The 4th Lev Polugaevsky Memorial is taking place on 2–10th July at the Polugaevsky Chess Club in Samara. The tournament is the 5th stage of this year’s Cup of Russia. You can find the list of participants here.

The president of the Russian Chess Federation, Andrei Filatov, who hosted this event held at the Central Chess Club Mikhail Botvinnik, assured in his speech that his country will send their best teams to the European Club Cup in September.

A common fallacy is that chess, by virtue of having all the pieces in view, does not contain deception. But this fails to consider the fact that each and every position from a chess game is interpreted by two human minds, each with their own idiosyncrasies. So when you play against someone you often get […]

Men’s and women’s Russian Championship Superfinal will this year be held in Kazan, the Russian Chess Federation CEO Mark Glukhovsky confirmed for R-Sport. Kazan is a beautiful city with rich chess tradition, Glukhovsky noted. He added that only the chess school named after Rashid Nezhmetdinov has more than one thousand students. The city and the [...]

The sixth edition of Abierto International Chess Tournament Carlos I took part from 21st to 29th June 2014 at Hotel Carlos I in Sanxenso, a municipality in Galicia, Spain. The event was a 9 round Swiss with a time control 90′ + 30″. Serbian Grandmaster Aleksa Strikovic emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points. Strikovic grabbed [...]

The 2014 Commonwealth Chess Championships are being held at Glasgow City College, in Glasgow, Scotland, from 30 June to 8 July 2014. Last-year’s winner GM Abhijeet Gupta is top seeded. More information here

The 4th Lev Polugaevsky Memorial is taking place on 2–10th July at the Polugaevsky Chess Club in Samara. The tournament is the 5th stage of this year’s Cup of Russia. A big field of 139 participants testifies of the popularity of chess in this region. 17 Grandmasters and 12 International Masters honor the memory of [...]

The 2nd D.C. International was held from June 26-30, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, Virginia. The 9-round Swiss event with one Open section attracted 83 participants. Cuban Grandmaster Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suarez emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points to collect the top prize of 3000 USD. In the [...]

The 5th tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 18th June to 2nd July in Lopota, Georgia. Twelve players compete in the round robin tournament. The event is organized by the Georgian Ministry of Sport and Youth, FIDE and Georgian Chess Federation, and sponsored by SOCAR. The 10th round ended earlier [...]

The 2014 SPICE Cup Open is scheduled to take place from 21st to 26th October at the Crowne Plaza Clayton Hotel in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. The 9-round Swiss open is sponsored by Webster University and the Susan Polgar Foundation. The event offers the prize fund of $13,000 guaranteed (up from $11,000 last year) and [...]

GM Kayden Troff, the 16-year-old phenom out of Utah, has won the 2014 U.S. Junior Closed Championship in clear first with an impressive 7/9 score, grabbing the national championship for players under 21 by finishing 1.5 points ahead of the field. For his efforts, Troff has won the top prize of $3,000, as well as [...]

This week’s example of positional transformations sees Akiba Rubinstein in action. In the diagram, position, White has more space and the better pawn centre. However, how can he best make use of this? Rubinstein’s solution is to give up the space and pawn centre, in return for a passed d-pawn, plus an open position, where […]

A FIDE Seminar for International Organizers will be held on 25-27th July at the University of Santo Tomas, Arturo Prat 879 Street, in Concepción, Chile. Objective: Concepcion Chess Club in conjunction with the University of Santo Tomas announces the completion of a Seminar for FIDE International Organizers This seminar gives norm Organizer (a) International. Participants [...]

The FIDE Arbiters’ Commission has the pleasure to announce the 2014 Arbiters’ Award. The requirements for the Arbiters to be awarded were: (a). to have obtained the IA title before 1979 (35 years of service as an IA) (b). to have worked as an Arbiter in at least three (3) FIDE major events (Olympiads, World [...]

The 48th edition of the Ilmar Raud Memorial is taking place from 30th June to 6th July 2014 at the Viljandi Sports Center in Viljandi, a town in southern Estonia. 59 players from 6 different countries will be vying for the first prize of 1.500 € in a 9 round Swiss. Top seed is Estonian champion GM [...]