23 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010.  Φωτογραφία του Reuters. Η 5χρονη Σιλφά Μαχαρανί κουράστηκε, έβγαλε τα παπουτσάκια της, και κοιμάται αγκαλιά με δυο σκακιέρες κατά τη διάρκεια σιμουλτανέ που κράτησε πολλές ώρες, στην Τζακάρτα της...

Τα αποτελέσματα του 4ου γύρου: ΑΝΔΡΕΣ: Φίλιππας – Καπνίσης 1-0, Μουτούσης – Παυλίδης Αντ. 0-1, Μαστροβασίλης Θ. – Μαλικέντζος 0,5-0,5, Νικολαϊδης Ι. – Γαλόπουλος 1-0, Σκέμπρης – Νικολάου 0,5-0,5. ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΣ: Φαχιρίδου –...

The 43rd Annual National Chess Congress was held from November 23-25, 2012 at the Sheraton Hotel Philadelphia City Center, 17th and Race Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Congress had ten playing sections: Premier, Under 2200, Under 2000, Under 1800, Under 1600, Under 1400, Under 1200, Under 1000, Under 800, Under 600. In addition, there were Black [...]

Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) and Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) played the first game of the Women’s World Chess Championship final match. The Ukrainian had White. In a well-known opening variation White had certain initiative, but Black’s position was very solid. After the game Anna Ushenina said that she expected this opening, although her opponent does not use [...]

The 4th London Chess Classic runs from 1-10 December 2012 at the Olympia Conference Centre, Kensington London W14 8UX. The official website is www.londonchessclassic.com. This year’s line-up is stronger than ever, with an average rating higher than any previous chess tournament held in the UK. Heading the list are world champion Vishy Anand, former world [...]

Indian GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda signed piece quickly and shared equal points with Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine in the Fujairah International Open Chess tournament which was concluded on last Wednesday. Ganguly was having best tie-breaking score among three player tied for the first place and win the tournament. He also gained around [...]

Round 5 was easily the most exciting round thus far in the FIDE Grand Prix event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Three games were decisive and five of the six were exciting. Alexander Morozevich had been the sole leader most of the way, but today he lost to Ruslan Ponomariov on the black side of a Tarrasch French. 28.Bxf5! showed that Morozevich's pawn center was anything but secure, and White was able...

The first of four scheduled games in the final match of the 2012 Women's World Chess Championship is history, and Anna Ushenina is fortunate to have escaped with a draw. Through the opening and into the early middlegame she was doing fine, enjoying a very slight edge in a Bogo-Indian that turned into a sort of Carlsbad Queen's Gambit Declined without the dark-squared bishops. Ushenina went for...

Ήρθε επιτέλους η ώρα που το σκάκι κάνει βήματα μπροστά και καλωσορίζει όλο τον κόσμο. Εντός του Booze Cooperativa, ενός χώρου με αμιγώς σκακιστικό χαρακτήρα, μέσα στην καρδιά της ιστορικής Αθήνας και στα πλαίσια της...

Δύο πολύ γνωστά και ιδιαίτερα ευχάριστα σκακιστικά προβλήματα πάνω στο "Θέμα Catrerpillar" ("Θέμα Κάμπια") θα παρακολουθήσουμε σήμερα.Ο όρος "Θέμα Κάμπια" δόθηκε από τον Tim Krabbé σε σκακιστικά προβλήματα στα οποία υπάρχουν...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0I5XzmF7i8 Τραγούδι του σκακιστή, μουσικού και δάσκαλου Γιώργου Λαπαδάκη.  Όπως γράφει ο ίδιος: «Ίσως επειδή μου αρέσει πολύ το σκάκι γιατί είναι άπειρο και ανεξάντλητο, ίσως επειδή μου θυμίζει πως ίσως δεν...

Τα αποτελέσματα του 3ου γύρου: ΑΝΔΡΕΣ:  Σκέμπρης – Φίλιππας 1-0,  Νικολάου – Νικολαϊδης 0-1,  Γαλόπουλος – Μαστροβασίλης Θ. 0-1,  Μαλικέντζος – Μουτούσης 0-1, Παυλίδης Αντ. – Καπνίσης 0,5-0,5. ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΣ: Μάκκα Ι. –...

The Women's World Championship and the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent were both off on Monday, and the 2nd UNAM Chess Festival had finished, so the following summarizes Sunday's action. Starting with the latter, which is now finished, Magnus Carlsen defeated Judit Polgar in the final of the aforementioned festival, which took place in Mexico City, but he needed a blitz playoff to finish the job. In...

The Final of the 2012 Cup of Russia for men and women will take place from 2nd to 12th December in Khanty-Mansiysk, immediately after the Women’s World Chess Championship is concluded. Russian Cup for men: 1. Ernesto Inarkiev 2693 2. Evgeny Romanov 2616 3. Igor Kovalenko 2595 (Ukraine) 4. Dmitry Kokarev 2623 5. Dmitry Bocharov 2620 6. Artyom Timofeev 2600 7. [...]

Due to my recent job changes and the flexibility demanded by my military duties, I have found it impossible to follow a fixed chess training schedule. There is also the ongoing complication of raising teenagers, which means that any given evening may begin calmly and quietly enough with one’s feet up and a cup of [...]