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Despite a last round defeat, 25-year old International Master Anwesh Upadhyaya of Odisha won the National Rapid Chess Championship that concluded at Kolkata on August 3, 2017.

In the interesting final round, Anwesh who was leading with 9/10 lost to top seed Grand Master Laxman. Strangely, P Saravanakrishnan of Tamil Nadu who was in the second position on 8.5 also lost to GM Deep Sengupta.

Today was the most peaceful round so far with all draws, but the results don’t tell the entire story! Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had a dominating position against Peter Svidler, but one slip allowed his opponent to solve all his problems tactically.

Fabiano Caruana also had great winning chances against Ian Nepomniachtchi but the position was very complicated with a lot of room to error.

Sergey Karjakin and Levon Aronian, both of whom suffered tough losses yesterday, played a quick draw.

Day one of the first classical event of the Grand Chess Tour was full of fighting chess and decisive results. Even with slower time controls, it is clear that the players came to play.

Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Sergey Karjakin started the tournament off well as they defeated their opponents in a fine manner.

Levon Aronian, who has already won two top level events this year, was particularly impressive as he completely annihilated Ian Nepomniachtchi right out of the opening.

The Russian Individual and Team Rapid & Blitz Championships among men and women will take place from September 29 (arrival) to October 6 (departure) 2017 in Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi.

Individual Championships will be held from September 29 (arrival) till October 3 (departure). The tournaments will be played according to the Swiss system: 11 rounds of rapid and 10 double rounds of blitz.

Replay the games and video of Sinquefield Cup 2017 round 1

Follow also on your mobile phone (Android) in the ChessArena android application for mobile phones.

Bulgarian Ministry of Youth & Sport has given 7 days (from 1st August) to the Bulgarian Chess Federation to reimburse the unlawfully and inappropriately spent funds in the amount of BGN 2.097.461 (approx 1 million EUR) to the bank account of the Ministry.<

The 3rd edition of the annual Global Chess Festival (GCF) will be held on Saturday October 14th, 2017. This year the festival in Budapest will take place in the beautiful new location Graphisoft Park, the ‘Silicon Valley’ of Hungary. As in previous years, various activities will be organized, all with chess as the main theme.

Sinquefield Cup 2017 will take place in the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from August 2th to 11th 2017. It will be live daily on Chessdom with video commentary and live games analysis

Round 1 pairings:

Aronian – Nepomniachtchi
Caruana – Carlsen
Karjakin – Svidler
Anand – Nakamura
Vachier-Lagrave – Wesley So

On July 27, at 15.00, a press conference on Chess World Cup was held at the “Amphitheater” foyer of “The Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi”.

A venture crowned with success was the initiative of The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, to organise the Match of the Millenials: USA vs. the World, in cooperation with FIDE, the U.S. Chess Federation, the Kasparov Chess Foundation and FIDE Trainer’s Commission.