tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136047942024-03-14T07:06:09.662+01:00Chess News & EventsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1549125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-42573203292611142842022-02-12T01:15:00.001+01:002022-02-12T01:19:42.085+01:00World Rapid Champion GM Abdusattorov in "Belgrade 2022"Following the huge achievement in the past few months that saw him winning the 2021 World Rapid Championship and the 8th Sunway Chess Festival, rising star GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov is set to compete in the 10-player round robin tournament "Belgrade 2022"."Belgrade 2022" will be a 17-category tournament taking place from 6-14th March concurrently with the Grand Prix tournament in Belgrade and at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-10366957416505904292015-02-03T11:16:00.000+01:002015-02-03T11:16:02.326+01:00Chess Olympiad Tromso records 474k EUR minus
Sjakk-OL (Chess Olympiad Tromso 2014) is in the final stages of summarizing the accounts and reports before the company is closed by the end of February.
iTromso writes that the company will report to the Norwegian Ministry of Culture, municipalities and counties, and the entire archive will be handed to Tromso Municipal Archives.
The preliminary accounts show that Chess Olympiad Tromso 2014 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-64363452928422012092014-01-01T13:07:00.001+01:002014-01-01T13:11:24.525+01:00Chess Festival Città di Roseto degli Abruzzi
The 5th International Chess Festival "Città di Roseto degli Abruzzi" will take place on 3-6th January 2014 in Roseto, Italy.
The Festival is organized by the A.D. L'Arrocco Chess Club, Italian Chess Federation and Comitato Regionale Abruzzese.
There will be three events: Open A (for players rated over 1800), Open B (U1850) and Open C (U1600).
Official website
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-881565778840496082014-01-01T12:57:00.003+01:002014-01-01T12:57:37.859+01:00Groningen Chess Festival
The 51st Groningen Chess Festival was held from 21st to 30th December at
the Sport Centre Rijksuniversiteit & Hanzehogeschool in Groningen,
Netherlands.
The highlight of the festival was the exhibition
match between Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman. The 12th World Champion won
the match by 2,5-1,5.
University of Groningen Chess Challenge
was a match between former European Champion GM Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-1404707715179166242014-01-01T11:17:00.002+01:002014-01-01T11:17:40.600+01:00Happy New Year
Happy New Year, best wishes for everyone
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-49787914122387393032013-08-03T18:37:00.003+02:002013-08-03T18:37:48.423+02:00Hoang Thanh Trang is European Women’s Chess Champion
Hungarian Grandmaster Hoang Thanh Trang
drew her last round game against the former continental champion
Viktorija Cmilyte (Lithuania) to secure the first place in the
tournament and claim the title of 2013 European Women’s Chess Champion.
Trang played very well throughout the event, scoring seven victories
and conceding only four draws for a total of 9 points from 11 games.
She cementedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-62491736327177483212013-08-03T18:36:00.001+02:002013-08-03T18:36:54.893+02:00Interview with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Biel
Interview with GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, winner of the 2013 Biel Grandmaster Tournament
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-48649030242582674602013-08-01T16:32:00.002+02:002013-08-01T16:32:20.314+02:00Iowa Open on August 24-25
The Iowa Open is coming soon. IM Angelo Young and IM Michael Brooks have both committed to playing. FM Awonder Liang (Former U8 World Champion) has also signed up. There are several other highly rated players that are coming including last year Iowa Open co-champ Prashantha Amarasinghe, Iowa State Co-Champs Dan Brashaw and Byambatsogt Tumurkhuu. How about adding your name to this list? One of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-30131988125305671742013-07-31T03:59:00.002+02:002013-07-31T03:59:24.374+02:00Biel 2013 Round 8 Videos
Ding Liren discusses his game with Daniel King
A brief on-the-spot report of round 8 including post-game interviews with Ding Liren, Etienne Bacrot and Ian Nepomniachtchi
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-87898287199982748952013-07-30T00:37:00.006+02:002013-07-30T00:37:50.323+02:00Biel 2013 Round 7 Videos
Ding Liren and Etienne Bacrot discuss their round 7 game with Daniel King.
Post-game interviews with Ding Liren, Etienne Bacrot, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexander Moiseenko.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-26029131664947499552013-07-29T01:34:00.003+02:002013-07-29T01:34:37.537+02:00Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting - Round 3
Michael Adams defeated Fabiano Caruana to move into the sole lead in Dortmund tournament with 2,5/3 points.The other four games of the round were drawn.The second win in a row put Adams ahead of the rest of the field. Vladimir Kramnik and Georg Meier are half a point behind. Replay the gamesRound 3 standings: 1. Adams 2.5; 2-3. Kramnik, Meier 2; 4-7. Khenkin, Leko, Caruana, Wang Hao 1.5; 8-9. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-36641211243671936912013-07-28T03:30:00.004+02:002013-07-28T03:30:37.876+02:00Biel 2013 Round 6 Videos
Etienne Bacrot and Ian Nepomniachtchi discuss their round 6 game with GM Daniel King.
Richard Rapport - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Ding Liren - Alexander Moiseenko
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-41011456434183186292013-07-27T01:10:00.001+02:002013-07-27T01:10:08.129+02:00Biel 2013 Round 5 Videos
Etienne Bacrot discusses his game against Richard Rapport
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Alexander Moiseenko discuss their game with Daniel King
A brief report of round 5 including interviews with Ding Liren, Etienne Bacrot and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-81624238330956151902013-07-27T01:02:00.002+02:002013-07-27T01:02:39.866+02:00Biel International Chess Festival LIVE
The 46th Biel International Chess Festival will be held from 20th June to 2nd August in Biel, Switzerland.
The main Grandmaster Tournament will be dedicated to the memory of Olivier Breisacher. Six players will play in a category 19 double round robin event:
Etienne Bacrot, FRA, Elo 2725
Ian Nepomniachtchi, RUS, Elo 2717
Alexander Moiseenko, UKR, Elo 2711
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, FRA Elo 2706
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-62553090433053498292013-07-27T01:00:00.002+02:002013-07-27T01:00:19.296+02:00Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting LIVE
Dortmund Chess 2013
will be held from July 26th to August 4th as a single round robin with
10 participants. Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com.
The field will be led by ten-times champion of the event Vladimir Kramnik and last year winner Fabiano Caruana, both searching for their 2800 rating. Hungary’s number 1 Peter Leko is back in the roster as well. The best rated Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-54745008496850654742013-06-19T02:50:00.005+02:002013-06-19T02:50:59.906+02:00Magnus Carlsen - Viswanathan Anand (Video)
Grandmaster Daniel King analyses the game Carlsen vs Anand from round 5 of Tal Memorial in Moscow.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-15371848191427945072013-06-19T02:40:00.004+02:002013-06-19T02:43:45.772+02:00Tal Memorial 2013 LIVE
Tal Memorial 2013 will be held on 12th – 24th June in Moscow, Russia. The Tal Memorial will be among the various elite events that will gather the strongest players in the world, after the Alekhine Memorial and the Norway Chess tournament.
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The second tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 16th to 28th June in Dilijan, Armenia.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-14322789802220916102013-06-19T02:36:00.002+02:002013-06-19T02:36:30.410+02:00Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis
For the first time ever, World Championship challenger GM Magnus Carlsen will play a high-profile tournament in the United States.
The World’s No. 1 ranked player will take on three other top-ten players in Saint Louis this September when he joins GMs Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky for the Sinquefield Cup, a four-player, double round robin scheduled to be held at the Chess Club Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-17789911424088954002013-05-04T19:05:00.004+02:002013-05-04T19:05:57.585+02:00US Chess Championships, Round 1
The action got a running start today as the majority of the first-round battles at the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship produced a clear victor.
Half of the men’s games and 80 percent of the ladies’ skirmishes gave decisive results, kicking off nine rounds of chess at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.
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Chessdom were first to cautiously hint that the next FIDE Grand Prix event will take place in Thessaloniki from 22nd May.FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov now officially confirmed that the tournament will be in Greece.The event was supposed to take place in Madrid, but following the disaster with Lisbon, AGON once again failed to provide the sponsorship.Their failure might turn out to the good Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-71413353676645921622013-05-03T23:41:00.001+02:002013-05-03T23:41:55.667+02:00Paris wants WCC match between Anand and Carlsen
ChessDailyNews reveals that the Mayor of Paris Mr. Bertrand Delanoe wrote to FIDE to support the French Chess Federation in its aim to organize the World Chess Championship Match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen.The French Chess Federation apparently sent an offer to FIDE that includes 2,65 million EUR for the match prize fund, 800,000 EUR contribution to FIDE budget and an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-89236461022729302352013-05-03T23:26:00.002+02:002013-05-03T23:26:51.416+02:00Norway issues formal complaint to FIDE
The Norwegian Chess Federation has written to FIDE on the issue of the venue of the upcoming World Chess Championship match between Viswanthan Anand and Magnus Carlsen. The letter has also been made public in order to try and halt what seems an almost unstoppable momentum within FIDE towards awarding the match to Chennai without a bidding process. FIDE seem to be honouring an agreement to give Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-74485455406665720512013-05-03T23:21:00.000+02:002013-05-03T23:21:23.176+02:00Women's World Championship Match 2013
Chessdom announced that the Women’s World Championship Match 2013 between the reigning World Champion Anna Ushenina
(Ukraine) and her challenger Hou Yifan (China) will be organized by the
FIDE and Chinese Chess Association on 10-27 September 2013, in the city
of Taizhou, China.
The winner of the FWWCM 2013 will be declared Women’s World Champion for the period 2013-2014. Hou Yifan, who Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13604794.post-56807072913308509282013-05-03T23:18:00.000+02:002013-05-03T23:18:14.594+02:00Geneva Women Grand Prix LIVEThe first leg of the new cycle of FIDE Women's Grand-Prix 2013-2014, which will give qualification to the Women’s World Championship Match 2015, is being held in Geneva on 3-15th May under sponsorship by Neva Foundation.
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