The Belarus Chess Federation is holding an International Open Tournament from 11th to 19th February to mark the 90th anniversary of David Bronstein’s birth. The former World Championship challenger, who nearly dethroned Mikhail Botvinnik in 1951, was born in 1924 in Ukraine and passed away in 2006 in Minsk. The Open A will be open [...]

The chess Grandmaster who reigns supreme in a sport played by 500M people – Magnus Carlsen. Sunday, 2nd February at 7 p.m. ET/PT. 60 Minutes revisits three stories about amazing kids with amazing gifts in the most unlikely places. Scott Pelley hosts a special edition of “60 Minutes Presents: Amazing Kids”. Script from “Mozart of [...]

The African Junior U20 Open Chess Championship and African Junior U20 Girls’ Chess Championship (for the year 2013) were held on 25-31st January at Hotel Bouazza in Tiaret, Algeria. The Championships were organized by the Algerian Chess Federation (FADE), under the auspices of the African Chess Confederation and FIDE. In accordance with FIDE regulations, entitled [...]

At a certain point you may feel it will take you all of 2014 to finish, but Sergey Shipov's long round-up of the chess year that has just passed is worth your time. Videos, games, analyses, novelties, trending and fading opening lines - lots of useful and interesting information. There's an emphasis on Russia and on chesstv.com that might not grab your attention if you don't know Russian, but...

Here are two interesting quotations from Hikaru Nakamura. First, from his Twitter account last year, after Magnus Carlsen won the title: Starting to realize that I am the only person who is going to be able to stop Sauron in the context of chess history. Second, there's this from the cover of the latest issue of New In Chess Magazine. [N.B. I haven't received my copy yet, and perhaps all is...

After defeating Viswanathan Anand yesterday in round 2 of the Zurich Chess Challenge, Hikaru Nakamura tweeted this: Form is temporary but class, class is permanent. Assuming this is a statement recognizing Anand's enduring greatness as a player despite his hitherto poor play in the tournament (and going back a year or two), it's a good and gracious thing for Nakamura to say. Well done.

A nice little remembrance here, including some brief, laudatory comments by Judit Polgar.

This was the second Masterclass of the tournament and it proved quite lively as elite – GM Vassily Ivanchuk gave an inspiring display of games and analysis. Vassily showed five games he played in a match in Riga, 1991, versus Leonid Yudasin, and then took questions from the audience. The Masterclass presented by tournament director [...]

The Uzbekistan Chess Federation has the honor to invite all chess players to take part in the international chess tournament 8th Tashkent Open – Memorial of Georgy Agzamov, the first grandmaster of Uzbekistan, which will be held on 14-24th May in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The tournament is a 9-round Swiss with the time control 90 min [...]

The 1st International Open Chess Tournament “Eretria 2014″ will be held from 26th August to 2nd September in the conference center of the 4-star “Eretria Village” Hotel, near the ancient city of Eretria on the island of Evia, 95 km north of Athens airport. The tournament will be FIDE rated Swiss system in 9 rounds, [...]

Round 1 with analysis

Στην Ερέτρια της Εύβοιας, θα διοργανωθεί φέτος το 1ο διεθνές όπεν τουρνουά “Ερέτρια 2014″ από τις 26 Aυγούστου έως τις 2 Σεπτεμβρίου. Το σύστημα αγώνων θα είναι ελβετικό 9 γύρων, με χρηματικά έπαθλα άνω των 3.000 ευρώ και...

Live games with computer analysis

The opening of a chess game is a race for the control of space. It is a battle in which both players are fighting for the same territory on the board. It is a contest to see who can dominate the board’s center (d4, d5, e4 and e5) first. Experienced players know that the winner […]

China Dragon, made up of a mixed team of Chinese players, tied with 50-50, a team of East European players, to jointly win the Blitz team event of the 2014 Tradewise Chess Festival played in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere on Thursday night. In Gibraltar for the first time, Chinese players: Li Chao, Wei Yi, [...]