The last great Soviet Championship took place in 1988, and finished in a tie between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. (There was supposed to be a 4-game playoff, but it never happened, and contrary to what is says here Kasparov did want the playoff.)
The tournament was ridiculously strong...
5th Sunway Sitges Open 2 games Update
68th Greek Championship 15 games Update
41st Greek Women Championship 15 games Update
3rd NTUA Chess Tournament 80 games Update
10th CSC London Chess...
Toia returns to RSL having started his pro career at the club in 2011.
Real Salt Lake’s homegrown revolution has been an exciting thing to watch. Today, it’s coming full circle.
After eight seasons away from the club, Donny Toia, RSL’s first-ever homegrown player, has been picked up by the club again through the first stage of the MLS Re-Entry Draft.
The defeated challenger to Magnus Carlsen lost again in speed chess, this time to Hikaru Nakamura in the London Classic semis
Fabiano Caruana, whose challenge for Magnus Carlsen’s world crown ended in a speed chess defeat earlier this month...
I'm still not completely sold on the draw problem, but I am sure that blitz chess is garbage chess, and it should have as little place as possible - preferably none - in events with a classical component.
68th Greek Championship 10 games Update
41st Greek Women Championship 10 games Update
3rd NTUA Chess Tournament 80 games Update
10th CSC London Chess Classic (U 2050) 4 games Update
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European Rapid Championship 33 games New
3rd Memorial Hulak 9 games New
European Blitz Championship 64 games New
World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad 36 games
32th Belgrade Trophy 40 games
28th World Senior C.C.
The King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships-2018 will be held in Saint Petersburg on December 25-31.
The venue is Manege, the largest exhibition space in central Saint Petersburg.
Dear Chess Friends!
Accredited players, accompanying persons and press are now able to submit their accommodation requests and travel details online at the registration system https://wrbc2018registration.fide.com.
Note that the above apply only if the above mentioned accredited participants participants would like to be accommodated in one of the two official hotels of the event, with the agreed pricelists.
Dear chess friends,
The 2019 FIDE budget is adopted and published. It implements the two fundamental planks of my electoral campaign. When I ran for the FIDE President, I promised you that the budget would increase while the FIDE fees charged to federations, players and organizers would decrease dramatically.
