Magnus Carlsen’s rating is currently at 2733. He is about to gain 32 points to get to 2765!! Levon Aronian’s rating is currently at 2739. He is gaining 24 points to get to 2763! Anand gains about 5 points...
Headscarf crisis
Turkey solves chess headscarf crisisSaturday, March 29, 2008 ISTANBUL – Turkish Daily News Turkey is preparing to host the World Chess Championship, after Iran set the use of “headscarf” by female participants as a condition to host the event....
World’s Newest GMs
Grandmaster titles awarded at the Presidential Board Meeting in Istanbul, TUR Grandmaster Country Name BUL Iotov, ValentinCHN Wen, YangGER Holzke, FrankRUS Chuprov, DmitryRUS Deviatkin, AndreyRUS Maslak, KonstantinRUS Vokarev, SergeyUKR Vovk, Yury Conditional on rating – Grandmaster ARM Harutjunyan, GevorgAUS...
FIDE Presidential Board Meeting in Turkey
FIDE Presidential Board Meeting in Istanbul(Press Release) The FIDE PB held its second quarter meeting in Istanbul on 19th and 20th March at the invitation of the Turkish Chess Federation. President Ilyumzhinov and PB members visited the Ataturk Memorial...
Top 10 movers and shakers
According to FIDE, Magnus Carlsen gained 19.5 rating points (the most in the top 15) when the new list comes out on April 1. His current rating is 2733 (2753). #7Anand is currently at 2799. He gained 4.2 points...
2008 World Youth to be held in Vietnam
Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Championships in October The World Youth Chess Championships 2008 will be organized in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau from October 19-30. Around 1,500 participants are expected to arrive from...
FIDE Grand Prix finalized
FIDE Grand Prix. Participants, host cities, schedule. (Source: FIDE) The six cities for the Grand Prix and the representative nominations by the host cities have now been finalized. Here is the Schedule (PDF)Here is the list of participants (PDF)...
FIDE team visits Dresden, site of next Olympiad
The World Chess Federation visits Dresden. During a working meeting on 28 February 2008 in Dresden, FIDE and the Organizers of the Dresden Olympiad discussed various points concerning the organization of the forthcoming Chess Olympiad in November 2008. FIDE...
The status of the WC cycle?
FIDE Grand Prix host cities and representatives (Source: FIDE) The six cities for the Grand Prix and the representative nominations by the host cities have now been finalized : April 20th – May 6th 2008, Baku, Azerbaijan GM Gashimov,...
I am not giving up the fight
I recently posted about super Grandmaster Morozevich dropping out of the Grand Prix here. Today, Chess Base has the translation of the interview with Morozevich by with Yuri Vasiliev. Here is some of it: Your numerous supporters will probably...