FIDE congratulates millions of chess admirers all over the world wishing a wonderful International Chess Day! International Chess Day is marked on July 20 all over the globe. July 20th is the 88th anniversary of the founding of FIDE...
9th World Chess Champion Zhu Chen Chess Academy construction in China
On July 17th the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov participated in the ceremony of placing a base stone for the future Zhu Chen Chess Academy in Lucheng of Wenzhou. It is remarkable that this is the first personified academy in...
Webster U GM Robson scores in USA vs China match
http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/chesslive.htmlMen’s resultsZhou 0-1 RobsonShankland 0-1 Wang YueWen 1/2 KaidanovXiu 0-1 LendermanShulman 0-1 LuChina 2.5 – 2.5 USA Women’s results Tan 1/2 Abrahamyan Foisor 1/2 JuGuo 1/2 ZenyukDing 1-0 MelekhinaNi 0-1 WangChina 3.5 – 1.5 USA Chess Daily News from...
Vladimir Onischuk convincing winner of Pacific Meridian Rapid
The Pacific Meridian (Tikhookeanskiy Meridian) rapid tournament was held on 18-20th July at the student campus of DVFU in Vladivostok, Russia. The event was 11-round swiss with the time control 15′+10”. The results are valid for the Rapid Grand...
Slovenian chess star fighting for her life
Original letter http://www.sah-zveza.si/news/1307/Dajmo%20Vesna.pdf. You can use http://translate.google.com to translate the letter. She needs help from the chess community. The father of the WIM sent a letter asking for help:Dear Sir, I turn to you with a request for a...
Useful tactic pattern
White to move. How can White save this game?k7/2p5/1p3R1p/4q1pP/1NP2pP1/1P3K2/8/8 w – – 0 1 Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Biel Rapid Chess Tournament
The 46th Biel International Chess Festival will be held from 20th July to 2nd August in Biel, Switzerland. A large amount of events will take place in the festival, and the action begins on Saturday the 20th. The first...
Czech Open 2013
The 24th International Chess and Games Festival from the Czech Republic is taking place on 11th – 27th July in Pardubice, a city that lies on the river Elbe, 96 kilometres east of Prague. A huge number of event...
Friendly match between China and USA in Ningbo
Team China (Men) Wang Yue (2705)Zhou Weiqi (2616)Wen Yang (2593)Xiu Deshun (2556) Lu Shanglei (2536) Team China (Women) Ju Wenjun (2531)Tan Zhongyi (2478)Guo Qi (2446)Ding Yixin (2432) Wang Jue (2399) Team USA (Men) Ray Robson (2628) – Webster UniversitySam...
The best performances of all time
By Frank ‘Boy’ Pestaño and Frank ‘Boy’ PestañoChessmosoThursday, July 18, 2013 ACCORDING to Wikipedia, securing a perfect score (100 percent) in a world-class tournament is very rare. These were achieved mostly by world champions. Those who did it are...