The Cup of Siberian Bank OAO Sberbank Russia will be held on 16-18th November at the bank’s building in 20 Serebrennikovskaya street in Novosibirsk. Eleven top Russian Grandmasters will compete in the round robin tournament with the rapid time control 15′+10”. Participants: Alexander Morozevich 2748 Dmitry Jakovenko 2741 – European champion 2012 Dmitry Andreikin 2723 [...]

9ος ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΛΥΣΗΣ ΣΚΑΚΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΩΝ ΤΗΣ Ε.Σ.Σ.Ν.Α 2012(ΕΙΣ ΜΝΗΜΗ ΛΟΡΕΝΤΖΟΥ ΜΑΒΙΛΗ)ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗΗ Ένωση Σκακιστικών Σωματείων Nομού Αττικής Ε.Σ.Σ.Ν.Α προκηρύσσει τον9ο Διαγωνισμό Λύσης Προβλημάτων για τα σωματεία...

 Δύο από τους εικονιζόμενους σκακιστές δημιούργησαν μία σκακιστική παρτίδα που έχει κάποια …σχέση με την τρέχουσα ελληνική σκακιστική επικαιρότητα. Ποιοι ήταν αυτοί οι δύο;

Chess960, formally Fischer Random Chess, was invented by former World Champion Bobby Fischer and introduced in Argentina in 1996 in a tournament won by Peter Leko. Shuffle Chess, a similar variant, has been played as early as 1842. The first Chess960 World Championship was played between Peter Leko and Michael Adams in 2001, which Leko [...]

ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΟ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑ ΣΚΑΚΙ Ν. ΚΑΡΔΙΤΣΑΣ ΑΝΔΡΩΝ - ΓΥΝΑΙΚΩΝ 2012 ΦΥΣΙΟΛΑΤΡΙΚΟΣ  ΟΜΙΛΟΣ  ΚΑΡΔΙΤΣΑΣ   αρ. πρ. 51/06-11-2012Ο ΦΥΣΙΟΛΑΤΡΙΚΟΣ ΟΜΙΛΟΣ ΚΑΡΔΙΤΣΑΣ διοργανώνει στην Καρδίτσα, το  Ανοικτό Ατομικό Πρωτάθλημα...

Live games with computer analysis

Ξεκίνησε σήμερα το εσωτερικό πρωτάθλημα Ιωαννίνων. Τα 9 παιδιά που παίζουν διεκδικούν την θέση στην αγωνιστική ομάδα των Ιωαννίνων. Μπορείτε να δείτε τις κληρώσεις και τα αποτελέσματα πατώντας εδώ. 

I was back in Turkey in time to re-use my visa from the team competition, this time for the Olympiad, held not far from the airport. The hotel and meals were quite good compared to recent editions, although the state of the hotel internet was a problem that was never fully resolved. The teams in [...]

The Rector Cup MGSU “Our Heritage” will be held on 8-11th November at the Moscow State Civil Engineering University. The tournament will be played over 11 rounds of Swiss system, with time control of 15 minutes per game plus 10 seconds per move. The reigning Russian champion Dmitry Andreikin, the 2010 European and Russian champion [...]

The pairings for the 2012 London Chess Classic are now available at the tournament website. This year, instead of involving the players themselves in the draw at the opening ceremony, the honour of conducting the draw was bestowed upon Liverpool’s Sacred Heart Primary School as a reward for the boom in chess which the school [...]

The World Champion Viswanathan Anand, his most recent challenger Boris Gelfand, the former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and the rising star Fabiano Caruana will be competing in the second Zurich Chess Challenge. From 23 February to 1 March 2013 they will face each other in a double round-robin tournament at the Savoy Hotel, Paradeplatz, Zurich, [...]

ΠΡΟΚΗΡΥΞΗ ΑΓΩΝΩΝΟ Σκακιστικός Όμιλος Θεσπρωτίας (Σ.Ο.Θ.) προκηρύσσει το Ομαδικό Σχολικό Πρωτάθλημα Σκακιού Θεσπρωτίας 2013 , το οποίο αποτελεί προκριματική φάση του Πανελλήνιου Ομαδικού Σχολικού Πρωταθλήματος 2013 της...

In Part I, we wondered why a person observing a game (The Kibitzer) often sees things the players miss, which is really just an example of the general case: Why are we, in most serious games, unable to apply our full chess strength to all the moves? It seems to me that this is the [...]

Με μία βδομάδα καθυστέρηση θα διεξαχθεί η κλήρωση των αγώνων του Champions League και του Europa League. Συγκεκριμένα η κλήρωση θα γίνει την Παρασκευή 16 Νοεμβρίου στις 8μμ.Μέχρι σήμερα την πρόκριση στους 16 του Champions League έχουν...

It's a disappointingly small event of just four players, but three of the four are among the elite: Fabiano Caruana, Veselin Topalov and Vassily Ivanchuk, together with local star Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu*, face off in this double-round robin tournament in Bucharest, Romania. The first round is underway, and both games have just entered the second time control. Topalov has White against Caruana and...