GM Aivars Gipslis Memorial Tournament was organized by the Latvian Chess Federation and Alexei Shirov on 9th February at the Technical University in Riga, Latvia. The tournament was held to commemorate Aivars Gipslis, eight-times Latvian champion and respected Grandmaster. The tournament was played over 9 rounds of Swiss system with the blitz time control of […]
Anand impressed by Naiditsch’s play
Round 6: Naiditsch wins a stunning game “The guy’s on fire – he’s been like this for weeks!” That was World Champion Viswanathan Anand on Arkadij Naiditsch, who today overwhelmed Daniel Fridman with a brilliant sacrificial attack to move into second place at the GRENKE Chess Classic. Elsewhere Georg Meier missed a nice win against […]
Naiditsch wins a memorable game in Baden-Baden, Caruana still leads
After a deserved rest day, the Grenke Chess Classic resumed with an interesting round. The higlight of the day was Arkadij Naiditsch‘s win. He keeps demonstrating that he’s willing to fight for every half point at all costs. He defeated Daniel Fridman in a very exciting 45-moves game to reach the second place, half point behind Fabiano Caruana. The game […]
Drawfest at Aeroflot’s second day
The Qualifying Rapid Tournament of the Aeroflot Open finished today. The 32 players that will participate on the Knockout Rapid Tournament on Friday are already known. The traditional Aeroflot Open started immediately after the International Chess Festival Moscow Open-2013, from 11-18 February in Moscow, Russia. Aeroflot preview / Follow the games live The day started with six players having a perfect score. Only […]
Sigeman Chess Tournament 2013
The 21st edition of the Sigeman Chess Tournament 2013 will take place on 22-28 May in Malmö, Sweden. The organizers will use the same format that was seen last year, a single round-robin tournament between 8 players. The list of participants was already presented. The line-up has a nice mix of veterans and young talents, which […]
Political chess party?
FIDE boss Ilyumzhinov to launch political Chess Party Published: 13 February, 2013, 14:07 The head of the FIDE chess federation and former president of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia says the international chess party would promote chess and unite other political parties and movements. 50-year old Kirsan Ilyumzhinov headed Kalmykia from 1993 till 2010. He […]
World Amateur Chess Championship 2013
Iasi County Chess Association, the World Chess Federation (FIDE), the Romanian Chess Federation, (RCF), the City Hall of Iasi, have the honor of inviting all national chess federations and eligible players to the FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship 2013 to be held in Iasi, Romania, from 21th April (1st round) to 30th April (9th round). […]
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