The 17th Open Bošnjaci is scheduled to take place from 3rd to 9th January in Bošnjaci, Croatia. The tournament will be played over nine rounds of Swiss system and rated with FIDE. 115 players are signed up to day. The prize fund of 5400 EUR will be distributed over 35 individual prizes. The first place [...]

The Chess Association of Azerbaijan-Sharghi province on behalf of the Iran Chess Federation has the honor to invite all players from national federations to participate in the 20th Fajr International Chess Open Tournament, which will be held in Tabriz, northwestern of Iran, from January 11 to 20, 2012. The tournament will be played in 11 [...]

The 28th Open International d’Échecs took place on 26-30th December in Genève, Switzerland. The tournament was divided in two groups, Open A for players rated above 1700 and Open B for U1800 players. The playing format was 7-round Swiss. 16,000 CHF were given in prizes. The Open A had 54 participants. Five Grandmasters shared the [...]

The 21st Annual North American Open was held at Bally’s Casino Resort, 3645 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, Nevada, from December 26-29, 2011. The event had 7 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500 and Under 1250. The projected prize fund was $120,000 with $90,000 guaranteed. GM Francisco Vallejo [...]

Courtesy of Dario Pedini and Scacchierando Blog Interview with Alexander Morozevich in Reggio Emilia – Part One Dario: In the last Olympiad, Russia has been able to field three teams. You had initially been selected for the second team but you declined to take part, probably, and rightly so, because you really are a Russia [...]

The 5th Open Agusta Aragón Stadium Casablanca was held from 23rd to 31st December at the Stadium Casablanca in Zaragoza, Spain. The 9-round Swiss event featured a prize fund of 8000 EUR with 2000 EUR dedicated to the winner. 155 players competed and among them were seven Grandmasters. GM Azer Mirzoev, recently winner of Magistral [...]

The 35th Zurich Christmas Open was held on December 26-30, 2011, at the “Crowne Plaza Zürich”, Badenerstr. 420, 8040. The Open consisted of two playing groups, Master tournament and Under-2050 tournament. Both groups were played over 7 rounds of Swiss system. Russian Grandmasters Igor Kurnosov and Boris Grachev shared the first place with 5.5 points [...]

The 1st Mega Torneio de Lençóis Paulista is set to take place on 7-8th January at the Ginásio Municipal Archângelo Brega Primo (CSEC). The 9-round rapid event is organized by ADX and Paulista Chess Federation. The time control is 18 min + 3 sec for digital clocks or 21 min for wooden clocks. The prize [...]

Hikaru Nakamura performed a fine positional squeeze against Nikita Vitiugov’s favourite French defence to score another victory and extend the lead in the 54th Reggio Emilia tournament. The local chess fans are delighted with Fabuano Caruana’s success in the game against Alexander Morozevich. The Russian player over-extended his position trying to get more than equality [...]

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 Association of Chess Professionals and the Georgian Chess Federation are proud to announce the ACP Women Cup 2012 – the final tournament of the ACP Women Series 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 to be staged at Sheraton Hotel, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, from the 17th to 22nd of February 2012. This will be one of the [...]

Nikita Vitiugov signed his first victory, while Vassily Ivanchuk suffers his third consecutive defeat in the 54th Reggio Emilia tournament. From a relatively harmless position and with loads of time on the clock, Ivanchuk went for a faulty combination and simply dropped a piece (probably missing that Ne3 retreat prevents the check from b6). Black [...]

Reggio Emilia is one of the strongest closed tournaments of the year, bringing daily exiting chess to the fans. It is also a great event for the players themselves, as the organization is fantastic and the players truly enjoy all side events as seen from the photo galleries: Photo galleries from Reggio Emilia Round 1 [...]

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The 49th Mijo Udovčić Memorial was organized by the Zagreb Chess Union on 2nd January. The round robin blitz tournament had 32 participants from Croatia, Slovenia and BIH. The prize fund was 2100 EUR. GM Zoran Jovanovic narrowly edged IM Matej Sebenik to take a clear first place with 23 points. Standings bellow. Mijo Udovčić [...]