The 2012 Belgrade Chess Championships were held from 22nd to 30th January at the Belgrade Fair Hall 4. 118 players in Men’s and 19 in Women’s Championship competed. Both events were played over 9 rounds of Swiss pairings. Dejan Pikula collected 7.5 points and took a clear first place ahead of five fellow Grandmasters. Four [...]

The 14th NordWest-Cup was held from 26th to 29th January in the “Wandelhalle” Bad Zwischenahns. The 7-round Swiss event was organized by the SK Union Oldenburg and SC Schwarzer Springer Bad Zwischenahn. A total of 325 players competed in the Main and U1800 Groups. Among them were 10 Grandmasters with GM Yuri Solodovnichenko being the [...]

After the fantastic victory against GM Judit Polgar, the World Champion Yifan Hou has an even more difficult task today. She is up against the constantly progressing young star from Asia and member of the 2700 club GM Le Quang Liem. The game starts at 15:00 CET and will be live on Chessdom.com at this [...]

University Offering Chess Scholarships, Forming Team for Competition St. Louis, January 31, 2012–Lindenwood University is putting out a call for some of the finest young chess players in America and abroad. And the university is willing to provide scholarship money to build the nation’s top collegiate chess program. Located in the St. Louis metropolitan area [...]

In the stage of the Cup of Russia, which is being held as a part of the RSSU Cup “Moscow Open 2012″, Grandmaster from Penza Dmitry Kokarev is currently one of the pleading players. Kokarev had won four stages of the Cup of Russia in 2011. Julia Dogodkina interviewed him after one of the rounds. [...]

Yifan Hou and Michael Adams are leaders of the Gibraltar Masters tournament after 8 rounds. The English top Grandmaster secured a draw against the world’s top 15 player Mamedyarov, while the Chinese young prodigy continued her heroic run and defeated the 2700 club member GM Le Quang Liem. Yifan Hou and Michael Adams are top [...]

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After several weeks of voting, one book stood out as the runaway winner. In previous years the voting has been close round-by-round, or one book will do well in the first round, but falter in the second. This year, players from three countries (France, Israel, and The Netherlands) rallied around just one title: Invisible Chess [...]

The Turkish Chess Championships among women and men have started on 29th January, 2012 in Kemer, Antalya, and will continue over ten rounds of Swiss system until 5th February. The 5th round was very successful for Turkish youngsters – Vahap Sanal, Batuhan Dastan, Cemil Can and Volkan Sevgi (all members of the National team) defeated [...]

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

The reigning Women World Champion Yifan Hou continued her fantastic run in the 2012 Gibraltar Chess Masters as she defeated top class Grandmaster Alexei Shirov to single out on the top of the standings heading into the final round. Yesterday Yifan won against the Asia’s star Le Quang Liem and day before against the best [...]

Levon Aronian, the winner of the Tata Steel Chess tournament and member of the 2800 club, submitted an open statement regarding the upcoming Candidates Tournament. The statement was received via the Armenian Chess Federation and regards a possible Candidates event in Azerbaijan, where GM Levon Aronian states he will not participate in case it is [...]

Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou, member of board of European chess union from Greece, came to Moscow for participation in business program of RSSU Cup “Moscow Open”, and answered the questions of Eldar Mukhametov, the tournament website reporter. Q: Mr. Tsorbatzoglou, can you share your impressions about RSSU Cup “Moscow Open 2012″? A: For many years Mr. Alexander [...]

Yifan Hou and Nigel Short reached a tiebreak in Gibraltar after they finished with equal points in the Masters tournament. 2 rapid games will be played with time control 10 min + 5 sec, if the score is equal 2 blitz games of 3 min + 2 sec will follow, and in case of a [...]

Iceland celebrated its first “Chess Day” on January 26th, the country’s first GM and ex-FIDE president Fridrik Olafsson’s birthday. GM Olafsson, who turned 77 that day, was honored at a reception at Bessastadir, the Presidential Residence. The day featured many events across all of Iceland, including simuls and blitzes in schools, shopping malls, swimming pools [...]