The Question to Organizers

Hello! I'm glad that Chess-News give me the opportunity to explain the reasons why I left the European Championship after the 7th round. Indeed, it seems that people pay more attention to such unfortunate details than to the course of the tournament or the games themselves.

David Navara won the European blitz championship

Chess-News has been informed that, from today, the games of the Women's European Championship will be broadcast with a 15-minute delay, at the request of many of the players. The competitors approached the organising committee with this request. 

The Original

While studying hard for my final exams and having no time to throw away at all, I simply couldn't help myself expressing my deepest disgust about the situation where a few WGM's, ex World and European Champions and strong GMs amongst them, accused my colleague from the National Team- WGM Mihaela Sandu for cheating.

Kasparov’s press conference at the Tretyakov Gallery, 18.05.2012

М.GLUKHOVSKY: Garry Kimovich, How did you evaluate the players before the match, and how do you evaluate them now, when half of the match is practically over?

Garry Kasparov shared his opinion on the Candidates tournament on Crestbook.com:

"The tournament proved that the rumors stating that the classical chess is dead are exaggerated. There was a spectacular event, a lot of decisive games and so on.

E.SUROV: This is Moshe Slav ladies and gentlemen. If you think that he is the President of the Israeli Chess Federation, the main organizer of the tournament, which is now held in Eilat and, as it turned out today, a great swimmer, then you are of course right. However, not everyone knows that Moshe is also the owner (or the President - how should I call that?) of the chess club Ashdod - the club which brought first surprises at the start of the European Club Cup. Could you tell us what is going on?

The press conference held in the State Tretyakov Gallery 20.05.2012.

M.GLUKHOVShKY: Dear friends, let me announce that our guest today is the 12^th World Champion Anatoly Karpov. Anatoly Evgenievich, surely there are a lot of questions to you, but I’d like to start from your famous phrase “This is not my cycle”...