The 3rd International Open Marcel Duchamp is taking place on 20-29th June at the Club Atletico Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The winner of the tournament will qualify for the 2013 Argentina Championship. The event will be a nine round Swiss with the prize fund of 8000 USD. Official website. Participants: 1 GM Flores [...]

The 6th Paleohora Open Chess Tournament is set to take place on 19-26th June at the Municipality of Kandanos – Selino Community Centre, in Paleohora, Crete, Greece. The tournament is organized by the Municipality of Kandanos – Selino and Chania Chess Academy, with support from the Region of Crete and Greek Chess Federation. The 9-round [...]

For the first time ever, World Championship challenger GM Magnus Carlsen will play a high-profile tournament in the United States. The World’s No. 1 ranked player will take on three other top-ten players in Saint Louis this September when he joins GMs Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky for the Sinquefield Cup, a four-player, [...]

Special offer during the Tal Memorial

The second tournament of the FIDE Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 is taking place from 16th to 28th June in Dilijan, Armenia. Twelve players with the average elo of 2505 compete in the round robin tournament. The event is organized by the Armenian Chess Federation & FIDE. The Women’s Grand-Prix 2013-2014 will give qualification to the Women’s [...]

The island of Ikaria is the host of the annual Ikaros International Chess Tournament that takes place every summer on the picturesque Aegean island. As we wrote in the first part of this presentation, Ikaria is renowned for its very relaxing and hospitable atmosphere. The way of life of the Ikarians is very serene and [...]

Blitz games passed the time surrounding the 2013 U.S. Junior Closed Championship opening ceremony last night, as America’s best players under the age of 21 gathered at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Article by Brian Jerauld. There were no signs of calculated attack in the upstairs tournament hall Thursday night. Instead, [...]

The Armenian Chess Federation is organizing an international open chess tournament, dedicated to the memory of Karen Asrian, which will take place on June 15-25, 2013, in the prominent resort town of Jermuk. All interested chess players can participate in the 9-round Swiss tournament. GM David Arutinian was the winner of the 5th Asrian Memorial. [...]

The 3rd International Chess Tournament of Forni di Sopra will take place from June 15th to 22nd, 2013, in Forni di Sopra, part of the Friulian Dolomites Natural Park and one of the jewels of the Italian Alps. Following the tremendous success of the inaugural event in 2011, which was won by GM Carlos Matamoros, [...]

The 46th Biel International Chess Festival will be held from 20th June to 2nd August in Biel, Switzerland. The main Grandmaster Tournament will be dedicated to the memory of Olivier Breisacher. Six players will play in a category 19 double round robin event: Etienne Bacrot, FRA, Elo 2725 Ian Nepomniachtchi, RUS, Elo 2717 Alexander Moiseenko, [...]