Media Releases

The 2010 Rajnesh Parmeshwar Memorial Open Chess Championships will be held on Sunday 11th July 2010 at the Fiji School of Medicine Pasifika Campus, Extension Street, Suva.

This eighth edition of the memorial event celebrates the chessing achievements of Fiji Chess prodigy Rajnesh Parmeshwar, a very promising dynamic young player, who was Fiji's first representative to the Oceania Zonal Chess Championships on Australia's Gold Coast in 1999 and was well on his way to a successful international career.

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 National Champion CM Manoj Kumar is out defend his title at the 19th Kundan Singh Open Chess Championships to be held on Sunday 21st February 2010 in Suva.

Schoolteacher Kumar has confirmed participation in the tournament where he anticipates several challenges in his path to reclaim the title. CM Calvin Prasad will lead the other contenders along with Dr Neel Arora and Goru Arvind.

Read more: 19th Kundan Singh Open

The Courts HomeCentres Open Chess Championship is back and will be played this Saturday at the Fiji Olympic House in Suva.

Hamendra Prasad, operations manager of Courts HomeCentres, said the “ he is happy to continue support for an intellectual exercise like chess in Fiji” and has provided eight valuable prizes for the top place-getters in three separate categories.

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The Fiji Chess Federation now has a new website.  This upgrade was long overdue, and was done after evaluating feedback from users and defining what we want the new website to achieve.  The following outlines our thoughts whilst working no the redesign...

Read more: New Website Launched

The 2009 Fiji Chess Federation Sponsored National Junior Championship is set to explode. After a successful completion of the Primary and Secondary School's Championship, FCF will be hosting the 2009 National Junior Championship where everyone under the age of 20 will get a chance to prove worthy of themselves.

The overall winner will get a chance to represent the Juniors in this years annual National Championship's, which will be held later this year.

Read more: 2009 National Junior Championship