Live games commentary from Tata Steel

Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Gata Kamsky and Vassily Ivanchuk sharing their impressions about the 10th round matches in the Tata Steel A tournament. Replay the games Giri – Aronian and Nakamura – Carlsen with the commentary by GM Arkadij Naiditsch. by Freshmen media

The second round of the 2012 Gibraltar Chess Masters was played on Tuesday. Similar to the first day, there were no major upsets, except that IM Patrik Lyrberg defeated South-American star GM Eduardo Iturrizaga. Earlier Lyrberg drew GM Alexei Shirov, but now for some reason is not paired in the 3rd round. The legendary GM [...]

The 14th NordWest-Cup will be played from 26th to 29th January in the “Wandelhalle” Bad Zwischenahns. The 7-round Swiss event is organized by the SK Union Oldenburg and SC Schwarzer Springer Bad Zwischenahn. Currently 310 players are registered for the Main and U1800 Groups. Among them are 10 Grandmasters with GM Yuri Solodovnichenko being the [...]

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Metropolitan Chess, Inc. is hosting an International Master norm round robin tournament from January 25th to 29th of 2012. This tournament is the 15th in its series and is being held in Suite C1002 of the California Market Center on 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles 90079. The tournament is organized by Ankit Gupta and [...]

The 3rd round of the 2012 Gibraltar Chess Masters was very successful for the players commanding the white pieces. On the top three boards white, namely Women World Champion Hou Yifan and England’s Nigel Short and Michael Adams, snatched victories to continue with perfect records. Sabino Brunelo and Ruben Felgaer defeated the higher rated opposition [...]

Alexander Kostiev, Director of the international chess festival Moscow Open, spoke about the peculiarities of organising and running such a large-scale tournament. Eldar Mukhametov: Alexander Nikolaevich, how did the idea of this festival originate? Alexander Kostiev: The festival was born thanks to the idea of connecting the establishment of the Chess Department in the Russia [...]

GM Sedlak and the Chess Evolution team provide commentary for the Aronian - Navara game

GM Sedlak and the Chess Evolution team provide commentary for the Carlsen - Topalov game

Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, recently winner of the 3rd London Chess Classic, arrived to Wijk aan Zee to visit his colleagues participating in the Tata Steel tournament. by Freshmen media

ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ 6 ΦΕΒΡΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ 2012 ΩΡΑ 20:30  Ο GM και 8 φορές πρωταθλητής Ελλάδας ΧΡΙΣΤΟΔΟΥΛΟΣ ΜΠΑΝΙΚΑΣ, δίνει σιμουλτανέ (μέχρι 25 σκακιστές) στο εντευκτήριο...

After the start of the program "Chess in Schools" few years back, thousands of young chess players emerged in the country.

After the 4th round of the 2012 Gibraltar Chess Masters there are no more players with the perfect scores as the top two boards were drawn and Le Quang Liem beat Ruben Felgaer. The derby match between Judit Polgar and Humpy Koneru ended in a a draw. Swedish IM Patrik Lyrberg returned into the arena [...]

David Navara, Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Gelfand, Sergey Karjakin and Loek van Wely sharing their impressions about the 11th round matches in the Tata Steel A tournament. Replay the games Aronian – Navara and Carlsen – Topalov with the commentary by GM Nikola Sedlak. by Freshmen media