WGM Adriana Nikolova will be playing online chess today vs ChessArena users. You can also join the queue, it is free open for everyone. Games start at 22:00 CET and will be with time control 3 min + 2 sec per move, the same time control used in the upcoming FIDE World Blitz Championship. Players [...]

The Las Vegas International Chess Festival – National Open Championship – was held on 12-15th June at the Riviera Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas, USA. The Festival had eight sections: Championship, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400, Under 1200 and Unrated. The playing format was 6-rounds Swiss and the total [...]

The 9th Annual International Chess Tournament Open Teplice is in progress. The 9-round Swiss event is taking place from 14th to 22nd June, 2014, at the Estrade Hall in Culture House of Teplice, Czech Republic. 12 players share first place with perfect score after 3 rounds. GM Daniil Lintchevski (RUS), GM Hannes Stefansson (ISL), GM Henrik Teske [...]

The 111th edition of the traditional MGU Open took place on 14-15th June, 2014, at Chess Club MGU, in the Bulgarian capital and most populous city Sofia. The event was a 6 round Swiss Open with a time control 50 minutes per player plus 10 seconds increment starting from move 1, organized in honor of [...]

With the sad passing of English comedian Rik Mayall, it would be remiss not to repeat the chess clip from the BBC TV series Bottom. Rik’s character plays chess with Adrian Edmondson’s character, but it quickly deteriorates into a fight. It never fails to make me laugh, but I can’t claim it will improve your chess… Angus […]

The Montenegro Chess Federation has announced the lineups for the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway. Open team: GM Nikola Đukić GM Dragiša Blagojević GM Milan Draško GM Dragan Kosić GM Nebojša Nikčević Captain is IM Boro Miljanić Women’s team: WFM Aleksandra Milović Tijana Blagojević WFM Marija Stojanović Sanja Mišović Kristina Bačić Captain is Duška [...]

The Chess Federation of Canada has been following the FIDE Presidential campaign with continued interest. After lengthy consideration our Executive has opted to endorse Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for FIDE President.

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FIDE World Rapid Opening ceremony

The Baltic Zonal Chess Tournament took place from 6th to 12th June, 2014 in Liepaja, a city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. The  tournament has started with a formal opening ceremony participating the FIDE President and the heads of the Baltic chess federations. Twelve of the most accomplished chess masters from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia competed [...]

GM Alexander Nosenko (Ukraine) leads Alekhine Memorial (Master Open) Voronezh with perfect score 4/4 points.  Second place is shared in a 4-way tie by GM Vladislav Artemiev (Russia), GM Pavel Ponkratov (Russia), GM Dmitry Kokarev (Russia) and GM Manuel Leon Hoyos (Mexico) on 3,5 points. You can see a picturesque report below by Elena Ponomareva, Andrey Zhileykin and Dmitry Borisenkov...

Students of Marxist economics will know that the transformation of values into prices is one of the central issues of their system (Marx’s proof of how this happens was flawed!). On the chessboard, transforming one type of advantage into another is a key technique, but one which most club players ignore. Perhaps because of a […]

So we have something new for the world championship match this coming November between titleholder Magnus Carlsen and challenger (and former champ) Viswanathan Anand. The match won't be in Norway or India, or FIDE favorites Elista or Khanty-Mansyisk. Instead, they'll face off in Sochi, Russia, which may not be entirely controversy free either. It had to be somewhere though, and without...

The World Rapid & Blitz Championship starts Monday, and it is incredibly strong. Participants include Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura (who is #1 on both the rapid and blitz rating lists), Sergey Karjakin and on and on it goes. It ought to be very entertaining!