On Thursday January 19th, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with the newly elected ACP President GM Emil Sutovsky. The meeting took place after preliminary talks between GM E. Sutovsky, FIDE Deputy President Mr. G. Makropoulos and FIDE Vice President Mr. I. Gelfer (all members of the FIDE Commission for the Olympiads and World Championships), in [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive episodes of the 3rd London Chess Classic on its DD Sports Channel. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 23rd Jan 2012 from 2230-2300 hrs…..GMT 1700-1730hrs 2nd Episode on 24th Jan 2012 [...]

The 11th Rochefort Open tournament is set to take place from 25th February to 2nd March in the Congres Palais, in Rochefort, France. Just days before the huge Cappelle-la-Grande Open, the Rochefort Open is an excellent occasion for the players to test their preparation and use the perfect training opportunity. Over 100 players, of which [...]

Filipino Grandmaster Mark Paragua defeated Indian International Master Debashis Das in the ninth round to join countrymen Oliver Barbosa and Gomez John Paul to share the lead with seven and half points in the ongoing 10th Parsvnath International Grandmasters Chess Tournament at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Saturday. Playing with white pieces in Semi-Slav variation, [...]

The Brazilian site Rádio Xadrez conducted an exclusive interview with the best woman chess player of all time, GM Judit Polgár! Judit, who will visit Brazil next month to compete in a tournament, told details about her life as mother, wife and chess player. She recalled important moments of her career: such as her games [...]

The 10th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament is currently ongoing in New Delhi, India. Round 9 video is posted bellow. Read also the round 9 report by MS Gopakumar.

Live games from Tata Steel 2012 with GM Naiditsch

Live games from Tata Steel 2012 with GM Naiditsch

With one round remaining, the tenth edition of Parsvnath International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament is heading for a close finish. At the end of penultimate round matches at Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Sunday, Filipino Grandmasters Oliver Barbosa and John Paul Gomez leading the table with eight and half points after registering emphatic victories over [...]

Ten years ago, on 23rd of January 2002, the Ukrainian Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov became the FIDE World Chess Champion. In the final match in Moscow Ruslan defeated his compatriot Vassily Ivanchuk with 4½/2½ and became the youngest ever FIDE World Champion. His girlfriend Ines and friends have prepared a special video in order to congratulate [...]

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

Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov and Levon Aronian sharing their impressions about the 8th round matches in the Tata Steel A tournament. Replay the games Radjabov – Carlsen and Topalov – Aronian with the commentary by GM Arkadij Naiditsch.

The Paris IdF Blitz International was held on 22nd January at the Halle Carpentier. A large crowd of 393 players gathered to participate in the event’s 6th edition. French national player and blitz specialist GM Laurent Fressinet stormed through the tournament to take the first place with a convincing 12 points from 13 games, leaving [...]

The first IO Seminar will be held in Moscow during the Moscow Chess Open, from 29th to 31st January 2012, at the Russian State Social University. Objective is to educate and certify Organizers on an international basis. This FIDE Organizers’ Seminar for FIDE Organizer Title Diploma is approved by FIDE and the FIDE Events’ Commission [...]

Festa da Uva 2012, set to take place on 1st-4th March in Caxias do Sul, will be the first major chess event in Brazil in 2012. As hinted in an interview, Hungarian GM Judit Polgár will play in a round-robin tournament together with GM Henrique Mecking, GM Gilberto Milos and GM Andres Rodriguez (Uruguay). She [...]