The 3rd Norsk Sjakkfestival (Norwegian Chess Festival), incorporating the 2013 Open Norwegian Championship, will take place from 24th to 31st March at the Quality Hotel & Resort Fagernes, with a central placement in Southern Norway, 2½ hours from Oslo airport. The Festival is being held during the Easter week, and the program includes the 2013 [...]

All three of the strong and interesting events listed above finish today (still tomorrow, for a few of you), and it should be a great day for chess fans everywhere. 1. The remaining rounds of the Grenke Chess Classic threatened to become a coronation for Fabiano Caruana after his fortunate victory over Arkadij Naiditsch in the antepenultimate round, but round 9 put a stop to that. Caruana had...

The story of how I became a chess author goes like this. In 1975 my late friend and colleague Mike Fox and I started Richmond Junior Chess Club. Mike worked in advertising: a few years later his job took him to Birmingham, and we kept in touch only sporadically. One of his clients was Rolls [...]

Bulgarian Grandmaster Julian Radulski passed away on 16th February after a long illness. He was a great chess player and wonderful person. Julian was born on May 24, 1972, in Plovdiv. He became International Master in 2001 and Grandmaster in 2004. He represented Bulgaria in Chess Olympiads and European Team Championships, most recently in Porto [...]

ΕΝΩΣΗ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΩΜΑΤΕΙΩΝ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ Μακροπούλου 93, ΛΑΜΙΑ Αρ. πρωτ: 137/16-02-2013 ΣΥΜΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗΑΝΟΙΚΤΟΥ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΟΥ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣΑΝΔΡΩΝ-ΓΥΝΑΙΚΩΝ 2013 ΚΑΙ ΝΕΑΝΙΚΑ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑΤΑ...

FIDE Events Commission (EVE), Chess Projects ASD and Italian Chess Federation will hold FIDE Seminar for International Organizers during the Salento International Chess Open on 24-26 May, 2013. Successful Seminar attendees will be granted a FIDE IO Norm necessary for the FIDE IO title application. IO Titles Regulations here: http://events.fide.com/titles-regulations.html Schedule: Friday, 24th...

The 7th Annual Long Island Open will be held from March 1-3, 2013, at the Holiday Inn Long Island – Islip Airport, 3845 Veterans Memorial Highway, Ronkonkoma, New York. The event has a $12,000 prize fund based on 160 paid entries with $8,000 guaranteed. Last year winner was GM Mikheil Kekelidze. The event has 5 [...]

The 14th Annual Pittsburgh Open will be held from March 1-3, 2013, at the Doubletree Hotel Pittsburgh Green Tree, 500 Mansfield Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The event has a $12,000 prize fund based on 150 paid entries with $8,000 guaranteed. Last year winner was GM Alexander Shabalov. The event has 5 sections: Open, Under 2100, Under [...]

Four very strong players will battle for the win tomorrow

Anand might win his first tournament in a long time

Anand might get closer to Caruana in the standings...

Caruana might get the overall victory today...

WIM Liza Shamima Aktar won the women's section

The strongest players showed their skills...

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