Nutcracker Match: Kings and Princes to Measure Swords Again

The classical duel between the Kings and the Princes has finished in Moscow. The young grandmasters started the match tournament with a victory, but more experienced players managed to equalise the score and then to seize the lead. However, yesterday the young talents outplayed their opponents again.

In 2013 Zurich is going to hold one more top level chess competition. The organizer shall once again be Oleg Skvortsov, the one who sponsored Kramnik-Aronian match, which was quite a success in april this year. Next event to go is a match like the one before or a tournament between four top level grandmasters. Exact details and time will be announced later.

Oparin "defeating the monster", Dreev creating a study, and other moments of the Nutcracker tournament

Russian businessman proposes to hold a match or a match-tournament

Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 announces participants

The idea of the Nutcracker tournament has proved successful

Boris Gelfand wished the participants to play bright chess

The organizers of the traditional London Chess Classic announced this year's competition will switch to rapid chess. It is planned to take place from December 11 to 15; the decision was made because of two factors: the world championship match finishes shortly before (November 26) the rapid tournament will start, while team championship is scheduled to end on December 6, so most of the potential participants might not be "much into classical chess."