It was an intense drama in the final round of 14th Parsvnath Delhi International Chess Festival as overnight sole leader Ivan Popov suffered a shock defeat at the hands of veteran Grandmaster Valeriy Neverov of Ukraine. While it did not alter the final rankings, it counted for a thrilling day as Neverov defeated Popov in [...]

The 8th Chennai Open 2016 for Sakthi Group Dr. N. Mahalingam Trophy is taking place from 18-25 January, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadiumin in Chennai, India. The event is a 10-round Swiss FIDE tournament with the participation of 217 players from 11 different countries. Top seed is Russian player GM Boris Grachev (2652). Official website/ [...]

DIS 2016 Australian Women’s Masters is taking place from January 14-22, 2016, in Melbourne, Australia. The event is a 10-player single round robin tournament for women with an average rating of 2239. Participants: WGM Ryjanova Julia RUS 2387, IM Daulyte Deimante LTU 2378, WGM Gara Ticia HUN 2347, WGM Gu Xiaobing CHN 2286, WGM Zhang [...]

Round three of the Australian Women’s Masters which is taking place from January 14-22, 2016, in Melbourne, saw the leaders move further away from the rest of the players, with three players now clear of the rest of the field. Xiaobing Gu is outright leader with 3/3, with Deimante Daulyte in outright second with 2.5/3 & Ticia Gara [...]

From 5 to 6 January 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Stockholm, Sweden, by the Swedish Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer was IA Omar Salama (ISL), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer was IA Thór Gudmundur Sverrir (SWE). The venue of the Seminar was the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm. [...]

On 9 and 10 January 2016 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Prague, Czech Republic, by the Chess Federation of Czech Republic and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer was IA Andrzej Filipowicz (POL), Secretary of the FIDE Technical Commission and FIDE Lecturer, and Assistant lecturers were IA Jirina Prokopova (CZE) and IA [...]

I’ve always felt that there’s one thing above all that makes chess such a fascinating game. We have two types of piece in our army which have very different abilities yet are very similar in value. It’s this interplay between knights and bishops which goes a long way towards making chess so interesting. I recently […]

Το ΔΣ της ΕΣΣΠ καλεί τα μέλη της, στην 1η Γενική Συνέλευση του έτους 2016, την Παρασκευή 12/2/2016 και ώρα 18:00 στο εντευκτήριο της ΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΑ ΠΕΛΟΠΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΩΝ. Σε περίπτωση με απαρτίας η Γ.Σ. θα πραγματοποιηθεί το Σάββατο 13/2/2016 και...

All games decisive in the Challengers group

The 6th Andranik Margaryan Memorial was organized by the Chess Academy of Armenia from 8th to 16th January, 2016, in Armenian capital Yerevan. The event was a 10-player single round-robin tournament, valid for GM norms. The 18-year-old Russian player IM David Paravyan emerged a convincing winner with 6.5/9 points. He finished 1.5 points ahead of the nearest [...]

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Caruana has had a number of solid performances last year, but has not been able solidify most of them into wins in 2015. Will that change in 2016 with Tata Steel Masters?