The 2015 Spanish Team Chess Championship – First Division is taking place from August 8-14, in Linares, Spain. The event is a round-robin team championship of 8 teams: EQUIGOMA – CASA SOCIAL CATOLICA, C. E. BARBERÀ, C. A. SILLA – LOPEZ INSTALACIONES, C.A. STADIUM CASABLANCA, C.A. UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO, C.A. EVA – MANISES, C. A. JAIME CASAS and C.A. ALEKHINE-ESPARTINAS. Top...

The 19th Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament took place from 1-8th August at the University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. The 9-round Swiss Open was organized by the Stichting Schaak Walcheren. Top seed Baadur Jobava from Georgia emerged clear winner after defeating GM Elshan Moradiabadi in the final round to complete the event with 8,0/9 [...]

The Last (eighth) Qualification Tournament of the FIDE World Online Amateur Blitz Championship 2015 was held on August 6th, at the official FIDE Online platform. An impressive number of 137 participants competed in the 11-round Swiss event. Top eight finishers from the event qualified for the semifinal tournament: Alex Dobboletta 1915 (Italy) – 9 points; Yair Parkhov 2032 [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated participants, organisers and guests of the 2015 Russian Chess Championship Superfinal that has opened in Chita. “These competitions traditionally bring together the best representatives of the national chess school, grand masters holding the highest titles. In the course of intense intellectual combat, they are to resolve a large number of [...]

GM Saleh A.R. Salem of the UAE (right) and GM Abhijeet Gupta of India (below) beat their respective 7th round opponents to barge into a three-way tie for the lead with GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly of India at 5.5 points each in the homestretch of the $87,000 Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 at the Hilton Hotel in [...]

The 5th Riga Technical University Open is taking place from August 10-16, 2015, at the Exhibition Centre Kipsala, in Riga, Latvia. The event is a 9-round Swiss open ti prize fund in the amount of 15,000 EUR, with 2,500 EUR reserved for the winner. Latvian players GM Igor Kovalenko (2702) and GM Alexei Shirov (2702) head [...]

The Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation are organizing the 5th Split Chess Open 2015on 9-16th August at Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia. The tournament system is 9-round Swiss and the total prize fund is 8500 EUR. Among the 176 registered players from 20 countries there are 11 Grandmasters and 18 International [...]

The 68th Men’s Russian Chess Championship and the 65th Women’s Russian Chess Championship were launched in Chita on 8 August. The competition is held by the Russian Chess Federation, the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation and the Zabaykalsky Krai Chess Federation, with support from the government of the Zabaykalsky Krai. The competition partners are [...]

I was planning to return to my occasional series highlighting some of my better tournament performances in the 1970s, but you might be amused to see my worst performance. For many years a weekend tournament was held in the East London suburb of Ilford over the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend, and I played several times […]

The 102nd British Chess Championship was held from 25th July to 8th August, 2015, in the University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL,The event was an 11-round Swiss FIDE tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″. GM Jonathan Hawkins is crowned British champion after collecting 8.5/11 points and leaving the nearest followers half a point behind. [...]

The 2015 European Amateur Chess Championship is starting today and continues until 16th August at the Palace of Army Officers, Mickeviciaus str. 19, in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Championship is open to all players representing Chess Federations in FIDE zones 1.1 to 1.10, who have no FIDE title and no FIDE rating above 2000 at the [...]

Indian GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly (playing black) and Chinese IM Lin Chen drew with each other in the 6th round to maintain their co-leadership with 5 points each in the  Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 at the Hilton Hotel****, in Al Ain, UAE. Tournament website/ LIVE games (men)/ LIVE games (women)/ Youtube/ Facebook/ Instagram With three rounds remaining, six players are a...

The Superfinals of the 68th Men’s Russian Chess Championship is taking place between 8 and 21 August in the city of Chita. The women’s tournament will be a showdown between the reigning champion Valentina Gunina (Moscow), Alexandra Goriachkina (the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District), Kateryna Lagno, Alexandra Kosteniuk (both from Moscow), Natalija Pogonina (the Saratov...

The Superfinals of the 68th Men’s Russian Chess Championship is taking place between 8 and 21 August in the city of Chita. The 2015 Superfinal will determine Russia’s strongest chess player among the country’s reigning champion Igor Lysyj (the Sverdlovsk Region), Dmitry Jakovenko (the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District ― Yugra), Denis Khismatullin (the Republic of...

The Chess Club Brda, City of Split and Croatian Chess Federation are organizing the 5th Split Chess Open 2015 on 9-16th August at Hotel Zagreb in Split, Croatia. The tournament system is 9-rounds Swiss and the total prize fund is 8500 EUR. Among the 176 registered players from 20 countries there are 11 Grandmasters and [...]