The French IM clinched his first GM-norm

Both Mamedyarov and Grischuk will have white in the last round

FM Stefan Beukema finished first on the Open Section

Greek IM Georgios Souleidis and favorite GM Bartosz Socko finished second and third, respectively

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Venezuelan grandmaster Eduardo Iturrizaga finished first at the 33rd Benasque International Open after edging Israeli GM Maxim Rodshtein and Bulgarian GM Aleksander Delchev on tiebreaks. All of them finished on 8 points out of 10. The battle between Iturrizaga and Rodshtein in the first board of the last round finished with a quick GM-draw, which eventually favored [...]

Grandmaster Wesley So from Philippines, student at the Webster University in Saint Louis, captured the gold medal at the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan after edging the competition on tie-break. After nine rounds of play in the Men’s section of chess competition, as many as nine players shared the first place with 6,5 points each. [...]

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South African President Jacob Zuma attended the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth and South African Open Chess Championships 2013 and handed the medals to the winners. Zuma also played a game against the youngest player in the championships, five-year-old Keagan Rowe from East London in South Africa, later saying he had sacrificed some pieces “to [...]

Indian Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship after scoring 9,0/11 points and edging Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine) and Sergei Tiviakov (Netherlands) on tie-breaks to take the first place in the tournament that also incorporated South African Open Chess Championship. Fedorchuk and Tiviakov took the second and third place in [...]

Hugh’s great post on Saturday reminded me of an unexpected conundrum that has arisen. My son has now started playing in adult tournaments and when he’s a bit older I think that I might play as well. Until now I’ve just been there to look after him between rounds. The problem is that although my [...]

The International Chess Tournament Ikaros becomes 36 years old this summer, celebrating with yet another marvelous tournament. Traditional but also modern and always in a very friendly as well as competitive atmosphere, with participants ranging from 6 to 85 years of age and from grandmasters to novices, the event has started in Ikaria, Greece. From [...]

IM Tomas Krnan from Canada claimed a clear first place and a Grandmaster norm with a 7,5-points finish at the V4 OPEN – International Championship of Slovakia 2013. The Stiavnica’s Chess Festival took on 6th-14th July at the Cultural and public centre, Kammerhofská 1 (downtown), Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. The main event of the Festival was [...]

Estonian Grandmaster Kaido Kulaots emerged winner of the 23rd Heart of Finland Open that was held on 8-14th July at Harju building in Jyväskylä, Finland. Kulaots, who was the top-seeded player at the start, concluded the event with 7,5 points, half a point ahead of the group of followers. Full standings below. The tournament was [...]

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