Kramnik-Aronian Match 2012

Vladimir Kramnik and Levon Aronian will play a six game training match starting on 4-21-12

The contest will be played at a Classical Chess time-control to be employed in the next Candidates tournament, with 40 moves in two hours, 20 moves in one hour plus 15 minutes and an increment of 30 seconds per move for the remainder of the game.

Kramnik and Aronian will play an additional Rapid game if the main game on any given day is drawn in under three hours. The match is being organised by the Zurich Chess Club

12th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2012

The 12th Bangkok Chess Club Open takes place 13th-19th April 2012. Nigel Short, Jan Gustafsson and Hou Yifan are the top seeds.

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74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2012

The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament takes place Saturday 14th January - Sunday 29th January 2012. Magnus Carlsen is the top seed ahead of Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov and Veselin Topalov

3RD London Chess Classic 2011

The London Chess Classic takes place December 3rd-12th at the Olympia Conference centre in Kensington

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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Bilboa Masters:Blitz Playoff Carlsen-Ivanchuk Game 2 (10-11-11)