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10th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012

English GM Nigel Short receives his winners trophy and cheque for £20,000 from Tradewise CEO James Humphries. (Photo (c) Morris-Hill) More
Moscow Open 2012

GM Lysyj Igor won the 2012 Moscow Open More
Aeroflot Open 20122

Aeorflot Open 2012 , one of the strongest wolrd Swiss tournament is starting in Moscow on Febraury 17th. More
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Aeroflot Open 2012

The Super Open of Aeroflot is underway. In round 3 most of the games finished with a draw, now 8 players are sharing the lead. Read More

First FIDE Presidential Board Meeting of 2012

FIDE's 1st Quarter Presidential Board (PB) Meeting for 2012 was held in Al Ain under the auspices of the Asian and UAE Chess Federations. Read More

Averbakh Yuri Lvovich (08.02.1922)

The Russian Grandmaster Averbakh Yuri is turning 90. Happy birthday! Read More

Chess Events All Events

Name		Place
	Vladimir Petrov Memorial	Latvia, Jurmala
	2012 Romanian Championship	Romania, Monteoru
	Aeroflot Open 2012	Russian Federation, Moscow
	Georgi Tringov Memorial	Bulgaria, Plovdiv
	Moscow Open 2012	Russian Federation, Moscow
	HIT Open 2012	Slovenia, Nova Gorica
	Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012	England, Gibraltar

FIDE Rating List

2835	Carlsen Magnus
2805	Levon Aronian
2801	Vladimir Kramnik
2799	Viswanathan Anand
2773	Radjabov, Teimour
2770	Veselin Topalov
2769	Sergey Karjakin
2766	Vassily Ivanchuk
2763	Morozevich Alexander
2761	Vugar Gashimov

Chess Quotes All Quotes

" Chess is most certainly not my life."

Tony Miles

" Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents."

Yury Balashov

" I can't tell the difference between 100 zillion positions and 497 zillion positions, but if it helped Deep Blue play stronger, so be it. I was looking forward to Deep Blue boldly going where no man had gone before. 1997"

Vishy Anand

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Biography - Classical Grandmasters

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Chess News All News

Moscow Open 2012

2012 Turkish Championship

2012 Georgi Tringov Memorial

HIT Open 2012

10th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2012

2012 Azerbaijan Championship

2012 Croatian Championship

Queenstown Chess Classic

10th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament-2012

20TH FAJR International Open Chess Tournament