Vassily Ivanchuk placed 1st on Wednesday in the World Rapid Championship that was held in Doha, Qatar. He ended up with the best tiebrack (avg rating of opponents) after he drew the game with Alexander Grischuk & Magnus Carlsen.

The 1st ZugZwang Quad tournament took place on Sunday - Dec 18th, 2016. We'd like to extend a big congratulations to all the winners of the quads, along with all the participants and parents for your support. Thank you for making this event successful.

Every child needs to learn critical life lessons and build confidence in life. One of the most essential and effective ways to achieve this is by introducing a child to friendly competition. We say friendly because the competitive nature in a child has to be nurtured and a safe place to compete is essential. That's precisely what we aim to provide a child with our tournaments & competitions.

We'd like to extend a big congratulations to one of our students - Samuel Mendonca for the 1st place in the Children's Chess Tournament U-9 Category, held on November 20. Samuel had joined ZugZwang Academy in the month of June (2016) to learn Chess.