Gibraltar Masters 2020: Esipenko leads halfway through
One of the best open tournaments in the world, Gibraltar International Chess Festival is underway in the British Overseas Territory. The festival includes several tournaments in three sections, running January 22-30: Masters, Challengers and Amateurs. More than 500 players are taking part this year. In the Masters tournament, Andrey Esipenko (Russia, #6 in the juniors rating list) emerged as the […]
Marking the centennial of Lim Kok Ann’s birth
(Photo: Singapore Chess: A History 1945-1990) On January 27, 2020, Lim Kok Ann, a chess player from Singapore, the General Secretary of FIDE from 1982 untill 1988 would have celebrated his 100 anniversary. Lim Kok Ann is called one of the “Fathers of Asian chess” and rightly so. For more than 50 years Lim Kok Ann relentlessly promoted […]
International Arbiter Training Seminar held in Moscow
The International Arbiter Training Seminar, the fifth event in the FIDE & CFR Pilot Project for Training and Certification of the International Arbiters for the 2020 World Chess Olympiad, took place at the Russian State Social University in Moscow on January 24-27, 2020. Held in Russian and English, this IA Training Seminar was a flagship event in […]
Tata Steel Masters 2020: Rich Man, Poor Man
Fabiano Caruana finished Masters event in Wijk aan Zee in style winning his last game against Vladislav Artemiev in the longest and the most interesting encounter of the round. All the other games were drawn. FIDE.com summarizes the results of the first super tournament of 2020. Fabiano Caruana guaranteed himself a tournament win after Round 12, but he […]