Chess South Africa is organizing the 1st Durban Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament to be held in Durban, South Africa from 20 to 29 September 2014. The event will take place at the International Convention Centre, Durban, concurrently with the...
GM Merab Gagunashvili claims South African Open 2014
The 2014 edition of the South African Open took place on 12-19th July 2014 in Bloemfontein, the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa and the judicial capital of the nation. The event was split into...
FIDE World Youth Chess Championships 2014
The FIDE World Youth Chess Championships 2014 will be held in Durban, South Africa from 18th September to 30th September 2014 organized by the South African Chess Federation under the auspices of FIDE. All FIDE members and chess academies...
World Youth Championships 2014
The World Youth Chess Championships 2014 will be held in Durban, South Africa from 18th September to 30th September 2014 organized by the South African Chess Federation under the auspices of FIDE. INVITATION Official website Chess Daily News from...
Solomon, Strikovic and Kayonde share first in Capablanca Festival 2014
The Capablanca Chess Festival 2014 was held from 25th April to 4th May, 2014 at Southdowns College Arena, in Pretoria, the capital city of South Africa. Local IM Kenny Solomon shared the first place in Prestige GM tournament with...
World Youth Championship Announcement
Due to the lateness in the announcement and distribution of World Youth Championship regulations scheduled to start on 18th September 2014, in Durban, South Africa, FIDE wants to inform National federations about the following: According to the FIDE General...
Kasparov won’t tolerate “cheaters”
Former World Champion Garry Kasparov did not tolerate “unfairness” simul conditions and stood by his principle. Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Pretoria boy making South African chess history
Boy making chess-playing history South Africa Saturday 4 January 2014 – 8:29am He’s only the second South African player to win the majority of his matches at a World Youth Championship. Joshua Dykema recently achieved this feat in the...
Trip to South Africa
FIDE Treasurer and Executive Director, Nigel Freeman, together with African Chess Union President, Lakhdar Mazouz, FIDE Zone 4.3 President, Tshepo Sitale and FIDE Development Secretary, Rupert Jones visited southern Africa in July. Their first stop was to attend the...
Ipatov impressive at DSK Chess Open 2013 in South Africa
The Deutsche Schule Kapstadt was this year’s proud host of the international chess tournament – “DSK International Chess Open 2013” which ran from the 19-29 July. Junior world champion Alexander Ipatov from Turkey played impressively to finally get 8/9...