Wow. It’s been forever since we’ve written an update. Life gets busy doesn’t it? Well I for one haven’t forgotten about our readers there’s been lots of ideas but no real sit down time to write something but since Gawain’s played in the Scottish Championship and we had a holiday in Scotland I feel it’s [...]

The 2nd Fano on the Sea & Carnival International Open Tournament is set to take place from 29th July to 4st August in Fano, Italy, next to the Adriatic Sea. The last-year edition was a complete success with 144 players in the field and overall victory by GM Yuri Solodovnichenko. Hungarian Grandmasters Banusz and Prohaska [...]

The International Chess Tournament named after the former world champion Anatoly Karpov is set to take place from 27th August to 7th September in Poikovsky, Russia. The tournament format is ten-player round robin. It should be highlighted that seven of the ten participants will start the World Chess Cup in Tromso, which runs as elimination [...]

Deep Sengupta arrived second on tiebreaks; Predrag Nikolic arrived as clear third

The untitled player defeated first seed Sergei Zhigalko in the fifth round

Craig Hanley, Jonathan Hawkings, Vladimir Petkov and Marijan Petrov shared the first prize

Latvian champion Igor Kovalenko took second place on tiebreaks

Following on from Nigel’s profound Process Goals post, I have been setting myself some process goals in the past year or so. For years I played the same openings all the time, with the result that although I became familiar with a limited number of patterns and middle game motifs I had a large gap in my [...]

FM Kevin Paveto got the sixth coveted qualifying place to the Absolute Championship

Short and Hansen finished on 7.5/9 and shared the money prize equally

The 18th Annual Bradley Open was held from July 19-21, 2013, at the Sheraton Hotel, 1 Bradley Airport (visible at airport entrance), Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The event was played in 5 sections: Open, Under 2110, Under 1810, Under 1510 and Under 1210. All sections were played over five rounds of Swiss system. GM Mikheil Kekelidze [...]

The main grandmaster section shows a highly interesting lineup

Good sleep boost mental strength and performance

The Chinese Chess Association (CCA) and Chongqing Yu Cai Middle School are organizing the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2013 on 21-30th July in Chongqing, China. The Youth Olympiad will be conducted under the auspices of Federation Internationale Des Echecs (FIDE), Chongqing Municipal People’s Government and Chongqing Sports Bureau. The top three teams shall be [...]