The 67th edition of Argentinian Individual Chess Champion for women took place from 1st to 9th May, 2014 at Villa Martelli, in San Isidro – a Municipality of Argentinian capital Buenos Aires. The tournament was a 9 round Swiss with a time control 90 minutes per player plus 30 seconds per move, starting from move [...]

Judit Polgar’s “From GM to Top Ten”, published by Quality Chess is awarded as the ACP Book of the Year 2014. From GM to Top Ten received the highest number of votes from the ACP members, who could choose out of 8 books nominated by the leading chess publishing houses of the world. A majority [...]

The 32nd Open International d’échecs de Metz was held place on 3-9th May at the complexe sportif Saint Symphorien in Metz, France. The tournament consisted of two sections – Open A (players rated over 1900) and Open B (U2000 players) and was completed over 9 rounds of Swiss system. The prize fund for both sections [...]

The 78th Bulgarian Individual Chess Championship is taking place from 10th to 18th May, 2014 in Kozloduy, Bulgaria. 10 players will compete for the first prize of 3000 BGN. Follow daily at 14:30 CET.

The 63rd Bulgarian Individual Chess Championship for women is taking place from 10th to 18th May, 2014 in Kozloduy, Bulgaria. 10 players will compete for the first prize of 1800 BGN. Follow daily at 14:30 CET.

The Bulgarian Individual Chess Championships for men and women will be held simultaneously from 10th to 18th May, 2014 in the city of Kozloduy, best known for the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. The tournaments are 10 player round robin with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the [...]

1st Iasi Open is scheduled to place from 10th to 18th May, 2014 in Iasi, Romania. The hefty prize fund of 25000€ is going to gather nearly 250 participants, including more than 20 GMs. Top seed is GM Igor Lysyj from Russia. See the list of participants here Official website

“ECU Back to Europe” has announced the ticket for the upcoming ECU elections that will take place during the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. Zurab Azmaiparashvili from Georgia is nominated for the post of ECU President. Ion Serban Dobronauteanu from Romania is candidate for ECU Deputy President. Finnbjørn Vang from Faroe Islands is candidate [...]

President of ACP GM Emil Sutovsky discussed on Facebook why it is difficult to find the sponsorship for the FIDE World Championship Match 2014. https://www.facebook.com/emil.sutovsky/posts/10152243539044681 I am fed up with a hypocrisy. A lot of superficial and insincere attempts to explain – why nobody is willing to put up something like 5 Million USD for [...]

Chairman of the Board of the Russian Chess Federation Mark Glukhovsky confirmed in an interview with R-Sport that leading Russian Grandmasters will represent the country at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway. Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler have all confirmed that they are ready to play. The coaching committee will [...]

FIDE announcement – 9 May 2014 FIDE has noticed several coordinated and politically motivated articles on certain websites, spreading false rumours and devaluating FIDE’s efforts in securing funds for the World Championship Cycle. FIDE would like to remind to certain “chess journalists” who create false impressions that, only in the last 4 years, FIDE has [...]

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The Asian Youth Chess Championships 2014 under 6, 8, 10 and 12 are scheduled to be held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 20th to 29th June, 2014. All Asian National Chess Federations affiliated to FIDE are invited to participate in the 2014 Youth Standard, Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships for under-6, under-8, under-10 and under-12 (Open [...]

Χτες Πέμπτη, σε ένα εμπορικό κέντρο στο Όσλο της Νορβηγίας, ο παγκόσμιος πρωταθλητής Μάγκνους Κάρλσεν έπαιξε μια πρωτότυπη παρτίδα επίδειξης που μεταδόθηκε μέσω ίντερνετ. Τρεις γκρανμέτρ (Αγκντενστάιν, Χάμερ...

Round 1 of the U.S. Championships took place on Thursday, with top seeds Gata Kamsky, Timur Gareev and Alexander Onischuk all drawing their games - the first two with each other. Ray Robson and Aleksandr Lenderman were the day's two winners, defeating Sergey Erenburg and Joshua Friedel, respectively. In the women's event Irina Krush won her first game as did third seed Tatev Abrahamyan, but...