Torre, Frayna to see action in Rapid and Blitz Chess Open tilt BY JEAN RUSSEL V. DAVID ON JANUARY 26, 2017 Asia’s first Grandmaster Eugene Torre and the Philippines’ first Woman Chess Grandmaster Janelle Mae Frayna will lead the...
FIDE Trainers’ Awards 2016
The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) is pleased to announce the ninth FIDE Trainer Awards and will continue by honouring the achievements of our most successful colleagues of 2016. There will be a judges’ panel consisting of seven (7) members,...
Daily Chess Improvement: Basic Quickie Practical Chess Tactic!
Black to move. How should black proceed? Source: ChessToday.net
Gibraltar Chess Festival: “remarkable achievement”
Governor describes Gibraltar Chess Festival as “remarkable achievement” 26th January 2017, 18:51 The Governor described the Gibraltar Chess Festival as a “remarkable achievement” during his visit to the event today. He went on to say the festival is the...
So wins again, leads Tata Steel by a full point
Round 10 Pentala Harikrishna vs Magnus Carlsen [1/2-1/2] Loek Van Wely vs Anish Giri [1/2-1/2] Levon Aronian vs Richard Rapport [1-0] Baskaran Adhiban vs Ian Nepomniachtchi [1/2-1/2] Pavel Eljanov vs Yi Wei [1/2-1/2] Sergey Karjakin vs Dmitri Andreikin [1-0]...
Xiong wins, catches Ragger and Smirin for Tata Steel Challengers lead
Round 10 Nils Grandelius vs Vladimir Dobrov [1-0] Shanglei Lu vs Eric Hansen [0-1] Ilia Smirin vs Erwin l’Ami [1/2-1/2] Benjamin Bok vs Markus Ragger [1/2-1/2] Sopiko Guramishvili vs Jeffery Xiong [0-1] Gawain Jones vs Lei Tingjie [1/2-1/2] Aryan...
Sjugirov and Goryachkina top rated in Moscow Open 2017
The 13th International RSSU Chess Cup Moscow Open 2017 will take place from 26th January to 6th February at the Russian State Social University in Moscow, Russia. During ten days the halls and classrooms of the Russian State Social...
GM Tukhaev wins Chennai Open with 8.5 / 10
Final Ranking after 10 Rounds (top 50) http://chess-results.com/tnr257403.aspx Rk. SNo Name sex FED Rtg Club/City Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 4 GM Tukhaev Adam UKR 2516 UKR 8,5 0,0 62,0 66,0 2 1 GM David Alberto ITA 2569 ITA...
39th Bulgarian Open Chess Championship – Georgi Tringov Memorial
Starting rank (top 20) http://www.chess-results.com/tnr253731.aspx No. Name FideID FED RtgI 1 GM NIKOLOV Momchil 2905710 BUL 2563 2 GM SPASOV Vasil 2900041 BUL 2541 3 GM ZAJIC Milan 912336 SRB 2513 4 IM FIRAT Burak 6305881 TUR 2492 5...