The London Chess Classic takes place December 3rd-12th at the Olympia Conference centre in Kensington
Saturday, December 3, 2011
3RD London Chess Classic 2011
The London Chess Classic takes place December 3rd-12th at the Olympia Conference centre in Kensington
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Women's World Chess Championship 2011
The Women's World Chess Championship between champion Hou Yifan and Humpy Koneru starts at 2pm GMT on Monday 14th November 2011 in Tirana, Albania
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Tal Memorial 2011
The Tal Memorial takes place in Moscow Wednesday 16th - Friday 25th November 2011
The field includes:
Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand and Ian Nepomniachtchi
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The field includes:
Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand and Ian Nepomniachtchi
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
4TH Final Masters 2011
The 4th Final Masters Tour starts on Mon 9-26-11,the players are Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Vassily Ivanchuk and Francisco Vallejo Pons.The event will be a double Round Robin.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Botvinnik Memorial Rapid in Moscow 2011
The Botvinnik Memorial in Moscow is a 5 day event commemorating the centenary of former World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik's birth. Taking place 1st-5th September. At the heart on 2nd-3rd September is a two day rapid double rounder with the top 4 in the world, Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik.
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Fide World Cup 2011
Greetings of the the President of the World Chess Federation FIDE,
Dear ladies and gentlemen!
On behalf of the World Chess Federation let me heartily welcome the participants and guests of the World Chess Cup 2011. The hospitable Khanty-Mansiysk puts on a crown again and accepts the World Chess Cup for the fourth time. And a little more than a year ago the World Chess Olympiad took place here. I’m sure that the Tournament of the Nations 2010 remains in the memory of Ugra citizens and Siberian guests forever. And again the strongest chess players of the world came here in order to prove the right of possessing the World Cup in an uncompromising struggle.
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Dear ladies and gentlemen!
On behalf of the World Chess Federation let me heartily welcome the participants and guests of the World Chess Cup 2011. The hospitable Khanty-Mansiysk puts on a crown again and accepts the World Chess Cup for the fourth time. And a little more than a year ago the World Chess Olympiad took place here. I’m sure that the Tournament of the Nations 2010 remains in the memory of Ugra citizens and Siberian guests forever. And again the strongest chess players of the world came here in order to prove the right of possessing the World Cup in an uncompromising struggle.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
39th Dortmund Chess Meeting 2011
The 39th Dortmund Chess Meeting takes place 21st-31st July 2011 in the theater at Hiltropwall. 6 players compete in the double round robin event. 9 time winner Vladimir Kramnik heads the field that also includes Hikaru Nakamura, Ruslan Pononmariov (last year's winner), Anish Giri, Le Quang Liem (again qualified from the Aeroflot Open) and Geog Meier (the German number 2 player).
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44th Biel Chess Festival 2011
The 2011 Biel Chess Festival is taking place from July 16 to 29, in a number of groups: the Master Tournament (eleven rounds Swiss); the Main Tournament (nine rounds Swiss); a Rapid and a Blitz tournament; Chess960; Youth, Simultaneous, Chess Tennis, ChessBase training seminars. Of greatest interest is of course the Accentus Grandmaster Tournament with six very strong grandmasters playing a double round robin: Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich and Yannick Pelletier
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Fide Candidates 2011
The FIDE Candidates take place in Kazan 3rd-27th May 2011. 8 players compete to produce one world championship candidate to face Viswanathan Anand. The first and second round matches are four games plus rapid and blitz playoffs if required
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
MP Reykjavik Open 2011 (Games and Results)
The MP Reykjavik Open takes place 9th-16th March 2011. Leading players are: Luke McShane, Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Jan Gustafsson, Ivan Sokolov, Ahmed Adly, Yuriy Kuzubov and Jon Ludvig Hammer.
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Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament 2011 (Monaco MNC)
The 20th and final Amber tournament takes place in Monaco March 11th-25th 2011. This event includes the top eight players in the World including World Champion Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian. This final tournament is a celebration of Joop van Oosterom's contribution to chess which started in 1992. Round 1 Saturday 12th March 2011.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Bobby Fischer Against the World
From Popcornbiz:
It’s hard to believe that Liz Garbus’ new film, “Bobby Fischer Against The World,” which is showing as part of the Doc Premieres at Sundance before heading to HBO in July, is the first feature-length documentary about the mercurial chess master.
“I think that a full retelling of his life with many of the players coming forward to talk had to happen posthumously,” Garbus told PopcornBiz. “Bobby was so private and a lot of people close to him just didn’t feel comfortable talking about stories that were really part of our collective history, even while he was alive.”
By the age of 14, Fischer had become the U.S. champ, a title he would win eight times in nine years. In 1972 he headed off the Reykjavik, Iceland, to challenge Russian Boris Spassky for the world title. Fischer took preparation for the showdown so seriously that he retreated to the Catskills to train with an Olympic strength and conditioning coach, and he was accompanied by Life magazine photographer Harry Benson.
“He had that kind of rock star charisma that I think Harry Benson’s photographs captured so well,” notes Garbus.
Source: "Bobby Fischer Against the World" Takes on Sundance | NBC San Diego
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It’s hard to believe that Liz Garbus’ new film, “Bobby Fischer Against The World,” which is showing as part of the Doc Premieres at Sundance before heading to HBO in July, is the first feature-length documentary about the mercurial chess master.
“I think that a full retelling of his life with many of the players coming forward to talk had to happen posthumously,” Garbus told PopcornBiz. “Bobby was so private and a lot of people close to him just didn’t feel comfortable talking about stories that were really part of our collective history, even while he was alive.”
By the age of 14, Fischer had become the U.S. champ, a title he would win eight times in nine years. In 1972 he headed off the Reykjavik, Iceland, to challenge Russian Boris Spassky for the world title. Fischer took preparation for the showdown so seriously that he retreated to the Catskills to train with an Olympic strength and conditioning coach, and he was accompanied by Life magazine photographer Harry Benson.
“He had that kind of rock star charisma that I think Harry Benson’s photographs captured so well,” notes Garbus.
Source: "Bobby Fischer Against the World" Takes on Sundance | NBC San Diego
NBC San Diego
Friday, January 14, 2011
Tata Steel Super Tour
The tournament used to be called "Corus", but In 2006 the steel company sponsoring the event was taken over (for $7.6 billion) by the Indian company Tata Steel, hence the name change. To chess fans the name is linked to the Dutch seaside town Wijk aan Zee, where the event takes place from January 15 to 30.
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