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On Tuesday Chessdom relayed information that World Champion Magnus Carlsen will visit Caxias do Sul in Brazil to participate in a number of events. After the blind simul with visually impaired players, lecture, 4-player knockout tournament, press conference and a regular simul, Carlsen will play in the open rapid tournament Festa da Uva 2014. This [...]

Recently a video went viral online of Bill Gates losing a blitz chess game in nine moves to the new World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, getting checkmated quickly: The truth is deeper than it seems Non-chess-playing friends of mine enjoyed forwarding me links to this. Their general impression was, ha, of course the nine-move checkmate […]

The 1st International Open Tarvisio 2014 is set to take place on 17-21st April at the Palasport in Tarvisio, Italy. The tournament is organized by the Comune di Tarvisio, Provincia di Udine and Accademia Internazionale di Scacchi. The event will be held over 7 rounds of Swiss system with the time control 90 min + [...]

Hungarian grandmaster Gyula Sax passed away this past Saturday at the age of 62, reportedly of a heart attack. Sax didn't stay near the top long enough to be well-known to those who weren't around during his peak years, but he was a very strong player who qualified for the Candidates in 1987 - never an easy feat. Rest in peace.

Hungarian grandmaster Gyula Sax passed away this past Saturday at the age of 62, reportedly of a heart attack. Sax didn't stay near the top long enough to be well-known to those who weren't around during his peak years, but he was a very strong player who qualified for the Candidates in 1987 - never an easy feat. Rest in peace.

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What a strange and interesting blitz tournament, especially when viewed through Magnus Carlsen's performance! In round one, he had White against Fabiano Caruana, and he was beaten like a child. (Playing Bill Gates isn't going to help your chess when you're the world champion.) In round 2 he had White against Boris Gelfand, and Gelfand outplayed him too. Carlsen did manage to fight back and save...

What a strange and interesting blitz tournament, especially when viewed through Magnus Carlsen's performance! In round one, he had White against Fabiano Caruana, and he was beaten like a child. (Playing Bill Gates isn't going to help your chess when you're the world champion.) In round 2 he had White against Boris Gelfand, and Gelfand outplayed him too. Carlsen did manage to fight back and save...

The Moscow Open 2014, International RSSU Cup will be held from Jan 30th to Feb 9th in auditoriums on the Russian State Social University campus. It is expected that event marking its 10-year anniversary will again break the record for the number of participants – with players wishing to enter now passing the 1700 mark. [...]

The strongest ever round-robin by rating gets underway today in Zurich (average rating: 2801!), and in the meantime what is possibly the strongest open tournament of the year is also underway, in Gibraltar. It started yesterday, and among the players there are more than 60 GMs, nine of whom are rated over 2700. The website coverage of the event is generally excellent, so if you're looking for a...

The festivities at this super-tournament in Zurich start in about two and a half hours or so. They will be following the recent tradition of starting the event with a blitz tournament to determine pairing numbers; that's what will take place today. The practice is dubious in terms of fairness, I think, as players picking later can choose based on the colors they'll get against the stronger...

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Η προθεσμία των δηλώσεων ενέργειας διαιτητών για το 2014 καθώς και αποστολής των αιτημάτων προαγωγών λήγει στις 2/2/14. Ακολουθεί ανακοίνωση της ΤΕΔ ..