The 2025 Mitropacup began today, May 14, 2025, in Trenčín, Slovakia, with a minute’s silence in memory of Kurt Jungwirth, who, together with Gertrude Wagner, launched the tournament back in 1976. Kurt Jungwirth, who passed away yesterday, May 13, 2025, at the age of 95 in Graz, was a key figure in Austrian chess. As long-time president of the Austrian […]
The Mitropacup 2025 will take place from May 13 to 22 in Trencin, Slovakia. The venue is the Hotel Magnus. Tournament director Milan Roman and Martin Dobrotka are responsible for the organization of the event. The chief arbiter will be Ivan Syrovy, the chairman of the FIDE Arbiter Commission. The Mitropa chess federations must confirm their participation by April 15, […]
A Summit of the MITROPA Chess Association members and the Board was held in Vienna on January 24th-26th, 2025. The Board and the members discussed many improvements to be delivered to the MitropaCup in the future, keeping strong our tradition and making it more and more attractive and competetive. New ways of cooperation as well as some concerns over the […]
The General Assembly of the Mitropa Chess Association will take place on Friday, 20 September 2024, as part of the Chess Olympiad and the FIDE Congress in Budapest. We cordially invite the Presidents and Delegates to attend. Applications and proposals must be sent by e-mail to walter.kastner@chess.at by 20 August 2024 at the latest. We will then send you all […]
MITROPA Chess Academy Director and top Coach Aleksandra Dimitrijevic will hold a masterclass in Taiwan in cooperation with the New Taipei Chess Association!
The newly established MITROPA Chess Academy, run in cooperation with the A.S.D. Queen Club, launched the Spring 2024 programme, which is now open for registrations! This season’s programme includes ten lessons divided in three modules and one introductory lesson common to all modules. Learn more about our courses and register now with our offers, you can save up to 120 […]
Host nation Germany dominates the 2024 Mitropacup in Apolda, winning the men’s and women’s competitions. In the open class, Germany is flawless and wins all nine matches. The five grandmasters Matthias Bluebaum, Rasmus Svane, Alexander Donchenko, Dmitri Kollars and Frederik Svane are the five players with the highest rating in the field and live up to their role as favourites. […]
Host nation Germany leads both sections of the Mitropacup in Apolda, Germany. In an ambitious line-up with five players from the top six, Germany is the clear favourite and is doing full justice to this. Coach Ian Gustafsson’s team is unbeaten in the open class and is after round 5 two points ahead of a strong Switzerland and three points […]
The Mitropacup 2024 will take place from 15 to 23 February in Apolda, Germany. All 10 Mitropa countries will field a team in the open and women’s categories. The German Chess Federation is organising the event in cooperation with the city of Apolda. As part of the supporting programme, the 1st Open Thuringian Senior Individual Championship will take place parallel […]
