Nakhchivan Open: Kurnosov - Khalifman, Aleksandrov - Safarli, Macieja - Shimanov and Other Games of Round 8. LIVE

In these moments will start the 7th round of the Nakhchivan Open. Watch live games. 

The Men's and Women's USA Championships have started today in Saint Louis at 22.00 Moscow time. The official opening of the tournaments happened earlier.

The first round pairings are as follows:

Recently we've informed you that the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) plans to hold a large international tournament MGSU Cup "Our Heritage." Now we got to know that it will be a rapid competition.

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.

Today is the first free day in Kramnik - Aronian match that takes place in Zurich. However, it's hard to say that the Grandmasters had a rest from chess. Especially "unlucky" in this context was the leader of the match Armenian Aronian: Levon played two games against the main sponsor of the match Oleg Skvortsov.

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."

Suat Atalik has answered ACP's open letter after the first ever match between the married couple has been finished in Greece. GM noted that the ACP's answer was released after almost a month.

The fifth round games of the Open in memory of Geidar Aliev started at 14.30 Moscow time in Nakhchivan. The leader Viorel Iordachescu is White against Aleksej Aleksandrov. Two games of the chasing group have already been drawn without a fight: Mamedov - Grachev and Guseinov - Khalifman. You can follow the games live.