The Asian Zone 3.1 Chess Championships were held in Doha with ten nations in men and seven from women taking part in it. The players from Iran dominated in general except for Zhu Chen of Qatar who was too strong in the women’s section. Darini Pouria defeated top seed Ghaem Maghami of Iran to finish [...]

The 2013 U.S. Championship went extra innings in a gripping tiebreak final. After splitting a pair of rapid games, GM Gata Kamsky won $30,000 and his fourth title in an Armageddon game against GM Alejandro Ramirez, who was seeking his first title. Article by FM Mike Klein. In all three hours of competition, and for [...]

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. hosted a Grandmaster norm round robin tournament from May 08 to May 12, 2013. This tournament was the 26th in its series and was held in Suite C855 of the California Market Center on 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles 90079. The tournament was organized by Ankit Gupta, FA, IO. The participants [...]

After five round of play in the World School Chess Championships 2013 in Porto Carras, several players assumed pole positions in their respective sections with perfect scores. Among the girls, Bagul Ezizova (Turkmenistan) in U7 and Anastasiya Protopopova (Russia) in U13 are standings on 5/5. Among the boys, Diego Saul Flores Quillas (Peru) in U7, [...]

Today is double round of the event

Full standings and big pictorial report included

After two rounds of the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship, there are curiously more perfect scores remaining in the latter tournament, despite having fewer than half the players of the former. Report by FM Mike Klein. Only three women (IMs Irina Krush and Anna Zatonksih and WGM Tatev Amrahamyan) and two men (GMs [...]

The International Open Tournament Llucmajor 2013 was held from April 28th to May 5th at the Club Náutico de LLucmajor, 8 kms away from the Palma de Mallorca International Airport, Spain. Grandmasters Salvador Del Rio De Angelis, Vladimir Petkov, Stanislav Savchenko and Karen Movsziszian emerged joint winners with 7 points each after nine rounds of [...]

The action got a running start today as the majority of the first-round battles at the 2013 U.S. Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship produced a clear victor. Report by FM Mike Klein. Half of the men’s games and 80 percent of the ladies’ skirmishes gave decisive results, kicking off nine rounds of chess at the [...]

Grand Master Mesgen Amanov of Turkemenistan and Jamaican National Champion Andrew Mellace captured the titles of Heroes Day Masters Champion and Heroes Day Candidates Champion respectively as the Digicel Heroes Day International Chess Festival concluded on Labour Day at the Amaryllis Hotel, Hastings, Christ Church. Amanov, the highest rated player in the tournament finished on [...]