Magnus Carlsen (2876) added 13 new Elo points in May 2015 FIDE list  after winning Shamkir Chess Tournament (Gashimov Memorial) 2015. Thus, the World champion extends the Elo difference with the nearest follower to 72 Elo points. Viswanathan Anand (2804) passed the 2800 barrier again to climb to second position. Fabiano Caruana is third with 2803. Hou [...]

The 2015 Russian Premier League takes place from 30th April to 11th May, at the Zhemchuzhina Grand Hotel**** in Sochi, a Russian city situated on the Black Sea coast. The event is an 8-team round-robin tournament with prize fund in total of 1,000,000 RUB. The top seed team is “Malakhit”, headed by GM Alexander Grischuk [...]

The 2015 Russian Team Chess Championship for women takes place from 30th April to 11th May, at the Zhemchuzhina Grand Hotel**** in Sochi, a Russian city situated on the Black Sea coast. The event is a 7-round Swiss team tournament with the participation of 10 teams and prize fund in total of 700,000 RUB. The top [...]

The 2015 Russian High League takes place from 30th April to 11th May, at the Zhemchuzhina Grand Hotel**** in Sochi, a Russian city situated on the Black Sea coast. The event is a 7-round Swiss team tournament with the participation of 20 teams and prize fund in total of 500,000 RUB. The top seed team [...]

This is one of my correspondence chess games that was played on the ICC Server. My opponent is this game is from Australia. Whenever I suspect that my opponent will play some anti-Sicilian line I will sometimes alter the move order and play a Franco Sicilian. When they think that I am going to play the […]

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The International Open “Queima das Fitas” 2015 is taking place from 30th April to 3rd May at the Hotel D. Luis, in Coimbra, Portugal. The tournament is part of the National Circuit in Classical Chess 2014/2015. The 7-round Swiss event is organized by the Chess Section of the Academic Association of Coimbra, with the support of the [...]

The 11th Copenhagen Chess Festival is taking place from 29th April to 3rd May, 2015, in Ballerup, a Danish town, seat of the Ballerup Municipality, in the Region Hovedstaden. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with the time control of 90′ + 30″. It’s organized by Chess Club BMS Skak, in collaboration with the [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Reykjavik Chess Open 2015 on its DD Sports Channel from 1-4th May. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 1st May 2015 from 11 to 11.30 pm (GMT 17:30hrs) [...]

The Russian Individual Chess Championship for girls was held from 21-30th April, 2015, in Loo, Russia. The event was a 10-player round-robin tournament and WIM Alina Bivol emerged a clear winner with 7/9 points, leaving the nearest followers full points behind. Bivol qualified for the 2015 World Girls Championship and 2015 Russian Women’s High League. WFM Alexandra [...]

Having already drawn the first of our two games against my lower rated opponent with Black, I was keen to do better with the White pieces. My Hertfordshire team, ‘Eight of Hearts’, needed the points as did my own rating! Since the widespread use of computer assistance it has been increasingly difficult to get any […]

The 15th European Senior Chess Championships for Men and Women have started in Eretria, Greece, with the participation of 87 players from 27 countries and a prize fund of 8.000 euros for the winners. The event is held under excellent playing conditions in the conference center of the 4-star “Eretria Village” Hotel, which is near the ancient city of [...]

The 2015 Serbian Chess Championship was held from 18-30th April in Vrbas. The average elo of the 12-player lineup was 2476.

The 25th International Open Ciudad de Móstoles is set to take place on 1st May at the Polideportivo Rafa Martinez in Móstoles, near Madrid, Spain. The 9-round rapid event with the time control 15 min + 5 sec is organized by Agrupación Deportiva Ajedrez Móstoles. The tournament will be rated with FIDE. The top prizes [...]

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