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The 13th Rochefort Chess Festival was held from 21th to 28th February at the Congres Palais, in Rochefort, France. Just days before the huge Cappelle-la-Grande Open, the Rochefort Festival was an excellent occasion for the players to test their preparations and use the perfect training opportunity. 50 players competed in the Masters section which was [...]

More than 250 participants, including 130 GMs and more than 200 players with international titles from 27 different countries, started playing round 1 of the EICC. With 23 World Cup places at stake, all players entered the long battle with high desire for decisive games. Exactly this desire, combined with the high rating of the [...]

Naum wins on tiebreak in the last minute of the event

Results and information round 1

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Garry Kasparov, the 13th World Champion, needs no introduction: a truly great chess player, who has tremendously influenced the development of chess with his games, his analyses, his writings, Garry is well known everywhere. In this Informant’s column, Garry’s Choice, he is annotating select games from recent practice, in his trademark style, casting his critical [...]

This is the beautiful opening ceremony of the EICC 2014. The championship has been officially opened today in Yerevan. See the full pairings of round 1 here Live games with analysis tomorrow at Chessdom Arena – start 15:00 local time. Photos courtesy of the official site http://www.eicc2014.am/ and http://www.president.am

Pairings and information