The 6th Split Chess Open 2016, organized by the Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation, was held on 13-20th August at Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia. 191 players from 25 countries competed in the 9-round Swiss event with the prize fund of 7500 EUR. Local Grandmasters Saša Martinović and Zdenko Kožul [...]

Beginners who play with the White pieces often play timidly at first, pushing a pawn one square instead of two on their first turn. They worry that pushing a pawn to e4, for example, will leave that pawn stranded without protection whereas as pushing a pawn to e3 affords that pawn protection by it’s fellow […]

The 18th International Chess Open de Sants, Hostafrancs & La Bordeta is taking place from 19-28th August 2016 at the Auditori del Centre Cívic de les Cotxeres de Sants in Barcelona, Spain. The tournament format is 10-round Swiss. There are three playing groups: Open A (all players eligible), Open B (U2100) and Open C (U1800). [...]

The Royal Chess Club of Bruges (KBSK) organized the 2016 Brugsemeesters Open tournament from 14-18th August at the KTA in Brugge, Belgium. The 9-round Swiss event gathered 101 participants. Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Epishin emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points, leaving GM Alberto David, IM Awonder Liang and IM Steven Geirnaert half a point behind. Tournament [...]

The 9th Annual Cleveland Open was held from August 12-14, 2016, at the Marriott Cleveland Airport, 4277 W 150th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. The tournament had four sections – Open, U2100, U1700 and U1300. The format was 5-round Swiss with the time control 40/100, SD/30, d10. The main Open section had 49 players. GM Fidel Corrales [...]

Here’s a nice documentary on the candidates tournament, won of course by Sergei Karjakin: Nigel Davies

The champion Komodo in danger

Interviewer: In November, New York City will host the match for the chess crown between world champion Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin. Some have compared this match with your match against Robert Fischer, which was supposed to take place in 1975, but never took place. Anatoly Karpov: So far, Carlsen has not […]

The 2016 Riga Technical University Open was organized by the Latvian Chess Federation and Riga Technical University from 8-14th August at the International Exhibition Centre “Kipsala” in Riga, Latvia. The Festival consisted of five tournaments: Grandmaster Open A, Baltic Law Offices Open B (9 rounds, for players rated U2300), Weekend Amateur Open C (7 rounds, [...]

From 18 to 23 July 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Kampala, Uganda, by the Uganda Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Africa Chess Confederation and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer was IA Omar Salama (ISL), FIDE Lecturer and the Assistant Lecturer was IA Stephen Kisuze (UGA). The lectures were in [...]

More federations are now biding for the European championships since the procedure is open to any good proposal. European events are not anymore delivered in shady negotiations, as we witnessed in the General Assembly in Tromso.

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