All champions from 2009 to 2012 participating

Grandmaster and former World junior champion Abhijeet Gupta starts as the top seed and hot favorite in the premier event of Delhi International Chess Festival that gets underway from Saturday. A record breaking over 700 participants have registered for the biggest ever prize money tournament of the country, that started 12 years back. The premier [...]

The traditional Gibraltar Chess Festival is going to take place 21-31 January, 2013. Seven players from the 2700 club are headliners in this year’s event. Top seeded is Vassily Ivanchuk, who won the 2011 Gibraltar Masters with 9,0/10 with a rating performance of 2968. His main competitors are the heroes of Gibtelecom 2010, Gata Kamsky [...]

The 9th edition of the traditional Vandoeuvre Open 2013 will take place 2-6 January in France. A total of 172 participants have signed up, among them over 41 GMs, IMs, and FMs. Top seeded is GM David Alberto who recently returned to Italy and claimed the national championship. His main competition comes from GMs Tornike [...]

January 2013 FIDE rating list has three players with rating over 2800 ELO. Magnus Carlsen’s rating record has been made official by the World Chess Federation, as now he is sitting on top of the list with 2861 points, after a 13 points gain during the last London Classic. Second position in the rating list [...]

After a period of speculation that the Aeroflot Open might be canceled, the Russian Chess Federation finally announced that the 2013 edition will take place from 12th to 17th February at the exhibition center InfoProstranstvo in Moscow. The next edition will be dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the leading Russian airline company. The total [...]

Tata Steel Chess 2013, participants and information

Tata Steel Chess 2013 is taking place in Wijk Aan Zee 12-27 January, 2013. Group A of Tata Steel Chess 2013 will be a category 20 round robin tournament.   Participants Tata Steel A GM Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2848 GM Aronian, Levon ARM 2815 GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2786 GM Anand, Viswanathan IND 2775 GM [...]

The Tata Steel Chess 2013 has three main tournaments. Group B is headed by the German Grandmaster and European Team Chess Champion Arkadij Naiditsch. His main contenders for the first place include the French talent Edouard Romain, the experienced Armenian Sergei Movsesian, and the World Junior Champion Alexander Ipatov. However, Group B is highly unpredictable, [...]

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