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Season’s Greetings
Jan 12
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
(FULL REPORT) Peter Svidler won the FIDE World up 2011 after drawing the 4th game of the final against Alexander Grischuk today. The grandmaster from St. Petersburg set the final score at 2.5-1.5 and clinched the title and US $120,000 first prize. Va
Sergey Volkov finished clear first at the 2nd Livigno Open. The Russian grandmaster scored 7/9 and ended above GMs Peter Michalik, Georgy Timoshenko and Dmitry Svetushkin, who scored 6.5 points.
During the final game it was enough for Volkov to draw
On Saturday in Clichy, France Garry Kasparov showed that he's still capable of beating today's top players in blitz. The 13th World Champion won a 2-game exhibition match against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 1.5-0.5. The match was part of a bigger event wh
Sergey Volkov finished clear first at the 2nd Livigno Open. The Russian grandmaster scored 7/9 and ended above GMs Peter Michalik, Georgy Timoshenko and Dmitry Svetushkin, who scored 6.5 points.
During the final game it was enough for Volkov to draw
(FULL REPORT) On the third day of the World Cup finals both games ended in draws. This means that in both matches a fourth classical game will be played, and both Alexander Grischuk and Ruslan Ponomariov need to win on Monday to force tie-breaks on T