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51st Biel Chess Festival 2018 - Games and Results 20/07/2018
The 51st Biel Chess Festival takes place Sun 22nd July (Round 1) to Wed 1st Aug 2018. World Champion Magnus Carlsen heads a strong field of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Peter Svidler, David Navara and Nico Georgiadis. 6 players 10 rounds. Other events including a strong open are alongside.
Mark Crowther
46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2018 - Games and Results 13/07/2018
The 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting takes place 12th to 22nd July 2018. Kramnik, Giri, Nepomniachtchi, Wojtaszek, Duda, Nisipeanu, Kovalev and Meier are in the main GM tournament.
Mark Crowther
Chess.com Speed Chess Championship 2018 - Games and Results 10/07/2018
The Chess.com Speed Chess Championship takes place July 17th to October 18th 2018. 16 players in a knockout online blitz tournament. 90 minutes of 5/1 blitz, 60 minutes of 3/1 blitz, and 30 minutes of 1/1 bullet chess. Players: Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Wei Yi, […]
Mark Crowther
Chinese Team Championship 2018 - Games and Results 10/07/2018
The Chinese Team Championship takes place Tuesday 10th Apr to Friday 30th Nov 2018.
Mark Crowther
Netherlands Chess Championship 2018 - Games and Results 09/07/2018
The Netherlands Chess Championship took place 1st to 8th July 2018. Players: Van Wely, Jorden Van Foreest, Erwin L'Ami, Tiviakov, Ivan Sokolov, Sipke Ernst and Koen Leenhouts. Women's tournament: Zhaoqin Peng, Haast, Lanchava, Paulet, Ratsma, De Mie, Keetman and Hortensius. 8 players each section all-play-all. Sergei Tiviakov won the title with a round to spare […]
Mark Crowther
31st Leon Chess 2018 - Games and Results 09/07/2018
Leon Chess 6th-8th July with Wesley So, Vallejo, Jaime Santos and R Praggnanandhaa. So beat the Indian wonderkind Praggnanandhaa 2.5-1.5 but only after losing the first game and being in serious difficulties in the second. Vallejo beat Santos in a blitz tie-break 1.5-0.5on Saturday. In the final Wesley So retained his title beating Vallejo 2-0 […]
Mark Crowther

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International Chess Day 20/07/2018
Congratulations to all chess lovers, professional and non-professional chess players on the International Chess Day! This holiday was initiated by UNESCO in 1966 to commemorate the date of FIDE establishment on the 20th of July 1924 in Paris. Today FIDE includes 188 national chess federations, organizes numerous events all around the World, including World Championship […]
Open letters of Mr. Dvorkovich and Mr. Makropoulos 19/07/2018
Open letters of Mr. Dvorkovich and Mr. Makropoulos FIDE has been informed of an announcement by presidential candidate Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich on 14 July concerning a supposed complaint of his to the FIDE Electoral Integrity Committee. We have to clarify that FIDE never received any such letter neither from Mr. Dvorkovich nor from any representative […]
Federations cannot be excluded from elections due to debts 18/07/2018
Federations cannot be excluded from elections due to debts FIDE has received a letter from the President of Russian Chess Federation and FIDE Vice President, Andrey Filatov, who steps into the false assumption that each federation debt "must be covered before July 23 - or the respective federation won't be allowed to participate in FIDE […]
Travel Subsidy Batumi Olympiad 13/07/2018
FIDE is pleased to announce the travel subsidy for participants for the Chess Olympiad & Congress, Batumi, Georgia 2018. All federations will receive more travel subsidy in 2018 than they did for Baku in 2016. Many teams that did not receive a team grant in 2016 will do in 2018. They are Nigeria, South Africa, […]
Results of FIDE Trainers' Awards 2017 13/07/2018
The FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) is pleased to announce the tenth FIDE Trainer Awards Results for 2017.FIDE Trainer Awards 2017 - RESULTS
Presidential Board Report 13/07/2018
At the 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting in Bucharest, Romania, it was decided to recommend to the General Assembly in Batumi, Georgia, that the 2022 Chess Olympiad be held in Minsk, Belarus. Three bids were submitted but Minsk, Belarus was the only valid bid received. The original bidding invitation was for 2022 and 2024 Olympiads […]