The world’s top talents meet in Athens

The 45th edition of the Biel Chess Festival is taking place July 21 – August 3 in Biel, Switzerland. The main Grandmaster Tournament will be a category 21 event with the participation of the USA Chess Champion GM Hikaru Nakamura, the Russian top 10 player GM Alexander Morozevich, the Chinese N1 GM Hao Wang, the [...]

FIDE Women Grand Prix will take place in Jermuk 16-28 July, 2012. Participants will be Hou Yifan, Humpy Koneru, Zhao Xue, Kateryna Lahno, Ju Wenjun, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Ruan Lufei, Elina Danielian, Nino Khurtsidze, Lilit Mkrtchian, Munguntuul Batkhuyag, and Ekaterina Kovalevskaya. This is the fifth leg in the Women Grand Prix 2012-2013. The first leg in [...]

Live games with analyis

The 2012 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting is set to take place on 13th-22nd July 2012, in Dortmund, Germany. Ten players will compete in the round robin tournament. The Week in Chess reports that the field has been completed. Four out of five German national players that took the gold medal at the recent European Team Chess Championship [...]

Participants, rules, schedule

Caruana, Kamsky, Navara, Polgar, Hammer, and 95 titled players

Bazna Kings to be one of the strongest tournaments of the year

Carlsen, Anand, Radjabov, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, average ELO 2790

The 7th Mikhail Tal Memorial will take place from 7th to 19th June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Radjabov Teimour, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana have confirmed the participation. The venue, tournament format and other participants will be announced later. Update: The field is now complete with Alexander Morozevich, Alexander [...]