The 16th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2015 started on Tuesday in Oazis Palace Chakvi hotel in Chakvi, Georgia. The event was opened by a symbolic move which was made by Zurab Azmaiparashvili, President of the European Chess Union in the game on the top board between the first seed Georgian GM Nana Dzagnidze and [...]

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The 3rd International Chess Festival Cesme Open 2015 will take place from 15-20th June, at the Cesme Aya Haralambos Church, in Cesme, a splendid coastal Turkish city, situated near the largest metropolitan center in Turkey’s Aegean Region, Izmir. The event is a 9-round Swiss Open, organized by the Turkish Chess Federation and Cesme Municipality. The tempo of play [...]

The 2015 Czech Individual Men’s Chess Championship is taking place from 15-23rd May, at the Hotel Slunce, in Havlickuv Brod, a district within Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. The event is a single round-robin tournament with the participation of: GM Navara David 2751, GM Hráček Zbyněk 2617, GM Rausis Igors 2590, GM Štoček Jiří [...]

The 2015 Czech Individual Women’s Chess Championship is taking place from 17-23rd May, at the Hotel Slunce, in Havlickuv Brod, a district within Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic. The event is a single round-robin tournament with the participation of: WIM Olšarová Tereza 2303, WIM Havlíková Kristýna 2301, Novosadová Kristýna 2256, WGM Kulovaná Eva 2234, WIM [...]

Gruenfeld, Ernst – Alekhine, Alexander, Karlsbad 1923 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 4…Nbd7 can also be played here as White can’t win the pawn on d5: 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Nxd5 Nxd5 7.Bxd8 Bb4+ wins piece. 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.e3 0–0 7.Rc1 A well known tempo struggle begins; White wants to develop his bishop when […]

The Ugra nominee in the FIDE Grand Prix, Dmitry Jakovenko, bounced back to 50% score after defeating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the 5th round. The French player suffered second consecutive loss after a terrible oversight that cost him a pawn. Sergey Karjakin grinded Evgeny Tomashevsky in a marathon game that lasted seven hours and 99 moves. [...]

The Chess Museum of the Russian Chess Federation today opened the exhibition “Chess during the War 1941-1945″ to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The thematic exposition includes unique documents and materials, most of which are displayed for the first time. The new exhibition of the RCF Chess Museum, [...]

The 7th Mediterranean Junior Chess Championships 2015 for boys & girls under 20 will be held in Chania on Crete, Greece from 26th August (arrival) to 3rd September 2015 (departure). The tournament is being sponsored by Kydon Sports Club and Krommydakis Group of companies. The playing venue is Atlantica Caldera Creta Paradise Hotel. The co-organizers [...]

Javier Ochoa De Echaguen, FIDE Vice-President and Chairman of the Appeals Committee for the Grand Prix in Khanty-Mansiysk, has kindly accepted the invitation to speak to the press. – Javier, you’ve been to Russia before, what are your impressions about Khanty-Mansiysk? – Yes, I have already been here before, I visited Khanty-Mansiysk for the Chess Olympiad. [...]

The 13th World’s Youth Stars tournament, dedicated to the memory of Vanya Somov, is taking place from 19-30th May at the Palace of Culture KINEF in Kirishi, Leningrad region, Russia. The tournament is a 12-player, single round-robin event, according to the acting rules of FIDE. The tournament is valid for IM-norms. Participants: Chigaev Maksim IM (RUS [...]

Η ΝΕΠ και ο ΣΟ Ρίου θα αναμετρηθούν στον τελικό του Ομαδικού Κυπέλλου ΕΣΣΠ 2015 μετά τις νίκες τους επί των ΣΟΠ και ΑΓ. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΥ αντίστοιχα.

With eleven games out of fifty five still in progress in the Adrian Hollis Memorial you might think that the winner was certain in this prestige event which is, quite possibly, the strongest ever correspondence chess tournament with players solely from the United Kingdom.  At the moment the winner is very likely to be either […]

The 2015 Higher League for the 68th Russian Men’s Championship and 65th Russian Women’s Championship is scheduled to take place from 21st June to 2nd July at the Hotel Baltica in Kaliningrad. Both sections will be completed over 9 rounds of Swiss system. Draw offers are not allowed before black’s 40th move. The total prize [...]

The German Chess Federation (Deutscher Schachbund e.V.) held its Federal Congress on 16th May in Halberstadt. In the election for the post of President of the federation there were two candidates: the incumbent Herbert Bastian and his Vice-President for Sport Joachim Gries. After two rounds of voting Bastian won the election with 109 votes against [...]