The 37th Abierto Internacional Ciudad de Sevilla is set to take place from 7th to 15th January in Sevilla, Spain. This year’s tournament is dedicated to the memory of José Félix Domínguez Corrales. The playing venue is Hotel Al-Andalus Palace-Hoteles Silken, near the football stadium Benito Villamarín. 162 players are pre-registered, among them 17 Grandmasters. [...]

LIVE Games with computer analysis 10-year old A Ra Harikrishnan, a student of Sethu Baskara School, Ambattur, Chennai delivered the first upset in the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament defeating Woman Grandmaster and former National women champion Nisha Mohota, in the first round at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai [...]

The 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is set to take place from 23rd January to 2nd February 2012 at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar. The main event of the Festival will be the 10-round Masters tournament from 24th January. In addition, there will be the 1st Amateurs and Challengers events from 23rd to 27th January, [...]

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 [...]

Alexander Morozevich has just directed an exciting finish of the 54th Reggio Emilia tournament by defeating the leader Hikaru Nakamura and reducing the margin to only one point. Earlier, Nakamura was successful against the Classical French defence in the game with Vitiugov, but this time Moro did not allow white to develop the initiative. Black [...]

13-year old FIDE Master Diptayan Ghosh stunned Grandmaster Barbosa Oliver of Philippines in the third round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Top seed Grandmaster Aleksandrov Aleksej shared the lead with 3.0 points along with 16 players including Grandmasters Oleksienko [...]

Ο Σ.Ο. Παγκρατίου και ο Σ.Μ.Α.Ο. Kαισαριανής προκηρύσσουν το 12ο μηνιαίο Τουρνουά Rapid (15 λεπτά) ανοιχτό για όλους τους παίκτες,που θα διεξαχθεί...

Interview with Alexander Morozevich, where he speaks about the game with Nakamura and his first steps in chess Interview with Vassily Ivanchuk, where he talks about his passion for languages Interview with Anish Giri, where he talks about his chess preparation and his future goals More Reggio Emilia interviews Live games with computer analysis

The Stockholm Chess Federation organized 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), was played in three groups: Rilton Cup, Rilton Elo and Rilton Open (the Open was only for Nordic players with a [...]

Indian trio S L Narayanan, Akshayraj Kore and Vishnu Prasanna stunned Grandmasters Mark Paragua (Philippines), Dzhumaev Marat (Uzbekistan) and Gomez John Paul (Philippines) respectively in the fourth round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. GMs Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine) and...

What a thrilling finish of the 54th Reggio Emilia tournament! As both leaders, Nakamura and Morozevich, were defeated in the last round, the talented Dutch Anish Giri sprints in the final yards to claim a clear first place with 16 points. Giri concluded the first leg of the tournament, played in 2011, with only five [...]

Talented Delhi lad Vaibhav Suri beat local challenger Vishnu Prasanna and moved into joint lead after the sixth round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Vaibhav Suri leads the table with 5.5 points, along with GMs Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) and [...]

The Estonian Sports Association Kalev is organizing the 21st Paul Keres Memorial on 6-8th January in Tallinn, Estonia. The Preliminary 7-round Swiss tournament with the time control 15′+10” was held on Friday and Saturday. Top four finishers qualified for the Main tournament which will be played on Sunday. 86 players competed, full standings bellow. The [...]

The 44th Annual Liberty Bell Open will take place over the Martin Luther King weekend from January 13-16, 2012, at the Sheraton City Center Hotel, Philadelphia. The event has a $20,000 projected prize fund with $14,000 guaranteed. The event has 9 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300, [...]

Former Asian Junior Champion and International Master Pandian Karthikeyan defeated Philippino Grandmaster John Paul Gomez in the seventh round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) and Yu Ruiyuan (China) share the lead with 6.5 points, [...]