The USA Championship Has Started. The Former Ukrainians Stripunsky and Onischuk Are Playing Against Each Other in the First Round (LIVE)

GM Suat Atalik finished his open letter to the ACP Board Director Yuri Garret with a loud announcement: "By this letter I resign from ACP."

Lately we reported that GMs Morozevich and Dreev confirmed their participation in Dvorkovich Memorial which will take place in Taganrog. Another strong grandmaster decided to participate.

Emil Sutovsky, ACP president, answers GM Karjakin on his Facebook page:

The games of round 8 are currenly being played in the Nakhchivan Open.

Georgios Makropoulos, the President of the Greek Chess Federation, sent an open letter to the editor-in-chief of Chess-News saying that the information published by the wbesite  under the title "Georgios Makropoulos has been sending letters to the players of Negroponte 2012 advising them not to participate in it" is not only "

Alexandra Kosteniuk published on her Livejournal (in Russian) the paticipants list of the Russian national team, which will play a friendly match against China on July 1st-9th in St. Petersburg. Except Kosteniuk Russian team will be presented by Alisa Galliamova, Valentina Gunina, Olga Girya and Natalia Pogonina.

Towards the end of the game Aronian went on sharpening the position          

The Association of Chess Professionals published an open letter in which it expressed it's attitude towards the "Atalik issue."