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2020-12-26
Charlotte Invitational 2020 - GM and IM
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Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters Prelims 2020
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2020-12-23
North American Junior Championships 2020
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2020-12-21
The European Online Women's Club Cup 2020
British Online Championship 2020
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2020-12-19
Chinese Championships 2020 Open and Women
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2020-12-13
Sunway Sitges 2020
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2020-11-05
Lublin Union Memorial 2020
Lublin Union Memorial is taking place in Lublin, Poland between 5th ad 10th November 2020.
Schedule:
Round 2 2020/11/06 15,30
Round 3 2020/11/07 09,30
Round 4 2020/11/07 15,30
Round 5 2020/11/08 15,30
Round 6 2020/11/09 15,30
Round 7 2020/11/10 09,30
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2020-11-01
Tegernsee Masters 2020
The Tegernsee Masters is held from 31st October to 8th November 2020 in Bad Wiessee, Germany.
Time control: 90 min. for 40 moves, 30 minutes till game end, a 30-sec. increment from 1st move.
Schedule in UTC:
Round 2 Nov 1, 2020 14:00
Round 3 Nov 2, 2020 14:00
Round 4 Nov 3, 2020 14:00
Round 5 Nov 4, 2020 14:00
Round 6 Nov 5, 2020 14:00
Round 7 Nov 6, 2020 14:00
Round 8 Nov 7, 2020 14:00
Round 9 Nov 8, 2020 10:00
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2020 Speed Chess Championship
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2020-10-21
Satka Autumn 2020
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2020-10-15
Altibox Norway Chess 2020
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2020-10-10
Claus Dieter Meyer Memorial 2020
The Claus Dieter Meyer Memorial tournament held from 10th to 18th October 2020 in Bremen, Germany.
System of play: 9-round Swiss
Time control: 100 min. for 40 moves, then 30 min. till game end
History: Claus-Dieter Meyer (1946 - 2020) is a remarkable person in German chess, famous as a player, an author of many chess publications and translator, trainer, and chess analyzer.
Schedule in UTC:
Round 2 Oct 11, 2020 14:00
Round 3 Oct 12, 2020 14:00
Round 4 Oct 13, 2020 14:00
Round 5 Oct 14, 2020 14:00
Round 6 Oct 15, 2020 10:00
Round 7 Oct 16, 2020 14:00
Round 8 Oct 17, 2020 14:00
Round 9 Oct 18, 2020 10:00
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2020-09-30
Charlotte Fall Invitational GM & IM 2020
The 2020 edition of Charlotte Fall Invitational - GM and IM tournaments are held from 30 September to 5 October 2020 in Charlotte USA.
Time control: 90 min. for a game, + 30-sec. increment from move 1.
Round 1 Oct 1, 2020 00:00
Round 2 Oct 1, 2020 17:00
Round 3 Oct 1, 2020 23:00
Round 4 Oct 2, 2020 17:00
Round 5 Oct 2, 2020 23:00
Round 6 Oct 3, 2020 17:00
Round 7 Oct 3, 2020 23:00
Round 8 Oct 4, 2020 16:00
Round 9 Oct 5, 2020 16:00
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Chartres GM 2020
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2020-09-27
Ural District Championship 2020
Ural District Championship 2020 is held from 2th September to 6th October 2020=
2020/09/27 16:00 1st round
2020/09/28 16:00 2nd round
2020/09/29 16:00 3rd round
2020/09/30 16:00 4th round
2020/10/01 16:00 5th round
2020/10/02 16:00 6th round
2020/10/03 15:00 7th round
2020/10/04 15:00 8th round
2020/10/05 15:00 9th round
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2020-09-25
Serbian First League 2020
Serbian First League 2020 is held from 25 September to 3 October 2020 in Ruma, Serbia.
Time control: 90 min. for 40 moves, then 30 min. to the game end, and a 30-sec. increment from move 1.
Schedule
Round Date Time
2 2020/09/26 16:30
3 2020/09/27 09:30
4 2020/09/27 16:30
5 2020/09/28 16:30
6 2020/09/29 09:30
7 2020/09/29 16:30
8 2020/09/30 16:30
9 2020/10/01 16:30
10 2020/10/02 16:30
11 2020/10/03 11:30
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Pro Chess League Finals 2020
The PRO Chess League Finals is held from 25th to 28th September 2020 and is played in Live Chess.
The PRO Chess League series begun on on January 6, 2020 followed by the playoffs that ran in March. The finals are the culmination of the fourth season. The final four teams will all bring top grandmasters to fight for a $40,000 total prize fund, with $20,000 going to the winning team.
Like in the regular season, the time control for all games will be 10 minutes plus a two-second increment. Every player on a team will play every player on the other team for a total of 16 games.
Schedule:
The action will start on Friday, September 25 at 7:45 a.m. Pacific time / 16:45 Central Europe with the match between the Saint Louis Arch Bishops and the China Pandas, followed by the Canada Chessbrahs against the Armenia Eagles at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time / 19:30 Central Europe.
The two losing teams will then face each other on Saturday, Sept. 26, for their fight for third place, while the big final is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 27.
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2020-09-11
Champions Showdown: Chess 9LX 2020
Kasparov, Garry; Aronian, Levon; Caruana, Fabiano; Svidler, Peter; So, Wesley; Firouzja, Alireza
Time control - 20+10.
Schedule in UTC:
Round 1 Sep 11, 2020 18:00
Round 2 Sep 11, 2020 19:30
Round 3 Sep 11, 2020 21:00
Round 4 Sep 12, 2020 18:00
Round 5 Sep 12, 2020 19:30
Round 6 Sep 12, 2020 21:00
Round 7 Sep 13, 2020 18:00
Round 8 Sep 13, 2020 19:30
Round 9 Sep 13, 2020 21:00
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2020-09-06
Polish League 1 2020
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2020-09-04
Kragero Grand Prix 2020
Kragero Grand Prix 2020 in Kragerø Norway from 4th to 6th September 2020
Schedule in UTC:
Round 2 Sep 4, 2020 18:45
Round 3 Sep 5, 2020 08:00
Round 4 Sep 5, 2020 13:00
Round 5 Sep 6, 2020 07:00
Round 6 Sep 6, 2020 12:00
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2020-08-31
Spanish Chess Championship 2020
The Spanish Chess Championship 2020is held in Linares, Spain from August 31 to September 8 2020.
Schedule in UTC:
Rounds start every day at 15:00.
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Cattolica Chess Festival 2020
The Cattolica Chess Festival 2020 is held from 31 August to 6 September 2020 in Cattolica, Italy.
Time control: 90 min for the game, with a 30-second increment starting from move one.
Schedule (in UTC)
1st round August 31, 2019 13:00
2nd round September 1, 2019 13:00
3rd round September 2, 2019 13:00
4th round September 3, 2019 13:00
5th round September 4, 2019 13:00
6th round September 5, 2019 13:00
7th round September 6, 2019 13:00
8th round September 7, 2019 13:00
9th round September 8, 2019 13:00
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2020-08-23
FIDE Online Olympiad 2020
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2020-08-22
Icelandic Chess Championship 2020
Schedule in UTC:
Round 1 2020/08/22 15:00
Round 2 2020/08/23 15:00
Round 3 2020/08/24 15:00
Round 4 2020/08/25 15:00
Round 5 2020/08/26 15:00
Round 6 2020/08/27 15:00
Round 7 2020/08/28 15:00
Round 8 2020/08/29 15:00
Round 9 2020/08/30 13:00
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Portuguese Chess League 2020
The Portuguese Chess League 2020 is held from 22nd to 28th August 2020 in Penafiel.
Time control: 90 min per game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.
Schedule in UTC:
Round 2 Aug 23, 2020 17:00
Round 3 Aug 23, 2020 23:30
Round 4 Aug 24, 2020 18:00
Round 5 Aug 25, 2020 17:00
Round 6 Aug 25, 2020 23:30
Round 7 Aug 26, 2020 18:00
Round 8 Aug 27, 2020 18:00
Round 9 Aug 28, 2020 17:00
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2020-08-20
Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Kiva Finals 2020
The Finals of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour 2020 is part of an online series of super-tournaments, featuring the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and some of the world’s best players. The grand final takes place from 9-20 August on chess24. It features the winners in the series - Magnus Carlsen, Liren Ding, Daniil Dubov and Hikaru Nakamura. The organisers cooperate with Kiva - an international nonprofit with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive.
The first phase is the Semi-finals which are the best of 5 series of matches. They are held between 9th and 13th August 2020. The competitors play 5 matches (one per day). The one who wins 3 matches is the winner of the stage. Each match consists of four 15'+10" rapid games. In case the score after the 4 rapid games is 2-2 then two 5+3 blitz games and then, if needed, an Armageddon game shall be played. In Armageddon White has 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counts as a win for BlackSchedule: rounds start every day at 14:00 UTC.
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2020-08-16
German Masters 2020
The 2020 edition of German Masters (open and women) is held from 16 to 22 August in Magdeburg, Germany.
Schedule in UTC:
Round 1 Aug 16, 2020 12:00
Round 2 Aug 17, 2020 12:00
Round 3 Aug 18, 2020 12:00
Round 4 Aug 19, 2020 12:00
Round 5 Aug 20, 2020 12:00
Round 6 Aug 21, 2020 12:00
Round 7 Aug 22, 2020 08:00
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2020-08-10
Slovak Championship Festival Open 2020
The Slovak Championship Festival is held between August 7th and 15th 2020 in Drienica Slovakia.
Time control: 90 min. for 40 moves, then 30 min. till the game end, and a 30-second increment from move 1.
Schedule in UTC
Round 1 08.07, 2020 16:30
Round 2 08.08, 2020 14:00
Round 3 08.09, 2020 14:00
Round 4 08.10, 2020 14:00
Round 5 08.11, 2020 14:00
Round 6 08.12, 2020 14:00
Round 7 08.13, 2020 14:00
Round 8 08.14, 2020 14:00
Round 9 08.15, 2020 14:00
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2020-07-21
Georgian Women's Championship 2020
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Polish Chess Championship 2020
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2020-07-20
17th Sea Festival 2020
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2020-07-18
13th Paleochora Open 2020
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2020-07-16
53rd Biel Grandmaster Tournament 2020
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Leon Young Talents 2020
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2020-07-10
Leon Chess Masters 2020
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2020-07-08
Polish 3rd Chess League 2020
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2020-07-07
Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2020
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2020-07-05
České Budějovice 2020
The Closed GM České Budějovice is a 10-player round-robin tournament.
Round 1 2020/07/01 14:00
Round 2 2020/07/02 14:00
Round 3 2020/07/03 14:00
Round 4 2020/07/04 14:00
Round 5 2020/07/05 14:00
Round 6 2020/07/06 14:00
Round 7 2020/07/07 14:00
Round 8 2020/07/08 14:00
Round 9 2020/07/09 14:00
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2020-06-29
Panevezys Open 2020
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2020-06-21
42nd Trigonov Memorial
ChessBomb is going to broadcast LIVE the games on the first boards in the 42nd Trigonov Memorial with computer analysis.
2020-06-19
Riga Summer Chess Festival 2020
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Croatian Chess Championship 2020
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Chessable Masters 2020
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2020-06-16
Vitiugov vs Xiong 2020
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2020-06-13
MrDodgy Invitational 2020
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2020-06-04
Chess Classics: Lasker-Capablanca
The 1921 match, held from March 15 to April 27 in Havana, Cuba, was a long-awaited affair as Capablanca had challenged the world champion as early as 1911, after he surprisingly won the international tournament in San Sebastian that year.
The winner of the title match would be the first player to reach eight points, draws not counting. The time control was 15 moves per hour. After Capablanca had won game 14, the score was +4 -0 =10 in the Cuban's favor. At that point, Lasker gave up the match, and Capablanca was declared the new world champion.
Official site
Schedule: Games start every day at 12:00 UTC.
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2020-05-26
Clutch Chess 2020
Games 1-4 and 7-10 of the matches are scored traditionally with a 1 point for a win and half a point for a draw. Games 5, 6, 11 and 12 - the final two games each day - win extra points and bonus prize money for a decisive result.
Official site
Schedule in UTC
8 games on 26th starting at 20:00
8 games on 27th starting at 20:00
6 games on 28th starting at 20:00
6 games on 26th starting at 20:00
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2020-05-22
Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge 2020
After the double robin event a KO tournament between the 1st 8 players will be played.
The time control is 15+10
Official site
Schedule in UTC:
19.05 - 4 games starting at 14:00
20.05 - 4 games starting at 14:00
21.05 - 3 games starting at 14:00
The tournament takes place in https://chess24.com/
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2020-05-14
Chess Classics: Lasker-Steinitz World Championship 1894
In the year 1894 Steinitz turned 58, and he was publicly speaking of retiring. He changed his mind and accepted a challenge from the 32 years younger player Emanuel Lasker from Prussia (now Germany). It was the biggest age difference between two match players that a world chess championship has ever seen.
The match was played in New York, Philadelphia (USA) and Montreal, Quebec (Canada). The first player to win 10 games would win the match, draws not counting. The time control was 15 moves per hour. The stakes were $2,000 per side, the equivalent of roughly $60,000 each, today.
Official site
Schedule:
May 11, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 1
May 12, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 2
May 13, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 3
May 14, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 4
May 15, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 5
May 16, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 6
May 17, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 7
May 18, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 8
May 19, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 9
May 20, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 10
May 21, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 11
May 22, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 12
May 23, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 13
May 24, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 14
May 25, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 15
May 26, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 16
May 27, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 17
May 28, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 18
May 29, 2020 14:00 CEST/5 a.m. Pacific Game 19
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2020-05-12
Play For Russia 2020
The prize pool will be shared among regional hospitals and health workers fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The participants will determine beforehand the amount and recipients of the donation, depending on the needs of a particular institution. The entire prize fund is distributed equally among the regions, regardless of the final standings.
Official site
Participants:
Vladimir Kramnik (Krasnodar Krai)
Ian Nepomniachtchi (Bryansk region)
Alexander Grischuk (Moscow)
Sergey Karjakin (Crimea)
Peter Svidler (St. Petersburg)
Evgeny Tomashevsky (Saratov region)
Ernesto Inarkiev (Caucasus)
Alexander Riazantsev (Ural and Siberia)
The tournament is a double round-robin event featuring 5 minutes per game plus a 2-second increment per move. The GMs will first play the round-robin part to reveal the strongest four to qualify into a knockout play-off.
Tournament Schedule:
May 12 – first half (7 rounds)
May 13 – second half (7 rounds)
May 14 - semifinals and a final.
Games start at 05:00 Pacific / 08:00 Eastern / 14:00 CEST / 15:00 Moscow.
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2020-05-04
FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup 2020
The first stage consists of a double round-robin, with each team playing each other twice. The top two teams after 10 rounds qualify for a "Superfinal" match. The winner of this match will be declared the winner of the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup. If the Superfinal ends in a tie, the team that finished first in the group stage is declared the winner.
All matches are played on four boards: three with male players and one with female players. The time control for all games is 25 minutes + 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move one.
Official site
Schedule:
Round 1 May 5 6 a.m. PDT 15:00 CEST
Round 2 May 5 7.45 a.m. PDT 16:45 CEST
Round 3 May 6 6 a.m. PDT 15:00 CEST
Round 4 May 6 7.45 a.m. PDT 16:45 CEST
Round 5 May 7 6 a.m. PDT 15:00 CEST
Round 6 May 7 7.45 a.m. PDT 16:45 CEST
Round 7 May 8 6 a.m. PDT 15:00 CEST
Round 8 May 8 7.45 a.m. PDT 16:45 CEST
Round 9 May 9 6 a.m. PDT 15:00 CEST
Round 10 May 9 7.45 a.m. PDT 16:45 CEST
Superfinal May 10 8 a.m. PDT 17:00 CEST
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2020-04-20
Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2020
Carlsen, Magnus;Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime; Ding, Liren; Nakamura, Hikaru; Nepomniachtchi, Ian; Caruana, Fabiano; Giri, Anish; Firouzja, Alireza
Each match consists of 4 rapid games (15+10) in case of a tie an armageddon will follow.
Final Four knockout tournament will be played to determine the winner.
Official site
Schedule: 4 games will be played every day at 14:00 UTC.
The Magnus Carlsen Invitational is brought to you by chess24.com. Learn more about the tournament at magnuscarlsen.com/en/invitational
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2020-04-17
Chess Classics: Steinitz-Zukertort World Championship 1886
Chess Classics series continue with the broadcast of the battle between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort, a spectacular part of the 1886 World Championship, which took place in New York (games 1-5), St. Louis (games 6-9) and New Orleans (games 10-20).
Official site
With his convincing win against Adolf Anderssen in 1858, Paul Morphy had proven to be the strongest player of the mid-18th century. However, the chess world still never had an official world champion. That changed in 1886.
Around that time, Wilhelm Steinitz of Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) could make the strongest claim for being the unofficial world champion. He had beaten Anderssen, Blackburne and Zukertort in matches after Morphy had returned to the United States, and said goodbye to the royal game.
Steinitz, who had emigrated to the United States in 1883, managed to convince his opponent to play an official world championship match in his new country. The winner would be the first to win 10 games.
Johannes Zukertort came from Lublin, Russian Empire (now Poland) but became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom in 1878. He was a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist, and political activist who sadly died at 45.
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Sunway Sitges International Online 2020
The format is a 9-round Swiss, followed by a 16-player knockout.
The time control for the Swiss portion is 90 minutes per player for the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move. The first prize is €1,500. In addition, one lucky participant will win free apartment accommodations for four people in Sitges during the offline festival in December and entry fee into the open tournament (a €900 value)
Official site
Schedule: every day at 17:30 CEST / 11:30 a.m. Eastern and 08:30 a.m. Pacific time.
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2020-04-06
Chess Classics: Anderssen-Morphy
We start our series of Chess Classics with the match between the two strongest players of the mid-19th century. It took place in December 1858 in Paris. The players agreed to play up to seven wins.
Adolf Anderssen, from Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), was considered to be the unofficial world champion after he had won the first international chess tournament, London 1851. Since then, he had only participated in one other event. A professor of mathematics, Anderssen was 40 years old when the match was played.
Paul Morphy, the American genius, had been in Europe only for six months. He had finished his studies at age 19, and had spent two years on chess while intending to start a professional career as a lawyer soon.
While Morphy was beating all the leading players in Europe, he failed to arrange a match with his desired opponent, Howard Staunton. The match with Anderssen was his biggest test so far. Despite a severe illness (he suffered from a bout of intestinal influenza), Morphy, 21 years old, insisted on playing.
Official site
Schedule
Game 1 Apr 6, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 2 Apr 7, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 3 Apr 8, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 4 Apr 9, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 5 Apr 10, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 6 Apr 11, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 7 Apr 12, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 8 Apr 13, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 9 Apr 14, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 10 Apr 15, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
Game 11 Apr 16, 2020 6 a.m. Pacific 15:00 CEST
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2020-04-05
Introducing: Chess Classics
During these strange times, in which no (chess) events are taking place, ChessBomb will be relaying classic events from chess history.
The games of famous tournaments and matches will be shown, keeping a schedule of one round per day.
Let's start with events from the 19th century!
Next, we are broadcasting the historic match from 1858 between Adolf Anderssen and Paul Morphy
Expect also:
- The first official World Chess Championship match from 1886 between Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort
- World Chess Championship match from 1894 between Wilhelm Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker 1894
- The Hastings 1895 chess tournament
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2020-03-29
USSR vs. Rest of the World 1970
In the absence of chess events due to the coronavirus, we are relaying this historic event which happened exactly 50 years ago.
Participants:
The Soviet Team, in board order: Boris Spassky, Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi, Lev Polugaevsky, Efim Geller, Vasily Smyslov, Mark Taimanov, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Paul Keres, and reserves Leonid Stein and David Bronstein.
The Rest of the World Team in board order: Bent Larsen, Fischer, Lajos Portisch, Vlastimil Hort, Svetozar Gligoric, Samuel Reshevsky, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Milan Matulovic, Miguel Najdorf, Borislav Ivkov, and reserves Fridrik Olafsson and Klaus Viktor Darga.
Official site
Schedule:
Round 1 Mar 29, 1970 (replyed on March 2th, 2020)
Round 2 Mar 31, 1970 (replyed on April 1st, 2020)
Round 3 April 2, 1970
Round 4 April 4, 1970
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2020-03-15
Candidates Chess Tournament 2020
The format is a double round-robin of 14 rounds.
The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes to finish the game with a 30-second increment starting from the first move. No draw offers are allowed before move 41.
The prize fund is 500,000 euros.
Participants:
1. Fabiano Caruana (2842)
2. Ding Liren (2805)
3. Alexander Grischuk (2777)
4. Ian Nepomniachtchi (2774)
5. Teimour Radjabov (2765)
6. Anish Giri (2763)
7. Wang Hao (2758)
8. Kirill Alekseenko (2704)
Official site
Schedule in UTC:
Round 1 Mar 17, 2020 10:00
Round 2 Mar 18, 2020 10:00
Round 3 Mar 19, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 4 Mar 21, 2020 10:00
Round 5 Mar 22, 2020 10:00
Round 6 Mar 23, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 7 Mar 25, 2020 10:00
Round 8 Mar 26, 2020 10:00
Round 9 Mar 27, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 10 Mar 29, 2020 10:00
Round 11 Mar 30, 2020 10:00
Round 12 Mar 31, 2020 10:00
Rest Day
Round 13 Apr 2, 2020 10:00
Round 14 Apr 3, 2020 10:00
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2020-03-14
German Bundesliga 2019/20
The German Bundesliga season 2019/20 is held in different cities across Germany from November 2019 to April 2020.
Schachbundesliga was founded by the German Chess Federation in 1973. In the 1974/75 season it started with four regional groups of eight teams. In the end, the four group leaders determined the champions. The present form of the Bundesliga - group of 16 teams, started in 1980.
The Bundesliga is the world’s top chess league, and although the 16 teams compete for the German Championship it attracts the world’s best players. The teams play with each other in a round-robin format over a season. Each team consists of 8 players from a starting list of 18. A match win earns two team points, while a draw wins one.
Time control is 100 minutes for the first 40 moves and 50 for the rest of the game with a 30-second increment.
The season is split into seven weekend double rounds, starting on Saturdays at 2 pm and on Sundays at 10 am. The Bundesliga is played in four changing venues around Germany - the rounds from 13th to 15th are held in Berlin.
Official site
Schedule (UTC):
Round 1 Nov 23, 2019 13:15
Round 2 Nov 24, 2019 09:15
Round 3 Dec 7, 2019 13:15
Round 4 Dec 8, 2019 09:15
Round 5 Feb 8, 2020 13:15
Round 6 Feb 9, 2020 09:15
Round 7 Feb 22, 2020 13:15
Round 8 Feb 23, 2020 09:15
Round 9 Mar 14, 2020 13:15
Round 10 Mar 15, 2020 09:15
Round 11 Apr 4, 2020 13:15
Round 12 Apr 5, 2020 09:15
Round 13 Apr 30, 2020 15:00
Round 14 May 1, 2020 13:00
Round 15 May 2, 2020 09:00
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2020-03-03
Yudacufski Memorial TNM 2020
The tournament is played in 7 rounds
Time control: 120 minutes for the entire game.
Official website
Schedule:
Round 1 Mar 4, 2020 18:30
Round 2 Mar 11, 2020 17:30
Round 3 Mar 18, 2020 17:30
Round 4 Mar 25, 2020 17:30
Round 5 Apr 1, 2020 18:30
Round 6 Apr 8, 2020 18:30
Round 7 Apr 15, 2020 18:30
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Bulgarian Chess Championships 2020
System of play: 9 (nine) rounds, Swiss system.
Time control: 90 minutes for the entire game, with 30 seconds added for each turn played, starting with the first one.
Official site
Schedule in UTC
March 2 (Monday) 16:30 pm Technical Conference
17:00 Round 1
March 03 (Tuesday) 11.30 Round 2
16:00 Round 3
March 04 (Wednesday) 17:00 Round 4
March 05 (Thursday) 17:00 Round 5
March 06 (Friday) 17:00 Round 6
March 07 (Saturday) 16:00 Round 7
March 08 (Sunday) 16:00 Round 8
March 09 (Monday) 12:00 Round 9
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