The Global Chess League 2023 is a 6-team double round-robin tournament taking place from June 22 to July 1, 2023 in Dubai, UAE. Players receive 15 minutes for the entire game, plus a 10-seco… Read More

Wesley So, Levon Aronian and Andrey Esipenko share the top spot after a fighting first round of the WR Chess Masters. They won the first three decided games of the tournament. This is w… Read More

The 37th European Chess Club Cup and the 26th European Women’s Club Cup concluded yesterday in Mayrhofen, Austria, with Novy Bor Chess Club clinching the title in t… Read More

The 37th European Chess Club Cup and the 26th European Women’s Chess Club Cup will simultaneously take place from 2nd – 10th October in Mayrhofen, Austria and… Read More

With World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen playing the first board, the Norwegian team was one of the favorites to win the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022. Nonetheless, Italy today made a major upset… Read More

Half-Open Files in Chess: Everything You Need To Know Half-open files (or sometimes called semi-open files) are files on which a single pawn is placed. They can quickly turn into a weakness… Read More

The Latvian Chess Federation held the 5th Vladimir Petrov Memorial on 5-6th March, 2016, at the Jurmala City museum in Jurmala, Latvia. The main Tournament A was a 12-round Swiss with the ti… Read More

The Dutch Championship was an 8-player round-robin tournament taking place from 2-8 July 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After six rounds, Sergey Tiviakov has already secured the title… Read More

The Dutch Championship is an 8-player round-robin tournament taking place from 2-8 July 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes… Read More

In the 2017 Kortchnoi Zurich Chess Challenge Master Open, five players shared 1st place after seven rounds: GM Eltaj Safarli, GM Alexander Motylev, GM Aleksandr Rakhmanov, GM Ferenc Berkes a… Read More

The 16th Bangkok Chess Club Open – Thailand Open Chess Championships 2016 took place from 10-17th April in Dusit Thani, Bangkok, Thailand. The event had two sections: Open category for… Read More

Del 11 al 27 de enero de 2013, se ha celebrado en Wijk aan Zee (Holanda) el LXXV Torneo Tata Steel con el siguiente plantel de ajedrecistas (según clasificación final):GMCarlse… Read More