The 37th edition of Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov Cup is taking place from 30th May to 9th June, 2015 in Kazan, the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The event is a a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/ 40 + 30′ + 30″ and it has a qualifying character for [...]

Whether you’re a beginner or a titled player, you reach a point in your chess career in which you stop moving forward and get stuck. You go through a period of of often rapid improvement, then hit a ceiling. For some the ceiling seems to be made of steel while for others it’s made of […]

From 20 to 24 May 2015 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Muscat, Oman, by the Oman Chess Committee, in cooperation with the Asian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The lecturer was IA Dr. Hesham Elgendy (EGY), FIDE Lecturer. The lectures were in Arabic language. Eighteen (18) Arbiters from Oman participated [...]

The 1st International Chess Tournament Tortoreto Lido is taking place from 26th May to 2nd June, 2015, in Villaggio Salinello, Lungomare Sirena 642, 64018 Tortoreto Lido (TE) – Italy. Open A is a 9-round Swiss tournament for players with FIDE rating over 2000. Top seeds are Grandmasters Oleg Korneev (2572), Nikita Maiorov (2563), Alon Greenfeld (2544) and [...]

Ο Γεωργιανός GM Baadur Jobava είναι μια ειδική περίπτωση παίκτη αφού για το επίπεδο στο οποίο αγωνίζεται το σκάκι του είναι έντονα αντικομφορμιστικό και τα ανοίγματά του σχεδόν πρωτοφανή εδώ και πολλές δεκαετίες στο...

The 2015 Chinese Individual Chess Championships for men and women took place from 18-29th May, in Jiangsu Xinghua, a city under the administration of Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China. Both events were played in a single round-robin format with tempo of play 90′ + 30″. GM Wei Yi emerged a clear winner in the men’s championship with 7,5/11 points, leaving [...]

The Mongolian Chess Federation (MCF) will organize the World U-16 Youth Chess Olympiad in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 19th August (Arrival) to 29th August (Departure) conducted under the auspices of FIDE. The tournament venue is Chinggis Hotel, Ulaanbaatar. The tournament shall be run on a 10 Round Swiss System. Each match between teams will be conducted [...]

I am going through some of my old chess score books and adding those chess games into my database. This is time consuming as I am also analyzing these games as I go through them. I have barely started on this project. The following chess game is from the 1978 Golden Knights Postal Championship. Back […]

Just after I booked my ticket for this event, the organisers threatened to cancel it; later FIDE officials were menacing the same. Although this was obviously ridiculous behaviour by both parties so close to the Olympiad, it did a good job of expectation management for the event. The proximity of the airport, and most accommodation... Read More

The 2015 Nezhmetdinov Rapid Cup is taking place from 29-30 May, in Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The event is a 9-round Swiss rapid tournament. Top seed is Russian player GM Alexander Morozevich. Tournament website

UAE’s FM Saeed Ishaq scores back-to-back wins to resume GM title hunt Tournament website/ LIVE games with analysis/ Standings and statistics Egyptian top-seed Grandmaster (GM) Bassem Amin and third-seed GM Mohammed Al-Sayed of Qatar escaped with lucky breaks to maintain their perfect slates to share the lead after three rounds of the 3rd Arab Elite Chess Championship – [...]

The 24th Annual Chicago Open was held May 21-25, 2015, at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 North Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, Illinois. The event had 8 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500, Under 1300 and Under 1000. The Open section with 113 participants was played over 9 rounds [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the 2nd Shamkir Tournament – Vugar Gashimov Memorial on its DD Sports Channel from 5-8th June. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 5th June 2015 from 11 to 11.30 [...]

The list of the upcoming FIDE Arbiters’ Seminars, that have been scheduled, is as follows: QATAR, Doha, 28-31 May 2015 (Arabic lang.) TAJIKISTAN, Dushanbe, 29 May-2 June 2015 ( Russian lang.) SINGAPORE, Singapore, 2-6 June 2015 (English lang.) SAUDI ARABIA, Riyadh, 6-9 June 2015 (Arabic lang.) GERMANY, Rosenheim, 11-14 June 2015 (German lang.) USA, Las [...]

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