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• LONDON CHESS CLASSIC

  The London Chess Classic is being held from December 8 through December 15, 2009. The official press release hails this tournament as “the strongest chess tournament in the UK for twenty-five years.” The list of participants does not make this an idle boast - Nigel Short, Michael Adams, Luke McShane and David Howell are four of England’s top grandmasters who are up against Russian former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura, and China’s Ni Hua, the only player ever to have won three Chinese national championships.
  
  Round One produced two decisive games with Carlsen defeating Kramnik on the White side of an English Opening, while McShane outlasted Short in a marathon 163 move Scotch Game. Nakamura won the exchange in his game with Ni Hua but, as he explained to GM Ian Rogers “hallucinated” on move 40, converting a winning position into a draw.
  
  Visit the official website of the London Chess Classic to follow the games live, download the games in PGN format, photos, commentary, and much more.

• 2009 M-Tel Masters
  The Fifth M-Tel Masters was held in Sofia, Bulgaria from May 12 through May 23. Alexey Shirov took first place with a 6.5 score. The participants were six of the strongest players in the world: Magnus Carlsen, Vassily Ivanchuk, Wang Yue, Alexey Shirov, Leinier Dominguez-Perez, and Veselin Topalov.
  The official website reports that the average ELO of the six Grandmasters is 2753, which makes the Sofia tournament FIDE XXI category. Only 5 tournaments in the history of chess have been of the same category.
  The M-Tel Masters is part of the international chain of chess tournaments Grand Slam that includes three of the world’s strongest tournaments: Corus in Wijk an Zee (Holland), Linares (Spain) and Nanjing (China). The winner in Sofia wins the right to take part in the Final Masters Grand Slam tournament that will take place in Bilbao, Spain in the end of the year.
  The double round-robin event has a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves per player and 60 minutes per player till the end of the game. The maximum period for a single game is 5 hours. "Sofia rules" will again be used.
  Visit the official website of the 2009 M-Tel Masters tournament for a round by round recap of the tournament, including PGN downloads of the games and the latest in tournament news and information.

• 2008 World Chess Championship
  
  
  Viswanathan Anand ( India ) is the winner of the World Chess Championship 2008! The World Champion from India defended his title with a 6,5:4,5 victory against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia.
  World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in a 12-game match held in Bonn, Germany from Oct 11 to Oct 30, 2008. More ...

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• Karpov-Kasparov match 2008
• Asbury Park Chess Fest 2008
• 2007 U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP 
• 2007 U.S. Chess League
• 2007 FIDE World Chess Championship
• The 108th Annual U.S. Open
• WORLD OPEN 
• The World Chess Cup
• Corus Chess 2008
• 25th Linares
• 2008 Women's Tournament Turkey
  
  

 

• The 2009 United States Chess Championship held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, was won by Hikaru Nakamura. The 9-round Swiss system tournament took place from May 7 through 17, 2009 and matched 24 of the top U.S. players for the title of U.S. Champion. The time controls will be 40 moves in two hours, with one hour allowed for all remaining moves.
  Visit the official website of the 2009 U.S. Championship for a PGN download of all the games played, and much more.

• 2008 Women's World Chess Championship
  The Women`s World Chess Championship 2008 held in Nalchik was a 5 round knock-out event where 53 contestants battled for the crown. Alexandra Kosteniuk became Woman World Chess Champion after emerging victorious over Hou Yifan in the sixth and final round. Many of the favorites, including the reigning Women's World Champion and top seed GM Xu Yuhua of China, were eliminated in earlier rounds. 

• Women’s Super Tournament “North Urals Cup – 2008”
  The 5th International Women’s Chess Supertournament “North Urals` Cup - 2008” is underway. This seven round event (the strongest women's event to date) features the very top level of women’s players, including the current world champion Xu Yuhua, ex-world champion Antoaneta Stefanova, as well as Humpy Koneru, whose 2622 rating makes her the highest rated participant in the tournament.
  Visit the official website of the North Urals Cup – 2008 for live game, pictures and tournament information.

•  Grand Prix Series
  The Second Grand Prix Tournament of 2008 is being played in Sochi from July 30 through August 15. The contestants in the 13 round tournament are Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR), Teimour Radjabov (AZE), Peter Svidler (RUS), Alexander Grischuk (RUS), Sergey Karjakin (UKR), Gata Kamsky (USA), Ivan Cheparinov (BUL) and David Navara (CZE). For Levon Aronian (ARM), Boris Gelfand (ISR), Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS, the host city's nominated player) and Mohamad Al Modiahki (QTR), Sochi 2008 will be the first Grand Prix tournament.
  For live commentary, games photos and much more visit the official Second Grand Prix Tournament: Sochi 2008 tournament website.

  The First Grand Prix Tournament of 2008 was won by Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Magnus Carlsen and of these three players, Gashimov and Wang Yue will also compete in Sochi. More...

• Chess Olympiad Dresden 2008
  The 2008 Chess Olympiad was held in Dresden. Visit the Chess Olympiad 2008 website for updates.
  
  

• Topalov-Kamsky Match
  The World Championship Challenger Match between Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Gata Kamsky of the United States will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria.
  The match is scheduled to be held February 16 through 28, 2009.
  As reported in the NY Times blog Gambit, the match is, in effect, a semi-final match for the world championship. The winner will play a title match against  Viswanathan Anand of India, the current world champion, and winner of the other “semi-final” match with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia.
  
• Knight's Tour
  Are you intrigued by the riddle of the knight's tour? That's the puzzle in which the knight touches every square of the chessboard just one time.  Check out the article on the science of the knight's tour 

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