Robert James “Bobby” Fischer is considered by many as one of the greatest chess players of all time. His name is synonymous with chess in the USA. Bobby Fischer was born in 1943. At the age of 13 he earned the brilliancy price in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament against Donald Byrne, the game is known as “The Game of the Century”. Fischer participated in eight US Chess Championships, winning each one of them. In 1971 he became the first official number one rated chess player of FIDE. In 1972 he won the World Chess Championship from Boris Spassky. Bobby Fischer died in 2008

Levon Aronian has won the prestigious Tata Chess tournament of 2012. It was a remarkable display of his superb talent against the world’s elite, with a final score of 9/13 and a performance rating of 2891. He won an incredible seven of his thirteen games, which is the same amount of wins combined as Magnus Carlsen and Teimour Radjabov, who finished in equal second, along with rising star Fabiano Caruana of Italy. Despite losing his individual game to Carlsen, Aronian stole the show at Wijk aan Zee with his attacking and dynamic play.

We regret to inform everyone that, due to lack of participation, we are cancelling the Killegar Open Chess Tournament. We will start a new one when we feel we have sufficient members and activity on the site to sustain it. Regrets and regards, the team of Killegarchess.com