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Favourites Qualify for Quarter-Finals in London
So the preliminary stage of the London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen Rapid is over, with the result that all eight starting favourites are through to the quarter-finals (pairings are Kramnik-Anand,...
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Annual Appeal 2013Did you know the Boylston is one of the oldest chess organizations in the United States? You may not realize it, but when you play at the Bolyston you are surrounded by history. Our...
View ArticleCecil County Chess Club Quads is back on schedule. New Location!
CCCC has found a new location for their Quads tournament. Check it out!
View ArticleMind Games Day 3: Gunina, Aronian lead blitz
Day one of the brutal blitz tournament has started. The event has a total of 30 rounds and today the first set of ten was played. In the Men's section Armenian Levon Aronian has destroyed the...
View ArticleLondon Super Sixteen: Semis ready!
The four players that will play the semi-finals have been defined. Kramnik crushed Anand with black in the second game to move on. Nakamura was a far superior player than Short and will face the...
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SportAccord Mind Games: Day 2 of Blitz
Day 2 of the womens blitz event, saw the reigning World Champion, Hou Yifan break away from the field of competitors.Day 2 of the mens blitz tournament, was a very dramatic day, where the lead...
View ArticleLondon Chess Classic Final: Nakamura-Gelfand
The London Chess Classic rapid final comes down to our top player, GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Boris Gelfand. Update: Nakamura wins! Full story coming soon.
View ArticleKolkata Open: Samvel Ter-Sahakyan first on tie-break
The SREI International Grandmasters Chess Tournament was held on 5-14th December at the historic Town Hall in Kolkata, India. The tournament was open for the players rated above 1900 and was completed...
View ArticleLooking back at Chennai: WCh solving contest
One of the daily attractions of the World Championship in Chennai last November was the problem and study contests that were held in the hotel lobby during every round. Scores of competent,...
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London Classic Rapid: Hung, Drawn and Quarter-Finalled
The London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen has now become the Super Eight and Saturday’s exercise saw the eight whittled down to four. One of the curiosities of this tournament is that, despite the...
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Center Grove School Tourney, Fall 2013
On Thursday, the final class in the fall 2013 session took place at Center Grove Elementary School, in the after school enrichment program on chess that I coach for Enrich and Grow Academy.The...
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Urgent Announcement from Organizers
The organizers of the World Youth Chess Championship announce that they continue to upload visas to the page of each federation on the official site www.worldyouth2013.com. Small discrepancies in the...
View ArticleNakamura Victorious in London
Congratulations to our top player and World #3 GM Hikaru Nakamura, champion of the London Chess Classic. Nakamura defeated Gelfand in a thrilling finale.
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Tactics Time Book Review
16 year old WCM Claudia Muñoz recently wrote a really nice review of Tactics Time on her excellent blog,...
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World Youth Announcement Important
The Organizing Committee of the World Youth Chess Championship announces that the UAE Immigration Department has authorized the Accreditation Card issued online as their entry permit to the UAE for the...
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Nakamura Wins 5th London Chess Classic
The London Chess Classic's Super Sixteen Rapid tournament was won by Hikaru Nakamura. On Sunday the American grandmaster knocked out Vladimir Kramnik, who blundered terribly in the second game of their...
View ArticleEuropean Rapid Chess Championship 2013: Richard Rapport is the winner
Hungarian Grandmaster Richard Rapport won the European Rapid Chess Championship 2013 that was held on 14-15th December at The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. 736 players from 29...
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BCC $5 OPEN: THE 4 FACES OF NM FARZAD ABDI 4 - 0 STREAK TO VICTORY // GODIN...
INTIMATE GROUP OF 18 BRAVE THE SNOW/ICE$5 OPEN IN ONE SECTION(NOTE: TD Nathan Smolensky calls this the "BCF Super Bargain Black Friday Open"though the event was not black (rather snow white) nor was it...
View ArticleMind Games Day 4: Yifan big winner
In the Men's section a very close situation has occurred. Mamedyarov's excellent day two catapulted him to first place with 14.0/20, but there are many players in hot pursuit. Le Quang Liem is only...
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