Gibraltar Masters Round 3

The 3rd round of the 2012 Gibraltar Chess Masters was very successful for the players commanding the white pieces. On the top three boards white, namely Women World Champion Hou Yifan and England’s Nigel Short and Michael Adams, snatched victories to continue with perfect records. Sabino Brunelo and Ruben Felgaer defeated the higher rated opposition [...]

15th Metropolitan Chess FIDE Invitational

Metropolitan Chess, Inc. is hosting an International Master norm round robin tournament from January 25th to 29th of 2012. This tournament is the 15th in its series and is being held in Suite C1002 of the California Market Center on 110 East 9th Street, Los Angeles 90079. The tournament is organized by Ankit Gupta and [...]

NordWest-Cup in Bad Zwischenahn

The 14th NordWest-Cup will be played from 26th to 29th January in the “Wandelhalle” Bad Zwischenahns. The 7-round Swiss event is organized by the SK Union Oldenburg and SC Schwarzer Springer Bad Zwischenahn. Currently 310 players are registered for the Main and U1800 Groups. Among them are 10 Grandmasters with GM Yuri Solodovnichenko being the [...]

Gibraltar Masters Round 2

The second round of the 2012 Gibraltar Chess Masters was played on Tuesday. Similar to the first day, there were no major upsets, except that IM Patrik Lyrberg defeated South-American star GM Eduardo Iturrizaga. Earlier Lyrberg drew GM Alexei Shirov, but now for some reason is not paired in the 3rd round. The legendary GM [...]

Gibraltar Masters Round 1

At the opening reception of the 2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival on Monday night Gibraltar Culture and Sports Minister Steven Linares welcomed all the players and thanked them for coming to the Rock to play in the tournament. Mr Linares wished all well in their game and hoped all would enjoy the festival. Tournament director, [...]