The European Chess Club Cup 2013 will take place on 19-27 October, 2013, in the conference center of the 5-star Rodos Palace Convention Resort which is regarded as one of the finest deluxe hotels on the island of Rhodes. Rodos Palace offers luxurious accommodation, exquisite dining facilities and numerous recreational amenities, on a superb location [...]
The 2013 Commonwealth Open Chess Championship will run concurrently with the South African Open Chess Championship, the Nelson Mandela Bay Open Chess Championship and the South African Open Blitz chess Championship. These Championships will be held at The Boardwalk Hotel, Convention Centre and Spa in the city of Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa from [...]
The 5-star Makedonia Palace Hotel and its owner, mega-investor Ivan Savvidis, are FIDE’s sponsors for the 12-player Grand Prix Chess Tournament in the historic city of Thessaloniki from 22 May to 3 June 2013. Participants include former FIDE World Champions Veselin Topalov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov, while the total prize fund of the 6-tournament [...]
The Women’s World Championship Match 2013 between the reigning World Champion Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) and her challenger Hou Yifan (China) will be organized by the FIDE and Chinese Chess Association on 10-27 September 2013, in the city of Taizhou, China. The winner of the FWWCM 2013 will be declared Women’s World Champion for the period [...]
Live games with analysis
The fields are set for both the 2013 U.S. Championship and 2013 U.S. Women’s Championship, scheduled to be held simultaneously May 2 through May 13 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL). This marks the fifth consecutive year that each of these prestigious events will be held in Saint Louis. The [...]
Magnus Carlsen has won the Candidates tournament 2013 and will be the official challenger of reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand. The World Chess Championship 2013 is scheduled for November this year, more information soon on Chessdom.com. Magnus Carlsen won the Candidates after a few dramatic last days. He lost the lead against Ivanchuk, but managed [...]
Aegean Open Championship 2013
The Norway Chess 2013 tournament will be played from 7th to 18th May in Stavanger, Norway. Sponsors and local authorities are investing 5 million NOK (approx 672,000 EUR) for the prize fund and organizational costs. The organizers initially intended to hold the strongest chess tournament ever in Norway, but with the impressive lineup that has [...]
Several days ago Head of the Board of RCF Ilya Levitov hinted in an interview that the Alexander Alekhine Memorial should take place in April. Businessmen Andrei Filatov and Gennady Timchenko are willing to continue the concept of holding strong chess events in museums, as was established with the World Championship Match between Anand and [...]
