The 12th AEGON Computer Chess Tournament has started on the 16th of April 1997! With 50 Chess players and 50 computers, it's the leading Computer Chess tournament in the world. Every day, this site brings you live matches. You can download & replay the games. You can preview information on the competitors, the tournament data and the latest updates. See for yourself!

Dos Hermanas 1997

This is a catagory 19 tournament that is being held in Spain. To find out more about this tournament and to look at the games, visit the spanish web site.

New York Open

The New York Open was won my Mikhail Krasenkow and Bologan. The final rounds promise to be very tense with a huge array of talent from throughout the World playing.

1996 World Chess Olympiad

The world's Olympic games for the sport of chess. Some of the World's best chess players showed up to compete for the Gold. Who do you think that won the medals? Come and take a look at the official web site!!

Go and see some of the world's best chess players battle it out for the FIDE World Chess Title. This is a similar match as the Kasparov vs. Anand Match. All of the games were broadcast live over the Internet as the games were played. See how you can improve you play by taking after the best chess player's in the World!!

Go to the Official FIDE Site to find out about the game. Visit the United States Chess Federation for some more info on the World Championship.

Karpov now has another year of being World Champion by beating Gata Kamsky in the match. Go and take a look at the USCF site and endulge yourself in the exciting and interesting commentary done by GM Gabriel Schwartzman on the first and last few games and GM Walter Browne's commentary on the middle games.

Russian FIDE World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov challanged the world in the first open internet chess game on August 26, 1996. The game started at 11.00 hours GMT and ended 4 1/2 hours later with the World resigning in a desperate position after 32 moves. According to several masters the game was longer and more exciting than expected. The game site generated some 500,000 hits from all over the world and on average about 250 players took part in voing for the world each move. The game was broadcast at The Finnish Telephone Web Site.