The supertournament will start in several days in Stavanger. Magnus Carlsen along with some other strongest GMs will compete for the prize. Here's the question we are asking:
Today Garry Kasparov and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced they will run for FIDE presidency in 2014. Although our readers don't have the right to vote officially, we ask you to share your opinion by voting in our poll:
It's been a while that there's a discussion if Chess960 or Fischer chess is a good alternative to the classical chess. Moscow has recently hosted a two-day round-robin rapid event in Fischer chess. Soon we are planning to invite the participants of the tournament to our radio, so we can know their impressions from the competition. Here we offer you to express your opinion on the topic.
For the second year in a row, "Synergy Group" is organising a supertournament in memory of the tragically short-lived Azeri Grandmaster, Vugar Gashimov.
Grandmaster Luke McShane of England accepted the invitation of the Russian Chess Federation to participate in Tal Memorial, which was announced after publishing poll results. McShane has won an online poll on Federation's website receiving 3860 votes. The information was published by the agency "R-Sport" referring to the Head of RCF Board Ilya Levitov.