Top seeded Grandmaster Sergei Tiviakov of The Netherlands was off to a good start winning both his games after the completion of the second round in the Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012 at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai here today. Sharing the lead with Tiviakov at 2.0 points were Grandmasters Oleksienko Mikhailo (Ukraine), Marat [...]

Ο μεγάλος (κυρίως σε αξία, αμελητέο το θέμα ηλικίας) συνθέτης μας Παύλος Μουτεσίδης είχε πάρει ένα Ειδικό βραβείο (Special Prize) που το εντόπισα σε ένα τεύχος του ρώσικου περιοδικού The Ural`s Problemist (Ο Προβληματιστής των Ουραλίων...

Και στην Κόνιτσα ξεκίνησε ένα νέο εσωτερικό πρωτάθλημα σκάκι διάρκειας 5 γύρων! Μπορείτε να δείτε την κλήρωση του πρώτου γύρου πατώντας εδώ. Υπάρχουν και δύο ζευγάρια για τους «απρόβλεπτους» σκακιστές της τελευταίας...

Every year, as close as possible to the actual day of Halloween, our club holds The Monmouth Chess School and Club “Horrible Halloween Bughouse” tournament. Bughouse (aka Crazy House, aka Bug) is one of the few chess variants that we recommend, although in small, controlled doses.  In fact, playing Bughouse without special permission is against [...]

Since one of the events (Mexico City, featuring Magnus Carlsen) is about to start, I'll make this overview of what's happening in the chess world a brief one. In the first game of the 2012 Women's World Championship semi-finals, one game was decisive while the other should have been as well. Antoaneta Stefanova chose to meet Harika Dronavalli's Queen's Gambit Declined with 4.Bf4, and the game...

Antoaneta Stefanova from Bulgaria took the lead against the Indian Harika Dronavalli, winning the first game of the match with White pieces. The former World Champion got a promising position after the opening. After lengthy maneuvering White made a break on the kingside and won a pawn. Black still had drawing chances and could equalize [...]

The 26th Belgrade International Open Championship (Belgrade Trophy) will be held from 24th November to 2nd December in Obrenovac, near Belgrade. The tournament is valid for international norms for FIDE titles. The prize fund is 6000 EUR with 1500 EUR reserved for the winner. The first Belgrade International Tournament was held in 1948 as a [...]

You can follow Gawain’s live games here. Games started at 7.30pm local time and there will be 3 rounds tomorrow! Alongside the main event there is the Irish Ladies Championship the first held since 1982! I wish all the participants lots of luck especially Gawain’s mum (Tanya Jones) who is making her chess comeback .  

Making a symbolic first move against Grandmaster Adhiban Baskaran the President of All India Chess Federation Shri JCD Prabhakar inaugurated the Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth Chess Championships 2012 at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, Chennai. Speaking on the occasion, Shri JCD Prabhakar, President, All India Chess Federation extolled the efforts of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu [...]

Για το Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Blitz Αττικής (Σάββατο 24/11) ορίζεται Διευθυντής Αγώνων ο κ. Θ. Χωματίδης και επικεφαλής διαιτητής η κα Ε. Ανδρικοπούλου. Για το Ατομικό Πρωτάθλημα Blitz Αττικής (Κυριακή 25/11) ορίζεται Διευθυντής...

Για το Ομαδικό Πρωτάθλημα Blitz Αττικής (Σάββατο 24/11) ορίζεται Διευθυντής Αγώνων ο κ. Θ. Χωματίδης και επικεφαλής διαιτητής η κα Ε. Ανδρικοπούλου.  Συμμετοχές Για το Ατομικό Πρωτάθλημα Blitz Αττικής (Κυριακή 25/11)...

Ξεκίνησε το δεύτερο Gran Prix για την ανάδειξη του διεκδικητή, ο οποίος θα αντιμετωπίσει τον Παγκόσμιο Πρωταθλητή Ανάντ.Ο Morozevich και ο Karjakin κέρδισαν στον πρώτο γύρο του πρωταθλήματος.Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε...

Jose Capablanca once said when asked how many moves ahead he looked when playing an over the board chess game: – “Only one, but it’s always the right one.” Well, that cannot be entirely true, but perhaps he just knew by experience how to choose a good move. Garry Kasparov, when asked a similar question, [...]

Those of you who are missing high-class chess are in luck, as the FIDE Grand Prix event in Tashkent, Uzbekistan started on Thursday. Here are the first round results: Morozevich - Kamsky 1-0 Caruana - Svidler 1/2-1/2 Mamedyarov - Kasimdzhanov 1/2-1/2 Gelfand - Leko 1/2-1/2 Ponomariov - Wang Hao 1/2-1/2 Dominguez - Karjakin 0-1

The three tie-break matches of the Women’s World Chess Championship quarterfinals were played on Thursday. Earlier, Anna Ushenina from Ukraine secured the seat in semifinals with a victory in the games with classical time rate. Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) convincingly defeated Marie Sebag (France). In the first game of the match emotions took over logic, and [...]