The Super Final Tournament of Online Grand Prix Open 2012 took place August 15. 8 players competed for the grand prize in a knockout tournament.

The quarterfinal featured the following matches: Volkov – Safarli 0,5:3,5; Zubov – Kovalenko 3:1; Andreikin – Andriasian 2,5:1,5 and Grischuk – Amonatov 2,5:2,5. The semifinal results: Grischuk – Safarli 1,5:2,5 and Andreikin – Zubov 3:1.

After 4 games of the final match between Eltaj Safarli and Dmitriy Andreikin resulted an a draw (2:2), an armageddon game was used as a tie-breaker. The game ended in yet another draw, and Dmitriy Andreikin – who played as Black and with less time – won the Super Final Tournament of Online Grand Prix 2012.

Watch the games in our Tournaments & Broadcasts section.

The 7th Tal Memorial takes place in Moscow June, 7 – 18.
The palyers participating are: Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Teimour Radjabov, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruanam, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Luke McShane.
Watch live broadcasts in the Tournaments & Broadcasts section of our site, or in our Playing Zone.

The games will be played on June 8-10, 12-14 and 16-18. All games and broadcasts except the final one start at 12-00 noon UTC. The final series of games start at 10-00 a.m. UTC.

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Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN]

Levon Aronian plays Vladimir Kramnik in a 6 game match in Zuerich 21st-28th April 2012. The contest will be played at a Classical Chess time-control to be employed in the next Candidates tournament, with 40 moves in two hours, 20 moves in one hour plus 15 minutes and an increment of 30 seconds per move for the remainder of the game. Game 1 Saturday 21st April 2012 at 2pm BST 3pm CET.

Aronian – Kramnik 3-3

Games: Game 1 [ PGN], Game 2 [ PGN]

The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament will be held in Wijk aan Zee Saturday 14th January – Sunday 29th January 2012. 14 grandmasters will play against each other once.

Participants include: Magnus Carlsen (ELO 2835), Levon Aronian (2805), Teimour Radjabov (2773), Veselin Topalov (2770), Sergey Karjakin (2769), Vasiliy Ivanchuk (2766), Vugar Gashimov (2761), Hikaru Nakamura (2759), Boris Gelfand (2739), Fabiano Caruana (2736), Gata Kamsky (2732), Anish Giri (2714), David Navara (2712), Loeak Van Wely (2692).

Watch the games commented by Houdini Aquarium in our Tournaments&Broadcasts section:
Game days: January 14-17, 19-22, 24, 25 and 27-29.
Games start at: 12:30 GMT.

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Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN], Round 10 [ PGN], Round 11 [ PGN], Round 12 [ PGN], Round 13 [ PGN]

The London Chess Classic takes place December 3rd-12th at the Olympia Conference centre in Kensington. Round robin. Participants: Magnus Carlsen (Norway, 2826), Viswanathan Anand (India, 2811), Levon Aronian (Armenia, 2802), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, 2800), Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 2758), Michael Adams (UK, 2734), Nigel Short (UK, 2698), Luke McShane (UK, 2671), David Howell (UK, 2633).
Time control: 2 hours for 40 moves, the 1 hour for 20 moves and 15 minutes for finishing the game, adding 30 seconds for every move starting with the 61th.
3 points for winning a game, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for losing. No draw propositions.

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Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN]

The Tal Memorial takes place in Moscow November, 16th – 25th.
The palyers participating are: Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Peter Svidler, Boris Gelfand and Ian Nepomniachtchi.

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Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN]

The 18th European Team Championships both Open and for Women take place in the resort of Porto Carras on the Sithonia, Halkidiki peninsula in crisis torn Greece Thursday 3rd – Friday 11th November 2011. A star filled lineup with Aronian, Karjakin, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Morozevich, Giri, Adams, Short to mention just a few. Play starts at 13:00GMT.

Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN], Round 7 [ PGN], Round 8 [ PGN], Round 9 [ PGN]

Standings open section

Standings women section

The 15th Unive Tournament takes place 14th-22nd October 2011. The Crown Group takes place 16th-22nd Oct with Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Judit Polgar.

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Games: Round 1 [ PGN], Round 2 [ PGN], Round 3 [ PGN], Round 4 [ PGN], Round 5 [ PGN], Round 6 [ PGN]