FIDE World Team Chess Championship takes place from March 4th -15th, 2019 in Astana, in which the strongest national teams of 14 countries whose chess federations dominated their continent will participate in the championship. The event has been opened yesterday, while the first round of the event starts today. Twenty teams participate in the tournament – ten open… Read More »
The University of MGU Lomonosov Moscow, in cooperation with the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia and the European Chess Academy, announces its first Student Chess Cup . The tournament will be held as part of the open days for prospective students in Koper, from April 19 to April 21, 2019. The event is open for highschool students… Read More »
Riga Technical University and Latvian Chess Federation are honoured to invite all chess friends to participate in the 9th international chess festival „Riga Technical University Open 2019”, which will take place on August 3rd – 11th in Riga – hometown of 8th World Chess champion Mikhail Tal. Playing hall of festival will be the international exhibition centre “Kipsala”, the largest specialized… Read More »
The Irish International Chess Open 2019, organized by Irish Chess Federation, will take place from 17th-22nd April 2019, in Dublin, Ireland. The playing venue of the event will be Gonzaga College SJ. The event will be played in 9 Swiss rounds, with time control 90 minutes+ 30 seconds of an increment, starting from the move one. The registration… Read More »
Five rounds have been already played at Portugal Open 2019, which was opened on 2nd of February and will take place until 9th of February at the Sports Complex of Casal Vistoso in Lisbon, Portugal. More than 250 players coming from 39 federations participate at the event, among whom are three players rated over 2600: Motylev Alexander (RUS, 2644),… Read More »
Young rising chess star Artemiev Vladislav (RUS, 2709), reigning European Blitz Chess Champion, became the Winner of one of the strongest open tournaments, Gibraltar Chess Masters with score of 8.5 points out of 10 played rounds. Artemiev had been on the top of the list from the 4th round, but in the round nine and ten maintained the sole leadership… Read More »
Former World Chess Champion, Vladimir Kramnik (RUS, 2777) announced his retirement after Tata Steel Masters 2019 tournament, where he participated. Kramnik explained that he has already decided to finish his professional chess career a couple of months ago, but announced it publicly after having played his last tournament. Vladimir Kramnik got the title of the Classical World Chess Champion… Read More »
Reigning World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen (NOR, 2835), wins the Tata Steel Chess 2019, repeating his success of the last year, to make the record by Winning the Wimbledon of chess for the 7th time. Tata Steel Masters 2019 got the clash of the leaders in the last round, when Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri (NED, 2783) played for… Read More »
Portuguese Chess Federation Press Release: FPX opens new premisses on its 92nd anniversary. The celebration of the 92nd anniversary of the Portuguese Chess Federation (FPX) couldn’t be better. In this historic day, the new premisses of the FPX in Lisbon were opened in a ceremony presided by the Education Minister, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, who mentioned the importance of chess both as competitive… Read More »
Eight rounds have already been played at the one of the most prestigious international chess festivals, often called Wimbledon of chess. After 8 played rounds, reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen (NOR, 2835) and former World Chess Champion Anand Viswanathan (IND, 2773) tie for the first place with score of 5.5 points, each. After safe start, Carlsen and Anand… Read More »
