International Youth tournament “Chess for Peace” took place in Luxembourg from 8th-12th of May in order to promote cooperation between European countries. The Chess tournament took place in the Youth Hostel Luxembourg City and 141 children from 16 countries (Luxembourg, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Roumania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Liechtenstein , even USA and… Read More »
The second stop of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour and one of the first two classical events takes place from 26th June-8th July in Zagreb, Croatia. The Mimara Museum in Zagreb hosted the opening ceremony, while the tournament games will be played at the historical Novinarski Dom building, permanent head office of the Croatian Journalists Association. The Opening… Read More »
The second workshop within the framework of the FIDE Pilot Project for Training and Certification of the International Arbiters for the 2020 Chess Olympiad was organized in Baku, Azerbaijan by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission and the Chess Federation of Azerbaijan. The objective was to train and to certify a cadre of IAs who are on top of all… Read More »
Andorra Chess Grand Prix 2019 will take place on 28th July 2019, in Antiga Casa Pairal d’Andorra la Vella, simultaneously with the 37th edition of Andorra Open. Andorra Grand Prix will be played in 9 rounds, Swiss system, with time control 3 minutes+ 2 seconds of an increment per each move, starting from the move one. The number of… Read More »
The 19th edition of International Najdorf Chess Festival will take place from 6th-14th July 2019, in Warsaw, Poland. The event contains three open tournaments: A, B and C. The A tournament is opened to all players rated over 2000, B event is open to players rated 1600-1999, while the C competition is open to players rated under 1600.… Read More »
The conference “Education through chess” will take place on the 2nd of June, in Mamaia, Romania, under the patronage of the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council, on the occasion of the European School Chess Championship, which will be played in Mamaia from 30th of May to 9th of June 2019. The main agenda of the conference is… Read More »
The Executive Committee of the International School Sport Federation (ISF) entrusted the organization of the 1st World Schools Chess Championship to Tsaghkadzor, Armenia to be held from 18th-25th September 2019, The Championship is open for both school and selected national teams, both boys and girls aged 15 to 18. The event will be held in 4 different categories: schoolboys,… Read More »
Netanya International Chess Festival 2019, one of the most important chess competitions in Israel, will take place from 23rd June – 2nd July 2019 in the VIP main hall of the Netanya Football stadium, The festival consists of two main events: Masters tournament and Netanya Open tournament. Netanya Masters tournament will be played in 9 rounds, Robin round… Read More »
19th International Chess Festivals Series of Czech Republic this year will be opened with with 30th edition of Czech Open, which will take place from 11th-28th July 2019 in Pardubice, Czech Republic. Czech Open 2019, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, will contain more than 30 different events, open tournaments, blitz and rapid events, team events, Fischer… Read More »
The chess club “Accademia Romana” was officially constituted in Roma on April 19, 1819, according the first official document, where are registred the names of the members and the Statute of the club. The first premises were into pubs in the center of the town of Roma. In 1890 the club moved to the beautiful Palazzo Odescalchi al Corso,… Read More »
