The Russia Cup for Women will take place from 1st January to 11th February, 2013 as part of the International Chess Festival “Moscow Open 2013″, at the Russian State Social University (RSSU), B. Pick Street, 4, metro station “Botanical Garden” in Moscow. This event will offer a prize fund of 650,000 rubles or approximately 22,000 USD, with around [...]

The Russia Cup for Men will take place from 1st January to 11th February, 2013 as part of the International Chess Festival “Moscow Open 2013″, at the Russian State Social University (RSSU), B. Pick Street, 4, metro station “Botanical Garden” in Moscow. This event will offer a prize fund of 1,210,000 rubles or approximately 40,000 USD, with around [...]

Live games with computer analysis

Live games with analysis

Nikita Vitiugov won the traditional Gibraltar Chess Festival that took place on 21-31 January, 2013, after defeating Nigel Short in a dramatic tiebreak in the last round. Seven players from the 2700 club were the headliners in this year’s event, but only three players got to the final round in the shared first place with [...]

India’s biggest television network Doordarshan will telecast four exclusive Highlights of the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2012 held at Chennai on its DD Sports Channel during February. Filmed and Produced by Vijay Kumar the 30 minutes highlights of each episode will be telecast as under: 1st Episode on 4th Feb 2013 from 11pm to 11:30 pm [...]

The Sophia/Corsica Suggestions, nee Rules, were violated by Vassily Ivanchuk and Le Quang Liem in round 7 of the 2013 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. According to those "rules", or at least the modified version in use in Gibraltar, players could not agree to a draw before move 30.* Ivanchuk and Le Quang apparently weren't terribly impressed by this, and uncorked the following: 1. d4 d5 2. c4...

You may recall that German GM Falko Bindrich was caught last fall using a smart phone during his game in a Bundesliga match. Now the German Chess Federation has banned him from tournaments and any other sort of official chess participation for the next two years. He has appealed against the severity of the punishment, which seems incredible to me unless he's also denying that he was using...

A politician cheating at chess? Who could have dreamed such a thing was possible? (HT: Ken Regan; more on the story here [in Italian].)

Magnus Carlsen with new record rating

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Eirik Gullaksen of BergenSjakk pointed to an article on VG.no which announces that the famous Danish Grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen will be one of Magnus Carlsen’s seconds in the Candidates Matches in London. Carlsen’s manager Espen Agdestein says that the two will spend a couple of weeks in the Canary Islands to prepare Carlsen for [...]

Με επιτυχία πραγματοποιήθηκε το τριήμερο 25-27 Ιανουαρίου για πρώτη φορά στην περιοχή μας , σεμινάριο διαιτησίας για την απόκτηση νορμών FIDE.To σεμινάριο παρακολούθησαν περίπου 15 διαιτητές της περιοχής μας. Στο...

Gull II, Critter 1.6a, Chiron 1.5, and Stockfish 2.31 leading the event

Interview with the Brazilian team members and participant of Tata Steel