The 14th international chess open Vandoeuvre will be held from 2 to 6 January 2018. The venue will be Parc des sports. The tournament id divided in 4 sections and more then 250 players are expected to participate. The top players will be GM Sergey Fedorchuk, GM Maxim Turov, GM Dmitry Kryavkin, GM Andrej Sumets [...]

Three champions in the three different time controls

Live video from the World Blitz Championship

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Season 11 starts January 3rd

Live games with analysis

Video and live games with analysis

Exciting finish of the rapid championship

FIDE would like to clarify the following points regarding the King Salman World Blitz and Rapid Championships, being held between the 26th and 30th December in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. FIDE has been working very hard and in a discreet manner to organise and safeguard the process of entry visas for all participants [...]

Press-Secretary of the Russian President and Chairman of RCF Board of Trustees Dmitry Peskov considers that the acting RCF President Andrey Filatov should be reelected for a new term. On November 16, the RCF Supervisory Board decided to hold the RCF Presidential elections on February 3, 2018. “In the recent four years an enormous work [...]