65th Portugal Chess Championship

65th Portugal Chess Championship Portugal chess championship was held in the city of Amadora, on 5-13 September. Top rated player IM Ruben Miguel Nunes Pereira beat FM Joao Maria Da Camara Cordovil in the last round and preserved the first place, half point ahead of the second placed GM Antonio Fernandes. Final Ranking crosstable after 9 Rounds: 1....

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Managers in Chess

Managers in Chess Agenda and Annexes for the 80th FIDE Congress are published on the FIDE website. The Congress takes place from 11th to 18th October in Khalkidiki, Greece. Among many interesting proposals (annexes), we will note one that calls for regulation and certificates for players' managers: Today there are many people around the world they say that they are manager of professional players. But unfortunately many f them they do not have any idea about all rules of chess or they are not...

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Bulgaria ready to bid for world championship match

Bulgaria ready to bid for world championship match Breaking news: Minutes after the end of the meeting between Boiko Borisov and the team of Veselin Topalov, Silvio Danailov confirmed in a phone call to Chessdom.com that Bulgaria will for sure bid for the organization of the World Chess Championship match between Veselin Topalov and Vishwanathan Anand. Topalov - Anand Sofia bid to be 3 million euro Bulgaria’s pride, World No. 1 Topalov and his manager Silvio Danailov met Prime Minister Boiko Borisov...

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Karpov and Kasparov playing again

The legendary chess champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov have agreed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their World Championship matches with a series of exhibitions to be held in five countries that hosted their epic battles through 1980’s. The first exhibition is taking place in Valencia, the next is scheduled for Paris and then follows Moscow early next year. The events include simultaneous exhibitions, rapid and blitz games. The first rapid match is currently ongoing in Valencia,...

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