Many of Stavanger supertournament followers ask "where is Nakamura?", we can now reply with not just "he is in Prague" but also by naming specific places he visits - I will guide you to those during Navara - Nakamura match.
The opening ceremony of the European Individual Chess Championship was held at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Yerevan. The official website offers photos from the ceremony.
Shamkir ready to hold two competitions dedicated to Vugar Gashimov's memory. The participants of the A group are Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Radjabov.
Participants of B group are Wang Hao, Woijtaszek, Bacrot, Motylev, Eljanov, Mamedov, Safarli, Guseinov, Durarbeyli and Abbasov.
Today the players visited the graves of Vugar Gashimov and Heydar Aliyev (the national leader of Azerbaijan).
My impressions of the first playing day in Sochi can be summed up in one sentence: great fuss about a single game of chess. It seems to me that's not the way it should be, ideally.
Following the tradition, Chess-News sums up the year on one page and in pictures. Most of the photos have been provided with links to the relevant reports - just click and refresh your memories of the important events happened in 2014.