Σκακιστικά νέα

TCEC Season 7 – Stage 2 is over and only 3000+ engines qualify for TCEC – Stage 3.

Komodo (3230) emerged a clear winner of the second stage, collecting 10.5/13 points.

FIDE and FIDE Arbiters’ Commission are going to organize on Internet a Refreshing Course for Arbiters in Spanish language.

The following subjects will be discussed:

Concurrently with the FIDE World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand, the Russian Chess Federation will hold Mikhail Tal Memorial on 13-14th November in Sochi.

On November 9 in the Novotel Moscow City Hotel the 5th round of the International TASHIR Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian was played.

From 2 to 6 November 2014 a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar was organized in Samara, Russia, by the Russian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue of the Seminar was the sanatorium Tsiolkovsky in Samara region.

The Commission for Women’s Chess, in cooperation with the Sri Lanka Chess Federation, is going to organize a FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 26 to 28 November 2014, under the auspices of FIDE.

The venue will be the Colombo University in Colombo.

Super Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Levon Aronian return to the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis for four classical games of chess and 16 Blitz.

On November 8 in the Novotel Moscow City Hotel the 4th round of the International TASHIR Chess Tournament in Memory of Tigran Petrosian was played.

The official opening ceremony of the FIDE World Chess Championship Match between the reigning champion Magnus Calsen (Norway) and the challenger and former World Champion Vishwanathan Anand (India) took place at the Congress Hall of the Radisson Blu hotel in Sochi on November 7th, 2014.

The first press conference of the Carlsen-Anand FIDE World Championship Match was held last night at the Radisson Blu Resort in the presence of World Champion Magnus Carlsen, former Champion and Challenger Viswanathan Anand, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of Russian Chess Federation Andrey Filatov, former World Champion Anatoly Karpov and match organizer Ilya Merenzon.