The 2008 International Correspondence Chess Federation Congress will be held in Bulgarian city of Pleven between 20th and 26th of September 2008.
For more information see bellow:
The ICCF Official web-site: http://www.iccf.com/
Union of the Correspondence Chess Players in Bulgaria web site: http://www.corrchessbg.com/

The World Chess Cup takes place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia between 23-th of November and 18-th of December. There will be 7 rounds on a knock out elimination rule. Official site and pairings...

World Youth Chess Championship 2007 (under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old - girls and boys) take place in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, between November the 17th-29th November 2007.
Here are results from 3th round (first 10 boards + Bulgarian participants):

World Youth Chess Championship 2007 (under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old - girls and boys) take place in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, between November the 17th, 2007 (arrival) and November the 29th, 2007 (departure).
Here are results from second round (first 10 boards):

Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik won Memorial Tal with final score of 6Ѕ points of 9 possible. All 5 games played today were drawn finished and there is no change in the shedule.

Results (Round 9; 19.11.2007):

Tal Memorial Moscow RUS (RUS), 10-19th November 2007 cat. XX (2741)
Gelfand, Boris	- Lйkу, Peter	Ѕ-Ѕ	Queens Indian
Carlsen, Magnus	- Kamsky, Gata	Ѕ-Ѕ	Ruy Lopez Closed
Jakovenko, Dmitry	- Shirov, Alexei	Ѕ-Ѕ	Petroff's Defence
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Kramnik, Vladimir	Ѕ-Ѕ	Petroff's Defence
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Alekseev, Evgeny	Ѕ-Ѕ	Dutch System

Final standings and results cross-table:

Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik won Tal Memorial 2007 tournament after his victory in 8-th round against Shakhriar Mamedyarov. Round before the finish Russian grandmaster has 1,5 points over the second - Aleksey Shirov and take the sole lead. Mamedyarov had tried an unusual chess opening with black bishop fiancceto in answer of an 1. d4, but this was not enought according Vladimir's experiance.
All other games were draw finished.

American grandmaster Gata Kamsky and Spanish one Aleksei Shirov both beat their opponents in round 7 of Tal Memorial 2007. All other games were finished on a draw.
After this round the leader in tournament is former world champion - Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik followed by Aleksey Shirov and young rising star from Norway - Magnus Carlsen.

The FIDE World Chess Cup 2007 will take place in Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia), November 22 - December 18, 2007. On the official FIDE site was announced pairings for round 1. We announced this a few days earlier in another news. The full schedule below...

The official site is: http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/main.html

Bulgarian supergrandmaster Veselin Topalov won The Champion's League Chess Tournament in the Spanish city of Vitoria. He beats Judit Polgar - the strongest women chess player ever. Rustam Kasimdzhanov won against Ruslan Ponomariov and Anatoly Karpov drawn his game with Nisipeanu. Results...

In the round 9 of the Champions' League Chess Tournament in Vitoria, Ponomariov lost to Topalov, Kasimdzhanov beat Karpov. Topalov leads by a half point with one round to go.

Standings after round 9:

Rank	Name	Rtg	FED	Pts	SB.
1	Topalov Veselin	2769	BUL	6	24,00
2	Ponomariov Ruslan	2705	UKR	5Ѕ	23,00
3	Polgar Judit	2708	HUN	5	19,50
4	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	2668	ROU	4Ѕ	20,00
5	Kasimdzhanov Rustam	2690	UZB	3Ѕ	14,25
6	Karpov Anatoly	2670	RUS	2Ѕ	12,25

Final Round 10 - pairings:
Ruslan Ponomariov - Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Anatoly Karpov - Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Judit Polgar - Veselin Topalov