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4 share lead at Asian Continental after 4 rounds

Leaders after 4 rounds Rk. SNo Name FED RtgI Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 TB5 n w we w-we K rtg+/- 1 28 IM Lin Chen CHN 2494 3.5 0.0 3.0 2615 8.0 5.0 4 3.5 1.78 1.72 10 17.2 2 6 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2631 3.5 0.0 3.0 2497 9.0 5.5 4 […]
Pert and Gormally maintain British Championship lead after 9 rounds

Leaders after round 9 Rk. SNo Name Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 1 2 GM Pert Nicholas 2562 None 7.0 0.0 6 GM Gormally Daniel W 2484 None 7.0 0.0 3 1 GM Howell David W L 2698 None 6.5 0.0 3 GM Hawkins Jonathan 2554 None 6.5 0.0 4 GM Arkell Keith C 2502 Cheddleton […]
8th Arad International Chess Festival 2015

The 8th Arad International Chess Festival 2015 (Arad Open) is scheduled to take part from August 6 – 12, in Arad, a city in western Romania, situated near Hungarian border, 250 KM from Budapest. The event is a 9-round Swiss open with prize fund of over 9,000 Euro and first prize in the amount of nearly 2,400 Euro. […]
Asian Continental Chess Championships 2015 – Round 3 Report

Indian GMs Surya Sekhar Ganguly and Vishnu Prasanna share the lead with perfect 3 point slates after as many rounds of the $87,000 Asian Continental Championship at the Hilton Hotel in Al Ain, UAE. In the women’s division, 18-year-old WGM Aulia Medina Warda of Indonesia and Iranian WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan are tied for the lead […]
Interview with GM Adrian Mikhalchishin

Interview with the Chairman of FIDE Trainers’ Commission Adrian Mikhalchishin “I’ve seen such “coaches” who give chess boards to kids, so pupils can play, while they can simply read their newspapers” by FIDE Press Officer Anastasiya Karlovich Useful links: http://trainers.fide.com/ official website of FIDE Trainers Commission http://trainers.fide.com/surveys.html An archive of lectures in PDF written by […]
FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) Trainers’ Surveys

FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) Trainers’ Surveys From year 2010 to date, the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) regularly publishes high quality chess training materials (in pdf format in English language) in the form of Trainers’ Surveys, targeted at improving chess understanding. Please see a reflection on FIDE Trainers’ Commission work, published at http://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-trainer-a-treasure-of-articles
IM Sergei Matsenko wins 6th “Terre degli Elimi” Chess Festival

The 6th “Terre degli Elimi” chess festival was held from July 28th to August 4th, 2015, in Erice, a historic town and commune in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy. The event was organized by Alessandro Monaco and his chess club “Amici della Scacchiera” (Chessboard friends) in a 9-round Swiss format. Russian player IM […]
Asian Youth Chess Championships 2015 – Round 3 Report

The Asian Youth Chess Championship being held in Suwon, Korea from 3-11 August 2015 is providing to be particularly competitive as can be seen after three rounds of play where it is clear that the premier events, Open U-18 and Girls U-18 will be hard fought while Open U-16 could arguably be the strongest. Both […]
Marcin Tazbir tops 6th IBCA European Chess Championship

The 9th and last round of this European Chess Championship for Blind and Visually impaired players took place on Sunday 2nd August at the Mercure Hotel, rue de Bonnel in Lyon. The closing ceremony was just after at 17:00. http://tiny.cc/IBCAEuro http://lyon-olympique-echecs.com/ This last round, like the first one, saw an extreme fighting spirit because there […]