With just five results to come there is a new correspondence chess world champion from the 17 player World Championship 28 Final.  GM Ing. Leonardo Ljubicic (ICCF 2604) from Croatia leads with an unassailable 10 / 17 (4 wins, 12 draws and 0 losses). The average ICCF rating of the 17 players was 2582. Second and third […]

The Australian Chess Championship 2016 will be held in the Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne, from the 2nd of January to the 12th of January.

The Russian Rapid Final 2015 is taking place from December 12-16, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. The event is a 16-player single round-robin tournament with prize fund in the amount of 1,200,000 RUB. Top seed is GM Sergey Rublevsky (2729). Official website/ Standings and statistics

The 7th Penang Heritage City International Chess Open 2015 took place from December 7-12, at RedRock Hotel, in Penang, Malaysia. The event was a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90 + 30″ which gathered 119 players from 17 different countries. GM Duc Hoa Nguyen from Vietnam and Filipino IM Haridas Pascua tied for the first place [...]

GM Andrei Volotkin is the 2015 Chess Champion of Ukraine. 12 Ukranian GMs competed for the coveted title.

The 2nd Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival is taking place from December 12-20, 2015, in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain. The event is a 9-round Swiss open tournament with prize fund in total of 19,700 € and 2,000 € reserved for the winner. Top seed is GM Julio Granda Zuniga (2685) from Peru. Official website/ Standings and statistics

GM Klaus Bischoff (2494) wins the 86th German Championship title after tiebreakers.

The Russian-Chinese Match of Friendship will be held in Shanghai December 13-15 2015, honoring the 70 years anniversary of the end of World War II.

The European Rapid Chess Championship is taking place on December 19-20, 2015, at Sports Palace in Minsk, Belarus. The event is an 11-round Swiss FIDE rapid open tournament with prize fund in the amount of EUR 20,120 with EUR 4,000 reserved for the winner. The preliminary list of players includes a total of 810 participants. Official website/ Standings [...]

The European Blitz Chess Championship is taking place on December 18, 2015, at Sports Palace in Minsk, Belarus. The event is an 11-round Swiss FIDE blitz open tournament with prize fund in the amount of EUR 10,300 with EUR 2,000 reserved for the winner. A total of 680 participants have already subscribed for the tournament. Official [...]

GM Danyyil Dvirnyy becomes the 2015 Italian Champion after an exciting three-way tie for first place.

Το ΔΣ της ΕΣΣΠ συνεδρίασε εκτάκτως στις 2/12/2015 και πήρε τις παρακάτω αποφάσεις σχετικά με τους προκριματικούς αγώνες μαθητών-τριων:

GM Luke McShane wins London Chess Classics Super RapidPlay, which was held over the weekend alongside the main tournament, scoring a near perfect 9.5/10 points.

A memorandum of cooperation between Russia and China in scholastic chess development is signed in Shanghai. During the opening ceremony of the Russian-Chinese Match of Friendship chess tournament, officials of Russia and China signed a memorandum of cooperation amid the international scholastic tournament Belaya Ladya, the only large scale international scholastic team event in the [...]

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