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The International Chess Federation (FIDE) and the Singapore Chess Federation (SCF) are proud to announce that Google will be the title sponsor of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024. This event will be held at Resorts World Sentosa from November 23 to December 15, 2024. This historic collaboration represents the first time a global technology […]

Players interested in participating in this tournament, the strongest in Spain during the years 2022 and 2023 (certified by the FEDA and the Consejo Superior de Deportes), can already consult the rules and register in the open.

The first of August will be open registration for the fifth edition of EL LLOBREGAT OPEN CHESS. Initially, the first group of players will be able to register: players with international master or grandmaster qualifications.

One of the charms of chess is the subtle and powerful silver thread with which it mirrors us in different disciplines. The game-science is present in the plans of Ridley Scott, in the notes of Philidor’s operas and in the lines of Stefan Zweig, as well as in so many other samples of the divine

The Spanish Chess Federation and the Superior Council of Sports of Spain have issued a circular where they certify that The Llobregat Open Chess Tnmt. has been the strongest chess open of all those held in Spain in the year 2023 (direct link to the FEDA website: https://feda.org/feda2k16/wp-content/uploads/C09_2024-Clasificacion_Torneos_Abiertos_2023.pdf).

When the chess fan crosses the threshold of the Llobregat Open Chess Tournament, he/she knows that he/she will meet the main present minds of the game-science, grandmasters coming from all over the world with the aim of putting their name in gold letters with a great victory. Now, as you look around the playing hall

When Marc Narciso sits in front of the board, the fan enjoys an epicurean experience. Marc’s devotion to chess is comparable to the love for knowledge that was breathed in the famous Greek garden, because reason guides his movements and pleasure moves the gears of the calculation that justifies them. Marc, like a modern Epicurus,

The name of Alexei Shirov should be said as if we were in the hall of the Fisher King’s castle. The Hispano-lettón symbolizes the Grail that all chess fans aspire to, both in the Llobregat Open Chess Tournament and in any other place in the world where chess is played.