B S Chauhan elected President of Commonwealth Chess Association

Noted International organiser and President of Delhi Chess Association Bharat Singh Chauhan was elected President of the Commonwealth Chess Association (CCA) in the FIDE election that are underway at Khanty Mansiysk in Russia. Details here

Ilyumzhinov wins FIDE election by 95 votes to 55

The vote took two hours, and the final count was 95 for the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, 55 for the challenger Anatoly Karpov and three abstentions (four years ago Ilyumzhinov beat Bessel Kok by 96-54). The renewed victory was achieved mostly with votes from smaller federations in Asia, Africa and South America, while Karpov's votes came mainly from European countries. Read more here

IM M R Venkatesh wins 48th National Challengers 2010

Better tie-break score helped International Master M R Venkatesh of PSPB to clinch the 48th National Challengers Chess Championship after beating T U Navin Kanna of Tamilnadu in the final round here at Preksha Vihar on Sunday. Detailed report

GM Kateryna Lahno wins the Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2010

GM Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine) won the 2010 Women's World Blitz Chess Championship. She finished with 20,0/30, a full point ahead of IM Tatiana Kosintseva (silver medal), and 1,5 points ahead of WGM Valentina Gunina (bronze medal). Read more

Timoshenko wins Himalayan chess with round to spare, 3 Indians in 2nd place

Ukraine´s Grand Master (GM) Georgy Timoshenko on Monday won the title of the Himalayan Grand Master International Chess Tournament being held in the capital with one more round match to spare.Full Story

Ukrainian GM Georgy Timoshenko takes sole lead in Himalayan Chess Tournament

Top seed Ukrainian Grand Master (GM) Georgy Timoshenko took sole lead in the Himalayan Grand Masters International Chess Tournament here today.Georg, Venkatesh, GM Sriram Jha, IMs Saptarshi Roy, Praveen Kumar and Atanu Lahiri, and FM Akshat Khamparia of India are third with 3.5 points apiece. Full story

Magnus pounds The World in RAW Chess Challenge

Magnus Carlsen beat The World, led by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura and Judit Polgar, in the G-Star RAW World Chess Challenge on Friday in New York. After reaching a positionally difficult position the World Team put up a stiff resistance but, in his aggressive but controlled style, Magnus emerged the winner in 44 moves and 2.5 hours.
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Corus to be renamed Tata Steel, top players in contention

The traditional Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk Aan Zee will have a different name starting next year Tata Steel Chess. The format of the event will be preserved and until now the tournament reveals 3 names - the current number 1 GM Magnus Carlsen, the World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand, and the 5th in the September FIDE rating list GM Vladimir Kramnik. More

Bent Larsen passes away

Denmark's greatest chess player ever, Bent Larsen, passed away Thursday evening, the 9th of September. Read more

Stage set for Nepal's first GM chess tourney

The preparations for Nepal’s first ever Grand Master (GM) Chess tournament, the Himalayan GM International Chess Tournament beginning here from Thursday is over. Details here

Bitan Banerjee tops fifth Tea Board of India Chess For Youth Championship

Bitan Banerjee finished on top with Grandmaster Deep Sengupta and denied the top seed a hat-trick of titles by emerging winner on the basis of tie-breaking points in the fifth Tea Board of India Chess For Youth Championship at Netaji Indoor Stadium. Read more

Chess for Youth Championship starts at Kolkata

Former cricketer Kapil Dev inaugurated  'Chess for Youth' Tournament in Kolkata on Thursday 02 September 2010. Newly crowned Grandmaster Deep Sengupta will be the star attraction in the fifth edition of the tournament to be held at Netaji Indoor Stadium here from September 2-5. More details

Carlsen beats Anand, wins Arctic Securities Rapid

It was a dream final: The World Champion vs the number one rated player in the world. Vishy Anand had scored a near-perfect 5.0/6 victory in the preliminaries, Magnus had finished at 3.5/6. But in the final the Norwegian worked over the Indian GM from the queenside to the kingside, winning the first game and the event. Jon Ludvig Hammer beat Judit Polgar to take Bronze. Final report