FIDE Secretariat has published the bids for the World Chess Championships 2019 received by the deadline of 31st March 2017. The bids were forwarded to the FIDE Events Commission which will decide on the technical sufficiency of the bids...
Some mild upsets in rd 1 of European Women’s Championship
Round 1 on 2017/04/11 at 15:00 http://chess-results.com/tnr269716.aspx Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No. 1 1 GM Muzychuk Anna 2587 0 1 – 0 0 WIM Unuk Laura 2275 73 2 74 WIM Fuchs Judith 2274...
GM Sengupta leads Bangkok Open with 4/4
Rank after Round 4 (top 25) http://chess-results.com/tnr273291.aspx Rk. SNo Name Typ sex FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 TB5 Rp K rtg+/- 1 7 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2583 4,0 0,0 11,0 11,00 4,0 10,0 3044 10 7,0...
European Youth Chess Championship 2017
Romanian Chess Federation, “Mind Games & Events” Sports Association and the European Chess Union have the honour to invite all European Chess Federations affiliated members of ECU to participate in the European Youth Chess Championship, organised in Mamaia, Romania...
Sabina Foisor is the NEW US Women’s Champion! Congrats!
Final round results Krush, Irina – Sharevich, Anna ½-½ Nguyen, Emily – Nemcova, Katerina ½-½ Paikidze, Nazi – Yu, Jennifer 0-1 Virkud, Apurva – Foisor, Sabina-Francesca 0-1 Yip, Carissa – Feng, Maggie ½-½ Zatonskih, Anna – Abrahamyan, Tatev ½-½...
Anatoly Karpov simul at UN headquarters
The permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations organized a simultaneous exhibition with former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov. The simul was held in the General Assembly building in front of a huge crowd. Karpov reminded...
Daily Chess Improvement: Chess Swindle Tactic!
White to move. Black just blundered with 31…Nxf2?? How should white proceed? Zatonskih v Foisor (US Women’s Championship)