysis room. Anish Giri started his opening with some brave moves, but Alexander Morozevich later took [...]

Live games from Domostia, the Super GMs start competing from R2, today at 15:00 CET.

Hastings Chess 2011 - 2012 round 1 report and information.

Two super events, Reggio Emilia and Donostia San Sebastian, are currently going on

Game of the day from Reggio Emilia live

The 5th Open Agusta Aragón Stadium Casablanca is taking place from 23rd to 31st December at the Stadium Casablanca in Zaragoza, Spain. The 9-round Swiss event features a prize fund of 8000 EUR with 2000 EUR dedicated to the winner. 155 players are competing and among them are seven Grandmasters. Top rated is the world-class [...]

The Stockholm Chess Federation organizes the 41st Rilton Cup from 27th December 2011 to 5th January 2012. This year’s tournament, with a prize fund of more than 200 000 SEK (about 20 000 euro), is being played in three groups: Rilton Cup, Rilton Elo and Rilton Open (the Open is only for Nordic players with [...]

The third round of the 54th Reggio Emilia Tournament saw Vassily Ivanchuk downing the local favourite and reigning Italian champion Fabiano Caruana in a deep endgame. The game started as Sveshnikov Sicilian, which Caruana himself likes to play with black pieces. In the development typical of this opening, with several pieces’ exchanges and narrowed front, [...]

"I will try to convince the current coach Yuri Dokhoian that I am a worthy selection for our Olympic team for Istanbul 2012."

The 4th round of the Reggio Emilia tournament saw all three games producing decisive results. Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Morozevich started with a quiet line in the Ruy Lopez but the position soon turned chaotic when Moro went after the a4-pawn allowing white to encircle his own f6-pawn. Ivanchuk’s pieces started menacing around the black [...]

Interview with Hikaru Nakamura during the “54 Torneo di Capodanno” tournament in Reggio Emilia Interview with Sopiko Guramishvili Reggio Emilia videos: Interview with Nakamura and opening ceremony Live games with computer analysis

"In the future I would like to write a book on my best games, that will require time therefore I don't know when I'll be able to actually do it."

New Year's Greetings by the women's tournament participants and organizers