Tata Steel Challengers 2015 will have daily live games coverage on Chessdom.com. The broadcast will be with a triple engine analysis by the newly crowned medalists of the Top Computer Chess Championship TCEC - Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini. GM Navara, David CZE 2729, GM Wei, Yi CHN 2675, GM Shankland, Sam USA 2652, GM Van Kampen, Robin NED [...]

The Georgian Chess Federation organizes the 2015 edition of the Georgian Chess Championships for men and women from 10th to 19th January 2015 in Tbilisi, the capital and largest city of Georgia. Participants in the Men’s Section: GM Mikheil Mchedishvili (2587), GM Davit Jojua (2585), GM Levan Pantsulaia (2583), GM Merab Gagunashvili (2579), GM Luka Paichadze (2561), GM Konstantine [...]

In my youth, I knew another chess player who was absolutely obsessed with the game. While I had my music and other interests, my friend was only interested in chess. As time passed, we saw him less and less. He preferred the company of his chess set to that of his friends. Eventually, we didn’t […]

Grandmaster and Chennai Open winner Ivan Popov of Russia suffered a shock defeat at the hands of unheralded Aniruddha Deshpande in the opening round of the premier section of 13th Parsvnath Delhi International Grandmasters Chess Tournament that got underway here in Ludlow Castle Sports Complex on Friday. It turned out to be a tough day [...]

The 13th Parsvnath International Chess Festival is taking place on 9-16th January 2015 in the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, New Delhi, India. Open A is a 10-round Swiss tournament, open to all players rated 2000 and above. 179 players are vying for the first prize in the amount of 300,000 Rs. Top seed is Indian player GM Gupta Abhijeet. Official website/ [...]

The Baden-Baden Chess Centre (Schachzentrum Baden-Baden)  invites you to the GRENKE Chess Classic 2015, an elite grandmaster tournament. The organisers are delighted to have brought together an exclusive line-up, headed by World Champion Magnus Carlsen and 2013 Champion Viswanathan Anand. This is the third edition of the GRENKE Chess Classic, which was also held in 2013 and [...]

Estonian Sports Association Kalev organizes the XXIV international „Paul Keres Memorial” in Rapid Chess on 9-11th January 2015 at the Sokos Hotel Viru, in Tallinn, the capital and largest city of Estonia. The chess festival is held in two stages and in addition will be held the blitz tournament. THE PRELIMINARY TOURNAMENT will be a 7-round [...]

The International Rapid Chess Tournament “Paul Keres Memorial” 2015 is taking place on 9-11th January 2015 at the Sokos Hotel Viru, in Tallinn, the capital and largest city of Estonia. The chess festival is held in two stages and in addition will be held the blitz tournament. The first stage is the preliminary event, which [...]

Pairings from all groups of Tata Steel 2015

The 5th Annual Austin Chess Club Championship was held on 2-4th January, 2015, at the Bridge Center of Austin, 6700 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, Texas, USA. The tournament format was 5-round Swiss in three sections: Championship, Reserve and Novice. The total prize fund was 3400 USD. The main Championship section had 75 participants. FM Li [...]

The 3rd Annual Boston Chess Congress will be held from 9-11th January, 2015, at the Hyatt Harborside at Logan Airport, 101 Harborside Dr, Boston, Massachusetts. The event has 6 sections: Premier, Under 2100, Under 1900, Under 1700, Under 1500 and Under 1300. All sections have either 3-day (January 9-11) or 2-day (January 10-11) schedules to [...]

The Gulf Coast New Year’s Open was held from 2-4th January, 2015, at the Holiday Inn Fort Myers Airport in Fort Myers, Florida, USA. The tournament format was 5-round Swiss in six sections: Open (FIDE rated), U2100, U1800, U1600, U1350 and U1100. The main Open section had 27 participants. Grandmasters Elshan Moradiabadi and Julio Becerra, [...]

Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s I played three or four rated chess games against Victor E. Hakala. I lost one of those chess games and I won the rest of them on time forfeit. A search on Google for one of his photographs informed me that Victor died back in 2001. I was unable to find […]

The 13th Parsvnath International Chess Festival is taking place on 9-16th January 2015 in the Ludlow Castle Sports Complex, New Delhi, India. The event is split into 3 tournaments: - Open A – 10-round Swiss tournament, open to all players rated 2000 and above - Open B – 10-round Swiss tournament, open to all players rated [...]

The 2014/2015 Series of the Czech Tour is coming to its end. The final stage consists of 3 tournaments: Prague Open, Marienbad Open and Liberec Open. The 14th Marienbad Open 2015 is scheduled to take part on 17-24th January 2015 in Marianske Lazne, the second biggest spa town in the Czech Republic. The town of Marianske [...]