The IMSA Elite Mind Games are scheduled to take part from February 26th to March 4th, 2016, in Huai’an, Jiangsu, eastern China. Official website The festival will be split into Rapid, Blitz and Basque events and separated into Men’s and Women’s categories. The rapid tournament is scheduled for February 26 – 27, the blitz competition [...]

The 8th Batavia Blitz Chess Tournament takes place on 18th February 2016 in Café Batavia 1920, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Participants: GM Sabino Brunello (2562) ITA, GM Friso Nijboer (2545) NED, GM Lars Schandorff (2500) DEN, IM Moulthun Ly (2480) AUS, IM Arthur Pijpers (2476) NED, IM Thomas Willemze (2418) NED, IM Stef Soors (2390) BEL, WGM Anne Haast (2381) NED, Lucas van...

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Tactics is what you do when you know. Strategy is what you do when you don’t know.  It’s just a fancy Greek word for “educated guesswork”. Chess heuristics (elements of strategy) are not rules, but suggestions where to look. “Rooks belong on open files.” Sometimes. It’s a good place to start looking for an answer, […]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 19 to 21 February 2016 in Seoul, South Korea, by the Korean Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Casto Abundo (PHI), ACF Executive Director and FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer will be IA KK Chang (HKG). The language [...]

The 2016 International Chess Open Graz 2016 is taking place from February 12-19, at Hotel Novapark in Graz, Austria. The event is a 9-round Swiss open with first prize in the amount of 1,500 EUR. A total of 136 players from 25 different federations take part. Top seed is Chinese player GM Li Chao (2751). [...]

The 8th Batavia Chess Tournament takes place from Thursday, February 18th to Sunday, February 28th, 2016 in Café Batavia 1920, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The event is a 10-player all-play-all event with time control 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. Participants: GM Sabino Brunello (2562) ITA, GM Friso Nijboer (2545) NED, GM Lars Schandorff (2500) DEN, IM [...]

The 2016 Hala February Festival is taking place from February 17-20, in Kuwait. The event is a 7-round Swiss tournament with time control 30′ + 30″. Top seed is CM Bader Al-Hajiri (2173). Standings and statistics

After the successful test at the World Rapid & Blitz Championship in Berlin, the “confession booths” will be used again during the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016 in Moscow. Director of FIDE Moscow office Berik Balgabaev stated for R-Sport that the organizers are already experienced in holding the events on the highest level, but they are [...]

The position below was reached after Anish Giri’s 70th move against Yifan Hou in the final round of the Masters Group in the recent Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk-aan-Zee. Up until this point Yifan had maintained a winning position with seven pieces on the board. Her next move Ke3 made the position drawn. Without […]

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ACP presents the ACP Grand Survey 2016 – the most detailed opinion poll related to the professional chess ever released. Everybody is invited to participate, whereas the answers of the ACP members will serve us as the very important indication for our further actions. It is not just a questionnaire, we need to know your [...]

FIDE informs that the dates for the 2016 World Chess Olympiad are changed to 1-14 September 2016. The event is scheduled to take place in Baku, Azerbaijan with the astounding budget of 13,3 million EUR! The 2016 FIDE Congress will take its place, accordingly, from 4-14 September 2016.

The Stockholm Chess Challenge 2016 gathers world renown young talents from March 8 – 13, 2016, in Sweden. Sweden’s young talents will be challenged by young and strong international players in order to encourage them to get IM- and GM norms. The event is a 9-round invitational title tournament for players aged 25 or younger. Ukrainian player GM Vladimir Onischuk [...]