Archive for January, 2012

Dear friends! 2012 is just around the corner! We wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, a Happy New Year and all the best for 2012. Thank you everyone for all of your hard work and dedication to the great sport of ches
FIDE is hereby opening a bidding procedure for the 2016 Chess Olympiad and FIDE Congress in connection with a possible bid for the 2015 FIDE World Cup. 1. Bids should reach FIDE Office not later than 31 May 2012, 13:00 GMT, by email, fax or registe
1. FIDE is opening a bidding procedure for the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2012 which will determine the challenger for the World Championship Match in 2013. 2. Each bid shall contain the following particulars as minimum: a) Proposed exact dates of
We continue our series of three interviews, with players from the Tata Steel A, B and C groups, who all make some sort of comeback. In the second interview we have Dutch chess legend Jan Timman, one of the world's leading players for two decades. At
In his latest column for ChessVibes Training, to be published next Saturday, Anish Giri shows his spectacular win against NIkita Vitiugov. His excellent Petroff against Hikaru Nakamura was discusses in this week's ChessVibes Openings. Seriously, have