The 4th HDBank Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2014 is taking place on 10-15th March in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The 9-round Swiss open will offer $35,000 in prizes. The winner will earn $12,000 and the top woman will claim $3,000. Winners of the previous two editions, Le Quang Liem and Ni Hua, are [...]

The 14th International Chess Festival Mediterranean Flower was held from 2nd to 8th March at the Chess Club Rijeka in Rijeka, Croatia. The 10-players round robin event is organized by the Chess Club Draga. Romanian champion IM Cristina-Adela Foisor convincingly won the competition with 8,0 points, leaving the Bulgarian Grandmasters Iva Videnova and Adriana Nikolova [...]

The 14th International Chess Festival Mediterranean Flower will take place from 2nd to 8th March at the Chess Club Rijeka in Rijeka, Croatia. The 10-players round robin event is organized by the Chess Club Draga. The last year winner IM Eva Repkova had to cancel the participation for personal reasons, but the organizers have securred the presence of Romanian [...]

The Norwegian Chess Federation and the organizing committee for Chess Olympiad 2014 invite all member federations of FIDE to take part in the 41st Chess Olympiad and the 85th FIDE Congress in Tromsø, Norway. The 41st Chess Olympiad takes place from August 1–14 and the 85th FIDE Congress takes place from August 5-13 in the [...]

The 12th Sagaalgan Chess Festival 2014 took place from 28th February to 2nd March at the Buddhist University “Dashi Choynhorlin” in Ivolga Datsan, near Ulan-Ude in the Russian Republic of Buryatia. The tournament was organized by the Russian Chess Federation, Buddhist University “Dashi Choynhorlin”, Republic of Buryatia and the Chess Federation of Buryatia. The 13-round [...]

The 13th Rochefort Chess Festival was held from 21th to 28th February at the Congres Palais, in Rochefort, France. Just days before the huge Cappelle-la-Grande Open, the Rochefort Festival was an excellent occasion for the players to test their preparations and use the perfect training opportunity. 50 players competed in the Masters section which was [...]

Bulgarian Grandmaster Kiril Georgiev stormed through the Alkaloid Blitz Open to take a clear first place with 12,0/13 points, leaving the nearest followers two points behind. The Alkaloid Blitz Open was held on 1st March at Hotel Continental in Skopje. The tournament format was 13 round Swiss with the time control 3 min + 2 [...]

The 12th Rapid Chess Tournament “Pet Dvojki” took place on 1st March in Krusevac, Serbia. 104 players participated in the 9-round Swiss event. The tournament is valid for the Grand Prix of Central Serbia Chess Federation. GM Branko Tadic emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points to take the top prize of 200 EUR. Final standings: [...]

Ukrainian Grandmaster Sergey Fedorchuk grabbed the winner’s trophy at the Vladimir Petrov Memorial 2014 after narrowly edging GM Aleksej Aleksandrov in the race for the first place. Fedorchuk finished with 12 points from 15 games, while Aleksandrov had 11,5 points, leaving the next group a full point behind. Vladimir Petrov Memorial was organized by the [...]

Grandmaster M R Venkatesh (BPCL) with 8.5 points won the 66th Birthday celebrations of “Thanga Tharagai” Puratchi Thalavi AMMA Honorable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu lightning chess tournament that concluded at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai here today. In a three way tie to the top, Venkatesh (8.5) emerged the Champion in tie-break ahead of Grandmasters [...]