Σκακιστικά νέα

The fourth edition of the Pro-Biz Cup will once again give you the opportunity to team up with one of your chess heroes. On Thursday 8 December the Pro-Biz Cup will take place at the prestigious locale of the Royal Automobile Club in London, from 10am to 3.30pm.

The second round of the Russian Superfinal was played on October 17 in Novosibirsk.

Dmitry Jakovenko suffered a disappointing loss in the men’s championship. Having White against Aleksey Goganov, he obtained a significant advantage out of the opening and developed it methodically. However, prior to the first control Jakovenko missed the strongest continuation, wrongly offering to trade a couple of rooks, which made position more balanced. On the move 58 Jakovenko committed a suicidal blunder, missing a tactical blow, and had to resign in a couple of moves.

The first round of the Russian Superfinals was played on October 16 in Novosibirsk.

Sergey Akhapov, Head of the Physical Culture and Sports Department of Novosibirsk Region, Honored master of sports in underwater swimming, made a ceremonial first move in Svidler-Inarkiev.

The 2016 European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship will be held in Tallinn, Estonia, from December 14-18, 2016.

The 2016 Magistral d’Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona is organized by the Catalonia Chess Federation from 22-28th October in Barcelona, Spain.

The 8-player round robin tournament of 14th category is sponsored by the Barcelona City Hall.

The Organizing Committee of the 2016 World Schools Championship (December 2-12, Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi, Russia) extends the deadline for submitting registration forms to October 20.

For the third year in a row the Central Serbia Chess Federation organizes the round robin tournaments for title norms.

The 10-player Grandmaster tournament will be held from 17-23rd November, 2016, in hotel “Sumarice” in Kragujevac.

The rate of play is 90 minutes per player for 40 moves + 30 minutes to finish the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from the first.

Ralf Åkesson was the last Swedish winner of the Rilton Cup, having won the event way back in 2003/2004. Is it finally time for a new Swedish victory in Rilton Cup?

The new Swedish chess champion Erik Blomqvist leads the local Grandmaster force in Rilton Cup.

The fourth international chess tournament Basamro will take place in Murmansk 6-9 October 2016. Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman will play a friendly match as part of the festival. The games will take place in Chimney hall of hotel Park Inn Murmansk.

The match will consist of 4 classical games with time control 2h for the first 40 moves and 30 min addition for the rest of the game. So far Karpov and Timmnn have played 99 games, the 100th encounter between the two will be in the Basamro festival in Murmansk.

The 3rd Millionaire Chess Tournament will start on Thursday, October 6 in Atlantic City.

Around 25 Grandmasters are registered for the Open section, including Sam Shankland, Rauf Mamedov, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Gawain Jones,Lazaro Bruzon, Samuel Sevian, Adhiban Baskaran, Jeffery Xiong etc.

Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com