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The 2012 Romanian Chess Championships for men and women are set to take place from 10th to 19th February at the Great Hall of the Hotel Casino in Sarata Monteoru. Men’s championship will be played over 11 rounds of Swiss system, while ladies will compete over 9 rounds of Swiss. The total prize fund for [...]

FIDE has published the list of titles approved by the 1st quarter Presidential Board held in Al Ain, UAE from 3 to 6 of February 2012. The PB also confirmed that the 2012 Chess Olympiad and FIDE Congress will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 27th August to 10th September. The bids for the Candidates [...]

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. The RCF reports that Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik have already confirmed their participation. The venue, tournament format and other participants will be announced later. The previous edition was held in November 2011, but this time [...]

The 2nd Schoenenwerd Weekend CHessOpen is set tot ake place from 10th to 12th February at the Hotel Storchen, Oltnerstrasse 16, CH-5012 Schönenwerd, Switzerland. The tournament will be played over 5 rounds of Swiss pairings with the time control of 100 min + 30 sec increment for the whole game. The prizes will be distributed [...]

The rating favorite Evgeny Tomashevsky was held to a draw at the start of the 2012 Aeroflot chess tournament. Tomashevsky did not continue his game against Aleksandrov and signed one of the shortest draws of the day in just 15 moves. The young talents Caruana and Le Quang Liem started with victories by defeating Dmitry [...]

The 2nd International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra will take place from June 16th to 23rd, 2012, in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps. Following the tremendous success of the inaugural event in 2011, which was won by GM Carlos Matamoros, [...]

The 2012 World Blitz Championship qualifying tournament took place at the Russian State Social University (V.Pika st., 4) on Monday, February 6th. The competition with 99 players consisted of 11 rounds of Swiss system, with time control 3 minutes per game with additional 2 seconds per every move, and FIDE rating calculation. The prize fund [...]

The Chess Association of "Khorasan–Razavi" province on behalf of I.R.Iran Chess Federation has the honor to invite all players from national federations to participate in the tournament.

The Vietnam Chess Federation has the honor to invite your Federation to participate in The 2nd HDBank Cup Open Chess tournament 2012 which to be held from 1st to 8th March, 2012, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Update: Players list added bellow Time control and format: Swiss System 9 rounds. FIDE rated and eligible [...]

On 4th and 5th of February the 8th and 9th round of the Schachbundesliga took place. The top teams Baden-Baden, Bremen and Eppingen prevailed and will fight for the title in the highest German chess league. Article and photos by Georgios Souleidis The rounds 8 and 9 of the Schachbundesliga took place this weekend in [...]

The Turkish Chess Championship for men was held over 10 rounds of Swiss system from 29th January to 5th February in Kemer, Antalya. 309 participants (52 more compared to previous year), including 19 titled players sorted as 4 GMs, 6 IMs 6 FMs and 3 CMs took part in the championship. Dragan Solak became the [...]

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The Aeroflot Chess tournament takes place 7-17 February 2012 in Moscow, the city where the RSSU Cup has just finished and where the 2012 World Chess Championship will be played. Despite having very low number of players for such a high prize fund, Aeroflot Chess 2012 is still one of the strongest open tournaments this [...]

The 34th Bulgarian Open Chess Championship 2012 – Georgi Tringov Memorial, organized by the Bulgarian Chess Federation, the Chess Club Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Plovdiv Municipality, was held from 29th January to 5th February in Novotel Hotel, Plovdiv. The tournament was played over 9 rounds of Swiss system and is valid for FIDE elo and GM/IM [...]

Yaroslav Zherebukh won the 2012 edition of the RSSU Grandmaster Cup in Moscow. He finished a full point ahead of top seeded Maxim Matlakov. Zherebukh started the tournament with a loss and two draws, but after that achieved the amazing six consecutive victories to claim the title in the tournament. In the women section of [...]

The 34th Bulgarian Open Chess Championship 2012 – Georgi Tringov Memorial, organized by the Bulgarian Chess Federation, the Chess Club Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Plovdiv Municipality, is taking place from 29th January to 5th February in Novotel Hotel, Plovdiv. The tournament will be played over 9 rounds of Swiss system and is valid for FIDE elo [...]

In the 9th round of the Turkish Women Championship the leaders of the tournament Kubra Ozturk and Betul Yildiz won their matches and finished the race with equal scores. According to the regulations, they had to play a tie-break in order to determine the champion. Betul Yildiz, who is eight-times Turkish champion, won the first [...]

St. Louis, Feb. 3, 2012 – Building on St. Louis’ growing reputation as a world-class chess center, Webster University is making some exciting chess moves. The University today announced that chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar, World and Olympiad Champion, and her Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE), will relocate to Webster from Texas Tech University [...]

The 2012 World Blitz Championship qualifying tournament will be held at the Russian State Social University (V.Pika st., 4) on Monday, February 6th. The competition consists of 11 rounds of Swiss system with time control 3 minutes per game with additional 2 seconds per every move, with FIDE rating calculation. The number of participants is [...]