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My thanks to Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Miklos Orso, John D Thornton, Istvan Brindza, Yuri Vovk, Gerard Demuydt,
Stephane Faure, Henri Koskinen, Ronald Scott, Laszlo Nagy, Frank Berry, Sinisa Joksic and everyone else who helped with the issue.
The Russian Team Championships and the German Bundesliga both concluded this weekend. For the outsider it is a bit difficult to
get excited about battles between teams that mean little to you, but the star studded fields leads to great chess and so there
plenty of good games to look at. There are opens in Dubai and Kuala Lumpur amongst others.
The Russian Team Chess Championships took place in Dagomys 1st-10th April 2010. Premier, Major and Women's competitions.
ShSM-64 of Moscow (Gelfand, Karjakin, Wang Hao, Caruana etc) were the clear winners with 16/18 possible match points. They were two points clear of SPb Chess Fed (Ivanchuk, Svidler, Vitiugov, Movsesian, Zvagjnsev etc). 3rd were Economist-SGSEU - 1 (Wang Yue, Eljanov etc), 4th Ugra (Grischuk, Jakovenko etc) 5th Ural (Nepomniachtchi) and 6th defending champions Tomsk-400 (Ponomariov, Motylev).
April 10th-11th 2010 saw the last two rounds of the Schachbundesliga season 2009/10.
Two rounds before the end of the season Baden-Baden, Solingen and Bremen were fighting for the title in the Schachbundesliga.
The decisive fixtures took place in Round 14 on 10th April 2010.
In Bremen
Werder Bremen beat SG Solingen to keep their title hopes alive and ruin Solingen's. In Baden-Baden
OSG Baden-Baden beat SV Muelheim Nord to take a one point lead into the final round. Board points
didn't count so if Baden-Baden had dropped points in the final round a playoff for the title was possible.
However with Baden-Baden played 10th placed SF Katernberg and so they were strong favourites to retain their title.
They duly did this by thumping Katernberg 7-1.
The 12th Dubai Open takes place Mon 5th - Wed 14th Apr 2010. They play for the Sheikh Rashed Bin Hamdan Al Mactoum Cup.
Gabriel Sargissian, Vladimir Baklan and Parimajan Negi are the top seeds.
Open (154 players 9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 90m+30spm(1))
The 3rd Kuala Lumpur Open took place Tue 6th - Mon 12th April 2010.
Hou Yifan took clear first place with 7.5/9.
3rd KL Open (111 players 9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 90m+30spm(1))
The Easter Open took place in Medellin 31st March - 4th April 2010. Neuris Delgado Ramirez won the event with 8.5/9.
The games from the final round are now available.
The La Laguna took place 5th-11th April 2010. Kamil Miton edged out Lazaro Bruzon, Bojan Kurajica, Yuri Bojan Gonzalez, Evgeny Gleizerov and
Bartlomiej Herberla on tie-break after all finished on 7/9. Games from the final 4 rounds not yet available.
The Doeberl Cup took place in Canberra from 1st-5th April 2010. Li Chao took clear first place with 7.5/9. Only a
few games from the final rounds are now available.
The 2010 Sydney International Open and Challengers Chess Tournaments follows and took place in Parramatta, 25km west of Sydney city, Australia, 7th-11th April 2010.
Ronald Scott reports. Both events were FIDE rated and the open produced an FM result for Max Illingworth
and an IM norm for visitor Daniel Fernandez of Singapore. The overall winner of the open was GM Dejan Boskov
(Bulgaria) on tiebreak from GM Gawain Jones (England) and GM Zong-Yuan Zhao (Australia).
Winner of the challengers section was Alexander Stahnke (Australia).
The 1st LUCOPEN took place in Lille 3rd-9th April 2010. Tigran Gharamian edged out Jean-Marc Degraeve and Alexei Barsov
on tie-break after all finished on 7/9. Games from the final 5 rounds are not yet available.
The Thessaloniki International Open Tournament took place 5th-11th April 2010. Marijan Petrov edged out Baris Esen, Daniele Vocaturo and
Krum Georgiev on tie-break after all finished on 7/9.
Vietnam chess Championship - Men took place in Ho Chi Minh (VIE) 26th March 2010 - 3rd April 2010.
GM Le Quang Liem won the event with 7.5/9. There were playoffs afterwards. The detailed results are unclear
as the Vietnam Chess website was down at the time of writing.
The Vietnam Women's Chess Championship took place alongside. From the results it looks like Le Kieu Thien Kim won.
The 4th Annual Grand Pacific Open took place in Victoria, British Columbia 2nd-5th April 2010. Lawrence Day took first place
with 5.5/6. I will try and round up the games next week.
The Welsh Championship FIDE rated tournament took place over the Easter 2nd-5th April 2010.
John D Thornton reports "This was won easily by clear favourite and last year's joint winner Richard S Jones,
with a 2500+ performance I believe. Richard already has norms for the IM title -
just needs to get his grade over 2400 for this.
This event should have helped a bit, though his opponents were generally much weaker than him."
The Finnish Team Championships took place 19th September 2009 - 21st March 2010. EtVaS (Meelis Kanep, Olav Sepp etc) from Vantaa won the event
and they along with Tammer-Shakki from Tampere qualify for the European Club Cup. A final few games that were missing before are now available.
Henri Koskinen reports: EtVaS Vantaa defended their title successfully after beating Tampere in
exiting last round match. Tampere had to settle for silver.
GM Tomi Nybäck missed Bundesleague round but lead Betfair-Aatos into their
first medal position.
Frank Berry reports: The "Final Four" of the USA Colleges took place in Brownsville, Texas, 10th-11th April 2010.M
1st Place was
Univ of Maryland at Baltimore County with 8 game points from possible 12
with 2 GMs headed by GM Sergey Erenburg of Israel with 3 wins of 3 games.
2nd was Univ of Texas at Brownsville with 3 GMs and 7.5 game points
3rd was Texas Tech University with 4.5 game points
4th was Univ of Texas at Dallas with 4 game points
Players and their Federations:
Players Final Four of College Chess Brownsville (USA), 10-11 iv 2010
The "Swiss Chess Tour 2010" took place in Lenk with the 22nd "Kreuz-Open", 1st-5th April 2010. Reports Sinisa Joksic. GM Andrei Sokolov (FRA) won the 22th Lenk Open convincing with 6/7. Buholz decided other places. The second was IM Alkexander Belezky from Ukraina and third, best Swiss, IM Oliver Kurmann. Next two place took swiss players FM David Burnier and great surprise Andreas Aerni.
Special prizes (each 200 CHF): Lady: Charline Grillon (SUI); senior Andreas Huss (SUI),; junior (1990-93) Alexandre Grillon (SUI); schoolboys (1994) Harry Hoang (SUI); amateurs (under 2000) Hubert Eschli (SUI). Arbiters were Sinisa Joksic and Robert Spoerri. The event took place in Hotel "Kreuz".
The 23nd Lenk Open will take place during Easter 2011.
The XXVIII Metz International Chess Open organised by the Metz Alekhine chess club takes place Saturday, April 10th - Friday, April 16th 2010.
9 Round Swiss over 7 days. Rate of play : 90min. + 30 spm (40 moves), f.b. 30 min. + 30 spm for each player.
Christian Bauer is the top seed. I couldn't see any games.
Royal Residence Cup IM takes place June 8th-16th 2010 in Zhovkva (25 km north of Lviv and 35 kilometers east of the Polish border).
Organisers: (Zhovkva Region Chess & Checkers Federation). Yuri Galkin and Yuri Vovk (International Grandmaster; responsible for participants
invitation and contacts with invited players) and Anton Romashov.
Round robin system .
The playing time will be 90 minutes with an increment of 30 seconds
per move, starting from move one.
12 players to participate in the tournament.
All players are offered a comfortable rooms on villa(2-3 persons per
room).Accommodation + 2 meals per day(breakfast + evening meal)
costs 120 UAH(12,5 Euros) per person per day. Villa is not far from
playing hall.
To participate the tournament please contact the responsible for contacts
tournament director GM Yuri Vovk (English,Ukrainian,Russian
languages ) via:
1. 19th-27th of April, Pecs, Hungary, GM all play all closed tournament, we
miss 2 players with ELO average of 2450 or above.
2. 1st-13th of May, Budapest, First Saturday GM-IM-ELO closed tournaments,
organizer: Nagy Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
4NCL
The 4NCL takes place Sat 24th Oct 2009 - 3rd May 2010. Rounds 7 and 8 took place 27th-28th March 2010.
The final rounds take place 1st-3rd May 2010.
After 7 rounds, the top 4 teams in each preliminary pool qualified for the final championship pool.
At the end of the season 4 teams will be relegated.
The Women's Bundesliga took place 7th November 2009 - 28th March 2010.
USV Volksbank Ha took the title after beating OSG Baden Baden in Round 8. Games from the final two rounds not yet available.
Dutch League (NED), 26 ix 2009 - 18 iv 2010 Round 8 Standings:
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Team
Mp
Bp
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
1
HSG
14
60
x
8½
7½
7
8½
7
8½
.
8½
4½
2
Utrecht
13
47
1½
x
6½
8
.
5
5½
6
7
7½
3
Groningen 1/Hotels.nl
12
44½
2½
3½
x
6
7½
6½
6
6
.
6½
4
Schrijvers Rotterdam
10
41
3
2
4
x
5½
6
.
6½
6½
7½
5
Homburg Apeldoorn
9
44
1½
.
2½
4½
x
5
8
5½
8
9
6
LSG
8
40
3
5
3½
4
5
x
7½
6½
5½
.
7
Braceland ESGOO
6
33½
1½
4½
4
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2
2½
x
7
5½
6½
8
HMC Calder
4
35½
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4
4
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4½
3½
3
x
6
7
9
HWP Sas van Gent
2
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7
10
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2
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3
3
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French League Top 16
The French League Top 16 saw the first weekend of games 26th-28th March 2010. There were four venues
and two groups. Time control 90mins for 40 moves, 30mins for the rest, 30 seconds per move from move one.
The second set of games 29th April - 2nd May 2010 and the final set 3rd-6th June 2010.
There are two initial groups, each with two venues. Group A took place in Vandoeuvre (Deauville, Drancy, Montpellier and Vandoeuvre)
and in Evry (Evry, Noyon, Guingamp and Marseille Echecs). Group B took place in Chalons-en-Champagne (Cannes, Lyon, Strasbourg and Chalonnais)
and Clichy (Metz, Mulhouse and Clichy-Échecs-92 (Bischwiller seem to be defaulting)).
The international arbiter, FIDE master and international organizer, Mihajlo Savic, the author of the book Commentary on the Laws of chess, has launched a new column You ask, we answer at website: http://www.chessdiagonals.com
Chess Classic Mainz 2010
The 17th Chess Classic Mainz takes place 6th-8th August 2010. The festival has suffered from the general
economic slowdown with the open taking the lead along with simuls.
The rapid chess open has been upgraded to the Grenke Rapid World Championship.
The tenth edition of the Chess Classic in Mainz is sponsored by GRENKE Group, FiNet AG,
Livingston GmbH, Hilton Mainz, Congress Centre Mainz, Stadtwerke Mainz AG and our Prime-Partners ChessBase, DGT and Schach Niggemann.
The prize fund for the rapid chess world championship is no less than Euro 30.000.
Chess960 has to take a break for a year.
On the first day of the event, 6th August 2010, Anand will play a standard simul on 40 boards. On the same day, Alexandra Kosteniuk will play a 20-board Chess960 simul.
The Grenke Rapid World Championship will also be a treat for chess lovers: Levon Aronian, who is the current rapid chess world champion and the winner of the 2009 ORDIX Open, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, will play the open tournament to face a unique mixture of numerous world-class grandmasters and amateurs.
The Open will be played in the same established format as in the previous editions. On 7th-8th August 2010 11 rounds will be played, in which the time control is 20 minutes + 5 seconds per move.
The Cez Trophy takes place 22nd-24th April 2010. 8 rapid games at 25 minutes plus 10 seconds per move.
The match is between Judit Polgar and David Navara. There are additional simuls.
The 45th Capablanca Memorial starts June 21st 2010. The Elite Group will see Vassily Ivanchuk who won the event
three times in a row 2005-7 back alongside Nigel Short. Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon will be the Cuban
representatives. Two more foreign players will be invited.
LACONA - ISLE OF ELBA - May, 8th-18th 2010.
Open A (players more than 1800 elo) Open B (players less than 1900 elo) - 9 rounds
ask for the complete program (technical and touristic and for the conventioned prices)
to booking@tuscanhotels.it
Isle of Elba, very well known for the vestiges of Napoleon, is really very nice and in May prices are very convenient; moreover the seaside is wide and confortable
Torino Rapid Open
Rapid Open - TORINO - June, 19 2010.
TORINO open - June 20-27 2010 tournaments for women and for not rated players during the Italian Champioships
the former capital of Italy prepares itself to celebrate the 150 years of unity of Italy
http://www.scacchisticatorinese.it
Arvier (Aosta Valley) July
ARVIER (Aosta Valley) - July, 3-9 2010.
2nd Festival Francophone (open, 9 rounds) - http://www.scacchivda.com
Free to all the players of the about 70 countries belonging to the "Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie" (OIF) http://www.francophonie.org
Aosta Valley is one of the most famous touristic regions in Italy, very well known for its castles, food and wines
Arvier (Aosta Valley) - September
ARVIER (Aosta Valley) - September, 4-12 2010.
6th European Union championship (open, 9 rounds) - http://www.scacchivda.com
Free to all the players of the countries belonging to European Union, plus players from Croatia, Fyrom and Turkey without the right to the title.
Aosta Valley is one of the most famous touristic regions in Italy, very well known for its castles, food and wines
Livigno (Sondrio, Valtellina)
LIVIGNO (Sondrio, Valtellina) - September, 10-18 2010.
Open A (players more than 2000 elo) Open B (players less than 2000 elo) Open C (players without elo)
http://www.livignoscacchi.it - http://www.livigno.eu
Livigno is very well known as touristic skying town. It is said "the little Tibet". A few km far there is the village of Trepalle at 2250 metres above sea level, the highest inhabited place of Europe!
Vitoria-Gasteiz Open
The Vitoria-Gasteiz Open takes place 26th July 2010 - 1st August 2010.
Anand - Topalov World Championship Sofia April/May 2010
The World Chess Championship takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria 23 April (1st round) to 12 May 2010 (possible tiebreaks). The match is between World Champion Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov. An agreement was signed by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the President of the Bulgarian Chess Federation Stefan Sergiev on the 16th December 2009. This was in the presence of the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Mr Boiko Borisov who is guaranteeing the match.
WCh Anand - Topalov Sofia (BUL), 23 iv - 12 v 2010
All games start at 15:00 local time (1pm UK time).
Day
Round
Date
1
Opening Ceremony
22.04.2010
2
Gm 1
23.04.2010
3
Gm 2
24.04.2010
4
Rest Day
25.04.2010
5
Gm 3
26.04.2010
6
Gm 4
27.04.2010
7
Rest Day
28.04.2010
8
Gm5
29.04.2010
9
Gm6
30.04.2010
10
Rest Day
01.05.2010
11
Gm7
02.05.2010
12
Gm8
03.05.2010
13
Rest Day
04.05.2010
14
Gm9
05.05.2010
15
Gm10
06.05.2010
16
Rest Day
07.05.2010
17
Gm11
08.05.2010
18
Rest Day
09.05.2010
19
Gm12
10.05.2010
20
Rest Day
11.05.2010
21
Tie-Break
12.05.2010
22
Closing Ceremony *
13.05.2010
* The Closing Ceremony takes place the day after the final game. 13th May is the latest
it can take place. ie if Tie-Breaks are required.
Women's Grand Prix 2009-10
The Women's Grand Prix series will see four more events in 2010.
3rd Women's Chess Grand Prix Nalchuk
The 3rd Women's Chess Grand Prix takes place in Nalchuk, Russia, 25th April (arrival) - 8 May (departure) 2010.
The full list of participants for Nalchik is below:
3rd Women's Grand Prix Nalchuk (RUS), 25 iv - 8 v 2010
Name
Ti
NAT
Koneru, Humpy
GM
IND
Yifan, Hou
GM
CHN
Cramling, Pia
GM
SWE
Dzagnidze, Nana
GM
GEO
Xue, Zhao
GM
CHN
Kosintseva, Tatiana
IM
RUS
Chen, Zhu
GM
QTR
Danielian, Elina
IM
ARM
Batkhuyag, Munguntuul
WGM
MGL
Yildiz, Betul
WIM
TRK
Mrktchian, Lilit
IM
ARM
Kovanova, Baira
WGM
RUS
The 4th Grand Prix will take place in Jermuk, Armenia, on 23rd June - 6th July 2010
The 5th Grand Prix will take place in Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, on 29 July - 12 August 2010
The 6th Grand Prix will take place in Santiago, Chile, on 27th October - 9th November 2010
The first Grand Prix was in Istanbul 5th-20th March 2009 and was won by Humpy Koneru. The 2nd Grand Prix
was in Nanjing, China, 27th Sept - 9th October 2009 and was won by Xu Yuhua.
33nd Taminco Open
33nd Taminco Open International Chess Tournament Gent (Belgium)
takes place 17th-21st July 2010, 9 rounds Swiss, two hours KO chess, prize money 6875 Euros for 300 participants,
first price 1800 Euros Guaranteed This traditional open tournament takes place near the center of the medieval
town of Gent in the week of the famous annual Gent festivities. Organisers Royal Gent Chessclub (KGSRL).
Zurich hosts the World University Chess Championship 2010 5th-11th September 2010.
The Academic Chess Club Reti, which is organising the event, is expecting that up to
150 participants from over 25 countries will enter the contest, to be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Many international masters and grandmasters between 18 and 28 years of age will fight for individual and team medals.
The tournament will comprise nine rounds and will be played in accordance with the Swiss System.
The World University Chess Championship is held under the auspices of the Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU).
The organising club, the Academic Chess Club Reti in Zurich, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary next year.
It is one of the four largest clubs in Zurich and has an ambitious team in the Swiss League.
In 2009 many of the greatest champions and legends in the history of the game participated in the Zurich Chess Club’s 200-year jubilee.
This year, some of the strongest champions of the future will be in Zurich.
The traditional Canadian Open Chess Championship takes place 10th-18th July, in Westin Harbour Castle, Downtown Toronto, Ontario. This year's event is a 9-round one-game-per-day single-section Swiss with a guaranteed prize fund of at least C$ 30,000. Additional side events will be included like Speed Chess Championship, GM simuls, and lectures, etc.
Grandmasters E. Rozentalis, A. Shabalov, and J. Friedel have already confirmed their participation.
Contacts: Michael Barron ( barron045@yahoo.com ) and Brian Fiedler (fiedlerbrian@yahoo.com.au )
The 8th Davos Open takes place August, 8th-14th 2010, in the Hotel "Sunstar". Sinisa Joksic
will organise the event which he hopes to be an old fashioned friendly tournament.
The XXIII Leon Tournament takes place 3rd-7th June 2010. Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand,
Lenier Dominguez Perez and Francisco Vallejo Pons play in the knockout event. Each match
will be played the best of four games (20 minutes per player + 10 seconds increment
after each move). However, all four games will be
played, even if the match winner has been already decided. If the result
after four games is 2-2, a five minute games tiebreak match will be played
immediately after the fourth normal game.
The European Chess Solving Championship takes place at the De Vere Sunningdale Park Hotel,
at Sunningdale near Windsor on the outskirts of London. The event takes place from Friday
April 9th to Monday April 12th, with the main European Championship competitions
on the Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Contact: The ECSC Organiser Paul Valois at paulvalois@yahoo.co.uk or on 0113 2620609,
or Ian Watson at ian@irwatson.demon.co.uk or on 07768 847476.
Favourite for the individual is the current European and World Champion Piotr Murdzia from Poland, but solving Grandmasters from Russia, Great Britain, Germany and many others will be keen to unseat him. Poland also hold the team title, but are likely to be outgraded by Russia who should start as favourites. Great Britain, with two former World Champions in their squad, are also expected to contend for the title.
Competitors have to solve chess problems and endgame studies, against the clock, and each round includes orthodox two-, three- and more-movers, as well as selfmates, helpmates and studies. Titles and gradings for chess solving are similar to the over-the-board system, with Grandmasters, International Masters and Fide Masters of solving. Murdzia is currently the highest rated solver with a rating of 2843.
Unfortunately it will be the last tournament in the current venue, the Hotel Kreuz, Lenk.
The organisers have decided to withdrew after tournament and a replacement will need to be found.
The 21 previous editions of the Lenk Open have seen around 5.000 chess players compete.
So the Hotel Kreuz will be the venue for the Lenk Open 2010. Swiss system, 7 rounds and the games will last a maximum of 5 hours (40 moves for 2 hours and 30 minutes till the end). The prizes: 1.500 SF, 1.200, 800, 600, 400, 2x300 and 3x200 SF. Special prizes: Ladies, senior (1949), junior(1990-93), schoolboy (1994) and amateur (under 2000) for all: 200 CHF. Entry fee 130 SF, FMs and juniors 60 SF, at the door 20 SF more, GMs and IMs free. Venue: Hotel "Kreuz". Time table: Round 1st 18.00-23.00 April 1,; Rounds 2/3 09.30-14.30 and 15.30-20.30 April 2,; Round 4 14.00-19.00 April 3,; Rounds 5/6 09.30-14.30 and 15.30-20.30 April 4,; Round 7 09.30-14.30 April 5. Closing ceremony April 5 at 15.00. Info: Beochess +41+62+965-46-50 (Robert Spoerri) or event@beochess.ch or site http://www.beochess.ch for more details.
Chess Summer in Varna 2010
V European OPEN Chess ClubTeams Championship and the VII European OPEN Festival "The Hopes of the World" -
for school champions and IV International Open Chess Festival Varna takes place 11th-21st and 22nd-29th
June 2010 in "Grand Hotel Varna", located in the Black Sea
resort named "St. Constantine and Elena", 8 kilometers away from
the city of Varna, Bulgaria.
The 10th International Chess Festivals Series Czech Tour 2010-11 has the following preliminary list. (Subject to small changes.)
1st HRADEC KRALOVE OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 15th-22nd May 2010.
21st CZECH OPEN - Pardubice (European Youth Chess Teams Championship, European Amateurs Championship, GM open taken in ACP-TOUR, 4 FIDE opens, Open Championship of the Czech Republic in active chess taken in ACP-TOUR, Open Championship of the Czech Republic of 4-member teams, in blitz marathon, bughouse and Fischerandom chess, problem solving competition, blitz tournaments for individuals, pairs and teams, pairs active chess, youth tournament etc.). 15th July - 1st August 2010. http://www.czechopen.net
13th OLOMOUC CHESS SUMMER - Olomouc (FIDE open, closed GM and IM tournaments, seniors tournament, active chess, blitz chess tournament). 4th-12th August 2010.
9th Georgiev's and Kesarovsky´s Memorial - Sunny Beach, Bulgaria (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 28th August - 5th September 2010.
7th HIGHLANDS OPEN - Zdar nad Sazavou (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 25th September - 2nd October 2010.
11th LIBEREC OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 23rd-30th October 2010.
1st BRNO OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 14th-20th November 2010
4th SOUTH BOHEMIA OPEN - Cesky Krumlov (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 21st-27th November 2010.
2nd PILSNER OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament).4th-11th December 2010.
10th PRAGUE OPEN (2 FIDE opens, one of them with IM norm, active chess, blitz tournament). 7th-14th January 2011.
10th MARIENBAD OPEN (FIDE open, closed GM and IM tournaments, active chess, blitz tournament). 15th-22nd January 2011.
2nd NOVY BOR OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 12th-19th February 2011.
The 24th International Chess Tournament "Pula Open 2010" takes place 19th-26th June 2010 in Hotel Histria, Pula, Croatia.
Swiss system 9 rounds, 90 minutes + 30 seconds per every move (from the beginning of the game). Prize fund is 11 000 EUR net (in Croatian kunas).
There are 53 prizes in total. The prizes are not cumulative. Entry fee is 50 EUR but players younger that 18 years pay
25 EUR and IM-s and GM-s do not pay. Last year 295 players from 25 counties participated.
The International Correspondence Chess Federation has announced the Preliminary Sections of the World Correspondence Chess Championship will start on March 10th. 2010.
Also Slovenia's 15 Years Membership of ICCF tournament semi-finals.
FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship - an Official FIDE World Chess Championship! 9R-SS G/90 + 30/sec increment. Holiday Inn Hotel: 5300 W Touhy Ave Skokie, IL 60077. 847.679.8900. $20,000 Guaranteed. Open to players with no FIDE title and rated under 2000 FIDE. All players compete in a single section. Please see tournament website for more detailed rating regulations.
EF: $120 by 6pm 02/15, $150 by 6pm 03/15; $200 thereafter and onsite. No re-entries allowed. No half-point byes allowed (zero point byes only). Onsite registration from 3-5pm 03/19.
Rds: 3/19 - 6:30pm; 3/20-21 - 12pm and 6:30pm per day; 3/22-25 - 6:30pm per night.
Mail entries with registration information to: North American Chess Association (make checks payable to) 4957 Oakton Street, Suite 113, Skokie, IL 60077.
More information and online registration available at: http://www.worldchesschamps.com. Questions via email only: sevan@worldchesschamps.com
South Lakes Congress
The South Lakes Congress is taking place on w/e of 11-13th June 2010 at The Grand Hotel,
Grange-over-Sands.
The contact for the event is: Trevor Blower, 18 Blackbutts Lane,
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA14 3AP.
email: trevor.blower@talktalk.net, Phone No 01229 472100.
Mundial Chess Internet Tournament
The organising Committee Mundial Chess invites all the players (from the amateurs to Grandmasters) to take part in the 1st Internet tournament with the
prize fund of more than 130.000 EUR in cash and many special prizes. The 1st prize in the main tournament will be not less than 10.000 EUR.
