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European Champions: GM Vladislav Tkachiev , IM Tatiana Kosintseva
European Individual Chess Championship 2007 which was held in Dresden, Germany is over.
One of the stars of women chess IM Tatiana Kosintseva won the Eureopan Individual Chess Championship with a commanding 10/11 winning her last round game against IM Maia Lomineishvili despite she had already guaranteed her title. GM Vladislav Tkachiev won his first European Championship title after tie-break games. 2006 European Individual Champion for women IM Ekaterina Atalık finished the event with a shared fifth and lost the struggle for a possible consecutive gold medal after losing against IM Tatiana Kosintseva.
Live Games (Monroi) Official Internet Site Live Games All Results
Photo Gallery Turkish National Team Results National Team Performance Chart
Winner of the President's Cup 2007: IM Umut Atakişi
President's Cup in Turkey, one of the strongest national tournaments in Turkey was held in Ankara Atatürk Chess Centre between 27-30 April 2007.
After the thriller in the final rounds, IM Umut Atakişi won the tournament with 9.5 points sharing the first place with IM Kıvanç Haznedaroğlu but having the better tie break.
You can follow the games live on Atatürk Stadium.List of Players Pairings CrossTable Standings
Global Chess Launched, Target is Promoting Chess
President of the FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Mr. Bessel Kok formally announced the inauguration of Global Chess BV. After the finalization of the licence agreement with FIDE, Global Chess is will begin working on World Class Chess tournaments (including the next world championship cycle). The investments are going to be evaluated in order to promote the game of chess.
The chairman of the company is going to be Mr.Bessel Kok and CEO of the Company is going to be Mr.Geoffrey Borg.
Turkish Chess Federation enthusiastically welcomes the new company and wishes good luck to the members of the company.
GM Atalık Won Turkish Championship Title with 11/13
CHAMPION OF TURKEY: GM SUAT ATALIK
Turkish Chess Championship was held in Atatürk Chess Centre between 1-15 March 2007. Grandmaster Suat Atalık who won the Mediterranean Championship recently also won the national title for the third time (1987 and 1988) with 11/13 without losses. In the final round, Atalık defeated IM Erdoğdu who shared the second place with IM Esen both in 9 points and they are going to play tie-break matches on March 14,2007. The matches are starting at 15:00 in local time. You can watch the last two round games from Atatürk Stadium. In the last round GM Atalık is going to face IM Erdoğdu.
Elo Report Standings Cross Table Pairings&Results
Linares/Morelia Super-GM Tournament Won By Viswanathan Anand
Indian grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand won 24th Super Grandmaster Chess Tournament, Morelia/Linares with 8.5/14. There was a two way tie for the second place by Norwegian youngster Magnus Carlsen and Alexander Morozevich, both of them playing in Morelia/Linares for the first time.
A New Webpage for Free Chess Lesson: Videochess
The project of producing a web page based on the application of visual teaching, which is the most efficient method, to chess education and tranining pupils of various levels, on a worldwide basis. All of the benefits of chess to development of the character for the children, developing their own initiative, self-esteem could be established through a world wide education programme which is to be provided via Internet.
The concept of this site was developed with the help of earlier experiences of the staff in Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and Africa. A good example of how Internet could be utilized for promoting chess.
Here is the URL of the web site:
2006-2007 İŞ BANKASI CHESS LEAGUE ENDED
BEŞİKTAŞ JK: TÜRKİYE İŞ BANKASI CHESS LEAGUE CHAMPION
1.BEŞİKTAŞ JK 29
2.TARSUS ZEKA SATRANÇ SPOR KULÜBÜ 26
3. TÜRK HAVA YOLLARI S.K. 25
Beşiktaş claimed its second consecutive Turkish Chess Leauge title with only one grandmaster in their playing squad (GM Vugar Gashimov) with 29 points.
Tarsus Zeka finished the league in the second place with 26 points with a mixture of strong Georgian players led by GM Levan Pantsualia and strong Turkish players.
The third place was occupied by THY (Turkish Airlines) with 25 points having despite having strong foreign players like GM Merab Gagunashvili, IM Anna Muzychuk and Turkish IMs Haznedaroğlu, Erdoğdu and Can.
The fourth spot which might become the final ticket for European Club Cup participation was taken by Denizli Erbakır the sensation of 2006-2007 season after defeating their rivals for the fourth place Manisa Doruk Koleji 8.5-1.5.
FIDE Presidential Board Meeting Ended
1st Quarter 2007 Presidential Board Meeting was held between 26-28 January 2007 in Limra Hotel in Kemer Antalya. All of the highest officials of FIDE are attending the meeting including FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov. There are also various international chess journalists here to follow the Board Meeting. As the national federation of the most rapidly developing chess country in the world, we are proud to be hosting this important meeting.
2007 First Quarter FIDE Presidential Board Meeting is being held in Kemer Limra Hotel in Antalya between 26-28 January. All of the highest officals of FIDE including President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov are attending the meeting and determining the future of chess. At the beginning of the first session, President of TCF Ali Nihat Yazıcı stated that in the name of TCF he is proud to be hosting this important meeting and expressed the Board his gratitude for assigning TCF such an organization. FIDE President Ilyumzhinov, thanked TCF President Yazıcı and the stuff for their professional approach and successfully organizing this event.
You can reach the press release on Topalov-Kramnik match from here.
You can reach FIDE Press Release of the 1st Presidential Board 2007 from here.
Atalik in Corus Wijk Aan Zee
First Round of Corus 2007 Started Today
Turkish Grandmaster Suat Atalık who won Corus C group with 10.5/13 quite comfortably last year is now playing Corus B which is going to be quite challenging for the Grandmaster from İstanbul. Corus Wijk aan Zee is one of the oldest traditional tournaments which is the first "Grand Slam" event of the year. The event is between 12-28 January 2007. The sponsor of the event, which game its name, Corus is one of the largest steel companies in Europe since 2000. If GM Atalik wins this difficult group, he will be the first grandmaster to win C and B groups consecutively and qualifying for Group A, where world's strongest grandmasters are invited.
The first round of Corus Wijk aan Zee started today. GM Suat Atalık had a draw with white pieces against local youngster GM Daniel Stellwagen (2587).
Click on the link below to see earlier news about Corus, Atalik's past in Wijk aan Zee B, his thoughts about the upcoming event and the list of participants.
A fresh force for chess: GlobalChess founded
Gens Una Sumus reemphasized by Kok and Ilyumzhinov
On December 22,2006, an important memorandum was announced in Prag signed between two former opponents for FIDE Presidency Elections in May 2006, Turin; FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and businessman Bessel Kok. According to this memorandum, a company named Global Chess was inaugurated for the sake of promoting, developing and marketing chess. The activities of the company are going to include promotion of World Championship matches and tournaments, Youth and Junior World Championships. There is business plan for 5 years with an initial investment of EUR 4.5 million with further injection of EUR 5.5 million in the future. Apart from world championship cycles and events, investments on training academies, software and other future projects related to promoting the game of chess. The company is going to work with the authorization given by FIDE. The Board of Directors are going to be the chairman of the company Bessel Kok, FIDE Presidents Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Alexey Barsov.
Source: ChessVista (The web site of well-known chess photographer Frits Agterdenbros)
Interview with GM Adrian Michalchishin
Adrian Michalcishin: "Nobody expected that it was possible to make such big progress in such short time"
Some time ago, TCF Press Officer Özgur Akman had an interview with GM Adrian Bogdanovich Michalhchishin who was in Turker for trainer seminars and playing for TED Kolejliler in İş Bankası Chess League. The Turkish version of the interview had already been published in Turkish version of TCF web site and it is now available in English. It was about Michalchishin himself, chess in Turkey, trainers in Turkey and problems of development of a young chess player in general. Click on the link below to read all of the interview.
Turkish Championship Qualification Tournament Finished:FM Bayram won with 7.5/10
The tournament was won by FM Yakup Bayram with 7.5/10. The second place was shared by FM Emre Can and FM Tolga Demirel with 7/10 but FM Can had the better tie-break.
Here is the list of qualifiers for the Turkish Championship finals after the play-off games for the 12th and 13th places:
FM Yakup Bayram(2282), FM Emre Can(2399), FM Tolga Demirel(2201), IM Mert Erdoğdu(2383), IM Umut Atakişi(2394), FM Yakup Erturan(2365), IM Barış Esen(2464), Ata Seçer (2269), WIM Betül Cemre Yıldız(2227),IM Hasan Kılıçaslan(2259), Erhan Tanrıkulu(2171) and FM Selim Çıtak (2312).
Please click the link below to find out the results, pairings, standings and games played on the live boards. You can follow the games live from Başkent Stadium.
Kübra just few votes short of Best Athlete of the Year:
Contest of the year: Neslihan Demir voted as Sportsperson of the Year Kübra at the second place
According to the report of Milliyet, Neslihan Demir was voted as the Sportsperson of the year while Kübra Öztürk was just few votes short of Neslihan Demir and became second in the voting. It is the first time that a chess player was nominated in such a large-scale voting in Turkey. However, it was such a thrilling race between Under 16 European Champion and the star of the national volleyball team.
Mevlana Chess Festival
Mevlana Chess Festival: IM Abbasov won the open with 7/8
"Come come, whoever you are" Mevlana
Mevlana Chess Festival which is going to be held in Konya between November 30-December 7 2006 is starting today at 4 p.m. Konya, Mevlana Chess Festival is the most recent international chess festival organized in Turkey.
The prizes of the event are sponsored by the Governorship of Konya. Konya Youth and Sports District Directorate, Konya Culture and Tourism Directorate and Turkish Chess Federation are the sponsors of the event.
The open category of the event was won by IM Farid Abbasov from Azerbaijan and also player of Konyaspor in Is Bankasi Chess League with 7/8. The second place was occupied by another Azerbaijani International Master and also player of Konyaspor, Rashad Babaev with 6.5/8. 3-5.places are shared by GM Handszar Odeev, IM Umut Atakişi and Armen Grigoriev.
In the under 16 category Turkish hopeful Atilla Yüksel and Arslan Othiyev shared the first place with 5/6 while Halil İbrahim Özen and Nazlı Kovan shared the third place with 4.5/6.
In the blitz category, the winner was the same as the open, Farid Abbasov while the 2-5. places were shared by IM Hasan Kılıçaslan, Armen Grigoriev, IM Rashad Babaev and FM Ahmed Hamad.
You can access the results, standings, crosstable and the pgn files of the event from the link below.
The 5th Izmir Open Chess Tournament is finished
GM Evgenij MIROSHNICHENKO is the champion of the 5th Izmir Open Chess Tournament with 8,5 points. Gm Rauf MAMEDOV takes the second place, IM Milen VASILEV the third, IM Tournike SANIKIDZE the forth, with 8 points each.
For more information please visit Tournament Page.
INTERNATIONAL ATATÜRK CHESS FESTIVAL
International Chess Festival has finished. Tournament Page
GM Mchedlishvili, GM Gaprindashvili, GM Bagaturov and Morchiashvili from Georgia shared the first prize. Players who has 6 points are orderly, 5th GM Mamedov, 6th IM Esen, 7th GM Shanava, 8th GM Gelashvili, 9th GM Gashimov,10th IM Guliev, 11th FM Hamad and 12th Jwan. The price ceremony is at 18:00 on November, 14.2006.
Category prizes under16 open blitz
TURKISH TROIKA!!
After
INTERNATIONAL ATATURK FESTIVAL –
TCF President Ali Nihat YAZICI, announced today that
As it is known very well, in
International Ataturk Chess Festival will be organized by the sponsorship of
Prof.Dr.Azim OZTURK Major of
Major OZTURK says that the chess is the best educational tool to give to children. Considering the development of chess in
Major Öztürk, also has mentioned that the International Atatürk Festival will be organized every year at the same time as a chess classic in Seyhan!
The partners of organizers are
click on the link below for more information
V. International Istanbul Chess Festival
V. International Istanbul Chess Festival is organizing in between 30 August and 08 September 2006. There are 3 categories; including open, universities and under 16 in Festival.
PHOTOS: OPEN UNIVERSITIES UNDER 16
OFFICIAL SITE OF WORLD YOUTH UNDER 16 OLYMPIAD
The Official Site of WORLD YOUTH UNDER 16 OLYMPIAD is on-line. Address is: http://under16.tsf.org.tr
Dünya 16 Yaş Altı Satranç Olimpiyatı Resmi Web Sitesi http://under16.tsf.org.tr açıldı.
2006 IZMIR INTERNATIONAL OPEN CHESS TOURNAMENT
2006 Izmir International Open Chess Tournament will be held on September 09-20, 2006 in İzmir. 12 GM, 13 IM, 2 FM, 8 WGM, 7 WIM, 2 WFM is participating.
Turkiye İs Bankasi Under 8 Chess Championship!
WE INVITE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN TO A PERFECT CHESS FESTIVAL ..
Turkiye Is Bankasi Under 8 Chess Championship has postponed to 23-24-25 June 2006 because of the requests of parents.
The place of the Championship is Turkiye Is Bankasi Çamlıca Spor Tesisleri (Fahrettin Kerim Gökay Caddesi no:51/53 K.Çamlıca-İstanbul) where has a great nature.
Türkiye İş Bankası will organize children chess festival. Girls and boys under 8 years old can participate to this championship. It will be played at 6 rounds and continues for 3 days.
A perfect organization is waiting for you
- TCF Licences that Turkiye Is Bankasi prepares for all players
- Medals for all participating players
- Cups for the degrees
- Surprise presents
- Special activities for parents
- Lunches and coffee-breaks
- Shuttle services
Only first 200 child can participate to this tournament in this great area where you can see the pictures above.
Please register and fill the application form as soon as possible, send the form to Bu e-Posta adresi istenmeyen posta engelleyicileri tarafından korunuyor. Görüntülemek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir.">Bu e-Posta adresi istenmeyen posta engelleyicileri tarafından korunuyor. Görüntülemek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir.. We wish luck for all players.
Turkey vs Slovenia on playchess
SLOVENIA vs TURKEY on 29th April
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Two important chess countries in Europe are going to make a match on 29th April via Playchess.com.
Chessbase’s, playchess online service will host the event.
It will start on 29th April at 16:00 CET. The Match will be played on 12 boards (6 players, 4 women players, 2 juniors U20). Playing time is 90 min with additional 30 seconds for each move.
European Championships
Yesterday, due to the density on our servers, european championships' datas could not be browsed by some visitors.
Today we upgrade our server connections and also put the datas on http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Welt.aspx?id=4689&lan=1&nr=-1 web site.
From now on visitors will not have any problem on our web site.
Grand Master Lajos PORTISCH's Birthday
Turkish chess society member ,Turkish Chess Team Trainer, Grand Master Lajos Portisch celebrates his 69th Birthday. As Turkish Chess family we give the best wishes and happy years to him.
Chess Informant celebrates 40 years!
In this year Chess Informant celebrates 40 years of its foundation.TCF wish good luck to Chess Informant
Wedding in Istanbul!!
The World Juniors Chess Championships are going to be organised in Istanbul, from November 8th to 23rd. 15 GMs, 23 IMs, 13 FMs, 10 WGMs, 16 WIMs and 9 WFMs total 160 players from 56 countries have registered for the events. The championships will be one of most crowded in the last decade. The opening ceremony, hosted by the Turkish Chess Federation, will take place on November 9th at 15:30h.
Returning to Turkey after five years: GM Suat Atalik, 41
The same day, just after opening ceremony, there will be a very unusual wedding ceremony, also hosted by the TCF. GM Suat Atalik, the strongest Turkish GM, has returned to the country of his birth after five years in Bosnia. Suat, a Super-GM with a 2620 rating, will marry with WGM Ekaterina Polovnikova of Russia, who is 22 and ranked 43 in the women world ranking list (her rating is 2412). The ceremony will take part in Okan University in the Anatolian part of Istanbul. All principles and guests will join to ceremony at 17:00h.
The bride: WGM Ekaterina Polovnikova, 21
Just after wedding ceremony the two grandmasters (bride and groom) will play a deciding blitz math for the leadership position at home. The TCF has promised to broadcast the match live on the Playchess.com server. TCF President Ali Nihat Yazici has his bets on WGM Polovnikova. He writes: “If you are in Istanbul on 9th of November do not miss this important time for chess and for TCF. If you want to Bu e-Posta adresi istenmeyen posta engelleyicileri tarafından korunuyor. Görüntülemek için JavaScript etkinleştirilmelidir.">send greetings to couple then your message will be published on TCF official website is the address.”
Too see greetings see the rest of the news.
Izmir Open
Izmir Open started. 6 GM, 8 IM, 5 FM, 3 WIM, 1 WFM total 134 players. Total prize fund is 10.000 USD
INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL CHESS FESTIVAL
4th Istanbul Chess Festival started with a great opening ceremony. Tournament is going on in 3 categories. 420 players are playing in Universities, Under 16 and Open Categories.
Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediyesi is the main sponsor of Festival. In the opening ceremony Mr. Arhan BÖLÜKBAŞI, General Manager of Spor A.Ş., said "We are trying to make the festival a brand."
Total Price is 30000 USD and Festival is going to finish at 2nd of September.
World School Chess Team Championships
U-12
I. World School Chess Team Championships started in Eskisehir. From 8 countries 127 participants compete for three different categories.
Regulations Schedule Live List of Participants
Pairings / Results
Cross Table
Pictures Opening Closing Dinner
Blitz Tournament
Table Rank
Elo Report
2005 WORLD JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
2005 World Juniors U20 Boys and Girls Chess Championships
Istanbul metropolitan Municipality and Turkish Chess Federation, under auspicies of FIDE, invite all countries to Istanbul for participating to 2005 World Juniors Chess Championships. The tournament is organised on the centre of Istanbul, Taksim Square, Lion Hotel and Golden Age Hotel.
Istanbul Open and Izmir Open
Traditional Turkish Opens are going to be organised following each other. 22 August - 1 September Istanbul Open will be organised and total prize fund is 30.000 USD
2nd September till 11 September Izmir Open will be organised total prize fund is 10.000 USD.
To send application check the regulations: Istanbul open and Izmir Open
Travel once play twice....
1st World School Chess Teams Championship
1st World School Chess Teams Championship will be organised by Turkish Chess Federation and Atayurt Private Schools between 20-28 August 2005, in Eskisehir, Turkey.
Regulation Registration Form Transfer Form
Formula Köfte!! 1st Inegol GM Tournament
1st Inegol Traditional GM Tournament will be organised every year at the same time in Inegol, Bursa, Turkey. Inegol is a very big industrial town. The town is very famous with traditional ‘Inegol Kofte’, one of the best in the world by the name and taste. The town has also reputation with furniture industry. Overall yearly export amount of furniture is approximately 500 Millions USD.
European Youth Team Chess Championships
European Youth Team Chess Championships15-24 October 2005, Yalova, Turkey
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European Youth Team Chess Championships shall be organised by Turkish Chess Federation between 2-11 September 2005, in Yalova, Turkey. Yalova is very near to Istanbul.
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