Chess Tournaments

By Mark S. Dutton, International Arbiter

WATCH LIVE CHESS GAMES from the 2010 Grand Pacific Open Chess Championship!

By Abby Marshall

Kudos as always to MonRoi for broadcasting the games and making it possible for everyone to know the results live. I guess I switched to writing hieroglyphics in the middle of my notation so I can’t read half my moves, but thanks to MonRoi I now have the complete score. Yay!

Le Championnat ouvert du Québec accueillera au moins 11 GMs cette année dont l'un des meilleurs juniors au monde : Yaroslav Zherebukh d'Ukraine. Date : 18 au 25 juillet 2009 au Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf à Montréal.

MonRoi is delighted with the positive feedback received after the 2009 Canadian Open Chess Tournament, which was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We thank the Canadian chess community and chess fans worldwide for their continued support. Below are a few comments from Chess Talk.

Global Chess
FIDE Grand-Prix is a series of six invitational chess tournaments, held over two years, managed by Global Chess. Global Chess is co-owned by FIDE’s President Kirsan Ilymzhinov and Chess Lane LA company of David Kaplan, a Russian-Israeli businessman. Global Chess BV was established in Prague on the 21st day of December 2006, when Memorandum Of Understanding was signed by FIDE’s President and Bessel Kok. It appears that subsequently Bessel Kok, the Chairman of Global Chess has left the company.

NASA and the USCF organized the correspondence chess match between astronaut Greg Chamitoff, in orbit aboard the International Space Station, and the kindergarten through third grade U.S. Chess Championship Team and its chess club teammates from Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash. The game moves at a pace of one move per day on weekdays only.

May 9 - 11, Pennsylvania
The competition this past weekend brought 2,200 chess players, some as young as 4, to Pittsburgh from nearly every corner of the United States. 

Atlanta, Georgia, USA- April 2008

Dallas, Texas, April 2008

Increase your rating, travel the world!

Top Chess Tournaments in the USA and Canada

Chicago Open Chess Tournament (May): www.chesstour.com
US Chess Championship (May): www.uschess.org

By Peter Hum 

In 2007, the organizers of the Canadian Open and Canadian Youth Chess Championships in Ottawa raised more than $90,000 in cash and many invaluable in-kind donations from sponsors and donors to stage the two events.

2006 Canadian Closed Chess Championship, Toronto

How do you feel?
I feel exhausted, but exceedingly happy.