Stockfish 4 (3135), modification 080414 maintains the lead in TCEC Season 6 – Stage 3 with 8/11, defeating Shredder 12 (2921) with Black pieces in Makogonov Variation of King’s Indian Defence. Houdini 4 (3132) is trailing the leader with 7.5/11. In the eighth round of the most prestigious computer event Houdini outplayed Critter (3031), version [...]

The 13th Asian Continental Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships are taking place 16th to 26th April 2014 in Sharjah , United Arab Emirates. The top five from the 2014 Asian Open Championship qualify for the 2015 World Cup. The 2014 Asian Women’s champion qualifies for the 2015 Women’s World Championship. After two rounds of [...]

Prinsenstad Weekendtoernooi Chess Tournament is going to take place 18-20 April 2014 in Holland. Games will be live daily on Chessdom.com with triple engine analysis. The tournament is played in four groups. This way differences in playing-level will be limited within each group, providing as many interesting games as possible. The groups are defined as [...]

The Chess Olympiad Tromsø 2014 announces the side events which will take place along with the main competition. - 9 Blitz tournaments: Prizes in each tournament. Overall Prizes for best total performance in the tournaments. Total prize fund 60,000 NOK (7250 EUR) - 1 Tournament over 3 days. Total prize fund 40,000 NOK (4800 EUR)

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The 13th Asian Continental Individual Open and Women’s Chess Championships are taking place 16th to 26th April 2014 in Sharjah , United Arab Emirates. The top five from the 2014 Asian Open Championship qualify for the 2015 World Cup. The 2014 Asian Women’s champion qualifies for the 2015 Women’s World Championship. Live Games Open / [...]

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Stockfish 080414 (3135) continues its victorious series and remains leader of the most prestigious computer competition TCEC Season 6 – Stage 3. The winner of TCEC Season 6 – Stage 2 defeated Houdini 4 (3132) with the black pieces in the eighth round (see the most interesting fragments of the game below). Gull A228 (3021) [...]

The 19-year-old Grandmaster Aleksandar Indjic is the new Serbian chess champion for men. He was the sole winner of the prestigious 12-player round robin tournament and deservedly got the top prize of 1000 EU. Collecting 7,5/11, Indjic left the nearest opponent half a point behind. GM Milos Perunovic became second with 7 points, while GM Nikola [...]

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I know that some players have recently been dismayed to learn that their opponents had been using computer analysis in their correspondence chess (CC) games and at least one player has given up playing CC altogether. Well, I am sorry to shock you, but this has actually been the case for a number of years, […]

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Chess Olympiad Tromsø 2014 announced that KPMG has become one of the main partners of the Chess Olympiad to take place in Tromsø in the first half of August. KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services in 155 countries worldwide. Børge Robertsen, Managing Director of Tromsø Chess Olympiad [...]