Both winners got 7.5 points in 9 rounds

Wang Hao is in sole third place half a point behind the leaders

Moiseenko, Vachier-Lagrave and Ding Liren are one point behind Bacrot with three rounds to go

Gawain left on Saturday to go and defend his title in Torquay. This year’s line up include 12 Grandmasters including just 2 former champions – Can you guess which ones? Also this year we see 9 other countries represented in the Championship! I’m not including the 4 nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) or Guernsey. [...]

Der Verein Schachfestival Basel is organizing the Hilton Chess Festival Basel on 1-5th January 2014 at Hilton, Aeschengraben 31, in Basel, Switzerland. The Festival will consist of four events: - Master tournament - Amateur tournament - Blitz tournament will be held on 3rd January (start at 20:00h) - Youth Rapid will be held on 5th [...]

First seed Wang Yue got the best scores in both section

The 12th Annual Manhattan Open will be held from August 17-19, 2012, at the New Yorker Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave at 34th St. across from Penn Station, New York, NY. The event has 5 sections: Open, Under 2300, Under 2000, Under 1700 and Under 1400. All sections are 5-round Swiss tournaments and have either 3-day [...]

The 18-years old Grandmaster Vladimir Fedoseev convincingly won the “Seaside Opening” (Primorskiy Debyut) open chess tournament in Vladivostok. Fedoseev defeated the higher-rated GM Denis Khismatullin in the last round to conclude the event with 7,5/9 points, full point ahead of the nearest followers. Seaside Opening took place on 21-29th July as a 9-round swiss open. [...]

Live games with analysis

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Is consistency a good or bad thing? Well it depends on your field! If you run a hedge fund, for example, then it’s better to give your investors a good return without too much of a roller coaster ride, at least if you want to keep them as investors! Yet chess is a field in [...]

Cuban Grandmaster Lazaro Bruzon continued the string of successes in Canada as he clinched first place in the 2013 Quebec Open that finished tonight in Montréal. The last round win against IM Leonid Gerzhoy pushed him ahead of Grandmasters Elshan Moradiabadi and Eduardas Rozentalis who drew their game on the top board. Bruzon concluded the [...]