After a weekend in New York City, Webster University chess team members returned to St. Louis with some impressive hardware: their second consecutive President’s Cup, known as the “Final Four of College Chess.” To take home the 2014 national title, the chess Gorloks completed a weekend sweep by defeating Texas Tech University in the third [...]

With his second successive win in round six of the DYTM Raja Dr. Nazrin Shah KL International Open IM Mouthun Ly has joined GM Sergei Tiviakov on top of the leaderboard with 5/6 and is now also in contention for a GM title norm. Ly beat fellow IM Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy while Tiviakov with [...]

The 4th tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 7th to 22nd April at the beautiful Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Twelve players will compete in the round robin tournament. The event is organized by the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, FIDE, Russian Chess Federation and Ugra Chess Academy. The Women’s Grand-Prix [...]

Oman chess community was delighted to hear that the FIDE Presidential Board held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, accepted the Oman Chess Committee (OCC) as its new member federation. Oman recently applied for the membership in FIDE. Speaking exclusively to Times Sport on Sunday, Laila Al Naggar, head of the OCC, confirmed the news and said the [...]

So I had to book a 10pm flight (which meant a half point bye in the first round) from Heathrow to Cork as I left it quite late to book and the prices for earlier flights had shot up! It’s really easy for me to get to Heathrow and my bosses invited me to stay for […]

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It is remarkable how small tactics can finish games quickly, even where Grandmasters are concerned. Looking at the recent Chebanenko Rapid Open there were two games between GMs that ended decisively in less than 25 moves. Shirov was on the winning side of both. I am struck by how easy he made it look to […]

FIDE is introducing online rated play, which is a fantastic idea because no one would ever cheat in an online game, right? Great. I wonder how long it will be before some unknown player reaches 3000. (HT: Ross Hytnen)

“ECU Back to Europe” has announced the platform of Zurab Azmaiparashvili’s Campaign Team for the ECU elections 2014. In Tromsø the Azmaiparashvili Campaign will unveil the first ECU General Sponsorship contract for €400,000 over four years, with the goal of finding two more such sponsors in year two, more than doubling the ECU annual budget. [...]

World #2 GM Levon Aronian will headline as the lead instructor for the 2014 Metropolitan Chess & American Chess Academy summer camp, from July 9th-13th, at the Glendale Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles County, USA. Aronian will be joined by a number of elite coaches, including GM Melikset Khachiyan, GM Dejan Bojkov, IM Andranik Matikozyan, IM [...]

Gawain’s now in Dubai arriving last night. He plays in the 16th Dubai Open(Official Website in Arabic). Last year, I saw this tournament was quite strong but he already had something in his calendar so we decided to make it a priortiy. Little did we know that I would go to Dubai in February with […]

The 8th Serbian Chess Championship is taking place from 7-17th April at Hotel Patria in Subotica. Twelve players will compete in the round robin tournament. Top prize is 1000 EUR. Participants: GM Perunovic Milos SRB 2631 GM Markus Robert SRB 2610 GM Miladinovic Igor SRB 2583 GM Sedlak Nikola SRB 2568 GM Damljanovic Branko SRB [...]

90 Μαθητές και μαθήτριες της περιοχής μας θα συμμετέχουν φέτος στα Πανελλήνια Πρωταθλήματα Μαθητών Μαθητριών 2014.

The 2014 Serbian Chess Championship for women was held from 27th March to 6th April in Banja Junaković, Apatin. Twelve players competed in the round robin tournament. After the exciting race WGM Jovana Vojinovic won her first national title by edging three-times champion WGM Andjelija Stojanovic on tie-break. Both players finished with 8/11 points. WIM [...]