Welcome to the Maccabiah Chess Festival Web Page.
The 18th Maccabiah Games will be held on July 12-23, 2009.
The Maccabiah Games have included chess tournaments for more than 30 years. Now, especially for the 18th Maccabiah Games, we have organized for the first time a super-tournament, with the participation of elite chessplayers from all over the world.
The Festival will include four main events:
- International Super-Torunament, featuring top players from all over the world such as Boris Gelfand (Israel), Judit Polgar (Hungary), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Evgeniy Najer (Russia), Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia), etc.
- International Invitational Chess Tournaments, Norm opportunity for top players.
- International Open Tournament.
- International Youth Tournament, for players who were born between 1991 and 1994.
- Simultaneous Chess Exhibitions , GM’s will play against many opponents at the same time.
Here is the official website.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Go Judit!