In less than a one week the biggest ever global event in Gibraltar celebrating 10 years of chess on the Rock will make its opening move. The 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival has grown beyond all recognition since it first started 10 years ago. The open tournament, the Gibraltar Masters, with the largest concentration of [...]

The 10th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament is currently ongoing in New Delhi, India. Round 6 video with interviews of GM Oliver Barbosa, GM Sandipan Chanda and more is posted bellow. Read also the round 6 report by MS Gopakumar.

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Live commentary by Gm Arkadij Naiditsch

Stuart Conquest Director of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, scheduled to begin next week, believes the tournament in its 10th edition will see the largest concentrate of women chess players ever in a mixed event. He writes: The greatest ever gathering of female chess players in a mixed event takes place on the Rock [...]

The 44th Annual Liberty Bell Open took place over the Martin Luther King weekend from January 13-16, 2012, at the Sheraton City Center Hotel, Philadelphia. The event had 9 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300, Under 1100 and Under 900. All sections were played as 7-round Swiss [...]

Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul signed the peace treaty in their top board battle to maintain their joint lead with six and half points in the ongoing 10th Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament here at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Thursday. Meanwhile there is no stopping for the upset galore in [...]

The 10th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament is currently ongoing in New Delhi, India. Round 7 video is posted bellow. Read also the round 7 report by MS Gopakumar.

GM Naiditsch and the Chess Evolution team provide commentary for the NNavara – Carlsen game from Tata Steel 2012. The game starts at 13:30 CET, see all details about Tata Steel here var cbeOptions = { layout: "3", room: "2012-tata-a", game: "06-Navara_David-Carlsen_Magnus", annotations: true }; Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom

GM Naiditsch and the Chess Evolution team provide commentary for the Gelfand – Nakamura game from Tata Steel 2012. The game starts at 13:30 CET, see all details about Tata Steel here var cbeOptions = { layout: "3", room: "2012-tata-a", game: "06-Gelfand_Boris-Nakamura_Hikaru", annotations: true }; Live chess broadcast powered by ChessBomb and Chessdom

The 10th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament is currently ongoing in New Delhi, India. Round 8 video including the bits from the FIDE Trainers’ Seminar is posted bellow. Read also the round 8 report by MS Gopakumar.

Most of the top board battles in the eighth round ended without decisive results and which helped overnight joint leaders Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul to maintain their joint lead with seven points after settling for half points against Grandmaster Andrei Deviatkin of Russia and Mark Paragua of Philippines respectively in the [...]

The “Chess Academy of Thessaloniki”, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and the Greek Chess Federation have the honour of inviting all national chess federations and eligible players in the FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship 2012 to be held in the 5-star Porto Carras Grand Resort in Halkidiki, Northern Greece from 16 April (1st round) to [...]

Live games with GM Naiditsch

Live games from Tata 2012