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Past Chess News & Events
Year 2002 / Year 2003 / Year 2004 / Year 2005 / Year 2006 / Year 2007

- ENCI Limburg Open (May 10 - 12 / Maastricht, NETHERLANDS)

* IM Robin Swinkels won the tournament, Nijboer, Klimov & Jones shared the 1st place

* Final standings
* Official site

- Znojmo Open 2008 (May 8 - 11 / Znojmo, CZECH REPUBLIC)

* Tadeas Klecker (5/7) won the tournament by better tiebreak

* Final standings
* Official site

- FIDE Grand Prix (April 20 - May 6 / Baku, AZERBAIJAN)

* Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue & Magnus Carlsen shared the 1st prize

* Results
* Download all the games

* Official site

- 9th European Individual Chess Championship (April 20 - May 4 / Plovdiv, BULGARIA)

* Sergei Tiviakov & Kateryna Lahno are the new European Individual Chess Champions
* Final standings: men / women
* Official site

- Dos Hermanas Rapid Tournament (April 18 - 20 / Dos Hermanas, SPAIN)

* Veselin Topalov won the tournament after beating Vallejo Pons in the final (2.5-1.5)

* Download the games
* Official site

- Dutch Chess Championship (April 2 - 13 / Hilversum, NETHERLANDS)

* Jan Smeets became Dutch chess champion / Peng Zhaoquin retains the women title

* Official site

- Russian Team Championship (April 2 - 13 / Dagomys, RUSSIA)

* Ural-Ekaterinburg (Radjabov, Shirov, Kamsky, Grischuk,, Malakhov, Akopian, Dreev & Motylev) won the title

* Official site

- 2nd Magistral Ruy Lopez (April 4 - 13 / Mérida, SPAIN)

* Michael Adams (5.5/7) won the tournament, Zhang Pengxiang finished in 2nd place

* Official site

- Amber Rapid & Blindfold Tournament (March 14 - 28 / Nice, FRANCE)

* Levon Aronian won the tournament; Kramnik, Leko & Topalov shared the 2nd place

* Download all the games
* Final standings

* Official site

- Isbank Ataturk Chess Tournament (March 11 - 20 // TURKEY)

* Hou Yifan (7/9) won the tournament, Pia Cramling finished in 2nd place

* Official site

- 23th Reykjavik Open (March 3 - 11 // Reykjavik, Iceland)

* Wang Hao won the tournament by better tiebreak (Hannes Stefansson & Wang Yue shared the 1st place with him)

* Official site

- Morelia - Linares Chess Tournament (Feb 14 - 19 / Morelia, MEXICO - Feb 28 - March 8 / Linares, SPAIN)

* Viswanathan Anand (8.5/14) won the tournament, Magnus Carlsen finished in 2nd place

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games

* Participants: Anand, Ivanchuk, Topalov, Leko, Radjabov, Aronian, Shirov & Carlsen
* Official site (Linares)
* Official site (Morelia)

- Aeroflot Chess Open (February 13 - 23 / Moscow, RUSSIA)

* Ian Nepomniachtchi (7/9) won the tournament
* Regulations

* Official site

- Moscow Chess Open (February 2 - 10 / Moscow, RUSSIA)

* Artyom Timofeev (7.5/9) won the tournament

* Official site

- Gibtelecom Chess Festival (January 22 - 31 / Gibraltar)

* Hikaru Nakamura beat Xianzghi Bu in the play-off (2-0)

* Results & standings
* Official site

- Corus Chess Tournament (January 11-22 / Wijk aan Zee, NETHERLANDS)

* Levon Aronian & Magnus Carlsen shared the 1st place

* Chessville coverage
* Download all the games

* Official site

- Robert James Fischer (1943 - 2008)

* Former World Champion, Bobby Fischer, died on January 17th

* BBC Report (incl. video) / Fischer Photo & Quote Montage

- 2nd ACP World Rapid Cup (January 4-7 / Odessa, UKRAINE)

* Teimour Radjabov beat Alexander Grischuk in the final

* Official site

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