American chess is getting stronger and is on the rise. This fall, Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, the top two players in the United States, will visit the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) and compete in a series of games over four days: Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15. A parallel match between the strongest active female [...]

The world strongest female player GM Hou Yifan and GM Primarjan Negi are playing an exhibition match from Nov 12 through Nov 15, 2015, at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL). The exhibition match includes: ● Basque Chess ● 4 games Fischer Random (Chess 960) at G/20 + 10 seconds ● [...]

The Philippine International Chess Championship is taking place from November 9-14, 2015, in Olongapo City, Philippines. The event is a 10-round Swiss open tournament with the participation of 36 players from 9 different countries. Top seed is Indian player GM Abhijeet Gupta (2633). Standings and statistics

Την Κυριακή το πρωί στις 11.30 θα βρίσκεται κοντά μας ​ο νέος μας συμπαίκτης και προπονητής GM Zvonko Stanojoski.Θα μας δοθεί η ευκαιρία να τον γνωρίσουμε μέσα από τις παρτίδες του και να συζητήσουμε μαζί του. Χαλκιδικής 77...

Στον βορρά, στο Ρέικγιαβικ της Ισλανδίας, αρχίζει την Παρασκευή 13 Νοεμβρίου το το Ευρωπαϊκό Πρωτάθλημα Εθνικών Ομάδων 2015. Συμμετέχουν 36 εθνικές ομάδες στην κατηγορία ανδρών (όπεν) και 30 εθνικές στην κατηγορία γυναικών...

Today’s challenge: Find the typical pattern and react accordingly. Juan Carlos Klein against Bartolome Jorge Marcussi in 1963; White to Move Q: White has a winning position but how can he finish things off? A: All you need to do is to open lines to let your rooks joins the main battle as follows: 22. […]

The 24th Annual Kings Island Open will be held from November 13-15, 2015, at the Embassy Suites Cincinnati Northeast, 4554 Lake Forest Drive, Blue Ash, Ohio. The event has 7 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1250 and Under 1000. Each section has either a 3-day schedule (November 13-15) or [...]

From 21 to 24 October 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Dresden, Germany, by the FIDE Commission for Chess for the Disabled (DIS), in cooperation with the German Chess Federation and under auspices of FIDE. The seminar was held during the World Chess Championship for Disabled in the same venue. All participants got [...]

From 30 October to 2 November 2015, a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, in cooperation with the UAE Chess Federation, UAE Leaders Qualification Centre and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer of the seminar was IA Dr. Hesham Elgendy (EGY), FIDE lecturer and Assistant lecturer was IA Sultan Al [...]

A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 23 to 26 January 2016 in Antalya, Turkey, by the Turkish Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Guran Unal (TUR), FIDE Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer will be IA Fahri Karabay (TUR). The language of the Seminar will be [...]

The 25th FIDE World Senior Women Chess Championship is taking place from November 9-22, 2015, in Acqui Terme, Piemonte, Italy. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament, headed by Georgian player WIM Nino Melashvili (2125). 17 players from 7 different countries take part in the event. Tournament website/ Standings and statistics

The 25th FIDE World Senior Women Chess Championship is taking place from November 9-22, 2015, in Acqui Terme, Piemonte, Italy. The event is a 10 player round-robin tournament, headed by former World champion for women GM Nona Gaprindashvili (2299). Tournament website/ Standings and statistics

The 25th FIDE World Senior Chess Championship is taking place from November 9-22, 2015, in Acqui Terme, Piemonte, Italy. The event is an 11-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. GM Predrag Nikolic (2603) from Bosna and Herzegovina heads the field of 100 players from 30 different countries. Tournament website/ Standings [...]

The 25th FIDE World Senior Chess Championship is taking place from November 9-22, 2015, in Acqui Terme, Piemonte, Italy. The event is an 11-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. French GM Anatoly Vaisser (2505) heads the field of 185 players from 35 different countries. Tournament website/ Standings and [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the 2nd Isle of Man International Chess Tournament 2015 on its DD Sports Channel from 16-19th November. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 16th November 2015 from 11 to [...]