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The 21st HIT Open 2016 was taking place from January 29 to February 4, in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The event was organized by Chess Club Nova Gorica in a 9-round Swiss FIDE format with prize fund in total of 6,000 EUR. GM Vladimir Epishin from Russia emerged a solo winner with 7.5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers [...]

The 3rd International Chess Festival Open Iasi is scheduled to take place from June 13-20, 2016, at the Polyvalent Hall of Iasi, the largest city in eastern Romania. The huge event will be split into 16 different tournaments: Open A – 9-round Swiss tournament, open to all players; Open B – 9-round Swiss open tournament [...]

The Tehran Women’s Grand Prix is taking place from February 11-23, 2016 in Iranian capital Tehran. The event is a 12-player single round-robin tournament with participants: GM Humpy Koneru IND (2583), GM Ju Wenjun CHN (2558), GM Nana Dzagnidze GEO (2529), GM Pia Cramling SWE (2521), GM Dronavalli Harika IND (2511), GM Antoaneta Stefanova BUL (2509), GM Xue Zhao CHN (2506), GM...

This position is taken from the last round of my most recent tournament. It was must win situation for me because of a slightly strange rule that White has to win because a draw would count as a Black win! To decide the colors you just need to toss a coin and unfortunately I got […]

IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh triumphs in the Iran Women Chess Championship 2015 Finals.

Το Δ.Σ. της ΕΣΣΠ στην συνεδρίασή του στις 8/2/2016 αποφάσισε για τα σωματεία με δικαίωμα ψήφου στην Γενική Συνέλευση της 12/2/16 (επαναληπτική 13/2/16). Δώδεκα οι υποψηφιότητες για τις εκλογές.

Αρχίζει την Παρασκευή 12 Φεβρουαρίου και ολοκληρώνεται τη Δευτέρα, το 5ο Zurich Chess Challenge. Κύριος διοργανωτής είναι ο Σκακιστικός Όμιλος της Ζυρίχης (έτος ίδρυσης 1809! ο αρχαιότερος σύλλογος του κόσμου που λειτουργεί σήμερα)...

The final tournament of the program of the 12th International RSSU Cup, the 2016 Moscow Open – RSSU Cup in blitz chess gathered 218 participants.

To complete this series, a game which is possibly the best anti-Minority Attack game I have ever seen. Kasparov puts on a veritable master-class. Note many of the themes we have already seen, such as using d6 as a knight outpost. Most striking of all is how Kasparov exchanges queens in the middle of his […]

The 5th edition of the Zurich Chess Challenge hosts a promotional two-game match between Boris Gelfand (Vice World Champion 2012) and Alexander Morozevich (Runner-up of the SG Zurich Jubilee-Open 2009) on 13th February 2016, at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland. The oldest chess club in the world and its honorable member Oleg Skvortsov suggest an innovation for [...]

The 5th Zurich Blitz Chess Challenge is taking place on 15th February 2016 at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland. The event is organized by Zurich Chess Club and sponsored by Zurich Chess Club (founded 1809), Savoy Chess Corner, “IGC International Gemological Laboratories”. Viswanathan Anand (India), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Levon...

The 5th Zurich Blitz Chess Challenge is taking place on 15th February 2016 at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland. The event is organized by Zurich Chess Club and sponsored by Zurich Chess Club (founded 1809), Savoy Chess Corner, “IGC International Gemological Laboratories”. Viswanathan Anand (India), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Levon...

The 5th edition of the Zurich Chess Challenge is scheduled to take place from 12-15th February 2016 at the Hotel Savoy Baur en Ville in Zurich, Switzerland. The event is organized by Zurich Chess Club and sponsored by Zurich Chess Club (founded 1809), Savoy Chess Corner, “IGC International Gemological Laboratories”. Official website/ Zurich Chess Challenge LIVE/ Zurich Blitz [...]

The 29th edition of the Magistral Ciudad de León is set to take place from the 9th to the 13th of June in the Auditorium in León, Spain. A five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand (India, 46 years old), the prodigy whom many see as future champion Wei Yi (China, 16 years old), the most promising [...]