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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.

Zurich Chess Challenge is set to take place from 29th January to 4th February, 2014, in the largest city in Switzerland, Russian Chess Federation announced.

The Georgian Chess Championship 2014 will be daily with computer analysis by Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini on Chessdom.com. Click here for full standings

Simen Agdestein (2627) and Tania Sachdev (2442) played a simul at the start of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. Replay all games with analysis. See also day 1 report here

The line-up in the 2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, starting on January 27 is truly fabulous with over 60 GM’s, nine of which are 2700+ and a further sixteen are rated over 2600. It will be the strongest festival of the year so far, with massive participation in the Masters, Amateurs, and Challengers groups. A total of 60 different federations are participating across all five events!

Goran Urosevic: Hello Morten Sand, I wanted to ask several questions about the contract between Kasparov and Leong. Who asked you in first place to draft this contract?

The line-up in the 2014 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival, starting on January 27 is truly fabulous with over 60 GM’s, nine of which are 2700+ and a further sixteen are rated over 2600. It will be the strongest festival of the year so far, with massive participation in the Masters, Amateurs, and Challengers groups. A total of 60 different federations are participating across all five events!