Black to move. How should black proceed? Source: ChessToday.net
GACC International Inter-Varsity Chess Championship 2016

GACC International Inter-Varsity Chess Championship has been organized by the students of 2nd Residential College, University of Malaya, Malaysia for the past nineteen years. This annual FIDE-rated chess tournament which has attracted participants from all over the world over...
TCEC Season 8 – Heavyweight battles to find the best!

The Top Computer Chess Championship TCEC Season 8 is scheduled to start this August 21st. The world’s best computer chess software engines will compete through three stages and a final to decide the 2015 TCEC Grand Champion. Last season...
FIDE World Junior Championships u20

This is the official invitation to all National Chess Federations for participation in the FIDE World Junior Under-20 Championships 2015 (open and girls under 20) which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from the 31 st of August -1...
New Zealand Girls Interschool Chess Championships

Checkmate for girls’ chess tournament JULIAN RAETHEL Last updated 12:33, August 21 2015 Intense concentration and strategic play created the perfect atmosphere for hundreds of young chess players in central Auckland. Mt Albert War Memorial Hall was packed with...
Baku World Cup Round 1 Pairings

No PLAYER PLAYER SNo 1 Topalov Adu 1-128 2 Phiri Nakamura 127-2 3 Caruana Zaibi 3-126 4 Ssegwanyi Giri 125-4 5 So Maghsoodloo 5-124 6 Cori Kramnik 123-6 7 Grischuk Atabayev 7-122 8 Krnan Ding 121-8 9 Aronian Wiedenkeller...
40 Q&A with Nakamura

Checkmate! 40 questions with America’s chess champion Hikaru Nakamura Motez Bishara, CNN Updated 1208 GMT (1908 HKT) August 21, 2015 (CNN)Hikaru Nakamura was always the smartest kid in the room. By the time the Japanese-born American reached the ripe...
Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival 2015

Schedule Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu ‘Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue 23.8 24.8 25.8 26.8 27.8 28.8 29.8 30.8 31.8 1.9 Masters tournament 1st 6pm 2nd 6pm 3rd + 4th 10 am, 6pm 5th 6pm 6th 6pm Free...
VMCG Chess Festival 2015

The VMCG Chess Festival is taking place from August 15-23, 2015, at the 4****Hotel Seminaris, in Luneburg, Germany. The event is a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′/40 moves + 30′ + 30″. Top seed player is GM...
Spanish Honor Division 2015 LIVE!

The Spanish Honor Division 2015 is taking place from August 15-21, in Linares, Spain. The event is a round-robin team competition with the participation of the following teams: Gros Xake Taldea (VAS), Chess24-VTI-Atocha (MAD), Merida Patrimonio Humanidad (EXT), Ajedrez...