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Shanghai and Bilbao Masters 2010 The four players who will participate in the first stage in Shanghai are: Wang Hao, as best Chinese player (20th ranked); Alexei Shírov, as best Spanish player (9th ranked); Levon Aronian, as winner of the Final Chess Masters2009 (5th ranked);

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Arctic Securities Chess Stars 2010 Final Day: Magnus Carlsen won the Arctic Securities Chess Stars in Kristiansund. He beat World Chess Champion Viswanthan Anand 1.5-0.5 in the final. Anand hadn't played since he retained his title in Sofia in May and was impressive in the group stages winning all his

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BAKU Open 2010 August 31, Final Round 9: Gata Kamsky of USA won BAKU International Open Chess Tournament!! The Baku Open took place 23rd-31st August 2010. Gata Kamsky in spite of a loss to Rauf Mamedov in round 6 secured victory alone with 7.5/9 half a point clear ahead of the field.

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Chess Classic Mainz10 The 17th Chess Classic Mainz took place 6th-8th August 2010. The festival has suffered from the general economic slowdown with the Grenke Rapid World Championship Open taking the lead along with simuls by World Champions Viswanathan Anand and Alexandra Kosteniuk.

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September 2010 FIDE Rating List

FIDE published September 2010 Rating List. Please view top lists at http://ratings.fide.com/toplist.phtml. All ratings are available at http://ratings.fide.com/. List of Pakistan FIDE rated players ...

63rd Russian Chess Championship, Major ...

The 63rd Russian Championships Higher League taking place in Irkutsk, Siberia starting 25th August 2010 (arrival) and running to September 6th . More than 50 Grand Masters are playing. The top 5 will ...

Announcement on the forthcoming Olympia...

Attention to all FIDE Chess Federations! Please provide all data in respect of the changes/amendments for the online registration to the Organising Committee by the August 30th 2010. The proper request ...

Leko vs Gelfand Rapid Match 2010

Boris Gelfand beat Peter Leko 4.5-3.5 in an 8 game rapid match in Miskolc, 25th-29th August 2010. Peter Leko plays Boris Gelfand in an 8 game rapid match in Miskolc, 25th-29th August 2010. The time control ...

General Assembly 2010 and EB Agenda and ...

FIDE is pulishing the Agenda and Annexes for the 81st FIDE Congress scheduled from 23 September to 4 October 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Please download the General Assembly Agenda. Please ...

Muzychuk and Andreikin are World Junior ...

The 2010 World Juniors and Girls U-20 Chess Championships was held from 3rd to 16th August at Chotowa, Municipality Czarna, close to the city of Tarnow in Poland. 122 players in Juniors and 81 in Girls ...

Olympiad - Visa Invitations

The Organizing Committee of 39th Chess Olympiad has started the process of issuing visa invitations. All participants registered on-line will receive visa invitations by e-mail. You may apply for visas ...

FIDE Women Grand Prix in Ulan Bator, Man...

Hou Yifan took clear first place with 8/11 half a point clear of Antoaneta Stefanova with whom she drew in the final round. On this Wednesday 11th of August the Grand Prix of Ulaabaator has ended. The ...

Registration and travel details for Olym...

Dear Chess Friends! Attention to all FIDE Federations! Please be informed that July 28, Wednesday is the last day for any possible changes or amendments, concerning the composition of your ...

World School Chess Championship 2010

The Government of Turkey and the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF), have the honour to invite all the FIDE member Chess Federations around the world to participate in the World School Chess Championship ...

FIDE President visits Croatia

On June, 25 FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov arrived in Zagreb, where he had a working meeting with representatives of the Chess Federation of Croatia. General Secretary Ervin Sindik, a member ...

New rules for transfer of players come i...

New regulations for the registration, transfer of players and eligibility for participation in FIDE events come into effect from this day, the 1st of July, 2010. The regulations were agreed at the ...

FIDE aid to devastated HAITI

Following the terrible earthquake earlier this year, FIDE responded to an appeal to the International Sports community by the Haitian Olympic Committee through Peace and Sport. Sports equipment was ...

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Maryam Zarrar Open Chess October 2010

Maryam Zarrar Open Chess Tournament October 2010 will be held from 30th October to 3rd November 2010 at Gulberg lll Lahore. According to the tournament director Mr. Zarrar Ali it will be a round robin ...

PAKCHESS Sunday rapid, 8 August 2010

PAKCHESS has organized a 5 round swiss tournament on 8 August at Gulberg Lahore which started at 2 pm and ended at 9 pm. Time control was 15+10. 14 players (mximum seats available) participated. Only ...

Kashif Salim likely to be an IA

A most dedicated and competent Arbiter who has participated in various National and Provincial Chess competitions. His computer knowledge has added advantage to his expertise Name: ...

Chess Federation of Pakistan speaks to t...

Chess Federation of Pakistan has formed a committee in response to the complaints of Dr. Murtaza Ali NM and Anwar Qureshi NM wherein they have alleged that the 6th, 7th and 8th position of 27th National ...

2nd National Women Chess Championship 20...

2nd National women chess championship was held from 12-17 July 2010 at national sports complex Islamabad. The Championship was played under swiss league system with 7 rounds. Time control was 90+30. 12 ...

27th Pakistan National Chess Championshi...

27th National chess championship was held from 12-17 July 2010 at national sports complex Islamabad. The Championship was played under swiss league system with 11 rounds. Time control was 90+30. 108 players ...

A Serious inaccuracy in final standings ...

A serious inaccuracy in the final standings of 27th national chess championship has been found. The positions from 6-8 have been changed. According to official final standings 6-8 positions are: 6th: ...

PUNJAB CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2010

June 13, 2010: Round 9 (FINAL): Wasim Akram won the Punjab Chess Championship 2010 by scoring 8 out of possible 9 points with 2 draws and 7 wins. Top seed Amer Karim could not even qualify for National ...

Pakistan gets Bronze in Asian Amateur Ch...

The 1st Asian Amateur and Seniors Championships took place in Beirut, Lebanon. Eleven countries were seeing action in the event of the Asian Chess Federation, namely Palestine, Syria, UAE, India, Iran, ...

PCPA CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP POSTPONED!

PCPA has postponed "PCPA ALL PAKISTAN OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP" which was to be held on July 08 – 11, 2010 at Karachi. Here is an official letter issued by Mr. Shahzad Mirza, General Secretary PCPA, ...

CFE Chess Tournament

First CFE Chess tournament took place at lahore on 8th Feb. 2010. It was a 20 players swiss tournament which was won by Altaf Hussain. Mr. Muhammad Shafique and Muhammad Zahid facilitated the organizers ...

Ist SMS Chess Championship 09

4th and final round of the championship which was to be started on 3rd December has been suspended due to unknown reasons. Mr. M. Waqar chief organizer of the event released a very short and insufficient ...

38th Chess Olympiad Dresden, Captain's R...

The 38th Chess Olympiad, organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place ...

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