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St Louis Summer Chess Classic 2019 - Games and Results 20/06/2019
The St Louis Summer Chess Classic takes place Tue 18th Jun to Fri 28th Jun 2019. Shankland, Gawain Jones, Le Quang Liem, David Howell, Jeffery Xiong and Dariusz Swiercz play in the top group of three all of which are 6 player 10 round events.
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chess.com Junior Speed Chess 2019 - Games and Results 20/06/2019
The chess.com Junior Speed Chess takes place 16th May to 25th July 2019.
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Chinese League 2019 - Games and Results 20/06/2019
The Chinese League takes place in Daqing, 19th to 27th June 2019.
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7th Altibox Norway Chess 2019 - Games and Results 31/05/2019
The 7th Altibox Norway Chess tournament took place 3rd to 15th June. The event tried a new format. There was be a main game of 2 hours per player (10 seconds a move increment after move 40). if this was drawn there was a single Armageddon game. Points: win in the main game 2 points. […]
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FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2019 - Games and Results 31/05/2019
The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament takes place Friday 31st May to Mon 17th Jun 2019 in Kazan, Russia. Play starts at 1pm UK time each day. 8 players and 14 rounds just as in the men's event. Players: Anna and Mariya Muzychuk, Kateryna Lagno, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Zhongyi Tan, Nana Dzagnidze and Valentina Gunina.
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Moscow FIDE Grand Prix 2019 - Games and Results 29/05/2019
The Moscow FIDE Grand Prix was the first of the new format of events for the World Chess Championship cycle 2019-20. Pretty much the World Cup KO formula with 16 players and took place 17th to 29th May 2019. Players: Mamedyarov, Giri, Wesly So, Aronian, Grischuk, Nakamura, Karjakin, Nepomniachtchi, Svidler, Radjabov, Jakovenko, Wojtaszek, Wei Yi, […]
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ECF

ECF Awards 2019 24/06/2019
The President’s Award for Services to Chess Vassos Georgiou After 30 years of service, Vassos Georgiou is finally stepping down as President of Gerrards Cross...
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Change to the BCC entry fee deadline 18/06/2019
For many years the early entry fee deadline for the Championships was late in June. This year we decided to move this to 1st June...
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Last call for 2018/19 memberships 14/06/2019
Players and organisers are reminded that ECF memberships 2018/19 run to 31st August 2019 but will not be sold after 30th June. 30th June is...
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Development Officer – vacancy 06/06/2019
The ECF has a vacancy for a Development Officer, a new post aimed at growing chess at all levels across the country. The Development Officer’s...
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ETCC Arbiters’ invitation 05/06/2019
Herewith an invitation to apply for the post of Arbiter at the European Team Championships 2019 (and other ECU events) The European Chess Union will...
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2019 Cotswold Chess Congress report 04/06/2019
Entries were significantly up at the 51st Cotswold Chess Congress, which took place on 25th-27th May at the King’s School, Gloucester, located in the shadow...
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FIDE

Public review of the bidding procedure for chess clocks extended through a week-end 22/06/2019
Due to the requests received and in order to maintain a level playing field for everyone, FIDE is pleased to extend the deadline to send comments on the bidding procedure for chess clocks until 09:00 UTC on Monday, June 24, 2019.
FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2019: Player's Contract 20/06/2019
FIDE publishes the Player’s Contract for Participation in the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss 2019. The tournament will be held in the Isle of Man from 10 to 21 October, and is expected to be the strongest Swiss-system tournament in the history of chess. The prize fund will be US$432,500, with a first prize of $70,000. […]
FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament is concluded in Kazan 18/06/2019
The Russian chess player Aleksandra Goryachkina won the event with two rounds to spare. The youngest participant of the tournament finished with 9.5 points out of 14 and secured the right to play the Women's World Championship Match against the Women`s World Champion Ju Wenjun (China). The prize fund of the coming championship match is […]
Goryachkina loses the final game of the Candidates but still wins by 1.5 point margin 17/06/2019
Aleksandra Goryachkina lost in the last round of the FIDE Women`s Candidates against Mariya Muzychuk. However, it didn`t influence her tournament situation as she had won the tournament with two rounds to spare. This means that in the next title match, Women`s World Champion Ju Wenjun will face Goryachkina. Anna Muzychuk made a relatively quick […]
The fight for the second place continues in the Women's Candidates 16/06/2019
Aleksandra Goryachkina, who became the winner of the Women`s Candidates with two rounds to spare, made a quick draw against Nana Dzagnidze in the thirteenth round. The fight for the second place continues and Anna Muzychuk increased her lead to one point by defeating Valentina Gunina. Her nearest pursuer Kateryna Lagno held to a draw […]
FIDE announces the recipients of the support programme for veterans 16/06/2019
Further to the decision of the Presidential Board in March, a commission was appointed to administrate the funds assigned to the support programme for veterans.After reviewing the applications this commission, presided by FIDE Director General Emil Sutovsky, has decided to provide financial support for 2019 to the following eight distinguished veterans:WGM Elena Fatalibekova (Russia)GM Henrique […]