Σκακιστικά νέα

The Moscow Open 2014, International RSSU Cup will be held from Jan 30th to Feb 9th in auditoriums on the Russian State Social University campus.

It is expected that event marking its 10-year anniversary will again break the record for the number of participants – with players wishing to enter now passing the 1700 mark. This is the world’s largest unofficial chess tournament.

Zurich Chess Challenge is set to take place from 29th January to 4th February, 2014, in the largest city in Switzerland. The tournament will start with a blitz with all six players.

Game with prizes: Guess the winners in each round of Zurich 2014

Games start at 19:00 CET

ChessBet.com, the website that offers free betting on chess events, has launched a promotion where chess enthusiasts can predict the outcome of the Zurich Chess Classic and nice prizes.

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The 12th Foxwoods Open was held on 22-26th January at Foxwoods Resort Casino & Hotel, Rt 2, Mashantucket, Connecticut.

The tournament was played in six sections and over 9 rounds of Swiss system. The Open section is FIDE rated and title norms were possible.

Alessandro Monaco: We have reached the fifth edition of our festival and the balance can only be positive: four years of passionate efforts in which we have continuously improved the technical level of our tournaments thanks to the accurate selection of the many foreign chess masters who have participated, often for the first time in Sicily.

The few brave participants of 2010 became the 100 protagonists of the success of 2013, and so this year’s “Terre degli Elimi” becomes of age and finally goes to 9 rounds of play and fully international.

1. Invitation

The Cyprus Chess Federation and FIDE Zone 1.10, with the support of ECU and the FIDE Events Commission, are pleased to invite the members of Zone 1.10 to the 1st Individual FIDE Zone (1.10) Championship 2014, which will be held in Larnaca, Cyprus on 21–30th April 2014.

2. Tournament System

World Champion Magnus Carlsen will visit Brazil from 4th March to participate in the 13th Torneio Aberto Internacional de Xadrez “Festa da Uva” in Caxias do Sul, IM Dragan Stamenkovic of Ponto do Xadrez confirmed for Chessdom.

The first event will be a blind simul with visually impaired players on 6th March, followed by a lecture.

The First Move of the 2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival at The Gibraltar Masters tournament took place this afternoon at the Caleta Hotel.

At precisely 3pm (Gibraltar time) James Humpreys, Chairman of Tradewise Gibraltar Insurance Ltd, the main sponsor of this event made the first move on the top board against top seeded player Grandmaster Michael Adams, England’s No.1 and ranked 13th in the world.