Chess in Schools and Communities is delighted to announce the 100 day countdown is underway for the 5th London Chess Classic to be staged at the Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington, running from Saturday 7th December to Sunday 15th December. Due to a demanding elite-player schedule through 2013 – that will culminate with the World [...]

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The 3rd Indonesia Open Chess Championship will take place on 9-18th October at the Puri Ratna Ballroom, Grand Sahid Jaya Hotel, Jl. Jenderal Sudirman 86 Jakarta 10220 – Indonesia. The Indonesia Open Chess Championship 2013 is open for all chess players from federations member of FIDE with ELO Rating minimum 2200. The tournament is organized [...]

The Government of Turkey and the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF) have the honour to announce the 2013 World Chess Team Championship in Antalya, Turkey. The event will be held from 24th November 2013 (arrival) to 06th December 2013 (Departure). According to FIDE Regulations D.07.11.6.2., the following Federations are entitled to send a team: a. Armenia [...]

Carlsen with dense program during the World Championship inspection

Chessdom Arena and TCEC announce partnership

The third edition of the SportAccord World Mind Games is set to take place on 12-18th December in Beijing, China. Once again, chess is among the sports selected at this important meeting. Sixteen male and sixteen female players will participate. To decide who qualifies, the organizers obtained the average between the classical, rapid and blitz [...]

Dortmund Chess 2013 will be held from July 26th to August 4th as a single round robin with 10 participants. Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com The field will be led by ten-times champion of the event Vladimir Kramnik and last year winner Fabiano Caruana, both searching for their 2800 rating. Hungary’s [...]

Full pairings announced

The FIDE World Chess Cup (World Cup) will be held from 10th August to 3rd September in Tromsø, Norway. The event is an integral part of the World Championship Cycle 2012-2014. The winner and the runner up of the World Cup 2013 will qualify to the Candidates stage of the World Championship cycle 2012-2014. If [...]