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St Louis Fall Chess Classic 2019 - Games and Results 11/09/2019
The St Louis Fall Chess Classic consists of two 10 player Round Robin events. In the A Group the players are: Dariusz Swiercz, Hrant Melkumyan, Aleksandr Lenderman, Alexander Ipatov, Vasif Durarbayli, Jorden Van Foreest, Varuzhan Akobian, Ilia Smirin, Olexandr Bortnyk and Ray Robson.
Mark Crowther
Skolkovo Women's FIDE Grand Prix 2019 - Games and Results 11/09/2019
The Skolkovo Women's FIDE Grand Prix takes place Tue 10th Sep to Mon 23rd Sep 2019 in Skolkovo in Moscow. It is the first of four Women's Grand Prix events. 16 players compete in the series. 12 players compete in each of the four round robin events. Players: Dronavalli Harika, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Pia […]
Mark Crowther
FIDE World Cup 2019 - Games and Results 10/09/2019
The FIDE World Cup takes place Mon 9th Sep to Wed 2nd Oct 2019 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. 128 player Knockout event. Players: Ding, Giri, Vachier-Lagrave, So, Nepomniachtchi, Aronian, Mamedyarov, Dominguez Perez, Grischuk, Radjabov, Artemiev, Yu, Karjakin, Nakamura, Andreikin, Wojtaszek, Harikrishna, Duda, Svidler, Vitiugov, Wei, Le, Navara, Bu, Wang, Shankland, Matlakov, Tomashevsky, Vidit, Jakovenko, Xiong, Firouzja, […]
Mark Crowther
Champions Showdown 9LX 2019 - Games and Results 06/09/2019
The Champions Showdown 9LX took place in Saint Louis 2nd to 5th September 2019. Four matches using a version of the Chess 960 variant with both rapid and blitz games. Fabiano Caruana defeated Garry Kasparov 19-7, Hikaru Nakamura beat Levon Aronian 14.5-11.5, Wesley So beat Veselin Topalov 18-8 and Peter Svider beat Leinier Dominguez Perez […]
Mark Crowther
7th Sinquefield Cup 2019 - Games and Results 29/08/2019
The 7th Sinquefield Cup took place 17th to 30th August 2019. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Viswanathan Anand, Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura. Ding Liren beat Magnus Carlsen 3-1 in a tie-break to win the tournament after they tied on 6.5/11 […]
Mark Crowther
Chinese League 2019 - Games and Results 23/08/2019
The Chinese League takes place in Daqing, 19th to 27th June 2019.
Mark Crowther

ECF

English Girls’ Chess Championships 2019 10/09/2019
Over the weekend of 19th/20th October 2019 at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, and open to any girls under 18 on 31st August 2019, and incorporating...
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UK Open Blitz Championships 2019 09/09/2019
For the second year running, and featuring eight 15-round qualifying Swiss tournaments played in different cities around the United Kingdom during September, with the top...
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ECF Book of the Year 2019 – shortlist 03/09/2019
This year’s selections include two types of books that have never reached the BOY Short List before: one featuring end game studies and the other...
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Vacancy – Chair of Awards Committee 02/09/2019
After some years of leading the work of the ECF Awards Committee, Paul Bielby has decided to move on. The ECF is therefore looking for...
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August Grades 30/08/2019
The grading team have encountered technical difficulties with the internet server in publishing the August revision to the grading list online. We are hoping that...
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2019 English Women’s Championship 29/08/2019
The 2019 English Women's Championship is now open for entries - https://www.englishchess.org.uk/english-womens-championships-2019/
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FIDE

A miracle save allows Gunina to keep pace with Ju Wenjun 16/09/2019
The first game to come to an end was the clash between Elisabeth Paethz (2479) and the tournament co-leader Ju Wenjun (2576). The World Champion went for a Petrov defence, and some early exchanges quickly lead to a dull position, in which the players found no better option than a threefold repetition on move 23. […]
Second Round of the World Cup is over 15/09/2019
Fifteen tie-breaks were played on September 15 in the second round of the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk.The overwhelming majority of matches ended after rapid games.Eltaj Safarli (Azerbaijan) defeated Nihal Sarin (India), Lenier Dominguez (USA) beat Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan), Jeffrey Xiong (USA) proved stronger than Amin Tabatabaei (Iran), Yu Yangyi (China) outplayed Baskaran Adhiban (India), […]
Ju Wenjun wins and joins Gunina in the lead 15/09/2019
The tournament leader Valentina Gunina (2502) was very close to biting the dust in her game against the veteran Pia Cramling (2487). Loyal to her style, the Russian jumped into some sharp tactical skirmishes as soon as she had the chance, but the complications didn't yield her any gain. Quite the opposite, when the dust settled it was the […]
2019 3rd Quarter FIDE Presidential Board Meeting 14/09/2019
The new FIDE Charter was the main point in the agenda of the 2019 third quarter Presidential Board meeting, held in Budapest last weekend. The Hungarian Chess Federation took the opportunity to announce during the gala dinner that their country will bid to organize the Chess Olympiad in 2024. The Presidential Board meeting opened with […]
17 players advanced to the Third Round of the World Cup 14/09/2019
Second games of the Second Round of the World Cup were played on September 14 in Khanty-Mansiysk. Three players won their matches with two wins: Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France). Many more matches ended with a 1.5-0.5 score. In arguably the most sensational one, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Germany) made a draw […]
Gunina keeps the lead at the Skolkovo Women’s Grand Prix 13/09/2019
The sole leader of the Skolkovo Women's Grand Prix, Valentina Gunina, drew against the second-seeded player, Aleksandra Goryachkina, and keeps her lead having conceded only one draw in three games. The Queen's Gambit was played, where black managed to trade both problematic bishops and hold the endgame until a draw was agreed on move 40.The […]