The Italian Rapid Chess Championships 2013 were held on 12-14th April 2013 in Fano, on the Eastern coast of Italy. The format was three Championships spread over three days, each offering prizes and titles for the absolute winner, the victors of each category, as well as the best U16 and female players. Day 1 was [...]

The 3rd Women Masters Chess Tournament takes place in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China from 31 May to 9 June 2013. Ten strong female players compete in the round robin event for the prize fund of 211,000 Yuan. Players: WGM Ju Wenjun CHN 2544 GM Gunina Valentina RUS 2514 WGM Tan Zhongyi CHN 2483 WGM Huang Qian [...]

Leinier Dominguez defeated Fabiano Caruana with black pieces to join Gata Kamsky in the shared first place with 6,5 points each. American champion was held to a draw by Etienne Bacrot. Veselin Topalov scored against Alexander Morozevich who extended the losing row to three rounds. The other four games were drawn. Caruana is third with [...]

In the 6th Mumbai Mayor International Chess Tournament 2013 hosted by The National Sports Club of India and co-sponsored by LIC of India, GM Babujian Levon (ELO 2488) of Armenia and GM Pantsulaia Levan (ELO 2563) of Georgia are leading with 4 points at the end of 4th round in the indoor stadium of National [...]

Gata Kamsky defeated his compatriot Hikaru Nakamura to score third consecutive victory and move into sole lead after round 8 of the Thessaloniki Grand Prix. Five games started with Ruy Lopez and only Nakamura defended with French. Leinier Dominguez remains in contention for the first place after beating Alexander Morozevich in a fine positional style. [...]

Nakamura beats Topalov

Fabiano Caruana and Gata Kamsky won their games in the 6th round of Thessaloniki Grand Prix to join Leinier Dominguez in shared lead. Dominguez outplayed Hikaru Nakamura but couldn’t convert the winning position into the full point. Vassily Ivanchuk collapsed again and lost to Ruslan Ponomariov after only 19 moves and barely 30 minutes of [...]

The 22nd Annual Chicago Open was held on May 23-27, 2013, at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, 601 North Milwaukee Ave, Wheeling, Illinois. Grandmasters Ray Robson, Josh Friedel and Nikola Mitkov all finished tied at the top of the Open Section with 7/9. Robson and Friedel took a quick draw in the final round [...]

The 2013 Asian Continental Championship (Open) was held on 18-26th May in Manila, Philippines. The tournament was organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines and Eugene Torre Chess Foundation, Inc. 75 players from 14 federations, including 26 Grandmasters and 18 IMs, took part in the tournament. Chinese Grandmaster Li Chao emerged Asian Continental [...]

The 2013 Asian Continental Championship for Women was held on 18-26th May in Manila, Philippines. The tournament was organized by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines and Eugene Torre Chess Foundation, Inc. 40 players from 9 countries took participation, among them 12 WGMs, 2 IMs and 9 WIMs. It was an exciting race between [...]