We are pleased to announce that the 3rd FIDE World Junior Chess Championship for the Disabled will be held in the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA from July 9-15, 2019.
In the previous two World Junior Chess Championships...
On 19th of January 2019, the FIDE Executive Director, GM Victor Bologan in company of the FIDE International Director, GM Al-Mudahka Mohd met with the Board of the African Chess Confederation at the Laico Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.
In case Wijk aan Zee isn't enough to keep your interest, there's good news: the Masters tournament of the 2019 Gibraltar International Chess Festival starts tomorrow (Tuesday). Not all the top players who aren't already in WaZ are playing in Gibraltar, but it's close.
Genna Sosonko, Smyslov on the Couch (Elk & Ruby, 2018). 199 pp. Reviewed by Dennis Monokroussos.
As I've mentioned before, ChessLecture.com offers a new free video each week, available on demand for the next two weeks. (One must sign up for at least a free membership first, if you're not already a member.) Every so often it's one of my videos that's available...
FIDE is pleased to announce the 2019 Grand Prix Series, the qualifier for the 2020 Candidates Tournament. It will be held in cooperation with World Chess in a new format aimed at improving its appeal for spectators and players alike.
The logjam at the top has broken up a bit, and now it's the current world champion and his predecessor who head the tournament table in the 2019 edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament with +3 scores.
It's getting bunchy at the top of the 2019 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, as Viswanthan Anand's win over a plummeting Vladimir Kramnik made him the fifth player in the event with a +2 score as the tournament passed the halfway point.