Σκακιστικά νέα

The US Chess Girls Club board will be streamed live with commentary by WFM Alessia Santeramo. The games of Judit Polgar vs The World start at March 20th 14:00 CET / 17:00 GST / 9 a.m. ET and can be followed on the Chess Connects us / Live commentary / US Chess Girls board .

A fantastic chess weekend is ahead of us.

The City of Dresden, the Dresdner Schachfestival e.V. and the European Chess Federation (ECU) have the honour to invite all senior players throughout Europe to participate in the European Senior Team Chess Championship 2022 (categories 50+ and 65+) organised in Dresden (Germany) from 26th October (arrival) to 5th November 2022 (departure).

GM Pier Luigi Basso and GM Marin Bosiocic are the leaders of the 2° Festival di Primavera. They are tied at the top with perfect 3,0/3, followed by a group of ten players with 2,5/3. Today Bosiocic and Pier Luigi Basso meet on board one, with the white for the Croatian player.

Standings after round 3

Hungary’s top star Richard Rapport, the winner of the recent FIDE Grand Prix, gives an exclusive interview to Dina Belenkaya and WorldChess on how chess came into his life, his attitude to pre-arranged draws, his regrets and joys of being a professional chess player and more.

The rapid and blitz championships of Romania for men and women took place 11-13 March in Bucharest. A total of 150+ players in the open section and 50 players in the women section competed over the board for the 2022 national titles.

IM Corina-Isabela Peptan is winner of Romanian Blitz Chess Championship 2022. IM Peptan won the blitz event with 8,0/9, half a point ahead of the winner of the rapid championship IM Irina Bulmaga. The bronze is for WGM Elena-Luminita Cosma with 7,0/9.

Final standings

GM Constantin Lupulescu is the winner of the Romanian Blitz Chess Championship 2022. Lupulescu scored 7,5/8, the same points as GM Daniel-Bogdan Deac, GM Vlad-Christian Jeanu, and GM Ciprian-Costica Nanu, but had a better tiebreak score and won the gold medal. The winner of the rapid chess championship David Gavrilescu finished 5th with 7.0/9.

Final standings

The Charity Chess Cup 2022 is the 2nd event on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Follow the live video coverage of the event, with GM David Howell, IM Jovanka Houska & Kaja Snare

The Charity Chess Cup 2022, the 2nd event on the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, starts this Saturday March 19th and will be featured with live games, video, and detailed coverage on Chessdom.com.