Σκακιστικά νέα

The 2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival starts its annual adventure when two of participants, International Masters Salome Melia and Jovanka Houska, offer two simultaneous displays for early arrivals.

The simuls will begin around 8pm on Sunday in the main restaurant. The games will provide an ideal warm-up for Amateur and Challenger participants, whose events begin the following morning.

The Uzbekistan Chess Federation is announcing the international chess tournament 9th Tashkent Open – Memorial of Georgy Agzamov, the first grandmaster of Uzbekistan, which will be held on 10-20th May, 2015, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The official venue of the tournament is hotel “Shodlik Palace”.

The tournament is a 9-round Swiss with the time control 90 min + 30 sec increment from move one. The total prize fund is 20,000 US dollars.

The 38th Cardinal Open Chess Tournament takes place 23-25th January, 2015, at the Embassy Suites Airport Hotel in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

The event has five sections: Open (FIDE rated, FIDE rules), U2100, U1800, U1500 and U1200. The playing format is 5-round Swiss with time control 40/120, SD/60 d5.

The projected prize fund is $10,000.

Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran of Chennai will become the fifth Indian chess player to receive the prestigious Padma Shri Award on January 26, 2015, at Delhi during the Republic Day celebrations.

Russian Grandmaster Alexander Lastin passed away on Friday at the age of 38. The funeral will take place 25th January in Zheleznovodsk.

Lastin was one of the leading chess players in Stavropol Krai, Russian Champion in 2002 and winner of the Moscow Open in 2006.

In 2014 he was active in rapid events in North Caucasian Federal District. His last tournament was in November in Grozny where he convincingly won the Cup Final 2014 SKFO.

During the recent years, after the agreement with FIDE, the Albanian Chess Federation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Sports has given the top priority to the ‘Chess in Schools’ project, by introducing the chess activities to all schools in the country.

The FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship will be held from March 16th to April 7th in Krasnaya Polyana, Sochi, Russia. The organization of the Championship was agreed during the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The 81st Belarusian Men’s Championship and 59th Belarusian Women’s Championship were held from 12-22nd January, 2015, at the RCOP, Minsk.

FIDE and the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission are going to organize an Internet Based FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, from 9 to 14 March 2015, under the auspices of FIDE.

The participation is free for all Arbiters.

The Dreaming King Open was held from 17-19th January, 2015, at the Marriott San Diego Airport/Liberty Station in San Diego, California, USA.

The 6-round Swiss event consisted of seven sections with a total of 155 participants. The guaranteed prize fund was 17,000 USD.