The legend Judit Polgar will meet her older sister Sofia in front of 500 children by the area of Porto-Vecchio on May 13th and 14th. The young Scacchera club members will make a small presentation with Judit. In addition,...
16th Corsica Masters 2012
Top finishers (15′ + 3″ inc / 9 rds SS) 1 Battaglini, Gabriel m 2434 8 49 43 2 Jussupow, Artur g 2608 7½ 48 39½ 3 Brkic, Ante g 2575 7½ 46½ 38½ 4 Djuric, Stefan g 2445...
Iran chess champ expelled for refusing Israel game
Iran chess champ expelled for refusing Israel game(AFP) – 3 hours ago BASTIA, France — Organisers of an international chess tournament in Corsica said on Tuesday they had expelled Iranian Grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem Maghami for refusing to take on...
Corsica Masters 2011
Corsica Masters 2011 Corsica, famous for being the birthplace of Napoléon Bonaparte, is also famous for being the land of chess. L’île de beauté (Isle of beauty) us again a host to a powerful event. The 15th “Corsican Circuit”...
Corsican Circuit 2010
Dear Chess friends, Corsican Circuit 2010 with Fressinet, Bologan, Van Wely, Fedorchuk, Balogh, Kurnosov. After this open, the first 14th play a cup with Mamedyarov and Radjabov. Live transmission : http://www.echecs.asso.fr/TOMA/Default.aspx?Tournoi=Corsican%20Circuit Live pgn : http://www.echecs.asso.fr/TOMA/CorsicanCircuit.pgn Website : http://www.opencorsica.com Best...
Elitist politics
FIDE – An Inglorious InventoryBy Léo Battesti, Vice President of the French Chess Federation It seems incredible, but the work of Fabrice Touvron is a first. His tables (link at the bottom of the page) give details, federation by...
Mr. Blitz
European Blitz Championship 2007: Vladislav Tkachiev wins In France, he’s called « Mr Blitz ». In Corsica he made honor with his nickname : Vladislav Tkachiev won the European Blitz Championship. Born in Moscow, raised in Kazakhstan, living now...
Chess on TV and in much bigger scale
This is an example of the TV show created by Mr. Leo Battesti in France. It is working and he proves what Paul and I have been saying for a long time. Chess can be promoted on a large...
The conference begins
This is Leo Battesti, organizer of the prestigious annual Corsica Chess event. Chess players in his area went from under 200 to over 4,000 in a short time after he implemented out of the box ideas instead of the...
A nice evening at Aberdeen
The Chess in the Schools and Communities International Conference in Aberdeen will start tomorrow. Tonight was a big dinner with about 30 attendees / speakers of the conference. It was great meeting many people who have the same interest...