The Estonian Sports Association Kalev organized 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 was played on Sunday. 86 players competed, full standings bellow. The Main tournament [...]

The brother of Vugar Gashimov victorious in Donostia blitz event

The 2012 Northern California International was held from 2nd to 8th January, 2012, at the NorCal House of Chess at Northwestern Polytechnic University in Fremont, California. Following the tradition of Berkeley International, the tournament offered the possibilities for obtaining GM and IM norms. Presented by NorCal House of Chess Time Control: 40/90, SD/30 with 30 [...]

Top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus) led the table along with Yu Ruiyuan (China) with 7.0 points after the eighth round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Half a point behind the leaders at 6.5 points were ten players including GMs [...]

A player, a trainer, an author, an Icelandic champion, a Danish champ and a Greenlandic champion. The brief on the genial Grandmaster from Iceland keeps extending. A Grandmaster with a difference, Henrik Danielsen brings fresh air in his thoughts when he says, “What is important to me is not just chess results. I focus more [...]

The 3rd Annual Golden State Open will take place over the Martin Luther King weekend from January 13-16, 2012, at the Concord Hilton Hotel, Concord, California. The event has a $30,000 projected prize fund with $21,000 guaranteed. The event has 5 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500 and Under 1200. All sections are [...]

Dates: 31st of march to 7th of april 2012 Venue: Gros Xake Taldea. Anoeta passeig, 20. Donostia- San Sebastián (Frontón Karmelo Balda) Rounds: 9 Rate of Play: 90 minutes + 30 sec/move Entry fee: General: 35 €. U20: 25 €. GM, IM, WGM, WIM and rating > 2300 FREE Paying info:Bank transfer to: IBAN: ES [...]

Ο Σ. Ο. Παγκρατίου και ο  Σ. Μ. Α. Ο.Καισαριανής, , διοργανώνουν  την Κυριακή 15 Ιανουαρίου στις 5.30μμ, το παραδοσιακό τουρνουά για παιδιά που...

Tata Steel 2012 chess tournament will be live on Chessdom.com daily with computer analysis and grandmaster commentary from the 2700 club and the Chessdom resident commentators from the Chess Evolution team Tata Steel photo gallery Participants in Tata Steel / All news about Tata Steel var cbeOptions = { layout: "3", room: "2012-tata-a", game: "", [...]

Group B of the Tata Steel 2012 chess tournament will be live on Chessdom.com daily with computer analysis and grandmaster commentary from the 2700 club and the Chessdom resident commentators from the Chess Evolution team Photo gallery preview of group B here Participants in Tata Steel / All news about Tata Steel var cbeOptions = [...]

Group C of the Tata Steel 2012 chess tournament will be live on Chessdom.com daily with computer analysis and grandmaster commentary from the 2700 club and the Chessdom resident commentators from the Chess Evolution team Photo gallery preview of group C here Participants in Tata Steel / All news about Tata Steel var cbeOptions = [...]

Pune based International Master Akshayraj Kore defeated fellow Indian Grandmaster Deepan Chakkravarthy and joined the leaders with 7.5 points after the ninth round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Akshayraj joined the trio of leaders viz., Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), Yu [...]

The Armenian Chess Championship takes place 11-22 January 2012 in Yerevan.

Yu Ruiyuan of China leads the table with 8.5 points after the tenth and penultimate round of the SDAT – RMK 4th Chennai Open 2012 International Grandmaster Chess Tournament, at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Periamet, Chennai here today. Sharing the second spot with 8.0 points are top seed Aleksandrov Aleksej (Belarus), defending champion Kravtsiv Martyn (Ukraine), [...]

The Moscow Chess Festival will take place 27 January – 9 February, 2012. It will have a closed GM group for men and women (see participants list here) and two open sections. Chessdom will have daily coverage of the event with computer analysis, photo reports, and news from the venue. See more at the photo [...]